The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1921-03-05
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lie Universe. Hunger and heat and
humble lodging, opposition and op
probrium- these things can be
borne; but silence and solitude break
a mans spirit. eH@-ss
You must follow Reade's dictum
and put yourself in his place" to
feel the full force of the plea. Then
you will have touched but the fringe
of it. Rather you must have expe.
rienced loneliness before you can pre-
tend to know anything about it..
You may, at any rate, conjure up a
picture of utter solitude, as wildly
as your imagination will portray it;
the kind of feeling you would expect
if on the Last Day., after the excite.
ment of the worlds roll-call, you
found yourself Unexpectedly over
looked, and left alone on globe
from which all the people whose intel.
LICENCES were at all comparable with
yours, who were capable of the same
modes of thinking and of feeling,
were completely and definitely with
drawn. s.
Missionaries of the past have gone
out to that sort of thing, knowing
that it would be thus until they died.
There are missionaries to-day who
live that way. Even as | write there
are men hundreds of miles away
dreaming, as they sleep, of the faces
of friends seen in the long ago, and
never to be seen again; of voices
which once cheered them, but which
now ring only in the world the mis-
sionary forsook in his sacrifice of self
placement 1t is not good that the
severance should be SO utter.
New Traditions in Missionary Ad-
venture.
The problem has been solved-at
least eXperimentally. The solution
may be summed up briefly: Morse
for missionaries 1t may not be ne
cessary to add that the idea is Ameri-
can. =
The missionaries in training at
Maryknoll, the College of the Ameri-
can Foreign Missionary Society, a
days march north Of Newly DIRK. take
course of Morse and wireless as
part of the curriculum. At Maryknoll
there are installed all the latest de-
vices >of wireless telegraphy, in addi-
ton to the last thing designed in the
way of wireless telephony set.
When the missionaries go out, as
several have already done, they car
ry with them their lifeline with the
outer world.
Father Deyer, who is a close stu
dent of scientific development, is re-
sponsible for the erection of the wire
less station at Maryknoll, and under
his guidance the embryo missionaries
embark upon experimental enter
prises by communicating with sta
tions within the zone of the appar-
atus. The college is under the charge
of Father Walsh, and with a record
of only eight years behind it, con-
siders itself free to make it's own
traditions in missionary adventure.
1t is putting some pep into the
work-spep" being of American de-
rivation, and meaning just what you
should think it would mean.
The Society has already sent eleven
apostles to China, and some have
taken with them the instruments
which will preserve a. link with civil
ization when they cross the border.
a Neishborly Chat over the Evening
Pipe.
When they settle down they will
erect the little masts, and trail the
aerfals, tune ups and tap out their
greetings to the missionaries within
cali d Or they will speak into the
night messages which will be carried
on the wireless wave to some lonely
soul waiting for the welcome call
This, / am convinced, is only the
beginning. A decade or so hence it will
be the established custom for Father
Murphy (let US say laboring out
in the wilds of Chang-fang-wn there
may be no such place, but it looks
credible) to call up his ,neighbor a
hundred miles up stream, to discuss
over the evening pipe the European
situation, with which they are both
conyersant by picking UP the interna-I
tional summaries. They will find life
much less wearying.
Perhaps it would be a good thing
if the wireless could din into our sears1
that perpetual messages Send ms
help For the world is yerg unfe-
sponsive to. the faint, far cry of the
missionary shouting to deaf ears pm
q matter of which he~alone appraises1
the urgency.