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El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1920-08-27

As he 5reps. 50 shall he drink.
Ben Jensen.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1920-08-27

ThUM TIE UHE. III N IHIE1
Flora-A penny for your thouts.
Dora-Sort O. cent-s-mental, aren't
vou
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1920-08-27

Edgar SelWyn has given up The
Love Woman" as the title for his new
play, and VIII call Il The Mirage
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1920-08-27

Health is contagious, too.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1920-08-27

FOOLISH1IENT.
aLst me hold you hand, ny dear,
For a while I pray
@Ohs i could not do it. sir;
What would mother say
Il an sure she would approVes
She Tro1ld not forbid it.s
~NorTs you STOP you silly thing.
Therei You've went and did it,
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1920-08-27

G. L D.-Xou ask too much. We're
busy.
n 7. George ". Ansol, actor,
died recently in England. aged Y.
A THOUGHT FOR TODAY.
You can get NOE comfort out Of
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1920-08-27

A Nd knowing OF their Impotence
n there,
IN let them Iinger. and make pre-
tense
OF having on hand some big affair."
Or being engaged in a @conference7f
Then, having summoned them, one by
one,
III treat them as II they were com
mon dirt
Telling them always, at can't be
done!D
No matter how badly they may be
7 SHALL not apply for = crown and
wings
When reach heaven. but for the
things,
That here are specified, big and small.
! shall want them office, and girl,
and ALT
And. unless IN heaven such things
may be-
No heaven I reach can be heaven for
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1920-08-27

" U-NT
The little Cottage" q musical
comedy. IS being tried out at the New
Brighton this week
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1920-08-27

A PLACID SOUL.
He never held 10 dark resentment
or grumbled sadly at his lot;
He clung In winter TO contentment
And smiled on when the days were hot
He never sat around regretting
The hard knocks handed him by Fate,
He let his wife do all the frettinE
While earning what he wore and ate.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1920-01-10
is IT WORTH WHILE?

When one faces a difficult problem
or crisis in his career, his courage is
then at its lowest ebb At these mo-
'ments one can be forgiven for petu-
'1antly exclaiming, ''Oh, what's the
.use?" or Us it worth while?" But
what excuse is there for the man, who
'shirks responsibility or fails to make
the best of his opportunities? Can he
offer a logical reason for doing so?
Opportunities to improve ones knowl-
edge, to better ones condition, and to
make the most of each hour, are
plentiful. The one who wishes to adj
vance will ever find willing hands to
assist him.. But it remains for him to
take the initiative. 1t requires pa
thence and toll to be great. The man
who says, lis it worth while?' or
whats the use?: at this stage, is
making one Of the gravest errors of
his life. If he desires to loaf instead
of accommodating useful knowledge that
will enrich his future career, he will
be another stone in the path of the
worlds progress. ~ y
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audience; consciously ot Unconscious.
" their devotion is theatrical; they
are eccentric and noticeable in their
manifestations OF faith. But these are
very small minority. The majority
Of devout souls have no thought Of
anyone except the Lord when they go
to church. They avoid publicity; they
are found before the Tabernacle when
the church is all but deserted: they
are living monastery lives in the
world.
This phenomenon of exceptional
piety escapes the notice Of most
people, those who never think of
visiting the church except once on
Sunday morning, when it is crowded,
| and yet, if one went about to all the
churches of the diocese, and counted
the hundreds and even thousands
who in the literal sense Of the word
live only for God, he would be amazed
1t is one of the marvels of the Catho
lie Church that even Catholics them
iselves hardly notice the number OF
sanity souls whose lives are dedicated
to Gods service. '" '.i@
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uNNoTIcED PlETy.

= One of the greatest consultations of
the priest and living argument for
greater zeal in the service of God
are the number Of devout Catholics
who attend Mass every day in the
year, receive Holy Communion daily,
or very frequently, and are always
ready to do what they can for religion
and charity. "'%asa ~ 3'5 81
I This is not merely the case in Ger.
tain large and fortunate parishes; ii
IS the case in every parish. The
individuals who make up these de.
vout groups may be working men
and women who take few minutes
before the toll Of the day to hear
Mass, and a few more minutes in the
afternoon or evening to make visit
to the Blessed Sacrament; they may
be busy professional men, whose
business intimates would smile ufl.
fbelievingly If they saw them kneeline
Id some dim church when others
were relaxing in Fconviviality. They
may be people of wealth who. are com
monty credited with nothing except
worldly ideas. The grace OF God works
IN It's own way Nes a@SSss' as.ass
Some seem to need a human
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pany; for the two Sundays claimed
him elsewhere-to. attend stations in
his large parish limits. I stayed here
twelve days, lingering because had
such big crowds Of nom Catholics every
night, and so many personal talks
with interesting men and women at
the little farmers tavern. l preached
three times on my favorite topic, the
Blessed Eucharist. 1t was almost
wholly a Eucharistic mission. Sew
eral local ministers, including two
wretched Mormon itinerant prosely-
ters, attended nearly every lecture. I
have seldom been so deeply immersed
in the work of Catholic propaganda
| seemed to be doing nothing, think
ing and talking nothing, acting moth.
ing but the Catholic. religion all the
time. At my very meals | constantly
discussed religion with travelling men
and the landlord of the hotel and his
help, for the whole outfit sat down
together. The mayor Of the town and
| solitary lawyer of the place gave me
| a joint invitation to a friendly and
private conference at the formers
Office which was a back room in his
| general store 1t lasted two hours
Eand a half, questioning on their part
and answering on mine. 1t was the
ideal give and take of respectively in
nocent ignorance and eager desire t.
Egive instruction-no augmentation
Long before we got through we hat
Iseveral self-invited guests lookins
Through the open doors and windows
l am exceedingly proud to report tn,
final result.
Some weeks after / left--as sool
in fact as I could break away from
my other engagements, l went bacl
and gladly dedicated my usual fiv
days interval of rest to another mis-
lsion, dealing almost exclusively wit
MASS and Holy Communion. The a
tendance was not so numerous as a
the first mission. But at the end "
Ereceived eight converts, and starte
four others under instructions"
The lives Of missionaries are abs,
ilutely Eucharistic, with daily Mas
and constant preparation of the peop]
flor approaching the altar The Churc
they stand for is absolutely Euchari
|tic. Why should not their mission
be Eucharistic?
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THE REAL PRESENCE.

prominent Catholic lady of Long
Island who for many years was al
enthusiastic Anglican, even going t.
the extent of building church for the
sect in her own town, but VINO late
came into the Catholic Church, was
commenting upon her old Anglican
DAYS recently. says Valerian. One Of
the choicest objections that was fire
uuently hurled at her head for becom
inc Catholic was: 20! how ridlculou.
10 become a Catholic and go to {
church where they have artificial flow
ers upon the altar" And this wa
seriously meant, as if the Church wer>
dedicated to the aesthetic instead o
the cult of God. The good lady Away;
answered smilingly: well, dear, wheI
/ so to the Catholic Church l am So
anxious to see God on the altar ant
10 talk TO Him in my prayers that
don't even notice whether the flower
are real or not" In parenthesis the
good lady remarked later: But
Father, they do have wonderful tast.
decorations in the Anglican churche
and they spare no pain or expense TO
good taste.' To this we Responded
that it was we'll they did TO make u
for that which they did not have
The Real Presence
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WORK OF A "EAZY" MONK.

Catholics in America should be
proud to know that the most beautiful
volume among all the 100000 books in
the Congressional Library at Wash
ington is a Bible which was tran
scribed in the sixteenth century by a
monk It could not be matched today
in the best equipped printing Office in
the world. The parchment is perfect
in condition and every one OF it's 1000
pages is most wonderful study. The
general lettering is in German text.
Each letter is perfect and every one
Of them in coal black, without a
scratch or blot from cover to cover
At the beginning of each chapter, the
initial letter is very large, usually two
or three inches, and is highly illuni.
natedDin blue or red ink, the coiors be-
ing as clear and beautiful as il just
completed. With each of these CAPT
tails there is drawn the figure of SOME
saint, or picture of some incident de.
scribed in the chapter. There are two
columns in page and nowhere is
found the slightest irregularity Of
line, space or formation of the lette: $
Even under a magnifying glass they
appear to be flawless. The precious
volume is kept under glass case,
which is sometimes lifted to show
that all the pages are as perfect as
the two which lie open.
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WHY FORTUNE TELLING Is
..,,.#:. WRONG. 40

Father Hull, S. j., writes with his
usual clarity Of thought and style on
a subject curiously interesting to
many persons. He says in the Bonn
bay Examiner in reply to a query:
. 1--WE have often answered questions
on this subject: but can satisfy our
correspondent as follows: .-
The Church condemns palmistry
and astrology, not because its pro.
nouncements brighten people when
they are bad, but because they are
superstitious.
According to our theology, no hui
man mind can know the future, except
so far as it can be nationally calculat-
ed from the present For instance, |
can see that a barrel of powder will
explode as soon as the burning fuse
reaches it. l can know that. certain
vices will undermine health and bring
disease. I can know that the sun will
rise tomorrOw--unless the last judg-
ment observation-disclosures nature
works in certain regular lines.
But this is merely calculation
from cause to effect. l cannot foresee
anything future which is not written
| in causes. present before my eyes.
cannot foresee that So-and-So will
propose at the age of twenty-one and
be refused; or that he will be killed
by lightning next year but one; OF
| that he will meet with financial ruin
at the age of Al. II man cannot
! foresee such purely future events
Ineither can any created mind, angels
or devils, do SO either. God alone
with His infinite mind, has the power
of knowing the future, because the
past, present and future are equally
lin His consciousness.
ANY claim contrary to this prin
ciple must be fraud or delusion, anC
Therefore superstition. ..- There is III
conceivable way by which such future
Ievents can be written in the stars, o.
lin the mans palm. Hence these act!
are condemned by the Church, be
Icause they assert form Of knowledge
which does not exist, and interpre
1.-the universe in terms contradictory tt
Ethose in which God has created it.
IF anyone pretends to acquire thi
knowledge. by dealing with occul
lspiritual beings, we, answer: 'Suc]
beings can only have that knowledg
! if God has revealed it to them 1t i
contrary to Gods ways to reveal sue
knowledge, except to His own accret
tied prophets-who- must: prove tina
, they are really sent by God. If spil
! it's pretend to have such knowledge
they must be evil spirits trying to dc
ceive mankind; and all dealings wit
| evil spirits is treason against God, an
forbidden by His commandments.
) Therefore, if these arts pretend t
5 be purely scientific, they are to be di
: credited as frauds and decisions. -
they pretend to rest on commune;
r lions OF spirits they are not onl
J. fraudulent-since the spirit does nc
5 possess such knowledge-but ais
t criminal and offensive to God
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DEVOTION 70 COPS MOTHER.

The congregation assembled, the
tapers were lighted around the statue
of the Blessed Virgin, the Rosary was
said, and the Litany sung. 1t was
an edifying and touching sight to see
the people come With SO much unan-
unity and fervor to offer their tribute
Of devotion to the Mother of God.
Brilliant stains OF sunset color were
wing in the west, and the whole outer
air was filled with the fragrance of
countless flowers and shrubs-a fra
GRANGE that pervaded the church also
Tor the blossoms which at this season
cover the earth with their beauty, sc
that it .-..s "a. $3.50.
Seems made for our Lady's throne
There We're no lights save the
tapers flashing out like stars among
he flowers, and their soft radiance
mingled with the dying day showed
he quiet, kneeling forms of the con
yregation--mense who had just lef
their work, women who had spent thu
long, hot day in toll hardly less weary
| 20 whom this twilight hour in thu
beautiful, fragrant church was like ;
5enediction to body as we'll as soul
| and children to whom the burdens o
life had not yet come but who wer,
| learning here the devotion and thu
,aith which would, help to lighter
| those burdens when they came"
, -Chrfsion Reid
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say the Divine Office every day of his
He. -Haltst- remain unmarried and OBJ
serve the vow of chastity. This
Order, as we'll as that of Deacon, is.
OF course, conferred with most signi.
ficant ceremonies.
The Deacon is finally admitted to
the Holy Priesthood, by which ordina-
ton he is consecrated to a lifelong
service in the ministry of Christ, dur
ing which his principal duties are to
offer the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass,
to absolve from sin, to preach the Cos
pei, and, in general, to dispense the
mysteries of God" Once priest
he is always priest; though, if he
prove unworthy Of his holy calling, he
may be suspended from the exercise
of his ministry. "!''.] "." '.' e.
If non-Catholics understood the mind
of the Church with reference to her
clergy; if they understood the sacred
character of the Priesthood, the Cath
olic Faith itself would appear in a
l;new light to them. So.
49,. ,--Erchanoe.
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THE SHRINE OF MARY.

I remember a lonely chapel
With tender claim upon me:
It was built for the sailors only,
And they call it the Star Of the Sea.
And the murmuring chant of the Yes
pers
Seems caught up by the wailins
breeze;
And the throb Of the organ is echoed
BY the rush of the silver seas.
And the votive hearts and the anchors
Tell of danger and peril past;
OF the hope deferred and the waiting.
And the comfort that came at last
!. too, had a perilous venture
And a stormy and treacherous main
And I, too, was pleading to Mary
From the depths of heart in pain
1t was not life in PERIL;
o God, it was far, far more!
And the whirlpool of hell's temptations
Lay between the wreck and the
shore.
Z
Thick Inists hid the light of the bea.
con, s.~ ~... -s.., -
And the voices of warning were
dumb;
So knelt by the altar of Mary,
And told her, her hour was come.
For she waits. till earth's aid for
sakes us,
Till we know our own efforts are
vain; 81 IT,
And we wait in our faithless blind
ness, -
Till no chance but her prayers re
main. .-
And now in that seaside chapel,
BY that, humble village shrine,
Hangs a heart of silver, that tells he
] Of the love and the gladness O
~fTs mine. ~ a'%sta
--Adelatde A. Proctor
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1920-01-10
WOMEN AND THE LAY Apostle
LATE.

Sometimes our women are more
energetic in the lay apostolate than
the men. Have they a keener sense
of justice Or are they more alive to
their opportunities for good? They
have a new field Of social activity
open to them today.
Our great spiritual leaders have
been preaching this for many a day.
Archbishop Faulhaber has spoken and
written eloquently on the social apos-
tolate of Catholic women in these
times. He places before them models
like Prisca and Tabitha, and Veron-
lea and Lydia, who are mentioned in
the New Testament
7 Prisca was cO-worker of st. Paul
in his mission Of making known the
doctrine of Christ, and she is there
fore worthy patroness for those
Catholic women who help in instruct
ing children in the Christian doctrine.
Tabitha was full of good works and
almsdeeds.' Veronica performed the
kind service for the Master on His
way to Golgotha. Lydia offered her
house to the Apostle for the celebra
ton Of the Divine service.
The friendly visitor among the
poor" the attendant upon the sick
and the suffering, those who give time
| to the work of the altar societies
find worthy models in these sanity
women. And, it. is. to such work that
| the social apostolate' calls the
Catholic women Of today. Margare1
| Fletcher and, Virginia Crawford ant
Katherine Conway have given excel
llent advice to the Catholic woman
and girl of our times and instructed
them how to give service to the cause
lof Christ and Of His Church by an
swering one of the manifold calls O
the lay apostolate.
| Virginia Crawford says in Ideals
of Charity: More training for Sc
cial work and a less parochial viev
of our obligations are what we neet
if we are to labor on terms of equal
lity with our non-Catholic fellowWork
ers in these new fields of social en-
deavor''
Req. A. j Aunts"h. S. j.
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THE HOLY EUCHARIST AND CON.
l.. VERT-MAKING.

"a fundamental element Of success
in my missions to ronCatholics is a
lecture, indeed I might call it a ser
mon. on the Blessed Sacrament" Such
is the word from one of our Mission
House graduates, says The Missionary.
Il am surely not parading myself as
superior laborer in the Lords vine
yard he continues; "but my years
of practical experience have taught me
this: The Real Presence and Holy
Mass is one Of the easiest ways OF
concentrating 1t is the Harbinger
Of Divine Peace"
He then proceeds to give details.
Once for lack of convenient church
for his meetings he hired a hall in a
thoroughly Protestant town. "The
attendance surpassed our hopes. The
pastor, who is master only of broken
English but is every way a true priest,
had been overjoyed. We both set our
hearts on, first, breaking down preju-
dice, and second, making at least a
few converts. On the Eucharistic
night we distributed copies of con-
densed statement of Wiseman's argu-
ment (Lectures on Doctrinal Sub
iects) for the Catholic dogma of the
Real Presence. Next evening re-
ceived letter by mail from a man,
evidently of education, and of some
standing in the community. He con
fessed that the Eucharistic arguments
bewildered hint was to him as il
he never had read those passages OF
the New Testament. nor heard them
READ, either privately or in the; IBsap
/ fist Church, OF which he was a church
officer. He said he withheld his name
waiting for time to pray to God and
Iconsult his friends. Finally he added:
AS / am man and a child of the
Heavenly Father, if this doctrine shall
stand investigations. will become a
Roman Catholic. am convinced he
will in due time come into the Church
1t will mean several other CONVEX
sions, no doubt. Etr,t t's
From another mission he sends us
the pencil jottings of hurried mem
oranium which we will amplify a
little bit: 'aThe church here is toe
|.small--usedl only once month A
public school building, therefore, was
engaged by the sen1i-occasional pastor
young and jealous, and q regular boon
to me during the weekdays Of our mis-
sion, inasmuch az he kept me com
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1920-01-10
ANCIENT CRAFT GUILDS AND
MODERN UNIONS.

The New York Evening Sun thinks
that the economic life of the future
will be shaped by system of craft
Or professional unions-very much like
the craft guilds of the Middle Ages.
The Sun says:
The middle classes are respond
ing slowly but surely by the forma-
ton of their own trade or profess
sional unions. The actors are al
ready showing what they can do; all
over the country the school teachers
are combining; in Boston there is a
doctors have their union; the clerks
and bookkeepers are threatening to
follow suit. Soon we will be a nation
Of unions. -. The ancient guild
is perhaps coming into it's own
1t would be well indeed for the world
| if the guild of the Catholic Middle
IAges were coming into it's own. But
| the guild cannot be operated with the
success which then attended it. with
out the spirit of Catholic charity and
brotherhood which gave it it's sue
cess in the Middle Ages. The guild
Twas more than union of workmen;
Lit was union of employers and en-
Iployes who bowed together to the
Ivoice of moral teaching and spiritual
authority; which was the voice of the
Church of God.
| The outward show of the old guilds
will not do; if the substance be lack.
ing; if the spirit of charity be lack
ing; if the impulse of Christian broth
erhood be lacking; no unions-call
| them guilds or call them what you
will-can have any permanent success
in adjusting social problems, says The
Casket..
But, it is good to see mems minds
casting back to the long.despised Mid.
die Ages for ideas. Well would it
have been for the world if the spir.
itual ideals of the Catholic guilds had
never been cast aside; and the in
dustrial world flung into the whirl-
pool of unrestricted material compe-
/ tition, profit and loss. The other day
a Labor leader was waiting to adj
dress meeting Of workmen in Lon
don. They kept him waiting an hour
whilst they sang, THE Red Flag
Lust about the same time congress
of Catholic workmen met in Quebec.
They knelt in the Cathedral of Three
Rivers; heard Holy Mass, and listened
Ito Catholic sermon based on the
working classes.
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PRAYING WHEN IN TROUBLE.

Have you felt that curious unrest
hat envelops you when in time of dis
tress you have tried to carry your
burdens to One Who has promised
IS that if we ask we shall receive?
says The Catholic Sun. Your mind
vhirls from one thought to another
and often strange thoughts, words and
bits of disjointed sentences. You try
20 force yourself to calmly consider
your great need so that you may the
better petition the Almighty God to
lift the sorrow from your soul and
% give you peace.
Though you desire that favor more
han anything in the world, you can
1ot concentrate Your thoughts upon
and again your heart-aching desire
S bufeted about like wisps of grass
II a storm. You begin to feel thai
Tod has hid His face from you ant
hat He has found you unworthy O
His care You feel that God has beer
| very hard to you in denying 70,
health and means. 81.
But if you have the will to struggl,
you will reach a plane Of thought tina
is to be compared to a beautiful up
land where fragrant flowers and cool
ing waters seem to bloom for you an,
those you hope to lift out Of want.
Some seeker of peace out Of troubl
/ has written. "The darkest hour i
just before the dawn" This old say
ing has conforted many a sad heart
The severer the storm, the soone
the sunshine,"> bears an old and fa
! miiiar bit of optimism that never fail
to cheer. A less quoted saying bu
| none the less comforting one is this
God never shuts the door on you
| hopes but He opens the door to some
| thing better" All these sayings, an,
| they are truths, show us that Co
loves those who perseyere, evel
though brought to win everything nee
essary to life. H. -.