The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1922-11-25

her divine principles clash with mere
human ones she is bound to be the oc-
first; the harmony of men second. IL |
casion of dissension. To tell her to
change these principles would be to
tell her to cease to be supernatural, to
cease to be herself She cannot
change that which she knows to be
her divine message to mankind, and
this, though all the world oppose her,
for she knows it is better to stand
alone in maintaining the truth than to
rally millions about her standard by
compromising one iota of the entire
Faith. Father orchard, @. s. p.
There is no more prolific cause of
wrong today than the unbridled use
of the tongue with reference to the
neighbor. A person Of no Importance
or worth otherwise is or can be an
enormous factor in trOuble-making by
easy insinuations and seemingly idle
gossip about others. Whether it be
CuNy VI pl4uC, Ndl ClCDShOsoi Va t1kollSC
that prompts it, the effect is much the
same, and there is entirely too little
attention paid to the subject even by
apparently good and somewhat reli-
gious people.-Western Waterman est.
Louis).
So long as the human heart is not
at rest, nor the people of all nations
united under the banner of Christ,
there can be no thought of universal
peace. Think of the vast number of
human beings on this globe, some L.
665, 100000. OF this almost countless
multitude, 82S,0OO,000 are still hea-
thens, 100000 Mohammedans, and
100000 Jews, making about 1876
100000, which leaves 590,000,000 to
Christianity, and of this latter num-
Der even less than 279,OOO,0O0 are SUBJ
ject to the See of Peter. What an inn
mense field for missionary labor
The Grail est. .Meinrad, Ind.
n ## E
Perhaps it is for the best that the
school monopoly bill in Oregon is
passed. Now it will be removed from
the realm of politics, always uncer-
tain, and taken before the judiciary.
Had the bill been defeated, it prob
ably would be offered again in two
years time and, each election year, in
some state, it would disturb the cleo
torate until finally passed. A deci-
sion of the Supreme Court of the Unit
ed States that the bill is unconstitu-
tional, and we have every confidence
that it will be so held, will put an end
to legislative attacks on the freedom
of the school.-Catholic N. w. Prog
reSs (SeGttle).
The clergy sometimes find that their
preaching is productive of gratifying
| if slightly unexpected results. A coun-
try clergyman was once preaching on
an obscure point of theology which he
| elucidated in an original and striking
manner, finishing by saying, "This is
entirely my own view. Commentators
do not agree with me-"
The next day he was informed that
one of his Pensioners wished to see
him. Going into his study, he was
greeted with cordially by one of his
Pensioners, who happened to be a
market gardener. II ali
Morning, sir, : heamed the caller
Heard you say yesterday as common
'taters didn't agree wi yer, SO !
brought sack Of my best. Hope
you'll get on better with them. IS
| African Exchange.
| II you are Christian, Catholic
and worthy of the name, you are lifted
up and out, at a stroke, from such a
narrow life as this into an infinitely
wider, more spacious world. You
ought to think, sometimes at least
about God, about your soul, about your
souls relations to the world round
you, about Gods purposes in all this
about the meaning of life and the des
tiny of man. But do you think about
these things? Some who bear the
Catholic name never do, but then we
label them at once as bad Catholics
who neglect prayer, church, and the
Sacramento; and we know that it is
only question of time before they
lose their faith altogether. A mar
cannot live in a vacuum, without air;
and faith cannot subsist without
thought about the things of faith
l-Apostleship of Prayer.