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CARLTON MEMORIES OF " ARTHUR KINSLEY/

FROM SMALL BEGINNINGS.—The bouse at Carlton, near Selby, in which was bom Monsignor Arthur Hinsley, the new Archbishop of Westminster.—"Times" photograph.

A t the little village of Carlton, near Selby, Yorkshire, the older folk are t a l k i n g about a hew A r c h bishop of the Catholic C h u r c h by his Christian name, and remembering h i m as a little boy who was one of themselves. N o w he is over 70 and a great church dignitary. B u t it makes no difference. The Most Rev. A r t h u r Hinsley, newly-appointed Archbishop of Westminster, is still " young Arthur," son of the village joiner. . . A H u l l reporter went to the v i l lage recently to collect reminiscences of the successor to Cardinal Bourne. He found them only i n faded photographs, implied by old buildings, and i n the minds of old people. F o r it is many years since Monsignor Hinsley left Carlton picked out from among the pupils of the little Catholic school as a suitable student for the priesthood. And it is about 40 years since he

last visited his birthplace. B u t the villagers have been basking i n reflected glory ever since the wireless brought the news to Carlton. The house where he was born stands behind the Catholic Church, close to a mellow building w i t h stained glass windows which, when he was a boy running through these treeshaded passage, was a convent. T h e workshop where his father, Thomas Hinsley, worked as a joiner, is now ivycovered and silent. In the house lives the v i l lage shoemaker. " I remember A r t h u r used to play cricket for the v i l l a g e / ' they say, and " A r t h u r was always a studious lad m y mother used to tell me." The H u l l and Yorkshire Times reporter searched for the school which first brought out those qualities of scholarship which have raised Monsignor Hinsley to greatness. The little room still stands

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—but to-day it is a washhouse. His teacher, Miss Agnes Grew, has been dead for 20 years, but her daughters remember how she used to speak of " A r t h u r . " The reporter found them in the village stores, belonging to their father, M r . Thomas Tindall, who is 90 years old, and dimly remembers the little boy who is now known to the world. " M y mother used to speak of him often as a nice and studious boy," Miss Tindall said. " She a l ways said he would make good, and whenever we heard of his progress she would say, 1 told you so. M y mother taught him until he was nine, and then she left to marry my father, and another teacher had h i m until he was 14. Then he was chosen to go to Ushaw College to study for the priesthood, helped by a legacy left, I believe, by a former Carlton priest." There are two close relations of Monsignor Hinsley still living in the village—Mr. Joseph Hinsley, a gardener, and M r s . Woodhall, wife of a parish council workman, both of whom are cousins o f the new Archbishop. M r . Hinsley, who is three years younger than his cousin, remem4

bers h i m chiefly as a young student coming home to the village for holidays from college. " H e was a good cricketer, I remember," said M r . Hinsley. Monsignor Hinsley had two brothers, both of whom are now dead. H i s elder brother, Charles, went to London and became £ successful builder. The younger one, Thomas, stayed on as the village joiner for a time, but later he j o i n ed his brother in London. The village priest, F a t h e r V o s , gave extracts f r o m the registers, showing that Monsignor Hinsley had been born on A u g u s t 25, 1865., was baptised on the 27th, and confirmed by Bishop Cornthwaite when he was nine years old. ! H e served as an altar boy i n t h e ! v i l lage church for some time. There are two large stained glass w i n dows which he gave to the church, one of them to honour B B . John F i s h e r and Thomas More, and the other a dumber of other saints, including St. Bridget. " H i s father was called Thomas and his mother B r i d g e t , " the priest explained. Both are buried in the churchyard, his mother dving in 1896 and his father in 1898. {Hull and Yorkshire

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2 CATECHISTS. T h e solution, as we said before, is l a y m e n and lay women who will live i n native surroundings and teach the catechism and prayers, —men especially who can preach sermons of instruction i n doctrinal njatters, always under the direction and supervision o f the missioner himself, who from time to time spends some days or a week at the place of the catechumenate to check up, advise, administer the Sacraments and to impart the finishing touches to the course of preparation of converts. L c us consider men catechists first. F e w old Catholics make good catechists. The chief reasons are that old Catholics have often i n herited a dislike for a l l converts, because of the persecutions they or t h e i r forbears suffered i n the past a t the hands of pagans, as well as a distrust of the motives o f new converts. They forget the m i x e d motives that led t h e m or t h e i r ancestors into the fold. The old Catholic catechist is apt to expect too much from the catechumens, not realizing the severe break a convert makes w i t h his past, his environment and age-old traditions. Often the best type of catechist is the convert of a few years. Where possible, he is t r a i n ed i n a school for catechists from one to three years, d u r i n g which course he learns to instruct, to preach and to catechise. I n such £ school his inner s p i r i t u a l life is strengthened by daily meditation examination of conscience, frequent reception of the Sacraments and s p i r i t u a l conferences, lest he be t h e source of bad example later on. W e know of few native C a tholics who can afford the luxury o f a full-time catechist career w i t h o u t salary. It is true, also, t h a t the usual catechist's chief motive i n working f o r the missioner is his daily bread. H e accepts the added m e r i t of cooper a t i o n i n the apostolate willingly and w i t h zest, but this is not the m a i n reason for his being a catec h i s t . It could hardly be otherwise, besides it is a f a i r l y good guarantee of his steadfastness and regularity. W i t h his i t is a profession. W h i l e he is paid, the catechist, as we know , h i m , is probably under-paid, t h r o u g h no fault of the missioner. N o t all catechists are reliable, and the missioner must be prepared for h u m a n nature going h a y w i r e in some instances. I n this region we t r y to set a standard for men catechists i n the matter of education, r e q u i r i n g that they be graduates of the grammar school, at least. Catholic high school graduates are too few among, us, so we must be satisfied w i t h less. Even this minimum cannot always be secured. A l though it seems little enough, it is a great distance i n advance of the average peasant, who is more or

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less illiterate. Some beginnings have been made to obtain a better educated class of catechists among ik-, but it w i l l be several years yet before any of our Catholic boys graduate from high school or college. It is doubtful i f they can even then be used as catechists, as positions as teachers will be waiting for them. A s for women catechists, while they do no preaching, their W ork is more difficult and the number of suitable candidates still fewer. A young woman cannot be safely sent out as a catechist. Women of middle age are more suitable, less open to suspicion and danger. Due to the fact that so few girls receive any education i n China, the problem of women catechists is acute. W i t h us, we t r a i n promising women for at least a year, under the direction of native nuns in the central mission. Here they are taught to teach the catechism and prayers, and by daily contact and conversation to instill the. rudiments of faith and practice i n the converts. Most of them arc unable to read doctrinal or religious books, which is a great handicap, since they must depend mostly on the oral instruction they themselves received from the missioner or nuns to form their fund of information for teaching. T

Catechumens. The catechume.r.ate is the battle ground .on which contend the forces for good and evil, Christianity and paganism. We shall consider the catechumens who compose it. F o r the most part they are country folk, poorest of the poor, which is the rule folk. among Chinese country Some few men, still fewer women, have had any opportunity cases this consists of but a few years at a r u r a l school where little besides learning to read and to write is taught. They know nothing of history, a little local geosrraphv, a smattering of simple arithmetic, and nothing of the crudest science. T h e missioner is frequently asked i f it be true that it is night in A m e r i c a when it is daytime in China, and i f it be so what is the explanation. We have heard old men refuse to believe that the earth is round, or that it revolves around the sun. Their ideas of the size of their own country are childish. Show them a picture taken from a low altitude from an airplane and most will be unable to recognize a road, or distinguish fields from forests. However, education is not everything. Without it they have a culture and a civilization which is wholesome. The natural law is written on their hearts, though in some aspects it is rather hard to delineate. There is a hospitality, kindliness and cleverness that outwits analysis. Their paganism, of course, makes for untoward customs, but the marvel is that even in paganism so much that is good and useful can be found. The men and women daily struggle for a bare existence. F e w are the days that they can relax from this vigilance. When not engaged in some k i n d of farm work, those who can, seek work

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as laborers, often away from home. The women not only care for the simple domestic duties, but must be carriers of water, which means bringing it a considerable distanee in many cases. It is not uncommon to see groups of women i n the hills or i n the hedges gathering grass, brambles, pine needles and twigs for firewood. The boys and girls have their round of duties too, the former are the watchers of the herds of water buffalo and cows that seek a scant forage from the grass along the rice field paddies or i n the unfertile and rockstrewn plains and mountains. The girls are the nurse maids of the family, with a younger brother or sister forever tied to their backs. It seems that only the very old are exempt from work, and even then, lacking youngsters, they must do their turn m i n d i n g the babies. It often occurs to us that the modern western man would quickly rebel at the necessity of caring for the infants which the Chinese male accepts as a matter of course.

ists as far as the Church is concerned, i f not openly hostile. They present one of the greatest obstacles to widespread conversions, w i t h their pride, contempt and informed education. The respect for the reputed scholar is still strong among the rustics, and an ignorant but well-sounding phrase i n opposition to religion from one such is enough to cool the ardor of many a would-be convert. (Next Week Catechumanates). ( F r o m Our London Correspondent) T H E YOUNGEST JESUIT RECTOR. A recent appointment to St. Francis Xavier's Liverpool, puts into the responsible position of rector a Jesuit priest who is only forty-two years of age, the youngest member of the Society of Jesus i n Great B r i t a i n to hold such a post. The new rector. Father Thomas Roberts, S.J., was educated, as a boy, at the adjoining college. St. F r a n c i s Xavier's is one of the Society's largest parishes i n England. It serves a centrally-situated area, i n which there are many Catholics, and it witnesses scenes of devotion which surprise nonCatholics accustomed to a colder state of affairs. A t many of the Masses it is no unusual experience to find this large church crowded to the doors, with scores of worshippers standing; and i t is edifying to see the communion rails so thronged that sometimes the distribution continunes until after the Mass is finised. F a t h e r Roberts will be encouraged, i n his new field of labour, by the knowledge that his parishioners are among the most responsive and enthusiastic Catholics i n the country.

One can readily seethe difficulty of getting these people down to a systematic study of the catechism and prayers. They are up w i t h the sun and labor until i t sets. When night falls they are tired and seek their rest. It speaks well for their intentions that after the evening bath they will spend two or more hours learning, character by character, strange doctrines and prayers which are at first meaningless to them. One can hardly wonder i f not a few fail to persevere until qualified for baptism. Their entire AN UNPLEASANT life's outlook has been mostly EXPERIENCE. material, struggling to keep body and soul together, in a hopeless A l t h o u g h many E n g l i s h newspoverty that not even the late de- papers have boldly recorded an pression can match, with luxuries incident which has been the subunheard of and relaxation at at ject of official representations, Capremium. A s for pleasures, it is tholics are not losing their heads, hard to find them in such a drab or their sense of proportion, in the existence. The acme of perfect- matter of a mistake by some i o n for them is freedom from Italian police authorities, who denear-staryation, a measure of tained M r . H u g h Montgomery, the health, arid peaceful political con- secretary to the B r i t i s h Legation ditions. Can one marvel then to the H o l y See. and thus inflicted that at the start their grasp of upon that highly esteemed gentlethe supernatural is vague and un- man a couple of days' unpleasant certain? T h e i r religion i n the and unwarranted experience. No past has been the appeasing of affront to the Holy See is involved evil s p i r i t s ; with the good ones in the incident. The matter was they are little concerned, as they purely one of mistaken identity, a do no harm. . . Patience and suf- police error for which apologies fering for spiritual motives must were made to M r . Montgomery, strike them as queei\ the promise directly the mistake was discoverof a future reward and happiness ed. The whole t h i n g was, of can scarcely be expected to impress course, most unfortunate, especithem deeply i n the beginning, ally i n the circumstances of M r . Were it not for the manifest action Montgomery's official position at of grace, we feel that the entire the Legation, and there is wideoutlook would be hopeless. It is spread sympathy w i t h h i m in the consoling to watch them grow in indignity to which he was subspirituality, to see them gradually jected because a blundering police catch on, little by little assimilat- officer mistook h i m for somebody ing the supernatural truths, open- else. B u t the arrest, it should be ing their simple hearts to faith. emphasised, had no bearing whatThese are not all the crosses a ever upon M r . Montgomery's convert must carry. E v e n today, status or duties as a diplomatist. he is persecuted by his fellow's for having entered the Church. While the occasions of physical violence H s i n k i n g (Manchukuo). — T h e aire growing rarer, there is the population of Manchukuo has ineternal persecution of the tongue, creased during the last three years which our catechumens and C a - by approximately 1,500,000, actholics tell us is at times almost cording to official statistics pubunbearable. What there is of an lished at H s i n k i n g . The populaintelligentsia do not often fal? into tion i n December was our nets. They are obstruction- 31,339,411. (Fides)

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The K i n g ' s Silver Jubliee. A s A p r i l gradually shortens to its close, Catholics here i n E n g land are preparing energetically to celebrate two events of outstanding interest i n M a y . In this they are more fortunate than their P r o testant fellow-countrymen. The latter look forward to one great event only, next month, namely the silver jubilee of H i s Majesty the King. Catholics, entering fully, into both the spirit and the letter of that celebration, have i n store also the rejoicings for the coming canonizations of Blessed J o h n F i s her and Blessed Thomas More. The King's jubilee is first i n the matter of time." On M a y 6, a public holiday, various Catholic dioceses will have, as their chief service, a solemn Mass i n the Cathedral, to be sung i n thanksgiving for the twenty-five year's reign which H i s Majesty will then have enjoyed. On the social side also, and i n connection w i t h the popular rejoicings at night, scores of Catholic institutions are making their arrangements. A t Harrow, near London, it is interesting to learn, there is a beacon tower, i n the grounds of a Dominican convent, which has not served its purpose for very many generations. But by permission of the nuns, it is stated, the old beacon will again flare out, this time not i n / w a r n i n g but hr joy, for silver jubilee celebrations. One instance of Protestant narrowness mars the picture, and its importance is only local. In order to decide w h i c h religious body should march at the head of the jubilee procession, a Town Council resorted to the equitable expedient of a draw. The Catholics won, and were therefore announced to have the place of honour; whereupon the Protestant parson declined to take any part i n the procession, so perhaps, like Achilles, he will sulk in his tent. H i s point is that the Church of E n g l a n d , because it is the "State C h u r c h , " should lead in any case. It is not made clear whether he would have objected to the draw, as such, i f the E s t a blishment had drawn the w i n n i n g ticket! The incident, t r i v i a l enough in itself, is symptomatic of the fact that Anglicanism can still claim to show cause why it should "rule the roast" religiously, even though it dwindles i n numbers and influence every year, while the Catholic Church, i n both respects, steadily grows. * * * * Archbishop Hinsley. The new A r c h b i s h o p of Westminster is expected in London shortly, probably about a week hence. In that case, If H i s Grace should decide to hold a customary Low Week reception at A r c h bishop's House, there will be a n cpportunity to the Catholic Public to pay their homage to the new Metropolitan i n person. The reception usually follows the annual meeting of the Archbishops and Bishops. D r . Hinsley will be only enthroned in his Cathedral and will take formal possession of the See. E a r l y i n M a y he is io return to Rome, as leader of the B r i t i s h pilgrims for the canonizations. Archbishop Hinsley's appointment continues to excite pleasur-

of Syon," Blessed Richard Reynolds. The centenary is to be solemnly observed, therefore, by the historic community of nuns of CORRESPONDENT) that Order at Syon Abbey, in Devon. The story of the Syon nuns is a fascinating one, for they are the only English community able interest among all classes, with an unbroken history of corparticularly i n his native county, porate life throughout all the Yorkshire. H i s Grace has received period of persecution. A long and messages of congratulation from checkered series of experiences on Yorkshiremen's societies, and N o n - the Continent ended in the nineCatholics in the Ridings vie w i t h teenth century, when the nuns Catholics in proclaiming their returned to England and have gladness that a Y o r k s h i r e man has since remained, though not in one been so highly honoured. home during the period. Their * * * * present convent is beautifully situThe Bishop o f ^ e e d s . ated at South Brent. * * * * A happier note pervades the A n Anti-Catholic Crusade. bulletins from Leeds regarding the health of the Bishop, the Right Catholics i n Edinburgh, i f the Rev. D r . Cowgill. A week ago his ultra-Protestant side has its way Lordship's state was such as to —an unlikely contingency—look cause grave anxiety. The latest like being i n for a dose of religious reports show that anxiety still persecution. A "Protestant Action exists, but that the Bishop is bear- Society" has been formed in the ing up well after the shock of the Scots city, and one of the first operation. It is hoped and prayed moves by that bdtiy reminiscent that it may not be long before the of the sort of anti-Catholic bigotry doctors can report definitely that which we have been accustomed to all danger is past and that D r . associate w i t h the Orange spirit in Cowgill is definitely on the way the north of Ireland. The plan is, to recovery. i n short, to discriminate against THE GREAT LOURDES

TRIDUUM.

The Holy Father Pius X I , in an apostolic letter to Bishop Gerlier, calls the Catholics of the whole world to participate i n the Triduum at Lourdes marking the close of the Holy Year of the Redemption. Night and day, from 4 p.m. on Tuesday, A p r i l 25th to 4 p.m. on Sunday. A p r i l 28th, masses w i l l be celebrated at the Grotto of Lourdes without interruption by bishops and priests from all nations. The Bishop of Lourdes writes to all the Bishops of the World, asking them to arrange i n their dioceses special devotion in unison w i t h those at Lourdes in order to bring together the catholic world for the most powerful supplication that can be raised to Heaven. We cannot doubt that the Catholics of Malaya will answer such a moving appeal.

Let them therefore, during the triduum at Lourdes, offer masses and holy communions for the intentions of the Holy Father. O N S U N D A Y , A P R I L 28th, I N A L L T H E P R I N C I P A L CHURCHES OF T H E DIOCESE T H E B L E S S E D S A C R A M E N T WILL B E EXPOSED FOR ADORATION. THROUGHOUT T H E D A Y A N D A SOLEMN BENEDICTION I N T H E AFTERNOON WITH " MISERERE " AND " TE DEUM " W I L L MARK T H E E N D OF T H E H O L Y Y E A R . L e t the faithful remember to pray for the intentions set forth by the Holy Father when he extended the jubliee to the whole world namely:— L i b e r t y for the Church and peace of the world. Greater development of the missions. Return of a l l dissidents to the one single fold of Christ. Defeat and repentance of all the enemies of God and of H i s Church.

T H E KING'S J U B I L E E .

Service of Thanksgiving to be held in all the Churches of the Diocese. On the occasion of the Silver Jubilee of H i s Majesty K i n g George V , on Monday, M a y 6th, there will be in all the churches of the diocese a solemn Benedict on of the Blessed Sacrament with a " Te Deum " of Thanksgiving. A s arrangements for the celebration arc not uniform and vary in each place, it is left to the Parish Priest to fix the time for the service in accord with the local authorities and to inform the faithful in due course. The faithful are reminded of their duty to attend this service as a token of gratitude for the friendly and impartial attitude of the K i n g towards H i s Catholic subjects and to beseech God's blessings upon the Royal F a m i l y and the Whole British Empire. -O f A. DEVALS, Bishop of Malacca* Blessed Richard Reynolds.

M a y 4 will mark the fourth centenary of the martyrdom of the Catholic proto-martyrs under Henry the E i g h t h , men who won their crown even earlier than More and Fisher. A m o n g the illustrious band was the Brigettine "Angel

Catholics in the matter of employment. One Protestant zealot has given notice of a motion in the Council that, in future, applicants for jobs under that body are to be required to declare their religion, so that only ten per cent of the employment may go to Catholics.

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To be a perfect timepiece, a watch has to be beautiful and accurate. Now, everyone can say whether, a watch is to one's liking or not, but it is difficult to estimate the quality. Only experts can judge the finish and precision of a mechanism as delicate as that of a watch. There remains for those who love accuracy a means of eliminating disappointment-choose a VULCAIN watch, acknowledged the best by thousands of people all over the world. With a VULCAIN you have the satisfaction of knowing that yoii possess a timepiece of unequalled accuracy and refined beauty. Happily the frenzied outbursts against the faith, w i t h which the Prostestant side has been pressing its case, seem only to have disgusted a l l right-thinking E d i n b u r g h citizens. - Meanwhile, the Church progresses in Scotland as in E n g l a n d . The new Cathedral at Oban, not yet completely finished and furnished, is greatly admired; and at Dumbarton a handsome new church is now building, i n connection w i t h the Notre Dame convent. :Jc # * * Mark Symons. A few weeks ago, these notes recorded the death of a gifted Catholic artist, M r . M a r k Symons, several of whose religious paintings had caused a s t i r in art circles. Widely known as he was i n life, it may be said t^iat M a r k Symons has found still larger appreciation since his death, by the memorial exhibition of his work which is now to be seen in the Borough A * t Gallery at Reading. Nearly two hundred pictures are there shown, but unknown in the painter's lifetime. Many of the subjects are religious, as might be expected. When the history of twentiethcentury E n g l i s h A r t comes to be written, a high place, it may be predicted, will be given to this devoted and conscientious Catholic worker. Mark Symons left, among those who mourn his loss, a brother who is a priest in the Benedictine Order.

Our Guests from A u s t r a l i a . M r . Lyons, the A u s t r a l i a n Premier, and his gifted wife, continue to win the golden opinions of their fellow-Catholics in this country. The Catholic newspapers have a l ready devoted attention to the high qualities of these two distinguished guests from the Antipodes. It is now announced that M r . & M r s . L y o n s are shortly to be the guests of honour at a banquet to be given by members of St. Joan's Social and Political Alliance, an organization of C a tholic women interested i n feminism from the Christian standpoint, and i n all matters affecting the interests of women. In these matters the Alliance has already found in M r s . L y o n s a warm friend and ally.

M A L A Y A CATHOLIC L E A D E R , S A T U R D A Y , APRIL 27th, 1935.

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(Continued.) Now you will remember that the beautiful lady from heaven had promised the three little shepherds that on the 13th of October, she would reveal to them her identity and the purpose of her visit, and that on the same day she would show a special sign in order to convince the people of the truth of her apparitions. A detailed picture of this last apparition is best obtained by\seading through the interview which a certain viscount had w i t h the children, a few hours after the apparition. I shall let you have it pre: sently, but first I shall tell you what the special sign was that the heavenly lady showed. The news of the supernatural apparitions to the children had spread far and wide, so that, on the evening before the last apparition was expected, a great m u l t i tude had gathered at the Cova D a Iria. They had come from far and near. There were poor peasants and rich merchants, pious people and unbelievers, simple faithful souls and proud press-men sent by the b i g daily papers. Some had come like pilgrims on foot from -Ions distances, others like tourists >and sight-seers i n motor-cars and i n horse-carriages. A great number of young people rode to the j C o v a on push-bikes. The whole area about the Cova was one vast seething mass of humanity and vehicles. In order not to lose points of vantage gained, they decided to spend the night i n the open. ~

^ e T r e x t r m o r n i n g broke dull and cloudy. R a i n fell i n torrents. B u t the crowd didn't budge. W i t h u m brellas and overcoats they stood t h e i r ground. A t about 11.30, the three little children arrived. T h e immense crowd respectfully g i v i n g them way. they came near the small oak-tree. O f the oak-tree, by the way, there was left nothing but a small stump. People had broken it off i n bits as valued relic. •The children had been dressed by their parents i n t h e i r best clothes. A little before 12, L u c i a asked the ^people to shut their umbrellas and •to recite the Rosary. The immense erowd which was estimated at fifty thousand obeyed the child's w i s h -&nd, kneeling down on the m i r y •puddle, reverently recited the Rosary. The r a i n stopped, the sky cleared and the sun shone, and on the stroke of 12 the lady appeared, as she had promised, w i t h Saint Joseph and the Child Jesus. A t the close of the apparition. L u c i a pointed to the skv and said. " W a t c h the sun." Now the immense crowd of fifty thousand people saw the sign which the lady had promised to show. The bright noon day sun dimmed and became pale as the moon. Suddenly it whirled round and round, like a ball of fire g i v i n g out various colours. Then it stopped and appeared to leave its place in the sky and to drop. A g a i n it started to w h i r l round and round emitting more colours than before. A g a i n it appeared to drop. E v e r y .one i n the immense crowd, saw t h i s prodigy and was aghast w i t h astonishment and fear. T h i n k i n g that the day o f judgment had arrived, they raised their hands and

voices to heaven, shouting, " L o r d , have mercy on us. L o r d , have mercy on us." F o r the third time the sun started its mad fiery dance in the sky, shooting flames of orange and red, and yellow, and blue, and green, and then resumed its normal appearance and position in the sky. This wonderful sign i n the sun was seen by both believers and unbelievers at the Cova and at places round about for a few miles. But i t had not been recorded by the observatories at Lisbon or at any other b i g cities. Therefore it could not have been a natural phenomenon, but a particular sign from heaven. Another remarkable thing that the crowd couldn't explain was that their clothes which had been drenched through by the rain, were now found to be suddenly and perfectly dry. Now let me give you a detailed account of the apparition of the lady herself. Visconde de Montelo had an interview w i t h L u c i a , F r a n cisco and Jacinta separately on the 13th of October, after the final apparition. I shall summarise the interviews which give the most vivid impression of what the children saw and heard. "Is it true that Our L a d y appeared to you to-day at Cova D a Iria?" "Yes." "Is it true that the Child Jesus and Saint Joseph appeared as well?" "Yes, O u r L o r d appeared i n the act of blessing the people." " D i d you see them all at the same t i m e ? " "No, F i r s t we saw Our L a d y of the Rosary, Saint Joseph and the Child Jesus. Then our L o r d alone. Then our L a d y showed herself as Our L a d y of Sorrows without the sword on her breast. A n d last of all she showed herself as Our L a d y of The Mount Carmel." "Where was the Child Jesus?" "He was i n Saint Joseph's arms." "Was he b i g or s m a l l ? " "He was very t i n y . " " D i d they appear near the oaktree?" "No. They appeared near the sun. and were dressed in red." "WTiere did the L a d y come from?" " F r o m the E a s t . " W h e r e did she go t o ? " " E a s t w a r d also." "Was there any light around her?" "She always shone bright with light. W e had to close our eyes from time to time. She dazzled so." " D i d you ask her what she wanted?" "Yes. She told us that we must all lead a new life and must not offend our L o r d , but must say the Rosary and ask pardon for our sins." " D i d she say anything else?" "She also said that she wanted the people to build a chapel at the Cova." "Does she want the people to do penance ?" "Yes. She told us to say the Rosary, to amend our lives and to ask pardon of our L o r d . She did

not actually use the work 'penance'." "Under what title does she want us to build the chapel ?" "She told us that she was Our L a d y of the Rosary." "What was she dressed i n ? " "She had white dress and carried a rosary in her hand." "When did she look most beautiful?" "She was always just the same lovely lady from heaven with her face brighter than the sun." " A n d did^she walk as we do?" "No. She just glided off gracefully without moving her feet." " D i d you see the sun dance round?" "Yes. We saw it whirl round and round." " D i d that happen before the L a d y went away or after?" "It happened as soon as she had vanished." "Was it the L a d y who told the crowd to watch the sun?" "No. She said nothing. She only pointed to the sun before she disappeared." "What colour did you see i n the sun?" "Beautiful ones, blue and yellow and lots of others."

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Now you have a clear idea of what took place at Cova D a I r i a , near F a t i m a in Portugal on the 13th of October 1917. The lovely lady whose face was brighter than the sun and who said that she came from heaven, was none other than the blessed mother of God, who on various occasions had favoured this world with her apparitions, b r i n g ing messages to turn the hearts of the people from sin to God. Next week I shall give you an account of one or two miracles and how the devotion to our L a d y of F a t i m a developed. Y o u will also be anxious to know the story of L u c i a and her two cousins.

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Meanwhile memorise the three sentences our L a d y taught the children, "Jesus, forgive us our sins. Save us from the fires of hell. Release the holy souls from Purgatory, especially those whom every one has forgotten." A. D'C. A Song of Hope. Children of yesterday, Heirs of to-morrow, What are you weaving? Labour and sorrow? Look to your looms again Faster and faster F l y the great shuttles Prepared by the Master. Life's i n the loom, Room for i t — Room!

LEE BI/CUIT/ U? A u n t i e : " A n d how did Jimmy do his history examination?" M o t h e r : " O h , not at all well, but there, it wasn't his fault. Why, they asked h i m things that happened before the poor boy was born!"

Children of yesterday, Heirs of to-morrow, Lighten the labour A n d sweeten the sorrow. Now while the shuttles fly Faster and faster, Up, and be at it, A t work w i t h the M a s t e r ; He stands at your loom, Room for H i m — Room!

Hotel visitor (at breakfast): "Waiter, this coffee tastes remarkably funny." Waiter: "Well, sir, it "~was ground only half an hour ago." Hotel visitor (fed-up): "I see, it was ground a few minutes ago, and now it's m u d . "

Children of yesterday, Heirs of to-morrow, Look at your fabric Of labour and sorrow. Seamy and dark W i t h despair and disaster, Turn it, and—lo. The design of the M a s t e r ! The Lord's at the loom; Room for H i m — Room!

Interfering Old Gentleman: "That's a bonnie baby of yours, madam. I trust he will grow to be a man of credit and renown." Mother (pushing the p r a m ) : "Tain't likely." I.O.G.: "Madam, why do you say that? It all depends on how you bring him up." M o t h e r : "I can't b r i n g him up, because the him's a her."

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A t ttoe end of February, thirteen momns axcer ms capture uy tne Communists i n Fukien, F r . C y p r i an Bravo, O.P., walked unexpectedly into the Vincentian Fathers' Mission Station at Sinfeng, in Kiangsi. " The good Fathers must have been surprised to see you," a friend said, when he arrived i n Hongkong on St. Patrick's day. "I suppose they were," F r . Bravo replied, " but they were not half as surprised as I was to find myself amongst them. I never expected to be a free man again." It was on January 25th of last year that F r . Bravo was captured. A native of Palencia i n Spain, twenty-eight years of age, he had come to China three years before, and had worked in the Fuchow mission one of the three sections of the province of Fukien which is under the care of the Spanish Dominicans. Towards the end of 1933, when serious political trouble occurred in Fukien, the Communist leaders took advantage of the situation and open ed an energetic campaign. A n announcement was made by the various foreign consuls, pointing out the danger and recommending the missionaries to leave their districts. F r . Bravo did not leave.

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places, only a few days being spent F u k i e n Rebellion in 1933. F o r at any spot. W hen the time of guns and ammunition i t depended release came F r . Bravo found him- on what it captured from the self near the frontier of Kiangsi. Government forces. There were Held to ransom. very few pieces of artillery and A Captive's L i f e . F r o m the beginning he was comparatively few muskets, many threatened with death. He was D u r i n g all these long months told that he would be spared, and Fr. Bravo was never allowed to of the soldiers were armed w i t h The gunreleased, only i f a large ransom forget that he was a prisoner. He old-fashioned spears. was paid. Many others were like- complains of no ill-treatment, but ners manufactured for themselves wise held to ransom. In making his life was rough and hard. The Ti kind of gunpowder, of which the prisoners, the one object of the Red food which he received was the chief ingredient was powdered a r m y was to get money. The rich same as that given to the soldiers, camphor-wood. When the army captured a town men, or those that they beleived eight ounces of rice twice a day. to be rich, were their first victims. with sometimes a little vegetables or a district, it immediately took Pillage was a matter of course, and placed on it. The rice was coarse complete control. E v e r y t h i n g of no effort was spared to root out and unwashed. E a c h person had value was seized in the name of the hidden treasure. Anyone who was a small cloth bag for his rice. For people, and then an attempt at ordered government was set up, a governor being put in charge at once. E v e r y effort was made to W H A T I T I N D I C A T E S I F Y O U DO N O T TAKE win over the civil population. A CATHOLIC PAPER. Propanda was carried on extensively and skilfully. Meetings were held'to explain the principles 1, That you have not been asked to do so. of Communism, and i n addition to 2. That you have little i f any interest in Catholic affairs. the speeches there was music, and 3. That y o u prefer not to be bothered with religious reading sometimes there were plays. The 4. That i t is merely neglect. Y o u haven't thought of it. army brought with it a band of Chinese musicians and a troupe 5. That you "take so many papers" you must economize by of actors. Special newspapers cutting off the best and most necessary of them. were published and widely circulat6. That you will let the other fellow defend your religion.ed, and posters giving the latest 7. That you differed once with an editor and can't forgive bulletins were posted on the walls. him, although you agreed with him i n ninety-nine other instances, The news was uniformly optimis8. That such money as you pay for papers, you give to tic. Brilliant successes of the Red dailies which occasionally insult your religion, refer to your Church armies i n Kiangsi, Szechwan and as "the Romish C h u r c h " and brin^ yellow immorality and scandal ' other places were reported. H a l f A t t a c k on Shahsien. into your family. of the Island of Hainan was said In due time the Communist army to be i n the hands of the Commucame. It battered at the city Now, reader, i f you are not a subscriber to a Catholic paper nists. Maps of China were pubwalls, but its attack was feeble and and belong to the first, fourth, firth, seventh or eighth class, you lished w i t h the places held by the it seemed as i f hopes were going w i l l subscribe at once. B u t i f yoi belong to the second, t h i r d or Communists coloured red. They s i x t h , we can do nothing for you. to be fulfilled, and the town would showed most of the country as red. escape capture. Then tunnelling Though no effort was spared to began. Approaches were made from various points, and mines considered likely to have money or each meal his allowance was placed create an atmosphere of enthulaid. A t last through a long tun- valuables was tortured until he in this, and all were then placed in siasm the effort was nor successThe people remained, for the nel a coffin filled with a great spokeâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;or died. There was utter a pot to be boiled. W hen meal- ful. amount of explosives was placed disregard of human life. Mere time came each one got his bag. most part, just terrified. A l l who under the wall and fired by a suspicion was enough to cause ex- The meal was over i n five minutes. could flee before the advancing lenghty fuse. The mine and the ecution without a t r i a l . Blood Occasionally there was tea for army did so. Those who remainmethod of firing it were primitive, flowed freely during the fortnight those who were t h i r s t y ; more ed endured considerable poverty. but the aim of the besiegers was that the army chiefs remained in often there was hot water; usually Business was all practically suspended. There was no work going attained. A huge breach was Shahsien. Then they moved on, there was nothing. made i n the wall and the city was bringing w i t h them over a hundred The lack of clothing caused the on i n the fields in all the areas entered. prisoners, among whom was F r . greatest hardship. The only pos- through which the prisoners passible clothes or shoes which the sed. The Communists had their Then began one of those scenes Bravo. A long march followed, nearly prisoners could get were those own currency, and prices were of carnage and horror to which F r . Bravo was soon to become accus- two hundred miles, to Siukin. which the soldiers threw away as fabulous. Salt, for instance, was tomed. The eastern section of the There the prisoner remained for useless. The thin Chinese shoes S16 a pound. A l l the people had city received the brunt of the as- several months, spending the hot do not last long in marching, but to co-ooerate with the Communists sault. It was surrounded, a large summer months there, and moving if soles were broken and the pri- i f they wished to live. Doctors, part of it was razed to the ground, on only when winter was at hand. soners' feet were bleeding no one for example, were compelled to put and all in it were at the mercy of Short halts were made at other cared. There was no rest on these all their services at the disposal the Communists. Before evening, towns, including a terrible ten hard marches. If one weire ex- of the army. The army had its F r . B r a v o was a prisoner with a days at* Itu where about twenty hausted and lagged behind, he was own R e d Cross corps, but F r . rope around his neck, and his " official" executions took place pushed on, and threatened. The Bravo never saw them w i t h any hands tied behind his back. Next every day. While he was i n Sink- extremes of heat and cold, too, wounded after the*r many battles, considerable suffering. and there was certainly no providay he was untied, but for some ong, the town was bombed by the caused t me he was kept in close confine- aeroplanes of the Mational army. When rest came, it was taken on sion for wounded prisoners. B u t There was no the Doctors tended the sick. They ment. In the beginnin g: he was The last four months of captivity the ground. given over to the sport of soldiers. were spent i n rapid marches by shelter in heat or cold or rain. cared for F r . Bravo when he was He was not maltreated, but was night, and short halts at various A-fter the first days, surveillance laid up. and gave him quinine i n was not rigid, but escape was an jections. ^ p o s s i b i l i t y . A l l the districts, in Ruthlessness. the hands of the Reds were ringed Telephone No. 7843. about with guards, and without a The Communists realised t h a t written order no one could pass. gramme they had a hard task to accomplish, and they were r u t h THE VICTORIA CONFECTIONERY & STORE The Red A r m y . less in their methods. A l l hindr71, Victoria Street, The number of soldiers operat- ances were swept aside. T h e ing in that part of Fukien seemed weak and old were slaughtered, SINGAPORE. meant to be about 30,000. They were in the slightest resistance death. One of the officers pointed good control and received all their Wedding Cakes a Speciality orders from M a u C h u Tungâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;the out to F r . Bravo the absence o f Dictator. The officers men were beggars, claiming this as a t r i Assorted Cakes Maker, Tea Party Supplier, not unfriendly to F r . Bravo, in umph of Communism. In the next fact the officers seemed quite well- town that was entered there were Hot and Cold Drinks, etc. disposed, but made it clear that his some beggars. That evening F r ^ fate or fortune did not rest with Bravo saw them roped together Proprietor them. The army was ill-equipped. and led to the hills, accompanied It possessed one aeroplane, the gift by the executioners. N e x t d a y JOSEPH CHONG SIN TONG of a general who co-operated for there were no beggars. r

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FOURTH HEALTHFUL SLEEP. Sleep, which should rest the child completely, and leave him fresh for the morrow's work, only too often leaves h i m tired and cross i n the morning, and very unw i l l i n g to get up. Healthy sleep is dreamless sleep, and the mother must t r y to see that the halfhour before the children's bedtime is free from excitement. The child who goes to bed in an excited condition, and with an alert mind, is sure to dream. Dreams cannot be always prevented, but they are not likely to have harmful effects i f the child spends a quiet half-hour before going to bed. In these days of wireless, and motor cars, aeroplanes and moving pictures, the child is surrounded by numerous excitements, and demands some protection. Constant excitement—like perpetual boredom—is bad for the growing child. A n d one word of caution. T r y and arrange that the time for home lessons does not end at bedtime. I f the child is to sleep well and to rise refreshed, i t is i m perative that he should Aot bo struggling with nightmare sums all night. Sleep, as I have said, should be deep arid dreamless. I f nervousness i n a child leads . to an obsession, an anxiety neurosis, or any other of the " f u n c tional nervous diseases"—sometimes accompanied by distressing physical symptoms,' the child should be treated by a nerve-specialist immediately. These things are easily cured i n a child, but i f they develop into confirmed habits ' t h e i r cure is very difficult indeed. The Smaller Muscles. F r o m seven or eight onwards the smaller muscles of the hand and the eye gain rapidly the powe r to make detailed minute movements—if proper exercises are given. The brain centres concerned are developing, but they cannot be rushed. The process is v e r y gradual. T h i s is w h y the d r a w i n g or modelling lesson progresses slowly from the orange and envelope and other simple objects, and never rushes from the simple to the complex. So too the print i n successive lesson books gets smaller almost imperceptibly and the b i g double-lined copy is kept i n use for two or three years. T h i s transition period is one in w h i c h the child s eagerness may be a source of danger. Handwork and Intellectual Development. Handwork, strange to say, has a tremendous effect on intellectual development. The child learns ' b y doing things and his first teachers are his hands and eyes. Shape, f o r m , distance, roughness, size,—he teaches himself to estimate these, and thus develops his brain by the activity of his muscles. B u t even i n the higher •intellectual development handwork - ^ i n v o l v e d and delicate handwork — i s useful, i f not indeed essential. An educationalist says: "The small muscles of the hand, eye, ear, l a r y n x , and tongue, have

INSTALMENT. much higher and more extensive intellectual relations than the large muscles of the trunk and limbs. I f you would attain to the full intellectual stature of which you - are capable, do not, I would say, neglect the physical education of the hand. Instrumental music, fretwork, needlework, and advanced drawing, all give excellent work for the hand, and are very important from the intellectual viewpoint. B u t even i f handwork had no i n tellectual significance, certain branches of it would still have a claim to consideration. E v e r y boy should be something -of a carpenter, and every girl something of a needlewoman. Otherwise they will have to call i n the skilled worker for every little job afterwards. The ability to do small repairs saves a lot of money, and does something perhaps more i m portant. Its exercise gives that very real satisfaction which comes from seeing something wrong and putting it right ourselves. It is a source of confidence and self-respect. Memory and Reasoning. Parents may sometimes wonder w h y so much memory work is given at a certain stage in the child's education, ??id the reason is that at that stage the memory is the dominant faculty. Between the ages of seven and fourteen the memory is wonderfully retentive, and is a powerful ally of the teacher and the parent. The child should be made to memorize large quantities of good poetry, as well as the various tables. He can do it easily during these years. H e should never be asked to memorize something he does not understand, but it is by no means necessary that he should completely understand everything he memorizes. The memory should be fully utilized to store the youngmind w i t h well-chosen excerpts of poetry and prose. The child will fully understand them later on. Modern education has made a stride i n the right direction in doing away with much of the useless memory work that used to feature so largely in school work—lists of dates, heights of mountrins, and so on. Parents can do a lot to encourage the love of literature in their children, by constantly readi n g pieces which the children themselves like, and which they can afterwards be easily coaxed to memorize. The parent who succeeds in getting his child to appreciate—that is to really like a good poem, has done h i m an immense benefit. It is not wise to try "heavy" pieces that have a purely adult appeal. It is ridiculous to expect the children to see the beauties of Tennyson's blank verse. He needs a long preparation before he can make any attempt at such appreciation. Give him the l y r i c first, something w i t h colour and noise and sound in it. G . K . Chesterton's "Lepanto" is ideal for the purpose, and it teaches

some history incidentally, telling how the despised Duke of A u s t r i a saved Europe from* the infidel. The clang and jingle of the poem will make a powerful appeal to the boy, even if his understanding of it is very imperfect. "Stiff flags straining in the night blasts cold, In the gloom black purple, in the glint old gold; Torchlights gleam on the copper kettle drums Then the tuckets, then the trumpets, then the canons, and he comes, Don John laughing in the brave beard curled S t i r r i n g in his stirrups like the thrones of all the world, Love-light of Spain—hurrah, Death-light of A f r i c a Don John of A u s t r i a is riding to the war." L u c k y is the child who is taguht at home to appreciate a poem like "Lepanto, and to get suitable sections of it off by heart. The pieces he learns like this will be a consolation to him always. They will be of far more educational value than any similar piece that he is forced to memorize in school. F o r after all, the aim in the teaching of Literature is to get the pupils to appreciate some of the best works in prose and poetry, and before a child appreciates anything he must like something. Before his preference may be trained in the right direction it must first be aroused.

T H E FIRST VICAR APOSTOLIC OF T H E IVORY COAST DIES I N FRANCE. Rome.—The Most Rev. Jules Moury, of the A f r i c a n Missions Society of Lyons, who for 40 years was a missionary in west A f r i c a , died March 29 at Agnat, HauteLoire, France. He was the first V i c a r Apostolic of the Ivory Coast having been named head of all the missions of the colony i n 1919. Bishop Moury was born in Agnat October 11, 1873. He reached the Ivory Coast in 1895, four years after the first missionaries entered t&at part of the continent. The early years of his missionary life were filled with hardships. The priests had to contend with the deadly fevers of the west coast; the people among whom they worked were a barbarous race; and then, as i f to crown i t all, they had to close their mission schools at the time of the separation of Church and State when the anticlericals came i nto power i n France and suppressed the institutions of learning maintained by religious. Afterwards conditions improved, and the work progressed When he left the mission last M a y there were approximately 50,000 Catholics in the Vicariate of the Ivory Coast and 5,000 in the Prefecture of Korhogo, a division of the original mission. Before leaving A f r i c a bishop Moury ordained his first native priest, Rev. Rene Kouassi, who is now at the little seminary of Dabou preparing other native young men for the priesthood. (Fides) BISHOP

FINNEMANN

LAUDS

PHILIPPINES A N D EUCHARISTIC CONGRESS P L A N S . Vienna.—"We shall not have at Manila such crowds as visited Chicago, Buenos Aires, and Dub-

lin, but the forthcoming Eucharistic Congress, for which a number of committees are making preparations, will nevertheless take an impressive and magnificent course." This was the statement of the Most Rev. W i l l i a m Finnemann, Auxiliary Bishop of Manila, who is a visitor at the Mission House of St. Gabriel, near Vienna, of which he was formerly a member . . . "The Congress", Bishop Finnemann continued, " w i l l be held in February 1937, as that time of year is best suited for a visit to the Philippines and that month is comparatively cool and dry. We also wish to give the visitors we expect from foreign countries a chance to spend Christmas in their homeland." ''Those who attend the Congress will return home deeply impressed by the Catholic life of the Philippines. These islands, with IS millions of Catholics, may be •:ounted among the most important Catholic countries in the world. In the F a r East it. is the only country with an almost purely Catholic population, for only 30,000 are followers of Islam, while about 700,000 being to various pagan sects. The moral standards of the Filipinos are so high that many Catholics in the Old World might take example from then:. The frequent reception of the Sacraments, the high esteem in which the family and marriage are held, is full proof of this . . . F o r the Filipinos Catholicism is religion. The schism of Aglipay, who founded a so-called National Church with revolutionary tendencies has become quite insignificant." "Poverty is almost unknown among us! The country supports evergrowing Doniilation."— (L^meivN.C.W.d)

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PROGRESS. The Catholic Reunion Movement among the Syrians of Malabar, India, still goes on. Since its inception four years ago more than 16,000 souls have found their way into the fold of the Church. Of these, over 4,000 belong to the Diocese of Thiruvalla. On January 20, H . E . Most Rev. M a r Theophilos, Bishop of Thiruvalla, formally opened his new " cathedral," a shed capable of accommodating over a thousand persons. This replaces a former one no longer adequate to the growing number of converts. The better to carry on the work of conversions without neglecting the needs of the neophytes, Bishop Theophilos has laid the foundations of a diocesan religious order for men. A beginning has been made with six aspirants. They are undergoing training in a new building, Holy Redeemer Monastery, which was recently blessed by the Apostolic Delegate, Archbishop Leo Kierkels. This venture is in charge of three priests from the SyroMalabar Carmelite foundation. A diocesan congregation for women has also been started. This work is superintended by two nuns of the Imitation of C h r i s t from Trivandrum. (Lumen).

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It is no danger signal, that red lamp which burns before the tabernacle, but a loving invitation to us to draw near to H i m who, for our sake, is always living and loving in the Blessed Sacrament. How like a throbbing human heart it seems, as the little flame now rises and now falls, " i n its tmtired unrest," as i f joy or sorrow really ruled its feeble, fluttering pulse ! In that red altar lamp there is a fitting symbol of the "faith that worketh by charity" (Gal. v.. 6), for though its light is white in itself, like the light of faith in the human intellect, yet to the bystander and to H i m of whose hidden Presence it is the outward sign it appears through its coloured medium, just as our faith is manifested by the love of our ruddy human heart. A t times it is suggestive also of the Passion of Our Blessed Lord, as it seems to burn with an oil racy of the reddened soil beneath that olivetree of the Garden of Gethsemane. So may my poor heart burn faithfully with love for my dear Redeemer whenever He deigns to take up H i s abode within the living tabernacle of my breast !— Rev. John Fitzpatrick, O.M.I.

Most children are apt to perform the duty of prayer in a careless, superficial manner, which is owing to their natural giddiness and in' attention to everything serious. Wherefore it is the duty of parents to teach them how to pray. They should instil into them a high idea of this essential duty, and show the necessity of it from total dependence on God as to the , goods both of this life and the next. F o r example, let them often say to their children: "We must never forget to pray to A l m i g h t y God, because He is the Giver of ali good gifts. It is He alone who can supply us w i t h all things necessary both for soul and body/' A t other times: " W e can never arrive at the eternal happiness of Heaven unless God helps us by H i s grace. Now, He will help us by His grace i f we ask it by humble and fervent prayer."

"Brethren," said the aged minister, as he stood up before the church meeting on New Year's Eve, "I am afraid we will have to part. I have laboured among you now for fifteen years, and I feel that that is almost enough, under the peculiar circumstances in which I am placed. Not that I am exactly dissatisfied: but a clergyman who has been preaching to sinners for fifteen years for five hundred dollars a year, naturally feels that he is not doing a great work when Deacon Jones, acting as an officer of the church, pays his last quarter's salary in a promisory note at six months, and then, acting as an individual, offers to discount it for him at ten per cent, i f he will take it part out in clover seed and pumpkins. "I feel somehow as i f it would take about eighty-four years of severe preaching to prepare the deacon for existence in a felicitous Let them often admonish their hereafter. Let me say, also, that children of their duty when going while I am deeply grateful to the to prayer, as follows: "Remember ecngregation, for the donation you are now going to speak to God party they gave me on Christmas. Himself, the Sovereign L o r d of I have calculated that it would be Heaven and earth. See that you far more profitable for me to shut do it w i t h great reverence, my house and take to the woods modesty, and attention." In order than endure another one. I will to impress on the minds of childnot refer to the impulsive generoren a due sense of the presence sity which persuaded Sister Potter and majesty of God they must first to come with a present of eight T H E E N E M I E S OF F A I T H . say their prayers aloud, in a mild, clothes p i n ; I will not insinuate humble, and moderate tone, upon anything against Brother FerguA n act of faith is not, like some their knees and with downcast son, who brought with him a quaracts of reason, the product of a eyes and their hands joined, and ter of a peck of dried apples of the they should never be allowed to single faculty of man. It is elicit- crop of 1872; I shall not allude to ed by the whole man, i n his three huddle over their prayers as is the benevolence of Sister Tynhirst, often the case, nor to look about faculties of the intellect, the will who came with a pen-wiper and a and the heart. F a i t h is not a mere here and there while saying t h e m : t i n horse for the baby; I shall reopinion or conclusion of the intelfrain from commenting upon the lect, nor a mere resolve of the will, After prayer say to them impression made by Brother H i l l , occasionally: " D i d you think nor a mere sentiment of the heart. who brought four phosphorescent of A l m i g h t y God? Was your A real living act of faith is an act mackerel, possibly w i t h an idea heart raised up to H i m , to whereby we subject ourselves to that they might be useful in dissiGod w i t h our whole mind and with adore H i m , to praise H i m , and pating the gloom in m y cellar. I our whole will and with our whole to beg H i s blessings? . . . Parents omit reference to Deacon Jones' heart. Thus F a i t h has, as it were, should, as much as possible, hear present of an elbow of stove-pipe three strongholds within us. A n d their children say their prayers and a bundle of toothpicks, and I therefore our three enemies, a l morning and night, and i n hearing admit that when Sister Peabody ways allies, and always adopting a brought me sweetened sausagethem should not be employed skilful plan of attack, have so to meat, and salted and peppered about the business of the house. speak, divided the field of our soul mince-meat for pies, she did r i g h t between them. The Devil besieges If they cannot themselves perin not forcing her own family to our intellect, the World invades suffer from her mistake in m i x i n g form this duty, they ought to enour will, the Flesh allures the trust it to such servants only as the material. B u t I do think I may affections of our heart. If the are t r u l y pious and who will see fairly remark respecting the case intellect is seduced, the result is that the children perform it in a of Sister Walsingham, that after Heresy; i f the will is overcome; the proper manner. It cannot be excareful thought I am unable to perresult is Infidelity; i f the heart is pected that children should be duly ceive how she considered that a enticed, the result is Superstition. impressed w i t h the importance of present of a box of hair-pins to my Fame only comes when deservthis duty i f allowed to perform it wife justified her in consuming ed, and then it is as inevitable as in a careless manner, or i f they see half a pumpkin pie, six buttered destiny, for it is destiny.—Longtheir parents equally indifferent muffins, two platefuls of oysters. fellow. about so essential a point.

G r i e v a n c e s . and a large variety of miscellaneous food, previous to j a m m i n g herself full of preserves, and proceeding to the parlour to join in singing 'There is rest for the weary!' Such a destruction of necessaries of life doubtless contributes admirably to the stimulation of commerce, but it is far too large a commercial operation to rest solely upon the basis of a ten-cent box of hair-pins. " A s for matters in the church, I do not care to discuss them at length. I might say much about the manner in which the congregation were asked to contribute clothing to our mission in Senegambia; we received nothing but four neck* ies and a brass breast-pin, excepting a second-hand carnage-whip that Deacon Jones gave us. I might allude to the frivolous manner in which Brother Atkinson, our tenor, converses with Sister Priestly, our soprano, during my sermons, and last Sunday kissed her when he thought I was not looking; I might allude to the absentmindedness which has permitted Brother Brown twice lately to put half a dollar on the collection-plate and take off two quarters and a ten-cent piece in change; and I rn^ght dwell upon the circumstance that while Brother Toombs, the undertaker, signs I would not live alway' with professional enthusiasm that is pardonable. I do not see why he should throw such unctioninto the hymn T am unworthy though I give my all,' when he is in arrears for two years' pew-rent, and is always busy examining the carpet-pattern when the plate goes round. I also—" i

But here Brother Toombs turned off the gas suddenly, and the meeting adjourned full of indignation at the good pastor. H i s resignation was accepted unanimously. M o s h i . — (Tanganyika Territory, British East Africa).—Twentyseven native young women have made their religious profession as Sisters, of Our L a d y of K i l i m a n jaro, a congregation founded by the Holy Ghost Fathers and trained by the Sisters of the Precious Blood, of Aarle-Rixtel, Holland. Several native chiefs were present at the first ceremony of profession.

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sake of fashion she sacrifices health and that calmness of spirit Money i s a trust from God. It so essential to the right guidance is not ours to expend for the g r a t i - of her children. The culture of fication of pride or ambition. We mind and heart is neglected. T h e could b r i n g happiness to many soul is dwarfed. hearts by using wisely the means The mother has no time to study that is often spent for show, but the principles of physical developalas! unhappiness is very often ment that she may know how to the outcome of a full purse. care for the health of her children. She has no time for ministering to A contented g i r l is one who has their mental or spiritual needs, no learnt to do without things. D i s - time to sympathise with them i n content means wanting what we their little disappointments and cannot' have o r m a y not have. trials, or to share in their interests T h e y say that t h e only way to cure and pursuits. a woman who wants what is bad Almost as soon as some children for her, is to let her have i t ; but can walk, they are subjected --tethat is a desperate remedy. Midas fashion's influence. They hear was discontented because he want- more of Dress than of God. The ed more and more money, and he display of dress is treated as of was cured by being allowed to t u r n greater importance than the deveall that he touched into gold. lopment of character. Parents and When he kissed h i s daughter a n d children are robbed of that which she turned into a b i g eighteen- is best and sweetest and truest i n Simple First A i d . Recipes. carat nugget of gold, Midas was life. F o r fashion's sake they are cured o f his greed. cheated out of a preparation f o r SHORTBREAD. Bed-sores. These can be prethe life to come. vented to a large extent by careful .? ozs. flour. A t the present day there is the It was the adversary of all good nursing and i n the nursing profes1 oz. ground rice. weariness, the unrest and wretch- who instigated trie invention of the sion they are generally regarded 2V2 ozs. butter, edness t h a t result from t h e rule ever-changing fashion. H e de- as a disgrace. There are, howj oz. castor sugar. of fashion! T h i n k o f the styles sires nothing so much as to bring ever, a few cases where bed-sores Rub the butter into the mixture that have prevailed f o r the last grief and dishonour to A l m i g h t y will develop i n spite of a l l one's few hundred years, or even for the God by working the misery and efforts to avoid them, and they are of flour and ground rice, add the last few decades. H o w many o f ruin of human beings. One of the by no means easy to cure. T h e y sugar, and work well w i t h the them when not i n fashion would be means by which he most effectual- cught to be washed with carbolic hand until a stiff paste i f formed Roll out and cut into pieces and declared immodest; how many ly accomplishes this, is the devices lotion aboutt 1 i n 40, with boracic take i n a moderate oven., a pale would be pronounced inappropriate of fashion, that weaken the body lotion, or a fairly strong solution fawn colour. P u t on greased for a refined God-fearing, self-res- as well as enfeeble the mind and of Condy's fluid and water. T h e paper to bake, or on a well greased pecting woman. belittle the soul. wound should then be covered w i t h tin. The pieces may be decorated The enemy of our soul knows, a piece of lint spread with boracic with glace cherries, c u t i n .half, or Changing fashions squander the that i f the fashions are corrupted, ointment, and this may either be w i t h blanched split almonds i f time and means o f the r i c h and l a y in time, even good women will fall fixed on w i t h narrow strapping o r liked. waste the energies of the m i n d and into the snare. I f their sole simply laid on the place. Care the soul, while they impose a heavy outlook is a struggle to meet the must be taken to avoid pressure on burden o n the middle and poorer demands of dress or fashion they BREAD A N D BUTTER the part By the use of a circular classes. Many a poor g i r l , f o r the will resemble the lady who went air-cushion, or b y turning the sake of a stylish gown, has de- to buy a new hat. She insisted PUDDING. prived herself o f substantial food that i t must be the very latest patient on the other side i f possible. V e r y superficial bed-sores and paid the penalty with her life. thing." The tactful milliner thereGrease a pie dish, cut some M a n y anothor, coveting the dis- upon s a i d : "Take a seat f o r a few w i l l often heal when well dusted tread and butter very t h i n and lay two or three times a day w i t h play and elegance of the rich, has moments, Madam, because the i n neat layers i n the pie dish. been enticed into paths o f dish- fashion is just going to change." equal parts of starch and zinc Raspberry or strawberry j a m or powder. N o dressing need be aponesty and shame. M a n y a home marmalade, o r currants and raiplied, but clean linen should be is deprived of comforts, many a sins, m a y be added to each layer. M a n y women have played the next the wound. man is driven t o embezzlement o r fool w i t h the good taste which God A l l o w i n g 2 beaten eggs to a pint bankruptcy, to satisfy the fashion gave them, and so He took i t back. of milk, pour over the bread, allow Bronchitis m a y be acute o r craze' o f his wife and daughters. Many a man has been led to choose to soak for a few minutes, sweeten Many a woman, forced to prepare the society of the club-house or chronic, and either a n independent to taste, and bake i n a moderate affection or due to some other d i f o r herself or h e r children the the saloon, because his wife is a oven until set nicely. Flavouring stylish cuts demanded by fashion, Fashion Plate. Many a boy is led sease especially certain fevers. of lemon o r mutmeg may be added The disease consists of inflammais doomed to ceaseless drudgery. to the street, because the influence T h e whites and yolks as liked. M a n y a mother w i t h throbbing of the home is not what God de- tion of the lining membrane o f the of the eggs may be separated, the bronchi, which are the tubes into nerves and trembling figures toils signed i t should be, a lifelong yolks used w i t h the m i l k and the which the windpipe opens. The far into the night to add to h e r blessing. whites beaten s t i l l w i t h sugar and treatment should be confinement children's clothing ornamentation put on top before serving. to bed i n a room the a i r o f which that which contributes absolutely " A good wife and health are is moistened b y a steam-kettle and nothing to real beauty. F o r the man's best wealth." kept at an even temperature o f 60 degrees i n winter and 65 i n sum- develops. Soft corns can be quickly mer. A few drops of terebene cured by the following treatment: may be added to the water. Powder well between the toes and HE WILL BE WHAT YOU WANT Special care is required between put i n a t i n y piece o f old soft two and four i n the morning not linen. Starch and zinc or starch HIM TO BE ON COW AND GATE to let the temperature of the room and talc powders can be used. fall. The diet should be light, and Powder and linen should be reneplenty of barley-water and lemon wed night and morning. A complete Food made i n a drinks allowed. Counter i r r i t a When the corn is over a joint, a m o m e n t by the mere addition tion over the upper part of t h e felt plaster w i l l give great relief, of h o t water. chest is at times useful. This is or the corn m a y be destroyed by effected by the application o f painting i t night and morning with mustard leaves or of turpentine In guaranteed a n d dated ,air a saturated solution of salicylic liniment. 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for his main theme which seem thereby to be given undue prominence because the ordinary observer either never sees them at all or never rises above the idea of photographic representation. "What is one man's meat is another man's poison" is true of books. A book that is not only harmless, but because of its psychological insight, even profitable reading for an adult, may be definitely injurious to adolescents. Moreover, description which may leave an adult cold may prove excessively stimulating to the imagination of youth. O n the other hand, there are classics which contain perhaps one passage which the adult will think makes them unsuitable for the young, whereas, in reality, the passage may be couched i n such terms that its "unpleasant" meaning is completely hidden from them.

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I.—BOOKS W H I C H A P P E A L PRIMARILY TO T H E INTELLECT.

III.—INSIPID A N D B A D L Y WRITTEN BOOKS. The "intellectual" book may take the form of a serious treatise One final word. There are a or a popular handbook, and i f i t ^ets-eut theories contrary to_true^_ number o f " i m p r o v i n g " and i n religion or history, sound philo- nocuous tales, so insipid i n their sophy or morality, i t s danger will theme and so crude i n their style be commensurate w i t h its plausi- * that no intelligent person can have bility and accessibility. Popular the patience to read them. I f such manuals, therefore, because they books as these, which are not the easily reach the indiscriminating works of our best Catholic novelmany, are more dangerous than ists, are continually forced upon serious treatises which are read young people as the only proper chiefly by the few who are more reading for them, they are likely able to judge o f their intrinsic to associate purity w i t h insipidity worth. Moreover, t h e latter a i m and find undue pleasure i n surrepat cogency of reasoning, while the titiously reading more exciting former at plausibility of presenta- and perhaps more harmful ^books. tion.

IL—BOOKS WHICH A P P E A L PRIMARILY TO THE IMAGINATION. Among imaginative works, the novel occupies the most prominent place. It is not always devoid of "Intellectual" appeal—in the sense we mean—but i f it inculcates false theories i t usually does so by enlisting the support of emotion and feelings. The skill and subtlety, with which this is accomplished is the measure of its danger. B u t the novels most to be avoided are those which by describing sensual emotion and immoral acts make a direct appeal to the imagination. The reader's imagination is stimu.lated to reproduc^ tfhe hcidents described so that i n a real sense he experiences them and the resulting emotions and feelings become his own. So f a r from real literary merit j u s t i f v i n g the reading of such books, the fact is that the more imagination and descriptive power the author displays the greater is the harm likely to be done. A novel is not "bad" because i n i t bad 'people do bad things. It is bad i f their actions and emotions are so graphicallv and intimately described as to produce through the medium of imagination similar results, for example, that the enacting of such things upon the stage would produce through the medium of sight. Novels i n a greater or less degree present some aspect of life. They are necessarily selective, and it is no just criticism to object that the proportion of good to bad People i n a novel is not that'to be found i n the country or the world at large. Moreover, the novelist's art is not photographic. W i t h i n the "spatial" range of his subject the novelist selects certain aspects

SEA APOSTOLATE WORK INCREASING I N UNITED STATES. More than 163,000 visits were paid to the Apostleship of the Sea Centre at San Francisco last year. D u r i n g the seamen's strike at that port the Seaboard Hotel i n which the A . S . Club is situated, was taken over by the Federal Government authorities, at the instance of Father J . O'Kelly, Port Chaplain, and relief was administered from there to the seamen, more than 150,000 free meals being served by the Ladies A u x i l i a r y of the Apostleship of the Sea. A s a result of this public service the Apostleship of the Sea is now firmly founded as a vitally important civic institution i n the great Pacific port. Father Keyes has been appointed Port Chaplain a t . M o b i l e , A l a . by H i s Excellency Bishop Toolen. A t Mobile the Vfricentian brothers have for the past two years carried out most fruitful ship-visiting work and they hope, with the new Port Chaplain's help, to establish a Club for the sailors. A t Galveston. Texas, the Catholic Action Club of St. Mary's Cathedral have established an Apostolatus Maris service centre which is operating with success. Brooklyn and Philadelphia have also Seamen's Institutes, F r . A . M . Rickert being Port Chaplain at Brooklyn. Officers and men of the French naval cadet training ship, "Jeanne d ' A r c " in the course of a recent cruise—heralded by advance notification to Apostolatus Maris workers from the A M I C . Office in London—visited Seattle, San F r a n cisco, San Diego and other ports and received special services and hospitality from A . M . port organisers. (Apostolattcs Maris)

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Y O U T H AND UNEMPLOYMENT. A m o n g the m a n y social p r o b lems c o n f r o n t i n g us to-day the subject o f u n e m p l o y m e n t is perhaps the most vexatious. I n fact i t dominates d i e thoughts o f e g g y f a m i l y , as its members are i n some way o r other affected b y this scourge. Some effort, i t must be admitted, has been expended b o t h . b y the G o v e r n m e n t and p u b l i c . bodies to alleviate the distress arisi n g f r o m u n e m p l o y m e n t and to discover ways and means o f rem e d y i n g the situation. Despite ! the methods adopted at finding a j cure and the note o f o p t i m i s m assuring us that we have turned the corner and are well o n the highroad to prosperity, the future still seems to be w r a p t i n a mist o f uncertainty. T h e aspects o f unemployment are t w o f o l d - e c o n o m i c and psyi chological. T h e economic aspects ; alone seem to have engaged our • attention generally, while its psychological aspects are best appre. ciated b y those w h o are i n close t o u c h w i t h the unfortunate u n employed. A m o n g the vast n u m ber o f youths w h o are subjected to this enforced i n a c t i o n , the m e n tal and m o r a l reactions thereof are speaking, deplorable. M e n t a l l y l o n g periods of idleness induce a feeling o f despair w h i c h eventualI l y depresses the m i n d and robs the hapless y o u t h o f every atom o f mental ' v i m ' and V e r v e . ' A s a sequel to his persistent failure i n securing an honest l i v i n g , force o f circumstances often drive the v i c t i m to stoop to acts o f dishonesty i n a t t e m p t i n g to g r a t i f y his wants. Baulked o f the o p p o r t u n i t y of enj o y i n g possession o f the bare necessaries o f life through the legitimate m e d i u m o f exchange, the y o u t h f u l m i n d is sometimes tempted to deviate f r o m the path of virtue. Cases of dishonesty and misappropriation i n recent years reveal a class of offender w h o w i l l not have fallen foul of the law, were he i n possession o f a billet to place 'purchasing power' w i t h i n his means and set a routine o f life ensuring a sense of responsibility and consequent approach to respectability. It w o u l d not be out o f place to m e n t i o n here

The present state of affairs gives no i n c e n t i v e to a m b i t i o n even to those fortunate few w h o take on any job that they come across. These openings m a y be aptly called ' b l i n d alley situations' i n that a b o y learns n o t h i n g o f sufficient value or spends insufficient consecutive time i n that particular w o r k to fit h i m for a more progressive billet i n that trade. It is rarely that a boy, o n leaving school, is apprenticed to a trade w h i c h w i l l offer h i m scope for p r o m o t i o n o n c o m p l e t i n g his term of apprenticeship. The remedies o f a c o m p l e x problem that has g r o w n f r o m economic causes to psychological results must perforce be elusive. T h i s is p a r t i c u l a r l y so i n this p a r t of the w o r l d where there are limited avenues for the absorption o f the increasing n u m b e r o f boys and girls that are t h r o w n yearly o n the already flooded labour m a r ket. A p a r t f r o m the G o v e r n ment clerical service and the c o m mercial houses that have hitherto served as the ' d u m p i n g g r o u n d ' for seekers o f soft sedentary jobs, the c o u n t r y is not sufficiently i n dustrialised to offer scope f o r technical o r vocational e m p l o y ment. T h e G o v e r n m e n t T r a d e Schools are endeavouring to ease the situation i n this line, b u t they create any appreciable cannot demand i n the absence o f a field sufficiently large to accommodate their o u t p u t . T h e M e d i c a l and T e a c h i n g professions w h i c h c o n note the c u l t u r a l callings out here have also exceeded the limits c f demand b y o v e r p r o d u c t i o n . There is however no reason to be dismayed at this. I n the learned professions there has always been a struggle f o r the survival o f the fittest, as the less efficient ones are often forced back to the w a l l . W e are not so m u c h concerned w i t h c u l t u r a l t r a i n i n g as w i t h vocational t r a i n i n g i n trades and crafts. It is more for the c a p i t a l ist class of people to industrialise the c o u n t r y and open u p new avenues f o r technical skilled l a bour. T h e government of course w i l l be too pleased to assist any sensible venture i n this line, i n so far as is reasonably possible. Y o u t h s nowadays must be made to realise that t h ^ old order o f things has changed g i v i n g place to a new one w h e r e i n the d i g n i t y o f labour stands o u t as the hall m a r k

to be put to the next meeting of Edinburgh Town Council by the two Protestant A c t i o n members, M r . John Cormack and M r . James Marr. The motion is to call the Lord Provost's Committee's attention to the following proposal, that there should be an inquisition into the religious beliefs of the Corporation's employees and future employees, in order to ensure that no more than 10 per cent, of Corporation employment be given "to Papists or Roman Catholics.' The disgusting intolerance of the motion should ensure its rejection, but we are becoming tired of these tyrannous attacks on our brethren in Scotland and we remind all concerned that they are t r y i n g to start a game at which two can play, and that, once started, will end in civil commotion such as rent and dishonoured the C i t y of Liverpool to such a degree that a Royal Enquiry had to be held. We do not intend to take such treatment l y i n g down. (Catholic Times). (There is further reference to the same vexing subject of antiCatholic A c t i o n in Scotland in our Special Correspondent's letter—'On Wings F r o m A l b i o n / We extend our sympathies to our co-religionists who are wantonly being penalised merely on the score of their 'creed/)

of h u m a n existence. The w o r k o f craftsmen, artisans and mechanics could be more efficiently carried out b y specially trained boys w h o have normally no a p t i tude for intellectual training. It is not advocated that the totally unschooled worker must be hounded out o f existence, b u t the type of y o u t h w h o has had at least an elementary education together w i t h a vocational t r a i n i n g w i l l certainly go one better than his illiterate prototype who lacks initiative. U n d e r the scheme proposed above we w i l l be i n position to surmount this vicious problem of unemployment gradually b y substituting a saner outlook o f life i n the younger generation and dispell i n g that false sense o f value that is attached to any particular class o f w o r k . Furthermore, a more rational demographic distribution could be effected i n the urban and rural areas. I n every modern c i t y there is a class of people ill-suited for c i v i c life and responsibilities, w h o m the glamour and gaiety o f c i t y life have attracted only to be a drag and danger to society. These 'misfits' w i l l be q u i c k l y spotted out under a more responsible and rigid social order and consequentlv switched back to their natural environs in keeping w i t h their bucolic tendencies.

We regret to have to observe that a few correspondents have sent us from time to time hectoring enquiries that are not strictly in keeping with good taste. Perhaps NOTES A N D COMMENTS. ^ the following excerpt from M r . W. A r t h u r Wilson's address to the K . Triduum at Lourdes. Lumpur Reparians on the 'Life of Now that we are nearing the a Journalist' may help them to time for the Triduum of Uninter- view the situation i n a more charitsportsmanlike spirit rupted Masses between A p r i l 25 able and and 28 at the Grotto of Lourdes, Speaking of editorial views snd as a peace supplication appointed 'news-sense' M r . Wilson aptlv reby The Holy Father, let us prepare marks:— "There is no man in the world to join worthily and earnestly by can attempt that without invoking the intercession of Our who L a d y , the Queen of Peace. H i s often beinsr at fault, in both his Holiness refers to this forthcoming facts and his arguments. It is a event as "a truly wondrous spec- chastening experience, which betacle, portending the full realisa- gets some discretion in the course tion of our hopes." The Pope fur- of year*; but infallibility is humanther desires, " D u r i n g those days, ly unattainable. Therefore, I comthe- whole Catholic world, from mend to the kindness of your the r i s i n g of the sun to the going hearts the old saloon entreaty: down thereof, with one voice and "Don't shoot the pianist: he is dow i t h one mind will offer supplica- ing his best." The editor is always ready to tion to God and to H i s most holy Mother, imploring Mercy, Peace publish corrections of any misstatements, or letters expressing and S a l v a t i o n / ' opinions conflicting w i t h his own, * * * * The spirit of blind nationalism i f they are courteous and construchas placed the nations of the world, tive. There are some who think at variance w i t h one another. that a n y t h i n g they write should be Patriotism is apparently placed on published however foolish or offena level w i t h religion, thus detract- sive it may be. They would probing the honour and glory that is ably be very impolite i f an editor due to God alone. Herein lies the burst into their offices with wild pressing need for H i s Mercy to suggestions as to how their own deliver us from our iniquities. A s business should be conducted." for the promise of Peace which the herald angels sang on BethleMadam. " W h a t a funny felhem's slopes, man through his owrr~~1ow you are, Bob. E v e r y time I callous inhumanity to his neigh- sing you rush to the window." Bob.—Well, darling, i t is to bour has shattered all hopes of meriting it. That 'Peace' was show our neighbours that I do not meant for 'men of good-will/ beat you and that when you shriek Whom shall we blame but our- like that, I am for nothing in the selves, i f we languish i n strife business." when peace should reign. L e t us make ourselves worthy of the gift In a drawing room, after a ere we receive it. The final hope young lady had cut up a sonata of of 'Salvation' will naturally follow Mozart, she took a seat near when H i s Mercy begets Peace. Theophilus Gauthier, a poet and a great lover of good music: Sectarian Discrimination. — " Do you like piano, dear M r . Catholic Action has provoked an G a u t h i e r ? " she asked w i t h simugly sectarian reaction in Scotland pering airs. which apparently calls itself Prote— " W e l l , M i s s , " answered the stant Action. Its unchristian spirit poet coldly, " I prefer it to the galis manifest i n the notice of motion lows." -

11 DIOCESE OF M A L A C C A .

DIOCESE OF MACAO.

C A T H E D R A L O F T H E GOOD SHEPHERD, SINGAPORE.

Calender for the Week.

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Vpril 2Su Sunday—Low Sunday. (1st A f t e r E a s t e r ) . 1st CI. Greater Double. Last day of the Jubilee. Mass of the . . Sunday. Vespers of the following. A p r i l 29. Monday—St. Mark, The Evangelist. Vpril 30. Tuesday—St. Catherine of Sienna, V . Double. May 1. W'day—Ss. Philip and * James, Apostles. May 2. Thursday—St. Athanasius, * B . and D . Double. May 3. F r i d a y — T h e F i n d i n g of ' the H o l y Cross. May 4. Saturday—The Good * Shepherd, (The Most Holy Redeemer) T i t u l a r of the Cathedral Double of the 1st Class w i t h Octave for the whole Diocese.

LOW S U N D A Y

(ST. J O H N , X X , 19—81).

A t that time, when it was late that same day, the first of the week, and the doors were shut, where the disciples were gathered together, for fear c i the Jews, Jesus came, and sto<;d in the midst, and said to them. Peace be to you. And \xhn\ he had said this, h » showed them his hands and his side The disciples therefore \ver3 glad, when they saw the L o r d . He said therefore to them again, Peace be to you: as the Father hath sent me. I also send you. When h i had said this, he breathed <m them; and he said to them. Receive ye the Holy Ghost; whose sins .ou sh?Jl forgive, they are forgiven them; and whose sins you shall retain, they are retained. Now Thomas, one of the twelve, who is call 3d Didymus, was not w i t h them when Jesus came. The other disciples therefore said to him, W e have seen the L o r d . But he said to them, Except I shall see i n his hands the print of the nails, and put my finger into the place of the nails* and put my hand into his side, I will not believe. A n d after eight days, again his disciples were within, and Thomas with them. Jesus cometh, the doors being shut, and stood i n the midst, and said, Peace be to you. Then he said to Thomas, Put in thy finger hither, and see my hands, and bring hither t h y hand, and put it into my side; and be not faithless, but believing. Thomas answered, and said to h i m , M y L o r d and my God. Jesus said to him, Because thou hast seen me, Thomas thou hast believed: blessed are they that have not seen, and have believed. Many other signs aiso did Jesus in the sight of his disciples, which are not written in this book. But these are written, that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of G o d ; and that, believing, you may have life in his name.

T R U E RELIGION. The late Bishop Stang's Definition.

C H U R C H O F ST. J O S E P H . Calendar for the week. A p r i l 28. Sunday—Low Sunday and first after Easter. Greatdouble. White vestments. Proper of the Mass p. 163. Second collect of St. P a u l of the Cross. H i g h Mass at 8 o'clock, to be followed by E x position of the Blessed Sacrament throughout the day, solemnizing the closing of the Holy Year. E v e n i n g Service at 5:—Miserere, Te-Deum and Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament. A p r i l 29. Monday—St. M a r k , the Evangelist, double of the second class. A p r i l 30. Tuesday—St. Catherine of Sienna, V i r g i n . Double. May 1. W'day—Sts. P h i l i p and James, Apostles. Double of the second class. Plenary Indulgence for the members of the Association for the Propagation of the F a i t h . E v e n i n g service during the whole month at 5.30 on week days and at 5 on Sundays. May 2. Thursdav—St. Athanasius, B . C. D . Double. May 3. F r i d a y — T h e F i n d i n g of the Holy Cross. Double of the second class. Abstinence. F i r s t F r i d a y of the month. General Communion. Plenary Indulgence for the members of the Association for the Propagation of the F a i t h . Evening service: H O L Y HOUR from 5.30 to 6.30. May 4. Saturday—St. Monica, Widow. Double.

Religion is not a mere sentiment or sentimentality, prevalent among women and c h i l d r e n : it is not a passing emotion of the heart, nor COMMENTARY. a vague aspiration for things words did not He speak to them. This Gospel is so full of precious beyond the stars, nor a general They had the first glimpse of their teachings that it is absolutely i m dissatisfaction w i t h existing condivine mission, they understood possible to review them a l l . We ditions. Religion does not and that they had been chosen by God cannot have its origin in senti- shall leave out therefore the divine for something higher. The mysinstitution of the Sacrament of ment, because sentiment works the mission of the terious words pronounced by Jesus instinctively even without reason, Penance, Apostles, the incredulity of St. had a double effect on their hearts. but religion is i n the rational part They restored at the same time of man, though it purines and Thomas, to concentrate our atten- peace and self-confidence based, of t o n on the words which Jesus sanctifies the sentiment. T h i s is course, i n Jesus' personality. A n d the way religion takes hold of directed to his disciples: " Peace they had peace. be to y o u . " man: T h e m i n d recognises the Peace with or without Jesus? existence of a God and F a t h e r in Peace, the longing of the whose keeping we are; the will . There is no peace without Jesus. then submits to this authority, and human heart. A t least real peace, consoling peace, is anxious to serve H i m . Only which pervades the innermost re- H O L Y H O U R A T S T . J O S E P H ' S man, having reason and free w i l l , The disciples had no peace, to be cesses of the human heart. Peace CHURCH. can possess religion, because reli- sure, at that stage of their lives. of eonsciene is this peace. Storms gion must be an act of a rational Their L o r d and Master had been may gather over one's head, worThe devotion of the Holy Hour nature and an act of a free w i l l . crucified, a most unusual and extra- ries may come and go, friendships is to be introduced at the Church But i t is the most ennobling duty ordinary epilogue to H i s divine may begin and end. prosperity and of St. Joseph on the F i r s t F r i d a y which man can render, by submit- Mission. They were expecting, in adversity may take their turns, of M a y . ting m i n d and heart to his Creator. their worldly minds success, and health and sickness too may have There is nothing sentimental i n failure came over t h e m ; it appear- a chance at one's body, but, i f We hope that this devotion, t h i s : it is the problem of our exis- ed that they had nothing to hope peace of conscience reigns over his which is so widely spread all over tence; through religion we give to for. T h e i r dreams had vanished intimate kingdom of self, every the Catholic World, Europe espeGod what belongs to H i m . what we before the dawn of dire and crude variation shall pass on almost un- cially, will attract many loving owe H i m . realities. They coul hear still the noticed. We read in Isaias (Chap- hearts of the Sacred Heart to the Religion is more than good be- muffled and hoarse shouts of the ter 48, v. 22) that the L o r d has Church of St. Joseph. T h i s pious haviour. Y o u may be considered a Jews asking for their Leader's said: " there is no peace to the practice was first suggested by our £ood m a n ; you may be true and death and crucifixion. They had, wicked." A n d everyday experience Lord Himself to St. Margaret M a r y kind and generous: you may lead no doubt, heard about H i s resurrec- confirms it. AJacoque and its result must surely a peaceful, beautiful and blameless tion, but it was all so uncertain. Mortal sin is the first obstacle be an abundant infusion of graces life; all this is not religion. Yo;^r They were so afraid it might turn to peace. It is indeed sarcastic and favours. natural goodness will fade like the to be a deception! T h e i r minds irony that makes man look for fragrance of a spring flower; it staggered between hope and des- peace and pleasure in mortal sin, The Holy Hour consists of an shall pass like the soothing tran- pair. A n d they had no peace. A n d to discover in it nothing else out J hour's company, by means of prayouillity of a calm summer's night. yet they longed for it. Jesus knew remorse and disturbance. ers, meditations and hymns, to the Moreover, i f you lead a "good" it and this was perhaps the reason The Church, as the L o r d Jesus, Divine Heart of Jesus, i n memory life, i f vou abstain from i n t o x i - whv he greeted t h e m : Peace be insists continually on this peace. of H i s A g o n y in the garden of cating drink on account of your with you. The disciples could not Her L i t u r g y overflows with such Gethsemani, when he complained social standing or your saving believe their eyes and their ears. wishes of peace. " Peace be with to St. Peter about his indifference habits, i f you avoid other excesses They who were assembled w i t h the you " is a phrase oftentimes re- towards H i m : "Could you not fo)? similar reasons, you do not doors shut, " for fear of the Jews " peated at almost every Church watch one hour with m e ? " thereby advance one step nearer had in front of them the Master, ceremony. A n d the last wish of your G o d : nay, i f you do these the Leader, the L o r d , the Wonder- hers, when t a k i n g leave from her We hope that the Church of St. things to be seen and praised, you Worker, Jesus at last. A n d peace children, is again one of peace and Joseph may be crowded in the are a hypocrite, and not a religious came at once to t h i r minds. They r e s t : — " M a y they rest in peace." evenings of all F i r s t F r i d a y s . The man. The question that religion were " therefore glad." They forWhen shall we be convinced that service will be from 5.30 to 6.30 puts to you is t h i s : How do you got the Jews, the crucifixion, the there is no possible peace without p.m. *tand before God? W h a t is the anxious hours past, to remember Jesus Christ who as Prophet state of your immortal soul ? Y o u that they had Jesus with them. Micheas has said, " s h a l l be our may stand well before men; you A n d what consoling and soothing peace"? (Chapt. 5, verse 5). may satisfy public opinior-: yon look grave and severe, that you may be well behaved, consistent, abstain from the pleasures and enmay be thought to be, if he has joyments of the w o r l d ; but it retruthful, respectable, just in your the eye of man. Y o u may be free got religion he will be thoroughy quires a strict performance of dealings w i t h your neighbour, kind from gross and hideous vices in convinced that he is nothing but your daily duties, not for the ultiand loyal to your fnends, and the sight of man; but the decent a poor, wretched sinner, an ignor- mate purpose of making money or generous to the poor. But is God and decorous sinner may be furant and wayward creature, that he pleasing those above you, but in satisfied w i t h you ? Remember ther from God than the social outmust come to God for pardon of doing all for the honour and glory s a t God searches the inmost re- cast. If you are satisfied with sin for power to resist it. God of God. Wherever God has placed cesses of the heart; H e sees your yourself and thank God that you does not need y o u ; you need God. you, i n whatever circumstances . iV° * *? y° °tivare not like the rest of sinful manReligion does not require of you you find yourself, do your work ^s; He judges evil thoughts and kind, you are a sham, and relithat you spend your life in church cheerfully and in conformity w i t h tfesires, sins of pride, envy and gion is not *found i n you. N o in praying on your knees, that you God's holy will. This is religion. ambition, sins which are hidden to matter how good and holy a man ;

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The Origins of the Clean Films Campaigns E a r l y i n 1934 a Legion of Decency sprang into being in different parts of the United States. Its orgin was the spontaneous and simultaneous rebellion of Catholics to the continued offences of the film-producers against Christian morality. Shortly after E a s t e r the four Bishops who had been appointed by the A m e r i c a n H i e r a r c h y to study the problem of unclean films recognised the Legion of Decency as a practical method of influencing the film trade. The Bishops gave their support to the Legion and approved the pledge to be taken by members w h i c h promised, among other things, abstention from films known to be offensive to morality and the securing of other Catholics to co-operate likewise. Thenceforth, the Legion g r e w i n numbers all over the U n i t e d States—without headquarters or organisation. T h e cinema industry quickly felt the loss of revenue and, disturbed by the decline, promised to establ i s h internal censorship. In Great B r i t a i n the first move was made i n A p r i l by the newlyestablished Cardiff B o a r d of Catholic A c t i o n . In conjunction w i t h the Westminster Catholic Federa-

tion this Board secured advance opinions on forthcoming films and arranged for representations to be made to the managers of cinemas concerning those of immoral tendencies. Threats of boycotting cinemas which continue to exhibit distasteful films have been, and continue to be made, w i t h some good effect. In July last, the H o l y Father approved of the American campaign s a y i n g : "I am heart and soul with you for the discouraging of immoral films in the cinemas." Directly afterwards the Westminster Catholic Federation decided to launch a nation-wide Clean F i l m s Movement-, and the Catholic Press has co-operated in encouraging their readers to pledge themselves to abstain from all films except those which do not offend against decency and morality. Those who sign the pledge promise also to arouse public opinion against i m moral films. The late Cardinal Bourne blessed and commended the Campaign i n September. Recently, some non-Catholic religious organisations have evidenced a desire to co-operate with this desirable Catholic movement.

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SCHOLARSHIP.

A Plea for Less Secrecy.

To the Editor, It has been said that this is the Malaya Catholic Leader. greatest association i n the world. Sir, Let us not belong to it. Not that E v e r y year in October the E x a we must think that a l l is well w i t h mination for the Queen's Scholarthe world, and w i t h this ioolish ship is held in Singapore and optimism as our starting-point Penang. Then at the following inter that the world does not need Christmas rumours precede the our services. But w h y should we official publication of the names o f T h a t the man who never gives say that all is wrong? A n d yet the two winners. The man i n the a cent to the church fund always that is the mania from which street, who may be. and generally finds the most fault about the man- some people—in fact, perhaps the is, very interested in the matter, majority—suffer. ner i n which it is distributed? is left entirely i n the dark conIt was very well for Napoleon's cerning how the awards are made T h a t the pastor w h o does his full d u t y to God is usually unpopular old soldiers; their courage was because of the intense secrecy that some excuse for their bad temper. enshrouds the whole affair. w i t h many of his parishioners? T h a t people will pay high prices But they, at least, d i d not regard Comoetitors are only provided for a seat i n the theatre, but a l - the expression of t h e i r discontent w i t h their individual marks and ways steal one i n the church when as a form of action. They grum- sometimes their positions i n the bled, but they marched, too. examination. they can? Heads of schools Nowadays it is the grumblers that and parents of candidates have to That our young men will assume usually do not work. penetrate the fog of secrecy in bar-room attitudes at devotions The man of action is fond of order to learn other and important and take on photographic postures Rev. J . A . Lobo. his own generation. H e does not details and very often do not suci n the parlours cf their young lady disguise its faults; but he knows ceed. friends ? how to see its good qualities. This T h a t people w i l l buy boxes and Now I ?sk why should there :b° matter due consideration. is a sufficient stimulus for him to Rustalls at a theatre whom nothing stifle his complaints and to set so much hush-hush? In the good mours have often in the past could induce to rent a seat in about removing the cause of them, old days all results were publish- ffoated around, generally vicious church ? by suppressing abuses and correct- ed in detail for the information of and unfounded, about unfairness That persons who are always all parties concerned and were creeping into the final allocation ing defects. pressing their employers for larger accessible to the general public. of the winning candidates. Cathosalaries expect their pastors to live Grumbling does nobody any good, Cannot this procedure be reinstat- lics refrain from placing any creon good wishes and the grace of and achieves no object. It kills ed? Last year, the winner of the dence on gossip but the only God? that of our hearers. Take as your Queen's scholarship was a pupil of possible way to scotch once and St. Xavier's Institution, Penang, T h a t parents who never attend model the soldier who. when he and the runner u d hailed from the for all those murmurings is to was wounded by a bullet, put his publish full details of the results t h e i r religious duties expect their Penang Free School. In the children to become model Chris- handkerchief to his mouth. " A r e F . M . S . the same scholarship fell of the Queen's Scholarship. -you wounded in the j a w ? " he was tians? asked. " N o / ' was the answer, to a pupil of St. John's Institution. Y o u r s , etc., "that was to prevent myself from Kuala L u m p u r . That many of the men who worThus out of the 3 Queen's INQUIRERship i n the rear of the church and c r y i n g out, and frightening my Scholarships awarded in 1934, 2 comrades." block the entrance are always went to boys from the Brother's found in the front seats at places School, which is certainly a mos "The growlers," the brave growof amusement? POWER OF PENANCE. creditable performance and one in lers, belong to another generation. That the sermon which touches which all Catholics rejoice. Was there ever an offence so the guilty conscience never fails to We want, soldiers of the same stamp today. find warm condemnation? I am positive all readers of the great that God could not forgive W a s there ever an erring That those who never help to de" M . C . L . " will be the first to favour it? (FACING LIFE), the removal of the secrecy that child that sinned so greatly that fray the church expenses demand by Raoul Plus, S.J.) exists to-day and the same feel- the Holy Church would not seek the most comforts and conveniening too holds with every member him out to forgive h i m ? Into the ces? of the public interested in the dungeon, into the mansion of sorscholarship that means so much to row, into the hovels of the despisT h a t those who make the least That those who have spent years the successful candidates. I cast ed and neglected, the Church's haste to get to service in time are It always i n a rush to get away be- of their lives in sin expect to no slur on anyone but I beg the forgiveness enters and acts. satisfy Divine Justice by a death- Authorities concerned to give this raises up the fallen and the dead fore it is over? souls o f wandering men to light bed repentance of a few moments? and forgiveness and joy. Strange inconsistencies. (Contd: at foot of col. 4.) 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one must be twinged by a real craving. B u t it is generally known that a drunkard, to quench his thirst, will leave nothing unattempted. Unfortunately his shrewd device got abroad. The council of the "grandees" of Soossey Paleyam met for the t r i a l of the i n corrigible. H e was judged and sentenced. In execution of the verdict his furniture was carried "to the highway and he was served w i t h the notice of his ejection.

end of January i n these forests began this time i n the early days of December and to make things worse, the drought was of a disp i r i t i n g duration, such as is seldom experienced in M a l a y a ; it lasted till after Easter. The result was that the fields ran short of water, that the most part of the standing crop withered away before earing. The little grain we collected was of a poor quality and we found ourselves before a second year of dearth more terrible than the first. W e had to stop the felling work, and to resort to some shift i n order not to die of starvation. Some colonists went to look for employment, the others sowed millet, indian corn and some other tiny seed to make up for rice. A l l were i n distress and needed assistance, and I could not come off well but by running into debt.

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of the colony to 700 He was the son of the preceding beggar. He had been a fine young Expectations—Conclusion. fellow, intelligent, w i t h some education and a fair skill i n cooking. If we can complete the road Like his mother he was a pagan that we have begun to make, the and when she first broke to h i m yet unoccupied portion of our conher intentions to become a C h r i cession will be handed over to new stian, he fretted and fumed. F o r occupants and, before two years, all answer she placed a catechism the whole of our land w i l l be unbook in his hands and ordered h i m der cultivation. Fortunately land to read over and again for her the is not wanting in M a l a y a . Thouprayers and the religious instrucsands upon thousands of acres are tions. He obeyed and thanks to still wild forests and domain of RESULTS. that unwilling catechist the old the tigers and elephants. I f we woman learned her religion and had hundreds of colonies like this Miseries. was baptized. A s for the son he to settle in this country there remained a pagan. Once I hapwould be no room lacking for Before entering upon this final pened to meet h i m i n the Prothem . . . Such is the story of vince. He was unknown to me chapter let me mention the accithe first years of that small setdent that, the beginning of the then. He approached me and told tlement of Soossey Paleyam (St. 2nd year, bereaved us of the best me that he would come the followJoseph Enactment). Hardships and most intelligent of our first ing Sunday to ask me to baptize have not been spared for it, but, pioneers. A tree that he was fellhim. He had so often read and thank God, it has lived on, and ing met in its fall some obstacle repeated the catechism i n order to subsists. A n d in spite o f its many that made it deviate so as to come teach it his mother that he had and various trials and difficulties, down on h i m and fracture his leg. And Consolations. learned it himself and had not for- His companions thought that they not only has it held out but has gotten it. So well that after a themselves could cure h i m and fairly progressed as shown by the However, that t h i r d year so disdecent probation I gave h i m bap- committed the fault of not confollowings figures. tressing from the material point tism. Soon after he came to me veying h i m to Hospital. H e grew Returns of St. Joseph P a r i s h , and asked for a catechist diploma."* better but just as he was believed of view was comforting i n another Bagan Serai, October 1889: respect. Several colonists, themHe wanted to quit everything and to be out of danger, tetanus seized Families 105. Population 600. go to preach the gospel to the upon h i m and carried h i m off i n selves new converts, succeeded i n Baptisms 180. h a v i n g their pagan families come pagans around and abroad. I less than half-an-hour. That was Marriages 49. here from India. Once they over checked his zeal by sending h i m the only wretched accident that Children of the Settlement atback to his stoves. B u t his brain we had to lament. In spite of our had set foot on t h i s C h r i s t i a n land tending our Schools 70. and were r i d of the influence of went on brewing and fermenting, mishaps, drawbacks, and some Cultiivated land 450 acres. and one day on seeing a proces- spokes i n the wheel, the colony H i n d u surroundings, these good people had no objection to conversion of Mohammedans, pass by, he progressed slowly but surely. The OCEANIA. seized a knife and dashed for forest skirts went further and fur- sion, were soon instructed and baptized and became fervent them. He was then arrested and ther back. The plots began in the Rome.—Almost all the plantalocked up. There they found out preceding year were enlarged and neophytes. Since then, the good tions on the island of Rarotonga, thus at a movement has gone on that they had to do w i t h an i l l - fresh clearings were undertaken. Cook Archipelago, in the southern poised mind and instead of send- In J u l y H i s L o r d s h i p came to consoling rate, so that many who Pacific, were destroyed by a cyclone were the only Christians in their ing h i m to gaol they sent h i m to b r i n g to the labourers his enrespective families are nowadays which swept the islands February Singapore Mental A s y l u m . A few couraging words and to their at the head of groups of six and 7 to 11. The coconut plantations months later he came out much works his blessing. seven households numbering 25 and the orange groves of the the same as he had gone in and A l l the cleared land was sown and 30 souls and more. Those Picpus Fathers have been ruined, then came back here w i t h his moearly that year and we had reason small nuclei like rolling snow balls and this year, the missionaries ther the begger. H e is still more to expect a good crop. A l a s ! we w i l l gradually increase, in attract- write, there will be no harvest. or less cracked. This does not the rest of their relatives Msgr. Castanie, the Prefect Aposwere not at the end of our trou- ing impede his w o r k i n g and giving an bles. In November a host of rats, "that still sit in darkness." About tolic, says that some of the mission occasional good advice to those sprung I do not know whence, i n - the same time the Government of buildings were damaged and that saner than himself. A f t e r all, he vaded our rice-fields. In less than Perak, desirous of favouring the the cemetery was under water for has never caused us any harm or 15 days all was devoured. In the colonisation of the country by several days. (Fides). trouble. Historic Manila University has fields nothing was left except fad- Indians, advanced fair sums toThe D r u n k a r d . ed and dried straw mowed down wards their immigration move- ever-growing enrolment. — The I should like to say as much of and fallen in huddles. One would ment. The result of which was Spanish Dominican U n i v e r s i t y of the drunkard. T h i s one, on arriv- have thought that a squadron of that, i n the course of 1885, about Santo Tomas, founded more than ing here spread his vice and found heavy cavalry had passed through. 30 new Indian families came to three centuries ago-in 1611, manidisciples and imitators among the In their desire of atoning, making settle in Soossey Paleyam. The fests signs of vigorous youth new and the old hands. One day some sacrifice and appeasing the new comers whose homeland was rather than age. The number of when coming from Penang I heavenly wrath, our colonists sign- the barren plains of South India its students is constantly on the found on my way into the settle- ed a written promise not to get were at first somewhat bewildered increase. The enrolment for 1934-5 ment a toddy shop established drunk any more and to deduct 5 i amidst our virgin forests. A few is 3,408, and is distributed among there by a bad C h r i s t i a n . I mani- from their harvest and offer it *o of them seized with fear left, but various Department as follows: fested so loud m y discontent and St. Joseph. Then I dealt out holy most of them held out and soon Medicine 1,688 my anger that the shop was de- water and ordered directly to go became first rate wood-cutters. Law 601 molished on the spot and the keep- and sprinkle it over the fields. . Pedagogy 384 er moved off. B u t he did not go F r o m that day the rats disappearYet the felling of trees had been Pharmacy 208 farther than the village of Bagan ed, and stubble grew again and stopped in 1885 and was taken up Civil Engineering 143 Serai where he put up a new shop, the aftermath gave us enough not again but last year (1888). The Chemistry 94 and where his faithful customers, to die through famine. two previous years having been Architecture 91 amongst whom our drunkard, conThough the harvest was scanty, awfully rainy, the forest was Commerce 83 tinued to pay h i m their regular some more new colonists came in transformed into a marsh and Philosophy 65 visits. I then placed the shop and and the felling went on again in a work was not practicable. Last Theology 51 keeper under an interdict. O u r fair way. The third year (1884) year was somewhat better. Durdrunkard thereupon had a lumi- was to be more calamitous still. ing the dry season we were able About eight years ago a magninous idea and found another way Worn out by fever, engrossed by to open, across our concession, a ™ drink good "calloo" free of all kinds of worries and cares in road or rather a footpath V/ mile ficent edifice of vast proportions charge and without incurring the Penang, I was unable to devote to long on either side of which, the was erected to replace the ancient A s earth-quakes are anamema. He would climb up the the colony the time and the atten- land was cleared, surveyed and buildings. very common in the Philippines, coconut trees from which the pre- tion it required. Left by them- portioned out into 60 lots. So that cious liquid was extracted and selves our cultivators managed to the area now under cultivation is this was scientifically constructed in such a way as to resist damage 1,7. s t a b l y on the top he be tardy in sowing. They had 450 acres. I have forgotten to from shock. Recently another would drink out of the flasks noticed that the ^earliest paddi mention that having previously new building was added to house wfterem it was collected. The co- was the most preyed upon hy been offered facilities to round off, the Central Seminary and at the W ^ * s t 70 to 80 rats and they thought it wise not I availed myself of the opportu- same time incorporate a large and sntl ? * <*eed, to climb up to hurry. B u t the dry season n i t y to make an anneation of an- very beautiful University chapel. c n a height for a refreshment which . unusually occurs at the other 500 acres. That brought the (Lumen). c

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ASIA. Madras.—A python, 21ft. long, was killed by F a t h e r P a u l Baggier, of the Archdiocese of Madras, while going from his mission at A r a m b a k a m to a nearby village. The priest's only weapon was a heavy club. (Fides.) Trichinopoly (India) .—Sixtythree statues, carried on huge cars elaborately decorated w i t h flowers and precious stones, were drawn through the streets of Mylapore during the festival held recently at the Temple of S r i Kapaleezwarazwamy. D u r i n g the celebrations, which lasted 10 days, thousands o people bathed in the sacred tank at the temple. (Fides.) f

* * * * Trichinopoly (India).—Mr. Gerald A . Barron-Boshell, Chief of the Ceylon Labour Commission and founder of the A e r o Club of Trichinopoly, who was killed recently i n a n aeroplane accident, was one of the leading Catholics of Trichinopoly and a generous supporter of missionary work i n the district. (Fides.)

Madras.—More than 230,000 publications were distributed by the Catholic T r u t h Society of India during 1934. These pamphlets are printed i n E n g l i s h and i n local native languages. (Fides.)

Madras (India).—Monkeys entered the banana plantation of the Salesian Mission at A m i , about 7£ miles southwest of Madras, one night recently and caused damage estimated at more than 200 dollars. The banana plantation is maintained i n connection w i t h the missionaries new farm school. .(Fides.)

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Manila.—There are 3,408 students this year at the U n i v e r s i t y of Santo Tomas, M a n i l a , of whom more than h a l f are studying medicine. T h i s institution founded by the Spanish Dominicans in 1611 is the.largest Catholic university of the far east. In a new building which was added recently to house the Central Seminary there is a large and beautiful U n i v e r s i t y Chapel. The A m e r i c a n Jesuits have taken over the Ateneo. (Fides.) *

Shanghai.—The population of Tibet, which is commonly believed to be two millions, is less than one million, D r . Jefferson L a m b , Councillor of the M i n i s t r y of F o r e i g n Affairs, said i n an address delivered after his return from a t r i p to Lhasa. One-fifth of the population consists of lamas, he said. There is little arable and cultivated land, and mineral resources are limited. Japanese goods dominate the Lhasa market, w i t h Indian and Nepalese goods next. Chinese wares take t h i r d or fourth place, and there are also some European and American products found in Lhasa. (Fides.) * * * * * Shanghai.—More than a million Chinese poor persons, says an article in a recent issue of China L i g h t of Shanghai, receive free medical treatment from Catholic priests and sisters every year at the Shanghai mission. F o r most of these people, this is the first

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contact w i t h C h r i s t i a n charity. The Catholic C h u r c h maintains several clean and well-equipped dispensaries i n Shanghai. (Fides.) * * * * National President of Catholic Action Pays Visit to Peiping— Peiping, A p r i l 3 . — A large group of his friends were on hand to welcome M r . L o Pa-hong, National President of Catholic Action, when he arrived i n this city on A p r i l 1. M r . L o was accompanied by his son Joseph and by the Rev. D r . P a u l Y u P i n , returning from Shanghai. D u r i n g the two full days M r . L o spent in Peiping, he had a busy time. He attended a Trustees Meeting of the Peiping Central Hospital, visited not a few public and private institutions of charity and education, attended several banquets arranged in his honor, received and addressed various Catholic A c t i o n groups of M e n , Y o u n g Men, and Women, and granted various private interviews. On the day of his arrival, M r . L o called upon H . E . the Apostolic Delegate, Archbishop Zanin, w i t h whom he discussed matters relati n g to Catholic A c t i o n . He was the guest of A r c h b i s h o p Banin at a dinner tendered i n his honor, to w h i c h the entire Board of Trustees of the Apostolic Delegation was i n vited. This took place the evening of A p r i l 2. M r . L o left on the morning of A p r i l 3 for T i e n t s i n , where he was entertained by various leaders of Catholic A c t i o n before continuing his journey to Shanghai. ( L u m e n ) .

Exposition of Catholicism figures in Tientsin Week of Religions " — Peiping.—For some year the T i e n t s i n Y . M . C . A . has featured a Week of Religions, during which one evening is devoted to a presentation of each of the more important world religions. N o worship of any kind takes place and no discussions are permitted; just a mere presentation. T h i s year, for the second time, Catholics were invited to participate. W i t h the approval of H . E . Bishop J . de Vienne, of Tientsin, the Rev. John N i u , Secretary General of Catholic A c tion, and D r . George Chao E r Ch'ien, professor at the Catholic University of Peking, propounded Catholic Theology and Philosophy i n outline. The programme lasted from 7.30 until 10 p.m. Though more than 1,000 persons were present, excellent order prevailed throughout and close attention and frequent applause were given. Great gener a l satisfaction was expressed by those present. (Lumen). u

Chinese Catholic Weekly of A m o y to be Enlarged—Amoy, Fukien.—Easter Sunday, A p r i l 21, w i l l mark the 6th anniversary of the founding o f the " C a t h o l i c W e e k l y " published in Kulangsu, Amoy. F r o m that day forward this praiseworthy pioneer of the Catholic press in China will appear in greatly enlarged form, the present 16 pages expanding into more than 4 times that number. On the first Sunday of each month, a pictorial supplement will be included. Lumen's Chinese releases will be reproduced in full form instead of being abbreviated as heretofore due to limitation of space. Despite the great increase in the number of pages, the subscription price is to remain as at present. SI.00 per year. What is

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more, those who from dire poverty would find it difficult to set aside this sum annually, will be accommodated at half price upon furnishing a testimonial letter from their pastor. The " C a t h o l i c W e e k l y " merits congratulations on its adolescence and expansion, and even more on its splendid spirit of charity. (Lumen).

What Do F a s h i o n Papers Mean To Y o u ?

Hongkong.—An association similar to fhe Catholic T r u t h Society of England is being planned by a group of priests and Catholic laymen of Hongkong. Books and pamphlets on Catholic faith and morals will be printed in Chinese and sold throughout the country at a low price. The founders contemplate a vast organization with which it will be possible to circulate several million publications in the country every year. (Fides.) Madras (India).—"The scholarship of the Roman Catholic Church and the superiority of her educational institutions, not only i n this Presidency but throughout India, is unquestioned," says a writer, signing himself " A Bangalore Protestant", in a recent issue of the Madras M a i l , "and the charge of ignorance levelled against her recently by certain advocates of b i r t h control at their public meetings is not worthy of notice. Invective and abuse are not argument, and are weapons employed only by a defeated opponent." (Fides.)

D r . Yu Pin Returns to Peiping after month's absence—Peiping.— Accompanied by M r . L o Pa-hong, National President of Catholic A c tion, the Rev. D r . P a u l Y u P i n , Director General of Catholic A c tion, returned to Peiping A p r i l 1. D r . Y u had been absent for nearly a month. He left Peiping March 4 for Shanghai where he made preliminary arrangements with Bishop A . Haouisee concerning the National Congress of Representatives of Catholic Action which is to meet in Shanghai in early September. Dr. Y i i also visited N a n k i n g and Hangchow. In the latter city he spent three busy days delivering conferences on Catholic Action and addressing diverse bodies of students and seminarists. He also spoke by special invitation at the Provincial University. (Lumen).

You ladies who delight to scan the fashion papers, is it not tiue that your interest and enjoyment are greater when you are feeling- fit? It is then that yon visualize yourselves in the different creations, and not when worry over your health is uppermost in your' mind. So it is throughout the routine <»f daily life, your enjoyment depends on your state of health. To be happy and well you must keep your blood in good condition, and in the East great demands are made upon it, due to excessive perspiration in the heat which renders it thin and poor. A tonic capable of maintaining- the blood at a high level both in quality and quantity is what yon require, and for this purpose there is none better than Dr. Williams' Pink Pilis, known throughout the woi Id on account of its proved efficacy for rehabilitating: the blood.

Tokyo.—Students of the Catholic University of T o k y o are aiding 1,000 needy families l i v i n g i n the poor quarters of Mikawashima. V i s i t i n g the poor at their homes, they combine t h e i r activities with those of the S t . Vincent de Paul Society and the Associations of St. Elizabeth. (Fides.)

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Women Founded in Hwangchow. Kichow, H u p e h . — A Women's Branch of Catholic A c t i o n was established here i n K i c h o w March 17 by the Prefect Apostolic, Mgr. Raphael Cazzanelli, O . F . M . While the initial membership is not very large, excellent results are expected j n the course of time, these hopes being justified by the good work accomplished even before organization took place. [Lumen].

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Paper Leaves for Italy on Furlough. Japanese Radio Station BroadCasts Programme of Catholic Chants—Dairen.—A programme of Catholic liturgical music, mostly Gregorian chant from the Mass but including also hymns in Japanese and English, was broadcast recently over the Dairen Radio Station. This is believed to have been the first Catholic broadcast in Manchuria. The music was furnished by the choir of the Star of the Sea parish in Dairen assisted by the two Marvknoil Fathers i n charge of the parish. Rev. John C. Murrett, the pastor, and his assistant. Rev. John J . Walsh. The authorities of the broadcasting station were so pleased w i t h the result that they have invited the missionaries to arrange another programme Tor Easter. (Lumen-Fides).

Hong Kong. — The Rev. A . Granelli, I.P.M., founder and Director of the K u n g Chiao Pao. Chinese Catholic monthly of Hong Kong, left for Italy on the Conte Rosso March 15. He has been in poor health for some time and is taking several months' leave of absence on the recommendation of his physician. A large gathering of friends saw h i m off at the pier. He is expected to return in September. Under his direction the Kung Chiao Pao gained an important position among the papers of the Southwest, and has subscribers throughout C h i n a and the Malay Archipelago as well. More than 7.000 copies are printed each issue. M r . Paul Ch'en, the editor, will be in charge d u r i n g Father Granelli'absence. [ L u m e n ] .

C a t h o l i c EUROPE. NEW MISSION TERRITORIES. Xew Mission Superiors Decrees oi the Sacred Congregation of Propaganda Fide. Rome.—Four new mission superiors have been named in decrees issued by the Sacred Congregation of Propaganda A p r i l 8. Two new missions have been erected and two others have been elevated i n rank by decrees of the same date. The Prefecture Apostolic of Mount Currie, South A f r i c a , a division of the Vicariate of M a r i annhili, has been erected and entrusted to the German Franciscan missionaries. The Prefecture Apostolic of Chaotung, Y u n n a n Province, C h i na, a division of the Vicariate of Yunnanfu, has been erected and entrusted to* the Chinese secular clergy. The Pi*efecture Apostolic of Kroonstad, South A f r i c a , staffed and directed by the Holy Ghost Fathers, has been raised to the rank of vicariate. The Independent Mission of Tungchow, Shensi Province, under the direction of the Italian F r a n ciscans, has been elevated to the rank of prefecture apostolic. The V e r y Rev. Damian Tcheng, Chinese secular priest of the Vicariate of Ningyuanfu, Szechwan Province, has been named Prefect Apostolic of Chaotung. The V e r y Rev. Peter M o r e t t i , O.F.M. has been named Prefect Apostolic of Tungchow. The Most Rev. John M . A u b i n , of the M a r i s t Missionaries, has been nanfed V i c a r Apostolic of the South Solomon Islands. H e was : i n at Chateaubriand., i n the Diocese of Nantes (Lower Loire, France) in 1882. He was ordained in 1906 and left for the missions o* the southern Pacific the following year. The Most Rev. Leo Klerlein, of the Holy Ghost Missionaries, has been named Yicar Apostolic of Kroonstad. H e was born at Oberhaslaeh, in the Diocese of Strasbourg, A l s a t i a , in 1877. H e was ordained in 1903 and went to the missions of South A f r i c a in 1924. He was named Prefect Apostolic of Kroonstad in 1924. ( F i d e s ) . Rome. — Another ecclesiastical division in C h i n a was entrusted to the Chinese secular clergy A p r i l 8 when the present Vicariate Apostolic* of Y u n n a n f u, in Y u n n a n Province, was divided. One part, which includes the northeastern corner of the Province, w i l l henceforth be known as the Prefecture Apostolic of Chaotung and will be administered by the Rt. Rev. Msgr. Damian Tcheng, a Chinese secular priest from Ningyuanfu in Szechwan Province. This information comes from a decree issued by the Sacred Congregation of Propaganda F.de. Twenty-three ecclesiastical territories of China are at present administered by the Chinese secular clergy. (Fides.) T>

Kome.—A telegram from Shanghai A p r i l 8 says that the Rev. Joachim Martinez Manrique, a Spanish Jesuit missionarv of the vicariate of A n k i n g . A n h w e i Province, has been murdered by Communists. He is, the fifth Jesuit of

A f f a i r s . this province to have fallen into the hands of reds in recent years. Father Manrique was 38 vears old. (Fides).

New Director of Fides Service Appointed—Rome.—M. l'abbe A n drew Bouquin, E d i t o r of the French Section of Fides Service, has been named Director of Fides Service by the Superior Council of the Pontifical Association for the Propagation of the F a i t h in its assembly of February 28. Abbe Bouquin, whose home is in Lazenay, in the Archdiocese of Bourges, France, was formerly professor in the seminaries of Issoudun and Fontgombault and in the Oratorians' College at SaintL o . He has been French E d i t o r of Fides Service since 1931. (Fides).

AMERICA. Cure of Cripple following Prayers attested by Doctor. Quebec, Feb. 11—The "Semaine Religieuse de Quebec," official bulletin of the Archdiocese, reports the well authenticated miraculous cure of an 11-year old girl, Lorraine Parent of Levis, at the Levis Hotel-Dieu, on OctQber 1, 1934, through the intercession of Mother Catherine of St. Augustine, one of the foundresses of the Hotel-Dieu at Quebec. The bulletin publishes a statement sworn to by D r . Roland Tremblay which states that the child had been confined to her bed with acute articular rheumatism since November 1933- had been brought to the L e v i ^ hospital June 2, 1934, and had been given treatments without beneficial results. On October 1, 1934, he further cites, following prayers and novenas in honour of-Mother Catherine, the child arose and walked easily, although the -evening before both knees and all the lower region of the spine were completely rigid. "This is to certify," D r . Tremblay states, "that under the circumstances there had been divine intervention." A f t e r all treatments had failed to give relief to the little sufferer, her nurse decided to ask for the intercession of Mother Catherine. It was soon after the publication of a letter by H . E m . Rodrigue Cardinal Villeneuve asking for the i n terest of priests and laity in the cause for canonization of Canadians who had died i n the odor of sanctity. A relic was given to little Lorraine, and the Sisters of the hospital, her family, and the little invalid herself began a novena to Mother Catherine. The little girl began to add supplications of her own to the prayers usually recited and often through her tears she would exclaim: "Good Mother Catherine, cure me, cure me and I promise to become a Religious like you and to care for the sick."

However, to satisfy the child, the nurse pretended to straighten one leg. The knee flexed and the child did not utter a moan. The nurse was so astounded that it was a few moments before she could c r y : "Mother, come quickly." The Religious in charge of the ward found the little Lorraine seated on the side qf her bed, her once rigid legs dangling over the side. "That is not enough," the Mother said, " Y o u must walk." "I can do that," the child replied, and sliding from her bed, lightly supported by her nurse, she made several trips up and down the room. Lorraine has returned to her home and is living a normal life. Before leaving the hospital she was visited by Cardinal Villeneuve. In the presence of ten or more priests, His Eminence questioned Lorraine about her miraculous cure. She was a little shy, but quite unabashed in her defense of Mother Catherine when the Cardinal questioned her about the efficacy of her prayers.—Lumen-NCWC.

AFRICA. Famous Work

German Airman will for Catholic Missions in Africa.

Rome, M a r c h 21.—The famous German trans-Atlantic flyer, Captain Hermann Koehl, who, together with his comrades H e r r von Huenefeidt and Captain F i t z m a urice was the first to cross the Atlantic from east to west, will henceforth be active on behalf of the Catholic Missions i n A f r i c a with the airplane " Saint Peter," which he recently piloted from Cologne to Rome after the machine had been named and blessed by the Cardinal Archbishop of Cologne. The Pope received Captain Koehl in audience today and i m parted the apostolic benediction, after which he conveyed the heartiest good wishes for the success of his important and "most up-to-date form of missionary activity which was organized by the German missionary Society " M i v a , " founded a few years back by the well-known " F l y i n g Padre," Father Schulte. The Society's aim is the speeding up of communications between the remote missionary stations and the outside world, notably in the interests of the sick. The airplane "St. Peter," which is the first ever to land on the territory of V a t i c a n C i t y , is now being exhibited in front of the flying Governor's Palace. A f t e r back to Cologne, the airplane will be shipped to East A f r i c a , whence Captain Koehl will fly w i t h it to the principal Catholic missionary centres in A f r i c a . (Central NewsTrans-ocean)

A first novena was ended without any sign of amelioration. A second was made. It was in the midst of the third that the child's condition became so serious that it was decided to try to loosen the joints by force. A l l morning the child was disconsolate and again and again called upon "Good Mother Catherine." A little before noon she called her nurse and asked her to move her legs, although she usually screamed w i t h pain when the nurse touched her.

Moshi.—(Tanganyika Territory, B r i t i s h East A f r i c a ) . — T h e Massai, a famous nomadic tribe of East Africa, have asked the American Holy Ghost Fathers of the V i c a r i ate of Kilimanjaro to establish schools for their children. Ttie missionaries have opened a school for them at Sanya, in Tanganyika Territory, and will open others although they foresee difficulties because the Massai are children of the plains; walls and closed doors are a terror to them. The missionaries are considering the possibilities of open-air schools. (Fides)

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Kumasi.— (Gold Coast, B r i t i s h West Africa).—Nana Agyiman Prempeh II, K i n g of the A s h a n t i Confederacy, the Queen-Mother, and 50 chiefs were present at a Solemn H i g h Mass celebrated i n the pro-Cathedral of K u m a s i March 3 in thanksgiving for the restoration of the Confederacy. The A s h a n t i Confederacy, w h i c h was broken up by the B r i t i s h Government i n 1896, was restored last January. Although the K i n g is a non-Catholic, he like his predecessor, has always been well disposed towards Catholic Missionaries and has helped them to build t h e i r Secondary School and t h e . K u m a s i Cathedral. (Fides)

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NOTES not forget to mention the painstaking work of the H . N . Balhetchet at Raffles' School and we hope that his coaching efforts will bear fruit i n the near future. A t St. Joseph's it is expected that M r . Cecil Mosbergen will give a helping hand while at St. Andrew's I believe there is no proper coach as yet. T w o years back all the Singapore Schools had excellent sides w i t h St. Joseph's the pick of the bunch. F o r about ten years the Brothers' boys were undefeated among the Singapore Schools. May we hope that those good old days repeat themselves soon.

CRICKET.

The cricketing public of Singapore is clamouring for the formation of a local Cricket Association. Considering that almost every other form of snort has its union which functions most satisfactorily the cricketers should now get together and make p*ans for the establishment of a controlling body. The S.C.C. should re»)W move first i n the matter and they will find the other clubs favourably inclined. I beHeve I am correct in asserting that every other state throughout M a l a y a possesses today its Cricket Association but Singapore lags behind i n 'splendid' isolation. C A T H O L I C S I N SPORT. One has come to associate the t e r m 'Cricket' w i t h the very highH e n r y Boon plaving for S.C.R.C. est ideals of true sportsmanship and so I humblv beg all against the P . C . R . C . on Easter lovers of this K i n g of Games to Sunday and Monday scored 80 urge the formation of an Associa- runs and took 4 wickets for 16 tion as speedily as possible. The runs i n the second innings. The S.C.C. have generously given up Singapore Chinese won by an i n their annual fixtures w i t h Selan- nings and 55 runs. It was a pleasure to find Boon gor and N e g r i Sembilan and for that step the public is not onlv strike true form. greatly indebted to them, but Dr. M o r e i r a performed quite looks up to them to make the first for Perak against move i n the r i g h t direction. I ap- creditably peal to every other cricket club to Penang at Easter. A f t e r capturing 4 wickets i n a l l he scored 25 help i n the question at issue. and 32 runs i n each innings. F o r Penang Andres and Reutens captured 5 and 7 wickets respectivelv. Andres made 23 runs i n Penang's INTER SCHOOL CRICKET. first innings. In the interstate cricket game ~TherMafecca-Li%h-^hiooU C r i cket X I visited Singapore d u r i n g between Selangor and Singapore E a s t e r and - at the moment of at K u a l a L u m p u r , Dionysius of the w r i t i n g have defeated the A n g l o - home team captured 3 wickets. Chinese School, Raffies Institution Poor C h i a K e n g Hock, whom we all and St. Joseph's Institution quite know to be a very fine batsman, did nothing to enhance his reputa. decisively. tion. ' A r g u s ' of the Singapore It is expected that they will Free Press calls h i m overrated. beat St. Andrew's School, though We who know K e n g Hock well are humble enough to hope that i f his cricket is very uncertain. The Standard o f Cricket i n the past achievements have not sufficed Singapore Schools is very low to- to stamp him as reaUv good in day due to lack of talent and lack the eyes of A r g u s and his kind of proper coaching. M r . C y r i l de the future will reveal his genuine Vaies has put the Malacca H i g h worth. The very best batsmen do School Boys i n splendid shape as sometimes fail as did. Don Bradis evidenced by their run of re- man in the first t^ree Test Matches served success i n Singapore. In last year i n England. Malacca however the M . H . S . eleven The Singapore Ceylonese jourhave not had things all their own neyed to K . L . to play the T.P.C.A. way, for the boys of St. Francis's also d u r i n g the E a s t e r holidays Institution have quite recently and won quite handsomely. Pius lowered their colours. A s things for Selangor scored a valuable 35 stand in Malacca each of the two runs i n the 2nd innings and Ignamentioned schools has one victory, tius, that hardy veteran, scored to its credit and the 'rubber' game 58 m n s and then took 5 wickets w i l l be played shortly, we must for 23 runs.

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Well done, Selangor Pvangers to I N T H E H A N D S O F T H E REDS. give the Malays such a tough fight. W h a t a pity they took so (Contd. from page 20) long to settle down! The Rangers with seven Catholics are brilliant F r . Bravo's period of captivityside. Clem de Silva, well known has left him somew hat enfeebled to Singapore and Pahang soccer in health—though he makes light enthusiasts, is back in K . L u m p u r of it—and completely unimpared now and playing as well as ever. in spirit. H i s attitude towards The S . C . F . A . team, without "Chia" ~his~ former captors is one of pity K e n g Hock did well to defeat the rather than of blame. His love strong Selangor Rangers' side. In of C h i n a and his people is as warm John Then the Chinese have a rare as it was before, and his thoughts skipper who not only plays brainy are with his mission. But everyfootball but knows thoroughly thing that he tells of his experiall the finer points of the game. ences among the Communists is a further proof of the ghastly character of the menace to civilisation that passes under the The E d i t o r of the M . C . L . would name of Communism, and of the like to have the names of Catho- urgent necessity of eradicating it lics pre-eminent in all forms of if peace and prosperity are to sports. flourish in China. (T. F . Ryan, S.J.) r

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BRIGHT LAD. Five-year-old W i l l i a m had been taught that Sunday is not a day of play, but one to be set aside for church and kindred matters. N a turally his mother was surprised and shocked one Sunday morning to find him sailing his toy boat in the bath. " W i l l i a m ! Don't you know it is wicked to sail boats on Sunday?" she demanded. "Don't get excited, mother," replied W i l l i a m , calmly. "This isn't a pleasure t r i p . T h i s is a missionary boat going to A f r i c a . "

NOTES. It is pleasing to notice that Mr. John McGovern, L a b o u r M.P. for Glasgow (Shettleston), who is a Catholic, at the Independent Labour P a r t y Conference * at Oxford on Easter Monday, stated most emphatically that the I . L . P . refuses to take orders from Moscow and will not affiliate w i t h Communists. So many foolish workers look to Moscow for relief and support that M r . McGovern's words should show them their folly and make them realise that Communism is * curse instead of a blessing.

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Conversion of An Actress.

fBy Rev. Father R.

Alexander J

•Talking about Apostolates," Convent, although I did not think *aid a Massachusetts priest to me about it for a long time." "Where did you go to school, my some time ago, "let me tell you of an experience of mine. I was call- c h i l d ? " "To boarding school—to ed out one night at ten o'clock by St. X . Academy, Pennsylvania." (I knew the Convent well. I one of our hotels to the bedside of an actress. They said she was un- paused, amazed at her story, told conscious and dying, and that she w i t h difficulty, for her sufferings might be a Catholic, for she had a were evident.) "Won't you baptize rosary on her dressing table. me, Father, and then give me abI went hastily with the holy oils. solution? Baptism is enough I I found a g i r l of about twenty- know, but I want absolution." She two lying pale and helpless on her folded her hands, and looked bed. H e r eyes were closed, and steadily at me with dark, soft her long, dark hair, disordered on eyes, in which I saw death. "Inthe pillow framed a singularly deed I will child," and I took out sweet, innocent face. One of the my stole and, seizing a goblet of hotel maids was busy about her, water from his table, I exhorted and it was not hard to know what her to perfect contrition, and ferThank faith shone i n her honest, kind vently baptized her. she whispered and closed blue eyes. Stepping reverently God!" aside, she said in a hushed voice to her eyes. It seemed to me after a moments' pause that the some of the troupe that were in few ghastly hue of death had given the small room: "It's the priest." place to a more lifelike colour. 1 Every one made way and I waited. stooped over the g i r l . She opened "Father," she said, "I'm sufferTier eyes and tried to smile. " A r e you priest?" she asked. "Yes, my ing terribly, and I know now that child," I answered. " A m I very ^ will die soon. I want you to give hadly h u r t ? I a m i n great pain, me Holy V i a t i c u m and Extreme I hesitated. I was but maybe I'll get better." Then Unction." Here was a dying actshe suddenly fainted. The maid I amazed. spoke of gave her restoratives, and ress, just baptized! How did I I hurriedly asked what was the know whether she was sufficiently instructed. She read my thoughts. matter. " Y o u don't think I am instructed, F a t h e r ? I believe firmly that the "Why, B u r t i e was performing Blessed Eucharist is our Lord her great trapeze act to-day and Himself, His true Body and Blood, she missed her count, F a t h e r ; she which I am to receive without - i e l l t h i r t y feet, The surgeon_says_ her spine is injured and there is l a s t i n g because He is my V i a t i no hope. He gave her only twelve cum; and E x t r e m e Unction is the hours to live, perhaps nq£ that. It last anointing of the purified C a is her grit that keeps her up, tholic before she goes to meet her Father, "said the young woman Judge! Father, I remember it all. with tears in her eyes. "She is I used to listen to Sister Veronica the best performer i n the com- telling the class. H e r instructions pany," said another young woman. could never be forgotten! Father, -"Is she an actress?" " O h , yes, won't you give me the last sacraFather. We have refined vaude- ments? Here was an Apostolate fulfilled! ville. B u t we are a very select organization," said the woman That good Sister, whoever she ^vvith emphasis. " B u r t i e is very was, had saved this soul! "Wait correct. Not a breath of gossip ten minutes, dear child. I will And I -ever touched her! She kept us all bring Our L o r d to you." went hastily to the door and sumstraight. Poor B u r t i e ! " moned those outside. To the C a Just then Burtie's eyes opened. tholic maid who was nearest me I "The priest," she said faintly. I said, " I am going to the Church made a sign to them. "Yes, F a - for the Blessed Sacrament; I will ther, Xhey said obediently, a n d - L Jbe back inside of fifteen minutes," was alone w i t h the dying girl. and I hurried out. "Father, I want to make a general In less than fifteen minutes I confession," said she and she was back at Burtie's bedside. She began with difficulty a clear, hon- was breathing quietly and unest, sincere confession. It took closed her eyes when I came in. I her some time, but she would not whispered my instructions to the let me hurry her. I said a few maid. A little table with lighted words and gave her as penance candles, holy water, etc.. was one ' H a i l M a r y ! ' She began to quickly prepared, and I laid the say it aloud slowly. " M y child," I pyx upon it. A s I lifted the said, "make a fervent act of con- Sacred Host the girl's eyes were trition first. I" am going to give fixed upon it and I heard her say, you absolution." ' M y Lord and my God!' I could hardly keep back a tear. I ad"Oh, no! F a t h e r , " she said, ministered her F i r s t and Last "you must first give me the sacra- Communion. Extreme Unction folShe held out her hands ment of B a p t i s m ! " " B a p t i s m ! " I lowed. said amazed. "Surely you are bap- for the holy oil, and when I read tized." " N o Father, I am not a the final prayers and gave her the Catholic. I was never baptized. Last Absolution, a little sigh of In brief I am and always have been content broke from her lips. a Catholic, but I never received any "Thank God," she said again, sacrament. I go to Mass every but it was in a whisper. There Sunday and say my rosary. was silence in the room. It was I learned that at School, but full of hotel people and the young •our life has been so roving women of the company, but all that I could do only that much. I were deeply impressed and very never had much chance, yon see. I reverent. The doctor came, and was wild and self-willed, and when made a short examination. " A n y grandma died I left school, and as hope?" I whispered. "She may there was no one to restrain me. last an hour/' and he left the being alone in the world, I drifted room. I sat down by the bed. for from dancing school, to riding wild this little convert had Tone to my Worses and doing burlesque. But I heart. She lay very still, fingering never forgot all i learned at the her rosary. She opened her soft,

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dark eyes and her lips formed some words. I bent over her and she said, with difficulty of breath, but very distinctly. "Father-write to St. X.—won't you—? Tell Sisster Veronica—I died—a good Catholic; that I made m y — F i r s t Communion—on my death-bed—she used to talk—so much about—the happy day of F i r s t Communion! I know now. She used to say ' M y L o r d and my God!' It was engraved on her silver ring—yes. ' M y L o r d and my G o d ! ' " I promised. These were her last words. She seemed to sleep and then awoke with wide, distressed eyes. I began the prayers for the dying, and gave her the Plenary Indulgence. The lines of pain wore away, and at the end her face was radiant. When all was over a marvellous expression of peace and content was there, and the weeping women who crowded round the pillow of death, sobbed out, " O h ! how beautiful she i s ! " I made the sign of the cross over the lifeless remains and left. When I got home I sat for a long time in my study, t h i n k i n g over the whole occurrence, and I am not ashamed to say I dashed away some tears. Before I sought my bed I wrote a letter to 'Sister Veronica, St. X . Academy, Pennsylvania, and told her all I had witnessed. Several days passed by. The company carried away the remains of poor B u r t i e to her home city. I heard no more about the episode. I had forgotten to inquire the correct name of the poor child for registry, and felt I had been rather negligent in an important matter, but at the end of the week a letter came from the Superior of the Academy. It read as follows:

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Dear Rev. Father, Y o u r letter was received and made a profound impression on ALLELUIA! the Sisters. We all remember poor Burtie Carr. She was a (Acrostic) bright spirited girl, and everybody A risen is Christ the Lord, liked her. K n o w i n g she was our G o d ; never baptized, and would have " L o , I have foretold it to y o u ! " few opportunities for instruction Luke and Cleo at first disbelieving, after she left us, her teacher did E x u l t e d to assert when they all in her power in her class i n saw H i m . structions to explain Catholic Last He appeared to The Eleven, doctrine, she told me she often Upbraiding them, and Thomas said a silent prayer, and looking at more— B u r t i e would t r y to fix her attention, as she was the only non-Ca- "I say to thee, Bless'd they tholic in the room. This dear who have not seen Sister has now passed to her A n d have believed!" Heavenly Home, young in years, P. P. / . ESPECKERMAN. but full of grace.and merit. H e r name was Sister Veronica E w i n g , NUMERICAL EVIDENCE. daughter of the late Gen. H u g h "I see in the papers," said M r s . E w i n g , soldier and author. She was of a distinguished American B r i g h t , "that M r . Thompson died family, niece of General Sherman on Sunday." "It is a mistake, my dear," reand cousin of Father Sherman, S. J. She is sleeping in our little plied the husband; "he died on cemetery, and we can readily be- Monday." "But the papers said Sunday." lieve her soul has met the ransom"I know, but it was the printer's ed soul of her pupil, converted through her words and prayers error.' "I thought so too, at first but I after many years. I think you for w r i t i n g this account, dear Rev. got half a dozen copies of the Father, and recommending myself paper, and it was the same in all them. They surely couldn't to your prayers, I remain with of have made the mistake over and respect. over again." Yours in Christ, [The next time a 'Printer's Sister Stanislaus, Devil' occurs in our issue our Superior. readers might do well to buy a dozen copies to see i f the error has I folded the letter and thought. survived consistently . - E d . M . C . L . ] What a history, and how many more are unwritten! Then J said A Standing Joke. aloud, " O h ! ye good Sister, who A n old lady being late at Church, give out the milk and honey of the entered as the congregation was F a i t h to young souls who cluster rising to sing the final hymn. * round your school desks, have ye "Dearie me," said she, with a not an Apostolate in your smile "don't get up on my cloisters?" account."

AROUND SINGAPORE, CHURCH

OF ST. J O S E P H . Baptisms.

A p r i l 16. Gilbert N g Teng H a n , born i n Singapore on the second of M a y , 1917, son of Tan A h Chia and of N g K i m Y o n g . God-parents:—Stephen Manuel Louis and Our L a d y of Fatima. A p r i l 16. Joseph Leong T y e Pang, born i n Malacca on the 21st October 1912, son of P a n g Teck Choon and of Lee C h u n g Neo. God-parents: — Jose Fidelis Bonamis and O u r L a d y of F a t i m a . A p r i l 20. Joseph Peter Hammond, born on the 11th A p r i l , 1935, son of P h i l l i p H a m m o n d and of Jenny Nonis. God-parents: — H a r o l d Cecil B a t t e n and Helen Batten.

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last year after completing 39 years service 34 of which were spent at the L a n d Office. M r . de Souza has been a W arden of the Cathedral of the Good Shepherd for the last 15 years and on the Committee of the Society of St. Vincent de Paul for many years. r

We sincerely hope M r . de Souza may long be spared to continue his good work to the C h u r c h .

KEDAH. REV.

FATHER

RIBOUD

Entertained on his return from France at Sungei Patani, K e d a h . It was a year ago that Reverend F a t h e r L . Riboud left the P a r i s h of Kedah as a convalescent on leave to France to recuperate his health that everyone had assem-

bled to wish h i m a bon voyage and a safe return, as his was a beloved figure in the hearts of everyone who knew h i m and particularly the parishioners and the orphans who lived under his care. Though he now returns to take up his duties entrusted to h i m by the Bishop of Malacca i n another Parish outside Kedah, the news of his arrival on Monday the 8th at 6 p.m. on a visit to this Parish was not an ordinary one, as everyone had once again assembled at the Church of the Kingship of Christ to welcome h i m . It was indeed an anxious moment, for it was more than an hour after the scheduled time that he arrived accompanied by Reverend Father Bonamy the present P a r i s h Priest of Kedah. The Parishioners then greeted him at the entrance and presented an address of welcome in Tamil. They had also composed a song for

OBITUARY. April 11. Eugenie Hammond, aged 34, married, daughter of Florentino Minjoot and of M a r i a Nunes. April 12. Paul da Conceicao Oliveiro, aged 17, son of Charles Ferdinand Oliveiro and of Josephine Oliveiro.

April 13. Catherine Andrade, aged 86, widow, daughter of G a r r y Minjoot.

BIRTH. Reutens: — A t the M a t e r n i t y Hospital, Singapore, on Monday, 22nd A.pril 1935, a son was born to L y d i a , wife of M r . Clovis J . Reutens. M o t h e r and child are well. Deo Gratias.

OBITUARY (SINGAPORE), The death is announced of M r s . Jagathambal Govalam, widow of The late M r . A . A . Govalam. deceased passed away, fortified by the rites of the Church, at 12, K l a n g Road, on 17th A p r i l , 1935. The burial took place at 4.30 p.m., on the 18th inst. w i t h Rev. F r . L . Burghoffer officiating at the graveside. EXP.

MR.

LAMBERT

the occasion which was sung by three boys to the accompaniment of a violin at the conclusion of which Reverend Father Riboud addressed the audience in a tone of placid serenity expressing his delight at being so loyally received and said t h a t his happiness on this occasion was more than what ho had cherished when he was w i t h them before and it will be much more t h a n the present if the parishioners would continue to cooperate w i t h Reverend Father Bonamy his successor in all possibility to fulfill his mission. At St. Theresa's School. Following the welcome accorded by the parishioners the previous evening the students and teachers of St. Theresa's School had also drawn up another programme of welcome for the following morning on Tuesday the 9th bound by duty, goodwill and gratitude as the a c t i v i t y of this school was brought to prominence by the endeavour and foresight of Reverend F a t h e r Riboud. Just as the mass was over the students collected themselves in front of the church where a platform had been erected and formed a Welcome when both Reverend Riboud and Reverend Father Father Bonamy appeared and took their chairs facing the boys and prepared for the programme before them. W ith the recitation of the openi n g rhyme by the students, one of the students, M . Gnanapragasam Sebastian presented a boquet and addressed i n E n g l i s h eulogizing the benevolent qualities of Reverend F a t h e r Riboud and conveying to h i m their heartfelt gratitude for establishing an institution to stamp Character, imbibe discipline and ensure progress by the glory of their institution and well being oi the Catholic Spirit which is the hidden force of all Glory. In response to which Reverend Father Riboud rising emotionally from his c h a i r thanked the students and the teachers who are responsible for their fitness to face life and said that it was with the call of the Spirit of Christ that he was leaving them and taking up the duties of another P a r i s h in Penang and added that ho will never forget anyone of them in his prayers and demanded the whole-hearted co-operation w i t h those who are superior to them and w i t h Reverend Father" Father Bonamy who is their present V i c a r . A t the conclusion of which, a loud response to the call for three cheers to Reverend Father Riboud and Revereno Father Bonamy respectively brought the function to a close after a group photograph was taken to mark the occasion.

The Rt. Ret. P. Ruaudel, Vicar-General, Cathedral of the Good Shepherd who is aboui to leave shortly for France on a much needed furlough. He will be the guest of honour at a Farewell Tea Party to be given on Monday 29th, April at ) p.m. by his parish/oners. We GODSPEED. wish him heartily BON VOYAGE ' and r

SOUZA

C E L E B R A T E S 56TH B I R T H D A Y . M r . Lambert de Souza celebrated his 56th birthday on 16 instant. B o r n in Malacca in 1879 he received his early education at St. F r a n cis' School there. W h e n he was 12 years old his parents removed to Singapore and M r . de Souza continued his education at St. Joseph's under Revd. B r o t h e r Benedict. O n the death of his father early i n 1895 he proceeded to Penang to further his studies at St. X a v i e r ' s Institution under the Revd. Brother James the present Visitor. R e t u r n i n g to Singapore the same year he joined the Government Service. M r . de Souza retired on pension on 31st M a r c h

C Y M A WATCHES and CHRONOMETERS acknowledged the B E S T in all the Countries. Agent:

Group photo of the St. Theresa*$ School (Sungei Patani—Kedah) taken on the occasion of welcoming the Reverend Father Umis Riboud, . Tuesday, 9th April, 1935.

RENE ULLMANN, SINGAPORE.

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was said for the parish priests and the parishioners of all the churches visited. The people were then convej ed to the Church of the Immaculate Conception, where they dispersed. The parishioners are grateful to their parish priest for affording them this unique opportunity to gain the Jubilee Indulgence. r

PENANG. ASSUMPTION CHURCH. Marriage Banns. Between Felix Louis Peterson, son of Noel Albert & Sarah Josephine Peterson, and S y b i l Eleanore McCulIoch, daughter of Hope L l o y d & Victoria M a r y McCulIoch. The marriage ceremony will take place on the 30th instant.

It was very g r a t i f y i n g to see such a b i g crowd although only a short notice was given. This is a real feature of Catholic A c t i o n , and it is hoped that all will always remember this unique occasion and serve A l m i g h t y God more fervently.

PILGRIMS FLOCK TO LOURDES. PEACE

Baptism. B r i a n M a r t i n George, son of Angela Barbara and Francis J . M . George, of Hongkong. Godparents:— M r . A n t h o n y Joseph Ritchie Sousa and M r s . J . D . Nelligan. Rev. F r . J . B . Souhait officiated on 14th A p r i l , 1935.

Mrs. Mildred Peterson, wife of M r . G . A . Peterson, a .section Member of the Catholic Action Society, gave b i r t h to a baby boy Both mother and child are doing well.

Penang Catholic A c t i o n Meeting. The monthly meeting of the Catholic A c t i o n Society, A s s u m p tion B r a n c h , Penang, was held on the 14th instant at the Parochial House under the guidance of the Spiritual Director, Rev. F r . J . B . Souhait. Several items were discussed and it was decided:— 1. To appoint a sub-committee to visit the sick i n the hospital. Messrs. W m . Read and C. A . Reutens volunteered to perform this charitable work and it was unanimously approved by the Members. 2. To illuminate the Church B u i l d i n g d u r i n g H . M . The K i n g ' s Silver Jubilee Celebrations at a reasonable cost. M r . C. A . de Cruz, the Chief Meter Inspector of the Municipality, undertook to find out a suitable contractor to carry out this work. 3. To meet on Maundy Thursday at the C h u r c h of the Immaculate Conception, Pulo Tikus, at 5 p.m. and after the prayers to visit the other three Churches with a view to gaining the Jubilee Indulgence.

Jubilee Indulgence. In order to gain the Jubilee Indulgence the parishioners of A s sumption Church with the parish priest, Rev. F r . J . B . Souhait, made a mass visit to each of the four Churches, beginning w i t h the Immaculate Conception Church and ending at the Church of The Assumption, on Maundy Thursday, 18th A p r i l , 1935. There were over 300 persons, and, being a day of adoration, they were naturally affected by the feeling of piety and worship. Several young men and boys ^vere seen riding on bicycles and following the motor cars at top speed. They must have been very tired when the visit ended, but they ^vere quite happy as they had gained a reward much more precious Than their temporary exertion.

homage to Our L o r d Jesus C h r i s t . The procession w i t h the effigy of our L o r d carrying the cross closely followed by the M o t h e r of Sorrow emerged from the church, while the compound was illumiated with candle lights i n reverence of the vows of those devotus who filed along in solemn silence. Malacca is a very ancient

TRIDUUM.

Paris, April 23.—Pilgrims from every part of the world, including China, are flocking to Lourdes for three days and nights of prayer beginning on April 25th when the whole world will be asked to intercede for peace. Catholic bishops throughout the world have ordered similar intercessions. It is calculated that four masses every second will be said during the three days. Seventy high prelates will be present at Lourdes, including the Papal Legate, Cardinal Pacelli, four other Cardinals and eight British Archbishops and Bishops. The solemnities terminate on April 28th when the Papal Benediction will be broadcast from Rome. A n English priest originated the idea. Cardinal Bourne submitted it to the Pope and learnt with joy a few days before his death that his Holiness had approved of it. (Reuter).

Church of the Immaculate Conception, Pulau Tikus, Penang. On P a l m Sunday, the parishioners of the C h u r c h of the Immaculate Conception, led by their parish priest, the Rev. F r . V . Renard, visited the different churches so as to g a i n the Jubilee Indulgence. Invitations had previously been issued by the Catholic A c t i o n Society to all the parishioners to join i n a mass visit, and the response was exceptionally gratifying, over 300 people participating in the simple yet inspiring ceremoney. Thanks to the generosity of one of the leading parishioners, taxis were supplied free of charge to those who desired conveyance. Punctually at 3.30 p.m. the parishioners who had already assembled i n the C h u r c h grounds entered the Church where a short prayer was said. The congregation were then ushered into the waiting taxis by the members of the Catholic A c t i o n Society who had charge of all the arrangements.

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MALACCA Baptism. Teresa M a r y , daughter of M r . & M r s . Dolphus de Costa was baptiser at St. Peter's Church, Malacca, on Sunday, A p r i l 14th. God-' parents:—Mr. Mauricio de Silva and M r s . Caroline Rodriguese. Revd. F r . Laurencio officiated.

Obituary. M r . V i c t o r de Cruz aged 20 years son of M r . & M r s . P h i l l i p Rodriguese of Banda H i l i r , Malacca, who was ailing for the last six or seven months passed away on Saturday night at 10 p.m. A p r i l 13th. The funeral took place on Monday morning at 8 a.m. A p r i l 15th and Revd. F r . Laurencio officiated both at the house and the grave. It was largely attended. Engagement. The engagement is announced ana the marriage will* shortly take place between M r . Charles de W itt, or* the P . W . D. dredge, son of M r . & M r s . F . A . de W i t t , ex-chief clerk of the Police Department, Malacca and Miss Jennie Hope, daughter of M r . J . Hope and the late M r s . Hope, clerk of works of Sime Darby & Co., L t d . new premises, Malacca. T

The first Church visited was the Church of the Assumption. Precisely at 4 p.m. the prescribed prayers were said by the parish "Pageantrv at the St. Peter's priest, w i t h the whole congreChurch." gation answering i n response. The The Pageantry of Our Lord to next visit was to the Church of St. Francis X a v i e r where the same Mount Calvary was carried out ceremony was gone through. A t very solemnly on Palm Sunday5 p.m., the parishioners met in the evening at the Portuguese Church, Church of Our L a d y of Sorrows. Bunga R a y a , Malacca where thousHere once more the same simple ands of devotees including pagans ceremony was repeated. A t the thronged the compound as well as end of the prayers a special prayer the interior of the church to do

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settlement where the Chinese Pranalans' follow the Catholic Tradition during the H o l y Week. Churchdoor Literature Racks F i n d F a v o u r i n Germany and B e l g i u m — F i r s t introduced i n E n g land and the U . S . A . , t h e idea of the Catholic Literature Stands or Racks placed in the vestibule of churches has been largely adopted i n Germany and Belgium. In the former country, 2,500 cases have been installed, of which 1,800 are in churches. The Society chiefly interested i n the work is the Johannesbund. In 1924 this association founded the Katholische Schriftmission at Leutersdorf a:R., which has sold to date 1.000.156 copies of the books and pamphlets it has published and a multitude of leaflets besides.—It has now a branch establishment i n B e r l i n . There is furthermore the Winfridbund, founded i n 1921 under Franciscan auspices, which disseminates chiefly the productions of other publishers, of which it has sold 1,027,000 copies. Both the Johannesbund and the W i n fridbund publish several magazines. -

In Belgium, l'Oeuvre du Tract Catholique has made great strides since it was started only a few years ago. It has established 177 Churchdoor Racks, of which 68 are in Brussels, 48 in A n t w e r p , and 27 in Liege. Belgium being a b i lingual country, the Association has to supply both F r e n c h and Flemish pamphlets; and there are even some Racks which add publications in E n g l i s h for the benefit of the tourist. W i t h true missionary zeal a Belgian apostle of the Catholic press introduced similar racks in six churches in Nice. France, with the willing aoproval of tfieir respective cures. (LumenCB).

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Looking Cheerful Despite His Ordeal

Picture taken at Catholic Mission, Sinfeng, Kiangsi, Feb, 27, 19S5 immed'aiely after the release of Father Cypriaan Bravo, O.P. by the Communists. Left to right Rev. Aloys Tcheng, Chinese priest, Rev. John McLaughlin, CM., American Vincentian, Rev. Cypri.n Bravo, O.P., Spanish Dominican, Rev. Fredrick A. McGuire, CM., American Vincentian. (Continued from page 5)

Torture was applied as ^a matter of course, and it was ingenious i n its brutality. Uufortunate victims were placed kneeling on rods w i t h heavy weights on the soles o f t h e i r feet. Then the rods were rolled, causing untold agony. T h e hands of others were racked and crushed, while the mouths of the victims were gagged to stifle t h e i r cries. There was no secrecy about either the executions or the torture. F r . Bravo had to be a spectator of both as a daily occurrence. Several times he was as* sured that his own turn had come M o r e than once, when a messenger arrived, he was told that it related to h i m and that it had been finally decided to execute him. A n d he waited from hour in expectation of the end. D u r i n g the last months, when t h e position was constantly being changed, and the sound of gunfire was heard i n the distance, it was

quite clear that the R e d army was being pressed, but no hint of failure was ever given. F r . Bravo had ceased to regard the successor failure of the Communist movement as having any reference to himself. He knew that a sudden victory or defeat would not alter the decision in regard to him. Now and then he was able to communicate with his religious superiors, but these messages could be of only a very general character, for they would be seen by his captors. Necromancy? The strangest t h i n g that F r . Bravo had to tell of his captivity was of the kind of spiritualistic seances that were held. When an invocation had been made he heard voices speak that he knew did not belong to any of those present. Stranger still, while the i n fluence remained he heard officers

speak fluent Spanish, though he knew them to be ignorant of that language. They even spoke i n it to him oh some of those occasions, telling him of Spaniards whom he knew, and i m i t a t i n g to perfection their particular provincial accents. Must it be attributed to diabolical influence? F r . Bravo does not claim to give any explanation. Strangest of all was the fact that he was told that it was due to a message given i n one of these seances that he was set free. They told him that it was through these means that they communicated with M a o Chu Tung, and that a message was given that he was to be released. It was replied that he did not believe in Communism, but was opposed, to It. and that all who opposed it should be killed. B u t the massage insisted that he should not be killed but released. Then it was objected that he did not believe in the truth o^ their spiritualistic communica-

tions and was opposed to them but still it was insisted that he should be released. A g a i n Fr* Bravo makeS no comment on what he was told, but simply states what was said to h i m . He was brought before the commanding officer and told that he would be set free. The officer asked him to let people know that he had not been ill-used, but had been treated as well as was possible i n the conditions of a campaign. H e was given a signed paper which would assure him a passage through the lines. He was told where he was to go, and was given recommendations about the best route to take. The directions were excellent, and a five days' journey on foot brought him to safety and freedom in Sinfeng. where he arrived foot-sore and delapidated on February 27th. He had been captured on January 25th of the previous year.

Published by Rev. Fr. Cardon and Printed by Lithographers Limited. 37/38. Wallich Street. Singapore, S.S.

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