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The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-10-12
SOME THOUGHTS.

In our ordinary everyday working
lives We may sometimes hear the
sweetest melodies, if only our hearts
are attuned to the sweet, true life
God means Us to live here.
Every mar is a stranger to the
greatest strength which in God he is
enabled to have until the test of a
great responsibility calls it out.
The thoughts Of thorough and self
sacrificing kindness are far more
often dressed in uncouth words than
in the polished utterances of the
town. Heaven has not made warm
and honest hearts distinguishable by
the quality of their covering.
God comes to us through every
manifestation of life and power and
beauty of which we can dream. He
is closer to us than the air we breathe,
closer to us than the thoughts we
think; for He is the element in which
we live and move and have our being.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-10-12
GROCE

cause, being spiritual in their nature,
they are simple powers and their
growth is not and cannot be anything
else but an increased spiritual poten-
TALLY.
The practical differences from these
considerations for the educator are
evident. While the training of the
chi1d's ~senselife should in no way be
neglected, because it is the living or
ganic instrument Of mind-life, chief
attention must be devoted to induce
the child to use his intellect and win,
and it is the teachers duty to direct
these intellectual and moral efforts
~nlethodically to the general objects
and purposes of education. AS the &C
QUESTION Of firmly established habits
which assure the possession of a def
mite intellectual and moral character
is the great ~desideratum of education,
and as habits can only be acquired
and deeply rooted by a clearly marked
line of action wisely chosen and often
and with progressive intensity repro
duced, it is a plain and practical con,
clusion for both teacher and pupil that
not play, not even if it were based
upon a systematized series of games
but work alone, intelligent and per,
| seyering work, work inspired and di
rected by the great aims Of Christian
education, will lead to success.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-10-12
SPIRITUAL BOUQUETS.

"Give flowers to the living, but
prayers and Masses to the dead"
lone rose in a sick mans chamber is
worth a hundred laid upon his cof-
fn.." More and more Catholics, we
are glad to say, are beginning to real.
iza the folly of covering the poor,
lifeless remains of their dear ones
with expensive floral offerings. These
are being replaced by spiritual bou-
quets-prayers, communions, Masses
and how grateful the poor souls in
Purgatory must be for these beauti-
full and fragrant blossoms! The poor
missionaries, too, are benefited by
the Mass stipends, especially in these
wartimes, when it means such a strug.
gle to keep the various mission works
going. Therefore, we beg u pro-
moters, especially, and all other good
friends, to use their influence, when
they hear of collections being taken
up for flowers for the dead, to have
this money converted into Mass sti-
ponds, thus affording the greatest pos
sible relief to the departed soul, and
at the same time enabling the mis-
sionary, who receives the stipends, to
carry on our Lords work-the saving
of souls.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-10-12
SOME THOUGHTS "OVER HERE"
FOR LOVED ONES LOVER
THERE"

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We believe there is a difference of
some few hours in time between
America. and Somewhere in France.
We believe that Jesus Christ is real
ly, truely and substantially present in
the Blessed Sacrament. We believe
that He pronounces Judgment over
each one on the instant of death. We
are told that 'ttour boys" "go over the
top" in the early hours of the morn
ing,-some to their death. The early
hours of the morning in France cor
respond to the early hours of the
evening in America. We have Holy
Hour" from seyen-thirty until eight
thirty every Friday evening. where
this same Jesus Christ, the. Judge of
mankind, sits in Love and Mercy,
while at the same time He may be
p~ronouncing that sentence of Come
We blessed" or depart We cursed" over
the soul of your boy, dead out there
on mo mans land.n i.
We need fighters" and prayers. Z
The boys r doing the fighting; are
the girls doing the praying? Fathers
and mothers, brothers and sisters,
friends and relatives, can you picture
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-10-12
A WREATH OF MASSES.

. N.. .sl rFF'f H
While others pile above thy head
The costly blooms thou canst not
see *r
1 know, alas! that thou art dead.
And sense the wreath thou wouldst
Of me.
Take, take it grand, sweet, simple
soul.s
A soggarth's wreath-the Holy
Mass
More trancing than the angelic roll
OF heavenly choirs beyond the Pass.
When on thy face l looked, I saw
The beauty of the land of Faith.
And now see thy holy awe
Of meeting God at home-fn death.
Yes, still in death l see the smile,
Deaths Life to thee; It's coming
Home.
To Him-our Father: all Times toll
For ever done, no more to roam.
Old Ireland's pride of Faith and
Love,
In death, are mirrored still in
thee,
And now, when thou art come Above
AS friend in Court plead, plead for
me.
-R.U. P. 4. ShGrkeD. in LiSh World.
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Though of the royal lineage of David
Christ would be elevated upon no 9TH
'er throne than that of the Cross.
Though the King of kings, in whose
hands IA the fate of m~onarchs, He
wished to no other purple than
the mock-mantle that the soldiers
threw upon His shoulders. So they
crowned Him with the Grown of
Thorns. In the view of the Jews He
was but the carpenters Son, who prac-
ticed the carpenters trade. For what
knew they of the mystery of His
virgin birth that the Angel had re.
yealed to Joseph. He, too, was one
of the common people.
1t was from the common people that
God chose the Mother from whom He
was to be born in time: Because He
hath regarded the humility of His
handmade" It was from the common
people that He chose His Apostles
and set them over His Church. Al.
though the rich were eve excluded
from His kingdom, yet they must be
poor at least sin spirit" unattached
in any undue way to the things OF
wealth, remembering they are but His
stewards for the poor, if they wish
worthily to participate in the King.
dom of God upon earth.
It was among the common people
that the Church, through all the cen
turtles of her existence, has preached
the Gospel of Christ, as it vas among
the slave population of Rome, the poor
and the unknown of the great city
that the earliest converts were made
in the greatest numbers.
They are the common people whom
on any Sunday morning o can see
streaming in dense masses through the
great portals of u Catholic churches.
magnificent structures built with the
pennies of their earnings. Every
stone is precious for the widows mite
that helped to pay for it's laying, until
the structure rose complete, a song
of sacrifice from the heart of the com.
mon people, ascending perpetually to
the Throne of God, in granite and in
marble, or in those humber forms that
are none the less dear to Him.
'Hath not God chosen the poor OF
this world" the Apostle st. James ex'
claims, "rich in faith, and heirs of
the kingdom which God hath prom.
Used them that love Him." This is not
to the exclusion of the rich; but that
all men may understand that there is
no distinction of persons before God,
as His Sacramento are for all alike.
The Church of the future, we are
wisely told, will be the Church of the
common people, and that is the Cath
Ollie Church. Hers are the numbers,
hers are the masses, hers + the
workers, as in the days of the Apos'
ties. Yet neither is she a Church of
classes. Not for their riches does she
regard men, o ever for their poverty.
but because they bear imprinted upon
them the image of God. To this alone
she looks, and ever deeper she would
impress upon them all the beautiful
likeness of Christ. 3D.
~ Req. Joseph Russlein. S j.
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CATHOLICS AND COURTESY.

Courtesy is the graceful expression
of the kindly qualities OF the heart,
says Rev. Garrett Pierse in America"
1t derived a strong emphasis from
Catholicism. ~Graciousness, consider
ateness, ~politeness, call it what you
will, received new strength from our
Lord. In fact, the true idea of a gen.
tlerlan is to be traced to Christ. For
graciousness is an outstanding quality
Of Jesus. Even in regard to refined
manners, which indeed are the bios
soming of interior culture and kind
ness. He continues to be the model
of humanity.
The charity Of Christ, which accord
ing to Saint Paul is an ilnpelling force,
inspires this trait. Charity is but
coldly expressed by the English word,
love; it means more than common
place love; it means the "dearness" of
Christ. II gr~aciousness we find one
of the chief secrets of the attractive
ness of Christ,s personality.
Some, that are called saints, are
harsh in manner and wanting in affa-
bility. They keep us 1T a distance
and our natural tendency is to wish
them at a distance. But this habitual
h%arshness is assuredly not a result of
sanctity, and, if it is found in saints
1t is because saints are not without
slight sins and human i~mperfections.
But it is not SO in the case of the
Saint of saints. Jesus is gracious
with all sorts and conditions of men
with young and old, with poor and
rich, with saint and sinner, with the
loyable and the ENJOYABLE. He holds
little children in His arms, and in this
respect offers a striking contrast to
the Grabbed sages of ancient times;
He does not allow to pass unnoticed
the mite cast into the treasury by the
poor widow; His heart melts inactive
compassion for the multitude, who, He
fears, may faint in the way.
In the Ease of an enemy whose
name has become a synonym for
treachery He uses a gentle courtesy,
and calls him friend; He bears up
with the dullness and ~incredulity OF
HIS disciples, and, a gracious glance at
Peter evokes a flood of penitent tears,
To women, whom paganism de.
spised as inferior creatures, He is also
gracious. The adulterous woman, fo1
whom ~zealots of the law thought ston.
Ing the only punishment, lis told by
Him, to go in peace. The tentative
beginnings in moral growth of a Mag.
dalen are graciously and boldly en-
couraged In an adverse environment
as we're the timorots advances of the
unpopular and odious taxgatherers
Matthew and Zachaeus.
Indeed His coming to our earth and
its poor rnanger was an act of gra
cieEs confederation, and the close OF
His life on the Cross was in keeping
with the beginning, for He then for
gave His enemies, gave a new son tt
His mother and issued a royal pardon
to the. crucified waif of Jewish society
That Catholicism has been n OF
the strongest factors in favoring true
sourteay is made perfectly clear in its
history and its Theology That Won
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-10-12
WET WASH

your boy in the front-line trench five
minutes before going over the 9top,''
perhaps to his death? He Graves
your prayers, at that very minute
when you could kneel before that One
Omnipotent God, the same that is
standing over him in the trench. He
wants to pray, but cannot, he must
fight; you can do it for him here at
home, before the Blessed Sacrament,
every Friday night, at Holy Hour
Again, we want Fighters" and
Prayers" If we fail in the capacity
of either of these two, we are cow
ards, and the country we love has
coined a new word with which to
dub" us. Who are the "~Slackers,"
the boys or the girls? Answer for
yourself!
Rep. James DeId7FD.
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derful poetic product of medieval
times, chivalry, received the positive
blessing of the Church. The Chris
tan knight was not more remarkable
for his soldierly valor and high honor
than for his true courtesy. He was
the cheyalier, sent forth with high
vow to do battle for the right, and
graciously to defend the weak, espe-
cially orphans and women. And the
clubbing of a knight was accompanied
by the set prayers Of the Catholic
ritual.
Catholic theology, too, especially as
represented by the great genius of
Saint Thomas, who touches on this as
on nearly all subjects, makes cour'
tesy a virtue and a duty.
Courtesy is not merely a brilliant
social attainment, which may be dis.
pensed with; it is a matter of obi,
CATION. We owe it in justice to so.
ciety. AS society could not subsist
without truth, neither could it subsist
without one of the chief amenities OF
life, courtesy. In support of this
view, Saint Thomas quotes, as is his
wont, a striking saying of the great
philosopher of antiquity, Aristotle
that no one could remain for a single
day with a sad, unpleasant man (Aris'
totle, s Ethic, CHI. 5 and st. Thomas
"a, 2ae, q. ia, art. p.
Consequently, one is bound to live
agreeably and pleasantly with others
unless for some special utility it is
necessary to cause pain. Macaulay
speaks of the Puritans as men with
a o u aspect. In the view Of Cath.
olic theology the man with a long face
and a o aspect is doing an injustice
to his fellows. In SO far forth he is
simply vicious. And Catholic theology
is but an echo of that Divine voice
which warns us, when we fast, not to
look sad nor disfigure our faces.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-10-12
MATER DOLORoSA.

But she beneath saw not the tears
Or wild bronze head of Magdalen,
Nor yet the piteous thieves beside,
For Memory thrust a hand in hers
And led her through the sunny years.
She only saw wide infant eyes,
That drank the slumbrous desert stars
In the mute days of flight, or drowsed
Beneath the ripping palms at noon:
Or yet a 1.-the sweet form that played
BY Joseph's bench in Nazareth,
And, shouting, pricked the cruel nails
Into it's little tawny palms -
70 start and moan in childish pain:
Or later still in temple halls, 3
A shining boyish head back flung
In argument confounding doctors.
Again she saw at Canals feast
White water reddening into wine,
At her own urgent plea beneath
The sacredness Of His slim hands.
And last a weary man who rode
Upon a highway strewn with boughs,
And heard glad lips proclaim His line.
Gould that high Lord indeed be He
Who hung today on this strange
mound,
On this stark cross against the sky?
And while she dreamed He stirred and
moaned ash
A blessing on the rebel earth, j
Then dropped His thorn.rent head
and died. ~ ti ..4..
But Mary knew no bitterness,
For she to whom God gave this Son
Could never shame His dear divinity.
e. d.. In NeD Zealand Tablet
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THE LAYMAN's OPPORTUNITY.

A letter from a Protestant CORE
%spondent makes a rather unusual re-
quest. Il am a member of a reading
circle composed entirely of Protestants
but we feel that it would be interest
ing to make u next meeting a Cath.
Ollie one We are interested in the
Catholic Church and feel we should
know more about her beliefs, cere-
monies and spirit, and so l am writ
ing for sources of information and
references"
This opens up a very pregnant sub
iect, writes the editor of The Queens
Work. Without question, there are
very many open-minded Professionals
in u country who are growing more
and more anxious to learn something
about the Catholic Church, with whose
amazing vitality and singular spiritual
power they are being brought con.
stantly face to face in the occurrences
of the war. If they are judicious they
must realize that they have less ac.
ourate and reliable information con-
corning the Catholic Church than on
almost any other subject Of anything
like similar Importance, and they will
be rather ashamed of their ignora ice
and wish to learn.
Here is the Catholic layman's oaaor.
tunity. Suggest to your open-minded
Protestant friends that it would be
well for them to study Catholicity even
from the standpoint of their own self.
respect, so that they will know some.
thing accurate on a subject of such
present Importance. Offer to lend
them the sort Of books that will give
them authoritative and first hand IN
formation. Propose to them to bring
UP this subject in the study clubs aud
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THE CHURCH OF THE PEOPLE.

-r-F 4.
God must love the common PEG.
pie" Lincoln said, "because He made
so many of them" Lincoln rose from
the ranks of the common people to
the dignity of the presidency, and we
rightly admire him for this. But God
descended from the glory of heaven to
the level of the common people, and
how can we ever worthily thank Him
for it!
The sculptor who designed the head
of Lincoln for the American emmy
preferred for his art the copper coin
to the silver half dollar, because
as it was well expressed, "Lineoln's
face on the penny would jingle in the
pockets of more people, those com
NOR people whom Lincoln loved and
who gladly look upon his sturdy, man
ly face. So it is the joy of the Cath.
olic Church Ito imprint the face OF
Christ on the hearts Of the common
people, because God loves them SO and
wishedsto becsaae onsosfhenas
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DIOCESAN ~soDALITIEs.

To become a servant of an earthly
prince is the ambition of many; to
become a. member of his household
is the great distinction of a few, and
10 be adopted into his family, to be
his very heir, is a most unncrited
and enViable favor. But socialists or
Children OF Mary surpass ali these.
BY their conservation they become
the rlost intimate friends of Mary
and her Divine Son, who will not allow
themselves to be outdone in gener-
osity. They will protect their clients
in a special manner, and inspire them
with nCbler aims in life, which will
increase their merit in the life here
after a ~hundred-fold and bring them
a most magnificent crown for all
eternity. Good socialists can say the
beautiful "MemOrare' of st. Bernard
with double confidence, and have the
greatest assurance of q much speedier
~deliverance from Purgatory than the
ordinary class of Christians.
To be a sodaIist-a Child of Mary
has always been considered SO
great a privilege in the eyes Of the
Church that in her rules she demanded
a time of probation, a. kind CT
novitiate, during which the applicants
or postulants had to prove them
selves. worthy of such a distinction
before they could be accepted as
members.
If this practice is not strictly ed
hered to today, it is merely to make
the way to membership as easy as
possible and to encourage a greater
number to fee to the protecting
mantle of Mary, that then the asso-
citation of the Indifferent with the
good and jealous may gradually fos-
ter those traits Of character that
should have been found in the very
applicants. In fact, experience has
proven this to be a very practical
method; for many a one who might
not have passed for membership has
thus become a model socialist when
once admitted, while those who are
~iusincere when they enter soon eX-
cIUde themselves from membership
by their refractory conduct or neglect
of attendance at the communions,
meetings and instructions Of the so.
daIity,
Req. C. MooSm0a.
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LORD, THOU KNowEsT BEST!

Dear Lord, I bow beneath Thy chas.
tening rod!
My heart is full! Grant me, my Lord
and God,
To tread, resigned, the path Thy
Mother trod! .
Upon the strickened field of strife
Thou, dearest Lord, hast called my
son
To enter everlasting Life,
The conflict Ger, his duty done!
Oh, sweetest Lord, Thou knowest best
Grant to my son eternal rest!
This is Thy wond'rous Harvest, Lord
Of those, our dearest and our best;
Oh, may their souls be safely stored
In Thy great Garner House of Rest!
Yea! sweetest Lord, Thou knowest
best, "
Grant to my son in Peace to rest!
Il. G. We're.
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was built on the Esquiline Hill and
dedicated under the name of st. Peter
in Chains. 4
Though there is no historical proof
of this miraculous union of the chains
it has been a pious tradition from the
earliest ages. We learn from the let
tiers of st. Gregory that they were
universally venerated as early as the
sixth century, and that the Sovereign
Pontiffs presented filings from these
chains as a worthy offering to a prince
whom they wished to honor or to the
principal churches of the Christian
world.
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~NEWLY-MAaRlED COUPLES.

The girl who marries is going to
find out rs the weeks go by that she
and Jack think very differently upon a
good many subjects. She is going to
discover, possibly to her dismay, that
he is entirely different from what she
thought him. If she lets differences
brighten her, harass her, be the cause
of personal and heated arguments,
she is making a grave mistake.
Life can't be happy if it is to be a
series of daily clashes between two
temperaments. For mutual interest
and safety and enjoyment, when two
lives are linked together for better
or worse, one if not both parties must
give in.
One cynical woman has said that
marriage on the mans part is get
and forget; on the woman's, give and
forgive.
But this is more clever than true.
1t is an arrangement of words, not
facts. Far better the kindly defini-
ton of n Of the worlds great old
ladies. who said that all happy mar
ried life was obedience to the motto,
Bear and forbear."
1t would be silly to deny that this
delicate work of adjusting ones tenn
permanent to another is not an easy
task. The result does not come easily
or quickly, but when it does, married
life will have reached it's happiest
state.
A newly married couple is SO apt to
| split on the social question in the be-
ginning. She may love society; he
does not; or the other way around.
She may not be happy unless they go
out each night, or have young friends
in to dinner, to play games, to have
music.
She may want to drag him to
dances when he does not dance and
has to sit in a corner till midnight
watching her have good time with
other men. When she finds out how
he feels about this the girl who mar
ries thinks she is face to face with
another tragedy.
Her kind at once swings to the
other extreme-the ,~cleverest women
are like pendulums-and she deter
mines to forswear all gayety, admira.
ton and good times and settle down
in sackcloth and ashes in the chimney
corner, while he smokes his pipe and
reads that everlasting paper.
Let her think this all she pIeases
but let her act differently. If he does
not like society she can't make him
like 1t. Men are not trick poodies, tt
perform the stunts they are taught
if a woman found out her husband
was n she would despise him. Il
would be wiser to set her preferences
alongside his, not against them. Above
all things: let her keep from discuss
ing the situation with him..
She cannot lay claim to much fem
ininity if she can't be subtle Whe1
happiness depends upon it. She cal
sum up the situation, make up he
mind as to what she will do in the
matter, and then do it in such a natu
raj way that her husband won't eve1
know he has been analysed.
VI course, IL SAe wants TO make {
great show of will power, say she il
miserable if he doesn't do things he.
way and compel him to go in societ,
rather than make a scene, she may
perhaps, get her way-and lose tn,
affection of her husband. In. the year.
to come, when she>is tiredsof the fun
merry of society, she may sadly wonde
Ewhy he and she have drifted SO IA,
apart in every thought and act.
II The Echo.
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C

The Church is the poet of her chill
dren: full OF music to soothe the sad
and control the hayward; wonderful
in story for the imagination of the TO,
mantle; rich in symbol and imagery,
SO that gentle and delicate feelings,
which will not bear words, may in 81.
lence intimate their presence or com
mure with themselves. Her very be.
ing is poetry. Every psalm, every pc,
tition, every collect, every versicle,
the cross, tho mitre, the thurible, is a
fulflment of some dream of childhood
or aspiration of youth.
-NeWm0n.