The Irish standard., 1918-03-16
DIcIPLINE
AT CAMP DODGE
1,025 COMMUNICATES AT RECENT
MISSION OF THE PASSION
lists,
Father Angelo, the Missionary, CON-
mends Work of the Knghts-New
Men Absorbed into the Several
Camp Organizations Without Delay.
Camp Dodge, Iowa,
March 4, 1918.
To the Editor, Irish Standard:

March 4, 1918.
To the Editor, Irish Standard:
Recording his experiences Of the re-
cent mission at the camp. Father
Angelo, the noted Passionist, has writ
ten as follows: Small wonder that
countless tongues are always singing
the praises OF the Knights of Column
bus. Camp Dodge is a standing mon
ument to the noble work which they
are accomplishing. Their halls are
judiciously appointed and completely
furnished with wholesome literature
monographs, moving picture appara-
tus, athletic equipment and facilities
for other entertainments. All soldiers.
regardless of creed, are admitted
Over the entrance one reads these
words, Everybody Welcome.'"
The Soldiers Spiritual Side.
But the noble Knights do not forget
that the soldiers have rational as
needs spiritual nourishment no less
than food for his body. Religion plays
a large and paramount part in build
ing up that subtle essential to an
army $ success-mOrale. TO help in
attaining this end, the writer was en-
gagged to give mission to the soldier
boys Never was mission more oppor
tune and necessary. The soldiers know
and realize that soon they may en-
bark for France, soon they may be on
transports. or on the battlefield or i'm
the trenches, soon they may stand
face to face with grim-visaged death.
Hence the necessity of guarding
against an unprovided death. When
man is convinced of such danger he
is wise to make his peace with God
Now nothing is better calculated to
bring man back to his Creator than
mission, which is special grace
from God, a specia! call from God; in
short, it is a series Of religious instruc-
tons and exercises given by those eX-
perienced for the renewal of the re-
ligjous life Of a congregation. Fur
thcrmore, Holy Mother Church sane
tons and recommends missions and
enriches them with rare indulgences
sdiuS VI tHS MISSION.
In the time Of mission all these
Spiritual helps are placed at the dis
posal OF penitent sinner He may
have been away from the church for
many years. he may have committed
sins countless as the sands on the sea
shore. Cod will not reject him, for He
says, IF Your sins be as scarlet, plain
and glazing as scarlet under the noon
day sun, they shall be as white as
snow. If they be as red as crimson.
of deep and blood-red dye, they shall
be as white as snow" Conscious of
the fact that soon they may stand face
10 face with their eternal Judge, the
soldiers are filled with devotion and
fervor. A Catholic knows and believes
that God must render to everyone ac-
cording to his works. An invisible pen
above is always making an exact regis
ter of his whole life. He is convinced
that the eternal Judge is the omnisci-
ent God to whom the past is as the
present and the future as past and a
thousand years as one day. His all
searching eye reads all the secrets of
the heart and beholds these carefully
concealed sins which the sinner had
thought were wrapt in impenetrablc
obscurity. He shall with the strictest
justice and incest discrimination, scru.
tinize all his thoughts, words, actions
and omissions. A criminal may, be-
fore an earthly tribunal fondlv in
dulge the hope that he might conceal