The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1919-07-26
BISHOP CR|MONT'S MISSION
CAME TO THE UNITED STATES
TO SEEK FUNDS FOR HIS DID,
CESE-ALASkA NEEDS HELP,

The Right Reverend Joseph R. Cri.
mont, S. j., of Alaska, after a soiourn
OF three months in the East, spent in
Jealous efforts to secure assistance
toward building up the Church in that
| far-off Wonderland, has departed for
his diocese, the largest in the world
He made brief stay in Chicago. St
Louis and other cities, but fastened
his course as he has to make the
visitation of his great mission field
for him an arduous and painful jour.
ney, though fraught with many spir-
itual consultations as he beholds the
cheerful sacrifices and heroic virtues
practised by the missionary fathers
and the Sisters of ST. Ursula and St.
Ann, and the success of their labors
for the salvation of souls. Five brave
Ursuline Sisters from Montreal ac-
company the Bishop on his return
trip.
He feels natural regret that his
mission in the States was not as pros
porous as he had a right to expect
when he ventured to become a SUD-
plant for his needy people, 1t is true,
he found many generous souls; yet
in the present unsettled condition of
the country, when drives, campaigns,
war councils and clubs, with number
less charities, local and otherwise are
pleading or shouting insistently, far
away Alaska's Voice-the cry of the
children scarce be heard, and
they must wait yet for schools, hos
need
The Jealous Bishop, therefore, not
having succeeded in his pious quest
as he had anticipated, has inaugu-
rated as an ever-present help to his
struggling diocese a Guild of the Lit
tie Flower of Jesus, in honor of the
sanity young Carmelite nun of List
euX, France, Sister Teresa of the In
FAINT Jesus. Her hearts desire DUR
ing her short life of innocence and
penance was to aid the missionary
in foreign lands by fervent prayer and
sufferings. The Diocese of Alaska is
placed under her special care, and
her childlike, dying promise to "scat-
ter roses from her heavenly home
upon the barren earth may yet be
fulfilled in that icy realm of the
North.
The headquarters of the Guild is in
Juneau, Alaska, the Bishops seat of
residence. On April 9, branch of
the Guild was established in Wash
ington, D. c., with the concurrence
of a number of women eminent for
their loyalty to the Church and their
generous activities in all that con-
Germs her interests, especially the
needs of the poor struggling missions.
From the original six members it has
grown to one hundred and fifty; but
the Little Flower of Jesus calls for
thousands of brave-hearted women
and men and children who will sacri-
flee to her little every year for her
new domain of Alaska in order that
she may scatter roses" of heavenly
benediction over them and all those
they love.
The Bishop presided over a meeting
of the Guild in Georgetown Univer-
sity on June 10, when ways and means
were discussed for an extension of
the Guild and it's activities.
The Rev. Thomas I. Gasson, s. j.,
of Georgetown University, is the
Spiritual Director of the Washington
branch of the Guild Mrs w. b.
Montgomery is president, and Mrs.
Rachel Darlington is the treasurer.
Cards of membership may be OBJ
tanned from Bishop Crimont, Juneau,
Alaska, or from officers of the Guild.
Great spiritual advantages are at
tached to membership, the annual
offering ranging from $1.00 upward
according to ones means or pious
desires.
1t is to be hoped that the Guild of
the Little Flower of Jesus will extend
into all our cities and that by the
zeal of the multitude it will attract,
it may be enabled to fulfill with mag
nanimity it's pledge to build up the
Church in Alaska"