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The Catholic bulletin., 1918-11-30
Cardinal Bourne's Advice
CATHOLIC PRINCIPLES SHALL
PLAY AN IMPORTANT PART IN
TASK OF SOCIAL REcoNsTRUC-
TlON, SAYS ENGLISH CARDINAL.

The Cardinal Archbishop of West
minister, London, England, has been
further invited to contribute q mes
sage on social topics by an iInpor-
tant firm OF engineers in England
The message of the Cardinal, which is
addressed to the whole engineering
fraternity of Great Britain, consists
of eight points for consideration:
CD Human life, gift from God
must be protected and developed ac-
cording to Gods purpose. Every in
dividual, endowed with an immortal
soul, is of supreme worth and dignity,
and must never be used as a mere
means to the production of wealth.
CD Man has right to such re-
turn from his honest labor as will
provide a reasonable standard Of life.
CD 'He should have a home to live
in, not hovel; and such opportunities
as will enable him to lead healthy
human life and develop his body and
mind
az Education should not aim
merely at making men better instru-
ments Of production; it should bring
out what is best in them, physically,
mentally, morally and spiritually.
90 "The rights of the individual
must be iealously maintained against
undue State interference or class dom
ination.
(6) There can be no rights with
out duties, and no healthy society
without authority and discipline. We
should support rightfuls authority and
maintain discipline, not from fear or
favor, but because it is the right thing
to do.
Cd Society should not be a Strug-
gle of competing individuals or class
es, but close-knit human brother
hood of mutual service.
90 The aim of that society should
be human welfare, and not merely the
production or acquisition of wealth.
Such are the principles" concludes
the Cardinal, "that should guide us
in our great task of social reconstruc-
ton, If they were sincerely adopted
the effects would be far-reac ching.
The foundations of society would be
secure. We could then erect social
and political fabric such as the world
has never SEEN
The Catholic bulletin., 1918-11-30
James Cardinal Gibbons

SpaIding and Kenrick, Farley and Ire
land--all
He hath survived, our own great Car
dinal,
Like to noble and stately tree
That still bears golden fruit peren-
nially;
Or like the one Apostle who was left
Last Of the Twelve. and saw the
81 Church. bereft
OF both her Bridegroom and His
friends. st. John,
Grown old, the self.same text still
preached upon,
{Taught by the guidance of the Hea-
yenly Dove.)
my little children, one another love!"
So in thy age, as in thy earliest youth,
Thou art example of love, kindness,
truth.
Primate. and Prelate! Through the
lifting smoke
OF many battles-in the lightning
stroke
OF sudden peril, thou hast kept the
Faith.
Trusting in God, Who orders life and
death,
The Council of thy venerable peers
Hath been dissolved by death these
many years
Prorogued until Eternity-7but thou
Re.1ainest with US, steadfast even
now.
The Catholic bulletin., 1918-11-30
Mnrln nf 1nnkH
Brief Reviews and Notices

FamilIe: BY Mgr Gibier. Published
by Pierre Tequi, Paris. Price, 80
cents.
The distinguished author of this
work on The Family presents the sec
ond volume of his series entitled, Re-
ligion, Family, Country Mgr. Gibier
is Bishop of Versailles, France. Just
as in his first volume on Religion, re-
viewed in this column some time ago,
SO also in the present work, the author
goes into detail in examining the
nature of his subject. He points out
the various relations existing between
society and the family, and he shows
with the clearest evidence that the
foundation and sanctity of society rest
absolutely upon the family. In the
first part of the work the author re-
views thoroughly the various causes
and effects of the loss of population in
France. He speaks plainly, and places
his finger upon the sores that have
afflicted the body polite and religious
of the French nation.
In the second part of his work Mgr.
Gibier presents six chapters on the
subject OF education. He calls edu-
cation a work of love and knowledge
based upon authority. Then follow
ten chapters on the various qualities
of the ideal family. A chapter each
is devoted to the mother, the father,
and the children. Then follow chap
ters on the relation between the fam
lily and it's boys and girls, conclud-
ing with sage advice as regards mar
riage of young people. A final chap
ter draws careful distinction be-
tween quantity and quality in their
relations to the family.
The Catholic bulletin., 1918-11-30
THE CHURCH In INDIA
ECCLESIASTICAL DIV SION s.
WORK OF FRlARS-TWENTY
PER CENT INCREASE.

~ 60
The Catholic Church in India COM
prises 3S ecclesiastical jurisdictions,
including 8 archdioceses, % dioceses,
8 vicariates and 5 prefectures-apos
tolic, and possesses 1900 European
and 1900 Indian priests laboring in
1900 missions and more than TOO
secondary and out stations, with nearly
5000 churches and chapels, whose
number must have greatly augmented
since the census of 1911 was taken.
If tales of medieval explorers af-
ford but tantalizing glinpses of India
through the Middle Ages, the Portu-
guese conquerors of the late fifteenth
century definitely consolidated al
ready existing Catholic influences
along the coast they charted, and from
that time forward reliable data are
Forthcoming. The beginning of the
sixteenth century saw the Franciscans
at work in Goa. The sea-faring friars
who coasted along the Coromandal
shore in 1900 in their carayal, and
saw the mysterious moving light that
beckoned them to land and build their
Church in the forest depths whereto
it led them, were pioneers whose Ia
bors endure. even to this day in the
ancient Luz" Church at Mylapore
Historically this is one of the most
interesting in all India, and it is still
fitly served by Portuguese, priest,
Father Motha Vaz.
According to the census of 1911
the Church in India Increased from
1901 to 1911 by 20.6 per cent; it now
numbers (Ceylon includedl 2,63300O
members. as against $4,000 Schismati-
cal Greeks and syrians and 100000
Protestants, Of whom $4,000 are An
glicans, The organization of the
Church in India has wrung from out
siders warm testimonies to its ex-
Eraerdinary efficiency,
The Catholic bulletin., 1918-11-30
LETTER TO THE EDITOR
PLEA FROM cEYLoN.
Adampau, via Mannar, Ceylon.
To the Editor:

Adampau, via Mannar, Ceylon.
To the Editor:
1 am colored priest in the foreign
missions. The other day got a bum
die of papers, all Catholic Bulletins.
from nameless benefactor. l should
be very glad to thank the good bene-
factor through your paper If the
same benefactor would be good enough
to favor me regularly l should be-. very
grateful to him. -
My dear Father, may l ask favor
from you 1t is this. My mission is
very poor. If some of your readers
could spare me a few aims now and
again, or get a friend to spare me
few, | shall feel very much relieved.
l know times are bad not only for
myself, but for you, too. In the large
ness of your heart you will find way
to help struggling missionary in the
heather lands. a ~ :
Just now we are having a terrible
visitation from God, terrible cpl
demic of small po&. There were As
cases within space of three weeks.
Prices have risen very Eigh. We arc
face to face with real difficulty
Let me hope this terrible war will
end soon, and we will return to nor
NAL times.
Thanking you in anticipation, my
dear Father, and asking for remem-
brance in your prayers,
Ar / am yours, r.
ss tRev.)s j. FRANCIS, @. NJ l. j.
The Catholic bulletin., 1918-11-30

elaborate catafalque was placed be-
fore the chancel OF the sanctuary. 1t
was covered with the national flag.
Two companies of NOtre Dame cadets,
organized by Father O'Flaherty, stood
guard during the solemn obsequies.
The impressive services were con-
dueted by Rev. NJ. G. Fitzgerald, rec
tor of the Pro-Cathedral of Sioux
Falls, assisted by Fathers O'Gorman
and Goggin. Twenty priests Of neigh
boring parishes were present in the
sanctuary. Rev. Bernard Weber of
Salem delivered an inspiring sermon
before a large congregation of sor-
rowing parishioners who had gath
cred to assist at these solemn sery-
ices and to offer up a prayer for the
repose of the soul of their gallant
young pastor who died that democracy
might live.
The parish service flag, hanging be-
tween Holy Family Church and Notre
Dame Academy, contains at present
seyenty-eight stars, representing the
young men of the parish mustered into
service, all ready to die, if necessary,
for their country's cause. Of none,
however, are the people justly more
proud, than of that golden star which
commentaries the gallant deeds and
heroic death of Lieut. c. E. O'Flaherty
of the 28th Infantry, A. e. +.
Father O'Flaherty was born in Ire
land, received his early training in
Lyons, France, and completed his
course in Montreal. He was ordained
for the diocese of Sioux Falls and la
bored in the parishes of Chamberlain
and Kimball before going as pastor
to Holy Family Church, Mitchell.
He was instrumental in founding
the College at Chamberlain, which at
present is the preparatory school and
seminary for the Diocese of Sioux
Falls. When he came to Mitchell he
saw the need of Catholic lay teachers
in rural districts were parish schools
were not yet erected. He determined
to establish a Catholic Normal school
where teachers could be trained. and
he built Notre Dame Academy, which
today stands as a monument to his
memory. Before going to France he
had the pleasure of seeing two large
classes from his Catholic Normal pre-
sented with State certificates
Father O'Flaherty was ever a loyal
American, and at the beginning of the
war, before the cantonments We're
completed, he had gathered together
a company of eighty young men,
turned oyer to them his Academy and
grounds and, after three months
training when this company entered
Camp Cody, they were pronounced fit
for overseas service.
The memory of Father O'Flaherty
will ever be held in benediction, for
he was a true pastor, a good shepherd
of souls, who gave his life for his
flock. His body rests in the American
cemetery No. 12. somewhere in
France, where he was killed while
performing the duties of Catholic
Chaplain, over fallen Catholic boy,
- 49, : y
The Catholic bulletin., 1918-11-30
Socialists Urge Guilds

1t is only by Catholic men i'll public
life that we can bring Catholic prin-
ciples to bear on that life; and they
are sadly needed, and even sought, in
some directions, while there is oppo-
sition to them in others. For
instance, certain advanced Socialists
in England have just issued an in
teresting book, advocating. national
guilds on the model of the old
medieval guilds, every one OF. which
had Catholic and religious origin.
And the writer's state that such guilds
would bring back the independence Of
the individual worker, increase his
output, and protect him at the same
time from the capitalists-the applica-
ton, this, of Catholic principles.
The Catholic bulletin., 1918-11-30
CARDINAL F,AVORS PLAN

Announcement that Cardinal Glib.
bons of Baltimore had authorized pub
lication of a statement of his approval
of establishing in Palestine national
home land for the Jewish people was
made in New York by the Zionist or
ganization of America.
Z ut is with pleasure that | learn of
the approval accorded byrHis Holiness.
Benedict XIV, to the plan of providing
a home land in Palestine to the mem
bers of the Jewish race" Cardinal Glib
bons' statement reads. Il am sure
that there are many who would feel
happy to return to that land, SO rich
with the sacred traditions of the past
and which Is at the same time the
home Of the fathers
The Catholic bulletin., 1918-11-30
(.communicated.)

On Tuesday, November 19, Solemn
Requiem High Mass was celebrated
in Holy Family Church, Mitchell,
South Dakota, for Rev. Colman O'F'la-
herty, the brilliant young pastor who
gave up his life in France
The young lieutenant whose mem
ory was thus honored is the first
Catholic priest of the United States,
who gave his life for his country on
the fold Of battle He died the death
Of b hero whilst in action on October
2, attending a stricken soldier on the
Dattle field.
In The absence Of the body, an
The Catholic bulletin., 1918-11-30

Calm amid the horrors of this war of
wars,
Reading our Country's victory in the
stars
That shine in her bright banner,
(sanctified
BY blood of all her sons who fought
and died
That liberty should perish not OF,
EARTH
And Right and Peace bless men of
every birth.)
Long may thy voice and pen persua-
siye oft
The Cross and Flag symbolic keep
aloft
Making our lives and aims with thine
accord,
Thou good and faithful servant of the
Lord.
-Robeyt C.. Stump
Cardinal Gibbons says in his lately
published Memoirs, Il am the last liv-
ing Father of the Vatican Council"
The Catholic bulletin., 1918-11-30
Pope and Peace

Press dispatches state that Cardinal
Gasparri. Papal secretary of state, has
invited the Cardinals throughout the
world to meet in Rome for great
religious ceremony Ia ST. Peters on
the day Of the signing OF peace. Pope
Benedict will ponti6cate:
The Catholic bulletin., 1918-11-30
St. Paul Seminary

The students of the st. Paul Semi
nary, numbering two hundred and two
young men preparing for the priest
hood, have taken an active interest in
the recent welfare drive for funds for
our soldiers and sailors The
seminarians have subscribed the
nuniacent sum of s2,4t5 for this pur-
pose,
The Catholic bulletin., 1918-11-30

experience, demonstrated by all the
forms of measurement, the rapid cure
of ailments which could not be cured
rapidly by any natural means; and
now and then there occurred the cure
of ailments that could not be cured at
all by any natural means.
The lntellectuals.
The first book which disturbed the
'intellectuals"-the scientific mind of
Europe, as they were pleased to call
themselves-was that published at
Nancy in 1883 by Bernheim, and in
that book was the first solid explana-
been called "auto-suggestion" That
book was the starting-point from which
people began to say: These things do
happen, after ALL The year 1883 was
the date on which the seed sown at
the Grotto of Lourdes began to work ;
for that was the date when the scien-
tific mind of Europe began to say:
These things do happen That was
what occurred to the "intellectuals.
The European mind had been changed
from a dogmatic denial of super
natural phenomena to that of admis-
sion: These things do happen, after
ALL The whole materialistic and
deterministic attitude had gone by the
board, and it was Lourdes, and
LourdeS alone, that did it; it was the
perpetual stream of phenomena at
Lourdes that wore down and pressed
to the dust and left for nothing the
skepticism and the intellectually of
Europe. ....
Let them suppose for moment that
it had been proposed to someone en-
dowed with the necessary powers to
produce q series of miracles which
would have converted that skeptical
century. Suppose a great saint had
been told that God would give him
power to work those miracles most
likely to affect the mind of Europe at
this materialistic time He could not
have chosen a method more powerful
than that which Almighty God chose
through the action of Our Blessed
Lady in the Grotto and through the
water of Lourdes. Had there been the
occurrence of sporadic miracles in
Europe among nations universally
and habitually devoted, such as the
Poles and the Irish, it would have
been easy to say. These people will
believe anything!'
The Catholic bulletin., 1918-11-30
Stream of Facts.


Again, had it taken the form of
same monstrOus mechanical event
something of gigantic immensely, that
would not have converted the modern
mind. In the presence of such q
phenomenon as that the modern mind
would have questioned the original
| evidence. But there was Lourdes,
which had proyidential circumstances
connected with it, The phenomenon
was reiterated. They were now living
sixty years after the first phenomenon,
and they We're still going on, per-
petual--not an increasing reiter-
| ated stream of facts. The length OF
/ the life OF a man was covered by what
! had been Gone there. Unquestionahly
| LourdeS had attached itself to the
! human heart. 1t might sound a par
| adoXicaI statement, but it was true
! that men were more moved to con
! yiction by miracle consonant with
! human needs than by a purely mechan-
| ical, non-human, incident of marvel
| lous type. Had these miracles hap
pened in a Protestant country they
would have been boycotted happen
| ing as they did in France-in a place
on a railway, in the full light of Eu-
rope-they could not be boycotted; );
| they became matter for acute dis
cussion.
There was a particular characteristic
of Lourdes which particularly con
cerned Catholics. This great lever for
the change of the human mind and for
the conversion of Europe was con
nected with Our Blessed Lady-God' S
| instrument for that tremendous force.
That gave one to think. Supposing
that those miracles had happened at
the Holy Places in Jerusalem. What
Il handle that would have been. Peo-
| pie would have said: THE tradition of
Christ is to us all; and the Catholic
| Church is but sect. Had these
miracles occurred with eclat at the
| tomb of some local saint they could
see how local iealousies would have
arisen, and how foreigners would
have 5neered at the superstition of
| that place; men would have specu-
| lated upon them as psychological
phenomena, and nothing would have
| followed. But they came in direct
connection with the Mother Of God.
They appealed by their objective evi-
| dence to Catholics appealed
subiectively to what we owed to Our
Blessed Lady; they stirred our faith
| and convinced the reason of others;
and the two forces converged.
The Catholic bulletin., 1918-11-30
For Catholic Chaplain

SERVICES WERE HELD IN
MITCHELL, SOUTH DAKOTA, FOR
LATE PASTOR, KILLED WHILE
ACTING AS CHAPLAIN IN sERv-
ICE.
The Catholic bulletin., 1918-11-30

BELLoc TRACES IN
FLuENcEs OF THE FAMOUS
SARlNE-5RokE UP MATERl-
ALIsM--MADE SkEPTlcS CON-
SlDER WHETHER THERE WAS
NOT WILL RATHER THAN MAT
TER BEHIND THE UNIVERSE
MIRACLES HAVE BEEN PROVl-
DENTAL IN THEIR TIME AND
METHOD.
The Catholic bulletin., 1918-11-30

of the first, as it was valid marriage,
although the promises were not kept.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-11-29
10th ANNIVERSARY
OF MR.. AND MRS. HUNT
Observed Thanksgiving Day in Home
on Tyler Street-Chldren and
Grandchildren Present.

Mr.. and Mrs. Frank l.. Hunt oh
served their 10th wedding anniversary
yesterday in their home at TYLER street,
where all the children and grandchil-
drcn. gathered for Thanksgiving and
where a large number of relatives and
friends called during the day to ex-
tend congratulations. The anniversary
fell on Wednesday, but circumstances
made it advisable to observe the occa-
sion on Thanksgiving day. Mr.. and
Mrs. Hunt were presented a handsome
chime clock from their children and
bouquets of flowers from friends
Frank Lyman Hunt was one of the
three children of Samuel L. and Har-
ret ~ (Sbley) Hunt and was born i'll
Guilford Center Oct G. 1857. After at
tending the schools of that town he
went to Powers Institute in Bernard
ston and in 1877 went into business
for himself, conducting stove store
in Worcester. Mass. In 1879 he moved
to Philadelphia, Pa, and lived there
several years, coming to Brattleboro in
lSSS. In 1889 the Philadelphia branch
of the Smith & Hunt manufacturing
business was brought to Brattleboro.
Mr.. Hunt has been connected with the
5. A. Smith Mfg. Co. since going 10
Philadelphia in 1879.
Harriet I. Newton was one of seven
children of William A. and Sarah A..
CTyler) Newton and was born in Yer
non Sept. H.. 1856 She attended the
schools Of her native town and for a
time before her marriage was engaged
in dressmaking.
Frank L. Hunt and Harriet I. New
ton were married Nov %, 1878. in
Worcester. They had. six children:
Ruth. wife of Frederic c. Adams of
this town; Mabel. wife of Albert Hunt
of Nashua, \. H.; Bertha who died in
1898; Ellen. wife of Raymond l..
Greene of Worcester. Mass; Gertrude,
who lives ah home; and Lyman, who
died in 1898. They also have eight
grandchildren: Lyman and Eleanor. chill
drcn Of Mr.. and Mrs. Adams: Louis
George, Harry and Gertrude. children
of Mr.. and Mrs Greene; Jane and
Ruth, children of Mr. and Mrs. Albert
Hunt
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-11-29
WEST BRATTLEB0RO

Mrs. C. F. Clark of Greenfield is
visiting here with her daughter, Mrs.
ii. II. Barber.
+. L. White of Belmont is visiting
here a few days with his son, Harold
r. White, and Mrs White
Miss Ruth Anderson. substitute
teacher, went to her home in Florida,
Mass. Wednesday to visit during the
rest of the week
Private Hazen f. Stoekwell of Camp
Dcvens, Aver, Mass, came Saturday to
visit until Sunday Mrs. Stoc kwell
went as far as Millers Falls by auto
mobile to meet him.
Rev. and Mrs A. V. Woodwork en-
tertained over Thanksgiving Mrs.
Charles II. Hall and son. Samuel Hall,
of Cheshire Conn, and Mr.. and Mrs.
Milton Hall and children, Jessie and
Stewart Hall, of West Cheshire.
Miss Hazel Compton. who. has been
Ill a week with influenza in Burlington,
is recovering. Miss Compton is a
freshman in the University of Vermont.
The girls department Of the college
has been closed several days on account
or the epidemic.
Baptist church. Rev l. NJ. Compton
minister. Morning worship at 1890
with sermon by the pastor Sunday
school at ll.45. Meeting of the Junior
Christian Endeavor at clock in
the vestrv. SaE iect, Thanksgiving.
Union service al o'clock in the con
grcgational church. Midweek prayer
meeting THURSDAY evening at 80.
First Congregational church, Rev. 4.
'. Woodwork minister. Morning wor.
ship at 1890 with sermon by the pastor.
sunday school at Has. Evening union
praise service at : o clock in the Con
grcgational church. There will be con
gregational singing Of old and familiar
hymns OF praise. also special music by
the united choir and the junior choir.