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The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-11-09
Eucharistic Congress
PREPARATIONS UNDER WAY FOR
NEXT YEARS INTERNATIONAL
GATHERING AT MALTA,

1t is pleasant to hear of a Eucha-
ristic Congress in these troublesome
times. The last international congress
was held at Lourdes in 1914, just be-
fore the wars outbreak. The little
island of Malta in the Mediterranean,
has been chosen for the scene of next
years gathering in honor of our Lord
in the Blessed Sacrament Malta has
been an English possession since 1914
and the Catholic Faith is there Off
cially recognized as the only State
religion. 1t has a romantic history.
There are really three islands in the
group: Malta, Coco and Comine.
For many centuries they were under
Greek, Saracen and Norman rule. In
1880 the knights of st. John received
Malta from Charles V as a grant to
their order. Toward the end of the
eighteenth century Napoleon's advent
led to the dispersal of the order in it's
old-time form. The islands are
famous in ecclesiastical history as the
landing place of st. Paul when he
journeyed as captive from Caesarea
to Rome. The vessel in which he en-
barked, after drifting fourteen days,
was wrecked on the coast of the
island. The apostle of the Gentiles
spent three months there and he
finally reached Rome for his trial and
acquittal. The memory of this stay
has always been a proud page in the
varied history of the stored islands
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ST. VINCENT DE PAUL
SPECIAL MEETING OF THE PAR
TICULAR COUNCIL OF MINNIE
APoLlS-WoRK OF CATHOLIC
SETTLEMENT.

The Particular Council of the st.
Vincent de Paul Society of Minneapo-
lis held a special meeting Sunday af
ternoon, November 3, at the Margaret
Barry House, 759 Pierce st. N. E.
About thirty Representatives of the
various parish conferences of the city
were present. Reverend James Dona-
hoe, pastor of the Church of st. Bird
get, addressed the meeting on the
subject of Catholic Settlement Work.
He gave a brief historical sketch of
the most notable efforts made by Cath
Ollie men and women to organize set
Element work in the larger cities, and
pointed out the Importance and the
need of this form of charity. His talk
was enlivened by number of personal
experiences among both Catholic and
non-Catholic workers in this field. He
ing the past three years in Minneapo-
lis under the direction of Mrs. Barry
as chief of the settlement work depart
ment of the Minneapolis League of
Catholic Women. At the close of
Father Donahoe's address Mrs. Barry
work in the settlement house which
has become so successful under her
direction. She gave a simple, clear
account of the results that she and
her associates had been striving to
accomplish and the methods used by
them.
The classes in needle-work and
| cooking, in music and language, as
well as the various games and exer-
| cises designed to attract the mothers
and fathers along with the children,
were all shown by Mrs. Barry to be
so many methods in the great work
of Americanizing the families while
increasing their love and respect for
our holy Faith. At the close of her
talk the officers and members of the
council asked Mrs. Barry many ques-
tions which showed keen interest in
the work and an eager desire to CO.
operate in every way possible with
| the activities of the settlement house.
Miss Mary Chute, president of the
League of Catholic Women, was also
called upon by the president and gave
a brief address on the relations of
the settlement work department to
the general work of the League. A
number of speakers followed with en-
thusiastic expressions of their admira-
ton for the work of the Margaret
Barry Settlement house and their de-
sire to foster this branch of charitable
activity so closely akin to the pecu-
liar work of the St. Vincent de Paul
Society. The collection, amounting
to $28.00, was voted to the Margaret
Barry House; but an amendment in
creased the gift to $50.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-11-09
"ALTER CHRISTUS"
Treacy, Pastor at Starkweather,
N. D., by Nina.)

ALTER Christus," the High Priest
whispered
To the virgin, kneeling form,
Five short years ago anointed
On a happy June morn.
How oft from his dear fingers
Were we fed the Bread of Life,
For he ever loved to serve us
In our struggles and the strife.
But now CLOUDS are Sorrow-laden,
And the earth is dark and chill,
And our hearts are rent with anguish,
AS were the watchers on Calvary
hill.
For our Father called him,
Saying, Come to Me, Ny son."
And he whispered back the answer,
Father what Thou wilt be done"
Gently his pure soul he yielded
Unto the hands of his God,
We bow our heads submissive
Beneath the Christening rod.
But our hearts are breaking,
And our tears fall fast as rain,
Yet rejoice, for he forever
Is free from sorrow and from pain.
For with the angel choir,
Which round our Saviour throng,
The voice of our loved pastor
Now mingles with their song.
And tonight, before the altar,
AS we kneel in saddened prayer,
We ask God, he still may guide US
And lead us to Him there.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-11-09
HONOR ARCHBISHOP
RESOLUTION ADOPTED AT A
MEETING OF THE PARTICULAR
COUNCIL OF ST. VINCENT DE
PAUL SOCIETY FOR THE CITY
OF MINNEAPOLIS, SUNDAY,
NOVEMBER 8, 1918.

Whereas, 1t has pleased Almighty
loved Archbishop; and
Whereas, The Society of st, Vim
cent de Paul never had a more ar
dent friend, champion and counselor
than the Most Reverend Archbishop
Ireland. In principle and in practice
he was the truest of Vincentians; and
Whereas, His Grace, despite the
many momentous duties of his exalt-
ed Office, always found time to attend
the meetings of the Society, and by
words of encouragement and burning
zeal showed how near and dear to
his heart was the sacred cause of
Gods poor; and
Whereas, In his death the members
of the Society feel an abiding sense of
grief and loss that is personal and
profound; one and all feel that their
leader is gone, but all know and feel
that his spirit of leadership lives on
in the lives of all who were privileged
to work with him and share the fruit
of his seasoned and CHEEKY counsel;
Therefore, Be 1t Resolved, That
we, the officers of the Particular
Council, and officers of the various
Parish Conferences of the City of
Minneapolis, in special assembly, do
in the name of all members of the
Society testify to our appreciation of
the work of our illustrious deceased.
Be 1t Also Resolved, That the So
ciety bear in grateful and prayerful
remembrance the soul of our Spirit
ual Guide.
And Be 1t Further Resolved, That
a copy of these resolutions be duly
inscribed in the official record books
of this organization, and that copies
be sent to the Administrator of the
Archdiocese, to The Catholic Bulletin
of st. Paul, the official publication of
the Archdiocese, and to the Irish
Standard of Minneapolis.
E. A. PRENDERGAST,
President Particular Council.
PETER CARTER,
Secretary Particular Council.
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Victory Boys And Girls
SOME METHODS FOLLOWED BY
YOUNGSTERS IN EARNING
MONEY FOR WAR WELFARE
PURPOSES.

The following suggestions have
been sent out by the national COM
mittee as to how Victory Boys and
Victory Girls can earn money to help
our fighters:
How Girls Can Earn Money.
The following list is suggestive
only, and there are doubtless many
other ways in which the Victory Girls
will be able to secure the money for
their pledges. All girls must be care
full to obey the existing child labor
laws in their states. 3D.
Caring for children; mending;
washing dishes; running errands;
cleaning silver; typewriting; knitting;
backing shoes; making simple gar
ments for sale; Saturday work In
offices, stores, ETC.; sale of Christmas
cards, wreathes, etc.; sale by groups
of girls of Conservation foods; can
ming and preserving; picking fruit;
summer gardening, gathering nuts
tutoring; planting bulbs, shoveling
snow; self denial fund from allow
ances; sale of butter, eggs, vegetables,
poultry and jellies.
Suggestion for Boys.
Here, gathered from reports of their
activities in all parts of the country,
are some statements of how the boys
busted themselves:
Digging gardens; planting bulbs;
sowing and cutting wood; raising
guinea pigs, white mice and squads
beating carpets and rugs; vanishing
chairs; moving and raking lawns, and
cleaning yards; waxing floors; paint
ing and putting away screens, paint.
ing houses, barns and fences; sitting
and dumping ashesj cleaning silver;
washing windows; cleaning cellars,
barns and attics; scrubbing floors
decorating show windows; making
stocking stretchers for ladies who
were knitting for soldiers; making
needed household articles, such as
coat racks, chairs, andirons, umbrella
racks, ETC., that sold at reasonable
prices; tutoring backward students;
waiting on table as extras in board
ing houses; shoyeling snow from
walks.
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GIVE MILLION ROSARIES

'The children of England have pre-
scented a million rosaries on October
1, our Rosary Sunday, for the success
of the allied armies under Field Mar
shall Foch," said Bishop Heating of
England. "They are now endeavoring
to reach the two million mark. The
letter telling us this news reached us
in Baltimore during the ceremonial
service in connection with the golden
episcopal jubilee of Cardinal Gibbons,
on July 16, the day of the first break
of our armies into the German lines.
ut was Cardinal Gibbons suggestion
that the children of America join with
their English friends and countrymen,
as it were, and organize prayers here
in similar way. He is now taking
steps to communicate this thought to
the children of America"
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FURTHER CONSIDERATION FROM
WORK ON THIS SUBJECT-IN.
PRODUCTION BY LATE ARCH.
BISHOP IRELAND.
Concluded from last week.

The eyes of faith bear us through
the portals of Paradise. There pass
in glorious review the hosts of Gods
elect, men and women of every family
of mankind, of every condition of
human life, who, once, in all forms of
circumstances, amid trials and temp
tations, held themselves pure and
holy, and now, in reward of loyalty to
the laws of the Sovereign Master, live
in never-ending bliss. What we are,
they were: what they are, we are
called to be on the condition that to-
day we be what yesterday they were.
The Saints of Heaven are exemplars
to be copied into our lives; over and
above this, they are helpers, cease
lessly invoking upon us divine bless
ings, ceaselessly offering to the Great
Dispenser of grace their well-earned
rewards in substitution for our cold
ness of heart and weakness of effort.
This the joyousness of "The Com
munion of the Saints" this the
stimulus from it so to live, so to battle
and triumph, that we be today saints
upon earth, saints tomorrow in
Heaven.
We are sons of our ideals. Tell we
whom you admire, whom you love and
speak of, and l will tell you what you
are. The nation portrays in statue
and painting its great men, noted for
prowess and unselfish civism: it
seeks to create a posterity that will
rival them in deeds of service In
like manner and for like reasons the
Church, intent on the sanctification of
souls, on the upbuilding of Gods
Kingdom on earth, the mirror of Gods
Kingdom in Heaven, makes effort to
enliven in the souls of it's members
the remembrance of it's saints and
heroes. It's loyalty to it's saints and
heroes proves it to earth and to
Heaven: the doctrine of "The Com
munion of the Saints" responds to the
deepest and truest of human nature:
it responds to the clearest teachings
and traditions of divinely-given revela-
ton.
AS it is today in the Catholic Church
with regard to ''The Communion of
the Saints" so it was throughout all
Christian ages. AS it is today in
Catholic temples, so it was in the
Catacombs, the home of Christ's ear
Hest martyrs and confessors. What
the adornment of the rude tufa walls
of the Catacombs? The Cross of
Calvary, the Maid of Bethlehem and
her divine Infant, the Patriarchs of the
Old Testament, the Apostles of the
New. What the voice emerging from
the brick or marble, closing the tombs
of martyrs and confessors? The voice
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-11-09
Children For Adoption

Charity workers in st. Paul meet
with cases where children are left
without parents. The request to have
these destitute children placed out
for permanent adoption in Catholic
homes frequently reaches this office.
At present there are three boys, aged
respectively 9, and years, on the
list waiting for adoption. No doubt
there are many Catholic homes in
which these children would find the
much needed tender care and solicit
tude. All communications for this
purpose will be gladly received at the
Office of the City Missionary, Rev.
John Doherty, Cathedral Residence,
239 Selby Ave-, ST. Paul, MINI.
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
K. OF c. SECRETARIES.


Camp Lewis, Wash, October "a, 1918.
To the Editor:
These are just few lines written
in appreciation for the work and CO.
operation given to us as Army Chap
lains by the secretaries of the K. of
c., here in Camp Lewis for the past
couple Of weeks.
The Base Hospital Chaplain was
taken sick and confined to bed; this
left the Hospital without Catholic
Chaplain, but the chief secretary, Mr..
Adrian Ward, at once made arrange
ments that all sick calls for priests be
cleared through the K of c.. building
No. 1. Here, day and night, Mr.. Ward
and the other K G. secretaries were
on duty to answer phone calls for
priests to the hospital; and how we'll
they did their duty is well known to
the different Catholic chaplains at
Camp Lewis. The chaplains were glad
to cooperate and responded willingly,
and the boys sick at the hospital bless
these secretaries for their prompt and
jealous work in getting priests to
their bedside.
Should the K. of C. ever need any
justification for their existence in
Army Camps, the work done by the
secretaries of this organization during
the past couple of weeks is alone am
pie reason for their being among us.
May God bless their work, and may
Gods blessing be on their secretaries,
is the prayer of one who realizes
their help.
Sincerely yours,
= s(Rev.) C. ]. NORMOYLE,
Chaplain, u, S, A,
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Important To Catholics
NATIONAL CATHOLIC WAR coUN-
GIL ASKS DATA-IMPORTANT
WORK OF THE NATIONAL CON-
MITTEE ON HISTORICAL REC
ORDS.

The national committee on Catholic
War Records has been directed by
the administrative committee of bish-
ops to use every means possible for
the purpose of securing an accurate
and complete record of all Catholic
American activity in the present war.
This aspect of the National Catholic
War Council cannot be too strongly
emphasized. Unless we make pro-
vision for the history of Catholic pa
triotism and effort in this war we
shall be guilty of neglect which
can never be remedied and of mis-
take which can never be retrieved.
If we fail to establish authentic rec
ords of our civic and religious activi-
ties and if we fail to record all the
noble work being done by American
Catholics we are robbing the Church
OF the future of inspiration, Of exam
pie and of Interpretation. History can
not be written on the day on which
it is made, and the object of the ma
tional committee on historical records
is to collect for careful preservation
every record and document which tells
the story of Catholic activity.
The national committee on historical
records has adopted the slogan that
every Catholic should make his contri-
button to the history of the Church's
activity in the war.
The committee is DESTROYS of obtain
ing letters from the parents and rela-
tlves of the soldiers, photographs of
all those connected with local war ac-
tlvlties, clippings from the local news
papers, accounts of meetings held for
war purposes in which Catholics have
taken part, and all other material
and information which will one day
be of value in furnishing to the his
torian of the war the. documents which
will tell of the noble effort of the Cath
olic Church in the United States. Ev-
cry bit of help in compiling the Ma
t1onal Catholic War Records will
count for the honor of Church and
country, and for the glory of the men
who are offering their life's blood and
OF the women who, in their husbands,
sons and brothers, are giving of their
hearts blood for God and right.
All communications should be adj
dressed to the secretary, Rev.. DIR.
Peter Guilday, 932 Fourteenth Street
Northwest, Washington, D. C.
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DIOCESE OF ST. CLOUD

Clerical Changes: A few clerical
changes have been made in the do
cese during the past week Rev. JOS
eph Willinbrink, former pastor at
Princeton, has been appointed to st.
Henry's Church, Perham. Rev.
Charles Mayer, formerly at Paynes-
vile, succeeds Rev ]. Willinbrink at
Princeton, and the Rev. Sebastian
Schirmers, former assistant to Mgr.
Richter at Melrose, will take charge
of the parish at Paynesville together
with the mission at Brooten.
Two hundred and one influenza
stricken people had been brought to
the Institute by last Sunday OF
these SO had recovered and were dis
missed, while IS still remained. Many
of the cases brought in had developed
serious complications 50 that they
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-11-09
Notre Dame Men

Word received at Notre Dame Uni
versity this week tells that of the five
Notre Dame men who went to
Fortress Monroe at the call of the
Government. all passed successfully.
A letter from France tells that three
Notre Dame Journalists" are on the
staff of the Stars and Stripes" the
official organ of the A. e. f. These
are Stuart Carroll, Edward Beckman
and Richard Daley. Beckman was in
the first class to graduate from the
Notre Dame School of Journalism,
and Carroll and Daley in the second.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-11-09
FROM AN OLD PARIsHIONER.

To the Editor:
1t was my great privilege to have
known the late beloved Archbishop
Ireland from my boyhood days in st.
Paul, and now having been absent for
some years 1 can more fully realize
the real import and greatness of his
character as an eminent ecclesastic
and statesman of both national and
international repute. His life was the
veritable embodiment of militant
Christianity, and he went forth MAX
ing plain the ways of the Lord, the
crooked paths straight and this in the
face of modern indifferentism, unbe-
lief and protest. He, perhaps, more
than any other member of the Ameri-
can hierarchy, challenged on the vital
subject of the true religion the serious
thought and conscience of the nation,
and gained it's admiration for his
unanswerable vindication and de-
tense.
What spiritual beauty and eleva-
ton was there not, in his last ex-
pressed wish to friends wherein he
said, Let me lie under the green sod
of Calvary, with my people" Having
thus stood fast, all through the heat
of the day of most arduous life,
he also builded a House unto the
Lord at the source of the mighty
Father of Waters, a house of such
amplitude and magnifcence that it
will be monument to God and re-
ligion for ages to come. All this was
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-11-09

were received in a hopeless condi-
ton. A few of the Sisters and nurses
have been attacked by the disease,
but their cases were not serious. The
city officials and the physicians are
lavish of praise for the manner in
which the sick are being cared for.
Rev. Godfrey Cans, o. S. B., sub
deacon of ST. Johns Seminary, died of
pneumonia, November 4, following an
attack of influenza. He was a ne
phew of Very Rev. Leo Cans, pastor
of the Cathedral.
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crowned by his care and solicitude
for his spiritual children of whom he
was in truth the good shepherd, lead
ing them in green pastures and by
the still waters of truth and holiness
to the end. .s
Such man and such life is a
benediction to all mankind, and in its
civil polity is the creator of real
democracy for the world, based as it
is, on everlasting justice exemplified
by Christ our Lord, as pattern for
humanity.
PETER F. EGAN,
New York City.
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Closed First Time

For the first time in its existence
of 1872 years, no public services were
held on Sunday in the Santa Barbara
(Cal) Mission, established by the
Franciscan Fathers in 1885, Father
Dominic explained that the spread of
influenza made it necessary to close
the doors of California's famous old
landmark.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-11-09
Nuns Are Accepted

Four hundred Sisters of Cleveland.
Ohio, offered their services last week
to Mayor Davis and asked to be as
signed to serve as emergency nurses
during the present epidemic of Span
ish influenza. The offer of the Sisters
made through Rt. Rev. Bishop J. P.
Farrelly, was promptly accepted. The
Sisters whose services were offered
were teachers in parochial schools,
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Resolutions on the death of the late
Archbishop were adopted before ad-
journment.
At the end of the program a num-
Der of the ladies served a dainty
luncheon to the forty guests present
and an informal inspection of the set
tlement house followed.
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Catholic Girl Wins

The prize for the best essay on the
Fourth Liberty Loan, written by a
pupil in the tenth grade, was won by
Winifred Hills of ST. Joseph's Acad-
envy, Bes Moines, Iowa. Ali the
schools of Polk county took part in
the contest. Miss Hills was success
full over contestants representing
seven private and forty public schools.