The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1919-09-27
MARCHING THROUGH GEORGIA
Continued from page H.

want. He said that to a good son the
honor OF his mother was as dear as
his own, and any mark of disrespect
sentiment than a slight to himself.
Then he said:
The Catholic Speakers Tribute.
And Jesus, our Master and Re-
doemer, had a mother, and she must
have been loved by Him, for He was
perfect, and her honor must now be
as dear to Him as His own, and any
slight to her must be resented by
Him, for He is perfect Son. When
He was still on this earth her word
must have been law of Him.
And | am quite sure that you and /,
had we lived in His day. would have
loved and honored her, for she was a
perfect mother, and | think that had
we known that He was the Redeemer
and wanted some special favor. we
would have asked her to say a word
for Us.
And so in regard to the Mother OF
Christ, every day in the Catholic
Church is Mothers Day, for every
day we honor motherhood in the per
son of the most perfect mother who
ever lived, for we know that the great
God chose her to become the mother
OF His Son, our Saviour. and He sent
an angel from heaven to tell her of
His dignity and obtain her consent to
become His mother. So the Catholic
Church for the past nineteen centuries
has kept a perpetual Mothers Day in
honor Of Mary, the Virgin Mother of
Christ; and today all over the earth
pure little children, grown women
and men are asking the Mother of
Christ to speak to Him for them
Methodists Crowd Around Speaker
ard Thank Him.
do not know what all the good
Methodists thought of my Catholic
friends sermon, but | do know that
when he came down from the pulpit
the people crowded around him and
shook him by the hand and thanked
him.
Up in Atlanta the Baptist conven
ton fired off a number of gas bombs
against the Pope and the Church.
There were no casualties, so far as
am informed. but that city has re-
gained its usual air of deep attention
to partisan politics and intense self
con era ti!lation on its supreme excel.
ience. The Papists there must strike
their breasts and admit their fault,
while the lordly Baptists far UP in the
front of the tabernacle loudly thank
the good Lord that they are not like
the rest Of men.
Eaptists Using Millions.
Our fervent Christians of the Bap-
tist persuasion are using millions to
convert" the French and Belgians. /
wish they would send some Of the
money to Cardinal MERCER for the
poor Bclgians and his flock who suf-
fcTed SO much in the last four years.
But | forget that Cardinal MERCER is
one of those whom these highly intel
ligent Baptists want to convert.
The Back Yards in Georgia.
came to Georgia in December,
1856, continues Bishop Kelley. and
two years after my coming there was
held in Boston general Christian
conference under the direction and
auspices of the Evangelical Alliance
for the United States, and in a paper
read by the Rev. Frank E. Jenkins it
was stated that in stretch Of ter
ritory more than 500 miles long and
200 miles wide, reaching across West
Virginia, Eastern Kentucky, Western
North Carolina, Eastern Tennessee,
Northern Georgia and Alabama, he
found these conditions:
You can find thousands of (white)
people who never saw dozen books
in their lives" said the Rev. Mr.. Jen-
lins. land even those who never saw
one, and do not know what the word
book means; and more than a mil
lion who can neither write their own
The relations of the sexes are such
as cannot be described. The evils are
so great. involving almost every FAM
lily, that public sentiment can scarcely
be arrayed with any force against
them.
The churches are churches only in
name. They are not expected to be
institutions for the moral reformation
of society. Ten years ago Sunday
schools were unknown. A little over
a year ago a missionary organized the
first Sunday school ever opened in a
region Of more than 1900 square
miles in size.
instruction in the Bible.
There are thousands upon thou
sands of square miles full of people
tens of thousands of children--where
instruction in the Bible has never
been given" continued the Rev. Jen
kins, land where the voice of family
worship has never been heard, and
where no child has ever lisped a
prayer at mothers knee or heard that
it is possible for a child to pray. The
ministers of these churches are unedu
Gated. In many instances they can
not read a word in the Bible or in a
child's primer. Often they are openly
immoral. know of one in Tennes
see, still acting as minister, who
when he goes to a neighboring mining
town, is sometimes hired by the