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The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-08-31
Bishop GHmouT.
"FAlTHFUL SOCIALISTS DO NOT
GO WRONG."

One of our pastors was called re-
Gently to visit a sick widow, says the
Rev. Francis J. Finn, S. j. Her chill
dren were grown; she herself was
nearing death. The dying woman
was worrying much about her chill
dren's religion; the children were not
worrying at all. The widow, about to
meet her God and to give an account
of her stewardship, realized poignant
ly that she had failed in her account
ings; her girls going rarely to Holy
Communion, keeping company with
nOn-Catholics, were on the road to
mixed marriage, to growing indif-
ference in religion, to loss of faith.
Seven years ago this widow might
have cared whether her girls belonged
to the Children of Mary; but she did
not care and her children on leaving
school got away from those religious
associations which would have kept
them in close touch with their
Church. Five years ago she might
have persuaded them-though with
dificulty-to join the Young Ladies
Sodality, but she who would not
trouble to do the easier thing-get-
ting them as young girls into the
Children of Maryland no thought of
attempting the harder thing. Her two
girls since leaving school, were never
seen at the entertainments held in
the school hall The widow didn't
bother about that either, and so de-
prived them of the chance to meet
the incest young men in the parish.
In a word, because the mother did not
care, these girls have lost touch
with Catholic companions, with Cath
Ollie practices, with Catholic ideals.
And yet, as little girls, they gave
utterly to realize these promises is
due to the gross carelessness of their
mother She is dying now and she is
recalling the omissions of her past
years. So far as her children are
concerned, her signs, her tears, her
agony are too late.
Catholic mothers, be firm with your
boys and girls just leaving school,
continued Father Finn. See that they
attend to their duties; see that they
remain in the sodality. OF the women
who go wrong not one in all the thou
sands was faithful socialist Faith
full socialists do not go wrong. Hence
on the face of it that mother whose
girl of sixteen or seventeen is not
attending sodality regularly is a
mother who bids fair in later years
to bewail in bitterness the careless
ness of today.
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love, rendered sweet and pleasant by
Heaven In his reflections he COM
pared his own soul to the garden,
and realizing how barren and useless
the soil would become unless care
fully cultivated, he saw the necessity
of fostering with the utmost care,
the tender flowers of virtue in his
soul Therefore he strove earnestly
to increase his devotion and perfect
himself day by day. Though his &C.
cupation was humble one, he soon
became widely known in those parts
by reason of his eminent holiness and
great charity. Strangers and travel
ers, especially the poor. who We're
unable to secure lodging in the
city, always found a hearty welcome
at his home as long as they wished
to stay. He lived and labored for
our Lord and therefore was glad to
spend and be spent" in behalf of
the poor and needy, for whom our
Divine Lord Himself had showed a
special prediction.
About the year 303 the Emperor
Diocletian inaugurated the last Of
the ten early prosecutions against
the Church. Phocas was well known
by the pagans in Sinope and was
Immediately marked for death. Brutal
soldiers knocked him down, kicked
him, and then cut off his head.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-08-31

those whom they love best. Elmer
son says: Good manners are made
up of petty sacrifices" and certainly
nothing can more thoroughly secure
the harmony and peace of the family
than the habit of making small
sacrifices for one another. Children
thus learn good manners in the best
and most natural way, and habits
thus acquired will never leave them.
Courtesy and kindness will never lose
their power or their charm, while all
limitations of them are to be despised.
Birthdays and holidays stimulate
the most beautiful of an the graces
that live in the hearts of men. To
give, to give something that expresses
your knowledge of another, your love
of another, is a graceful and inspiring
thing to do. To give what expresses
money alone. something purchased
without affection, is to degrade the
giver But no child's gift was ever
presented in this spirit. They give
because they love and because they
wish to express their love in concrete
form.
How few of us reveal the love we
feel for our-own! Our relations with
those who are dearest are so init
mate that it seems unnecessary to
express in words the depth of our
affection. But there is no man or
woman who does not feel happier
when the words Il love yOu," fall
from the lips of the best beloved.
The sharing of daily troubles and
annoyances, butchers bills, the state
of the coal bin, the repairs on the
barn, worries with turkeys, chickens,
sewing and all the innumera BILE
things that father and mother must
discuss together, leave little time for
the loving words that constitute the
charm of courtship and the honey
moon. 1t is well to have birthdays
and holidays set apart as days when
we shall express our love for our own.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-08-31
DIVORCE OF FUNDAMENTALS.

The higher critics" boast proudly
of some of the fundamentals of the
Christian faith. They assert that they
have done away with the Divinity of
Christ, with His Resurrection from
the dead, with His Ascension. By
means of their frequently repeated
statements that under their blows the
structure of Revelation has been I'M
dermined, they have unfortunately
wrought havoc in many souls.
But it is true that they have done
away with the Apostles Creed, which
contains the chief articles of Catholic
belief? They must confess that there
is an Article of the Greed which has
not even been touched by their as
sauIts. Whatever combinations and
theories these critics have brought
forward to bring into discredit the
teachings of the Greed, they can not
lay hands upon that tenet of our
faith whereby we confess that the
Lord Christ will return at the end Of
time ito judge the living and the
dead" This truth belongs to the dis
tant, uncertain future.
1t is no use to deny, to assert the
impossibility of, to cast ridicule upon
this Article of our firm belief 1t has
been held for centuries by the Catholic
Church. 1t is repeated thousands of
times every day, in every language
spoken among men. Wherever the
Christian verify has penetrated, there,
too men say: From thence He shall
come to judge the living and the
dead" At best, nothing remains for
the adherents of the higher criti-
cism' than to await the final doom.
When the Redeemer shall come at
the end of time to call the tribes of
men to judgment, then the shallow
structure reared by the proud and
misguided efforts of the enemies of
Christ, must fall into ruins. Then it
will be apparent that all their argu-
ments and combinations and skillful
differences have been based upon
empty speculation. For it is this
Article of belief, From thence He
shall come to judge the living and the
dead" that will then stand forth as
the glorious touchstone of the infalli-
BILE Greed, professed by the followers
of Christ throughout the history of
the Church Militant.
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state in tempOrals, and vice versa the
state must depend upon religion in
morals, and both should so act that
their conjoint work will be the tenn
poral and moral welfare of society.
THE morality of the citizen is the
real strength of the state, but the
teaching of morality is the function
of religion, and in SO much is religion
necessary to the state. In this sense
it is foolish to assert that religion is
independent of the state or the state
is independent of religion, or that they
can or ought to be separated one from
the other.
God Necessary for the State.
I'm this country we have agreed
that religion and the state shall exist
as distinct and separate departments,
each with its separate rights and du-
ties, but this does not mean that the
state is independent of religion or re-
ligion independent of the state. God
is as necessary for the state as He is
necessary for religion. No state can
exist or should exist that does not
recognize God as the supreme au-
thOrity. So far no state, pagan or
Christian, has attempted to rule with
out god, false or true, but a god.
and gods law have been accepted in
every society as the origin and basis
of the states authority. Woe be to
the state that denies God or attempts
to govern society without God and
Gods law. Brute force is tyranny;
moral force is reason. Man must be
governed by reason, not by force, and
the state will find it's true strength
in the morality of the citizen God
is the strength of the state, the guide
of the citizen and the protection of
society"
Bishop GIImouF.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-08-31
THE SPIRITUAL AND TEMPORAL
POWERS.

Education has for it's motive the
fitting and directing of man in his
relations to God and society. Man is
not for himself. He was created for
a higher and a nobler purpose All
things, from the universe to the grain
of sand on the seashore, exist for the
benefit of others. In God creation
was not necessary. However, God
has created that He might bless, and
creation is but the extension of His
first beneficence. God is not for Him
self; man is not for himself; society
is not for itself; the state is not for
itself; the Church is not for itself.
Church and State.
There are two orders of society,
the spiritual and the temporal They
rights and duties for the veal of man.
In much they are separate and indie
pendent; in much they are conjoint
and correlative. Man is composed of
body and soul, so society is composed
of the moral and the physical. The
function of the state is to deal with
the physical; the duty of religion is
to deal with the moral AS in man
the body is for the soul and the soul
for the body, so in society religion
is for the state and the state for re-
ligion. Their conjoint work is for
God and man. God is glorified in man
and man is made happy in God, and
this conjoint wOrk-the glory of God
and the happiness of man-is the OBJ
jective work of religion and state In
this is found the motive for their ex-
istence, the origin of their authority,
and their right to mans obedience
They represent God, and each in it's
sphere is the expression of God to
man. We obey the state because the
state represents God in the temporal.
BY Me kings reign and princes have
their power We accept religion be-
cause religion represents God in the
spiritual. He that heareth you
heareth Me-
There is widespread mistake, a
rapidly growing political and social
heresy which assumes and asserts
that the state is all temporal and re-
ligion all spiritual. This is not only a
doctrinal heresy, but if acted on
would end in ruin to both spiritual
and temporal No more can the state
exist without religion than can the
body exist without the soul, and no
more can religion exist without the
state, and on earth carry on it's work,
than can the soul without the body do
its work. The state, it is true, is for
the temporal, but has its substantial
strength in the moral; while religion
it is true, is for the spiritual, but in
much must find it's working strength
in the temporal In this sense it is a
mistake to assume that religion is in
dependent of the state or the state
independent of religion. AS matter
OF fact, religion must depend upon the
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-08-31
THE LITTLE CATECHIsM.

Jouffroy, one of the representatives
of infidel philosophy, could not but
admire the Catechism. These are the
words he made use of when address
ing a numerous audience of the Sor-
bonnie on the resume of Christian
Doctrine contained in the Catechism:
There is a little book which chill
are questioned in church and in
school; read this little book, which
in the catechism, and you will find
therein the solution of all the ques-
tons that l have treated-of all,
without exception. Ask the Christian,
whence comes the human race, he
knows: whittier it goes, he knows.
Ask this little child why it is here
below, what will happen to it after
death, he will give you a truly sub
lime answer which he does not fully
understand, but which is none the less
admirab BILE.
ASK him how the world has been
created and for what purpose; why
thereon; how the earth has been
peopled, whether by one family or by
many, why people speak in divers
tongues, why they suffer, why they
struggle and how all this will end
he knows the answer. The origin of
the world, the origin of species, ques-
tions of race, mans destiny in this
life and in the next, mans relation
to God, mans duty to his fellow
men, mans rights over creation-he
is ignorant of none Of these things,
and when he grows older he will not
hesitate about natural law or political
law, or International law, for all that
flows with clearness and of itself from
Christianity This is what | call d
grand religion; l recognize it by this
sign, that it does not leave unan-
swered any of the questions that in
terest humanity"
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-08-31
MINDS FORMED IN SATANIC
TUTELAGE.

The "Casket," Antagonist, N. S.,
believes in being militant with our
enemies. Thus speaking of the sect
higots, it says:
Ignorance, deep, dark, invincible,
is the heritage handed down by the
Protestant tradition concerning the
Catholic Church. A Methodist min
lister was caught in Ontario the other
day in disloyal utterances. Will the
Methodist religion be assailed on
this account? Nonsense! Protestants
know there is nothing in the Metho-
dist religion to teach disloyalty.
But they have been taught from
childhood the wretched lie that the
Catholic is not to be trusted; that
he is the subject of a foreign
potentate," and not only that, but a
foreign potentate" who is anti
Christ, through whom 1.-The whole
world was drowned in idolatry for
700 years." the Scarlet Woman"
the Man of Sin"
We cannot blame very much the
minds formed in that devilish tute-
lage for entertaining hatred and
suspicion of the Pope; for being. able
to form any sort of conclusion about
Catholics without any proof whatso-
ever.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-08-31
FULLNESS OF THE POSSESSION
OF CHRIST.

What, after Baptism, is the souls
first great event? Surely, it is First
Communion, when the innocence of
childhood is diademed with the no.
bility of the angels, says a writer in
The Missionary. And what at lifes
term is the souls great event? Surely
the last Communion, the Viaticum.
And the soul may, if it chooses, dis
tribute through it's whole career, the
same divine event happening at close
intervals. Nay, every single day may,
if we but choose, be made bright with
heavens sunshine by the entrance of
heavens King, to Him Who "reacheth
from end unto end (of life) nightly,
and ordereth all things sweetly'
(Wisd. VIII, u.
In the innocence of childhood, in
the penance of old age, amid the
struggle of passionate youth and the
wordliness of mature years-all
through these varied and stormy eX-
periences of our career, Jesus is ever
right at hand; from end unto end
nightly He is with us if we but will
it so.
Seek We the Lord while He may
be found; call upon Him, while He is
near Usaias LV, s., admonishes the
prophet. We seek Him by entering
the Gospel door of mercy, the con-
fessional. We there begin to find
Him; and we are thence led into the
fullness Of possession of Him by pass
ing onward to His altar and receiving
His embrace in Holy Communion.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-08-31
HIS BABY.

She is my mother, said the young
man, but l call her my baby. She is
eighty years old Old people are very
like babies, and we ought to love
them, for such are the Kingdom of
Heaven. | have an idea life evens
up things. When l was young and
helpless she took care of me; now !
take care of her l am paying my
debt.
She never left me alone when ]
was an infant Now l do not leave
her alone.
She was patient with me then; now
am patient with her.
She fed me; now feed her. !
clothe and keep her.
She sacrificed her young life for
me; | am glad of every chance / have
to sacrifice for her.
She loved me when l was ignorant
awkward needing constant care, and
all because | was hers, born of her
body and part of her being. Now
every feebleness and trait of childish.
ness in her endears her to me, for
no reason except that she is my
mother.
By so much as she is a tax on my
time, attention and money, love her
She shall not triumph over me in
the Day of Judgment; for my tender
ness shall equal hers. She watched
me until grew up; shall watch her
till she steps into Heaven.
-DY. Frank Crane. In Farm Life.
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estant workers. Nor do the Knights
of Columbus seem to have any pet
projects to work out; they are in
France neither to attempt to enforce
prohibition nor to proselytize. Their
whole desire appears to be to seek
the opportunity of serving our SOL
diers and sailors, their service being
one of deed rather than that of
word This is splendid and very
much appeals to our men.
From the viewpoint of the officer
/ wish to say in no uncertain terms
that 1 thoroughly approve of the
aims, work, and results of the
knights of Columbus. 1t is well for
our men that they are in France;
would there were more of them We
are in France to beat the Germans
nothing else counts. | trust that
sufficient money will be raised to
enable the organization to accomplish
the work for which it has shown it.
self to be singularly fitted. / regret
that / am not gifted writer, but if
my word helps ever so little the
knights of Columbus in their work |
shall be very glad. | shall not only
subscribe toits succeeding campaigns,
but hope that my testimony may in
duce many other non-Catholics to as
sist financially our able Knights OF
Columbus.
Very truly yours,
An Enemy of the Kaiser.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-08-31
ANOTHER DEFENSE.

DR.. Maurice D. Edwards (Presby.) },
st. Paul, epitomized in his sermon re-
Gently the part played by the Virgin
Mary in the Christian world:
Next to the Christ Child the Vir-
gin Mother is the central figure in
the manger group. She is entitled to
honor for her own sake as well as for
her Sons sake.
In dignity and privilege she is
greater than the Angel of the Annun-
citation When God is about to give to
the world great man for great pur-
pose He first prepares a woman to be
his mother. So he prepared the Virgin
Mary.
''The very fact that she was chosen
for such a purpose evidences her holy
character. Doubtless she was the
choicest flower of the pious young
womanhood of her times and nation.
"Those who honor her Son cannot
but honor the mother also"
Who gives trifle meanly is meaner
than the tri6e. LapGter.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-08-31
ENGLAND AND THE MASS.

Not a great many years have
passed since profound and bitter hos
ulity to the Mass was to be found ev-
erywhere in the Church of England"
says the London Catholic Times and
Catholic Opinion. 1T was the out
come Of the old anti-Catholic move
ment which led to the destruction of
the affairs in the churches of this
country. But a remarkable change
has taken place. Now, whilst the
Mass is denounced by some Anglicans,
as it was formerly, other members
OF that denomination are strongly in
favor of it and call themselves Cath
olics. In a sermon reported by The
Church Times, the Rev. j. j. G.. Stock
ley, NJ. A, vicar of st. Paul's, Burton
on-Trent, says that never since the
Oxford movement began has there
been such an extraordinary chance
as at present of bringing back to Eng
land that which England was robbed
of in the sixteenth century-the Holy
Eucharist as the principal service and
worship of the Church. Anglicans
must, he said, take stock of their po-
sition. The advice could not be bet.
ter. 1t indicates a desire to undo the
evil wrought in England by the So
called Reformation. But the Rev.
gentleman and all Anglicans who
think as he does, should not forget
that when clergymen renowned the
doctrine Of the Mass and cut them
selves off from the Catholic Church,
and their Orders became invalid, only
by joining the Church which they
abandoned can their successors be-
come genuine Catholics and secure
valid Orders. This is a simple truth
which Anglicans who are anxious to
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-08-31

Don't wait till the year is by,
Rent one now.
Make the Stacker hear the cry,
Rent one now.
Everybody sing the song,
Rent a pew!
Everybody help along!
This means you!
In this pew today you sit;
Won't you kindly pay for it?
Give what to your Church is due,
Gods blessing then will follow you
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-08-31
MANNERS AT HOME.

The presence of good manners is
nowhere more needed or effective
than in the household, and perhaps
nowhere more rare. Whenever the
familiarity exists there is tendency
TO loosen the check upon selfish con-
duct which the presence of strangers
involuntarily produces. Many per-
sons who are kind and courteous in
company, are rude and careless with
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-08-31
RENT A PEW.

If you never had a pew,
Rent one now!
Pay What to your church is due, =
Rent one now!
Use it while at Mass you pray,
Be no Stacker! Help defray
Bills that come the pastors way.
Rent one now.
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Who gives trifie meanly is meaner
than the trifle. LapGter.
New-York tribune., 1918-07-15
The Official Statements

PARlS Ju1y 11The War Office statements to-day said
region OF Corey but ton.
DAYln the
Der OF raids on the lines prisoners
British Rout Raiders Near Locre
LONDON J,dy lThc British War Office today gaze thu
JoloWing:
NNhl--By successful
part OF the morning English line Dcken
ousch Lake and captured
DA4-A hostile raiding of
Of
The hostile artillery
active a of
Italians Repue Patrol Attacks
The artillery
persed moving enemy troops north of Borcola
AT Cornone detachm
promptly
Kepulsed Attacks Near the Marne Says Berlin
BERLIN July 15.The official by Wa
Office to-day foIors:
DA1-There lively artillery banko
Av throughout the
OF the front ing engagements.
There local
Inc enemy attacked
eulnarly rcpulsed The
the French Abbevil
and in the of ers and
Niler Coteres
New-York tribune., 1918-07-15

Albania are resulting in enc success
after another. in spite of the difficult
nature of the country. There are no
roads in the battle zone and communi
cations are being kept up over the
rocky, precipitous mule paths.
while the Italians are pushing
along on the western wing and in the
centre. where contact is being main
tanned with the French. The French
are making good progress in the Bofnia
region, by overcoming enemy resist
ancc and capturing the ridges of Kos
nitza and the descending slopes.
The French advance IN the valley
OF the Tomorca River threatens the
important town Of Berat, which prob
ably will be captured in a few days.
Berat has since been taken). The Aus
trians no longer are as determined as
they formerly were and surrenders by
them are more frequent. especially
among the Slavs. who are dead tired
OF campaigning in the mountains and
throw up their hands at the first OPP
portunity. The Austrians are burning
dcpots and villages which they aban-
don.
'All information obtainaDle is 20 the
effect that the enemy's position in
Southern Albania is seriously compro-
missed and that there probably VIII
be a further retreat in the north, thus
freeing our communications between
Western Macedonia and the Adriatic
coast"