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The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1920-07-31
PRAYER.

The most perfect act man can offer
to God is that of prayer. 1t is the
acknowledgment that He is God and
that we are His creatures, the more
perfect it is, the greater our union
to Him: likewise the greater is this
union, the more perfect is our prayer.
st. Thomas describes prayer as a sup
plication whereby we try to persuade
God to do what we desire Hence it
would be very useful for US to know
by what form of prayer we can best
attain this end, as we'll as the form of
prayer that is the most pleasing to
God. Indisputably we can affirm it to
be the one that unites us the most in
timately to God, thus giving us the
greater power over His Heart God
in His infinite Wisdom and Goodness
knowing no other means of union
greater than that of food with the one
who can eat it, gave us Himself to
be our food and to be united substan-
TALLY and in an ineffable manner to
us. This considered shows what a
powerful means OF prayer we have in
Communion! And when we know
from Jesus own lips that He desires
us to come to Him in all our necessi-
ties, that He is more eager to give
than we are to receive; that He in
Vites and urges us to come to Him
and to ask whatever we desire when
He is in us by Holy Communion we
must naturally conclude no more pow
erful form of prayer can be imagined
than Holy Communion Aye. Coo
Himself though Wisdom Itself did
not discover a greater.
Jesus desires, therefore, that we eX
pose to Him our troubles, and ever
goes so far as to help us win our
cause by becoming our advocate. So
when you come to Communion be
careful not to ask less confidently
than Jesus expects you to. You may
imagine His disappointment did other
sentiments than those of tenderness
and confidence sway your heart. Lay
before Him simply as an artless child
your troubles and your fears. He is
not like the generality of men too en-
crossed by their own affairs to pay
much attention to your sufferings and
your wants. He is not cold or indif
ferent as are sometimes even our near
est and dearest. Tell Him all as tc
your Master and He will answer as
to His child, for He is tender as a
Father toward us, or to express myself
more fittingly, as Mother, He Him
self having said: Even if mother
forget the first fruit of her womb ]
will not forget you"
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1920-07-31

Sin is one of those things which re-
fuses to be fully identified or revealed
1t is grievous offense against the
laws of God. 1t is an affront to the
Creator. 1t closes the gates of heaven
and opens wide the doors of hell. Sin,
in the light of such startling and shock
ing facts, does not unveil it's essence
I'VE do not know what sin is says
Newman, because we do not know
what God is; we have no standard
with which to compare it, till we
know what God is. Only Gods glories,
His PROJECTIONS, His holiness, His mas
terry, His beauty, can teach us by the
contrast how to think of sin, and since
we do not see God here, till we see
Him, we cannot form just Judgment
of what sin is; till we enter heaven,
we must take what God tells us of sin,
mainly on faith
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1920-07-31
THE REMAINS OF ARCHBISHOP
SONTAG.

On his return to Persia, Father
Franssen, G.. NJ, of Ourmiah, sought
out the burial place of the martyred
Archbishop Sontag, Apostolic Delegate
to that country. And what grewsome
relics of the slaughter remained every
where in the mission! He says:
"In our mission alone the Persian
mob killed more than six hundred
Christians, while thousands were slain
in the streets, the villages and upon
the road of exile.
Remnants of human bodies were scat
tered about for several days in the res
idence of the Apostolic Delegate. The
church, yard, and garden of the mis-
sion were the theatre wherein scenes
of horror were enacted. The descrip-
ton of these barbarous butcheries CIV
en- by our Christians who witnessed
the horrible sight would cause a chill
of terror and Indignation.
II have a photograph of little child
who received five stabs of a poinard,
and who, after being left for dead, re-
manned hidden alive for two days un-
der pile of corpses.
when visiting the church of our
mission, saw great stains of blood all
about, and portions of human flesh adj
| herring to the walls.
81 found the tomb of Mgr. Sontag
but as he had been inferred with four
teen others, I could not identify him
| Nevertheless I recovered his pastoral
| cross and his ring; so have in my
| possession two precious relics of this
devoted. martyr of the Faith
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1920-07-31

History has taught me that the
lepers on the Island of Molokai were
assisted and made comfortable dur
ing their wretched lives by great
Catholic priest, Father Damien.
History has taught me that the
Catholic priests were the first to es-
tablish missions to minister to saw
age tribes in all parts of the world
and raised them from savagery to the
first rung on the ladder of civiliZa.
ton.
"'History has taught me that
whenever there is war the Catholic
priest is found at the head of the
marching soldiers, giving them cour'
age and hope and assurance that their
efforts shall not be in vain, and the
Catholic Sisterhood likewise doing
their share in bringing comfort and
balm to the wounded and manned.
"I consider it a great privilege to
be able to contribute my mite to a
cause as represented by such an in
stitution as the Catholic Church, and
L nope that YOU Will ISCSlNO Tic ACSCo
sary help from all of our citizens OF
every faith and every creed
what the world needs is more OF
this broad-minded appreciation by
men of one religion of the good that
there is in another.
What Mr.. Herman referred to In
his first letter was the efforts to break
up the Catholic schools because chill
| dren. are taught religion in those
schools.
"The issue had been forced on the
people of the State of Michigan and
they must face it in an election.
IF out of the election there could
result doing away with some of the
religious prejudices that exist through
men and women of one faith not un
Outstanding the faith of other mer
and women then some good will have
been done, and the expressions OF
such men as Mr.. Herman help to dc
away with those prejudices."
| -Ptpp's Nsskip. DsfyoN
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1920-07-31
RECRUITS PROMISED FOR MIS-.
SlONS IN PHILIPPINES.

At the end Of lecture given in
Washington, d. c., by Father John ].
Thompkins, S. j., on the work Of
Catholic missionaries in LuZon, Phil
ippine Islands, where he has been sta
toned for IA years, several young
women who had heard his appeal for
catechists and teachers, announced
that they intended volunteering for
this apostolate. The lecture was de-
livered in the headquarters of the Ma
tional Catholic Welfare Council.
Father Thompkins said that Prot
estant sects are very active in the
Philippines and have made much head
way through the influence Of the pub
lie schools. The Filipinos are inner
emily Catholic and quite loyal when
once brought into the Church, Father
Thompkins said, but the field is so
large and the priests and nuns so
few that it is difficult to extend the
missions to the numerous pagans who
are still to be found in the Islands.
Protestant missionary effort is liber
ally financed and plentifully manned.
| he declared.
On his return to washington in Sep
TENDER, Father Thompkins told the
young women who offered themselves
as lay workers in the Philippines, he
will plan for their assignment to yari-
Gus stations. /.
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TAUGHT BY THE SACRED HEART

On the subject of devotion to the Sa-
cred Heart Cardinal Manning wrote:
IF you love the Blessed Sacrament,
the Blessed Sacrament by Its own light
will teach you to know and love the
Sacred Heart: and the Sacred Heart
will open Itself, and will teach us to
know Its own character. We shall
know all It's love-the love which is
from eternity to eternity; the love in
effable, Divine ferVOur, of unspeakable
human tenderness; the Love that died
for us. We shall know, too, the COM
mandment of that Love when He was
about to die for us. And we shall
learn not only His love, but also His
patience; for He abideS in the midst
of us. Sinners as we are-He still
dwells in the midst Of us in His hui
mility, yelled, out of sight, sighted,
and disbelieved, passed without sign
Of recognition by the multitudes that
go by Him. There He is, in His gen
crosby, giving away grace after grace.
We become bankrupt through our own
fault and sin; we go back TO Him; He
lost: more than this, He pOurS down
upon us even more grace than we have
wasted: for His generosity is mex
haustible He does not break the
bruised reed nor 'quench the smoking
flax He waits for you. He has wait
ed for YOU from childhood and in your
youth and in your manhood; in all
Il IL inc
for you STILL trying to draw you
towards Him, that some day, at last,
YOU may come TO true repentance, and
that some day before you die you may
be His disciple. And in all this | see
what | may call His nsuSpiciOusness.
Friends suspect one another, they form
rash judgments of one another, they
are always harboring hard thoughts
of each other; they draw to themselves
pictures and characters of other men,
and seldom in their favor. How does
the Sacred Heart deal with US? He
knows everything that is in US, and
yet He speaks to us with the same I'M
changeable love and the same unalter-
able patience as if we were within al
together what we show ourselves with
out. What perfect love, then, is this
Divine and human love Of our Master
But if We love Him. we must bear
fruits that are like Him. The fruit
of the Spirit is charity, joy, peace
Gal v 22). These are the fruits of
the Sacred Heart. The Heart He bears
to us we must bear to our neighbOrs.
Our whole mind must be to our neigh
Dor what His mind is to us And to
this we must add love Of the cross,
for that was the browning perfection
of the Sacred Heart. 1t is not easy to
love contradictions, Sights, sorrows,
anXietieS, failures, VeXatiOnS. We who
murmur and repine and strive and
fret all the day long, if anything goes
wrong. call ourselves disciples of the
Sacred Heart, and yet we have not as
much as the will to bear the cross,
much less to love it. We must learn
to be forgiying, to be patient, to be Sc
we're against the least sim not in others
we must bear with them in charity,
hoping for their salvation-but in our
selves Be as sharp as you will with
yourselves. and Go not bear with the
least in your own temper; give no i'm
punity to yourselves or to your own
faults. These are the tokens of the
true disciples Of the Sacred Heart
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1920-07-31
MOTHER OF THE sORRoWFUL

What would the sea of human sor-
rows be without Mary's moonlight on
it? The ocean with the dark, heavy
overspread clouds lowering upon it,
does not differ more widely from the
silvery plain Of green and Whitley
flashing waters exulting in the sun
light, than the weary expanse of life's
successive cares without the softening
and almost alluring light which falls
upon it from Mary's love, differs from
the life as it now lies before us before
her maternal throne. How many a
tear has she not already wiped away
from our eyes! How many bitter
tears has she not made sweet in the
shedding! And there is age and the
yearly narrowing circle of those we
love, and sickness, and death, all YET
to come, and to what amount may we
not have to draw upon the treasure OF
consolation in her sinless heart
Mother of God! He broke thy heart
That it might wider be,
That in the vastness of it's love
There might be room for me.
There can hardly be a shade of hui
man sorrow which is not familiar tC
Mary's heart. The manifold inven
tons of grief are known to her. The
secrets of its alliance with grace, as
well as its tendencies to conspire with
the unworthy weaknesses of our ma
ture, are no secrets to her. She, who
is to be the prophecies of sorrowins
race, is, by her own experience, the
! grand doctress in the science of sor
row.
Mary is not at once created Mother
Of the afflicted, as by sudden paten
OF nobility. She does not become thu
consolation Of mourners by mere ap
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1920-07-31
GREAT WORK OF CATHOLIC
CHURCH..

1t is not my purpose or intention
to have this paper become an organ
for any creed or church, but it is my
intention in my feeble way, to help
any agency for good that is being
attacked, and the Catholic Church
right now is being attacked.
"The occasion of this is a letter
that came through the mails from
Raphael Herman, a well known De-
troit manufacturer, and who is also
we'll known in the fight against tu
berculosis.
'In his Letter Mr. Herman said:
"I have read your article on the
Catholic Church in your publication
which l heartily endorse.
"'The American Republic is based
on the tolerance of religious beliefs
"I take the liberty to enclose here
with, copy of letter which | have
recently written in connection with
the Catholic Church, from which you
can see my feelings in regard to it.
"The letter enclosed was one ad
dressed to James ]. Brady, and re
ferred to contribution by Mr.. Her
man to the fund for the Sacred Heart
Seminary. In the letter to Mr.. Brady
the following words were sent by Mr.
Herman:
GAS a Protestant I make this con
ltribution, and as Protestant l want
| to tell you that | appreciate the great
service which the Catholic Church has
rendered to humanity the world over
History has taught me that the
Catholic people are of the first to en-
ter the slums of the large cities tt
heal the wounds of the injured, com
| fort the dying and reclaim the fallen
History has taught me thai
whenever pestilence or scourge o.
| one kind or another prevails in any
part of the world, of the first to came
| to the rescue of the deserted wives o.
Ihusband mothers and babies are the
Catholic Sisters.
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THE PRECIOUS BLOOD.

Devotion to the Precious Blood
brings out and keeps before us the
principle of sacrifice, says Father
Faber. Sacrifice is peculiarly the
Christian element Of holiness: and
it is precisely the element which
corrupt nature dislikes and re-
Sists. There is no end to the delu-
sions which our self-love is fertile
enough to bring forth in order to
evade the obligation of sacrifice, or to
narrow its practical application. If it
We're enough to have correct views, or
high feelings, or devOut aspirations,
it would be easy to be spiritual. The
tombstone is modification. Worldly
amusements, domestic comforts, nice
food and daily doing our own will
in the lesser details of life are all in
compatible with sanctity, when they
are habitual and form the ordinary
normal current of our lives. Pain is
necessary to holiness. Suffering is es-
sential to the killing of Self-love.
Habits Of virtue cannot by any posi-
bility be formed without voluntary
III ratification. Sorrow is needful for
the fertility Of grace. If man is not
making constant sacrifices, he is de-
ceiving himself and is not advancing
in spirituality. If man is not deny
ing himself daily, he is not carrying
the cross These are aXiOms which at
all times offend our weakness and
self-indulgence. But they are of pc
culiar Importance in times like these,
when comforts and even Injuries are
almost universal 1t is comfort,
which is the ruin of holiness. Gayety,
fashion, ostentation, eXpensiveness,
dissipation, frivolity are undoubtedly
not the component parts of sanctity
There is a smoothness in the mere
lapse of comfortable life which is
fatal to holiness Now, all the forms,
and images, and associations, and pic
lures, and ideas, of the devotion to
the Precious Blood breathe sacrifice
Their fragrance is the odor of Sacri
flee. Their beauty the austerity OF
sacrifice. They tease the soul with a
constant sense of dissatisfaction and
distrust with whatsoever is not sacri
flee, and this teasing is the solicitation
of grace. In time they infect us with {
love of sacrifice; and to gain this love
of sacrifice is to have surmounted the
first ascent of holiness. and to be
breathing the pure air and yet tread
ing the more level road of the upper
land of the mountains of perfection.
1t is the very mission of the devO
ton to the Precious Blood to preacl
crusade against quiet sinless com
forts.
What more can we say? Swee
worship of the Blood of God, wor
ship with so many Of mans peculiar
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foreign lands. These missions are
conducted by members of various re-
ligious orders and comprise every ma
tionality. The funds are exclusively
employed in procuring baptism for
pagan children; in buying and adopt
ing abandoned children; in providing
for their maintenance and Christian
education. Over 100000 dying infants
are baptized each year, and more than
100000 are at present being cared for
in the various orphanages and schools
supported by the Holy Childhood.
The National Office is under the di-
rection of Rev. Edw. J. Knaebel, G.
S. Sp., and is located at 901 Stand
ard Life Bldg, Pittsburgh, Pa.
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rights in it embracing all theology in
itself, and then turning all it's vast
theology into tenderly triumphant
song! Dear Fountain, that rises in
the heart of Gods human Mother
and flows down through Communion
over the souls of men into the
Bosom of the Eternal Father, while
those countless souls, like the
pebbles of the stream, make ever
lasting music as it flows! 1t is
consOling to feel that the Precious
Blood is bearing us onward into
that adorable Abyss of Love and is
carrying us this hour with such
GREATNESS swiftness to our home, our
home with the Mortal Mother and
the Unbeginning Father of the
Eternal Son.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1920-07-31

The religious attitude is the SUI
preme necessity, to which all knowl-
edge. science and experience run as a
river to the sea.--John W, Chadwick.
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-pointment emanating from the will of
the Divine Majesty. 1t might have
been so, but it is not SO. Her office of
our Mother is long and painful con-
Maternity. She has toiled for it, suf.
fered for it, borne herculean burdens
of sorrow in order to merit it. and has
mastered it at last on Calvary.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1920-07-31
WHICH STATE?

Which state would Noah prefer:
(Ark.)
Which one is preferred by Catho
lies? (Mass)
Which one is cas- good as a mile?'
(Miss.)
Which is "mightier than the sword p
(Penn.)
Which do people dread, yet are not
able to control? nl.)
Which is equal to two five-dollal
gold pieces? .(Tenn)
Which is worth nothing? CO.,
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1920-07-31
HOLY CHILDHOOD REPORT.

The annual report of the Holy Child
hood Association just published by
the National Office, Pittsburgh, Pa,
shows that $14O,175.51 was collected
during the year 1919. This is the larg'
est amount ever collected in a single
year by the American Branch of the
Holy Childhood.
The funds of the Association are
distributed amongst 290 missions in
The Democratic advocate., 1920-06-04
Surprise Birthday Party.

A very enjoyable surprise party
was given at the home Of Mr.. and
Mrs. Joseph Plunkert, at Two Tav-
erns', Pa. ON Thursday evening, May
20, in honor of their son, George Plum
kert, who was away and was very
much surprised on his return home
when he found a number of his young
friends and neighbors there. A very
enjoyable evening was spent in games
of all kinds, and music until late
hour when all were invited to the
dining room and found the table laden
with the delicacies of the season.
Those present were Mr.. and Mrs Jos.
Plunkert, Mr.. and Mrs. George Plum
kert, Mr.. and Mrs. David Boose, Mr..
and Mrs. Harry Byers, Mr.. and Mrs.
Edward Plunkert, Mr.. and Mrs. How
ard Conover, Mr.. and Mrs. Wilson
Bair, Mr. and Mrs. Mervin Wickert, Mr.
and Mrs. Rufus Kump. Mr.. and Mrs.
Mervin Miller, Mr.. and Mrs. Lester
Warehime, Misses Helen Boose, Rho
da Conoyer, Evelyn Bowman. Madaline
Boose, Lily Maus, Ruth Wolf, Winnie
Haner, Naomi Miller, Mary Warehine,
Esther Haner, Sarah Willet, Edith
Haner, Margaret Ecker, Elva Hesson.
Esta Miller, Evelyn Boose, Marie Plum
kert, Helen Warehime, Messrs w.
Edward Plunkert, Chas. Byers, Clar-
ence Bankert, Earl Stair, Clarence
Arter, Nevin Kump, Walter Lennon,
Clarence Shoemaker, Ralph Messen-
ger, Robert Bankert,s Ralph Althouse,
Emory Gitt Walter Bowman, George
Maus, Ralph Weikert, Allen Weik-
ert and Ralph Harman.
The Democratic advocate., 1920-06-04
INVENTIVE GENIUS
ROBS CALOMEL OF !
NAUSEA AND DANGER
Doctors Favorite Medicine Now
Purified and Refined from All
Objectionable Effects. Gallo
tabs" the New Name. Ja~-...,A

What will human ingenuity do next?
Smokeless powder, wireless. telegraphy,
horseless carriages, colorless iodine, taste
less quinine,-now comes nausealess Gallo
mel. The new Improvement called "Calo-
tabs is now on sale a drugstores.
For biliousness, constipation and 1nd1-
gestion the new calomel tablet is prac-
ticalIy perfect remedy, as evidenced by
the fact that the manufacturers have au-
thorized all druggists to refund the price
if the customer is not perfectly delighted
with Calotabs. One tablet at bedtime with
a swallow of water-that's all. No taste,
no nausea, no gripping, no salts. BY morn
ing your liver is thoroughly cleansed and
you are feeling fine, with hearty appe-
tite. Eat what you please-no danger-go
about your business.
Calotabs are not sold in bulk. Get an
original package, sealed. Price, thirty
five cents.-(adV.)
The Democratic advocate., 1920-06-04

Sunshine soap 6 bars for 25c.
doz. jar rubbers for 25c.
3 bars Babbitt's soap for 25c.
lb. cans Clipped beef $3.50.
Oat meal SC lb.
Smith needles 10c pack.
Wheat screenings &c lb.
Rice 10c lb.
s penny nails &c lb.
Clark's o. n. r. cotton 6 and lie spool
Mating 55c yd.
Eagle milk 25c can.
India linen 33c yd.
l lb. can salmon for 25c.
25 h.. calf meal S1.60.
| Corn meal &c lb.
| Whet stones sc each.
! Safety raZors soc.
Star crackers 19c lb.
Quart jar cocoa 35c.
! Coffee 25c lib.
Churns $3. SO.
Oliver plow shares soc each.
Mixed tea 40c lb.
4 Louden names S1.75.
Croquet sets $2.39.
Kitchen safes $7.39.
Bicycle tires $2.25.
Babbitt's soap 3 bars for 25c.
Babbitt's lye 10c can.
Star crackers <19c Ib.
Soda crackers 19c lb.
Quart jar cocoa 35c.
Quick suds soap bars for 25c.
2 doz. jar rubbers for sc.
4 Wash stands $5.75.
Gasoline in drum lots 2sc GAL.
Gasoline irons $4.25.
Chestnut wood $4OO per corn il
woods.
Whet stones sc each.
Wash boilers $2.39.
The Democratic advocate., 1920-06-04
christian Fndeayor Meets.

u
sAo-say session of the twenty
! annual convention of the Carroll
, T. Christian Endeayor Union was
at the Methodist Protestant
kch Tuesday and lasted until Wed
kav Guy L. Fowler, of this city,
Iident, presided. Opening deVot-
1 exercises were conducted by the
Arthur C. Day, pastor of Cen
~ Methodist Episcopal Church,
city. ,o, n,,;oo
Iod hv the Rev. N. C. Clough, pas
of Ffnksburg Methodist Protestant
rrh and the night gospel service
4 no Rev. John Gonso, pastor of the
rch of God.
y addresses during the day were
no Rev. L. B. Hafer, pastor of the
boran Church, of Taneytown; J..
rev Fenby, Finksburg; the Rev.
4 n Narehime, pastor of the
bodist Protestant Church, Union
,go. William L. Deter, State presi-
tba Rev. A. Brown Caldwell, pas
Of calvary Presbyterian Church.
p are. George w. Yeiser, Union
Edward S. Hopkins, superin-
sent of publications. Baltimore,
4 tho Rev. John S. Adams, pastor of
Varv's Reformed Church, Silver
The Rev Mr.. Adams conducted a
q service, during which Mrs. Chas.
GFssom sang. The night address
aeIiyered by the Rev. Dewitt M.
ham pastor of the Central Pres-
rian Church, Baltimore.