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11th, 1935.
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JUBILEE THANKSGIVING SERVICE At
the Cathedral
of the Good
ELOQUENT
Shepherd
A D D R E S S {• B Y
MGR.
DEVALS
On Monday 6th at 11 a.m. a very crowded congregation, w i t h a huge overflow at every doorway, participated i n a Special Service of thanksgiving in honour of the Silver Jubilee of H i s Imperial Majesty, K i n g George V and Queen M a r y , his gracious consort. Long before the ceremony commenced crowds gathered in the Cathedral. A detachment of the Eurasian Volunteers under the command of Captain W . A . A e r i a with Captain H . Pennefather, Acting C a p t : A . F . Cornelius C. B . Webb i n and L i e u t . attendance assembled outside the church portico to await the a r r i v a l of the representative of His Excellency the Governor, The Hon. M r . R . Onraet, A c t i n g Inspector General of Police. Promptly to the minute the distinguished official a r r i v e d with M r s . Onraet and took the salute. Rev. Father N . Deredec, acting P a r i s h Priest escorted the Governor's Representative and his lady to special pri-dieus reserved for them just outside the Communion Rails. The Volunteers then extended their ranks all along one side of the Cathedral grounds to honour the procession of H i s Lordship Bishop A . Devals w i t h attendantclergy and acolytes from the Bishop's Residence to the main entrance of the Cathedral. A fine organ rendering announced the entry of both The H o n . M r . R. Onraet and M g r . Devals. H i s Lordship from the altar delivered a most eloquent address pledging the unswerving loyalty and love of all Catholics for their Majesties -of England. The full text of the speech is as follows: H . E . D r . Deval's Address. Hon'ble and Dear Sir, It gives me great pleasure to welcome and to honour you as the official representative of H . E . the Governor in the name of H . M . the King on this auspicious day of his silver jubilee.
On behalf of myself, my clergy and the whole Catholic community, I wish to express the feelings of great joy, deep affection and profound respect w i t h which our hearts are filled towards our beloved and glorious K i n g . We humbly beg of you, Hon'ble Sir, to convery to H i s Excellency our most sincere congratulations and our most fervent wishes for the happiness and prosperity of Their Majesties the K i n g and Queen. In spite of the fact that their sovereign does not profess their faith and does not belong to their church, the Catholic subjects will fill to-day a l l the Catholic Cathedrals and churches of the B r i t i s h Empire. It is enough for them to know that their revered K i n g has expressed the wish that thanksgiving services be celebrated everywhere on this 25th anniversary of his accession to the throne. This demand for prayers testifies to the piety and religious spirit of their majesties .and will meet with an enthusiastic and generous response on the part of their Catholic subjects. No better opportunity than this could present itself to pay a debt of gratitude to K i n g George V . for the great mark of esteem Common Father, and what a conand respect which he gave to his solation was it not for us, to hear Catholic subjects when on the first from the lips of their beloved public act of his reign on the day sovereign, when he came to visit of his accession to the throne, he us in Rome in 1923 that 'these refrained from pronouncing some • Catholics were ever amongst H i s words i n the usual declaration most faithful subjects." which for three centuries, had If our K i n g is proud of his C a been a cause of humiliation to the tholic children, we are still proudCatholics of the B r i t i s h Empire. er of our K i n g , we are proud also On this occasion, it is most pleas- of the Royal family, as we look ing to us Catholics to recall the upon it as a model of a Christian words pronounced recently by the home. Holy F a t h e r Pius X I in his adLike to the Royal Family nodress at the reading of the decree thing is dearer to us than the old for the canonization of B B . traditions of Christian family life Thomas More and Fisher. on which is built the strength of The Holy Father said: "In every the whole nation. part of the B r i t i s h Empire, there And finally, with one heart and are catholics, children of the one soul, we are going to give thanks to A l m i g h t y God for all the blessings bestowed upon the K i n g and Queen during the last 25 years; we shall also raise to Heaven our most ardent supplications in order to obtain all the graces and light of wisdom they stand in need of for the faithful discharge of their royal duties. A3ENTS: May God grant our prayers and bless our beloved K i n g and Queen. Pontifical Benediction of the most Blessed Sacrament then fol& BRANCHES lowed with the choir at its best.
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Very fervently the assembled multitude pleaded before the h i g h throne of the all powerful God of the Ages for the prolongation of the happy reign of K i n g George and Queen M a r y . The Volunteers were seated i n the front pews of the Cathedral and despite a most arduous morning parade on the Esplanade appeared as full of enthusiasm as ever. In the various Catholic Churches of the city and suburbs a similar thanksgiving service was held with equally large and devout congregations. CATHOLIC V O L U N T E E R S A N D CADETS. One cannot help praising the splendid display of the Eurasian ?nd Chinese Volunteers as well as of the St. Joseph's Institution's Cadet Corp^ at the Ceremonial narade on the Padang on the morning of Monday 6th instant. ! l units were excellent , but in these three fine units Catholics formed a good proportion . They deserved the applause that was accorded them after passing by the Governor's Stand. A
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Archbishops Orozco and Diaz Face Valiantly Trying Ordeals Scenes of the, Catacomb Recalled. A pall hangs over Mexico. It is the shadow o f the bitter persecution under which the people live. The country is tense w i t h fear, a fear of sudden death or o f i m p r i sonment or of confiscation i n reprisal by the government or religious devotion, whether i t be private or public. In Chihuahua, I saw a city i n mourning f o r the banished Host and priesthood. C h i h u a h u a is one of the fourteen—now fifteen states — i n which no priests are allowed, no church services permitted. Y e t i n Chihuahua C i t y , w i t h crepe upon the doors and on the arms of men, and w i t h women and children i n black f o r the lost Sacraments, I found the churches filled all through the day w i t h p r a y i n g hundreds. It was i n the c h u r c h of San Francisco, the oldest church i n C h i huahua, that I came upon several hundred men and women and children kneeling o n the stone floors w i t h their eyes fixed on the bare altar, over t h e i r heads, the Communist workmen were . dism a n t l i n g the church and the plaster fell like snow on the silent figures below. I came upon the Communist S c h o ol i n Chihuahua—Escuela Socialista and I heard the children chanting i n R e d r i t u a l that begins their d a y : "Teacher, there is no God, there never was any God, there never w i l l be any God. Teacher, long L i v e the Revolution." In Mexico City one night, I looked upon the Host i n Benediction i n one o f the few churches that are allowed $o serve the Federal D i s t r i c t of 1,500,000 population. I saw the kneeling hundreds, bending i n adoration and sorrow and around them the spies of the Red Government, kneeling, too, but their eyes busy on the faces of the people. Mexico is spy ridden. T h e secret service are everywhere. They are first i n the churches, where the people gather, to seek out the leaders of Catholic action and life, and to report- them. They are on the streets, i n the banks, the offices, the hotels. T h e y are amofig the drivers o f the t a x i s that t r a i l you f o r patronage on the streets. No m a n or woman m a y know who is a spy for the Government. N o man o r woman m a y know when he or she will be reported. f
A n d Mexico is under m a r t i a l law. Soldiers are everywhere. They are quartered i n the cities. They are placed o n the highways. B a t teries and machine-gun nests guard the approach o f Mexico C i t y from a l l quarters. T h e iron hand of the Commune i n Mexico is upheld not only b y secret arrests and executions and by imprisonment and confiscations—it is supported as well b y a r m y , superbly equipped and officered. It i s i n Guadalajara that I find t h e Catholic heart o f Mexico, and
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as simple and beautiful a devotion among the people to be found anywhere i n the world. It is i n Guadalajara, like a l l of Mexico, that I read i n the faces of the people the tragedy of their persecution. Here, too, I see the churches crowded. Here, too, I find them wearing mourning f o r the Church. Here, £00, are the soldiers and the police, the threat of sudden death a n d imprisonment and of confiscation. In Mexico I attended Masses celebrated i n homes, i n secret, where discovery would have meant death for the priest, j a i l for the family and confiscation of their home by the Government. In Guadalajara I attended one of these Masses where a price was on the head of the priest, a Jesuit who, like others of his- fellowpriests, dared not spend more t h a n a single night under the same roof. Yet, to give you a n example of the devotion and loyalty and sacrifice o f the Mexican Catholic, the priests w i t h whom I travelled were constantly besieged by men and women who approached them and said: "Padre, please spend the night in our home. Please say Mass for us i n the morning." ^ A n d I have heard the Padres reply: " M y dear child, you have already taken great risks. I was i n your home last week. It will mean the loss of that home i f we are discovered and i t will mean j a i l f o r you. N o , m y child, allow some one else to r u n the r i s k this night. You have done more than yooir share." A t one of these Masses I attended, i n the early morning, a family and their neighbours knelt on the floor of the living room. The Host was brought from a table drawer. The vestsments from a board beneath the . floor. The curtains were drawm t i g h t l y to their sills at their windows. Y o u n g men stood alertly at the doors and windows watching, listening, w a i t i n g for the dreaded sound of the tramp of soldiers' feet. It was "somewhere i n the State of Jalisco" that I intrviewed the saintly Archbishop Orozco of Guadalajara, who has returned from exile, and on whose head there is a price. The danger to this P r e late is so great that he will not even allow his own priests to come to h i m for fear that i f they are captured they will be tortured to tell where he is. Instead, A r c h bishop Orozco goes to them i n disguise—one day as an Indian, another as a peon. Freely he mingles among the people, sometimes i n his disguises, even going among the soldiers. I found him—and I must of necessity be vague i n m y description of this place—I found him, I will say, i n a hovel half beneath the ground, a narrow room where you would hesitate to stable an
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a n i m a l ; a room with a table, two chairs, a wash basin and a hand towel; a room with three windows and two doors, always open, the tell-tale avenue of escape for priest or bishop i n Mexico. In this room, which was his palace and his C a thedral, the saintly Archbishop Orozco, a man past seventy, lived w i t h a price on his head that he might be near his children. The hiding place of the A r c h bishop of Guadalajara is guarded by Indians. These Indians—the Indians whom the enemies of the Church i n Mexico claim the C h u r c h robbed—would die for their A r c h bishop. They alone know of this place. There are a hundred of them. A n d not a man of them, for any price, would betray h i m . I entered this room and waited and wondered, and then, into the room came an elderly man i n the garb of a peon w i t h his sombrero i n hand. I took h i m for one of the servants. Then I saw h i m put h i s hand i n his pocket and draw f o r t h a r i n g and put the r i n g on his finger and extend his hand. It was the Papal Ring of an A r c h bishop. I rose, knelt, kissed i t and, as I stood before h i m , he smiled and said gently: " M y son, you did not expect to find an Archbishop living like this. When you return to A m e r i c a tell your people how. an Archbishop lives i n Mexico. This is m y home. This is my Cathedral. I am i n God's hands. So many priests have died that it does not matter if an Archbishop follows them." I spent three hours w i t h A r c h bishop Orozco. We lunched sparingly on the food and fruits the Indians had brought h i m . A n d then he blessed me and I went on my w a y and left the old prelate standing i n the doorway. K e had given me many messages for his friends i n the United States —among them a Christmas card for Father Parsons of A M E R I C A —and he gave me his pastoral letters, that had been printed i n secret at the risk of laymen's lives, to give i n turn to Archbishop Diaz in Mexico City, to the Apostolic Delegate i n San Antonio and to the American press. He gave me, too, a picture of the Sacred Heart on which he inscribed a message and which I carried with me, among other things, across the border, sewed i n the lining of m y clothes for safety, and which I will treasure all my life. This picture may well be inscribed by. one who may become a m a r t y r . A few days later, in Mexico City,the news was brought to me that Archbishop Orozco had gone out into the field, of an early morning, and there ordained twenty young men for the priesthood. E v e n as fyrs i n the Catacombs of old Rome so do the Catholics live today i n Mexico. v
doors of the N a t i o n a l Palace across the square. I saw these same Indians and their fellows march fearlessly past miles on miles of unsheated steel to the Shrine of O u r L a d y of Guadalupe on the night and day of her Feast. Back i n the mountains and on the deserts, detachments of troops had sought to block their way and overawe them; but they came to the Basilica just the same. Some dropped on the paving where they stood at the entrance of the Shrine and fell asleep from exhaustion so that on the night that preceded the Feast, to enter the Basilica,. yo*u had to step carefully over their unconscious forms. I visited the Communist schools in Mexico that have taken the place of the Catholic schools and I found most of them cheaply constructed, miserably equipped, and without teachers for the most part, if no pupils. B u t on the walls the Communist artists of the school of Diego Rivera had drawn their murals and, i n these murals, heads and ears of pigs, and the priests were represented with the children, in confession at their knees, had, the faces of idiots. One mural i n the Calles Industrial School, i n Mexcio City, showed Archbishop Diaz cringing in terror before a firing squad of school boys i n the act of putting him to death. Stupid and brutal as is the administration of Cardenas, in its persecution of the C h u r c h , yet it is infinitely "clever i n its propaganda to the foreigner. Thousands of A m e r i c a n tourists have visited Mexico C i t y and its environs and see not a hint of the religious persecution, of the death and destruction there. Churches are being cut i n two or torn down or turned into public buildings for "the people's good." Guides carefully attack the Church and Religion i n explaining the murals of Diego Rivera on the walls of the National Palace and the Cortez palace • at Cuernavaca. Taxicab drivers proudly point out confiscated church buildings, whitewashed, as "hew public buildings" and exclaim : "Mexico i s happy now. We have a good Government!" Hotel clerks j o i n i n the general chant of praise for the Communist regime. The tourist sees only what the Government wishes h i m to see and nothing else. It is particularly so with the schools. There are "model schools" and it is to these that "distinguished v i s i t o r s " are taken. It is these schools that out "statesmen" see. A n d our "educators". A "statesman" or a "convention leader" or a "civic organization man" from "The States" is given (Contd: on page 5.)
I saw thousands of Indians and peons, come hundreds of miles, kneeling i n the Cathedral of Mexico City, men, women and children waiting for Archbishop Diaz to confirm them, children of the Church come hundreds of miles over mountains and deserts, driven by the fear that they might at any time be deprived of the chance to receive this Sacrament.
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ing events but likewise he is "sportsmanlike" in that greater and enviable sense of which his every deed points to high principle ( F R O M OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT) and regard for others. Negligible indeed, both i n numbers and i n importance, are those who would stand aloof today while the E m p i r e I B E S ' rises, i n full-hearted homage, w i t h W A T C H the toasts: "The K i n g , God bless SOME THOUGHTS FOR T H E h i m " — a toast i n which H e r M a R O Y A L SILVER J U B I L E E . It is difficult to think of any na- jesty the Queen also is i n sentitional or Imperial cause i n which ment comprehended. I f the new the K i n g has not taken a personal Georgian E r a connotes happy asA l l classes and races within the interest. H e has drawn his sub- sociations i n the minds of B r i t i s h , It's not only B r i t i s h Commonwealth are knit jects around the Throne i n a bond subjects all over the world, i t is together just now i n a spirit of of common affection; so that i n an largely because of the qualities a matter of taste rejoicing based on a close tie of epoch when other thrones have belonging, to, and exercised by, To be a perfect timepiece, a watch sympathy. E v e r y subject of the crumbled, and disruptive influences K i n g George himself. has to be beautiful and accurate. Crown, whatever his nationality or menace the peace of many lands, Now, everyone can say whether a colour, unites w i t h h i s fellows-in- the B r i t i s h Throne stands securely watch is to one's liking or not, bat allegiance i n gladness for the fact based, because based i n the hearts it is difficult to estimate the The N e w Archbishop. that God has granted already a of the people. quality. Only experts can judge full twenty^five years of rule to the finish and precision of a It has been given to K i n g George Aeroplanes i n the Empire's posHis Majesty the K i n g . Side by the F i f t h to see the Empire not mechanism as delicate as that of tal service cannot be expected to side w i t h the life of the Sovereign only i n pleasant and prosperous a watch. await a journalist's pleasure and There remains for those who love during the twenty-five years, has years of peace, but also i n the convenience; so these lines must accuracy a means of eliminating run that of his gracious consort, midst of one of the greatest wars w i n g their flight to Malaya i n addisappointment-choose a V U L C A I N Queen M a r y , a true help-mate not of which history has record. In vance of the enthronement of the watch, acknowledged the best by only i n the manifold duties devolv- that period of almost world strife, Most Rev. A r t h u r Hinsley as A r c h thousands of people a l l over the ing upon her as wife and mother, 1914-1918, H i s Majesty and the bishop of Westminster. That soworld. but also by sharing constantly i n Queen led their subjects i n all lemn function takes place on the With a V U L C A I N yon have the tasks belonging to the regal state. those qualities which are needed transferred feast of St. George, satisfaction of knowing that you in such times. The Royal House While all w i t h i n the E m p i r e , England's Patron. The great possess a timepiece of unequalled then, have cause f o r j o y by the joined the poorest classes in the Cathedral at Westminster is set accuracy and refined beauty. country in the matter of sacrifice. occasion of the K i n g ' s silver j u for the ceremony, and i t can safely bilee, H i s Majesty's Catholic sub- His Majesty was w i t h his troops, be said that attendance of prelates jects rejoice also for an added and both at home and on the Western and clergy will r u n into hundreds, worship. It was restored to i t s particular reason. K i n g George is Front, at intervals during the long while the body of the vast church ancient allegiance, by purchase, by conflict, whilst the is hardly likely to be able to con- Cardinal Newman's friend and the first B r i t i s h monarch i n mo- drawn-out dern times who has come to the Queen busied herself w i t h duties tain the lay multitude who desire fellow-convert, the late F a t h e r Throne, and entered upon the in connection with R e d Cross or to be present. Lockhart. The second church duties of kingship, without wound- other war-time organizations. It visited is that of SS. Anslem and Meanwhile, the Archbishop is i n Cecilia, close to Lincoln's Inn ing the feelings of Catholics by was a splendid lead. The place which the K i n g has London. A f t e r a farewell audi- Fields, a building w h i c h succeeds bitter and offensive words. I n previous reigns, i t was required won for himself i n the esteem of ence w i t h the Sovereign Pontiff, the old Sardinian Embassy chapel, that the K i n g or Queen, as the case the people as a whole may be illus- His Grace left Rome and duly ar- where Mass was celebrated tomight be—we are t h i n k i n g of trated by a story belonging to the rived i n his future diocese. H e wards the close of the Penal Times, Queen Victoria—must utter an time, some years ago, when H i s was welcomed by the Vicar-Capi- and f o r long afterwards. Lastly, Accession Declaration, i n the Majesty lay seriously i l l i n Buckin- tular, members of the Chapter, and the T y b u r n pilgrims make a halt Protestant interest, denying and gham Palace, anxious crowds ga- other authorities, and formally at St. Patrick's, Soho Square, the repudiating the Mass. In the thered each evening outside the entered into possession of the See. first church in the Metropolis, i f nineteenth century the Declara- gates to get the day's bulletin. A not i n all England, to be dedicated The " W a l k to T y b u r n . " tion had to be uttered by the workman -of ardent Republic symto Ireland's Apostle. T h e present Young Queen; and when the twen- pathies remarked to his neighA m o n g Catholic events i n E n g - St. Patrick's is a handsome retieth century was still young, bour: " I don't hold w i t h K i n g s . land this week, the most impres- building on the site of the old one. K i n g E d w a r d the Seventh, very What we want is a Republic." "Is sive, i n a spectacular sense, and The culmination of the scene reluctantly, was obliged, i n his that so?" said the other; "and i n one of the most significant i n de- comes at Tyburn itself. There tarn, to frame the offending words. that case whom would you choose votional purpose, has been organiz- the roadway in front o f the conBut when our present K i n g came for President?" The question was ed by the Guild of O u r L a d y of vent holds a stretching congregadirect one. The Republican Ransom. The annual " W a l k " from to the Throne, all men of good-will a tion for hundreds of yards. F r o m in the E m p i r e were gladdened to paused for a second or t w o ; then, the site of Newgate prison, i n the the convent balcony, hung with see Parliamentary action set on taking his pipe from his mouth C i t y , to Tyburn Convent, near the the national and the papal colours, foot to remove the offensive Decla- and jerking it i n the direction of Marble A r c h , close to the site of Benediction of the Blessed Sacraration and not sully the royal lips the Palace, he answered: " H i m . " the Tyburn gallows, is probably ment is given. The demeanour of with words hurtful to Catholic the most remarkable religious de- the large crowd of onlookers, right feeling. So H i s Majesty K i n g Next month, on June 3, H i s monstration i n London's year. The on from the start near Newgate, George, unlike preceding Sove- Majesty will have reached man's walk is held i n honour of the E n g - leaves n i t h i n g to be desired. A s reigns, did not affront the Mass, "allotted span;" but at seventy, lish M a r t y r s , particularly of those - the Crucifix passes, thousands of did not wound Catholics i n their and despite two serious illnesses who met their death at T y b u r n ; men on the sidewalks, or on passmost cherished belief. In Catholic since he came to the Throne, one and as far as possible the pilgrims ing omnibuses and other vehicles, cathedrals and parish and mission of them not many years ago, he follow the " M a r t y r s ' Way,"—the doff their hats i n respect. Protechurches throughout the vast B r i - retains vigour of body and mind, route, from the prison to the gib- stant clergymen are interested tish Empire the H o l y Sacrifice is and will guide his people, they bet, along which the Church's spectators, and perhaps a little enbeing offered in thanksgiving for pray, for yet many years to come. heroes were drawn on hurdles. vious of "Rome" and o f the reason the Royal Silver Jubilee; and the During the first twenty-five years This year a special interest at- for the day's demonstration. The Church's prayer f o r the K i n g is of his reign he has brought into taches to the walk, as it is the Salvation A r m y officers and lasses uttered w i t h more heartfelt fer- touch with all parts of the Empire, fourth centenary of the execution look on, with obvious sympathy, vour in the knowledge that H i s not merely by transmitted infor- of Tyburn's proto-martyrs, Bless- from their hall i n Oxford Street. Majesty has never once, by word mation but by the knowledge de- ed John Houghton and his com- They, too, dwelling on the early or deed, been other than gracious rived from personal visits to a panions, the first victims of the days of the first General Booth, to his subjects of that faith. great number of the B r i t i s h pos- persecution under Henry the know what i t is to have experiencsessions overseas. - He first made E i g h t h . ed hostility and valence for reliOf all the Sovereigns who have acquaintance with the Greater gion's sake. A t the solemn mooccupied the B r i t i s h Throne, there B r i t a i n when, as a boy of twelve, The walk is a wonderful sight. ment of the Benediction at Tyburn, can hardly have been any other he cruised round the world in the Throughout the long route the Catholics are not alone, i n these with a record of constant labour Bacchante; i n 1901 he made the traffic keeps to half the thoroughdays, i n kneeling for the blessing. to exceed that of our own beloved extensive voyage in the Ophir; fare; the other half is kept clear Altogether, the W a l k to T y b u r n King. W i t h his Queen, and aided and again in 1905-6 there was the for the thousands of pilgrims, men makes the year's most inspiring »y the energies of the Prince of tour with the Queen—then P r i n - and women, whose line seems afternoon. Wales and the other scions of the cess of Wales—through India. never-ending. The Crucifix is carRoyal House, H i s Majesty has ried at the head of the procession, A Refusal from the B.B.C. The K i n g is a good sportsman. and the Rosary is recited en route. spared himself nothing i n work for the welfare of the E m p i r e and That phrase can here be underOn the way to Tyburn, halts are A p a r t from higher considera*te people. In person, as a young- stood in a double sense. F o r not made at three churches, all of them tions, the wide attention which has er man, he has visited the widely- only is H i s Majesty personally a places of exceptional interest on been given by every class in the scattered lands of the B r i t i s h Com- good shot, and interested also in historical grounds. F i r s t of a l l , country to the matter of the com^omvealth. H e and the Queen sport on the atheletic side (he has there is the famous St. E t h e l - ing canonization of B B . John ..ave been constant i n Their pro- often presented the Cup, and gree- dreda's, E l y Place, a pre-Reforma- F i s h e r and Thomas More might motion of industrv, Their en- ted the opposing teams, at football tion church, once part of the L o n - well, one would think, have induced gagement of the arts and finals), a race-goer and a thorough- don palace of the Bishops of E l y , sciences, Their zeal for social work. Iv "all-round" enthusiast for sport- which is again a Catholic place of (Continued on page 7)
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tank with many taps for the use of the pilgrims and many miracles are wrought by this water.
The Story of the Apparition of our Lady of the Rosary of Fatima.
The catholics of the neighbouring parishes erected the stations of the cross along the main road, by setting up great stone crosses in order to make the pilgrimage more attractive and devotional. The distance between the first station and the sanctuary is eight miles, and in 1921 the bishop officially opened these stations, beginning the service at 8 and completing it at 2 p.m. This could not have been a pleasure trip, doing eight miles on foot i n six hours. B u t then people do not go to F a t i ma for a picnic. They go there to do penance. They go there to ask God through our Lady to forgive them their sins. When the bishop published his pastoral letter in 1930, declaring that the apparitions at the Cova Were worthy of faith and permitt i n g public devotions, the happiness of millions was immense. Immediately a great national pilgrimage was planned, i n which cardinals, archbishops, bishops and priests took part w i t h the people who numbered over three hundred thousand. A t mid-day, the holy hour of the apparitions, a beautiful statue of our Lady of F a t i m a is taken out in procession. A t once in the blinding light of the sun a shower of roses begin to fall. The p i l grims had brought these with them to pay their homage to our L a d y . A priest recites into the microphone the prayer, " L o r d , we love you," and in terrific echo three hundred thousand voices repeat. "Lord, we love you." A second and a t h i r d time this i n vocation is repeated. The benediction of the Blessed Sacrament is given, and after a short sermon the people disperse. The statue is carried in by the maid-servants appointed by the'bishop. The joy of the people is immense. It becomes almost delirious when a miracle occurs.
The Stations of the Cross.
hired by the antiY o u now have more or less a doubtless officers, placed four complete picture of how our L a d y christian favoured the three little shepherd bombs inside the primitive little children of F a t i m a with her ap- chapel and one near the oak-tree. paritions. A few days after the The chapel indeed was blown up final apparition, a rude arch was but the bomb near the oak-tree on erected on the spot where the which our L a d y appeared, failed to children had stood and seen our explode. However, just as the Lady. Devout people from the poopooing of the newspapers that neighbourhood continued to visit beonged to the enemies of the this spot, sometimes singly, some- Church had only supplied breath times i n groups and recited the to blow the trumpets that resoundRosary and the short prayer that ed the glory of F a t i m a , so also, this our L a d y had taught the children. last outrage of bombing the place served to s t i r the hearts of the Ca(I hope you have memorised that.) N e a r l y two years afterwards, tholics of Portugal and to form a the same poor people erected a national procession of reparation. p r i m i t i v e little chapel a few There were no less than sixtysquare feet i n area, close to the thousand people i n this pilgrimT h e i r devotion was great, stump of the famous little oak- age. but it became greater when they tree. A Grateful M a k e r of Fire-works. saw the ruined chapel. A r o u n d this chapel, one afterIt was now no longer possible noon about six hundred people for the bishop and the priests to were praying, when all at once a keep aloof from the evergrowing few yards away, a huge rocket cult of F a t i m a . Y o u may wonder shot into the a i r and exploded why they had not taken part in it w i t h a noise of a gun. This was so far. They had neither encourfollowed by another, and then an- aged nor even passively followed other until twenty-one rockets the pilgrimages to F a t i m a . It may went up. The devout pilgrims seem strange to you, but it is were annoyed. T h e y thought that eminently reasonable and prudent. some enemies sent by the governY o u see, there are apparitions ment had come there to blow up and apparitions. There are supereverything. They wished that the natural apparitions coming from bishop and the priests had taken heaven, and preternatural apparicharge of the Cova so that nothing tions coming from the other side, of the sort could have happened, and then there are apparitions Visconde de Montelo. who hap- which are merely in the imaginapened to be there, (whose name tions of the seers. Learned people was mentioned before) went up call these last hallucinations. The to the man who let off the rockets authorities of the Church, thereand said, " G i v e me your name, fore, wished to examine the please" The poor man turned pale phenomena of F a t i m a , in order to and said, " I f you are a government discover i f thye were really superofficer and want to arrest me, go natural before allowing the clergy ahead. I have fulfilled my vow." to take official part in the The viscount then put h i m at ease devotions. and the man related his story Archbishops and cardinals apt h u s : " I am a maker of fire-works. pointed pious and learned people to L a s t June I had a serious disease study the happenings at the Cova in my stomach. The doctors and as a result, they approved that couldn't cure me. The thought the increase of conversions of sinof leaving m y children as orphans ners, the intensity of the devotion was too much for me to bear. F u l l and the miracles could not prove of f a i t h in our L a d y , I made a vow anything, but that the finger of to come here and let off a slavo of God was at F a t i m a . twenty-one rockets specially made The Mircaculous Stream. by me. Soon I was cured. I have now fulfilled m y v o w . ' Therefore it was only in 1921 The Anti-Catholic Government. that the bishop gave permission In order that you may under- for Holy Mass to be said in the stand the account of the develop- open at the Cova. The pilgrimagment of the devotion to our L a d v es were regular, numerous and freof F a t i m a you must bear in mind quent. B u t all around the Cova, that the President and the officers especially in summer, there was no of the government, then in power, water to be had for miles around. in Portugal were of the type of the The bishop therefore ordered a big mayor of F a t i m a , who. you will re- tank to be built at the foot of the member, tried to frighten the hill, from where the children first three little children in August saw the lightening in May 1917. 1917. They hated religion and His idea was to collect rain water tried to oppose the growing religi- for the convenience of the pilous fervour that centred round grims. But our L a d y had her own Fatima. They sent down their way of solving the problem. The soldiers and ordered them to form workmen had scarcely removed cordons to prevent pilgrims from ~he fir^t few stones from the getting there. But almost all chalky field, when they noticed a these soldiers were catholic at small stream t r i c k l i n g cut, which heart, and were glad to accept de- was soon joined by others springfeat at the hands of the pious and ing from the ground. Yon mav obstinate pilgrims who broke have learnt in your geography through their cordons and reached that chalky ground which is very the Cova. porous is not able to hold water. The villagers were therefore conA N a s t y Incident. vinced that this stream was anA nasty incident occurred in other miraculous gift of our Lad-'. M a y 1922. Some impious men. The water is collected in a great
Sight Restored. Our Blessed Mother is the kindest of all mothers. She understands the sorrows and anxieties of a mother better than any body else, and to console them she often does miracles. Here is an example: On October 13, 1928, a poor peasant woman was standing near the miraculous spring, holdi n g her baby-girl who was blind and dumb. A l l at once the little child shouted. " M a m a / and took hold of the medal of our Lady of F a t i m a that was hanging round her neck and gazed at it wonderingly for the first time in her life. Paralysis Suddenly Cured. A certain lady named E m i l i a de Jesus had been ill for seventeen years. Doctors couldn't cure her. She could not eat and she looked almost like a corpse. Hearing of the miracles of F a t i m a , she persuaded her people to take her to the holy place, although the doctor said that the journev would be so difficult that she might die on her way. But she reached F a t i m a and spent two days in great suffering. A t noon when the miraculous statute was being taken out, the dying woman feU a strange sensation pas^inor over her bodv. arc! she was sure she could walk. Immediately >he got out of her bod without any help and walked into the office of the doctors who certified that she was completely cured. (To be continued.) A. D'C.
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Judaeo - Masonic <THE \ N ANTI-CHRISTIAN MOVEMENT. The student of world politics today is faced w i t h a s t r i k i n g and startling phenomenon, which has during the last 200 years been assuming greater and more fearful dimensions. It is a spirit of unrest, of revolt against what, till, then, had been the established and accepted order. The individual claims a false liberty of conscience and action. The State claims absolute sovereignty over the individual and the family. State control of marriage has resulted i n marriage losing its indissoluble character, and consequently the position of woman is lower than it has been since pagan times. State control of education has produced a generation to whom practical Christianity is but a name. The existence of a Church w i t h power to legislate on marriage and education is ignored or denied. films Newspapers, books and show the same tendency to subvert the moral order. Christ once looked into the eyes of the adulterous woman and saw all even to the innermost recesses of her soul. A n d He, because of His priesthood, was the only one fitted to so gaze. Now, the w r i t e r and the film magnate read the secrets of those poor eyes and b r i n g their public to the show. Naturalism. The basis of all these ideas, subversive alike to moral law and Christian State, is N a t u r a l i s m . Naturalism primarily means the rejection of the supernatural and the elimination of all reference to a future life. It is the logical development of the revolutionary movement known as the Protestant Reformation. Luther's teaching on Free W i l l denied the existence of a dogmatic religion w i t h an infallible teaching authority. The laicised Quietist Rousseau preached the "equality of man." Voltaire and the Encyclopedists followed as apostles of Liberalism, though since they believed in religion for the proletariat, their creed contained a m i m i c r y of Marx, sanctity. Then came founder of modern Communism. More logical than his masters, he proclaimed religion "the opium of the people,' and declared war on the whole existing social fabric. This was logical N a t u r a l i s m . But N a t u r a l i s m is no mere philosophy; it is a destructive movement ajmed at the overthrow of the old order and of all Christian things. It may masquerade under the guise of "lay morality" or "the equality of all religious;" it may be termed Liberalism, Communism, or Modernism, but it is always aimed at the denial of a personal God and the destruction of the Christian State. A n d its inspiration and direction are always Judaeo-Masonic. Judaeo-Masonic A c t i v i t y . Leo X I I I . , in his famous encyclical. "Humanus Genus," states the purpose of Freemasonary as "the utter overthrow of that whole religious order of the world which Christian teaching has produced, and the substitution of a new ^tate of things according to its ideas, based on the principles of Naturalism.'
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The t e r m " Freemasonry," is France. The riots which followed used i n the encyclical; but many the disclosures of corrupt Masonic Catholic writers to-day prefer the administration were anti-Masonic title Judaeo-Masonary. It empha- in character. They were aimed at sises the dominant influence of the the overthrow of a Government Cabalistic section of Masonic Jews rotten with Masonry. But in the press of the on the world-wide movement Judaeo-Masonic against the Christian State. This world, Australia included, the very Jewish financial and political word Freemason was carefully So it was with the control is particularly evident on suppressed. those countries which are 'most recent revolutions in Spain and Tyrants and butchers completely under the influence of Mexico. Freemasonry and N a t u r a l i s m , become national heroes in the such as the United States, E n g - English press when their purpose is Masonic. land and France. F o r a proper realisation of the Masonry in Catholic Countries, dangers of Freemasonary the Masonry varies its methods acJewish domination of the movement must be recognised and cording to the country in which it operates. The Reformation failed understood. signally in L a t i n countries and Origin of Freemasonry. the social structure remained CaDespite various fantastic tholic. So force at the outset was theories as to the origin of Freeuseless. masonry, its foundation as at present constituted is recent. It The method adopted was secretrose from the ancient London ly ti train adepts in the lodges in Guild of Free Masons, which, after the principles of Naturalism. But the Reformation, had gradually outwardly a religious and tolermt lost its operative character and attitude was maintained, in order become a philosophical sect. Its to avoid conflict with authority. political and religious Character Revolution was the ultimate aim, the admission to the guid of mem- but only when the disciples of were sufficiently bers of an esoteric sect, known as Naturalism numerous and well trained. the Rosicrucians. Their object was to produce a In 1717 the Guild elected its first Grand Master with jurisdic- mentality fanatically anti-Cathotion over all Englsh lodges, and l i c ; but, strangely enough, the this date marks the foundation of principle invoked was toleration. Respect for "sincere Catholicity" Freemasonry as we know it. In 1723 a new constitution was was at first insisted on. Then the introduced which, while it retain- Jesuits were declared the apostles ed the " f o r m " of the constitution of intolerance. Next, dogma was Then of operative masonry, radically found to be the enemy. altered its "matter." The sworn "clericalism" or "the intrusion of allegiance of the operative Mason religion in politics." Finally the to God and H o l y Church was re- pent-up hatred of these scientifiplaced by loyalty to a shadowy cally perverted minds was turned openly against the Church. The Grand A r c h i t e c t of the Universe. result we see i n France, Spain and Some maintain thai: the Grand Mexico. Architect, the centre of Masonic religion, is plain humanity. Man therefore is God. Others hold Masonry i n Non-Catholic that Masonry worships the Countries. generative processes of Nature, and this worship traces its origin to pagan E g y p t , with its obscene In Protestant countries, where and indescribable rites. Each of the social structure has been these interpretations is funda- moulded by Naturalism, the cormentally true, for Masonry varies ruption of the majority of the its practice to suit time, place and people by the introduction of divorce and godless education is individual. Masonry has developed new inevitable. There is no need for ritual and symbol, but ritual and any violent uprooting of the past. symbol alike owe their origin to Time does a great part of the the most degraded of Pagan and work. Hence the apparent differthe most perverted of Christian ence between English and Conticults. Biblical dialogue occurs nental Masonry. English influoccasionally in the ritual, but only ence in and against Catholic countries promoted Naturalism as a blasphemous parody. and consequent weakness. Masonic U n i t y , A l l recognised Masonic author- Violence was unnecessary. To counter the revolutionary ities are unanimous in declaring that Freemasonry throughout the tendencies of Continental Masonry which were being propagated in world is one. English Freemasonry at the Ireland, English Masonry founded moment denies official connection a sub-Masonic body known as the with the French Grand Orient, Orange Society. On this society but the denial is of the vague and and on E n g l i s h Freemasonry in equivocal character familiar to general rests the responsibility students of Masonic methods. The for the infamous anti-Catholic so-called repudiation of the partition of North and South in French Grand Orient is a trap set Ireland. English Masonry has left by knaves to catch fools. The Catholic Ireland a further heritage fools are the "social" members of in the famous "Midnight Treaty," English-speaking Masonry, who which contains a clause compelling know little of the purposes of the the Free State Government to craft. Catholics themselves are recognise and support Freemasometimes the victims of this sonry and its kindered societies, anti-Catholic and anti-Irish deceit. The universal solidarity of though they be. Masonry was instanced in the newspapers of the world in con(Contd: on page 7.) nection with the Stavisky case in
RED FEAR IN MEXICO. (Contd: from page 2.) especial attention. He is wined and dined and watched. \ ^ The Mexican Government wears a mask to the foreigner. It welcomes him. It conceals its Communistic and Bolshevik nature. But, behind the foreigner's back, it preaches to the masses—to the so-called proletariat whose cause it prett nds to espouse and on whose support it thrives—the gospel of hate for the bourgeois, for the mid die-man, for the "white-collar The very bu\ ness delegations this Government entertains from ihe Tiiiied States with such lavish hand it brands parasites i n its weekly communications to the ••woikers." A n d seme of our s: a- lest bankers and business men have gone down to Mexico and hobnobbed on most iriendly terms with the biggest cut-throats of the Commune, and came back none the wiser. Our Statesmen, i f we can call them Statesmen, are doing it yet. ;
The proletarian however is grumbling. He sees his leaders rolling in wealth and he still works. The peon and Indian have long since given up any idea of sharing the land. The Utopian dreams have not come true. Robbed and despoiled, the peon sees the one Vnlng he had left him—his religion —also being taken away. But beneath the surface, off the beaten tourist trail, triere is death una jaiungs, poverty and misery and terribie le^r. i visited homes where tne constant fear of death for tne head of the family, was present. I visited homes where families still mourned some one executed for being a Catholic. I visited homes where a Crucifix and the picture of a saint were hidden and kept from sight for fear the house might be confiscated as a church. Five thousand Catholic men have been put to death by the Reds since 1929 when the Government broke its word to the Church. A n d men are still dying. E x e c u tions are no longer public. They do not follow trials. They are secret, as secret as the arrests which precede them. No Catholic man in Mexico knows when his t u r n may be next. F o r weeks there has been great mystery at the M i n i s t r y of A g r i culture. L o n g lists of names have been collected—Catholic names— and these, it is said, are marked for the slaughter. W i t h one fell blow Canabal plans to eliminate for ever all semblance of Catholic life and leadership in Mexico.— (by Ferderic Vincent Williams, i n "AMERICA.")
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INTRODUCTION. In w r i t i n g this paper, my object Malacca has been to interest people i n the past of their city by recording some of the most valiant battles fought under its walls, w i t h the barbarity peculiar to those times. Both antagonists, the Portuguese on the one hand and the Achenese on the other, were thoroughly trained soldiers! and entertained towards one another the most deadly hatred. To the Sultans of Acheh, Malacca was the "'delenda est Carthago," the r i v a l which must be destroyed. These, therefore, are but historical episodes, w h i c h one should not consider as giving a full account of the relations between the two hostile powers. I must here acknowledge the k i n d assistance of the Hon. D r . R . O. Winstedt, D r . L i t . , General Adviser, Johore, to whom I these pages have been submitted. That they needed careful revision is i m plied i n these lines of the learned c r i t i c : " I have ventured to alter a little, as all the Portuguese and European authorities .go w r o n g over the K i n g s of A c h e h . A c t u a l l y the names and dates of these K i n g s have been worked out from the dates on their grave-stones at A c h e h . " It is these " little alterations," made to m y work by the Hon. D r . R . 0 . Winstedt, w h i c h give it all its value. In matters of history, accuracy and i m partiality are indeed no mean qualities. Author. A few years after 1511, when Alfonso de Albuquerque (1) had wrested Malacca, the great emporium of the East, from Sultan Mahmud, (2) the! chieftain of a small M a l a y principality, at the extreme north point of Sumatra conquered D a y a (1520) P i d i r and P a s i r (1524) and became the first ruler of greater A c h e h , assuming the t i t l e ^ f " A l i Mughayat S h a h . " W i t h h i m came to life a power which was to absorb rapidly one after the other, a l l the little Kingdoms its neighbours, and to weld them i n the powerful state of Acheh which existed for nearly two centuries. " A l i Mughayat S h a h " was the founder o f a line of Achinese S u l tans who, for 130 years, waged war, ruthlessly and unceasingly, against the new masters of Malacca and, more than once, (1) Affonso de Albuquerque, born in 1452, succeeded in 1508 as Governor of India to the 1st Viceroy Dom Francisco de Almeida. He conquered Goa in 1510 and made her the capital of the Portuguese possessions in Asia. In 1511, he captured Malacca and, in 1515, died at Goa where he was buried. There was a general belief that as long as his bones rested in Goa, Portuguese dominion was safe and half a century elapsed before they were allowed to be taken home (1556) to be laid in the church of Our Lady of Grace i n Lisbon where they are still " Imperious and irritable, he was a stern disciplinarian badly nedded in
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nearly succeeded in ousting them from their famous stronghold. " A l i Mughayat Shah," not content with absorbing his neighbours, began hostilities against the Portuguese. In 1520, a vessel under the command of Gaspar da Costa was wrecked on the coast of Gamispola (Pulo Gomes), off Acheh, and i t s crew were massacred or taken prisoners. Soon after, another ship, belonging to Joao de L i m a , one of Alfonso de Albuquerque's captains, was plundered i n the roads and the entire crew put to death. A t the same time, similar outrages were committed by the K i n g of Pasai. Irritated by these repeated acts of piracy. Dom Garcia de Sa, (3) Governor of Malacca, despatched one of his Manoel most daring captains, Pacheco, (4) w i t h a ship, to punish the two delinquents. One day, while cruising between Acheh and P i d i r in quest of the enemy, Manoel Pacheco sent a boat w i t h five men to get fresh water. Three ships came a l l of a sudden and cut off the boat. N o t h i n g daunted, the five Portuguese pounced on and boarded one o f them, killed as many of the enemy as they could, threw the rest overboard and brought their prize to Malacca where it was kept for many years as a monument of the intrepidity of its captors. Jorge de Albuquerque, (5) i n 1521, succeeded Garcia de Sa. The K i n g of P i d i r was then on friendly terms w i t h the Portuguese who, as a matter of course, had taken his part i n the conflict he had w i t h " A l i Mughayat Shah." In order to punish them, " A l i " laid siege to Pasai, a neighbouring state where the Portuguese had erected a fort. Dom A n d r e Anriques, captain of the fort, set sail for India, leaving to A y r e s Coelho and the garrison of 350 Portuguese the care of defending it against 8000 Achinese. The Portuguese, though inferior i n number, beat off the assailants and compelled them to retire. A s the fort, however, was difficult to maintain against such turbulent neighbours as the Achinese, it was determined to destroy it, and this done, the garrison sailed back to Malacca. " A l i M u g h a y a t S h a h " neither forgot nor forgave, and when, i n 1526, after the famous victory of the Portuguese at B i n t a n g ( R i a u ) , all the small Sultanates round India, but cruel and over-hasty in punishment; yet when his fits of anger passed, he at once sought to repair any injustice he had committed in deed or word " ( E . Prestage, M.A., D.Litt. Oxon. "Affonso de Albuquerque," p. 65). (2) Mahmud Shah, son of 'Ala'u* Sudin Shah by the sister of Temenggong Tun Mutahir was enthroned in 1488, when still a mere child. In 1500 he drove back an attack of the Siamese and died at Kampar (Sumatra) in 1528, seventeen years affer he had been dispossessed of Malacca by Affonso de Albuquerque.
Diogo Lopes Sequeira, the first Portuguese Captain who anchored off the coast of Malacca in 1509
Malacca, made peace and amity w i t h Pero Mascarenhas, (6) successor of Jorge de Albuquerque, he alone kept aloof. In 1527 Francisco de Mello, on his way to Goa, sank an Achinese vessel: Acheh's ruler said nothing. But in the following year, he did not lose a chance of retaliation when Simao de Sousa Galvao, (7) going from Cochin to the Moluccas, was driven by a storm into the roads of A c h e h . Disguising his hatred of the Portuguese under a show of kindness, the Sultan treated his prisoners w i t h humanity and even dispatched one of them, Antonio Caldeira, to the Governor of Malacca. B u t hardly had they left w i t h proposals of friendship and a request that the two powers should exchange ambassadors. Deceived, Cabral sent an embassy who were murdered at sea. Meanwhile, the w i l y K i n g set the Portuguese at loggerheads w i t h the Prince of Pasai who, turning his back on them, entered into an alliance w i t h Acheh against Malacca. W h e n at the beginning of 1529, Garcia de Sa had succeeded Pero de F a r i a (9) in the Governorship of Malacca, Acheh's Sultan thought it desirable to discover how his negotiations w i t h the new Governor were progressing and, at the same time, the strength of the garrison of the Fortress. F o r that purpose he held a secret corres-
pondence with the Bendahara (10) of Malacca, a rich Muhammadan by name Seraia Raja. Receiving through h i m -the assurance that the new Governor was disposed to be friendly, Acheh sent an envoy who succeeded, on his return, in bringing with h i m a Portuguese embassy. Their business settled, the Ambassadors set out for Malacca, then Jorge Cabral, (8) Acheh than they were murdered by emissaries sent after them in a boat. Garcia de Sa, (11) who had been apprized by the Sultan of Acheh of their return, came to the conclusion that they were lost at sea. A t the request of the Sultan, a third embassy was despatched to him to ratify the treaty of peace and friendship projected between the two powers. Manoel Pacheco and several of the most opulent merchants of Malacca set sail in a big ship laden with a rich cargo. A s they were coming within sight of land, an Achinese fleet surrounded and assailed them. Pacheco was killed by an arrow through the neck and all the crew and merchants were brought to Acheh where, by order of the Sultan, they were massacred together with Simao de Sousa Galvao and his men who, t i l l that day, had been kindly treated by their capc o n t i n u e d on page 7)
(3) Garcia de Sa:—Twice Captain of Malacca: 1519—1521 and 1529—1531. Governor of India 1548—1549. (4) Manoel Pacheo, captain of a galleon. (5) Jorge de Albuquerque, nephew of the Great Affonso; Captain Major of a Royal Fleet: Captain of Cochin (1513) and twice Captain of Malacca: 1514— 1515 and 1521—1525 (or 1526?). (6) Pero Mascarenhas, Ship's Captain of the Kingdom, of the Ordinance Militia of India; Captain of the fortresses of Cochin, Goa, and of Malacca from 1525? to 1527: Governor of India: 1554—1555.
(7) Simao de Souza Galvao:— Captain-in-Chief of the Moluccas. (8) Jorge Cabral, Captain of Malacca (1527-1528); Captain of Bacalm and Governor of India: 1549—1550. (9) Pero de Faria, Captain of Goa, and of Malacca twice: 1528—1529 and 1539—1543. (10) The Bendahara "having authority over the non-Christian vassals and strangers/' according to Eredia, was one of the Officials of the Administration of the. State at Malacca. (11) Garcia de Sa had succeeded Pero de Faria in 1529.
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(Continued from page 6) PORTUGUESE M A L A C C A A N D ACHEH. tors. Convinced that, after ail these successive executions, the Fortress would be an easy prey, the Sultan of Acheh set out to Malacca immediately with his ally the K i n g of A r u . So certain was he of success that he dared to forward to Garcia de S a a bantering letter, thanking h i m for these instances of his liberality and warning him that he would further trouble h i m for the remainder of his navy and for a few more pieces of cannon. A t this time, the Portuguese discovered Seraia's treacherous dealings. H e had pledged himself to deliver up the Fortress to the enemy when the garrison was at church. B y command of Garcia de Sa, the disloyal Bendahara was arrested at once and hurled headlong from the top of " a F a m o s a " (12) (the Fortress). Seeing that the conspiracy was disclosed and that now he could not conquer Malacca except by fair fight, the Achinese K i n g fled with all sails set towards his haunt. This was the last transaction between the first K i n g of greater Acheh and Malacca. The successor of " A l i Mughayat Shah " was his elder son, Salau'ddin. In 1537, he, however, was dispossessed by his younger brother Sultan " A l a ' u ' d - d i n S h a h " who styled himself " K i n g of Acheh, Barus, P i d i r , Pase, D a y a
and Eatta, Prince of the land and of the two seas and of the Mines of Menangkabau." (13). D u r i n g the reign of "Salauddin," Acheh left the settlement of Malacca in peace. B u t on the accession of his brother in 1537, an attack was launched. On the first occasion, the Achinese landed at Upeh (14) (Tranquerah) with 3000 men and advanced at once on the bridge (15) which connected that suburb with the Fortress. Dom Estevao da Gama, (16) the Governor, met the invader halfway and helped h i m to re-embark in all haste. The second time, a still stronger army invaded but, again, met with complete failure. In 1547, Sultan " A l a V d - d i n " i n person led a third attack at Upeh, this time contenting w i t h some trifling plunder (17) and setting out immediately for Perlis. A t the request of St. Francis Xavier, who was then at Malacca, Simao de Mello, (18) the Governor sent i n pursuit of the enemy Dom F r a n cisco de Sa (19) w i t h 230 men on board two galliots and ten other small ships. He overtook the Achinese fleet of 60 sail carrying 5000 men in the Perlis river. A f t e r a desperate fight i n which 4000 Achinese lost their lives, and all their vessels were either sunk or captured, the Portuguese squadron returned to Malacca, and great was the wonder of D o m Francisco 4
S A T U R D A Y , M A Y I l t h , 1935. Professor Pollard on the "Sea D i v i n i t y " oi' Drake. Proiessor A . F . Pollard, the eminent Anglican historian, in recent broadcasts delivered in E n g land on "The Heritage of the Reformation/* has dealt some shrewd blows at the established tradition of English "official" history. Here is one: "Fuller, the church historian, called the religion of Drake, Frobisher, Hawkins and other Elizabethan sea-dogs, 'sea-divinity;' and it has been questioned whether they were really patriots or pirates. They were certainly Protestants, less perhaps for strictly religious reasons than because the wealth of the Indies was controlled by the Roman Catholic P h i l i p of Spain. It was once said of a sixteenth century Vicar of B r a y , who loyally obeyed Henry VIII., Edward VI., Mary and Elizabeth, that 'throughout all the trials and temptations of that troublesome time he remained unshaken i n his fidelity to the national religion/ " When M r . Belloc began calling Drake and the rest pirates, the world of official history, and its press, was so shocked that it boycotted him. N o w we have one of the most eminent professors of the day envisaging the possibility without turning a hair. (The Advocate)
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(Continued from page 3) the Bristol Broadcasting Corporation to accede to a request from thousands of listeners. The B . B . C . has been asked to relay, on M a y 19. part, at any rate of the Vatican ceremonies in connection with the canonization. The answer is a refusal. A l l that the Corporation sees its way to doing is to have a more memorial broadcast i n J u l y . Whether the B . B . C . will dteal i n any other way w i t h the great function in St. Peter's on the actual day of the canonization, has not, so far, transpired; but the decision that there is to be no relay f r o m the V a t i c a n has caused deep disappointment to Catholics i n E n g land, the native land of the two illustrious M a r t y r s ; and that disappointment is not unmixed w i t h indignation.
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Judaeo-Masonry during the first three decades of this century has driven Catholic monarchs from the thrones of Portugal, Spain and Austria. It has driven the very name of God from Russia, and is attempting to do the same de Sa and his companions when in Mexico, w i t h the support and they heard that the victory had approval of American Masonry. It been announced from the pulpit, has driven Religious Orders and by St. Francis Xavier, (20) at the Catholic schools from France, and very same moment it was won in brought the country to the verge of anarchy. It is fostering moveContinued on nfext Col.) the Perlis River. ments subversive to Christian principles i n L a t i n South America a school at Malacca which afterwards them, but embarked and retired after and the Philippines. It has dividbecame the College of St. Paul which having burnt two Portuguese vessels which were on the point of sailing. The was second but to the same institution ed Ireland against itself. It has the Prussian antienemy, when off Malacca, captured seven at Goa. St. Francis died on the islet solidified fishermen and having cut off their noses, of Sanchian in 1552. In 1553, the body C h r i s t i a n hegemony of the Cathoof the Saint was brought from Sanchian ears and feet, sent hem to the Comlic Germanies. It has set up a mander, Simao de Mello, with a challenge and buried in St. PauPs where it repropagandist Jewish State within mained till August 15th, when it was written in the bltfod of these unfortunate victims " (Danvers. " The Portuguese taken out incorrupt, placed in a magni- Catholic Poland. In Italy it was ficent coffin and, in December, of the all-powerful until the advent of in India," V o l . I., p. 480). same year, sent to Goa where it is still Finally, it rules (18) Simao de Mello, nephew of Lopo preserved without any sign of corruption. Mussolini. Vas de Sam pay o, acting Governor" of^ —When the author of " T h e Malays i n Turkey and Roumania. A l l this India in 1524. Captain of Cannanore Malaya" by "One of Them" tells us that has been achieved in the last and of Malacca: 1545—1548. "It is said that the holy canonised saint t h i r t y years by means of its (19) Dom Francisco de Sa, captain of the Roman Catholics of the X V I universal solidarity. It regards Century, the famous St. Xavier was an of a junk of Banda (Moluccas). issue of a Portuguese father and a itself as one and indivisible. L e t (20) St. Francis Xavier, one of the Malay mother" (p. 48). "One of them" Catholics so regard it wherever it first companions of St. Ignatius of tells us a delightful Mother Goose's found, and under whatever Loyala. the founder of the famous Tale which should be inserted in the is Society of the Jesuits, son of Don Joao Sejarah Malayu, the historical master- guise it masquerades.
(12) A Famosa.—"And they called the Fortress A Famosa (i.e. the Famous), and as I have been told by many persons who have seen it, it seems to have .been very appropriately so called/' (The Commentaries: Hackluyt Society edit., Vol. I l l , Ch. X X X I , p. 136). (13 ) According to Fernao Mendez Pinto's " Peregrinacao." (14) The suburb of Upeh was then this part of the town of Malacca along the sea-shore and on the right bank of the river. (15) The bridge connecting the Fortress with the suburb of Upeh was about the same place where the actual Kim Seng: bridge spans the river. (16) Estevao da Gama, son of Dom Vascoda Gama, Count of Vidigueira and second Viceroy of India. He was Captain-in-Chief of the Sea of India; Captain of Malacca: 1534—1539 and Governor of India: 1540—1542. » (17) " T h e enemy landed at Malacca (Upeh) at night, but found nothing but some geese which the Moor conveyed to his Prince as a proof of his having landed. The geese, however, alarmed the inhabitants who were thus put on their guard, and the enemy dared not attack
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W o m a n ' s " SOMETHING A B O U T COMBS." Does any bobbed haired g i r l of to-day pause in the combing of her neat head to ponder as to howwomen manipulated their locks, fair or dark, i n the past? \ W e wonder! The use of the comb for disentangling the hair and as an ornament dates back f a r beyond the civilisation of B r i t a i n . Indeed, whilst the denizens of these isles were busy woad-painting i n the woods, the comb was already accounted one of the chief accessories of the E g y p t i a n lady's toilet. The earliest specimens of combs to be seen i n the B r i t i s h and Continental Museums are accredited to the second Memphite dynasty, B . C . 4000. These combs were made o f wood, ivory, or even gold, the teeth roughly formed and placed wide apart. The half moon shaping o f most of these antique models gives the impression that they were used as ornaments, not to comb t h e hair. E v e n i n those f a r distant times, however, these ornaments were carved w i t h different figures, the Sacred B u l l o f Memphis being the favourite carving. The Greek m e n were always greatly concerned w i t h the arrangement of t h e i r hair. T h e wearing of the comb was necessary to them for the proper worship o f Bacchus and their other deities. A m o n g Greek women, however, i t does not seem to have been popular either f o r use or ornament. A t a later period we find the R o m a n ladies wearing upon their elaborately coiffured heads beautifully carved combs, of wood, ivory, bone, gold, and mother of pearl. The first traces of combs i n B r i t a i n occur d u r i n g the R o m a n period. Such combs, however seem to have been used only by the Roman conquerors and not by the B r i t o n s themselves. The Danes were seemingly v e r y careful with, and proud of, t h e i r hair. There are remains preserved to us of Danish combs w i t h carvings of ships upon them. Such ejaculations as " B y m y comb," o r words to that effect, were popular amongst these people, leaving the impression that they even made vows upon t h e m ! The fifteenth and sixteenth centuries have left evidence that care and art were lavished upon the m a k i n g and decorating of combs for high-class ladies, those f o r keeping the hair i n place being exceedingly ornamental. Before the Stuart period the arrangement of the h a i r did not tend towards the perfect display of the comb, as up to the days of Queen Elizabeth, and even i n her time, the head was overdressed. T h e Restoration, however, altered a l l that, a tremendous influx of F r e n c h combs, mostly made of horn, taki n g place. In the eighteenth cent u r y the comb came to its full perfection as an ornament. A t the same time, be it understood, the m a k i n g of combs for practical use was not neglected. Magnificent specimens for ladies' wear came from Spain and Italy. Gorgeous combs were these. F a n ciful i n design, r i c h i n material, a big favourite i n the latter being mother-of-pearl, long toothed, nine to ten inches i n height, shaped sometimes like a Russian headdress, i n which case they made a n exquisite frame for the face. ( C o n t d : on next column.)
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Curried Fowl, Veal, or Rabbit. 1 fowl or rabbit, or 1V lbs. veal. 3 ozs. fat bacon. !/•> sour apple. 1 "dessertspoonful curry powder. 1 teaspoonful curry paste ( i f liked). 2 dessertspoonfuls flour. 2 small onions. >4 pint stock. Salt and pepper to taste. i/> lemon juce. 1 teaspoonful cocoanut. 1 tablespoonful cream or evaporated milk. Blend on a plate the c u r r y powder and paste, floour, and grated apple. F r y the bacon, cut in squares, remove from pan, f r y the sliced onion, add curry, etc., and stock by degrees, s t i r r i n g t i l l it boils. L e t the gravy cool, then put i n the meat, cut in nice pieces, simmer gently for % hour. If I f twenty pounds of salt and ten uncooked meat is used simmer 2 pounds of nitrate ammonia be dis- —2 /4 hours. Just before dishing solved i n several gallons of water add lemon juice, salt, and cream. and bottled, many fires may be prevented. B y splashing and Beefsteak Pudding. spraying the burning articles the F o r Crust. fire is soon extinguished. A n i n 14 l b . flour. combustible coating is immediate2 ozs. chopped suet. ly formed. • 2 teaspoonful baking powder. Pinch of salt. A d d salt to the water in which U> l b . beef. black and white cotton goods are Salt and pepper. washed. Flat-irons may be made smooth i f rubbed over salt. CopPieces of bullock's kidney. per and glass may be quickly About 4 tablespoonfuls of good cleansed by dipping half a iemon steak. in fine salt, then rubbing it over Cut meat up i n squares, put i n stained objects. Lemon and salt basin lined w i t h the crust; add also removes stains from the fin- stock which should be i n a j e l l y ; gers. Do not use soap afterwards. sprinkle with flour, pepper, and If a small teaspoon of salt be add- salt; cover w i t h crust, then ed to a quart of milk it will be pre- greased paper. Steam 3 hours. served sweet and pure for several Sufficient for 3 people. This crust A yjinch of salt added to may be used i f liked. days. mustard prevents it souring. Beefsteak (to cook). A smouldering or dull fire may Make a frying-pan almost redbe cleared for broiling by a handfu 1 of salt. Salt thrown on any hot, then pour i n just enough burning substance will stop the salad oil to grease it all over. P u t in the steak, and turn it constantsmoke and blaze. ly, using steak tongs or 2 spoons, till both sides are well browned, about 10 minutes. Pepper and The g i r l of to-day, turning out salt it. Serve it at once. her drawer in search of an additional "something to wear." may Beefsteak (to make tender) bring to light one of these 'old Spanish importations. H e r mother L a y the steak in vinegar for 20 gave it to her, perhaps, to assist minutes, then wash before cookher in some fancy dress, for which ing. reason it was probably given to Or for 5 lbs. of beef, make a mother by grandmother! F o r once mixture of 2 pints of water and In a way Miss Modern may even 1 small breakfastcup of vinegar. regret her short hair, which makes Let the meat stand in this liquor it quite impossible for her to wear about 2 hours, turning over occathis delightfully becoming, i f some- sionally. Wash well before cookwhat cumbersome, ornament. ing. Salt and water will sometimes revive an unconscious person when injured, i n case other remedies Haemorrhage are not at hand. from tooth pulling is stopped by filling the mouth w i t h salt and water. Weak and tired eyes are refreshed by bathing w i t h warm water and salt. Public speakers and many noted singers use a wash of salt and water before and after using the voice, as it strengthens the organs of the throat. Salt rubbed into the scalp or occasionally add»ed to the water i n washing prevents the hair from falling out. Feathers uncurled by damp weather are quickly dri*od by shaking over a fire in which salt has been thrown. Salt always should be eaten with nuts, and dessert fruit user should be specially made.
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She spoke of the R i g h t s of Woman, In words that glowed and burned; She spoke of the w o r m down-trodden A n d said that the worm had turned! She proved by columns of figures That whatever a m a n essayed. A woman could do f a r better— In politics, art, o r trade. She painted i n fervid colours The bright millennial day When M a n should bow submissive Neath woman's wiser sway. She said—but her words were frozen— Her eyes were wide w i t h fear— She mounted the chair, the table— Then faintly gasped: 'He's here!" Curosity—excitement— Dread—overwhelmed the house: We were rising for her rescue When—we saw a t i n y mouse. He scurried over the platform. A n d swiftly the monster ran, Yet he was killed i n a moment B y that P a l t r y T h i n g , a man! Then what sympathetic murmurs Rose quivering on the a i r ! A.nd smelling-salts were proffered To the heroine i n the chair. Lastly, one resolution Was read, and passed i n a trice: "Resolved—though Men are so useless, They're needed for k i l l i n g mice." E . T. C O R B E T T .
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M G R . J. P . A P C A R . Armenian Catholic Bishop of the Diocese of Ispahan. On the 20th A p r i l , M g r . J . B . Apcar, Bishop of the Catholic Armenians i n the Diocese of Ispahan (Iran) called at Singapore on his way to J a v a . A f t e r visiting .Java H i s Excellency intends to return to Persia b y the same route:—Singapore, Calcutta, K a rachi, Bushire. W e had the advantage to meet h i m and to hear from his lips some interesting statements concerning his P e r s i a n Diocese. "The A r m e n i a n Bishops and Archbishops, said H i s Lordship, met i n Rome i n 1928 and held a sitting presided by His E m . Cardinal L u i g i Sincero, Secretary of the S. Congregation for t h t Oriental Church. A f t e r examining various matters they decided on the necessity of erecting new Catholic A r m e n i a n Dioceses to make up partly for the 14 Dioceses wrecked and swept away i n the large provinces of the Ottoman E m p i r e , i n consequence of the massacres of the Great W a r . ' The prelates cast" their look
spacious enough to accommodate the Catholic Europeans of the C i t y , let alone the large number of native Catholics, A r m e n i a n s and Chaldeans. To our question A r e not the Christians disliked i n P e r s i a ? ' M g r . A p c a r gave the following answer : — "The Christians, especially the Catholics enjoy an entire freedom and perfect peace and tranquillity, thanks to the high and kind protection of H . I. M . Reza Shah Palhevi and owing also to the revival of the noble Persian nation. Y o u can hardly imagine the great changes worked recently in that country. Since the coronation, A p r i l 1925, of H . I. M . our most worthy Sovereign, the country has immensely progressed in a l l branches of science and i n dustry. Factories and plants of all sorts, primary schools, and Universities whose programmes are not a bit inferior to those of the best schools of Europe. Towns have been enlarged, roads built,
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Mgr. J . B. Apcar. Armenian Catholic Bishop of Ispahan who recently passed through Singapore.
towards Persia, where, f o r many centuries, flourishing A r m e n i a n colonies had attracted the attention of missionaries. A n A r m e n i an Catholic Diocese with the title of Ispahan. It was but i n 1934 that Rome consented to i t s reconstitution. Unfortunately i n its immense territory (3 times larger than the Malay Peninsula) there is but one church with a parish house which serves also as episcopal palace. E v e n the b i g cities have no church at a l l . In spite of the difficulties and inconveniences of a long- journey across hot regions, and though the present days o f economic depression are not favourable for such a venture, Mgr. A p c a r has not shrunk from taking the pilgrim's staff i n order to collect some fund for the building of a decent church at Teheran, capital of Iran. Teheran possesses b u t . a small chapel built about a hundred years ago. This, i n the present time, is f a r from being
railway constructed etc. The country has been cleared of a l l . . , and the tribes which hitherto were living a wild and independent life have been subdued and regulated. To-day any European can visit the whole Iran i n thorough quietness, I may say in greater safety than in Europe." Then what about the Persian A r m y ? The army there is trained after European system, supplied w i t h the most modern weapons and engines, quite fit and able, at any moment, to defend the land and to insnire awe and respect to the neighbouring nations. To think that all those transformations have been done by a stroke of the enchanting wand of the S h a h ! It was w i t h reason, i n deed, that, at the beginning of 1935 the people in unanimous outburst of gratitude proclaimed our beloved and revered Sovereign: the Great."
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RELIGIOUS READING. Reading as a mere pleasurable pursuit, not to speak o f i t as a means o f self-education, appears to be o n the decline p a r t i c u l a r l y a m o n g the y o u n g e r f o l k . There seems to be, i n fact, a studied apathy or a positive distaste for sensible and e d i f y i n g literature o f any sort. T h e reasons for i g n o r i n g or f r o w n i n g at books are obvious to-day. Stage, screen and radio entertainments are i n no small measure responsible for p r o d u c i n g this wide-spread dislike f o r reading. W e do not insistently regard literacy, or the reading o f books as a sine qua non essential to the religious <sense o f a person. A m a n can be p e r f e c t l y virtuous w i t h o u t books; and moreover be a model c i t i z e n and a successful craftsman. It m a y even be argued that an over m u c h reliance o n books m a y tend to enfeeble the force o f observation and give precedence to ready-made views o f life over o u r o w n judgment. Besides, a falsehood that is uttered is less h a r m f u l t h a n one that is p r i n t e d , and the latter w i l l go m u c h farther i n its damaging effects. T h u s i t follows that a literate person is more readily subject to the sway o f t r u t h or falsehood than one w h o is incapable of reading. I t is consequently e v i dent that l i t e r a c y m a y either place one w i t h i n the reach o f the fruits o f healthy c u l t u r e or make one the v i c t i m o f sophistry. F o r example the spread o f superficial literacy a m o n g the masses has brought the canker o f C o m m u n i s m i n t o being i n Russia and some other unfortunate countries. B u t i n an o r d e r l y society whose m o r a l and social ideals are healthy, the evils a c c r u i n g f r o m illiteracy far o u t - w e i g h the remediable dangers o f literacy. T h e m a n w h o is incapable o f reading is destined to exercise his m i n d w i t h i n very n a r r o w limits. E v e n i n this l i m i t e d sphere o f his life, his knowledge c a n o n l y extend to the present or at the most, to the immediate past. H e is lost to a w o r l d o f beauty and joy, while literature and p o e t r y cannot insp i r e his soul w i t h their mystic charm. r
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F o r us Christians or rather Catholics, there is a r i c h and beautiful heritage i n literature that is hardly k n o w n to us. W h e n we speak of ' C a t h o l i c L i t e r a t u r e , ' perhaps the average C a t h o l i c m a y r u n away w i t h the idea that i t merely comprises T h e Scriptures, liturgies, biography o f saints, Papal Encyclicals and other f r a g mentary writings o f a didactic character. W e m a y not endeav o u r to discuss the subject o f ' C a t h o l i c L i t e r a t u r e ' i n this article as it is an expansive one and is best dealt w i t h separately i n o u r next leader. T h e C a t h o l i c w h o feels content w i t h the small share o f religious i n f o r m a t i o n he has had at home or school w i l l find, w i t h the passage o f time, that his interest i n his F a i t h wanes away as he has n o t attempted to keep i t abreast w i t h the other interests o f his life. In other words, his knowledge o f his R e l i g i o n is not i n p r o p o r t i o n to that o f his profession and other temporal pursuits. T h u s a sorry lack o f balance a n d c o - o r d i n a t i o n exist between his s p i r i t u a l a n d other faculties, a n d w h e n difficulties o r temptations c o n f r o n t h i m , his stunted and inadequate s p i r i tual force fails to w i t h s t a n d them.
prescribed by the Master. T h e r e fore the choice of our literature must be such as to reinforce our powers i n this direction. M r . H i l a i r e Belloc i n his articles assailing the spineless system o f education i n vogue at present ( w h i c h we hope to refer to i n our columns later) advocates the i n clusion o f Theology or at the least Philosophy as one of the branches of our c u r r i c u l u m and a valuable adjunct to the other secular subjects. D r . Samuel Johnson had always maintained this view o n education by r e m a r k i n g that every m a n might be reasonably expected to be a philosopher by nature, though he m a y become a mathematician by accident. Philosophy m a y sound a m y s t i c and awe-inspiring t e r m to the average m i n d . W e do n o t refer to those pedantic or even erratic schools o f philosophy b u t we mean the Sacred Scriptures w h i c h f o r m the greatest and the purest philosophical w o r k , w r i t t e n i n simple language. T h i s m a y be supplemented w i t h advantage b y other approved books o r c o m mentaries o n cognate subjects w h i c h every Christian m i g h t read w i t h purposeful interest.
SOLEMNITY O F OUR L A D Y O F F A T I M A A T T H E C H U R C H OF ST. JOSEPH. The Church of St. Joseph is going to celebrate the solemnity of Our Lady of Fatima with a Holy Hour on the 12th inst, and a general Communion on the 13th. The Holy Hour will start at 5 p.m. Among other prayers will be the INVOCATIONS recited at Fatima during the Benediction of the sick. The four priests of the Portuguese Mission wifl be available during the whole Sunday for confessions. The choral Mass, at which the general Communion will take place, will start at 6 a.m. on the 13th inst. Every devout of Our Lady of Fatima is earnestly requested to take part in this general Communion. It will be the best way to show Our Lady of Fatima our devotion. Holy Pictures of Our Lady of Fatima will be given away to every person at the General Communion.
L i f e i n all its aspects cannot be static, i t is designedly d y n a m i c . It progresses or recedes a c c o r d i n g to circumstances. T h e s p i r i t u a l f a c u l t y o f m a n , as m u c h as his intellectual or physical powers has to be nourished and sustained to prevent i n a n i t i o n and collapse. T o this end, e d i f y i n g books, setti n g f o r t h C a t h o l i c standards o f c o n d u c t and c u l t u r e should be read w i t h discernment. R e a d i n g a book i n a cursory manner merel y to get to the tail end o f i t is quite different f r o m reading i t w i t h a sense o f intelligent observ a t i o n . T h e i n f o r m a t i o n gathered f r o m such books should be such as m i g h t be t u r n e d to the best p r a c t i c a l purpose. Y o u c a n not become a p r a c t i c a l s w i m m e r by merely scanning t h r o u g h a book o n the 'art o f s w i m m i n g . ' It calls for more p r a c t i c a l d o i n g . O n e has no c l a i m to be regarded a C h r i s t i a n i n the real sense o f the w o r d just because he is able to recite the ten commandments o f G o d or the Sermon o n the M o u n t . B u t the practical C h r i s t i a n is one who goes further and enables the principles o f his F a i t h to permeate the various aspects o f his life at all times and places and patterns his /ethical standards after those
I n conclusion we m a y express a desire o f seeing regular C a t h o l i c Libraries formed i n the various centres o f M a l a y a to enable the F a i t h f u l to have easy access to C a t h o l i c Literature. Perhaps the C a t h o l i c A c t i o n Societies of the different parishes may unite and set the ball r o l l i n g i n this matter.
Catholic Clubs and Schools are also requested to send us periodic reports (in an abbreviated form) of their Sporting, Social and Scholastic activities. Secretaries of Sodalities a n d other Catholic Societies may also do well to keep us informed as to what they have done or doing. E v e n to receive a message such as this "There has been nothing of outstanding interest in this p a r i s h this week nothing to provoke a smile or a s i g h " will be welcomed as news of some sort. B u t to remain steeped in silence gives much room for lugubrious speculations as to what has really happened to some of our parish correspondents. Regarding the unfortunate unemployed members of our F a i t h the M . C . L . will be pleased to insert free for a period advertisements f o r billets under the 'Wanted' category, i f particulars are forwaded to this office. A l i correspondence relative to such advertisements w i l l be treated very confidentially. Archbishop of Westminster. In referring to the enthronement of A r c h b i s h o p Hinslev at Westminster i n our last number we inadvertently described his as Cardinal. T h i s is however an error due perhaps to our characteristic generosity. In any case the possibility of Mgr. Hinsley being raised to the cardinalate is only to be expected as a matter of course. The new Archbishop of Westminster has all the makings of a great leader and his proven talents coupled w i t h ripe experience have marked h i m out as a worthy successor to his four illustrious predecessors. H i s Grace has already given evidence of his abilities in E n g l a n d , Rome and parts of the E m p i r e . H i s devotion to the H o l y See has been recognised on several occasions and his loyalty as an Englishman are best appreciated by his compatriots who have been quite profuse i n their praise of h i m , knowing as thev do. his thoroughly English traits. W e feel sure that M g r . Hinsley is destined to usher in an epoch of fruitful progress that shall be fraught w i t h unique results. Arrest of M e x i c a n Primate.
A f t e r having been arrested and held 'incommunicado' for almost 24 hours, the Most Rev. Pascual Diaz, Archbishop of Mexico C i t y and Primate of Mexico, was released from custody at 4 p.m., and ordered to pay a fine of approximately NOTES & COMMENTS. $27.75 for an alleged violation of Mexico's anti-religious laws. To Our Readers. N o new s was heard of H i s Grace The E d i t o r of the M . C . L . again the Archbishop for almost 24 solicits the help of the 'Leader's' hours after he had been forced to many well-wishers to send i n local change from his motor-car to that news of events in which Catholics of the State authorities. participate. We may assure our Archbishop D i a z was exhausted readers that we are not only i n - after his detention, having had terested i n their spiritual well- little sleep and hardly any food. being but also in all affairs pertainThe Secretary of the Interior ing to the other aspects of their charged the A r c h b i s h o p with violife and interests. We note w i t h lating the anti-religious laws, regret that some parishes have which H i s Grace denied. maintained a mystic silence as to The above account from the their activities. We expect the Herald is evidence of the specious correspondents of such parishes to and levelled spiteful charges arm themselves with suitable i m - against the Catholic clergy in plements and break the ice as Mexico by the Communist Regime. early as possible, by getting to be We publish elsewhere i n this issue better 'mixers' among their fellow- a reliable but shocking account of parishioners. E v e r y p a r i s h ought the atrocities perpetrated against to be i n a position to furnish brief the Catholic C h u r c h i n Mexico. paras relating to any of these so- The up-shot of a l l these religious cial or personal events such as persecutions shall only spell the Marriages, Deaths, Baptisms, De- furtherance of the cause of Chrispartures, A r r i v a l s Anniversaries, tianity i n the words of Tertulhan Social functions, T h e blood of the m a r t y r s shall be Engagements, Transfers and Promotions. the seed of the C h r i s t i a n s / T
M A L A Y A CATHOLIC L E A D E R , S A T U R D A Y , M A Y 11th,
1935.
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Calendar for the week. May 12. Sunday—3rd Sunday after Easter. External Solemnity of St. Joseph. E v e r y Mass and Vespers of the Solemnity. St. A c h i i l e s , M . , Patron Saint of Our H o l y F a t h e r Pope Pius X I . May 13. Monday—St. Robert, B . and D . Double. May 14.
Tuesday—Of the Octave.
May 15. Wednesday—Octave day of St. Joseph, Greater Double. Feast of St. John Baptist De L a Salle, C. May 16. Thursday—St. Ubald, B . and C. May 17. Friday—St. Babylon, C . Double.
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A P P R O V E D P R A Y E R FOR T H E BEATIFICATION O F POPE PIUS X . 0 God who hast chosen T h y servant, P i u s X . , to restore all things in Christ, to be the Pope of the Holy Eucharist, the model of the Priesthood, and the scourge of Modernism, and who hast, as we confidently hope already crowned him i n T h y heavenly Kingdom, grant, w e pray and beseech Thee, that for T h y greater glory and the salvation of souls, he may be also glorified here upon earth. r
Moved by faith and loyalty toApostolic See, we wards the humbly beg this favour through the infinite merits of Jesus Christ Thy Son, who liveth and reigneth with Thee i n the unity of the Holy Ghost, God world without end. Amen. 50 days Indulgence. L . C . , Epus Salford, 18 D e c , 1923.
P R A Y E R R E C O M M E N D E D BY POPE PIUS X . O most sweet Jesus, who hast come into the worlcS to give all souls the life of T h y grace, and who to preserve and increase it i n them, hast willed to be the daily Remedy of their infirmity and their food for each day, we humbly beseech Thee, by T h y heart so burning with love for us, to pour T h y Divine S p i r i t upon all souls, i n order that those who have the misfortune to be in the state of mortal sin, may, returning to Thee, find the life of grace which they have lost; and that those who are already l i v i n g by this Divine life may devoutly approach T h y divine Table every day when it is possible; so that receiving each day in Holy Communion the antidote of their daily venial sins, and each day sustaining i n themselves the life of T h y grace, and thus purifying themselves always the more, they may finally come to a happy life w i t h Thee. A m e n . (300 days, once daily: plenary Monthly, Pius X . , June 3rd, 1905).
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for THIRD SUNDAY A F T E R E A S T E R (ST. JOHN, 16). At that time Jesus said to his disciples, A little while, and now you shall not see me; and again a little while, and you shall see me: because I go to the Father. Then some of his disciples said one to another. What is this that he saith to us. A little while, and you shall not see me; and again, a little while and you shall see me; and because I go to the Father? They said therefore, What is this that he saith, A little while? we know notwhat he speaketh. And Jesus knew that they had a mind to ask him: and he said to them, Of this do you inquire among yourselves because I said, A little while, and you shaD not see me; and again, a little while and you shall see me? Amen, amen, I say to you, that you shall lament and weep, but the world shall rejoice; and you shall be made sorrowful, but your sorrow shall be turned into joy. A woman, when she is in labour, hath sorrow, because her hour is come; but when she hath brought forth the child, she remembereth no more the anguish, for joy that a man is born into the world. So also you now indeed have sorrow, but I will see you again, and your heart shall reiojce, and your joy no man shall take from you. COMMENTARY. The scene depicted in this Gospel happened after the L a s t Supper, on the w a y to the garden of Gethsemani, where Jesus was going to begin H i s Passion by a bloody agony. " A little while, and you shall not see me." H i s death was at hand. " A g a i n a little while and you shall not see me." H i s resurrection was to follow the drama of Calvary. Cross Means Victory. The disciples were far from suspecting that Jesus' Cross would be H i s initial step to eternal T r i u m p h and Victory. Regnavit a ligno Deus. Their minds, still occupied w i t h thoughts of a worldly kingdom, could not, as yet, understand the full sense of Redemption. They were not used yet to the paradoxes of Christianity. The paradox still continues to puzzle most Christians of this X X century. They cannot understand how to adapt t h e i r inward call for pleasures and enjoyment to the strict mental and moral discipline taught by Our L o r d . They t r y to harmonize sin and virtue, vice and morality, the world and Jesus. They find it difficult to fit the hard and t r y i n g Gospel precepts into the broad and easy case of modern progress. Modern progress, as i t is understood by them. I f they were allowed to change and modify Christianity, they would w ork out an easier and broader w ay to heaven. The present one, they think, is too narrow. Unfortunately for them, they cannot change Christianity and the narrow way to Heave f, shown to us by Jesus, still it is the only one leading there. There is not a side-way, which, though longer, may take them to eternal bliss r
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July and Dec. 25th, 1907). Let us, with M a r y Immaculate, adore, thank, pray to and console the most sacred and well-beloved Eucharistic H e a r t of Jesus. (200 days each time: Plenary 8th Dec, if said-daily for a year. Pius X ; Dec. 19th, 1904).
Jesus or Barabbas? The Jews were so obstinate in their vices and blindness that, when asked by Pilate whom they would prefer to be set free, Jesus or Barabbas, shouted all to a m a n : Barabbas. They had no other alternative. Jesus meant for them a discipline. Jesus was a kingdom in Himself. Barabbas was the gratification of t h e i r pleasures and the fulfilment of their sinful ambitions. They asked, therefore, Jesus' death and Barabbas' jgeedom. Modern Christians are not so bad as the Jews. They are asked constantly by D u t y whom they choose, Jesus or Barabbas. A n d they t h i n k they have a good way cut of the dilemma. They choose both Jesus and Barabbas. So they are content i n their ingenious device. They are not so cruel as to apostatize their fathers' faith. Their's is not, fortunately, the blindness of the Jews. But, on the other hand, they have no courage to condemn Barabbas to a premature death. The poor criminal has done nothing harmful to them. So why should they condemn him? They have found h i m always prepared to second all their propositions of pleasures, enjoyments, dissipation, etc. L e t him live, then. We t h i n k this is the reason why so many Christians find it fashionable to frequent both cabarets, where Barabbas is king, and church, where Jesus reigns. Modern girls too are following this easy solution. They do not find any discord i n living a life of frivolity, vanity and sin, together with their private devotions which taste so sweet and mellow.
12th M a y . Sunday—Third Sunday after Easter. White vestments. Proper of the Mass i n the " S m a l l M i s s a l " p. 169. Second collect of Blessed Joana of Portugal, second of the octave of St. Joseph, t h i r d of Sts. Nereus and Companions M a r t y r s . E x t e A a l Solemnity of St. Joseph. S O L E M N H I G H M A S S at 8 a.m. E v e n i n g service at 5: Holy H o u r in honour of Our Lady of Fatima. 13th M a y . Monday—Of the octave. Our Lady of F a t i m a . General Communion i n her honour at 6 a.m. 14th May. Tuesday—Of the octave. 15th May. Wednesday—Octave of the feast of St. Joseph. 16th May. Thursday.—St. Ubald. 17th May. Friday—St. Paschal Babylon. Abstinence. 18th May. Saturday—St. Venantius, M a r t y r .
CATHOLIC CHARITY.
Genuine Catholic charity, says the Right Rev. M g r . Thos. J . Shahan, always sees Jesus C h r i s t i n our neighbours, and from the earliest days of our religion the popular Christian conscience has consecrated this t r u t h in many a lovely legend that exhibits C h r i s t Himself as the recipient of benefits conferred on the beggar, the leper, or some other distressed member of H i s mystic body. This is also why Catholic charity sprang into being at the foot of the Cross itself, the first divine plant to spring up from the Blood of the Redeemer, and why it goes always with religion as its other self, its full and perfect flower, its radiant effusion of intimate love, consuming and spreading like a fire, and rekindling itself always in the hearts that admit it for what it is. It is this divine, this original, purely religous character of C a tholic charity that lends it the vigour, the universality, the sweetness, the infinite variety, the intimate gentleness and tenderness that characterise it. This charity, while i t is based on the D i v i n i t y of C h r i s t Jesus, is also C h r i s t Jesus indwelling and worki n g i n all the vast framework of Catholicism, its d r i v i n g force, its irresistible uplift, its salt and light its sweet odour, its invincible proof, its solid guarantee, at once its author, life and consummation. Even as the clean oblation of H i s A r e they r i g h t ? Body and Blood is offered up the They t h i n k they are. world over and through all time, Jesus C h r i s t thinks they are not. from the rising of the sun to the F o r he s a i d : Who is not for me, is going down thereof, so does that against me. other clean oblation of charitable works go up for ever from countless millions of pure and loving A member of a Singapore family hearts, itself, i n H i s own words, was seriously i l l w ith a peculiar a holy and immaculate work of form of fits which the doctors were religion. unable to diagnose and treat. A novena to Pope P i u s X was startThe life of charity is, indeed, ed. F r o m the first day of the the highest approach to H i m . novena, the number of fits a day, Indeed, were i t not for Catholic began to decrease, and by the last faith in the D i v i n i t y of Jesus day they ceased altogether and the Christ, that hard-won beneficent of our universal patient made a good recovery and persuasion is quite well to-day. This account brotherhood would soon disappear,, is published i n gratitude for the for it arose only through H i m and very great favour received through has no other efficient cause than a strong faith i n H i m as the divine Pone Pius X . all compassionate Head of the B.J.E., human race. Singapore. r
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(Fides Service) The Catholic C h u r c h is at present completing i t s first century of serious missionary endeavour among the islanders of the Pacific Ocean. E i g h t years ago, i n 1927, the Picpus F a t h e r s commemorated the 100th anniversary of the a r r i val of t h e i r first t w o missionaries in H a w a i i . L a s t A u g u s t the same society celebrated the centenary of i t s missionary a c t i v i t y i n the southern Pacific, a n d next year, in December 1936, the M a r i s t F a t h e r s w i l l observe the 100th anniversary of the departure of their first missionaries f o r the V i c a r i a t e of W e s t e r n Oceania, entrusted to them b y the H o l y See in 1836. It is true that missionaries have been i n the Pacific, off and on, since the 16th century, but only during the last 100 years have several religious institutes of men and women concentrated their efforts i n the organized attempt to extend the C h u r c h i n this part of the world. To-day, i n t h e island world of the Pacific, e x c l u d i n g A u s t r a l i a , New Zealand, the Philippines, Borneo and N e t h e r l a n d East Indies, there are approximately 350,000 Catholics, according to the most recent statistics compiled by the Sacred Congregation o f P r o paganda Fide, a n d there are 50,000 new converts preparing for bapt i s m . There are 450 missionary priests stationed o n the various islands, assisted by 11 native priests, 276 foreign a n d 36 native brothers, 770 foreign and 290 native sisters. T h e missionaries furthermore have 3,500 native teachers i n t h e i r employ. It is also interesting to note that there are 1,000 Catholic schools on the islands, at w h i c h 46,000 boys and girls are being educated. Progress has been good d u r i n g the past century, but there is still much to bq done. T h e Catholic body is s t i l l less t h a n one-fifth the total population o f the Pacific islands. The H o l y F a t h e r himself has called attention to this field once again by a s k i n g Catholics a l l over the world to p r a y w i t h special fervour during the month of A p r i l for the extension of the C h u r c h i n Oceania. To look at a map of the Pacific is to realize almost immediately t h a t i n this, the largest pcean of the world, conditions are i n
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many ways different from those found on every other part of the planet. Here is a vast expanse of water w i t h tiny islands or small groups of islands broadcast over its surface. Immense distances separate group from group. Some of the islands are fertile, others are utterly barren, and while on some of them life is a pleasant experience, on others it is a constant struggle for existence. Hence it is impossible to generalize in Oceania. The great distances between islands a n d between groups tend to confine missionary activity to limited a n d separate areas, and there is no broad inspiration such as arises i n the larger mission fields where problems are the same over a greater area, such as in India, CJiina or A f r i c a . The isolation of natives for centuries and centuries has resulted i n great confusion of customs and seemingly endless variety of languages. The people are sometimes referred t o a s a, race o f children, and though it is a fact that i n many places they are simple and unspoiled, here too i t is dangerous to generalize. A greater percentage of the island races might be Catholic today i f the Church had started evangelization at an earlier period. There were difficulties i n the way. The late discovery of many of the islands, their occupation by powers hostile to the Church, difficulties of communication and the high cost of transportation, explain i n part the delay of Catholic missionary work. These and other obstacles stand i n the w a y of present-day work, and the lot of priests, brothers and sisters i n the Pacific is still a hard one. Catholic missionaries are found to-day i n B r i t i s h N e w Guinea, i n the F i j i Islands, i n the Tonga, or Friendly Islands, Gilbert and Ellice Islands, Solomon Islands, N e w Hebrides, Bismarck Archipelago, New B r i t a i n , New Ireland, the A d m i r a l t y Islands, Samoa, or the N a v i g a t o r Islands, Guam. Hawaii, New Caledonia, Isle of Pines, the Wallis Archipelago, F u t u n a and Alofi, the L o y a l t y Islands, G a m bier, Tubuai and Rapa Islands, T a h i t i , the Marianne, Caroline and Marshall Islands. There are 11 institutes of priests and brothers and 15 congregations of sisters i n the missions of the Pacific.
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The editor of the Catholic Herald of Brisbane, commenting on the missions of Oceania and their needs, wrote not long ago, " There is i n Y'ule Island, the headquarters of the Sacred Heart M i s sionaries i n Papua, New Guinea, a grave with a plain cross and on the cross is the simple inscription * F a t h e r J . Bourjade.' Father Bourjade was an ace of the F r e n c h F l y i n g Corps d u r i n g the W o r l d War. When the Armistice was signed he put his fighting plane i n its hangar and resumed his studies for the priesthood which had been interrupted by the call to arms. Like many of the young men thousands of France and Germany, > the best part of whose lives had been wasted i n a w ar which they hated, he spurned the honours w hich the people offered h i m . H e was ordained to the priesthood as a missionary of the Sacred Heart Order, and was sent to Papua where he contracted black-water fever and made his complete sacrifice to God. I mention F a t h e r Bourjade because his spirit is typical of that which animates the missionaries — French, German, Dutch, Irish, American and A u s tralian—whom I have met i n m y tours i n this part of the world. W h a t the priests and sisters are doing for the Kingdom of God i n those islands is one of the most consoling chapters of the current history of the faith. B u t the priests and nuns w i l l tell y o u that if it were not for the assistance, prayers and work of the l a y r
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A COMPLETE SHORT STORY. The wind had just come up, and as the Bouncing Betsy had made little progress to-day, Captain Brace ordered " sails up." The Bouncing Betsy was a schooner bound for R i o de Janeiro from New York. Captain Brace commands 21 men, mostly Spaniards, and treats his crew very cruelly. On the Bouncing B e t s y is a young lad about 15. A s he is to be our hero, we shall do well to describe h i m . R i c h a r d Conrad, better known as Dick, is a bright, frank manly fellow, who had lived in New Y'ork w i t h his aunt. H e used to work i n a store as an errand boy and one morning was called to take a parcel to Bouncing Betsy. The ship was to sail i n the afternoon, and the captain, being i n need of a cabin boy, invited Dick to see the ship, w i t h the intention of kidnapping h i m . Dick thought this was an excellent opportunity to see through a ship and be told the different parts, and gladly accepted this offer. The captain took Dick down to the hold of the ship and told h i m to t r y on a suit (which had been worn by a preceding cabin boy about Dick's size), to feel what i t would be like to be a sailor. But to Dick's dismay, after he had put on the uniform the captain ordered two men to carry D i c k into a small room, which they did, and, after binding h i m carefully, left him there and proceeded on deck Fearful to perform their duties. thoughts passed through Dick's head; he would perhaps never see his aunt again. He had lain i n the room for about an hour when he heard the dashing of waves against the sides of the ship, and a l l hopes now left him. About two hours later, when they were well out to sea, Dick heard the sound of footsteps coming down the stairs. A s he glanced up, expecting to see the captain, instead saw a m a n with a bright face and red hair, and looking like a native of the " Emerald Isle." " Hello, m y hearty! H o w came you in that fix ? " he said. Here Dick explained the way he had been trapped. " Never mind, m y l a d ; B i l l Sturdy is a friend y o u shan't regret having. A s long as I have these I'll protect y o u . " Saying this, he stretched out his huge fists. " These I call m y sledge-hammers." " I believe you M r . S t u r d y . " Bill Sturdy did not care to let the captain know about the meetnig, so at once went on deck. About fifteen minutes later, the captain came down and released Dick. H e led h i m on deck and said: " Now, get to work, and don't let me hear a whimper out of y o u . " Dick went to work rather reluctantly, as he did not wish to be Put in irons and cause trouble. We will now see how D i c k ' s aunt j;as getting along. W h e n Dick not appear at noon, she became uneasy and went to his employer to see i f she could find out ^nere he was. B u t his employer
was also wondering what had happened to him, for when Dick was sent on an errand he did not dally on the way. His employer and M r s . Conrad then hurried to the wharf, only to find that the Bouncing Betsy had left one hour before they came. Mrs. Conrad was heart-broken at the loss of her nephew. She always used to take work i n from a tailor, but when she went around to get some more she was told there would be no more for perhaps three months. Looking into one of the daily papers, she saw where a governess was wanted for a young g i r l . Mrs. Conrad at once applied for the position, which she secured. Her employer was M r . Manning. Mrs. Conrad was to look after the little g i r l named Mildred. She was about twelve years of age. Mildred liked her new governess and M r s . Conrad liked her little pupil and her new home ver much. She told M r . M a n n i n g how Dick had been carried away, and he promised i f Dick ever returned to give h i m a position i n his office. We will now return to Dick. He now started to examine the men, and found them to be all agreeable men except one Spaniard named Antonio. H e seemed to have a spite on B i l l , and, seeing the i n terest taken in Dick by B i l l , plotted to ruin Dick i n the eyes of the captain and crew. A l l .went well fo rsome time Generally, Bill Sturdy and Dick were put on the same watch at night. During this time B i l l used to tell his young friend about other voyages on which he had sailed. One morning the captain rushed on deck and cried: "Pipe a l l hands on deck." The sailors w ere startled when they heard, that someone stole 100 dollars and a gold watch, the property of the captain. This morning Antonio had been put to work near the cabin, and. looking in saw a roll of bills and the watch lying on the table, with the captain asleep on the bed. W i t h the stealth of a cat he went into the cabin, took the articles and went down to Dick's chest. It happened to be unlocked, and the villain put the watch and money at the bottom of it. B u t though Antonio thought nobody had seen h i m , one pair of eyes had. A sailor was l y i n g on his bunk and had wondered at the way Antonio had acted, but decided to say nothing till the time came. Antonio went on deck. "Come forth, the man who is the thief." cried the captain. Of course nobody stepped forward. "Have all the chests searched. Antonio, you search them." Antonio was only too eager to do so. and readily pounced up<?n Dick's. Pulling them out he cried: "Here they are, captain, in Conrad's chest." "Conrad, step forward," said the captain. " Y o u villain, what have you to say for yourself ?" Here Dick stepped forward, his heart sinking. "I don't know how they were found i n my chest, sir. I didn't put them there," said he. r
"Of course, nobody is willing to admit himself to be a thief," said the captain. "I am no more a thief than you are," replied Dick. A moment after he was sorry he had said this, for fear the captain would be offended. "You have a sharp tongue, youngster," said the captain. "However, had anvbodv anything tc say?" Here the sailor before mentioned stepped forward and said: " T h e boy is correct. I saw Antonio put it i n his chest. The captain bit his lip and said, "I shall look into this later." He w as sorry that he did not have the chance to flog Dick then, but was only afraid of the crew, lest they would mutiny. "It was well for you, lad, that the man saw Antonio," said B i l l Sturdy to Dick the following night. "I was indeed lucky, B i l l " answered Dick. But they did not know that the captain w as t h i n k i n g of another way in which to injure Dick. When the captain came on deck the next morning he called the crew to order. "Richard Conrad, come forward." Dick instantly obeyed. " Y o u n g man, you were impudent to me yesterday, *and I sentence you to twelve lashes on the bare back," he continued. Dick turned sick as he heard this sentence to be flogged before all the men. B u t B i l l Sturdy advanced. "Captain, I have a proposition to make w i t h you," he said. " W e l l , out with i t , " cried the captain. " L e t me receive the lashes instead of that boy, he replied. A thrill of assent ran through the crew. "No, B i l l , I won't let you do i t , " said Dick. " H u m p h ! This is a nicefixyou put us i n . you monster," said the captain, "but suppose you get half and the boy half." "Then my offer don't stand," said B i l l . "Oh, well. I agree. Sturdy, remove your jacket. Antonio, you give this man twelve lashes on the back," said the captain, "and don't snare h i m . " Quickly the blows fell, but A n tonio was too eager and gave thirteen. Tt was an unfortunate blow for him. W i t h one pull Sturdy haled the shirt off his back. "This js one you are in my debt, and this one for your cowardice." Saying this he brought down two blows on the back of Antonio, who called for mercy. Antonio then went away to bathe his wounds while B i l l continued at work. Time soon passed and two weeks Jeter found them in Rio de Janeiro. This was where B i l l and Dick planned to leave the ship, which they did, and took passage on another vessel for home. Before leaving R i o de Janeiro, Dick sent a letter to his aunt, saying that he would be home soon. He also mentioned how B i l l Sturdy become his friend. 7
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It was a fine morning when B i l l and Dick entered New Y o r k . Dick at once went to the house where they had lived and inquired of old Mrs. Dougherty, an old Irish woman who had always been a friend of the Conrads, where his aunt might be found. "Sure, Dickie, me boy, y o u r good aunt has got a fine job i n a lovely house on F i f t h Avenue as a governess to a little lassie. M r . Manning is her boss's name, sure enough, and a fine man he i s . " Mildred had ofter heard M r s . Conrad speaking of Dick. "I suppose I shall have to stop playing w i t h Willie Brown now, and take Dick as my fellow-. I shan't care much, Willie is a naughty boy. I only like h i m when he buys me candy," said Mildred. "I fell awful funny to-day, as i f something w as going to happen. Perhaps Dick will be home to-day," she continued. Just then there was a knock at the door, and Mildred jumped off her chair, and cried: "Oh, M r s . Conrad, it is Dick. Please let me answer the door." ?vlrs. Conrad granted this favour, and Mildred ran to the door. She found Dick and B i l l waiting. "Is my aunt here?" inquired Dick. "Yes, I will call her," replied Mildred. You need not be told of the meeting. Dick remained for dinner at M r . Manning's house. They tried to persuade B i l l to stay, but he said to D i c k : "No, my lad, you see it wouldn't be quite natural, I haven't got my sea legs off yet." When M r . Manning came home tc dinner he was introduced to our hero. * * * * Just imagine, five years have passed. Dick still lives in the home of M r . Manning, who is now his ?>tep-unc!e. M r . Manning has taken Dick into partnership, and is not sorry for it. Let us now turn to honest old Bill Sturdy. B i ' l could not give up the' sea, and because B i l l had been so kind to Dick, M r . Manning made him captain of one of his ship. He always treats his crew with resoect, not like Captain Brace, w i t h whom he sailed when he met Dick. It would not be surprising if in la«er years Dick will become a nearer relation to Mildred than a cousin.—J. G . Davis. (Dowry of Mary.) 7
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CATHOLIC LEADER, SATURDAY,
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Catholic Affairs from Far and Near EUROPE. 14 E n g l i s h Prelates to A t t e n d Ceremony Canonizing M a r t y r s — London.—Fourteen Bishops in England and Wales have so far announced their intention to accompany the national pilgrimage to Rome for the canonizations of Blessed John F i s h e r and Blessed Thomas More. Though the date of the canonization has not been officially announced, i t is understood here t h a t M a y 19, is almost certain. The Catholic Association, which w i l l conduct the national p i l g r i m age, has arranged for two special trains and, i f necessary, these w i l l be augmented. Travel agencies are also m a k i n g plans to carry parties. A n a i r l i n e has announced t h a t i t will r u n special planes to Rome from Croydon, London's airport. It proposes to take the a i r pilgrims the entire journey of about 800 miles on the day before the canonization and to b r i n g them back " i n time for tea" on the day following the ceremony. Those who travel this way w i l l be absent from London only two nights and three days. [ L u m e n — NCWC.
Vatican City Issues New Series of Postage Stamps—Vatican C i t y . — A new commemorative series of postage stamps, recently authorized, has been issued i n six values. T h e y are u p r i g h t pictorials of large size reproducing two historical paintings o f Raphael. The 5, 10 and 25 centesimi values depict the Emperor Justinian and c a r r y the inscription "XIV SAEC. A CODICE IUSTINIANO PROMULGATO." The 75 and 80 centesimi and the 1.25 lire values have a picture of Pope Gregory and are inscribed "VII SAEC. A DRCRETALIBUS GREGORn IX PROMULG A T T S . " A t the top of both types of stamps are the words : " C O N GRESSUS IURIDICUS INTERN A T I O N A L E R O M A E 1934"— t h e International Juridical Congress held i n Rome, 1934, w h i c h t h e y commemorate. The colours are: 5 centesimi red-orange, 10 centesimi purple, 25 cent e s i m i green, 75 centesimi carmine-red, 80 centesimi brown, and 1.25 lire deep blue. [ L u m e n NCWC]
Rome.—No news has been received from Formosa so far regarding the amount of damage done to Catholic missions there by the earthquake of A p r i l 22, and the fires w h i c h followed. The more important institutions maintained by Catholic missionaries are outside the stricken area, but it is feared that losses have been suffered at the missions of Taitiong, Chiang-hoa and Samachun, all of w h i c h are i n the Taichu district. The Spanish Dominican Fathers, to whom the Catholic missions of Formosa are entrusted, have 12 churches, 36 chapels, 22 parochial schools, five elementary schools and a t r a i n i n g school for teachers. T h e y also have a medical dispens a r y and a p r i n t i n g establishment. The Spanish Dominican Sisters have a college for girls at Taihoku, capital of the island, and an orphan
asylum at Takao. T h i s latter institution received a gift of 3,000 yen from the Emperor of Japan in 1932. Missionary work in Formosa was begun by the Spanish Dominicans in 1626. Not long afterwards they were driven from the island by the Dutch, and for two centuries the country was without missionaries. Work was begun anew in 1859. There are at present 7,000 Catholics on the island. The total population is estimated at four and a half millions. [Fides].
Rome.—The Church's foreign missions w i l l be represented at the W o r l d E x h i b i t i o n of the Catholic Press which is to be held at the V a t i c a n from A p r i l to October 1936. T h e Pope has given orders for a special Missionary Section i n the Palace of the E x h i b i t i o n which will be erected i n the Cortile della Pigna. The directors of a l l newspapers and magazines i n mission lands have been requested to prepare exhibition material illustrating their publications, and the directors of mission-aid organization i n Europe and A m e r i c a have likewise received instructions to gather data and samples of all periodical literature published i n the field of missionary cooperation. [Fides].
REV. DR. W. SCHMIDT of the society of the Divine Word Director of the Anthropological and Ethnographical Museum of the Vatican coming i n near future to deliver lectures i n CHINESE UNIVERSITIES. The world-renowned anthropologist, the Rev. D r . Wilhelm Schmidt, S. V . D., founder and former chief-editor of A N T H R O P O S , is to spend several months i n the Orient i n the near future. Coming from Germany by way of the United States, Father Schmidt is due to reach Yokohama by the S.S. President Hoover on May 3. A f t e r t a r r y i n g a week i n Japan, he will proceed to Peiping. W hile i n this city, he w i l l stay with his confreres at the Catholic U n i versity. Father Schmidt will give several introductory lectures i n Peiping. He will then spend the summer travelling about China and i n September will return to Peiping to give a sreies of conferences on anthropology. He will take definite leave of Peiping i n October, deliver further lectures as he progresses southward, and is expected to reach the Philippines around the beginning of November. T
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Rome.—The infant son of Captain F a n g Jou, M i l i t a r y Attache at the Chinese Embassy i n Rome, was baptized A p r i l 22, i n the basilica of St. M a r y Major by Rev. Joseph Chang, Professor of Chinese at the U r b a n College o f Propaganda. Captain F a n g , who is not a Catholic, chose for his son the names M a r i u s and Joseph; he wished the first because it is the name of Archbishop Zanin, Apostolic Delegate i n China, and the second because St. Joseph is the Patron of China. [Fides]. Rome.—A motor-car, which will be used by Catholic missionaries in A f r i c a , was presented to the Holy Father A p r i l 23, by a group of German Catholic Boy Scouts who came to Rome for the H o l y Week ceremonies. The Pope, received the 4rift i n the Cortile di San Damaso wjien the boys, 2,000 a l l together, were granted an audience. D u r i n g their visit to Rome the Scouts were encamped on a farm belonging to the German College, outside the city. [Fides].
The Holy Father, who is greatly interested in D r . Schmidt's work, is said to be greatly pleased that the Catholic University of Peking will have this opportunity of making the acquaintance of this great scientist. Dr. Schmidt's specialty for many years has been the religion of the primitive races of the world. It is just over t h i r t y years ago that he founded A N T H R O P O S , which under his skillful direction has become one of the foremost anthropological reviews in existence. He has also written two works of great importance, "The Origin of the Idea of G o d " in four volumes, the first of which appeared i n second edition i n 1926, and ' T h e Origin and Development of Religion." Both of these outstanding contributions to the field of religious anthropology have been translated into many languages. F r o m a wealth of profoundly scientific investigations and historical facts D r . Schmidt has proved that the so-called classical theory of the evolution of the idea of God from animism and polythe-
P u l l Y o u r Weight W i t h The A i d Of Dr. Williams' P i n k Pills. It is impossible to pull your weight in any walk of life i f you are unwell; your condition may not be serious enough to prevent you carrying on, but it must assuredly have a detrimental effect on your general efficiency. Especially is this the case to-day, when the constant difficulties and the keen competition one is called upon to face make great demands on the nervous system. If you find your work becoming burdensome, sustained effort more trying, if you are unable to concentrate, find difficulty i n making decisions, if you feel listless and lack interest in things about you, then you are not pulling your weight. A l l these symptoms indicate that you are anaemic, your blood is deficient in haemoglobin, your red corpuscles have fallen below normal. To restore health and strength the first step is to improve the quality and quantity of your blood. Dr. Williams* Pink Pills will do this.
ism is scientifically untenable, that in fact all unbiased investigation tends to establish the very cont r a r y , namely, t h a t a genuine monotheism was the oldest form of mankind's religion and that it degenerated in the course of time into other forms. [Lumen].
AMERICA Canada's 1934 Missionary Contingent Totalled 209.—Pont Viau, Quebec.—During 1934 Canada contributed generously tow ard missionary personnel, sending 34 priests, 113 Sisters, and 66 Brothers abroad to labour i n mission fields under the jurisdiction of the Sacred Congregation of Propaganda. The total of 209 is greater by 31 than that of 1933. 37 religious institutes are represented among these new missionaries. The more important are: the Oblates of M a r y Immaculate, and the White F a t h e r s ; the Brothers of Christian Instruction, and the Brothers of the Sacred Heart; the W h i t e Sisters, the Missionary Sisters of the Immaculate Conception, the Franciscan Missionaries of M a r y , the Sisters of St. Anne, and the Sisters of the Holy Cross. (Lumen-Fides). r
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Catholic ASIA. Tientsin Catholic Action Association Sponsors Retreat for Members—Tientsin.—More than 70 persons, besides a dozen or so of the officers, attended a Retreat organized here by the local Catholic A c t i o n Association. The Retreat was preached by D r . P a u l Yii P i n , General Director of Catholic Action i n China, and lasted from A p r i l 5 to 8. Following the Retreat, the Young Men's Catholic A c t i o n group of the Hautes Etudes, the Industrial and Commercial Institute conducted by the Jesuit Fathers in Tientsin, held a reception in honor of Father Y i i . A f t e r ward D r . Y i i gave them an address, at which also many members of the Tientsin Y o u n g Men's Catholic Action Association were present. Before returning to Peiping, Father Y i i also gave a lecture to the general student body of the Hautes Etudes by special request of the Faculty. (Lumen).
Affairs. suffered severely at the hands of the Reds. Fathers Hidalgo and A v i t o were captured in A p r i l 1930; Father Esteban in December 1931; and Father Dositeo Lopez in October 1934. Father Hidalgo was released after 16 months' captivity when about to die from illness. Father A v i t o has not been heard of since the beginning of 1933. Father Esteban was last heard from i n the spring of 1933 when a messenger succeeded i n bringing him Holy Communion. There has been no news of Father Lopez recently. (Lumen).
* * * * A Catholic Congress in the Ancient Capital of Assam—Calcutta.—Thousands of Christians of the Diocese of Shillong, north India, took part in a Catholic Congress at Tezpur February 1 to 3. His Excellency Bishop Louis Mathias, Bishop of Shillong, presided. The three days were taken up with mass-meetings, conferences, and processions. A large group of * * * * adult converts received baptism, were conRenowned Catholic Pugilist and 500 neophytes Visits Catholic University of firmed. . . . The town of Tezpur is interestPeking—Peiping, A p r i l 9.—Colonel Gene Tunney, undefeated former ing because of its connections w i t h world champion heavyweight box- the ancient Kingdom of Assam, er, who is m a k i n g a world tour which is said to have been a great with M r s . Tunney, is spending power feared for the prowess of Peiping, its warriors and envied for the about ten days in the former stronghold of the skill of its artists and craftsmen. "Boxers." He presented his The old capital on the banks of the respects this morning at the B r ? h m a - P u t r a was called HaruppeCity of Gold." Apostolic Delegation and after- Swara.—"the Splendid temples and luxurious visit to the wards paid a Catholic University of Peking, ac- palaces rose majestically amid the companied by the Rev. Maurice palm and peepul trees. Hundreds Kavanagh, C M . , pastor of St. of ships, ready for w ar and comJoseph's Church and by the merce, were tied up at the " ghat." Director of L U M E N Service. H e But in a great battle Haruppewas welcomed by the Rector of Swara fell, and so much blood was the University, the V e r y Rev. shed in the defence of the city that S.V.D., many its name was chanpred to Tezpur,— Joseph Murphy, members of the Faculty, and a " the C i t y of Blood." The palaces throng of delighted students. W i t h and temples were sacked and admirable patience the amiable destroyed and, as years passed, a Gene supplied numbers of i m - forest grew up and covered the portunate hero-worshippers w i t h site. Recently when the tea industry his coveted autograph. brought planters and labourers into After a tour of the buildings the district, the slopes of Tezpur and grounds, Colonel Tunney adwere cleared and the ruins of the students i n the dressed the once great city came to light. University's auditorium on the (Lumen-Fides). legitimate place of athletics i n the curriculum of education and on the * * * * merits of boxing in particular. Ten Annamese Ordained to the Commenting on the fine qualities displayed the night before by Priesthood — V i n h , Indo-China.— Chinese pugilists of the 32d A r m y Ten Annamese priests and seven in two of six bouts arranged i n his subdeacons were recently ordained honour by the American M a r i n e in the church of Xa-Doai, northern Guard, he expressed the opinion Annam, by the Most Rev. Andrew that Chinese athletics had a great Eloy, V i c a r Apostolic of V i n h . There are now 1,223 native future ahead. Gene Tunney had refereed one of the Chinese bouts. priests i n all Indo-China. Of these During this visit to the U n i v e r - 180 are in the Vicariate of Buichu, sity, Colonel Tunney was photo- 177 in V i n h , 98 in Phat Diem, and graphed with the Catholic U n i v e r - the remainder are distributed in sity Basket-ball Team, which re- smaller groups among the other 12 cently won the N o r t h China Inter- territories of Indo-China. (Lumennational Basket-ball Championship Fides). * * * * and which, at the opening of last night's boxing programme, had Dairen (Manchuria).—A plan zeen publicly presented w i t h the for the mass emigration from Johnson Trophy by M r . Nelson Korea of 160,000 families, apTrusler Johnson, the A m e r i c a n proximately 800.000 persons, who Minister to China. (Lumen). would enter Manchukuo as "free immigrants," was considered at * * * * the Japanese M i n i s t r y of Colonies Catholic Missionary Killed by March 28, says a Tokyo telegram Reds in Anhwei—Peiping, A p r i l 8. in the Manchuria D a i l y News. A ~ - A telegram, despatched on A p r i l colonization company with an auJ fr* A n k i n g , Anhwei, reports thorized capital of 30,000,000 yen that R . F a t h e r Manrique, a (roughly equivalent to $7,500,000) Spanish Jesuit of the Vicariate of has been proposed by the GovernAnkmg, has been killed by Com- ment-General of (Korea, and a munists. plan based on this proposal will be , _ e c e n t years the personnel of submitted to the Diet at its next trie Spanish Jesuits in Anhwei has session. (Fides). 7
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AFRICA. Moshi (Tanganyika Territory, British East A f r i c a ) . — T h e Native Chief and the people of Kilema, Tanganyika Territory, have set apart a portion of the summit of Fumba H i l l for a public garden, in the centre of which they will erect a Cross to commemorate the Jubilee Y e a r of the Redemption. Fumba H i l l is a prominent elevation on the northeastern side of Kilimanjaro Mountain. The Cross and pedestal will be 28ft. high, and the corpus i n bronze will be life-size. Brother Cere, C.S.Sp., w ho has been a missionary in East A f r i c a for more than a half century, has designed the monument and is directing the work. The American Holy Ghost Fathers are labouring i n the Vicariate of Kilimanjaro under the direction of Bishop Joseph T
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Byrne, who for several years was Superior of the Holy Ghost Seminary at Ferndale, Connecticut. [Fides]. Capetown (South A f r i c a ) . — A sum of 980 pounds (about $4,900) was collected for the Association for the Propagation of the F a i t h in South A f r i c a between October 1934 and M a r c h 1935. The Transvaal Vicariate, in which the cities of Johannesburg and Pretoria are located, heads the list with a contribution -of 255 pounds. Natal Vicariate of which Durban is the episcopal city, is second with 150 pounds, and the Western Vicariate of the Cape of Good Hope, w i t h head-quarters at Capetown, is third with 122 pounds. The Basutoland Vicariate, a purely missionary district under the Canadian Oblates of M a r y Immaculate, contributed 51 pounds [Fidesl. (about $255).
A
THOUGHT
TO REMEMBER.
A man who has once been a Catholic has only to be reminded of what he has lost by giving up the practice of his religion i n order to be persuaded to return. H e may resist at first, and some I suppose will resist to the end, but i t is always a question of restoring what has gone, of cutting away perhaps insidious growths whichhave taken the place of the love of God, not of planting anything new. The seed is there, and w i t h light and air and nourishment i t will rise of itself into the perfect flower. But w i t h the non-Catholics the soil is barren. If we pluck out the weeds i t is but to leave a great void in his soul, and unless we plant the seed nothing will grow. W i t h the Catholic, religion is part of his life, w i t h the other, religion and life must be wrought into one; Socialism i n ignoring religion constructs only the half of m a n ; our error will not be less i f i n our efforts to instil Divine wisdom we forget that i t must be mingled with human.—B. W . Devas.
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SPORTS NOTES CATHOLICS IN THE LIMELIGHT. (By
Our Own Correspondent.)
Noel H a y that fine footballer, .distinguished himself last Tuesday by conspicuously good play for F r a s e r & Neave against the Malaya Publishing House i n the Commercial Cup Competition. The Publishers who were the leader's were beaten by the odd goal in 5, C h i a K e n g Hock performing the hat trick. In the same game N o r m a n Jackson and E d w i n Then also rendered sterling service \;o the winners i n t h e i r respective positions of left full back and right winger.
A p p e a r i n g for the N a v a l Base X I against the Railway Institute last week, S. Lourdes scored 27 not out and then took 2 wickets for 17 runs thus largely helping his side to w i n . F o r the opponents A n t h o n y bowled extremely well getting 6 for 28 runs.
Lawrence de .Silva the grand all round Sportsman of K u a l a L u m pur made 57 runs last week for the Selangor Rangers against the Selangor Police, while his cousin Clement, also as formidable an allrounder scored 39. The R a n g ers won handsomely. L . de Silva took 4 wickets for 28 runs.
Patsy Hendren, the Middlesex and E n g l a n d cricketer, who is a Catholic, has again headed his County's batting averages w i t h the gooc) total of 43.77. His highest score during the past league season was 127. In 31 i n nings he scored 1182 runs. H e n dren scored during the 1934 season seven centuries. F o r the M . C . C . against the Australians he made 135. F o r Middlesex against the Australians he reached 115 and for E n g l a n d against A u s t r a l i a i n the Manchester Test match his Score was 132. A m o n g the 1st class average for 1934 he ranks 25th w i t h an average of 45.16. Only 10 other batsmen got ahead of h i m in the aggregate of runs. In 1923 and in 1928 Hendren held the highest batting aggregate i n England w i t h total of 3011 and 3311 and averages of 77 and 70 respectively. In 1933 he made the top score of the year w i t h 301 for Middlesex against Worcestershire. A g a i n in 1922 he won similar honours w i t h 277 for his county vs. K e n t . A m o n g the only 8 world batsmen who have compiled 100 or more centuries in first class matches Hendren ranks second to Hobbs. The latter has completed 197 .'centuries and w i t h i n just 3 of the 200 mark has unfortunately announced his retirement. Hendren w i t h 151 is not too far behind and may w i t h luck give the master a t h r i l l i n g chase.
J i m m y Dunne, Arsenal's Irish international centre-forward, has had cartilage trouble ever since leaving Sheffield United and was operated on recently. If his recovery is complete he will again become we hope one of the most dangerous forwards in England.
The Professional Billiards Champion of Scotland is a Catholic, named Pat McQuillan. In his final game for the title he made several breaks of over a hundred and defeated his Glasgow opponent by 1,077 points. L a s t year too he won the championship but by 25 points after being 1,000 behind at one stage. The present holder of the Scottish amateur championship is another Catholic, N e i l Canney. Jackie B r o w n , World's flyweight champion, and Freddie Miller, World's feather-weight champion are Catholics. A message from San Diego, California, states that Jack Doyle, the boxer, was married on A p r i l 30th to the film actress, Judith A l l e n . Doyle is a Catholic. Jack Dempsey, former world's heavy weight boxing champion has decided to t r a i n Doyle to become a world beater. W e wish Dempsey and Doyle the best of luck.
Marcel T h i l of France retained the world's Middle w eight boxing championship by defeating on May 4th Vildajaks of Czechoslovakia who retired i n the 14th round. T h i l is almost a veteran now but as good as ever. r
Gene Tunney, former heavy weight champion of the world, accompanied by his wife, was greatly impressed by the Chinese boxers he saw i n action recently in Peiping. Tunney, who is of course a Catholic, was worshipped <as a hero by the Peiping marines. He was once a rnaillne himself. He passed through Singapore about a couple of months ago. They are now on holiday in Japan.
DI/TR1BUTOR/
FOR
TIGER
A R O U N D T H E PARISHES(Continued from page 19) IPOH. P a r i s h Notes. The P a r i s h of St. Michael, Ipoh. has had a happy Easter. The communicants on Maundy Thursday, Saturday and Sunday, numbered over 1500. Musical Mass was sung on Sunday. On Maundy Thursday, the Convent, the Sodality and the Catholic Action, participated in the Adoration, each in a body, for "a fixed hour. * * * * On Easter Monday, the old Catholic Club building was the venue of a pleasant gathering when over 150 orphans were entertained to tiffin by M r s . A . C. K a t h i g a s u , a great but little known philanthropist of the Parish. The menu, a very varied one, was thoroughly enjoyed by the youth fui guests. After tiffin the children were treated to various games which added greatly to the conviviality of the occasion. The gathering broke up at 2.30 p.m. after several hours of keen enjoyment. The Fathers' House and the Sisters' School on the Cameron
Highlands were the cynosure of countless eyes during the Easter week-end for this H i g h l a n d resort attracted a queue of visitors. The two buildings, one just complete and the other almost so, are situated just at the entrance to Tanah R a t a and command a fine view of the locality. V i s i t o r s as they motor up cannot fail to be struck w i t h the imposing facades of these two buildings, whose structure is a credit to the resident A r c h i tect and Engineer. M r . P . L . M . Nathan. The work at the School goes on at a feverish pace, but Mr. Nathan and his assistant, M r . Mariasoosay, invariably find time to courteously show visitors round, and all have but the highest admiration for the skill and care and fine taste in the execution of evendetail of this grand structure. When completed, the School will be the finest building in the H i g h lands.
Rev. Bro. Paul and Rev. Bro. Henry, respectively of Penang and Taiping, spent a week on the Highlands with Father Baloche, and left for Penang on Easter Sunday.
M r . C. W . A . Sennett, First Magistrate, Ipoh, will soon proceed to Batu Gajah to act as District Officer, K i n t a . B y his going, St. Michael's P a r i s h will lose a prominent member. * * * * * M r . Chin Sin Tet of the staff of Nestle and Anglo-Swiss Condensed M i l k Co., Ipoh, was married to Miss Monica W o n g at the Church of Saint Anne, B u k i t Mertajam, on Monday, 22nd A p r i l . A dinner was given at the View Mien Hotel. Ipoh, to a gathering of friends. r
In a certain mining village, up north, there was a competition to see who could eat the most in the shortest time. There was one man who easily outdistanced all the other competitors. D u r i n g the time allowed, he put away a beetsteak, a pound of sausages, a hefty meat pie and about a t*rd of suet pudding. F o r this remarkable performance he was roundly feted and, of course, he was i d judged the winner. Just as he was oroceeding to leave the scene of his glory, he turned round and said, "I say. you lads, don't let my missus know or I shan't get no dinner."
MALAYA
CATHOLIC
LEADER.
General Jottings of the Week Reunion Dinner. Old Boys of all Christian Brother's Schools will on Wednesdav 15th M a y assemble at the G.H> Cafe, Battery Road, for their Annual Reunion Dinner. Incidentally the date selected is the Feast Day of St. John de L a Salle perhaps the greatest educationist of his age and the founder of the Most Noble Teaching Order of the Brothers of the Christian schools whose headquarters are at Lenibecq in Belgium. A most satisfactory gathering attended last year's function and it is hoped an even large muster will be found at the G . H . Ca?e this month. It may be interesting to mention here that M r . A r m a n d J . Braga, President of the Old Boy's Association, has just been appointed a Municipal Commissioner. This nomination surely meets with the approval of all Eurasians, all Brother's Old Boys and a!: Catholics. Application for Tickets at $1.75 each to the Reunion Dinner should be made early to M r . T. W . Prins, C o The Asiatic Petroleum Co., Ltd., or to Rev. Bro. Director, St. Patrick's School, Siglap. A sensation was created recently in London when M r . Stanley Spencer, the well-known painter, resigned his Associate membership of the Royal Academy because his 2 of his 5 pictures were refused exhibition by the Council. One of the banned paintings was 'St. Francis and the Birds.' F o r want of more details we are unable to comment upon this news item.
Personal. Mrs. A l d a Jap, wife of Dr. Jap Boon Koey, of the Dental Surgery, Amber Mansions, Orchard Road left for H o n g K o n g quite recently
How Happy—
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for a stay of a few months among her folks. Dr. Jap is younger brother of the late Dr. J . K . Yap, who was before his very untimely hardest demise probably the worked Singapore dentist with an enormous practice. Death claimed him while still in his early thii ties and so his widow and brother have taken charge of his surgery. We wish M r s . Alda Jap a pleasant holiday.
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Mr. Cheok Twan Kee, an old Josephian, who graduated last year in Edinburgh has joined Dr. Oon, the Dental Surgeon of Borneo House, Orchard Road, and is making quite a name for himself. M r . Cheok attended the International Ewcharistic Congress in Dublin in 1932 and has formed lasting i m pressions of the marvellous religious fervour of the Irish people. * * * * * Jackie Coogan, the boy film star w ho to-day can no longer be called juvenile, having grown into quite a tall handsome youn^ man, was injured, but not seriously, i n a motor smash near Buckman Springs, San D:ego, California. H i s car crashed into rocks, plunging down an embankment, and somersaulted four times. Four of the passengers were killed, Jackie's father being among the victims. Both Coogans are Catholics. Jackie's solitary escape must have been miraculous. r
A recent visitor to Malaya is Eugene de Souza looking quite as young as ever. H e is the brother of Messrs. L . P . de Souza of Singapore and H . M . de Souza of Malacca. The Doctor has been an extensive traveller and must have visited far more countries than most men, for as ship's Surgeon his opportunities have been countless and his experiences singularly unique. Miss Hazel Westerhout, formerly of St. Michael's Road, Singapore was recently married to M r . Gam of Kowioon. Both are spending their honeymoon in Singapore.
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J A C K S O N & CO., L T D . , 55, Robinson Road, Singapore. The H o n . M r . C . C. Brown. It is w i t h real pleasure that we announce the appointment of the Hon. M r . C. C. Brown, B r i t i s h A d viser, Trengganu, to the post of British Resident, Pahang. Mr. and Mrs, C . C. Brown are very popular Catholics. It goes without saying that although Pahang will much miss the Hon. M r . H . G . Leonard, there could not have been a better and abler successor than the newly appointed official.
B I S H O P A T 32. A t 32, the most Rev. Raymond A . . Kearney is the youngest Catholic Bishop in the World. He Auxiwas recently consecrated liary Bishop of the Diocese of Brooklyn, U.S.A. A m o n g the first to receive his blessing were his parents, his sister and five brothers.
DR.
ORCHARD ON POVERTY.
"One of the taunts I received on entering the Catholic C h u r c h was:—Now you must tell the poor to be content with poverty," said Dr. W . E . Orchard, lecturing recently in London to the Catholic Social Guild. "That poverty," he went on, "meant a frugal way of living, the only poverty that justice can allow. 'God hath given all things richly to enjoy,' but today there was poverty i n the midst of plenty—plenty of wheat, plenty of herrings, plenty of everything —but made impossible to obtain by the present system. "Social order depended, not on a system, but on the spirit i n which it was administered. A good system put forward in a spirit of revenge could not be good. It depended, therefore, on the kind of men that worked it." " A good Christian could live i n any order of society—in a slum, for instance; but it was impossible to be a goid Christian living on any order of society—on a slum for instance. "Probably a Utopia would be always outside the bounds of possibility but a very Utopian prayer was uttered d a i l y : ' T h y will be done on earth as it is i n heaven.' "Catholics must be socially alive—good mixers, life-changers, so that by their fruits they should be known." (The Advocate) HOW
A SAILOR DESCRIBED AN ANTHEM.
People w ho know little about a subject sometimes explain it more clearly than those who know all about it. A n old sailor had heard in church an anthem which greatly pleased him. He was telling a shipmate, w ho asked: "I say, Jack, what's an anthem?" " W h a t ! " replied Jack, "do you mean to say you don't know what a hanthem i s ? " "Not me." "Well, then, I'll tell yer. If I was to say to yer, ' ' E r e , B i l l , give rne that 'andspike,' that wouldn't be a hanthern. But was I to say, 'Bill-Cill-Bill-giv-giv-giv-giv me, give me that-Bill, give me, that hand, give me that hand, handspike, spike-spike-Bill-giv me that that hand-handspike, hand-spikespike-spike, ah men; B i l l , giv me that hand-spike-spike, ah men!' that would be a hanthem." r
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V -roup photograph of the Parishioners of St. Anthony's Church, Teluk Anson with Rev" Father Bulliard as the central figure. On his left is F r . Aloysius. the Parish Pne*t. The photo was taken immediately after a heavy shower.
MALAYA
CATHOLIC LEADER,
AROUND
T H E PARISHES
SISTER ST. ODON GOES AS FIRST LADY SUPERIOR OF CAMERON HIGHLANDS CONVENT.
SINGAPORE. CHURCH
S A T U R D A Y , M A Y 11th. 1 9 3 5 .
O F ST. J O S E P H .
BAPTISMS. 4th May—Kathleen Diana Pestana, daughter of Hermenegild Oswald Pestana and of M a r y Josephine Conceicao, born on the April. God-parents:— 14th Louis Conceicao Christopher and Irene Rozario. 5th May—Iris Magadalene D e l phina de Rozario, born on the 23rd M a r c h , daughter of Leonard de Rozario and of Eugenie Lazaroo. God-parents:—Alan St. M a r k Stamford de Rozario and Blanche M a r y Violet de Rozario. 5th M a y — M e r l e Teresa Monteiro, born on the 17th A p r i l , , daughter of V i c t o r Jasper Monteiro and of Agnes Bodestyne. Godparents :—Frederick Anthony P e r e i r a and A g n e s Monteiro. 5th M a y — D i a n a Philomena de Rozario, born on the 9th A p r i l , daughter of Eusebius E d w i n de Rozario and of L u c y Cecile de Rozario. God-parents:—Vitalis de Rozario and A u g u s t a Gomes. 5th May—Herman Wilfred M o n teiro, born o n the 25th A p r i l , son of James W i l f r e d Monteiro and Josephine Monteiro. Godparents:—Hubert A r t h u r M o n teiro and M a r i a n Jansen. 5th May—Irene C h i n , born on the 15th December, 1929, daughter of C h i n Chong F o o and of M a r y C h i n . God-parents:—Simon O l i veiro and V e r l i n d a Oliyeiro. 5th M a y — A l b e r t Leslie Glass, born on the 15th A p r i l , son of George Frederick Glass and of Alberta Mabel Glass. Godparents : — A l f r e d Louis Jansen and L . Glass.
On Thursday, 2nd M a y 1935, Sister St. Odon sailed for Penang, by the S.S. Kedah, and after a brief sojourn i n Penang will proceed to the Cameron Highlands to be the first L a d y Superior of the new Convent there. This estate lishment is [practically completed and w i l l be opened on M a y 16th. The departure of Sister St. Odon, who by the way hails from Wexford, Ireland, was a stagger-
ject of this sketch, that she always appeared to us, her ex-pupils, as the ideal nun—all goodness, all charity, all humility. A s soon as news of Sister St. Odon's impending transfer was known she had to face an unending ordeal of farewells. Crowds of expupils, students and friends visited the convent to bid her Godspeed and success.
SEREMBAN. BIRTH. Fernandez, at Seremban on Thursday, 2nd M a y , 1935 to Cecelia nee Loo wife of Oswald Fernandez, King George V. School, Seremban, a daughter, Maureen Helina.
ACKNOWLEDGMENT.
TAIPING: WEDDING. Lessler—Fallon.
MARRIAGE. Kessler—Nonis. Invitations have been issued f o r the marriage o f M r . Clement Jamse Kessler to M i s s Stella M a r i a N o n i s w h i c h w i l l take place on Saturday the 11th instant. ( M a y ) .
S I S T E R ST. ODON.
The Lady Superior of the Singaing blow to the tremendous circle of pupils, past and present, and pore Convent, deserves all our friends who appreciated her to her sympathy for h a v i n g to lose her full value. H e r period of service most valuable assistant after so in Singapore has embraced forty many years of co-operation. E v e r years, so that the severance of since Rev. Mother St. James beties so long and intimately woven came the head of the Singapore (Cotinued from Col. 3.) w as painful indeed. B u t a reli- Convent, Sister St. Odon was her 'fait accompli and w i l l cater for gious obeys implicity and offers up principal aid—As a matter of fact, the children of Europeans who w i t h perfect love and resignation Sister St. Odon has on a few occacannot f o r divers reasons send every cross that falls to his or her sions acted as Superior during Rev. their children home f o r educational lot. It is without exaggeration Mother's absence. purposes. that I venture to say, o f the sub(Contributed) There are hundreds, I might say thousands, who have learnt too late of the departure of the object Telephone No. 7843. of their respect and love. B u t the one consolation they may carry w i t h them i n their sadness, is the knowledge that after all Cameron 71, Victoria Street, Highlands is w i t h i n easy reach of Singapore. Prayers for the sucSINGAPORE. cess of the Convent on this fine hill-station is eagerly requested. We publish in this issue a Photo Wedding Cakes a Speciality of Sister St. Odon and we beg our Assorted Cakes Maker, Tea Party Supplier, readers to pray often for her. r
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The wedding of M r . Louis A l bert Peterson, eldest son of Mr. and M r s . N . A . Peterson, and Miss Sybil Eleanor McCulIoch, eldest daughter of M r . and M r s . H . L . McCulIoch, was solemnised by Rev. F r . J . B . Souhait in the Church of the Assumption on the 30th A p r i l , 1935. The bride, who was given away by her father, was attended by Miss Kathleen Robless as bridesmaid. The flower girls were Misses McCulIoch, the bride's sisters. M r . and M r s . J . H . Phipps w ere the sponsors for the ^ride. The bridegroom, who is attached to the Posts and Telegraphs T e c h n i c a l B r a n c h , was supported by M r . Lawrence I. Robless as bestman. M r . C. A . Balhetchet was the sponsor for the bridegroom. After the wedding ceremony a reception was held at No. 31 Dunlop Road where a good number of friends were present. The health of the bride and bridegroom was proposed by Rev. Fr. Souhait, to w h i c h the latter suitably replied. M r . Robless, the bestman, responded on behalf of the bridesmaid. They went to Mount Pleasure Tanjong Bungah, for their honeymoon. r
T h e article on T h e Economic P o l i c y of the Colonial E m p i r e ' published i n our last number was reproduced by courtesy of T h e Malayan Commercial Review.'
Proprietor
PENANG. C H U R C H O F T H E ASSUMPTION Marriage.
In response to the persistent request of the European community of Malaya, the Convent at Cameron Highlands is now a (Continued at foot of Col. 1.)
The Church of Our L a d y of the Sacred Heart, Taiping, was on the morning of the 28th A p r i l , the scene of a pretty wedding when M r . Richard Dawson Fallon of the F . M . S . Railways, Ipoh, led to the Miss Elvira Margaruite, altar second daughter of M r . Percy Lessler of T a i p i n g and the late Mrs. Lessler (nee Jansen). Rev. Father Dupoirieux officiated at the Church while M r . Chew K a n g Y o n g presided at the organ. The Misses Ivy Lessler and Daisy Fallon attended on the bride and Miss B a r b a r a Estrop and Master Donald Reynolds were flower-girl and page-boy respectively. The bridegroom was supported
CYMA WATCHES and CHRONOMETERS acknowledged the B E S T in all the Countries,
RENE ULLMANN, SINGAPORE.
M A L A Y A
AROUND TAIPING
LEADER,
T H E PARISHES.
(Continued).
bv Messrs. Egbert F i t z p a t r i c k and John Campbell. The bride was given away by her father. After the Church ceremonies a reception was held at the residence of the bride's father at Tupai. After the cutting of the cake Mr. H . E . A u g u s t i n proposed the health of the newly married couple to which the bridegroom replied the health of the bridesmaids. Mr. Egbert Fitzpatrick responded on behalf of the bridesmaids. Mr. and Mrs. Fallon were the recipients of many valuable and useful presents. Sodality of The Immaculate Conception. The Sodality of the Immaculate Conception, St. George's School, Taiping, provided a continuous Guard-of-Honour for the Most Blessed Sacrament on M a u n d y Thursday at K l i a n P a u C h u r c h from 8 in the morning to noon. The Members were divided into four groups each of which had an hour of adoration. Vocal prayers, silent meditation and hymns, all i n keeping w i t h the occasion, followed one another during the period. The Members were divided Catholic Action Society. The C. A . S. members of K l i a n Pau Church visited the Blessed Sacrament at K l i a n P a u i n a body from 8 to 9 p.m. and thence the Kota Church. Last Sunday, 28th A p r i l 1935, the closing date of the Jubilee, the C. A . S. members provided a Guard-of-Honour for the Most Blessed Sacrament at K l i a n P a u Church from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. .
KUALA
CATHOLIC
LUMPUR.
CATHOLIC ACTION SOCIETY OF T H E C H U R C H O F S T . J O H N THE EVANGELIST, The closing of the H o l y Y e a r of the Redemption was marked w i t h special devotions organised by the Catholic A c t i o n Society of St. John's Church, K u a l a L u m p u r . Almost all the Members attended Mass on F r i d a y 26th and Saturday 27th A p r i l and received Holy Communion i n addition to Sunday 28th. On F r i d a y 26th at 6 p.m. at the Catholic Club about 100 P a r i s h i oners gathered to listen to the most interesting address delivered by Dr. L . S. Perera, L . R . C . P . , M.R.C.S. on " T h e L i f e of St. Philomena" The V i r g i n M a r t y r . The speaker traced the life of t h i s wonderful Saint from childhood till the time she was beheaded at the order of the cruel and vicious Roman Emperor . Diocletian, because she would not submit to his wicked and passionate desires, having chosen Christ Our L o r d as her Spouse. The excruciating tortures she underwent and the miraculous recovery from her sufferings were detailed. The speaker mentioned several favours he had received through the intercession of St. Philomena and urged the audience to have recourse to this Saint at a l l times and i n a l l trials and tribulations. The address was most instructive.
After the address the parishioners went before the Grotto of Our Lady to recite one decade of the Rosary and sing the Lourdes' hymn " A v e M a r i a . " They then adjourned to the Church for short prayers and the singing of the hymn " T o Jesus' Heart all burning." On Saturday, 27th at the same time and place a still larger crowd assembled to hear M r . R i c h a r d Nonis' narration on his pilgrimage to the Holy L a n d , Rome and Lourdes d u r i n g March & A p r i l 1934. M r . R . Nonis is a F . M . S . Govt, pensioner. When he retired he was holding the appointment of A s s t : Supdt. G . P . 0., K u a l a Lumpur. S t a r t i n g from Madras with 74 religious on board among who were Archbishops and Bishops M r . Nonis informed the audience that Mass was said every day and Holy Communion received, while The Blessed Sacrament was exposed for A d o r a t i o n throughout the journey and on the return. In the Holy L a n d the pilgrims visited or were shown the spot where Our L o r d fed the 5000 w i t h 5 loaves and 2 fishes, the pillar where H e was scourged and the place where he was crowned w i t h Thorns, Gethsemane, Calvary, Jerusalem, Bethlehem, etc. The Pope gave the pilgrims a n audience and had a few words to say to each of them after which the Papal Blessing was imparted. Lourdes was described i n detail, the beautiful hospital, hotel accommodation arranged, the services, The W a y of the Cross on pebbles to life size scenes of Our L o r d ' s agony, the innumerable crutches at the Grotto, etc. A short description of the towns visited was g i v e n including the magnificient buildings and scenery in Venice, Marseilles and London. In conclusion the speaker advised every Catholic to make the P i l g r i mage his ambition in life as the solemnity and devotion manifested w ould surely inspire every Catholic to greater devotion and faith. r
Parishioners B i d Farewell to Rev.
F r . Perissoud.
On Sunday morning 28th A p r i l at 10 a.m. there was a gathering of over 400 people at the St. John's Church for M a s s visitation to gain the Jubilee Indulgence. R e v . F r . D . Perrissoud, P a r i s h P r i e s t and Spiritual D i r e c t o r of the Catholic Action Society proceeded on leave to France last week and the opportunity was taken for a group photograph, after which M r . G . P . Bradney, A u d i t o r S.S. & F . M . S . i n a few well chosen words spoke of F r . Perrissoud's sterling qualities, the sympathetic and k i n d l y manner i n which he has directed the spiritual welfare of the congregation d u r i n g the past 6 years i n K u a l a L u m p u r , having endeared him to each one of them. On behalf of all the parishioners he wished F r . Perrissoud goodbye, a safe voyage and a most beneficial leave i n his homeland of France which was more than well earned after 17 years of m i n i s t r y i n the East. H e hoped F r . Perrissoud will return to K u a l a L u m p u r where his parishioners will await h i m with open arms. Fr. Perrissoud thanked M r . Bradney for h i s kind words. A l though he was sorry to leave his
SATURDAY,
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parishioners i n K u a l a Lumpur, he was glad to get home to beautiful France and he also hoped he w i l l return to St. John's after his leave. H e asked the parishioners to pray for h i m and also to give his successor F r . Deredec the same loyal support and kind cooperation they had given h i m . Led by F r . Perrissoud, the large crowd then visited the four Churches for adoration of the Blessed Sacrament which was exposed at the A l t a r s and recited the prayers for the gaining of the Jubilee Indulgence. The gathering dispersed at 12.15 p.m. Several parishioners including the H o n : The A c t i n g Chief Secretary M r . Marcus R e x and M r s . Rex, M r . M . Nunis, D r . L . S. Perera, (President and Vice P r e s i dent St. John's Catholic A c t i o n Society), D r . & M r s . M . A . Gabriel, M r . & M r s . R . H . Beins and M r . P . P . Francis, went down to the Railway Station to b i d "good-bye" to their P a r i s h Priest who left by the 10 P . M . T r a i n on Sunday 28th instant for Singapore en route to France. St. "AnthonyV Church; Kuala Lumpur. A catechism class for the T a m i l children i n the Sentul A r e a has been formed by the M a n a g i n g Committee of the St. Joseph's Club, Sentul, (Central Workshops) since P a l m Sunday, and classes are being held twice a week on Thursdays at 5.15 p.m. and Sundays at 10.30 a.m. There are over seventyfive children attending the religious instructions and good work is being done. St. Joseph's Church, Sentul. The T i t u l a r Feast of the C h u r c h of St. Joseph, Sentul, will be celebrated on 12th M a y , 1935. There will be H i g h Mass i n the morning at 8 a.m. and Vespers, Procession and Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament i n the evening at 5 p.m. The Novena started on Friday, the 3rd M a y , 1935.
IPOH. MARRIAGE. Newmanâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;D'Oliveiro. A pretty wedding was solemnised at the Church of St. Michael, Ipoh, on Saturday, 4th M a y , 1935, the contracting parties being E r i c Cecil Newman and V i v i a n E v e l y n iD'Oliveiro, daughter of M r . & M r s . H . J . D'Oliveiro . Rev. F a t h e r Fourgs officiated. A f t e r the Wedding Mass, a Reception was held at the Celestial Hotel, where a fair gathering of relatives and friends paid their respects to the Happy Pair. In proposing the toast of the newly-wedded couple, Mr. P. Jayersuria wished them every prosperity and happiness. The bridegroom suitably responded and proposed the toast of the bridesmaids to which the chief best man. Mr. H . F . Elliott, replied. A group photo having been taken, dancing followed, the music being supplide by the Celestial Hotel Orchestra, which played throughout the Reception. A t about 11 a.m. the Bridal P a i r left for their honeymoon amidst a friendly bombarbdment of rice and confetti. The Bride was attended by four bridesmaids, the Misses Netta and Louise (sisters of the bride) art*
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the Misses Marie and Lucille (cousins of the bride). The flower girls were Misses Christine and Miidred D'Oliveiro, while Messrs. H. F . Elliott, G. Coelho, L . D'Oliveiro, and C. D'Oliveiro were the bestmen. The Sponsors were Mr. & M r s . P . Jayesuria (for the Bride) and M r . & M r s . C. A . Rodrigues (for the Bridegroom). M r . & M r s . E r i c N e w m a n were the happy recipients of a large collection of valuable presents.
Personalia. Rev. B r o . Sigebert, who had been attached to St. Michael'* Institution, Ipoh, as Sub-Director for the past six years, left Ipoh on the 4th Inst., on transfer to Penang, where he will be attached to the Brothers' novitiate. Rev. Bro. J o h n has arrived to take his place i n St. Michael's. Rev. B r o . Sigebert, who is) much loved and esteemed by the boys the and teachers, particularly boarders of the School^ is much missed. Though his going away was made known to some boys and teachers just before the dispersal on F r i d a y , the members of the Sodality at short notice got up a nice tea-party in his honour i n the evening. The word of farewell was given by M r . Tan Boon Kwee, the Prefect, to which B r o . Sigebert replied i n touching words. He said that he had not found the climate of Ipoh very agreeable to him but that the geniality of those among whom he worked made Ipoh a very likeable place to h i m indeed. Other speakers included Rev. Fr. Fourgs, Rev. B r o . Dositheus, and several others, who testified to the popularity of the honoured guest of the evening and the love and esteem in which he was held by all. T h e rendering of some beautiful music nieces on the piano bv Messrs. R. Bartholomeusz. F . Dourado and R. Gabriel brought the pleasant function to a close. A Walking Feat. What may be claimed as a unique walking feat was accomplished by a Father of Penang who alighting at Tapah Road station from the night mail from Penang a few days ago took a car to Tapah Town and from there walked his way up the Cameron Highlands to Tanah Rata* a distance of 40 miles. He left Tapah at about 3 a.m. and reached his destination at 6 p.m. the same day, accomplishing the arduous journey at an average rate of nearly 3 m.p.h. F a t h e r X . can safely claim to be the first man, other than a Sakai, to have walked up to Tanah R a t a and at such a good pace. Jubilee Celebrations. Ipoh participated i n the Jubilee celebrations with the same enthusiasm as was evidenced in other towns of the country. Most buildings were beautifully decorated and illuminated at night. There was a mass gathering of school children on Monday morning on the Ipoh Padang at which the B r i t i s h Resident attended and proA posed the Loyal Resolution. Thanksgiving Service was held at the Church of St. Michael at 10.30 a.m. St. Michael's Institution held the A n n u a l Sports i n celebration of the Jubilee. Town and river processions were held at night with a display of fireworks ^ending up. (Continued on page 17).
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1935.
Martyred in New Guinea by Hostile Savages
Privileged indeed is one who gives his life-blood for Christ and souls. "Greater love than this no man hath than he who lays down his life for his friends/' In New Guinea this young missioner. Father Morscheuser of the Society for the Divine Word, was, murdered by hostile savages. For two years had he suffered much in his efforts for the natives of East New Guinea, where even nature's hazards are nearly insupportable. These he conquered, until a sudden and brutal attack cut him down in his prime. Yet we know the blood of martyrs throughout the 20 centuries of Christianity has ever been the seed of the harvest to come. (CATHOLIC MISSIONS.) Published by Rev. Fr. Cardon and Printed by Lithographers Limited. 37 38. Wallich Street. Singapore. S.S.