New-York tribune., 1919-08-24
waiting his turn because the peasant
had the claim of priority.

waiting his turn because the peasant
had the claim of priority.
The Cardinal is tall and slender. His
lace is that Of an ascetic and tells at
once the story of the severe simplicity
If his mode of living. His face is
SCARED quite deeply. The scars are
the result of an automobile crash, de-
liberately engineered by his eminence
in order that the life of little child
might be spared.
On his coat-of-arms is a motto OF his
own neutrality-suspicious. Jesu Christi"
That motto is the ruleVof his life. In
everything he does he is mindful Of the
apostolic nature of his office.
His emergence as the great figure
OF Belgium's church was in keeping
with the records of the nations priests.
Cardinal Frankenburg had resisted
'adstrio, France and Prussia In turn
and had died in exile. Prince de
Bfoglie, Bishop of Client had opposed
Napoleon and William of Holland. and
he, too, had died in exile. Franken-
burg's declaration" and de Brogle's
pastoral" have been classed with
-Aercier's famous utterances.
Soon after the invasion. Card;n,,
Aercier was called 20 Rome. The death
Of Pope Plus x and tbs necessitv OF
his presence at the meeting OF the Col
leGe Of Cardinals made his journey unr
avoidabls
fhe 1915 Message
The story Of his journey is best told
N the language Of his own famous
Christmas Pastoral Of 1914, issued nm
der the title of "Patriotism and En-
duIance," which brought about his
technical arrest and, in consequence.
worldwide publicity for his message
which represented the highest fruition
of his philosophical studies. Eo said:
II, was in Rome itself that I re-
celyed the tidings- stroke after stroke
--oI the partial destruction Of the Ca
thed1al Church of Louvain, next of the
burning of the library aud of the
scientific installations of our great
university and of the devastation Of
the city, and next Of the wholesale
shooting of citizens, and tortures in
f!icted upon women and children, and
upon unarmed and undcfended men.
\ IND ,,rEiN
Of these calamites the telegram
brought us news of the bomba rd,nent
of our beautiful metropolitan church,
Of The church Of N6tre Dame au de la
Dyle, of the episcopal palace and of a
great part of our dear city Of Malines.
apart from my diocese, without
means of communication with you,
was compelled to lock my grief within
my own afflicted heart and to carry
it, with the thought of you, which
never left me, to the foot Of the
Crucifix
"My dear brethren, ] shall return by
and by to the providential law of suffer
ing, but you will agree that since it has
| pleased AOu-ulduS JIdH, w no WAS
holy Innocent, without stain, to suffer
and to die for us who are sinners, who
are guilty, who are perhaps criminals,
it Ill becomes US to complain whatever
we are called upon to endure. The
truth is that no disaster on earth,
striking creatures only, is comparable
with that which our sins provoked, and
whereof God Himself chose to be the
blameless victim.
Having called to mind this funda.
mental truth, I find it easier to sum-
mon you to face what has befallen us,
and to speak to you simply and directly
of what is your duty and of what may
be your hope. That duty I shall ex-
press in two words: Patriotism and
Endurance"