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have refused, so she did not see how
she could refuse her consent to my
entering the Catholic church. And so
after receiving instruction from the
chaplain, | was received into the
Church.
after my graduation I wrote to my
mother and told her that | wanted to
enter the community and become a
Sister. My uncle was simply delighted
and he told my mother that she must
put no obstacle in my path, since I was
going to join those wonderful Catholic
Sisters.
Forty years have passed since
became Catholic. I have kept my
Rosary, and of course / have never
| ceased thanking the Blessed Mother
of Jesus for bringing me into the safe
| harDor of Catholic truth.
"It is a very commonplace story,
| Father is it not? | have heard the
stories of many converts, and have
been a little surprised at their doubts
and difficulties. | had none.
| 81 had made what to me was a most
wonderful discovery, that Jesus had
Mother, whom He must have dearly
loved, and it came to me that she
must have always done His will, and
| knew that He wills my sanctification
and l said that therefore my souls
affairs must be. of deep concern to
her. / was both surprised and
ashamed to find that the great Church
Catholic had always taught her chill.
dren to love, honor and invoke the
Blessed Mother of Jesus, whilst all
Professionalism had ignored her.
81 have nothing more to tell of my
conversion, and in fact my story is a
very simple and very uninteresting
one. Had lived in the days when He
was on earth l feel sure | would have
been attracted to Him, and yet might
have been little afraid and l should
have gone to His mother and asked
her to bring me to Him. And, Father,
that is what | actually did; and Mary
led me to Him. Like little child,
placed my hand in hers and she led
me to Him."
4 1t is in truth simple story: but ia
| lit not very beautiful one?
-Bp p. II. D., In The Missionary.
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those who ignore her. The thought
bothered me very much, and I won
dered the more that had never before
thought of her as bearing any part
with Him.
ION the next day | was very anxious
to go to the May devotions, but great
surprise awaited me. Mother -, in
her sweet low but distinct voice, read:
Mary, who is the Blessed Mother of
Jesus is our Blesser Mother, too, and
hence He is our Elder Brother had
heard much of God being my Father,
and Christ our Savior, Who made and
makes intercession for us with His
a Blessed Mother in heaven, and
was a mutherless waif. l suppose,
Father, you will laugh when l tell you
that went out of the chapel and cried
bitterly in my sheer loneliness Of
heart. Day after day listened to the
recital of Mary's privileges and to the
examples l learned of Her power with
her Son. l wondered if Protestant
girls knew of these things, and | be-
gan to pity sincerely the religious be-
lief which had deprived itself of such
wonderful grace by taking the Blessed
Mother of Jesus out of her appointed
place.
81 said to one of the Catholic girls,
| whom L had learned to love: You
| Catholic girls have a Mother in heaven
and have none She smilingly said:
| oh, yes, she is the Blessed Mother
of all who love our Blessed Lord, and
! know that you do love Him, and so
| she is your Mother, too 1t was those
| May devotions at the convent which
| first introduced me to the Blessed
Mother of Jesus, and she did all the
rest 10
| "Old Sister P. had little store al
! the convent where she sold some pious
articles; and one day went there and
how to say them, but asked my Cath
Ollie chum to teach me, and soon ]
could recite the Rosary. | did not tel
any one of my venture, and never sale
the beads in public. ,t,
81 knew little or nothing of the doc
trines of the Church, and yet, wher
a short time afterwards | asked fol
instruction. had little or no difficult.
4 in accepting them, because hat
learned to love the Blessed Mother o
Jesus, and knew that these truths
were proposed to me by the Church
which taught me to revere, honor ant
love our Lords own Mother l don
Isuppose that came into the Churcl
in any logical way; in fact, was LEI
into it by the Blessed Mother of Jesus
Il Il was, confess, somewhat SUI
!, prised, when told | must first ask tn
!, consent of my mother before becoming
a Catholic. She was very goo
j Christian and though she did not Xix
! the Catholic church. she said that j
I, had expressed a desire to become
i Methodist or Baptist she would no
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FROM A MISSIONARY SISTER IN
AFRICA.

''The purpose of this little. story is
to show you, kind benefactors, that
Our Lord does not permit your work
and your sacrifice in behalf of the
negro children to be without fruit. Re
Gently our smallest gir1saAwere holding
a very lively conversation during rec
reation time. Unnoticed, / approached
the little group to hear what they
were saying.
"'You; why have we a tongues?
THAT we may talk
"3And you; why has God given vi
a tongue?'
$50 that we can eat
"'And you; why have you tongue
Rose, who had turned her little
head toward the chapel, was thought
full for a moment, then quickly IAN
swered: in order that we may re
ceive Holy Communion. .......,..
"The little questioner was so SUI
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prised at the wise answer, which was
far beyond the years of her small com.
panion, that she did not venture to
question any further. She was
ashamed that she herself had not
thought of that reason. And Il
thought that surely our late Holy Faith
er, Plus X, would have been happy
could he have heard this converse
ton"
For the further training of these
promising African Christians, dona
tons of any size are earnestly solicit
ed by: s-
Sodality of st. Peter Claver for the
African Missions, Fullerton Bldg, St
Louis, Mo.
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The Italian atheist De Amicis, thus
writes of the great Catholic painter,
e Murillo: srs= ~ "@y57-s- "a, asfsssst
''Now let us talk of Murillo in the
gentlest tone of voice possible. In
art Velasquez is an eagle; Murill0 an
angel. We admire the former, we
adore the latter. His canvasses make
him known as if he had lived with
us. He was handsome, good, and pious;
many knew not where to touch him;
around his crown of glory he bore one
of love. He was born to paint the
sky. >
Fate had given him a peaceful and
serene genius, which bore him heaven
ward on the wings of a placid inspira-
ton; and yet his most admirable pic
lures breathe an air of modest sweet
ness, which inspires sympathy and af-
lection even before wonder. A simple
and noble elegance of outline, an eX-
preston full of vivacity and grace,
an ineffable harmony of color, are the
points which strike one at first sight,
but the longer one looks at them, the
more one discovers in them, and aston
ishment is transformed, little by little,
into a sweet feeling of gladnesS. His
saints have a benign expression that
cheers and consoles one; his angels,
whom he groups with a marvellous
mastery, make ones lips tremble with
the desire to kiss them; his virgins,
clothed in white and enveloped in their
blue nantes, with their great black
eyes, their folded hands, so willowy,
slight, and aerial in appearance. make
ones heart tremble with sweetness,
and ones eyes fill with tears.
HE combines the tints of Velasquez
with the vigorous effects of Ribera, the
harmonious transparency of Titan,
and the brilliant vivacity of Rubens.
Spain gave him the name of painter Of
Conceptions because he was insuper-
able in the art of representing this
divine idea. ..
There are four great Conceptions in
the Madrid gallery passed half days
before those four pictures, quite mo-
tionless and almost in a state of &C.
stacy. l was most completely carried
away by that one in which only a part
of the figure is given, with the arms
folded over the breast and the half
moon across the waist. Many place
this one after the others. l trembled
in hearing this said, because | was
filled with inexplicable fervor for that
face. More than once looking at it,
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BISHOP TAccoNPS STAFF.

Bishop Tacconi, M. F. NJ, now in
this country, but shortly to sail for his
diocese in Honan, China, gives some
details regarding the personnel of the
teaching staff he is to bring back with
him. AS has been announced, six Sis
tiers of Providence from Indiana are
to have charge of high school for
girls. 1t will be located in the large
city of Kaifeng, capital of Honan.
Three priests-Rev. F. x. Clougher-
ty, Rev. Howard D. Lawton, convert
to the Faith, and Rev. Joseph KERN,
all of Pennsylvania, will found col
lege for boys.
There is a possibility that Bishop
Tacconi will form a society of Ameri
can priests for educational work in
China. H&
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prayers as well as with their aims,
that the reign of the Sacred Heart
may be promoted more and more in
this poor province"
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rived at the convent and there for the
first time l met Mother -. She had
the voice and face of mother, and
when she threw her arms around me
and kissed me I felt at once at home,
and l knew that l should be a very
happy girl in the convent
Nearly fifty years have passed
since that day, and Mother - has
been dead for many years; and her
memory is as dear. to me today as
her face and manner were that first
day. l don't know, Father, what it
was about her which drew all hearts
to her unless it was that though she
always seemed to realize the presence
of God, that realization seemed to
make her love all and everybody for
Him. She certainly had the faculty of
making people happy and rendering
the performance of even hard duties
an easy task. 1t is very hard even
for me today to speak of my expert.
ences in the dear old convent
when have heard the cruel things
"AlSh lioNO UOCA ocllu dDOuL Iuc COu
vents and Sisters here, l have often
wished that my experience might
have been theirs sometimes laugh
| at the picture must have presented
"a prim little Presbyterian girl going
| into a Catholic convent!
Eat first the daily routine was a
| little hard, but soon grew accustomed
| to it. When I first saw the Sisters
assembled in the chapel, | looked al
what thought was their very peculiar
dress, and then the words of my dear
uncle came to me: Child, these Cath
| Ole Sisters are the hottest and the
best women in the world Most of the
girls at the convent were Catholic; bu
there were few Protestant ones; ant
the Sisters treated them all alike.
my first interview with the Mothe
must have amused her very much,
think. l went to her and said
Mother, why don't you say all tn
| Our Father She said: Il.
| How do you say it?'e And yer,
promptly | said it with the Protestan
ending, For Thine is the power an
the kingdom, etc. I.added: You Cath
olics have cut off some of the Lord
J prayer Mother - laughingly re
piled: Well, | think~you Protestant
have added something which our Lor
. never said
"As l look back now / think tina
/ took my first step to- the. Ghurc
during the month of May the frs
year that l was at the convent. TIL
girls attended the May devotions, an
Mother was reading some deyotions
book. The first words which attracte
my attention were> these: This
the month Of the Blessed Mother {
Jesus l had never thought much (
our Lords Mother, as she had no plac
! in my religious ideas. But the word
t kept ringing in my ears: The Blesse
! Mother of Jesus. wondered il II
j felt towards her7as we do towards OF
i mothers;a. ana-E sai6sta myself that /
: He did, He must be displeased wit
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A CONVERT OF MARY

l remember the many requests
that you have made in the past for
stories of conversions to the faith.
Like yourself, l have always been
intensely interested in hearing con-
verts tell the story of the means by
which our Lord led them to the safe
harbor, and l have never lost an OPP
portunity of asking converts to tell
me their story.
l have been priest very nearly
fifty years, and in that. time of neces-
sity 1 have received a number of per-
sons into the Church. | wish | could,
with confidence, say that l was the
guide who showed them the way from
darkness to the light. but I fear my
only part has been the purely minis
terial one of administering the sacra
ment. But now let me tell the story
of a conversion in which l had nc
part at all, and which came to my
| knowledge in a general way some
thirty years ago, but which was tolG
me in more detail this week.
For nearly thirty odd years I have
been the Ecclesiastical Superior of &
/ devoted community of Sisters who are
engaged in the work of mercy, teach
| ing, visiting the sick and caring fol
orphans. During my visitations l gave
them conferences on spiritual subjects
always in the evening, for their Holy
Hour On one of these visits during
the month Of June and on the Feas
| of the Sacred Heart, / gave them {
talk on the infinite love of our Lore
for souls, basing my remarks on thu
| very beautiful parable of the los
sheep. After the conference one o
the Sisters came to me, and said:
| Father, what you said of the earn
est search of our Lord for the foolish
wandering sheep made me thank Hin
sincerely for bringing me Home"
| l said to her:
SISTER, you are not convert, ar
your"
i AS a matter of fact I have Away
i rather prided myself on being able t
tell, after a few moments converse
ton, whether the one to whom ar
talking is a convert or born Cathe
lie, and confess never for a momen
imagined the Sister belonged to tn
Il first class.
i yes" she answered, II am col
i vert to the Church. and owe IN
conversion entirely to the Blesse
mother of our Lord. | suppose H
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makes use of many ways and many
persons to get the wandering sheep
back, and at last He sent His mother
after me-"
1 said to her: "Now, Sister, tell
me the story of your conversion"
WELL" she answered, there really
isn't much of a story to tell. 1 did
not have any Of the wonderful ex-
periences which other converts seem
to have had. Mine was a very COM
in my last year at the public school,
and my mother, who was a widow
could not afford to send me to a
boarding school. Of course, 1 knew
very we'll would have to seek some
employment as soon as 1 finished.
"Just at this time my mothers
brother came to see us; and when
he was told of my approaching gradua-
ton at the public schools he insisted
that I must be sent to some boarding
school. AS he declared he would pay
all the expenses it is needless to say
that my mother accepted his offer.
You can scarcely imagine now amazed
we were when he said:
"'The girl must go to convent
school, My uncle had no sort of re-
ligious convictions and had never been
a member of any church. When
pressed for reason for his choice
of convent, he told us that during
his four years service in the Confed.
crate army he had often seen Catholic
Sisters in the hospitals, and he be
lieved that they were the best and
hottest women in the world. My moth
er, though strongly religious woman
and member of Protestant church
was entirely devoid of prejudice.
am quite sure that she, like most Prot
estants, knew very little or nothing
of the Catholic church or the belize
of Catholics | believe that a secu
lar or Protestant school would have
been her preference; but she woule
not stand in the way of my getting {
higher education. And so to the con
vent l was sent. I had never spoken
| to Sister nor had | ever set foo
| inside convent. | had in truth neve
! thought anything about Catholic Sis
/ tiers, My mother, though, as / have
said, member of Protestant church
had none of the anti-Catholic feeling
so common in this (southernD state
i Of course, l knew absolutely nothing o
the life of Sister. In my native cit.
there were hospital, an orphanag
and an academy, conducted by Sisters
and that indifference, however, cor
fess yet, strange to say, | had l.neve
! given them or their work a thought
Despite this Indifference, however,
confess that l felt rather strangely as
stepped from the cars and was greete
by two of the Sisters who came t
|, meet me. The first thought that cam
J, into my mind was that of wonder a
the way they were dressed, and
, pitied them for having a cOstum
which must be so uncomfortable
/ the summer time.
J 1--WE went to the convent, whic
was only a short distance away, bt
: they had a carriage for me. remen
7 Der so well that thesname Of the hors'
| which was driyen-by sedate old NJ
: gro. was Coalburner! We soon a
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PRAISES MURILLO.

The Italian atheist, De Amicis, thus
writes of the great Catholic painter,
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DESIRABLE DETACHED HOUSES IN CHEW
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81 .50o-Detached dwelling in Chevy Chase.
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We are offering one Of the finest homes in
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STONE 4 FAIRFAX
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N CHEVY CHASE. ON THE DISTRICT SIDE
very near Connecticut avenue. stucco and
single. residence containing 8 beautiful rooms
. fully tiled baths and maids room, hot
water heat. electricity. large sun rarlor. :
large open freplaces: good garage. with drive
way House was built by the present owner
and is in frstclass condition. with splendid
slate roof. Unusually large lot. 70x1O0. II
YOU need a home and inspect this one you will
buy it, Price. SIS. 800.
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141O street. Main 3742..
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FOR SALE-APARTMENTS

l4th ST. sOITH OF GIRARD ST.-sMAI.I.
apartment building. containing six apartments.
Price. $50 500.
THOMAS W. FOWLER 4 son.
49, 18th ST. NV.
on \. II. AVE. AROvE wASHTNGT0N
CIRCLE: FOTRSTORY MODERN BRICK
APARTMENT: CONTAINS Is APTS.. 3 TO q
YEAR; CAN RE GREATLY INCREASED.
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DEMAND FOR APARTMENTS IN THIS SEC
MENTS or AND ROOMS AND RATH
EACH: TOTAL YEARLY RENTS ARoI'r
$..taDO EXPENSES Of EPkEEP AROET Sam
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900 CAN REMAIN: RAI.ANCE CASH.
+. r. SHEEHY. ROND RI!pG. NJ. $3.50.
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NEW FOTR-FAMTLY APARTMENT: EACH
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Price. gil. 500. Terms.
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FOR SALE
Eight rooms and hath: two-story brick: near
LIST and L SITS. NV; occupied by owner. Price.
ss.3OU.
TN corner. northeast. two-family apartment
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A dandy nine-roo and bath Ton corner,
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d, II. JOHNSON CO.. 1898 H st. NV
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s22.OW' Col. 1904. y
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r.. WAHIN,:. FRANKLIN a571
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ATTRACTIVE NORTHWEST OFFERINGS.

81 o50-$1jO cash: on 9th nr. r. I. ave.
t;-r.. b. brick: front and back yds.
A.3W1SiJ0 cash: 9Th St. 12O0 block.
ar. b.: lot .Ox1lO.
81 1850 900 cash: 1t. mr.. Pension Once
lu-r.. b. brick: will paper and paint
$I.NH1$l 800 cash. st. close to station.
S-r.. b. brick; I'd. to alley.
$5.o:ONr. 10th and SITS. NV.
6-r.. b. brick bldg: semi-,iet.; yd.
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s3.a50-Penna. ave. mr.. Wash. Circle.
Sl.:p, cash S-r.. h. brick.
81. IHi-Joln Marshal. p!. mr.. Penna. ave.
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Sa.S:O-N. V ave. nr. North Capitol.
t-r. h. bay window brick: furnace:
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1-r. h. bay window brick. frst-noOr
kitchen.
S6.0O0-$1 900 cash: 1Sf at. 1000 block.
d r., b.; colonial style: modern.
Sc. OW-Easy payments: LIST ST.. SIN block.
IL r.. = b., furnace: rm. for garage.
81. lM-l'ash: 100 block 2:nd ST.
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10 r. b.. furnace
81. :an-$1 200 cash: nth st. bet. and NJ.
s r.. b.; large front and rear yds.:
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Gr.. l.. brick: sleeping porch: semi-det
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IF. u. brick: rn. for garage.
ST. :aW 81 400 cash: ST. mr.. 2rt.
l1-r., b. brick: good condition.
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