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The Protestant Verdict
R UMBLE.. 1 will tell you how many them I can subscribe. Presumably you doubted the authority of that authority. I arrived at the stage when I had no doubt whatever on the subject. I attained to certainty from Scripture, history ,and reason, that the Church of England could not possibly be identical with the Church established by Christ. In fact, many of its teachings. its worships, and its discipline I perceived to be directly opposed to the will of Christ.
did not always face facts, and pleaded that they should be honest with themselves. His plea .Ccr honesty is to be Ntholeheat tedly commended to all men everywhere, and at all times. Upon his assertion that Presbyterians do not always face facts I ‘vill not comment. That is a matter or sett-explanation amongst themselves.
"Alpha," Socratic Club, Sydney: You say the fact that Protestants do not accept the teaching authority of the Papal Church is not an argument against that authority. I say that it is not a valid argument. This sort of reply may be intelligible to you; but, quite frank"A Religion of Protests." ly, it is not to me. Mr. Mawson deprecated the tenThen I will try to make it indency to make religion a mat, telligible to you. You profess to ter of protests, and often be an atheist. Yet if you think against quite lawful things that the mere fact that Protestsuch as attendance at race ants do not accept the authority Rights of Secession. meetings and dancing. He of the Catholic Church is a valid Have not secessionists from added that, if he attended a argument against that authorRome got an equal right to race meeting he could not, of ity, you must also regard the fact doubt Roman supremacy as course. bring himself to gam, that they don't accept your atyou to doubt Anglican supremble heism as a valid argument acy? That against your atheism. No. For one who is a CaThere is a lot of truth in Mr. should help you to see that the tholic accepts as part of his Faith Mawson's charge that Protestant fact that Protestants accept or the doctrine that his Church is Churches tend to protest against reject a thing is proof only that infallible. To doubt is to sin the wrong things. There are they accept or reject it. If any against his Faith, and no sin can many crying .noral evils really value is to be found in the Pro- ever be lawful. But, as an An- o pposed to the law of God upon testant attitude, it will be found, glican. I was taught that all which they are silent. Yet, not in the fact that Protestants Churches had erred : that the An- whilst fall:ng to insist upon what do not accept the authority of glican Church itself was not inGod d0e3 command, they create the Catholic Church. but in such fallible: and that, as a Protestant, o bligations which God has never reasons as they can urge in ex- I had the right of private judg- imposed It is this attitude planation of the fact. ment. I was in quite good faith, which drags religion into contherefore, in exercising that right. tempt. Even Mr. Mawson's pre"Christianity Divided." If a secessionist from Rome has judices against gambling are misGambling within one's as much right to doubt Roman placed. The Christian religion is only one. supremacy as you to doubt An- means is quite lawful. is which religions major the Where of glican supremacy, then where men sin is by the abuse of betting split into hundreds of divisions. when they invest money which is the authority? Amongst the "major religions" they cannot afford, or which is true reone it happens to be the You have wrongly taken it for ligion, and that makes all the dif- granted that he would have the r equired for the support of wife nd children ,or for the payment Meantime, Christian- same right. ference. But it is precisely of debts previously incurred. Or, hundreds of because of the divine authority ity is not split into divisions. Christianity is Catho- in the Catholic Church that he still wcrse, when they make use licity. Men who abandoned the would not have the same right. of money not their own and even Catholic Church retained some However, my reply to your pre- embez4le cash from firms and But here the sin is elements of Christian teaching, vious question has shown the dif- employers. and still professed to be Chris- ference between the Catholic and one of straight-out dishonesty ocAnd the world has ac- Anglican positions in this matter. casioned by a passion for gambtians. And it is the dishonesty cepted them at their own valua- Now that is all I can spare you ling. which must be denounced as tion. But in the strictly techni- this evening. The balance of We• are cal sense Christianity without your letter deals with other sub- strongly as possible. the Catholic Church is like the jects, and I must reserve the dis- not justified in condemning gambThere are many without cussion of them until next Sun- ling as such. Prince of Denmark men who enjoy betting, yet who Unity is an essential day night. Hamlet. would never dream of falling into note of the religion of Christ, and the abuses I have mentioned. cornand true find con the will . plete religion of Christ only New Zealand Presbyterians where you find that unity—in the Is Prohibition Necessary? W. S., Greymouth, N.Z. : Catholic Church. Would you kindly comment upon Mr. Mawson complained that the enclosed report of the Pressome people do not regard a Whence Disintegration? byterian Genera! Assembly in man as a Christian unless he Why should these secessionists Christchurch, N.Z.? believes in prohibition. have abandoned their original will do so. weighing the pros His complaint is justified. The authority? awl cons of some of the rather re- same principle applies here as in gambling. Drink is quite lawful Modern Protestants, of course, markable statements. did not abandon it. They take Mr. J. B. Mawson, headmaster of in itself. It is the abuse of drink St. Andrew's College, declared which is evil. And because some the religious ideas they have that Presbyterian clergymen abuse drink .it does not follow been taught for granted. and bestow little thought upon the grounds for their belief. A hundred reasons, however, account for the secession of the original ROM reformers. though not .one of those reasons could avail against the divine origin of the authority Are Artistic Examples of Fine Craftsmanship. No. 9221, they abandoned. All their "rea); 9223. £8, £10, £12, £20. T he Diamonds are of the Finest Qual- £9, £12 sons" could be reduced in the to £20. ity and Brilliance, whilst Pure Platend either to ignorance or to perinum and Bet. Gold. are used ;n the sonality. Hand Wrought Settings. Inspect the Engagement Rings of To be more personal, why did you abandon the authority of LEVINSON & SONS the Church of England? No. 9224. No. 9222. PERTH'S LEADING JEWELLERS. 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that all should be forbidden to touch it, whether they are guilty of excess or not. Of course, when sad experience shows that the abuse is too prevalent on certain occasions conducive to excessive drinking, such as at certain functions, then it is lawful to enforce a localised prohibition on such occasions. I am in full agreement with the forbidding of drink at dances. But it is absurd to say that abuses are so widespread in the country that prohibition should be enforced as a nation-wide measure, valid everywhere and always. Christianity does not demand prohibition in that sense. And I agree with Mr. Mawson on that point. Religious Education. Mr. Mawson then asked the Assembly to face the facts on the question of Church Schools. He introduced a very practical subject. "Our object," he said, "is to send boys into the world to be an influence for good." Our object should be to make them thoroughly familiar with their duties towards God, and with the demands of Christian Then, in the midst of virtue. life's ordinary duties, they will at least know how to serve God, and to save ,and sanctify their own souls. And if they put their principles into practice. then they will necessarily be an influence for Q•ood upon all xvith whom life bring., them into contact. Mr. Mawson added that a thorough grounding in the duties of the Christian religion at school was the only solution that he could see for the Church and the world. What that I can but express entire agreement. "But have we faced the facts," asked Mr. Mawson, "with regard to State aid for religious schools?" • He puts a very important question which demands deep thought not only in New Zealand, but in Australia also. Support For Catholic Claims. "Personally," he said, "I think all the arguments are in favour of State aid, along the lines our Roman Catholic friends are working for." ost certainly every title of justice favours the Catholic claim. I do not like the term "State aid." used by Mr. Mawson. To many people that suggests a kind of grant from public funds in favour of a particular section of the c ommunity. And some non-Catholics are inclined to say. "Why should money We subscribe. be used for Catholic schools." But, in reality. Catholics do not as! "State aid" for their schools. They ask the State to cease confiscating the taxes paid by Catholics, and to allow the Cathol.e share of taxes for educational purposes to be used for t!-•ie cation of their own Cat1-.1ic children. Of course, the principle would apply all round. If any of the Churches have religious schools giving primary edu-
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FOUR cation, their schools also would have the right to a pro-rata share in the taxes for secular education given according to State reNo matter where quirements. the primary education is given which the State rightly demands, the parents of the children have a just claim to their share in the public funds for the purposes of It is not just such education. that all should be compelled to subscribe to public funds for the education of children in Australia, yet that only that section of the which benefit people should agrees to accept the type of education provided by the State. Advocates of religious education, say that those who are satisfied with State secular education may have it, and have full access to "their" share of public money. But advocates of secular education say "We will have our share no. of public money, and we will have yours, too, if you don't accept the system that contents us." This is unjust; and I am glad to hear that Mr. Mawson has pointed out to the New Zealand Presbyterian Assembly that it is unjust. Mr. Mawson concluded by asking, "Is not our attitude against State aid merely because the Roman CathoIrcs favour it?" To that question our non-Catholic fellow citizens must seek an answer within their own Now your final points hearts. deal with the utterances of a Rev Mr. Seele and of a Mr. Bates.
and liberalism as regards doctrinNow I am spared al teaching. the necessity of conimenting upon the vitality of this liberalism in Protestant theology, for at the same meeting of the Presbyterian Assembly we read that Mr. Bates made a significant statement which is included in the report you send. Mr. Bates declared that "liberal" Theology was as dead as the dodo. I can but register my assent. But the problem is, what theological teaching does Protestantism propose to offer instead? Personally I cannot see all those who subscribe to Protestantism arriving at any agreement as to what should be taught. The one principle which can be regarded as common to all forms of Protestantism. the principle of private judgment, leads away from unity to an ever-increasing divergence, the multiplication of independent sects, and final disintegration altogether. Many Protestants see this, and cannot see the remedy. There is no remedy save to retrace their steps to where they broke away from Catholic unity, and to return to the Catholic Church.
Fate of a Catholic Anxious, Randwick :
Is it a fact that, if a Catholic has committed every possible crime he will be saved provided he repents at the last? If he repents at the last, there Is Protestant Theology Alive? is one possible crime he has not committed. For he has not died "Prothat Rev. Mr. Seele said However we can unrepentant. testant Theology :s the only is a fact that, no It go. let that Theology that is alive at the matter his crimes, a Cathowhat of The proof present time. and with lic dies who repentant, that lies in what the Catholics of Church, the the Sacraments have to say about it." He will, of will save his soul. All that Catholics have to say course, expiate his multiplied sins. about Protestant theolegy is that in purgatory; and will thus find it has tried to adapt itself to all that even though he has attained the changing views of various salvation, the multiplication of his human opinions, and that it has sins was not a thing that did not crashed so often as - hose opin- matter. You might say, "all the ions have been abandoned for same, he is saved." But rememnew ones. In other words, it ber that Isaid, "If he repents ,and has followed changing fashions if he receives the Sacraments." of thought. ending in modernism That little "if" forbids presurtip •
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tion, and checks any tendency to throw oneself into a life of conFor what man can tinued sin. say .that he will have time to repent; or that he will suddenly develop the good dispositions necessary to correspond with such graces as God does offer him: or that his plan to receive the Sacraments at the last will be realised? All these considerations tend 10 make a man think. However, if all the required conditions are realised, a man will save his soul through God's mercy, no matter how many or grievous his crimes. Fate of a Rationalist. On the other hand, a rationalist or an agnostic is condemned everlasting torment. Apart from other factors, his fate would depend upon his degree of responsibility before God for his unbelief. If he had had no opportunity for sufficient study to discern the truth of the Christian religion, or was so muddle-headed that through no real fault of his own he could not perceive its truth despite an effort at impartial consideration, then he would not be held responsible for his unbelief by God. He would be judged on other factors. I suppose, of course, that he has led an honest life. It is difficult to believe that an intelligent man could regard himself as honest because he acknowledges a debt to the baker for the bread he puts into his body, whilst he refuses ti• acknowledge any debt to God for the body he However puts the bread into. you suppose that he has led what he really believes to be an honest life. If, by that, you mean that he has never once violated his conscience during the whole of his life in any serious matter. there is no need to believe that he is condemned to eternal torAnd even if he has vioment. lated his conscience in such a way, he would be saved did he repent sincerely before death with the help of such graces as God would offer him. Where he would undoubtedly lose his soul would be in the case where he would persist in rejecting the Christian religion despite a conviction that it was indeed from God. Some Crooked Thinking. If a believing bad Catholic can be saved whilst a n unbelieving; good rationalist is lost, then belief is more important than conduct. Such a statement of the position makes one almost despair of the human intelligence, and certainly shows f c necessity of the Catholic Church as a :rtticle to . 1 he mere religious thoug-17t down such set can von that fact nonsense should make you suspect that you need help where your ireligious position is conLet us see how foolish cerned. You is what you have written. say. "If a believing had Catholic can be saved." But a believing bad Catholic can't be saved! All we maintain is that a believing Catholic who has been had can be saved provided he becomes good by repentance of his wickedness and reception of the grace of Christ before he dies. And that is a very different proposition. Again you err in suggesting that we believe that an unbelieving For if good rationalist is lost. he is indeed "good." then his unbelief is not his own fault; and 'tve hold that God will not blame him for what is not his own‘ fault. Finally, you offer the remarkable statement that belief would
Saturday, March 20, 1937. be more important than conduct. What on earth do you mean by that? Belief "is" conduct. Belief and unbelief are but ways of conducting oneself in the presence of a proposition offered for If God deour consideration. then it true, be to thing clares a is most improper conduct for a man to refuse to believe it. On the other hand, belief in it is correct conduct. This foolish division between "belief" and "conduct" seems to be based on the idea that kind conduct in other matters towards our fellow men justifies the outrageous conduct towards God of not caring in the least whether what He has revealed is true or not. Until you sort out your ct_, fused ideas on this subject, you will not even talk sense.
Death of 'liom Paine Did Thomas Paine, on .his deathbed renounce his infidel views? Thomas Paine cannot strictly be called an infidel. He possessed always a firm belief in God, and in the immortality of the huOn the very firs, man soul. page of his book attacking all revealed. religion be declares that he believes in God, and hopes for An infidel eternal happiness. does not talk like that. . His very writings, however, show that he never had any real understanding of the Christian religion, and that he never attained to the gift of faith in that religion as reAnd he died vealed by God. . without doing so, in so far as men He certainly excan judge. pressed no recantation of his writings against Christianity, and probably died still under the delusion that he had good grounds both in fact and in logic for rejecting that form of . religion. Men who mistake fallacies for sound reasoning are little likely to detect their own fallacies. But the chief trouble with Thomas Paine was his colossal ignorance of subjects ut.ion which he took it for granted !hat he was wellHow responsible he informed. was for this attitude before God must be left to God, as also the question of his ultimate fate.
Voltaire and the Priest Did Voltaire die screaming for a priest? There is no need to bring in the his Shortly before screams. death he asked for a priest, and sought reconciliation with the The interpreCatholic Church. tation of his action is very diffiMuch exaggerated noncult. sense has been given out about Voltaire's dying dispositions by both supporters and opponents of In one the Christian religion. thing certainly Voltaire was sincere. He did not want to be reBut burial. Catholic fused whether he was sincere in complying with the conditions requ;red by the Church is hotly disput He never made a full and ed. clear retracti( it of his blasphem ous atacks on Christianity. Ar, 1 it is hard to believe that he rea!1v meant such profession of faith as he did make. A man who !-..as indulged for yi ars the habit of malicious -11,) .kcry of religiot; does not change his mentality in a moment, unless by a miracle. such as Voltaire certainly did not And it is quite posdeserve. sible that the fruit of a lifetime/of deceptions was a last, grim and At any tragic self-deception. rate, the sincerity of his conversion to the Church is open to grave doubt.
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mmorality versus Immortality I "Man is the Measure of All Things" The Objectivity of Morals Modernism Due to a Failure of Nerves (By ARNOLD LUNN.) I remember a debate on the New Morality at the Oxford Union at which a young man rose and said: "This new morality isn't new. It isn't morality. It's just our old friend Lust." He paused and pointed an incriminatory finger at the opposition benches and continued: "And let me tell you what's wrong with all of you. You're just sinners."
must presumably change as man changes. Now it was the belief in an objective standard of morality imposed from without, and accepted on the authority of One who spake as never man spake, which revolutionized the face of the world. Professor Jung, the fatuous psychologist, is no friend of Christianity, and his unwilling tribute is therefore very impressive. He explains the initial triumph of Christianity by "the enormous feeling of redemption from the ancient brutality of the pagan world. These old truths are empty to us," he writes. "Most certainly we should still understand them had our customs even a breath of the ancient brutality. for we can hardly realise in this age the whirlwinds of the unchained libido which roared through the ancient Rome of the Caesars."
the last century the Christian code was a controversial asset to the Christian apologist. The secularist who professed to respect this code was embarrassed by the difficulty of convincing the doubter that the code in question would survive the disappearance ot the Christian creed, but to-day the traditional morality of Christian Eurpoe is no longer an argument for Christianity but a stick with which to beat Christians. The pagan world in which we live is in revolt against the restrictions which Christianity seeks to impose upon sexual indulgence. The old compromise between supernaturalism and humanism which Protestantism attempts to effect is breaking down all along the line All that remains of this compromise is an odd inconsistent respect for the person of Christ. Those who reject His claims are none the less overawed by the deity which they deny, and are anxious not to dissociate too explicitly their creed from His. A One-Sided Christ. This Christ of theirs whom they profess to admire is not the uncompromising Christ Of the Gospels but a prophet remoulded nearer to their heart's desire. There is no conflict between the pain-dreading. comfort - loving creed of the humanists and the emasculated Christianity of the humanists. This new Christ of theirs overflows with undiscriminating and sloppy benevolence. The hard sayings are forgotten. the hard edges of Christianity blurred. The gentle spirit of the true Jesus, we are assured, would have ben dismayed by the stern discipline of the Catholic marriage code. Jesus would never have asked His followers to accept one of two alternatives, both equally unpleasant. self-control or a large family. In His eyes there was only one sin. censoriousness, and the new humanist ends his lay sermon on this note with his favourite text: "Her sins are forgiven her because she loved much." The humanist comes forward as the liberator. the prophet who frees man from the taboos of religion, and relieves them of all irksome restrictions. The new morality relieves the husband of the obligations which he contracted to the wife whom he no longer loves. It relieves married people of their obligation to achieve the principal end for which marriage was ordained. The new morality is indeed nothing more than the rationalization of the will to relieve. ( Continued on Page 10.)
No miscalculation could be OD was the measure of all things for the Heb- more complete. Many years berew; Man for the fore I became a Catholic I askGreek. The literature ed Dean Inge how he could acand the social philoso- count for the fact that whereas phy of the Hebrew Catholics were filling churches were permeated by religious im- faster than they could build them plications. He accepted a code the leakage from Protestant conimposed upon him from above, gregations became more and delivered to Moses in that burn- more pronounced with every suring mountain up which only the render of Catholic doctrine and chosen of God might be led. "We with every new approximation to were afraid by reason of the firt the views with which Dr. Inge and went not up into the moun- is identified? tain." The Gloomy Dean. Olympus was the official resiThe Dean, after a moment of dence of the Greek gods, but they gloomy silence, .remarked conmoved freely among men and re- temptuously: "My explanation is flected their pleasures, their am- the same as Carlyle's: Mankind bitions and their vices, and the are mostly fools." many-sided personalities of their But surely there is nothing parmany-sided worshippers. There ticularly foolish in the commonN 'as no treachery to which a sense view that it is reasonable to Greek god would not stoop, ric, go to church if we can get somtlechery which he would not thing in church which we cannot commit. The gods did not im- get elsewhere, but that it is a pose their code upon the Greeks, waste of time to sit in a pew to the Greeks imposed their code listen to a clergyman denying the upon Olympus. The thief prayed doctrines of the Church from to Mercury for protection; the which he draws his stipend. Greek who wished to get drunk An eminent Baptist recently ataddressed himself to Dionysus. tributed the catastrophic decline and for success in love he asked in Baptist congregations to the the intercession of Aphrodite. preoccupation of Baptist min- Controversialist and Christian Apologist, Arnold Lunn was received into Man—The New Revelation. isters with the League of the Church by Monsignor Ronald The humanism which finds ex- Nations and Labour poliKnox in 1933. pression in the famous saying of tics. People who want to Protagoras: "Man is the measure hear political speeches go to poliThe unchained libido is beginof all things." is the basic doc- tical meetings. A Church which ning to roar quite lustily in our trine of classic Hellenism. In the speaks as politicians speak will modern capitals. If you doubt modern world the Catholic .lose its followers. but the Church this read Dr. Alexis Carrel's treChurch is the heir of the Hebrew, which speaks as never man spake mendous indictment of modern the one institution which is un- will endure to the end. The in- American civilisation in his book compromising in the belief in an evitable consequence of measur- "Man the Unknown." Dr. Carexternal objective code imposed ing all things by the measure of rel's verdict confirms the verdict from above. Protestantism is gra- man is a revolt, at first uneasy of those mid-Victoria n Christians dually losing all power to resist and ,timid and finally open and who prophesised the "brave new the increasing encroachment of unashamed, against the very con- world" in which we are now livthe humanism which measures ception of a moral code imposed ing. The Bishops were more all things by the standards of from above. scientific in their forecasts than man. God was the hero of the Professor Bethune Baker. Lady those sentimental secularists Bible. Man is the hero of the Margaret Professor of Divinity who founded Ethical Societies new revelation. Religion outside in a university founded by Catho- and Ethical Churches to preserve the Catholic Church is a means lics (Cambridge). expresses him- the traditional morality which, to an end, and that end the se- self thus on the subject of they respected while doivg their curing of a Utopia on earth morality: "Of course, we should best to destroy the creed which rather than eternal beatitude in prefer not to have to represent is the foundation of that morality. heaven. Social justice. which to the command as coming from In the sixties and seventies of the Catholic is the inevitable con- outside, but to treat the urge to clusion of the supernatural pre- higher life as the bidding of mise, is both premise and con- man's own nature." and of the H OLIDAY TRIPS clusion to the extremer Modern- "moral and spiritual values," he ists. Modernism does not deny writes, "They are not imposed COOL TASMANIA God. but it ignores Him. Prota- from without, but they arise from By combining a visit to Tasmania the pleasure of a sea voyage on one goras. not Christ. is the pro- his own nature, and are the outthe modern P 4 0 Liners you ore OSSure:' phet of this desupernaturalized put of himself." of a perfect holiday. In Tasmania the weather is coot cl Christianity. Professor Jung and the Uninvigoratmg and excursions to the yor;0 Modernism is due to a failure places of scenic beauty may be erloyed chained Libido. under ideal conditions. of nerve. It is inspired by the It is inevitable that this new Full particulars from local Agents panic fear that religion can only humanism should undermine not survive if harmonized with con- only our belief in objective truth, temporary fashions. The super- but also our belief in objective natural is unfashionable and mouality. "It does not matter." therefore suspect. It is the mir • we are assured. "what a man beactilous element in Christianity lieves provided he does not injure which keeps the man in the street his neighbour." Man's neighbour --in the street. All that is neces- that is. man, is thus made the A grstts--MACDONALD, HAMILTON & Co sary to lure him back into the measure not only of truth but of No 3 of "Deck Sports" Series Joint Agessts, Tourist Clacs-"Deck Golf" pew is to jettison as many morality. Morality must conform GEORGE WILLS & CO.. IINITIFT) to the measure of man, and God Christian dogmas as possible.
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against the Reds was long and Only after repeated arduous. failure did Nanking realise that the suppression of Communism was not a matter merely of arms and soldiers, but required as well a social programme for removing the grievances on which the propaganda of the Reds had thrived. When success finally cPme, it . HIS HOLINESS WELCOMES UNIFICATION OF THE came to a government that was PEOPLE. fully alive to the need of just.and (By PATRICK JOY. S.J., Hongkong.) impartial administrat' en of the And .,.vhen the anarchy and her foreign policy joices and renders thanks to the country's laws. was bound to provoke warlike Most High" for the unification of rest of the country realised that measures by some Power or China, he prays that lasting and Nanking was so inspired the final group of Powers which would fruitful peace may be restored, task of unification was accomlead to the further humiliation of he expresses the hope that full plished almost without :-21Tort. In China. Putting the two together recognition will be given to the July last, Chiang Kai Shek made the prophets, or some of them, legitimate aspirations and rights his entry into Canton without firfelt that sooner or later the of the Chinese nation, and he ing a single shot. There followed Powers would find necessity com- calls on all his children in China later the acquisition of Kwangsi, pelling them to intervene either to make their contribution "to the and to-day the Nanking Governin .a joint effort, through the peace, the social prosperity, and ment is able to turn its attention, League, to restore and preserve the greatness of their native with a co-operation of the nation fuller than it has ever known in order or, in the best tradition of land." imperialism, by a mutual agreeBut the Pope's optimism seem- its history, to the task of making ment for the "slicing of the ed to find little justification in China strong and preserving it melon." The Holy See was al- the years that followed. Inter- from the attacks of outside forces. Great as has been this accommost alone in seeing progress. In nal disorder continued. In the plishment, what is still more rehis message of August 1, 1928, general confusion there rose up "to the great and most noble a powerful Communist group markable is the change that has Chinese people," the Pope "rv- which established its rule firmly taken place in the Chinese people in Kiangsi and made incursions itself. Ten years ago there was, of longer or shorter duration into indeed, a very vigorous national pretty well every province of movement in China. But it could Central and South China. Fin- not be said that China possessed ally came the flare-up of the Jap- a national consciousness in the anese trouble in Manchuria, fol- sense in which nationality is unCo., Ltd. lowed by the struggle in Shang- derstood in the West. There was A.C.A. 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N the "Confession" of St. Patrick we have a revelaL.- RING his tion of the man himself captivity he had already turned which is as striking ,and I might more and more to prayer and to add, as attractive, as it is unGod. But it was some years usual. later that a messenger, Victoricus, was sent direct from God to His personaloty, his character, (By REV. JOHN T. AIcMAHON.) declare His purposes with him— his conception of his mission and and supernatural voices made the motive force that inspired it the mandate ever clearer. stand clearly forth. So much so His c onversion took place in Irethat it is safe to say that the land, but the first indication of best things written about St. his election as an apostle came Patrick are the self-revealing few subsequently to his escape from pages that he wrote himself. Had captivity. they been lost, no contemporary hagiographer could have providA Pauline Outlook. ed a satisfactory substitute. Apart altogether from the fact He himself and his works had that the "Confession" resembles been the objects of attacks and the Second Epistle to the Corsneers from some of his fellow inthians in its main motive, one countrymen in Britain. The cannot but be struck with what I answer to these attacks—the might call the strongly Pauline "Confession"—is a brief "apoluc haracter of his outlook. Both gia pro vita sua." It has in this writings were called forth in respect been compared to the answer to charges made - against Second Epistle to the Corinthians the writers by fellow -believers. —in fact, the kinship between the There is also the further fact two manifestoes strikes deeper which may account for the rt-...• than the similarity of origin. semblance—anxietv to stress the His main purpose against these divine election. !It was not he detractors is to drive it home that that chose Ireland as 11:s if he, so unskilled, so unfitted field, it was God who chose him by learning, a semi-illiterate, unthe work. dertook the immense task of conSomething, therefore, of St. verting a whole nation ,it was Pail; s spirit runs right tnroagh due to no excess of self-complacthe Confession, but the man reency. Neither did ambition play vealed is milder, one might say any part. He had acted right less aggressive. and perhaps more through in response to a clear and humanly attractive, than was definite divine command which the great apostle. he dared not disobey. Lack of Culture. Such was the stimulus which Once convinced of his life's gave rise to the "Confession." work, Patrick subjected himself Brief as it is—it is the most preto a long course of training. Ile cious evidence we have about the .:cv er became a scholar ,and right saint. The spirit of Christian thro ugh his life he is acutely conhumility pervades it. He makes scious of his lack of culture—he the fullest acknowledgment that proclaims it again and again in a for his life work, the winning of r eally attractive manner. countless souls to God, he per"I have never studied as have sonally can claim no merit— others who, as was most fitting, "For I - am." he tells us himself. have drunk in both the law and only worth what He Himself the Sacred Writings. in equal has given me." (C. 57.) So strong perfection, and who, from their ly is this note intoned that some infancy, never changed who have perhaps little communtheir mother tongue. but were rather ity of spirit with the saint, and making it always more perfect. perhaps little comprehension of But my speech and style were this particular virtue, have mischanged into the tongue of the read these pages as a confession stranger. and it can be easily of failure. perceived from the savour of my Of failure there is no question writings how I am trained and —humility with him does not instructed in languages." (C. 9.) mean disparagement of work done—any such disparagement St. Patrick's Fame. he would regard as a refusal to We see here a man who is recognise not what he had acsaliently an apostle to the GenTHE GREAT ST. PATRICK, hieved. but what Providence had tiles—whose primary task is the as he is commonly represented in Art. achieved through him. The conversion of the pagan to the force of his argument depends on Gospel of Christ. No theologiacknowledging the marvellous any sense out of the ordinary creasing devotion to prayer was cal thinker, no Father of the success achieved—a success, how- first gripped him during the suf- the form it assumed ; it was als. Church in this sense, but thorever, for which Patrick himself ferings of his captivity and slave- the food that it fed on to achieve oughly orthodox in his beliefs dom in Ireland. It was this ex- more natural growth. "Love cf and burning with zeal for his claims no credit. His very resticity. uncouth- perience of adversity that first God and fear of 1-Tim increased cause. In culture, as we have ness, clumsiness, his lack of cul- turned his thoughts more serious- more and more, and my Faith seen, comparing poorly with ture, so frequently proclaimed, ly to God. x,;- cw. and my speech was stirred those among whom he moved; only serve to emphasise the marup, so that in a single day I sail but cultured as they were, he was "Before I was humbled I was vellous workings of Providence. a., many Is a hundred prayers, to surpass them all in fame and Few writings impress one as like a stone that lies in the deep and at night likewise." (C. 16.) in the importance of the historimire, and He that is mighty does this work with the author's cal role which, owing to his aposcandour. openness, simplicity. came, and in His mercy lifted me This tolate, he filled. spiritual developme nt and up me placed top on of the complete surrender to God. No r eached its most striking rani Forceful, with a marked gift. of wall." remained in (C. 12.) "I reliance on self-complete trust in festatio n long invective, at times choleric, he afterwards in the death and unbelief until I was God. fatuous was Lenten Fast above on all a man of thorCroagh greatly chastened and humbled The Saint's Boyhood. Though his birthpla': oughly practical mind, intensely in truth by hunger and nakedness, Patr;ek. A s a boy he seems to be may memain the subject of diF, spiritual, determinec:, strongnothing out of the ordinary. It and that, too, daily." (C. 27.) pute. still Ireland can claim that minded. enthusiastic, passionatewould not be quite safe to accept his .ipir:tnal rebirth took place ly devoted to his flock—the stuff Progress to Protection. at its face value the harsh verw ithin its shores. From early of which saints and apostles are It was not a case of sudden on, therefore, we see this stranger. made. dict that he passes on his 'boyHis sanctity was recoghood. The standard of one like conversion, of the kind of which exile as he so often regarded him- nised in contemporary Ireland, as Patrick in those matters is more t here are many examples in tile self tied to this land, not by any can be seen from the hymn of history of religious experience. It natural glamour which it or its Secundinus : "He was by all men. exacting than ours. But it is clear that in spiritual was a gradual process towards people exercise over him. but by v enerated as an angel." concerns he was careless and greater and greater perfection a bond that was in its very esHesitation, when duty pointed seriousness. ' tikewarm, and that religion in and deeper Insence supernatural. the way, was not among his
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EIGHT traits. Corning to Ireland, he found no Pax Romana to level out the way of his pilgrimage— as a practical man he made the best use of the pulverised political situation which he found. Initiative was required, and initiative he possessed. Legends Prove Greatness. Legends of all kinds ,and of widely different values, began to attach themselves to his name and personality from the moment of his death. Even the actions of other saints were soon These legattributed to him. ends cannot, of course, be taken .at their face value as giving us information about Patrick, but they are indisputable proof of the way in which he captured the national imagination and became This our great national hero. concentration of legends about him is in itself one of the proofs of his greatness—we see the same phenomenon in the greatest secular figure of the Dark Ages: Charlemagne.
The apostleship that began in 432 did not die in 461. It continued through the Golden Age in Ireland, it was with us in the Penal days—then, indeed, we needed the efficacy of Patrick's prayers on Croag-,h Patrick, and his continued intercession—it was there in 1829 ,and is still in full vigour to-day. It has defied time, it is outside Hi rerna:ns our apostle time. still—he stands forth as the greatest figure in our history, ecclesiastical or secular. That this should be so is of unique interest. No better indication can be given of the spirit of the apostolate of St. Patrick than in a verse from St. John's Gospel: "You have not chosen Me, but I have chosen you; and I have appointed you, that you should go, and bring forth fruit; and your fruit shall remain ; that whatsoever you shall ask the Father in Mv Name He may give to you." (John, XV., 16.)
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Who They Are. Actually the committee is composed of people like Vance Palmer, who from the very beginning of the struggle has been identified with the cause of the Reds, and whose daughter is serving as a Government nurse on the Catalan The food on the admission of front. the committee itself will be shipped to BARCELONA which is in the hands of the Reds. Knowing the precarious plight in which the 'Government" troops find themselves on this front, there is no guarantee that the food will not go to them. The committee will undoubtedly urge as proof of its honest intentions the fact that the Anglican Archbishop of Melbourne has contributed towards its fund. The behaviour of the Anglican prelates who recently visited Spain will not, to say the least, strengthen the value of this argument in Catholic eyes. The motto of Catholic workers rethe 'Spanish mains—No funds for Reds. Marry Your Own! Father Daniel A. Lord, S.J., has written several C.T.S. pamphlets, and his "Marry Your Own" is as well writBuy it at the ten as his others. church door or at the Chesterton Book Shop and read it! The remarks of the Anglican Bishop of Birmingham, Dr. E, W. Barnes, are reported in Thursday's "West Australian," but as usual his attitude is entirely anti-Catholic, It is as well to mention here the encyclical letter of the Pope entitled "Christian Marriage," also produced in C.T.S. pamphlet form. "The State and Education." The C.T.S. pamphlet, ''Letter of Pope Pius XI. on Catholic Education," should be read by every Catholic parIt contains the official proent. nouncement of the Hierarchy of Australia, Here is an extract: "Can anything be said for the State's Is it true boycott of our schools? that in secular knowledge our schools are inferior to those of the State? It is not true, thanks to the zeal and ability of the teaching Orders of Brothers and Sisters, whose self-sacrifice has enabled us to carry on the work of education with comparatively slenBut if it were true, der resources. the State and the State alone would be answerable for the defect, for it is the clear duty of the State to provide every assistance in the department of Is it true that the secular studies. moral and spiritual training in our schools unfits our pupils for the duties It most certainly is of citizenship? not true."
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ous manner. Although not hovel, they may have been overlooked. It may be that the parties concerned would be interested. It must not be forgotten, however, that the Government in the instances of Sotelo and some others that could be named, resorted to an old Spanish custom. Since the Bolsheviks have taken to the said custom with some enthusiasm there will be difficulty in breaking it down.—Yours, etc., L. G. GRACE.
First-Hand Impressions of New Zealander A REPLY TO A PROFESSOR
Some weeks ago a report appeared in one of our local newspapers of the views of a certain Mr. Grace, recently returned from Spain, on the civil war there. His statement of the situation w as immediately deN THE ACTUAL SPOT. nounced by a Professor of the University of W.A., the author of a letSENOR CALVO SOTELO ter of protest which was given unusual prominence in the columns of Harrowing Experience of 15—arranged to broadcast a. the same newspaper. Year-Old Son. speech disclosing the GovLearning of this development, Mr. Grace has adequately ccr_riterecl ernment's intention to turn Bolshevist, but was Mr. Grace is a son of Archcriticism in a letter to a correspondent in Perth. We reprint it here to assassinated on the eve of deacon Grace, of Blenheim, and afford the writer an opportunity of publicly vindicating his position— the appointed date. is visiting New Zealand again insofar as that is necessary. His testimony of relig ious persecution is after an absence of 10 years. For of special interest, in that Mr. Grace is not a Catholic. the greater part of that time he countenance a State plunged in Russia began broadcasting subHotel Auckland, has been developing a travel and anarchy." Count Vallellos is a versive propaganda from MosAuckland, N.Z. commercial agency between Loncow. The Professor would have strong supporter of the Right. February 15, 1937. don and Spain. He has lived in On July 16, the Government re- it that to plan a revolt all the Spain on a number of occasions Dear Sir,—Many thanks for fused the demand of the Right leaders should sit round a table for periods up to six months and in the heart of opposing forces your letter of January 22, and to debate the matter of the murhas acquired a knowledge of the der, but further suspended the with a man who is not associated the interesting enclosures. Spanish language. Cortes. The day after the mur- in any way at all with the proposed revolution. That is the Professor Beasley's letter is a der the assassins were arrested, Son's Experiences. fair sample of the writings of but never brought to trial, hut Hollywood touch. Trotsky works At a differently. those who glean their knowledge subsequently released. Mr. Grace relates some of the from newspaper reports and are crowded memorial service for Soexperiences of his 15-year-old son generally unenlightened. He will telo, in San Sebastian, the massas illustrating the conditions that HE conclu- f ollowed the outbreak of need more learning on the sub- ed mourners were fired on by the civil ject of the Spanish War before gunmen. The Government pol- sions drawn from a "picturesque \var. He was living with his being able to compile an accur- ice were ordered to disperse the story" lacks conviction. With a father's agent in San Sebastian, At mourners but the gunmen were rather pathetic and childlike seek- and saw some rather harrowing ate history of the matter. An academic mind ing after knowledge, it is asked sights, such as loads of corpses present he only jeers at "fantas- let go free. would be needed to see any com- How? Why? Why not? The en- being taken through the city to tic and novel theories" while exmon ground between Right and quiry is to be commended, but be deposited at the cemetery pounding no better ones. the answers are obscure. Only gates. Left in this matter. They were afterwani. the facts are plain and can be burned. • Mr. Grace said these Regarding Sotelo's position, dealt with. If the Professor w ere men who had been out of the interview was wrongly reknows all the answers he would f avour with the Sotelo was a Deputy ported. Government and T this juncpublic had been ruthlessly shot. and ex-Minister of Finance un- ture no debate or trial could be perhaps enlighten his Also risked by the Government. Too with answers to the following: der Marquis de Estella. Every morniivr the boy heard the statement was made that the much evidence was in the hands How does he know that Sotelo was in the possession of highly the machine-g:ns shooting down Government of Spain, in July, of the Right. Evidence that 1936, was Socialist-Republican would have damned them in the dangerous knowledge for some prisoners against a rock not which This cannot be de- eyes of the whole world for all weeks before the Government yards from the house in policy. found out and murdered him? he was living. When lie heard nied. It made a multitude of time. What reason has he for believing m achine-guns in the E r ec t he promises to its supporters at the that Sotelo had anything* to do would naturally go to look out at elections, but never carried out In the matter of the Governany of them. It could not even ment "forswearing its political with, or know anything about, the window, but twice the guns Is it w ere turned on the window from control its own supporters and faith," events have shown that it the projected rebellion? which he was looking. At 10 hangers-on, allowing them to de- had no compunction whatsoever outside the bounds of possibility clare over 100 strikes and 200 in doing so. It had no authority that the very useful system work- o'clock every morning the radio this intrigue would announce a cessation of partial strikes between its elec- from its electors to consort with ing everywhere fire for half an hour to enable would carry news a6 between February July, 1936. and tion in Communists, Syndicalists and AnSotelo? the women to do their marketing. The Government did not advo- archists. and took a nest of ad- the Government and cate radical changes at the elec- ders to bed when it did so. They What leads him to suspect the and on one occasion the boy overtions, but later made definite are not sleeping well and it will existence of any "clever" politi, stayed the half hour and had the plans to declare Spain a Bolshe- be intriguing to see what is left cian in Spain where they have m achine-gun turned on 11'.in in allowed their peseta to fall to 50 the street. He was lucky to esvik State. in the bed if Franco does not win. per cent, of its par value owing cape by dodging round a corner. It won't be a Liberal-Republican to chronic Treasury delciencies, The Professor evidently, and Government. Eventually he was given 10 their trade to almost disappear with becoming simplicity, accepts m inutes in which .to board the the story of Sotelu's assassinaProfessor Beasley seems to owing to the high cost of producB ritish destroyer Verity, which tion as being a private revenge think that Sotelo was one of the tion and failure to pay for im- l anded him at St. Jean de Luz in ports, and have produced only for the murder, by Fascists, of organisers of the rebellion. He France. He had only two Engone regular Budget since 1931? It was not a member of any of the the policeman, Lt. Castillo. lish pounds with him because the was not a bad story and encour- factions who were arranging the A few methods are suggested Government had confiscated aged by the Government, but has effort against a betrayal by the by the Professor whereby the from the bank some thousands of lost credit even with the Govern- Government. In fact he rather Spanish Government can steady pounds belonging to his father's ment's own supporters ,and has spoiled their show. It is unlike- up revolutionaries and revolu- firm. American friends and a not been referred to for months. ly that the plans for such a motionaries can attain their ends in British Consul eventually got him He goes so far as to say that the mentous rising would be discussa more effective and less danger- safely home. above reason for the murder was ed with or made known to percommon ground as between the sons outside the leaders of the It is undertaking. Right and Left parties. He also apextraordinary that the anti-Fas- pears to labour under the deluHOUSANDS of West Australian Housewives know they can save cists should revenge themselves sion that Franco, Mola. Quiepode out of the housekeeping money upon Sotelo who was associated de Llano, and Cabanellas were and yet have better, tastier meals by with neither the Fascists nor the the principal organisers. 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It is, however, an illusion to suppose that you set men free by relieving them of their obligations. On the contrary, this humanism which has destroyed the loyalty of. men to One whose service is perfect freedom, has proved the handmaid of tyranny and laid the foundation of the totalitarian state. Few people sincerely believe in this new morality. They appeal to it to justify their own lapses, but are just as ready to invoke the traditional code when it suits them. Consistency has never been a characteristic of modern prophets in general or of a certain modern in particular, whose austere defence of adultery has helped to lower the age of consent and to raise still further the age of dissent.
Con-Sistency!
His contention that a too rigid fidelity is destructive of ideal married relations was enthusiastically endorsed by his mistress, but provoked the tepid disapproval of his wife who, though enlightened and progressive, still retained a few lingering Victorian prejudices. These prejudices were finally removed by a handsome young man who professed himself an enthusiastic convert to the professor's doctrine of intermittent adultery as the foundation of a successful marriage, and who presented the professor with a son as a small mark of his esteem for the professor's views. Was the professor pleased? He was not. He said all the sort of things that an outraged husband used to say in the unenlightened past. The good professor, you see, only accepted Protagoras' dictum with a difference. The professor was the measure of all things, and what he said went—for the professor. But not for the father of the son of the wife of the professor. The ten commandments, one gathered, still remained in force so far as that young man was concerned. The professor is a typical modern. He had thought out no. thing to its ultimate conclusion. There are many popular prophets like him in the modern world, men whose sexual philosophy represents the mood of the moment. In such circles there is much fine talk about freedom from inhibitions and genial sneers at the outmoded morality of the Catholic, but if the Catholic takes them at their word and assumes that they mean what they say. they are the first to raise a fearful hullabaloo of outraged innocence. An amusing instance of this queer blend of conventional unconventionality and convential conventionality was obligingly provided by Professor J. B. S. Haldane in our recent controversy. "Fortunately for our peace of Mind," he writes, "we modern infidels unlike our grandparents often go in unashamedly for a good deal of sexual fun which you can conscientiously condemn." Professor Haldane. Haldane, who is Professor of Genetics at the University of London. is more convincing as an expert on the mating of "Droso• phila" than as a sexual funnyman. But when in another connection I remarked that "self-restraint is uncomfortable And it is therefore tempting to rational-
ise one's dislike of the code and represent it as an intellectual objection to the creed," he accused me of slinging mud. It is difficult to compete with a man who poses at one moment as an emancipated modern with engagingly modern views about sexul fun, and the next moment bridles like an outraged. Victorian because one hints that "sexual fun" may explain some apostasies from the Church. I don't resent his efforts to clothe Aunt Sally Lunn in a crinoline, but-I don't see why he should borrow my crinoline to disguise the nudity of his views on "sexual fun." But then, of course, one does not expect consistency from the emotional secularist. The cheerful pagan who has no interest in religion, and who "goes in unashamedly for a good deal of sexual fun," is as consistent as the Christian. The modernist who still claims the great name of Christian, but who has surrendered to the humanist on divorce and on contraception. is as inconsistent as the old-fashioned Victorian secularist, such as T. H. Huxley, who hoped to retain the Christian code while attacking the Christian creed. Huxley was the product of his age, a Puritan agnostic who never drew the logical conclusions from the secularist premise. In a letter to Charles Kingsley, he quoted indignantly St. Paul's "What advantages it me if the dead rise not? Let us eat and drink, for to-morrow we (lie." Huxley, a sentimental agnostic, was disedified by the realism of St. Paul. The modern is more consistent. "The dead rise not," says the modern. "therefore let us go in unashamedly for a good deal of sexual fun." And, of course, he is right . if the dead rise not
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New Carmelite Chapel Opened Large Crowd Witnesses Blessing Ceremony Eloquent Discourse by Father McLaughlin A large gathering assembled at the Carmelite Monastery in Adelma-road, Nedlan.ds, on Sunday afternoon to witness the blessing of the new Chapel recently completed for the Carmelite Sisters. His Grace the Archbishop officiated at the blessMs; which took place at 3.30 p.m. Among the priests who took part in the procession were: Rt. Rev. Monsignor Fagan, V.G., Very Rev. Dr. Kennedy (Adm.), Rev. Father Moss, Rev. Father Casey, Rev. Father O'Connor, Rev. Dr. Goody, Rev. Father Wallace, Rev. Dr. McMahon, Rev. Father Hussey, Rev. Father Johnston, Rev. Father Rafferty and Rev. Father Lyne. His Lordship the Bishop of Geraklton was also present, attended by Rev. Father Lang-mead and Rev. Father Walsh, C.SS.R.
The erection of that handsome church was an act of Faith. It was a striking and arresting expression of the people's belief that God exists, and that He must be adored. Such an act of Faith was inspiring and refresh. ing in those troubled times, when the world was convlused with revolt against God and Christianity. Two decades of years ago, the world was, comparatively speaking, at peace with its Maker, when suddenly a storm of godlessness crashed upon Europe. Russia was shaken to its foundations by a viole,nt religious upheaval and Church and Sanctuary were profaned and desecrated. Men were never so fierce as when they attacked Almighty God, and Russia hurled her bolt to the heavens, and a vast populace was plunged in the vortex of religious revolution. Russia was not alone. Mexico, seething for years burst suddenly into flame, and persecution swept the land from sea to sea and shore to shore. I3ut those awe-inspiring revelations of Satan's power on earth paled before the frightful cataclysm that swept Spain from Gibraltar to the Pyrenees. The most beautiful churches ever built The new additions consist of a by the hand of man were now in Chapel, 75ft. x 30ft. The Sanctuary smouldering .ruin, whilst a_ cascade of is raised ten steps above the main hall highroads and and is finished in terrazo. The bal. blood purpled the But Spain was dachino is supported by four terrazo byroads of Spain. columns and finished in fibrous plaster. never so great or so grand as, bleeding and torn, she was casting from her Altar rails, balustrading. sanctuary bosom those vipers of iniquity. The floor and columns of baldachino are Faith triumphed in the end, and in finished in polished terrazo with yellow marble. The ceiling is of dome de- Spain Godly men were beating their way to the front and hurling the enesign and is finished in fibrous plaster, and coloured in ivory cream and blend mies of Christ into the Mediterranean. Such religious revolution was highly with the walls, which are of cream cecontagious and spread quickly from ment finish. There are two shrines with brackets of pressed cement to nation to nation, and it was not beyond the realm of probability that it t ake statues; also tracery recesses, The If that should reach their shores. w indow traceries are of pressed cecatastrophe should befall them, the ment and the stained glass is in pale sun would shine on a land of blood green amber. There is a large wrought iron grille. 13ft. 6in, x lift., and tears. They were then living in troubled times, and welcome was that w hich separates the Sisters' choir from public act of Faith. the Sanctuary. Beside 'that there is But there were other thoughts that a Communion grille, where the Sisters arose before them at the opening of receive Holy Communion. that church, They were drawing near The exterior is similar in design to Holy Week, and pilgrims were travelThe front is ling from all parts of the world to the Carmel in Sydney. finished in red bricks relieved by dark the Holy Land, to follow in the . holy blue arches: The rose window (13ft.) footsteps of Our Lord to Calvary. is • finished in rose colour cement. 'What emotions surged in the soul of There are three recesses for statues. the pilgrim as he gazed on Mt.. CalThe top recess, which is 38ft. from the vary for the first time, With what ground, is to take a statue of Our sentiments of contrition he knelt on Lady of Mount Carmel, which is due that sacred spot. where perished the to arrive from France in the very Saviour of men in pain and blood. The other two statues near future. The memory of that scene never faded Other addiwill be erected later. Yes, from the soul of the pilgrim. tions .include the main courier corrisacred was Calvary to every sincere dor. inside and outside parlour, which Catholic, but not more sacred than are divided by an iron grille, where that altar within that church, sanctiA library, 20ft. visitors are received. fied as it would be by that same Sacx 25ft.. and oratory, 26ft. x 19ft., a rifice that made Calvary holy and priest's sacristy, 19ft. x 12ft.. an inside famous. Mary would not be present sacristy. 17ft. x 16ft., and a working An avant choir, sacristy, 18ft. x 17ft. 20ft. x 24ft., which is connected to the Sisters' choir, which is 40ft. x 24ft. The clibir has a jarrah dado, Mt. high, and the stalls are fixed about the walls. A turn room, which connects the priest's sacristy with the inside sacristy, and also a similar turn for heavy goods. which is caned a portress turn. , A4wWINIWW
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at that Sacrifice, nor the Magdalen, nor John the beloved disciple, but the Saviour would be there, and that same Victim that shed His blood on Cal. vary would offer Himself in sacrifice What a mystery of on that altar. Faith! There would also be associated with that church a mystery of Love. For, as they approached the Communion rails, a wondrous thing occurred. The hands of the clock turned back; the centuries rolled away, and they were at the supper room at There were minor dierJerusalem. ences in place and circumstances. Peter was not there, nor John, and gone were James the Greater and James the Less. But the central figure was here—Our Lord—and that same Host that He raised in His hands, saying: "This is My Body"— that same sacred Host that touched the lips of the Apostles at that BanWhat quet, touched their lips also, mysteries would be wrought within that church and, surely in erecting it, they were co-operating in tremendous and Godly things. Not only had they built that church, but they had built it to a high and noble purpose: to express their appreciation of the Sisters of Mt. CarmeL The late Archbishop (Dr. Clone) imprinted his memory on many a Godly undertaking in this diocese. Many a church and school spelt his name, But the preacher doubted if there was any w ork of his that so graced his memory, or bore better testimony to his nigh ideals, as the introduction of the Carmelite Sisters into the diocese. Those Sisters did not nurse the sick, or tend the orphan, or teach the children; and the only explanation of Dr. Clune's desire to establish them there was his lofty conception of the power of prayer, and the far-reaching influence of self-sacrifice. There were other religious Sisters in Perth who nursed the sick, or cared for the orphan, but their very work--and might God bless them for their work—brought a touch of human consolation into their lives, They could win a smile from the child they taught, or receive a word of ,gratitude from the patient they nursed, or read a letter of thanks from an orphan they had befriended. But in the case of the Carmelite Sisters, there was a complete abandonment of the world, as thoroughly as though a sepulchre had entombed them. The resolution to thus sacrifice oneself—to be dead to the world though living in it—was so supreme and superhuman that it must come from God, and come in a very special way. The girl that could so forswear the world, and with such abandon, must be a special child of God, favoured with special lights and forThe mere tified with special helps. contemplation of the Sisters' lives filled us with shame at the selfishness of Screened from human gaze, ours. they lived for God and God alone. Prayer and self-sacrifice were the web rind woof of their lives. -Let us realise," added the preacher, "that where those Sisters are God is not far away." Those Sisters belonged to an Order that spanned the centuries. Reaching back to the Middle Ages, when the civilised world was Catholic, it absorbA....4
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ed the highest traditions of the Church, when the Church ruled supreme and when her influence was unimpaired by the heresies of the Reformation. They belonged to an Order whose spirit was hallowed by the Saints, who adorned it, from St. Teresa of Avila to St. Teresa of Lisieux. If the people wanted to know the secrets of those hidden virgins of God, they might read them in that enthralling story of that extraordinary child of God—the Little Flower. The mere reading of that fascinating Life brought a great writer of the Anglican Church into the true fold—Sheila Kaye Smith. She was convinced that the Church that produced such a chosen soul must be the true Chursch. How consoling the thought, that the Order that claimed the Little Flower moulded her spirit and led her upwards to God, was established amongst them. They had their share of the sorrows and trials that afflict the rest of mankind. They were living in a vale of tears, and shared in common with the children of Adam the vexations and afflictions of life. Now it was no small consolation for themn to remember that this great friend of God—the Little Flower—promised a world quivering in pain and sorrow, that she w ould spend her Heaven in doing good upon earth. So faithfully had she honoure: that promise, and so many favours were obtained through her intercession, that her name and fame had touched the ends of the earth. Now, who could claim more influence with that great friend of God than her own Religious Sisters? In trials, then, and in afflictions he would ask all to come to this church and unite their prayers with those of the Sisters, and he had no doubt that wonderful favours would be granted them, He believed as the years went by, that the church would be associated with favours from the Little Flower, that it would become a veritable shrine for the Catholics of Western Australia. Not in vain, then, had the Sisters come amongst them, and not to any idle purpose had they built this church. Give generously to their appeal, for coin was never spent to higher purpose or to better advantage, Father McLaughlin congratulated the Sisters on the day's triumph—on being the recipients of a striking token of the love and veneration of the people amongst whom they had come to live. He congratulated their prelate and pastor, in sponsoring the undertaking and accepting its responsibilities. Lastly, he congratulated all in offering that tribute to a great Religious Order. Amen. After the sermon, Rt. Rev. Dr. O'Collins. Bishop of Geraldton. assisted by Rev. Dr. McMahon, Rey. Father Moss, and Rev, Father Casey, gave Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament. A t the conclusion of the ceremony, His Grace spoke a few words of appreciation of the attendance and the generosity of the people, and thanked the architect (Mr, Costello) and his staff for the fine workmanship they had put into the building. (List of Donations on Page 17.) 1..
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A fter the blessing of the outer walls 'the procession moved into the'church. where the Litany of the Saints was intoned by His The chapel was packed Grace. and the aisles filled with standing people. The choir from the Redemptorist Monastery. North Perth, under the direction of Rev. Father Murray. C.SS.R.. rendered appropriate hymns very devotionally throughout the cereThe Blessed Sacrament 1110I1V. was then transferred to the new tabernacle by Rev. Father Moss and a decade of the Rosary was recited. The Occasional Sermon. McLoughlin, Rev. Father C.SS.R.. delivered the occasional sermon. The preacher said:—
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St. Gerard's Palmyra On Wednesday evening. March 10, a very pleasant function took place in St. Gerard's Hall, which was packed to overflowing, the occasion being a farewell to Rev, Father Kearin and a welcome to Rev. Father Smith. Very suitable addresses were made by Mr. Chapman on behalf of North Fremantle, Mr. Owen Fitzgerald, who related old times with Father Kearin, Mr. Maxwell and Mr. E. J. Browne, on behalf of Bicton-Palmyra, and Mr. Edwards, on behalf of ratepayers of Bicton-Palmyra. With a. most touching corrunenda tion of the good works done by Rev. Father Kearin, spiritual and otherwise, during the last 14 years, Rev. Father Albert Lynch made a presentation on behalf of the parishioners, Presentations were then made by Master Jim McCarthy, on behalf of the altar boys of North Fremantle; Master Frank Anderson, on behalf of the altar boys of St. Gerard's, and Mr. Tom Miller, on behalf of the Young Men's Club. A presentation was also made on behalf of the Children of Mary, North Fremantle.
On rising to speak, Father Kearin was given a most rousing ovation. Ile said that all this surprised him indeed. He really did not expect anything and did not quite know how to thank He would never forall the people. get their kindness and loyalty and he wished that they would do as much to help the new parish priest, Father Smith, as they had done to help him during the many happy years he had been with them. immediately Father Smith, who created a good impression by his witticisms, said he could see for himself that he indeed had a real task ahead of him if he were to endeavour to keep up with the pace set by Father Kearin, but was well satisfied that he would get the same assistance from the parishioners as they had given to He realised that he Father Kearin. would have a wonderful help in Rev. Father Lynch. Musical and vocal items were kindly given by Rev. Father Lynch, Mr. Corl. ,1611, Mrs, Roma Beeney, Mr. Maxwell, Mr. White and Mrs Shanahan. • The music for the dancing, etc., was in the capable hands of Mrs, Anderson Mr. Tully acted as chairman for the evening.
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St. Columba's South Perth Opening Sunday: April 11th. On the second Sunday after Easter, St. Columba's Church will be blessed and opened by His Grace the Archbishop at 3 p.m. in the afternoon. On that morning, so longed for by generations of South Perthites, Masses will be at 7 a.m., and Solemn High Mass at 10 a.m., at which His Grace will preside, and the Rev. Father E. McLoughlin, C.SS.R., will preach the occasional sermon. The choir is still calling for volunteers to aid them on their big day. Rehearsals are held every Tuesday and Thursday. Now, my dear parishioner, this is your day, you are the hosts of the day, for it is your church that is to be opened, the church which will serve you, your children ,and your children's children ,no matter who may be the Therefore you priests attending it. must not expect a formal invitation to attend. Nay, rather, as host, you should extend a pressing invitation to your many friends to come and rejoice with you on that great occasion. And to you, our many kind friends across the Swan, you who have come over here in the wind and the rain to bid no trumps, to sample our special brand of sausage rolls, and to make us all happier by your presence at our parish social gatherings—we do wish you to attend. Be with us that day and encourage us with your smile, e ven though you have nothing else to honour the day with. Formal invitations are cold things, so we do not hope to send one to each one of you. We prefer the old land's brand of hospitality, which says: "If you are within a mile of our home on Sunday, April 11, we hope you will stay there!" Shrine to St. Anne. The intercession of the great St. Anne is second only to that of her daughter. Mary, the Mother of God. Here in St. Columba's we have many evidences of her interest in our parish That such a perand its problems. sonal patronage should continue we are uniting to build her a permanent niche in our new church, giving her the side altar on the Epistle side, all to herself, where her clients may go to her and seek her help, especially on
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Tuesdays. We hope to place the names of her clients in a memorial book, which will remain on the shrine as a record of the clients of St. Anne, her clients in the past, and the fresh clients of to-morrow, to be inscribed therein. To that laudable purpose we invite you, one and all. Our Dublin Window. Those who see our window for the first time are somewhat startled—it is so new, so different from what St. Mary's Cathedral has educated us to look upon as beautiful stained glass. Haying done a tour of the church, they come back to look again on the window, and this time the comments are more enthusiastic. Climbing on the organ gallery, and there examining the window microscopically, so to speak, there is usually an outburst of admiration. So does the window win you gradually, slowly, but completely. igelot—werie—we—mipe.teA brief comment on the St. Patrickpanel. On the right of the "Father of the Irish" is his most famous son, one of the first and the greatest of Irish-born saints, The artist depicts a young man, taut as wire, determined and resolute chin, aristocratic nose, alert in eye, looks down on you, and his great eyes seem to follow you about. In his left hand is an abbot's crozier, of ancient Celtic design in carved silver, around which long tapering fingers cluster, rather than grasp. His left hand caresses lovingly a model of a church. A t once the hands captivate you, slender, beautiful, sensitive—the hands of an artistic, poetic, but heroic personality, It is in the drawing of the human hand that artists betray their weakness in craftsmanship. Judged by the technique of the hands in this window, then the craftsman who designed and executed this window is no mere apprentice. Look carefully at the church held in St. Columba's hand, and pressed slightly against his chasuble, and you will see an accurate miniature of King Cormac's Chapel in Cashel, of which H. V. Morton writes: "I could return again and again to Cornac's Chapel and never exhaust its singular charm. . . If I were an Irishman I would haunt Cashel, for there and there alone is visible a link with the Gaelic Ireland: the Ireland of the Book of Kells, the Ardagh Chalice, the Cross of Cong, and the Tara brooch." Have you read H. V. Morton's "In Search" books yet? What a pity if you have wasted time on other reading so much less worth while, Before you see our Dublin window, buy, ,beg, or borrow "In Search of Ireland" and read pp. 72-78, studying carefully the double page, sepia tinted. photo. of Cormac's Chapel, for therein you will find the source of inspiration from which flows the Dublin glass of to-day. Perched almost on the shoulder of St. Columba is a dove with outstretched wings. The saint is better known as Columcille, "the Dove of the Churches," for he built many churches (and we need his presence badly in South Perth, for we have two more churches to build vet! ) His name, Columba, means a dove. Columba was not always a dove, he had plenty of "Irish" in him, and his temper was by nature explosive. By self conquest on the Isle of Iona, he grew as gentle as a dove. The background of the panel is again that rich deep blue so favoured by the artist, with its bracelet of red and russet sparkling lights around its edge. And more about the window next w eek. A Night in June. Advanced booking of your dance engagements for the coming season, reserve Wednesday, June 2, the first Wednesday of the month, for "A Night in June" dance at the Pagoda, Como
Subiaco V ALEDICTORY SOCIAL. A large number of friends and the members of St. Joseph's Church Choir gathered at Miss E. Jones' residence on Sunday evening last to bid Miss Molly Jones bon voyage on her trip to Tasmania. The evening took tne form of a v aledictory social, at which items were given by members of the choir. Games were also played and dancing was indulged in by some. During the evening Mr. Tom Forristal (choir conductor), on behalf of the choir members, presented Miss Jones with a travelling case, as a token of esteem for her work among them ,and he wished her a pleasant and enjoyable trip. Mr. Cain also supported Mr. Forristal's remarks, to which the guest of the evening suitably responded.
Katanning VALEDICTORY. On Monday evening the church grounds and school rooms presented a very animated appearance, the occasion being a social evening and presentation to Rev. Father Doddy, on the eve of his departure for Rosalie, Subiaco. The rooms and verandahs were packed with member of the cominunity and friends of Father Doddy, many coming great distances. Broome Hill, Flat Rocks, and Tambellup being NyelI represented. A fter a short musical programme had been rendered, Mr. T. Clune, president of the Church Committee, in a. few well chosen words expressed regret of all for losing Father Doddy, who had endeared himself to everyone through his kindness and eagerness to co-operate with them in reducing the church debt, and concluded by wishing Father Doddy many years of good health and happiness in which to carry out his sacred duties. These remarks were ably supported by Mr. J. Fraser. The president then asked Father Doddy to accept a gift o f a crystal water jug and goblets, as token of respect and appreciation. Rev. Father Byrne, who was accompanied by Rev. Dr. Sullivan, of Narrogin, was then welcomed and introduced to most of his parishioners. Father Doddy, before responding, had a small duty to perform, that was to present a trophy to each of the candidates in the recent Queen Carnival. He was very pleased with their efforts and was very proud to say that throughout the competition there was not any ill-feeling, and each candidate was the best of friends, which was a .-edit to them. All then joined in singing "Auld Lang Syne," and Father•Doddy had a very busy time in saying good-bye as tte members dispersed.
Toodyay Mass Time Table. sk March 21: 8.30, .1enacubbine; :0.30, Toodyay. March 28: 8.30, Baker's Hill; 10.30, T oodyay. April 4: 8, Toodyay; 10. Wongamine, April 11: 8, Mundaring; 9.30, Mt. Helena. 1)261 18: 8.30, Jennacubbine: 10.30, Toodyay. April 25: 8.30, Clackline; 10.30. Toodyay. May 2: 8, Toodyav: 10, Wongamine May 9: 8, Mt. Helena; 9.30, Nfundar. ing.
Pinjarra Mass Time Table, Easter Sunday, March 28: Pinjarra: Mass at S a.m. R ockingham: Mass at 10,30 a.m.
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Holy Week Ceremonies
Rev. Father Rafferty; sub-deacon, Rev. Father Linnane. - Masters of Ceremonies. Very Rev. E. Kennedy, D.D. (Adm.), and Mr. A. Oldrini. EASTER SUNDAY. There will be a Pontifical High Mass at 11 o'clock.
"THE TEAR AND THE SMILE." brant, Rev. Father Wallace deaIt having been .announced that the PALM SUNDAY. Superior General of the Oblate Fathers, con and Rev. Father RafThe blessing of the palms will Very Rev,. Father Laboure, 0.M.I., The Passion sub -deacon. ferty take place before the 7 o'clock and the newly appointed Superior to St. John will to according ospel G St. Patrick's Very Rev.,. Father Mass. The blessed palms will be sung. Ahearne, 0.M.I., en route from Ireland, be distributed at all the Masses. would reach Fremantle aboard the hristus: Rev. F' ather McGilliThe Passion Gospel according to C "Orford" on the 30th. inst., a large and cuddy. REDS EXPEL NUNS FROM St. Matthew will be sung during influential gathering assembled on Father Johnston. Rev. arrator: HOSPITAL. N Sunday evening in St. Patrick's Hall the 11 o'clock Mass: Rev. Father O'Reilly. atholics Make Protest at Rabble: C to make arrangements for the worthy McGilliFather Christus: Rev. reception of the distinguished ecclesiasPreacher: Rev. Father Johnston. Departure. cuddy. tics, be taken up will municipality collection Communist A The Narrator: Rev. Father Johnston. The Superior General, who is of during the Adora- Oyonnax, France, has expelled morning this Rabble: Rev. Father O'Reilly. French birth, has spent most of his life tion of the Cross for the Bushies' the nuns who have for many SPY WEDNESDAY. in Texas, one of the Southern States All col- years staffed the town hospital. School Fund. of the Union, and among his beloved The Office of Tenebrae will be Holiday to Lay nurses have been appointed. forwarded 1-.e to are lections Canada. distant in French-Canadians chanted at 7.30 p.m. Only one He speaks English with that grace and Administrator, St. Mary's Cathe The parish priest organised a charm associated with his Celtic ton- iiocturn of Matins will be sung. thedral. in honour of the demonstration L ands will follow. gue. driven away they were as nuns Mr. James Dowling, as church secreChanters: Rev. Father Kearin The Stations of the Cross. hospital. People lined from the tary at St. Patrick's for years, outlined and Rev. Dr. McMahon. The Stations of the Cross will up outside the hospital and the purpose of their meeting by statbe held in the Cathedral at 3 ing that the illustrious Superior Gen- Preacher: Rev. Father McGillicheered the nuns, and there cuddy. eral was on visitation to the Houses p.m., during which a Redemptor- were cries of protest against the of his Order in Australia for the first Lamentations:ist Father will preach. municipality. time, and they were there that night 1. Rev. Father Kearin. The Stations will be held at St. to make preparations for according McMahon. Rev. Dr. 2. 3 -street, at Patrick's, Havelock him a lwelcome typical of the Catholic 3. Rev. Father O'Reilly. (Cheers.) They p.m., and at St. Francis Xavier's people of the West. The Society of St. Vinwere indeed delighted beyond measure Note: For the guidance of Church, Windsor-street, at the cent de Paul is urgently in to have associated in that welcome those who use a Holy Week same hour. of Adoration The Very Rev. Father Ahearne, O.M.I. the of left-off clothing to need Book, we would explain that the Cross by the laity will begin newly appointed Superior to St. Patthe wants of the dissupply rick's, Fremantle, who has already had Tenebrae (darkness) consists of immediately after the Stations. Parcels may be tressed. the Matins and Lauds of the Diva brilliant career as missionary under Tenebrae. left at the Western Stove the Southern Cross. (Cheers.) ine Office, which priests are The Office of Tenebrae will Co., corner Wellington and He (Mr. Dowling) spoke under great bound to say on Thursday, Fri- begin at 7.30 p.m. emotion, for there had gone out from Queen-streets, or ring B6307 day and Saturday of Holy Week. Lamentations:amongst them, in the person of Very and they will be collected. Matins and Lauds are anticipat1. Rev. Father O'Reilly. Rey, Father Neville, 0.M.I., and they ed, that is, those for Thursday would see his face no more, a great 2. Rev, Father Lynch. priest, a great missionary ,a great are said on Wednesday evening, 3. Rev. Father McMahon. lover of Australia, and of them, a those fo-r Friday on Thursday, Preacher: friend to the speaker beyond all tellD'Arcy's Select Dances FriR ev. Father Ryan, O.M.I. ing, and one of the grandest soggarths and those for Saturday on MODERN AND OLD-TIME. only day evening. This year aroon that has ever made his home ANZAC HOUSE BALLROOM. HOLY SATURDAY. in Western Australia. (Applause.) The one nocturn .consisting of three the lighting of ceremonies The memory of Father Neville would be Psalms and three Lamentations, Every Thursday Evening cherished through the years to be. He `Miss Doreen D'Arcy's Six-Piece will be sung. The Lamenta- Paschal Fire, blessing the Baptis( Mr. Dowling) would like to pay triRhythm Band. tions are taken from the Prophet mal Font and Paschal Candle bute to that "Israelite indeed in whom The a.m. 6.45 begin at will Novelties, Provided. Supper Dainty there is no guile," Father Kenny, Jeremiah weeping over Jerusa0.M.I., who as Father Neville's repreAdmission 1/6, plus tax. lem and the plight of its people. reading of the Prophecies over, sentative at St. Patrick's, has perCelebrant, Make this Dance your Thursday Night These are sung to a plaintive Mass will begin. formed wonderful work for God. His Appointment. deacon. O'Reilly Father Rev. chant resembling the dirges of Holy Name Society of some 300 memthe past. The words .of these bers is not out-distanced in the West, but in everything he undertakes he lamentations are most approprileaves the impress of a great priest, ate for the occasion and express ever toiling in the Master's Vineyard. ( Applause.) They would have liked in the poetic language of the Heto hail him that evening as the Super- brews the Church's feelings on ior of St. Patrick's—although they the approach of Good Friday loved beyond all telling the gift of The harmonised portion of the God to them in Father Ahearne. HowLauds is the Benedictus canticle. ever, in the designs of Providence, When the lights are extinguished Father Kenny may be one day a Catholic Church. Prince of the each evening. His Grace intones (Cheers.) the Miserere, a beautiful act of A fter Father Kenny had expressed contrition taken from the Psalms. his deep appreciation of the sentiHOLY THURSDAY. ments voiced by Mr. Dowling in his regard, and so generously received by There will be a Pontifical High them, sentiments which he felt quite Mass at 8.30 a.m., during which unworthy, he at the same time countHis Grace will consecrate and ed no sacrifice too great for the spiritual and temporal welfare of his people. bless the holy oils for the ensuing Whether his years were few or many year. Rev. Father Moss will in their midst, he would always react as assistant priest, Rev. member them, the parishioners of Father Rafferty as deacon, and Fremantle, as a great Catholic people. Rev. Father Hussey as sub-dea(iApplausel A t the instance of Mr. Dowling, con. Councillor J. M. Farrell, J.P., was Plaistowes, Nestles, Cadburys and Deacons for the Holy Oils: elected chairman, and on the motion Rev. WalFathers Lang-mead, Griffiths of Mr. P. Brady, Mr, Dowling honorlace, Kenny, 0.M.I., Lyne, Foiled Easter Eggs . . 6 for 6d. Cadbury's popular Energy ary secretary. 'Mess-rs. Farrell and Chocolate Egg, in attractive Nestle's Nests of Eggs, 3d. each Casey and O'Connor. Dowling thanked th,.. gathering for the foil packed in. an original Fancy Foiled Chocolate Eggs honour conferred upon them. Deacons for the Holy Oils will 3d. eaeh with chick .. casket . 1 - each It was unanimously agreed to hold kindly bring amice. alb, girdle Eas ter Plaistowe's chocolate Menzonia Golden Goose. This the public welcome in St. Patrick's novelty carton contains a Novelties . . 3d. and 6d each Hall, the form' to be adopted being a and stole. Hu.mpt y Mac Robert son's medium size golden egg and The Office of Tenebrae will he grand concent interspersed with brief four small ones . . l'- each Dumpty Carton Choc. Egg addresses. •Sub-committees were apsung at 7.30 p.m. 6d. Nestle's Cardboard Nests, ,xith pointed to :arrange all the details. Preacher: China Egg Cups with large Easter Eggs . . 1/- each The next meeting will be held on A Redemptorist chocolate egg . . . . 6d. each Menzonia Chocolate Canoes, Sunday. March 28. Novelty Carton Plaistowe's with Choc, Egg and Chicks, Lamentations Thrtsflunction itself will take place 6d. each Chocolate Egg . . 6d. and 1 - each. A popular .*arch 31, 1. Rev. Father ,rohnston. Boans Monster Value, large line. 2. Rev. Father McGillicuddy. —7-id, each Choc. Egg . . Plaistowe's Lucky Chocolate The Catholic Press is my voice! 3. Rev. Father Kearin. Novelty Baskets, with chocoHorseshoe, with Chocolate 9d each late egg and chick Note: During ;he Mass the Egg inset with ribbon bow —Pope Pius XI. Nestle's Quality Fancy Foiled 1 - each e 'slebrant will consecrate two 111111111i111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111MIIHMI Choc. 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Canada's Lead A c-able report from Quebec, on the 12th. inst., announced that Mr. Duplessis, the Premier, in the Provincial Legislature, had appealed to all provinces to join in the fight against Communism. He outlined repressive measures which would be employed in Quebec Province to combat Communism, and appealed to Ottawa to support his efforts. In this connection it is interesting to note that the anti-Communist lead in Canada was given by the Catholic Confederation of Workers, when they recently recommended to Prime Minister McKenzie King and members of the Federal Cabinet that Communists be barred from Canada. In this matter Canada is a good deal more awake than Australia, for Communism has been declared illegal by the Supreme Court of Ontario. Meantime, in our own country, Communism carries on its propaganda by press and the theatre, strengthens its organisation, multiplies its affiliations, and undermines the loose structure of existing bodies, but our politicians cannot be shaken from their apathy. The Confederation of Catholic Workers of Canada went a good deal further than proffering pious and innocuous suggestions. They asked that Canada, as a member of the League of Nations, cause Soviet Russia to be tried at Geneva. Further, that could it be proved that Russia was disseminating Communist propaganda by means of commercial relations, that Canada propose that Soviet Russia be debarred from the League of Nations, and that, as a penalty, members of the League of Nations be advised to discontinue all commercial relations with Russia. So far as we know Canada is the only part of the British Dominions where sufficiently wakeful attention is being given to the Communist menace. The general lethargy must be attributable to the lack of example forthcoming from Britain itself. England, so far from crusading against Communism, appears to be in open alliance with each and every anti-Fascist move ,and there even seems a possibility of military alliance with Russia. It will be a sorry day when Australians are conscripted to fight alongside of the Russian Reds.
A Modern Pilgrimage
In an age crammed with catch-words, which act as a sort of opiate to the universal restlessness, one has been intoned so often and so fervently that it has become something in the nature of a universal hymn. It is the idea of progress. But radically, that idea involved nothing more than a "going forward" with the irresistible sweep of time. The companion notion that this advance was necessarily ameliorative and indeed inevitably so, was simply a piece of pseudo scientific quackery. Men of the calibre of Mr. H. G. Wells could glibly describe the Church as conservative or reactionary simply because when there was a question of advancing, the Church wanted to know what was the goal. That progress is futile and chimerical which is attempted without a profound and intelligent retrogression into the past. That is why the Catholic Church, whose progress is guaranteed to the end of time, insists upon returning annually to the place and time where all history really began, and whence all human activity receives its eternal significance. Each year the Church returns in pilgrimage to Calvary, where, strangely enough, in the death of God, all things were made new and all men born again. Among the host of bewildering paradoxes contained in the Christian Faith, none is stranger yet more certain than that by which the Church restores her vitality and regains her youth in the death of Christ. And this is so because Calvary is actually not the culmination of the life of Christ, but the Resurrection morning. The attentive student of the liturgy must be struck by the "impatience" of the Church in the "anticipated" Divine Office of Holy Week. But just at this point of time, if it be true that the world is home-sick for Bethlehem and for Nazareth, it is a thousand times more true that the world needs a pilgrimage to Calvary. The root of all modern heresy is sentimentality, a horrid softening of the spirit, without strength and without gentleness also. Our modern social reformers are full of suggestions which violate Christian principles and which make for mere comfort and spiritual flabbiness. And typical of this weakness is the etnotional ruthlessness with which it shall be achieved. The same symptoms of hysterical rage and abandon are evident in a neurotic woman. The modern world on pilgrimage to Calvary could learn that pain is not evil and that it need not be futile. If the world were sincere in its attachment to unconventiality it would see from Calvary that the Christian religion is anything but flat and dull. Above all else it is a revolution, a complete turning upside down of everything that is practiced and accepted by the common-sense people of the world. And in this utter reversal of values, the most extraordinary things find a place. Pain, loss, loneliness, failure and desolation of spirit—these have an essential and indispensable place in the Christian scheme of things. They are not in themselves ends, as the stoics and the fakirs make them. But they are powerful and decisive means. They illustrate that the Christian life is really the "full" life in which account is made of everything, and the rational life in which "ought" is the keyword of principle instead of "feel." Above all, the modern world could regenerate on Calvary the conception of the meaning of love, which it has so debased. It could learn that love is not entirely or most importantly sensuous. That it means deeds and hard deeds for the person 'loved. And God so loved the world that He gave up for us His only begotten Son, who in turn was obedient even to the death of Cross.
Saturday, March 20, 1937.
The Archdiocese Archbishop's Engagements. Sunday, April 4: Blessing of new Presbytery, Kellerberrin. . Saturday, April 10: Blessing and official opening of St. Anne's Nursing Home, Mount Lawley. On Sunday afternoon His Grace the Archbishop blessed and opened the new Chapel of the Carmelite Monastery, Nedlands.
Sunday, April 11: Blessing of St. Columba's Church, South Perth. Sunday, April 18: Blessing of new Convent at Mosman's Park (Buckland Hill).
His Grace the Archbishop presided at the ceremnny of the taking of the veil at the Carmelite . Sunday, April 25: Confirmation Monastery on Friday. at Highgate Hill.
News ant_ Commencing on Easter Sunday, Mass will be celebrated at Scarborough at 7.30 a.m. each Sunday morning and at North Beach at 9 o'clock, until further notice.
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in 1933 to less than 2,000.000. Five anti-religious colleges have been closed. The Communist League of Youth is also reported to have abandoned its anti-religious efforts in some areas. The church, profiting by the new attiFriends of Mr. Peter RoxbY, tude, has already begun a new reof Bulwer-street, North Perth, ligious drive. will regret to hear that his daugh• • * ter Connie (Mrs. Epps) has been A striking commentary on Rusan inmate of St. John of God's sian trends was made in Warsaw Hospital, Subiaco, for the past on the 12th. inst. by the Polish few weeks. Her condition has General Sikorski. "M. Stalin slightly improved. may be likened to the liquidator of the bankrupt Communist Misses Berna and Pat Boyle, m ovement in Soviet Russia," said of Mt. Lawley. are spending a the General. "Stalin strikes holiday in the South-West. not merely against the opposition Mr. and Mrs. Haddon King in the Moscow trials, but shoots are at their home in Ward-street, down the whole original ComKalgoorlie, after several weeks' munistic doctrine. In the dock honeymoon trip to New Zealand. stands the very system of Leninist Bolshevism. The Red army is quite unconcerned about the A pamphlet freely distributed bloodstai ned Moscow drama. It in Australia, entitled "A Roman Catholic Speaks on Spain," pur- is Stalin's great service to Russia ports to give the text of an ad- that he has removed the army dress delivered at Madrid by Os- from politics and placed it above sorio y Gallardo. Introducing political manoeuvres. It has beSenor Gallardo to the public, the come steadily mot-, national pamphlet refers to him as "a de- While Leninist Communism is liquidated. Russia enters new vout Catholic." According to Senor Gil Robles. leader of the ways. These new factors .political and military, are of the Accion Popular Party, in a lettet to the London "Universe," Senor highest importance for Europe." • Gallardo is so devout that he has Major T. Boyle, Military Finnever practised the Catholic reli- ance Officer for South Australia, gion. Don Angel Ossorio y Gal- is now on leave prior to retirelardo is one of the Radical offi- ment, after a service of 37 years. cials who, like Lerroux and all He was educated at the Christhe Catalonian leaders except tian Brothers' College, Brisbane, Companys (who was captured and after a few years of business and placed in prison), found it experience in Queensland and safer- to fly from Spain than live New South Wales, came to under Red rule. He may have Wes tern Australia in the nine spoken in Madrid, but he has not ties, where he was on the staff of been there since the outbreak of the late Mr. John Horgan, solithe revolution. citor, who w as later joined by A cable from Berlin on the Mr. M. Lavan; In 1900 Major 12th. inst., alleges that Bahlur Boyle joined th6\Public Service von Schirach, head of the Hitler of West Australia.- and when the Youth movement, has announced Defence Departmerfc was taken Commonwealth that no denominational organisa- over by the tion, whether Catholic or Pro- transferred to that service, betestant, will henceforth be per- coming head of the, finance mitted. It is feared that in- branch in W.A. In 191k he was structions which already have transferred to South Ad alia, been given to Storm Tronpers to taking over the finance branct on leave the churches may be ex- the death of the late Maj tended to other State-controlled Knowles, which position he is now relinquishing. The responorganisations. sibilities of the office may be On the 11th. inst. the Holy gauged by the fact that he conFather was well enough to pre- trolled expenditure which in the side over a meeting of 20 Car- peak years exceeded £2,000,000. dinals in his salon. It is believ- A lthough interested in many ed that the religious settlement things, his main pleasure and recreation was music, and especialin Ethiopia was discussed. ly sacred music, and in the capaAccording to a message from cities of organist and choirmasMoscow on the 10th. inst., the ter he devoted over 40 years. For anti-religious movement in Rus- nearly 18 years he was conductor sia is apparently declining. It at St. Francis Xavier's Cathedral was officially announced that the Choir, and was recognised as an membership of the Godless Lea- authority on Church music. gue had dwindled from 5.000.000 Under his guidance. augmented
Saturday, March 20, 1937.
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THE CONCLUDING ITEM AT ST. PATRICK'S CONCERT —CLONTARF ORPHANAGE choirs and orchestras provided the music for many of the greatest festivals of the Church and for the laying of the foundationstone and the opening of the new Cathedral. Major Boyle has indeed had a very busy life, and we join with his numerous friends in wishing him many years of happiness in his \ vel1-earned period of rest. Mr. and Mrs. J. P. O'Hara, of Dalkeith, returned home by the "Westralia" on Tuesday, after an of enjoyable three holiday months in New Zealand and the Eastern States. ST. ILDEPHONSUS' COLLEGE, NEW NORCIA,
HUGH GOERKE, Winner of Government University Exhibition, Leaving Certificate, 1936. Passed in six subjects, distinction in four. Also first place in the State in the recent Alliance Francaise Examination. Winner of the Alliance Francaise Gold Medal,
St. Patrick's Night Concert
The celebration of St. Patrick's Day culminated on Wednesday evening with a grand national concert in His Majesty's Theatre. A record attendance filled the house early. Many people were turned away. The concensus of opinion seemed to be that this year's concert was the most successful for many years. The mainstay of the programme was the items c ontributed by the Catholic schools of the metropolitan area, while a finesse was lent to the whole performance by the contributions of several wellknown artists in solo items. The orchestration of all the music and the leading of the orchestra were in the capable hands of Mr. Sydney Smith. His Grace the Archbishop, accompanied by Right Reverend Doctor O'Collins, Bishop of Geraldton, attended, while many priests and religious were also present.
The programme opened with an o verture of Irish Airs, arranged by Mr. Sydney Smith, and effectively rendered by the full orchestra. This was followed by a group of choral numbers by pupils of Loreto. Convents. A bright item was that given by pupils of the Christian Brothers' College. Rev. Father Albert Lynch then played two violin solos, "Danny Boy" and Schubert's "Ave Maria," which were enA popular thusiastically received. number followed in a bright rendition of two poems from John O'Brien's "Around the Boree Log," by a small boy from Highgate Christian Brothers. Pupils of the Sacred Heart Primary School performed an action song and dance arranged by Miss Peggy Esler. The rhythmic drill number, presented by the Leederville Convent, was very well executed and earned the applause it received. Miss Lora Sydney-Smith was then heard in "Hills of Donegal" and "Nora 0'Ryan" to good effect. It was followed by the Victoria Square Ladies' College orchestra in an effective "Fantasia on Irish Airs," arranged by Czerny.
The annual General Communion will be held on !April 4, at St. Mary's Cathedral. Mass is at 9 a.m, and the usual procession will leave the Archbishop's Palace at 8.45, where mem. All hers will don academic robes. Members are requested to attend this function, which is by far the most important of the society in the whole year. Transport arrangements will be the same as on previous years, but any members are requested to attend this conveyance or have a car with which they are willing to help, are requested to get in touch with the secretary (Mr. M. Lane, University, Crawley), or else leave a message at "The Record" office, so that arrangements may be made. A list of cars will be published in next week's "Record," and their starting points and routes given. The breakfast will be held at the Esplanade Hotel after Mass and a good at. tendance is requested.
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on the occasion. Visitors will also be the guests of the W.A. Trotting Assoin Accommodation while ciation. Perth has been secured at the !Australia Hotel. Wedding Bells. The bachelor ranks of St. Joachim's has again been depleted by the announcement of an early marriage of a most popular couple, in the persons of Miss Nell McCormack to Mr. Jack King, which will take place at St. Both are Mary's on the 5th. April. well known in all Catholic social and sporting circles, and have been showered with congratulatory messages of Jack has been one of St. goodwill. Joachim's foremost players of recent years, and has several trophies to his He is also known in footcredit. ball circles, being East Perth's goalIn fact he is considered keeper. amongst the State's best custodians of the sticks.
Catholic Tennis Association Country Week Carnival. Preparations for a successful country week carnival are now in full swing. Advice has been received to the effect that teams will be coming to the city from Kalgoorlie, Boulder, Bunbury, Trayning, Northam and Collie. It will be noticed with regret that the absentees are Narrogin and Gerald. ton. It was quite a surprise and a disappointment to know that the former club, who are always foremost in these carnivals, would be posted amongst the missing. The only other country club which operates is Albany, but as they do not comply with the conditions of the .Association constitution they are not eligible for competition. In all close upon one hundred country reprr:entatives will be present during the carnival. Play will commence on Easter Saturday and the competition will he finAll the alised on Easter Monday. courts at Crystal Grcunds. on the EsThis will planade, have been hired. centralise the play and make the orThe soganisation easier to handle. cial side will include a dan:e at the C athedral Hall, tc wl-ich the Associaciation is under a debt of gratitude to This will the Catholic Ladies' Club. be held on the Saturday evening, and should receive the support of all AssoOn Sunday evenciation members. ing the official dinner and dance will be held at the Stirling Institute. Metropolitan club secretaries are requested to advise the Association secretary (Mr. de Luca) as early as possible of the number that intend to be present
After the interval St. Brigid's Convent singing pupils presented a bracSITUATIONS VACANT. ket of choral and solo numbers in a Wanted for City Library, young drawing-room setting ,and the frocking Apply by let- of this number was especially striking girl; fond of reading. ter to "Library," "Record" Office. The soloists included Misses Pat HanWanted respectable young lady, 24 nah, Mary Buggy, Phyllis Tweedie, and to 26 years; R.C. prefo?rrecl; companion Alice Hyam. Then followed Miss c ountry. APPIY "J. C.." "Record." Mercia de Mamiei, mezzo-soprano, in "Fairy Tales of Ireland" and "Last DEATHS. Rose of Summer:" this was a very W ALS11.—On March 11. 1937. Eileen • pleasing rendition. After a novelty Emma, the loving and dearly laved rhythmic item by the pupils of St. daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Tom Joseph's School, two choral numbers Walsh, of 44 Mackie -street, Victoria were presented by the pupils of HighPark, loved sister of Jack (demo& gate Christian Brothers' College. Mr. ed), Cferty, Leo and Nancy; aged Sydney Lynch's pleasing baritone was 39 Years. heard in "My Wild Irish Rose" and Requiescat in Pace. The pro"Ireland I Love You," gramme concluded with Irish folk Suat 1937, 4, March .—On LRAHY dancing by the pupils of Victoria biaco, Mary Leahy, of 36 Royal- Park Convent, and the Clontarf Orof wife beloved street. East Perth, phanage Band. The concert ended with the late John LeaBy, loving mother the singing of "God Save Ireland," in of David, James (deceased), John which the audience joined with en( deceased). Patrick, Margaret, Jos- thusiasm. eph and Kathleen; beloved sister of Martin O'Grady (East Perth), Kate Casey, John and Jim O'Grady, of Rathkeale, Co. Limerick, Ireland. 0, Sacred Heart of Jesus, have Your Wedding Car Arrangements mercy on her soul. CAN BE CARRIED OUT BY N MEMORIA-M. I KEON.—Of your charity, pray for EFFICIENTLY AND REASONABLY the repose of the soul of Philip DAY OR NIGHT. Ring B$480 for Quotes, or Terraos Taxi Rank, B4720. Tobyn Keon, who passed away 18, March CARR STREET. EEEDERVILLE. SEDAN CARS. Private Address: peacefully at Subiaco on R.I.P. 1915.
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MR. GREGORY J, BOYLSON. While Mr. T. F. Davies is acting President of the Arbitration Court during the absence abroad of Mr. President Dwyer, the deputy master of the Supreme Court, Mr. Gregory J. Boylson, \\Ill be acting Master. Mr. Boylson was in practice at the Bar before he accepted his present position.. As a student at the Christian Brothers' College, he was a noted athlete and the pocket of his college blazer contained the emblems of practically every sport, he having represented C.B.C. in cricket, football, athletics, rifle shooting. Mr. Boylson is still and rowing. only in his middle thirties and he looks to have quite a future ahead of him yet in the Civil Service.
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SIXTEEN
Saturday, March 20, 1937.
I Among Our Societies -141.-4140-00. ••
The third meeting of the Diocesan Union of the Holy Name Society was held in the Cathedral Hall on Tuesday, March 16. Present: Dr, Horan, Mr. F. Anderson, Mr. E. J. Browne, Mr. Morgan, Mr. Egan, Mr. Hegarty. Mr. NIcGough, Mr. Chris. Smith, Mr, Scanlan, Mr. Williams, Mr. Le B. HenderReports were son, and Mr. Dwyer. received from branches as follows:Cottesloe: No. in branch, 70; at Holy Communion, 48; at meeting. 33. Highgate: No. in branch. 130; at Holy Communion, 100; at meeting, 53. Cathedral: No. in branch, 200; at Holy Communion, 200; at meeting, 172. Nedlands: At Holy Communion, 67; at meeting, 55. Subiaco: No. in branch, 228; at FIoly • Communion, 118; at meeting, 120. East Victoria Park: No. in branch, 20; at Holy Communion, 18; no meeting held. West Perth: No. in branch, 147; at Holy Communion, 105; at meeting, 104. Bicton-Palmyra: No. in branch, 62; at Holy Communion. 40; at meeting, 42. Midland Junction (new branch) : No. in branch 58; at meeting, 58, Bassenciean (new branch): No. in branch, 13; at meeting, 13. Guildford (new branch): No. in branch, 11; at Holy Communion, 11; at meeting, 11. It is very pleasing to see three new branches have been formed, viz.. Midland Junction-I3elle:ue, Bassendean. They are to be con and Guildford. gratulated, and we wish them every success. It has been noted that several branches were not represented, nor did they send a report at the diocesan meeting; both of these are essential. The next meeting will be held in the Cathedral Hall on April 20. at 8 p.m. NEDLANDS BRANCH. A t first sight it appeared that the attendance at the monthly Holy Communion last Sunday was poor, but when those who approached the altar rails in the Carmelite Monastery were marked, the guild books revealed a The evening very fair attendance. meeting was again well attended this The Spiritual Director (Rev month Father Moss) preached on "Passion Week."
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H.A.C.B. SOCIETY St. Mary's Branch, Leederville.
The fortnightly meeting was held on the 10th. inst., the vice-president. Bro. E, Brigatti, presiding over a good attendance of members. Arrangements were made for the branch to participate in the euchre and bridge tourna-
Metropolitan Social Council. The inter-branch final debate between St. Patrick's and St. Malachi's Branches will be held at St. Joachim's, Victoria Park, on Monday, 22nd, inst., at 8.30 p.m. ;At the- conclusion of the debate the "Killeen" shield will be presented to the winning team. The members of the council spent an enjoy-able evening at City Beach on Tuesday, 9th. inst. Games, music and supper made the evening pass very quickly. The inter-branch card competitions are now being held and a large number of entries are expected from the country branches, Our cricket team has entered the semi-finals. The match against St. .Alban's was won by an innings and three runs. We extend to our team best wishes that it may win the shield for 1937. St. Columba's Branch, Sister D. Schuts presided over a good meeting of the above branch last Tuesday, as it was a special meeting and a pound night, the business did not take long. During the evening, the Rev. Dr. J. 1'. McMahon attended and presented past president certificates to Sr. K. Manton, Bros. Hough and L. Dr. McMahon complimentBurrows. ed Sr. Manton on her work for the branch during the last seven years. To Bros. Hough and Burrows he paid tribute for their labours in connection with the branch and the society in The recipients suitably re. general. sponded and thanked Dr. McMahon for his kind words. During the evening dancing, bowls, quoits, etc., were indulged in, and a dainty supper was Members are served by the ladies. reminded that there will not be a dance during Holy Week, but, as usual, on the following week.
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Closing May 29th.
ment to be conducted by the Metropolitan Social Council, and the 7th. and 21st. April have been set aside for this purpose. The branch is now showing evidence of its usual life and
keenness, and members are promised an especially good year from the point of view of social entertainment after
the meetings.
St. Lawrence O'Toole' Branch. Usual meeting of above branch was held on Wednesday, February 24. Bro. Kehoe presided over a good attendance of members in the absence of the president, Bro. Kelly, through illness. The resignation of Bro. Meyers of the position of guardian was received with regret. Sr. Sharman acted as guardian until election of new officer. Bro. T. Hanrahan was elected to fill the vacancy. Two new members were proposed during the evening. Our Lady Help of Christians Branch, East Victoria Park. The president, Bro. Finnegan, presided over a fair attendance of members at the fortnightly meeting held on March 16. Apologies were received An invitafrom the vice-president. tion was received from St. Joachim's Branch to attend a debate to be held Sr. Egan reported on on March 22. the cricket match held at Clontarf between St. Joachim's and our branch. Bro. Landweir suggested that a (laneing class be held for the benefit'of the The rough minyounger members. utes were then read and the meeting closed with the usual prayers. St. Joachim's Branch. the of The fortnightly meeting branch was held in the School-room The president on Monday, March 8. 13ro. J, Harvey, presided over an attendance of nearly 50 members. Four nominations for proposed new members were received. and Mr. Mr. liardisty, Mr. Daley, Miss O'Donoughue and Mr. Kelly were duly initiated by the president, Bro. G. Keogh reported that the finalists in the Hibernian debating competition would meet at St. Joachim's to decide the final on March 22, and that the inter-branch cards competition would be decided before the end of April, to be of two nights' play, euchre and bridge. Bro. L. Goerke reported that the branch had been placed second to All Hallows' Branch in the membership drive for 1936, It was proposed that members should invite parishioners to the next meeting in order that they might have an opportunity of hearing tht The meeting closed at 9.30 debate. p.m. with the usual prayers, after which members were engaged in a novel game, "Cootie," the winners of which were presented with trophies. Holy Rosary Branch, Nedlands. Past-president Bro. M. Foley presided over a small attendance of members at the meeting held on March 15. The arrangements for the drawing of the goose club were finalised, and members are asked to bear the following items in mind: 1. The drawing will take place at St. Theresa's Hall, Ned There lands, on Monday, March 22. will be no postponement, so all butts must be in the secretary's hands prior to that time, so as to be included in The drawing will comthe drawing. 2. The mence at 7.30 p.m. prompt. proceeds are in aid of the Church extensions, so it behoves every member to sell at least one book, and to have the butts and cash in in time for the drawing. 3. All members are expected to he present at the drawing, so please make a special effort, brothers. 4. A final drive will be made after both Masses on Sunday, March 21, and all 5 members are asked to help. Members are asked to note the change The meeting will of meeting night. be held after the drawing on March 22 There will be no meeting on March 29
The president, Miss Eileen Walker, presided over a good attendance at the Club meetirig on Thursday night. Two new members were introduced and welcomed to the Club. Miss Irene
Kenneally and Miss Mavis Fitzgerald, Apologies were accepted for Misses Eileen and Mary O'Donoghue. The Club dance was discussed, and on Holy Saturday, March 27, we are entertaining the visiting Catholic tennis teams with a grand carnival, and therefore are desirous of having as many present as possible. Don't forget, grand carnival, for visiting tennis teams on March 27. A fter the meeting was closed, members spent the rest of the evening playing crazy ping-pong, which proved very enjoyable. Members are reminded not to forget meetings every Thursday night and dance every Saturday night, in Cathedral Hall. Young ladies desirous of joining the Club are invited to come along and we *ill make you very welcome.
FREMANTLE C.Y.M.S. Cricket, By some piece of good luck we found ourselves in the second four last week and played the Lumpers in the semifinals. Our batsmen, however, failed again, Len Townsend (36) and Bill Keenan (14) being the only ones to reach double figures in our total of 85 runs. Lumpers have replied with 9 for 168, and to force a win we have to make 200 runs quickly and get them Still, Stephen-street is out cheaply. our lucky ground for semi-finals, and we are going to back our luck. Mick Greaney was our most successful bowler, taking 5 for 53. Our match against Mosman's Park on Sunday resulted in a big win for us. Frank Townsend, Frank Maxwell, and Paddy Matison all got going, and we registered close on 200 runs, Mosman's were dismissed with their score at 99. That's the form we want for next Saturday. Easter Camp. Everything is set for the best camp About a the society has ever run. dozen of our chaps are going and they are all very keen about the trip-and they have good reason to be, too. The camp meeting will be held in the Club Rooms on this Sunday after nine All deposits must be o'clock Mass. lodged with the treasurer by that day. Sports Night. Last Monday the club members visthe Palmyra ited our friends of Branch and engaged in a sports night, which resulted in a narrow win for St. The cricket match providGerard's. ed some thrills, Reg Hunter coming to light with a hat trick, while Tommy Smith for the home team showed what a good left hander can do. It was a very successful night and one which should be repeated in our rooms in the near future. Football, A football committee, consisting of Kevin Clarke, Paddy Matison, and Mick Greaney, has been appointed to watch over our interests for the forthcoming seii-Vn. Matches will be played in the country each month and home matches will be arranged in between.
Subiaco Catholic 'Young Men's Club
Our cricket team put up another creditable performance last week-end, when they defeated the Economic We had first use Stores by .57 runs. of the wicket, and after a disastrous start of two wickets for kill, finished with a score of 103. Top si!ore was made by our consistent opening batsman, S. Ryan, who notched 4S (9 fours) in fine style; others to get oVer double figures were Len Gee and Owen EcoRyan, who both made 15 each. nomic Stores started confidently, but when Owen Ryan was brought on wickets fell rapidly, and they were disL. Philpots missed for a meagre 46. 0. Ryan was top scorer with 15. secured 4 for 14, while J. Besley and The not very successful heavy-weight B. Scott finished with 2 wickets each. boxer walked into the artist's studio. The Club will open its dancing sea"Say," he said, "I'd like you to paint son immediately after Easter, and it a full-length picture of me on canvas." is the wish of the committee that the "Certainly." said the artist. "When Young people of the parish will support is your next fight?" them, These dances will be held in every fortnight durSt. Joseph's Wedding Guest: "Isn't this your ing the winter months, and the admisf ourth daughter that's getting married, sion will be within the reach of everyAngus?" Further particulars of the one. Angus: "Ave. and our rice is getting opening dance will be published in our awfu' dirty." next report,
New Carmelite Chapel LIST OF DONATIONS.
SEVENTEEN
I-HE RECORD
Saturday, March 20, 1937.
Goldfields Section
BOULDER
KALGOORLIE
£15: Mrs. T. Ahern. Christian Brothers' College, DO 10s: Archbishop Prendiville. Kalgoorlie Social. £10: Miss 0. Grave. CIVIC VALEDICTORY FUNCTION. ongratulations to Mr. Con KenC £5 5s: Father Kearin. REV. VERY TO V ALEDICTORY neally on his appointment to the posiDR. KENNEDY, ADM. £5 Each: Oblate Fathers, F. Con- Very Rev. Dr. E. Kennedy Farewelled. tion of secretary to the Eastern Goldnaughton, H. B. Brady, Rev. Father fields District Council of the A.L.P. Striking testimony to the esteem in Very 9, March morning, Moss. On Tuesday Mr. Kenneally was selected out of a which the Very Rev. Dr. E. Kennedy, Rev. Dr. Kennedy visited the Chris- number of candidates on the preferen£3 3s Each: Redemptorist Fathers, A. Administrator of the Parish of Kaltenderwas tian Brothers' College and tial voting system by an absolute maWanderer, Rev. Father Moloney, Mr. goorlie, was held was given at a civic ed a farewell by the Brothers and their G. McCarthy, Mr. J. Monaghan (Narjority, clearly showing the delegates' farewell to the departing priest in the appreciation of the generous services rogin), Mary and Peter Dillon. Kalgoorlie Town Hall last week, given by Mr. Kenneally to Labour on £3 Each: Presentation Convent, Mrs. when all shades of opinion in the comAfter an inspection of the school, the Goldfields for over a period of 20 Mulcahy. After six munity were represented. the pupils were marshalled in the Colyears. Con is the father of Bill Ken,E2 2s Each: Rey. Father W. Kelly. years' service in Kalgoorlie, Dr. Kenige quadrangle. The Principal (Rev. neally, well known in Catholic Young Rey. Dr. McMahon Joe O'Dea, Mr. G. nedy has been appointed Administrawere they that said Brother O'Connor) Men's circles on the Goldfields. Kelly, G.J.C. tor of St. Mary's Cathedral, Perth. assembled to bid farewell to one of the Mr. J. Murray and daughter, Anne, £2 Each: Rev. Father O'Grady, M. Proposing the toast of the guest, the ever staunchest friends !the College Vivian-street, Boulder, returned of Cranley. Mayor, Mr. E. E. Brimage. said it was He said that his regret was home during the week after several had, £1 5s: Mrs. McAleavey. always with regret that one said goodalso a personal one, for he had known weeks' holiday at the coast. is Each: Walsh, Ltd., Mr. Daly bye to an old and esteemed friend. many years. Mr. Keith Rohan. of Brennan's, Smith, Rev. Dr. Sullivan, Sacred Four or five years ago he had had the Dr. Kennedy for a great painstaking Reference was made to the holidaying in Heart Convent. Highgate, Rev. Father pleasure of saying good-bye to Dr. way in which Dr. Kennedy had car- Boulder, is at present Perth. Ahern, Sisters of Mercy, Coolgardie, Kennedy, but then the Doctor intendthe on Sergeant Maloney,- of Geraldton (late Dean Reidy (Northam), Mr. Noonan ed coming back. He had enjoyed the ried out his priestly functions there. residence Boulder), visited the Goldfields durof ( Maylands), Mrs. Friedman (Mundar- Doctor's company here for six years, Goldfields during his that his presence ing the week on official duty. ing), Mr. Hickey (Nedlands), Rev. and he had always received the great- It was pointed out would be missed by the poor and desCricket. Father Linnane. Miss K. McGovern, est help from Dr. Kennedy, especially titute and by those stricken down by Manchester Unity v. H.A.C.B.S. Mrs. F. Cunningham, Rev. Father F. in connection with the benevolent sorememthe whom of all to sickness— Manchester Unity, first innings, 120 O'Connor, Rev, Dr. L. Goody, Rev. ciety and other charitable works in the brance of Dr. Kennedy would stir up runs; second innings, 3 wickets for 45 Father J. Rafferty, Mrs. T. D Murtown, He hoped Dr. Kennedy's Brother the kindliest of feelings. H.A.C.B.S., first innings, 187 runs. phy, D. C. Perrott, J .and L. Pollett, health would improve with the change, O'Connor thanked Dr. Kennedy for his H.A.C.B.S. are now in a wonRev. Father Langmead North Perth for he knew that the Doctor was a personal interest in the welfare of the runs, derful position mainly through the exMonastery Choir, Miss R. Hughes, T. man who constantly directed all his College and said that his many incellent bowling of Lowry. 4 for 31 off D. Murphy. exhis and energies into his work, structions and exhortations to the 11 overs; Kilderry, 3 for 11 off 4 overs, Each: Mrs. Sheehan, Rev. Father penditure of energy in these channels pupils would long be remembered by Russell, Miss Griffin (N.S.W.), Miss and 3.1utulich, 2 for 40 off 10 overs, and was enough to wear any man down. the present generation of students. also the excellent batting of L. (DigGriffin (N.S.W.), Mrs. J. W. Devitt, He wished Dr. Kennedy the best of ger) Moore (64), W. Scanlon (33), G. Rev. Dr. C. J. Collins. Mr. and Mrs. health and a long life. Reference was made to the consola- Easton (25), and Skipper Scullin (20). Hart (Collie), Miss G Ashleigh Mrs. The Bishop of Kalgoorlie, the Rt. tions and happiness of a priest's life— Graham (NS.W.), Mr. Hurley, F. MarThe fielding throughout was very good, Rev. W. E. Elsey, said he was sorry a happiness brought about by the rea- Brian Skahill and Digger Moore excelkuro, Mr. Waters, Mrs. S. Anderson, Dr. Kennedy was going away. He apNext Sunday the Mrs. O'Donohoe, Mrs. J. Ryan. Mr. J. preciated the value of Pr Kennedy's lisation of the thought that something ling themselves. a.m.. had been done for one's McGowan, Mrs. M. Ryan, Mrs. M. work, because he knew thi his (Dr. of real benefit What greater act of per- game commences again at 9.30 fellow man. Kennedy, Miss W. Grogan, Mrs. G. T. Members, please note, and be early. Kennedy's) heart was really in it. He sonal service could a man render than All Hallows' Tennis Club. Russell, Mr. T. Cullity, Mrs. Boswell, wished him continued health and hapthat -act which would help his fellow The above club will be represented Joe Slattery, M. P. Cogan, C. T. Cogan, piness in his work in Perth. man to pass from this life to the F. M. [Ashton, G. Henderson. F. Andertit the annual Catholic Tennis Carnival, The Resident Magistrate, Mr. E. To cona happy eternity. of dawn to be held in Perth at Easter, for the son, Mr. Belt, Rev, Father Lyne. prebe to was glad McGinn, said he first time since the commencement of 10s 6d Each: Mrs. McGann and Sons, sent to do honour to a Christian gen- clude, Brother O'Connor wished Dr. Kennedy long life and great happiness Mrs. A. Haynes, Mrs. Condon, Mr. L. these annual fixtures for clubs outside tleman and to pay tribute to his sterwherever his lot would be cast. the metropolitan area. The team will Longson (Bryan's Print), Mrs. F. Mc- ling qualities. In official duties he arrive in Perth on Good Friday mornCrann, Mrs..Prunty, Mr. W. V. Byrne, had had much to do with Dr. KenRev. Brother Ryan, in supporting ing and a round of engagements are Mrs. Pitman, W. Tracey. nedy ,and his self-sacrifice was equal the remarks of Brother O'Connor, said already being prepared for all visitors 10s. Each: Mr. W. Broderich, Mrs. to anything he had seen. To do his that the gratitude and thanks of the The team are all at the carnival. P. Herlihy, Miss Fletcher, Mr. J. F. best for the crying poor and the disDr. Kennedy, due to were community a splendid time, as to forward looking Kane, Mrs. W. Stevens (Collie), Domtressed widow was the thought upper- who had sacrificed home and life with it is anticipated that this year will inican Convent (Dongarra), Mr. E. most in Dr. Kennedy's mind. He his dear ones and had come so many eclipse all other years. Allen, Mrs. B. Harris Mr, M. Nallon, was a Christian and a gentleman. thousand miles to carry out his priestThe following players will represent Miss M. Condon, Mr. j. Markham, Miss Pastor Hughes, president of the ly ministrations. He spoke of Dr. the club: Misses Gwen Moroney, Ron G. Johnson. T. Le Britton, Miss A. Ministers' Fraternal, said he was not Sheila Ellery, Carmody, Dorothy Tormay, Mary Russell, Mrs, W. T. surprised to hear all the things that Kennedy's great work on the GoldO'Neil, Gladys Rohan, Mollie Colgan, Russell, M. Power. Two Friends, Mrs. had been said about Dr. Kennedy, He fields and urged his listeners to consider well the good example set to Pat Daly, Dorothy Whyte and Mrs. Power, G. Wyburn, Mr. and Mrs. P. hoped, on behalf of the people he rethem in the life of their devoted parMisses Toone; Messrs. Tom Ardagh (captain), Glynn, Mr. J. Woolmington, presented ,that Dr. Kennedy's health ish priest. He offered Dr. Kennedy Jack Pauley, Bern Plasto, Eddie Slattery, R. J. Healy, L. P. Redden, would improve, and that as the years his earnest good wishes for health and Wright, Tom Toone, Jack Byrne. LauMrs. J. F. McCarthy• T. Murphy, A went on Dr. Kennedy would find inrie Sharkey and Jack Lowry (manFriend, J. D. Mooney, Mr, A. McKenna, creasing satisfaction in his work of ser- happiness in his new charge. Accommodation has been ager). Mrs. and Miss Regan, Miss McKinnon, vice. It was a great task to give up Master Leon Liedle, on behalf of the booked for the team to stay at the A Friend, Miss C. Condon, Miss T. all other things and follow the call of boys of St. Mary's Parish, thanked Dr. Australia Hotel, Perth. Condon, W. Wood, P. McNamara, J. the Church. Gleeson, Mrs. A. Burns, Mr. J. Lynch, Mr. Percy Johnson said he remem- Kennedy for his devotion to their spiritual needs and joined his good Mrs, G. Miller, Mr. J. J. Ryan, Mrs. bered saying good-bye to the Rev. FLA.C.B. SOCIETY. wishes with those of his school mates Lynch, Mrs. L. Maxwell, Mrs. Flynn. Father Moss, and thinking at the time BRANCH, NO. 283. MARY'S ST. that God might always shower down Juliet Duttson, Miss M. Lynch, Miss how difficult it would be to replace GOORLIE. KAL Moir. But he had found that Dr. on Dr. Kennedy the choicest of His him. FORTNIGHTLY MEETING Kennedy, after two years' service at graces and blessings. 7s.: Friends. TUESDAY, MARCH 23. 6s. Each: Mr. V. Blich, Mr. D. Leonora, had made himself beloved S. J. HILL, Secretary. tA, presentation on behalf of the BroConnell, Friends, Friends, A Friend. throughout the North Country. . ALL HALLOWS' BRANCH, thers and the boys was then made to 3s Each: Mrs, Rampant, W. Seage, The Rev. Brother O'Connor, PrinBOULDER. Dr: Kennedy. cipal of the Christian Brothers' ColMrs. M. Farrell, Mr. McDonald, Mr, J Fortnightly Meetings. natural K. Ryan, Miss M. Farrell, „Miss Wool. lege, Kalgoorlie, said it was N'embers are earnestly requested to Very Rev. Dr. Kennedy was greeted mington, Phil Ryan. Mr. W. Seage for partings to be made with sorrow, roll up. rose he when with applause prolonged c ontributions received any week day (now 10s.), Mr. McShane, M. and G, but that sorrow was alleviated when the Brothers He thanked speak. to the person concerned was elevated to and the boys for their good wishes and Ford, A Friend. Mrs. Frenberth, A from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. by the Secretary. Friend, Bob Sanderson, J. Donovan, a higher position. He could speak on done work good on the at length W. Donohoe, Mrs. Gallagher, W. behalf of the youth of Kalgoorlie, and spoke He by the Brothers in the school. Henry. J. Hassell, Mrs. Anketell, Baby no words could estimate the good J. W. SHEEHAN referred to his interest in the success Maurice Giles. that Dr. Kennedy had done for them. plea the of spoke and school the of Prime Beef Butcher 4s. Each: Mrs. L. Blich, Miss P. Replying, Dr. Kennedy said there sure he experienced each year in readMcGrath, Friends. M. Kunicic, A. Beer, were few places between Leonora and H ANNAN ST., KALGOORLIE: from students the of successful ing Friends. Norseman that he had not spent some ("B.C., Kalgoorlie. He urged the junMARITANA STREET. 3s Each: Friends, A Friend, Friends. time in, but in each he found a typical ior members of the school to work hard Tel. 438, 2s 6d Each: Mrs. Garter, A Friend goldfields spirit, a spirit different from that when their time came to enter ( West Perth), A Friend, Miss M. Ryan, any he had found in other parts of the so the senior school they would uphold Mr. Trenberth. State—a spirit of good feeling and the traditions of the past. He said This spirit caused kind. 2s Each: A Friend. F. Langmead, A, kindliness. would always be interested he that shortcomings. his McGillicuddy, overlook Friend, J. Doyle, Mrs. Is- hearts to in the welfare of the school and conMrs. Croyle, Mrs, Butt. A. Wright, He had spent eight years on the goldeluded by offering the Brothers and Mrs. Evans, A Friend, Mrs, Connolly. fields; six had been spent in KalgoorKurrawang their pupils his thanks for their great is. Each: Mrs. Robbie. A Friend, A lie. He was glad to know that gold kindness to him on all occasions. High Class Drinks, with Good Friend. mining was prosperous; the people of Three hearty cheers were given by Service. He had 6d: A Friend. the goldfields deserved it. boys and the gathering then disthe J. FITZPATRICK, Proprietor. inofficials, VITS 12s: Collection Boxes. come in contact with many persed. cluding the Mayor and councillors, the dent Magistrate, and the clergy of Resi JAPANESE SALVATION other denominations ,and he had alARMY LEADER SEEKS CON- ways been aware of a feeling of friendThe happiest years of his life ship. VERSION. had been spent on the goldfields. He never forget those days. 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, A very pretty wedding was solemnised with Nuptial Mass at the Sacred Heart Church, Highgate, on Tuesday. February 2, at 9 a.m., when John, elder son of Mr, and Mrs, Callaghan, of Northampton, was united in the bonds of Matrimony to Mary, younger daughter of Mrs. Kelliher, of Vincent-street, Mt. Lawley, and the late Mr. T. Kelliher, the Rev. Father Kennedy offieiating, assisted by the Rev. Father Ryan (Harvey). The bride, who entered the church on the arm of her brother, Mr. T. Kelliher, to the strains of the Wedding March, rendered by Miss K. Brennan, was gowned in a simply cut frock of ivory georgette, unadorned except for a narrow row of kilting around the neckline and sleeves, and a wider row starting about knee length of the frock in the middle of the front of the skirt, and continuing on around the long train at the back, giving a beautiful Her tulle veil, finish to the frock. worn over the face on entering the church, was held in place with a coronet of pearls and orange blossom, and she carried a beautiful shower bouquet of gardenias, water-lilies and fern. There were two bridesmaids, Misses Mary_ Foley (cousin of the bride) and They wore old Miss Paula Gaynor, world frocks of white organdie, relieved with long mauve sashes and tiny mauve bows down the bodices of the The white organdie garden frocks, hats were large and picturesque, and were tied under the chin with wide
mauve ribbon. Delicate lace mittens were worn and they carried silver baskets of mauve asters and agapanthas. Mr. Cris. Cresswell ably carried out the duties of best man, and Mr. James Kelliher that of groomsman. Carmel At the Offertory Miss Kenny beautifully rendered "0 Salutaris," and while the register was being signed Miss r:ympna Chipper sweetly sang (>3 -Ter's "Ave Maria." Mrs. Kelii:ier (mother of the bride) wore a smart two-piece frock of floral and black. v.od crepe with a smart black straw hat, n'hed in front with a posy of flowers, toning with her frock. After the ce:Fmony the guests assemble.,1 at the Embassy Ballroom, w here the wedd,:.g breakfast was held. The tables were beautifully decorated A feawith colourful mixed flowers, ture of the decorations .was the beautiful three-tier wedding cake, During intervals, items were rendered by the Misses Hutchinson, Kenny, Chipper, Mr. Keith Fuller and Mrs- Leslie. Neil ably carried out the duties of customary The usual chairman. Many contoasts were honoured. gratulatory telegrams were read. Later in the afternoon the happy couple left on the "Orion" for Tasmania and Sydney, where the honeymoon is being spent, the bride travelling in a navy ensemble of wood dust crepe, with navy hat and accessories to match.
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Obituary THE LATE MR.. J. KELLY. The funeral of the late Mr, Joseph Kelly, of 11 Gregory-street, Wembley, and of the Accounts Branch West Australian Government Railways, took place in the Catholic portion of the Karrakatta Cemetery on March 10. Mr, Kelly was the youngest son of Mr. Patrick Kelly, one time chief clerk and account of the Police Department, The deceased and Mrs. Alice Kelly. gentleman was born in Perth and educated at Kinnier's Grammar School, which later became known as the Perth Grammar School. He was dux of his He joined the Acschool in 1891. counts Branch, W.A.G.R., in 1893, and during 43 years' service in this department his many sterling qualities and kindly ways earned for him the respect and esteem of the many with whom he came in contact. He had the distinction of being the oldest member of St. Mary's Cathedral Choir, and as a chorister for some 37 years had rendered a great serice to the diocese, Extremely popular and possessed of numerous friends, his sudden passing will be deeply mourned by all who were privileged to know him. A Requiem Mass was celebrated in St. Mary's Cathedral, Perth, Rev. Father Kelly being the celebrant. Mr. A. Taylor, the cathedral organist, played the Requiem music and at the conclusion of the Mass, played the Dead The cortege then March in 'Saul." proceeded to the cemetery, where, in the presence of a large gathering, his remains were laid to rest, Rev. Father M. Holohan conducting the last rites. The members of St. Mary's Cathedral Choir and the St. Joseph's Choir, Subia.o, sang at the graveside—a most fitting tribute to his long association with the choir. 1he chief mourners were Mrs. E, Kelly (wife) and Stanley (son), Tom Kennedy and Kevin Kelly (nephews), and Mr. E. Smith rfather-in-law). The pall bearers were Messrs. E. Needham, P. Roxby, W. Birch, J. Shearer, H. Chivers, T. Dwyer, S. Stirling, and T. Kenafick. Among those present were the Rev. Brother Doody (representing the Principal of the Christian Brothers' College, Perth), W. Dunphy, J. F, Tomlinson (Secretary for Railways), P. Pearce (representing the Secretary for Railways Branch), G. W. Long (UnderSecretary for Water Supply), R. h14/ rett ,stationmaster, Kalgoorlie), J. J. Magernis ,senior auditor), F., Mullen, C. G. Norton. W. Bromfield, E. McKenna, L. Hatfield, E. Tully , F. Rutherford, R. A. Birch, W. A. Brown, S. Smith, S. Lynch (secretary, St, Maly's Choir), G. Keane, T. C. Maguire, G. Lowry, T. A. Davey, D. Hevi on, NV. J. Hammond, J. J. Lloyd, A, J. Marshall, F. F. Anderson (Market Trust), P. Glynn, W. Gibson, P. Bateson, J. W. Wall, T. Forrestal (Subiaco choir), A, Gugeri, A. Taylor, A. Knight, P. Kenyick ,E. Huxtable, C. Smith, N. E. Lloyd, W. J. Power, V. Durkin, D. Durac.k, J. Reath, F. Stokes, F. Lapsley, R. Donohoe, B. Monaghan, II. Flynn, J. Maltman, S. Day, C. T. Diggins, J. S. Quinn, H. Palmer, R. Sanderson, J. Brophy, T. P. Dwyer, H. Meyer, J. R. Smith, A, Davey, J. Tennant, H. Ingelfinger, L. Pollett, K, O'Mahoney, A. Peirce, H. Spour, A. Campain, R. Atkinson, G. Hall, NV. H. Johnson, G. Hannah, L. Dwyer, E. Prendiville, E. Cocks, A, Anderson, H. Johnson, F. Gallagher, E. Michell, H. Bennett, W. Gepp, H. Jones, C. Balmer, A. Maschmedt, H. Hogue, J. Dallimore, P. J. Glynn, junr., H. Langsfotal, A, Chidley, W. Hopkinson, R. Parry, K. Reeves, J. Cooke, H. Simes, R. Wilkinson. C. Varley, M. Harrison, T. O'Donoghue, F. Cornish, E. R. Anderson, T. Atkins, F. Muller, NV, Moloney, H. A. Day, NV. H. Riley, E. Lapsley, C. Salkild, C. Green, and A, Y. Smith; Mesdames E. Needham, T. Brewer, H. Brewer, H. Shivers, H. Meyer, L. J. Dwyer, W. Gibson, L. H. Robinson, J. Erbe, S. Mathews, P. McCafferty, A. Moore, W. H. Johnson,
THE LATE MR. J. KELLY. A. Fordham, A. O'Callaghan and L. E. O'Donoghue. Floral tributes were received from: His loving wife, Edith, and son, Stanley; Maggie and John, Tom and Fanny, Officers of the Accounts and A udit Branch, W.A.G.R. and T.; Geoff Robinson; Members of St. Mary's Cathedral Choir; Eva, Lionel and family; His old choir pal, Peter Roxby; Mr. and Mrs, H. Shivers and the girls; Mr. and Mrs. Theo Brewer; Mr. and Mrs. Harry Brewer, Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Davey, and Mr. and Mrs. C. M. Davis. The funeral arrangements were carried out by Bowra and O'Dea. THE LATE MRS. M. LEAHY. The funeral of the late Mrs. Mary Leahy, of 36 Royal-street, East Perth, took place on Friday morning, March 3, and was attended by a large gathering of relatives and friends. The deceased lady, who was born in Rathkeale, County Limerick, arrived in Sydney 60 years ago, and had resided in East Perth for the past 40 years. Her kindly, affectionate nature endeared her to all she came in contact with. She is survived by three sons and two daughters, her husband and two sons having predeceased her. The cortege moved from St. Mary's Cathedral, where a Requiem Mass was celebrated, and proceeded to the Catholic portion of the Karrakatta Cemetery, the Rev. Father Holohan . conducting the last rites. The.chief mourners were David, Patrick and Joseph (sons), Margaret and Kathleen (daughters), Martin O'Grady (brother) Mesdames D, Leahy, A. Leahy and J. Leahy (daughters-in-law). The pall-bearers were Messrs. C. F. Dalton, J. Tobin, L. Walpole Walker, J. Finla2.- and D. Gallagher. Among those present were: Messrs. A. Coverley, M.L.A., Cr. J. Hardwick. B. J. Bott, P: J. Hawkins and A. H. Castles (representing Lands Department), G. V. Halliday, L. Parks, C. M. Davis, J. P. Moran' (representing Commonwealth Savings Bank), H. Mercer. A. Marks, R. Beck and W, Sinclair (W. Dribble, Ltd.), F. Prentice, P. McKenna J. Quigley T. Pickering, S. Ryan, J. iV. Finlay, M, Brosnan, C. Sullivan. L. Prunty, M. Bevan, S. M. Bevan, G. Webster, R. Maher Fitzgerald, H. B. Lockyer: Mesdames McLaughlin, E. Bing. J. O'Grady, A. Quigley, E. Quigley, M. A. Dunn, K. Jenkins M. Laughton, K, Wilkinson, junr., W. Easton, D. Mcbaul iunr., Shocker, E. Coverlev, D. Gallagher, D. Michaels, Burke, and Misses Gilsenan B. Schocker and E. Brosnan. Wreaths were sent by her sorrowing family, Drabbles, Ltd„ Commonwealth Rank, Agnes. Mary, John and Francis, Mrs, J. Hawkins and Leslie, Mr. E. Brosnan and family, Mr. and Mrs. Numerous letters, telegrams. Bevan. cards and messages of sympathy and condolence were received. The funeral arrangements were in the hands of Messrs. Bovrra and O'Dea.
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THE FIRST MOVE FOR SECULARISM Elementary Education Act in W.A. Cultured Father O'Reilly Defines Catholic Position
velopment did not justify the ex(By REV. BROTHER URBAN CORRIGAN, M.A., Dip.Ed.) The Work of Governor Weld. penditure of so much public The Catholic agitation for a or no denomination would be con- ed to close his school. About the money on people who could well with early seventies, people fair share o the common funds trolled by managers who were reafford to educate their own chilto dren. In the middle seventies trying were, means smaller puba such for education became sponsible to the Board. There lic question that the Colonial was a Central Board to look after induce the Government to open \V .A. was the Cinderella of the Office (W.A. was still a Crown general administration and dis- a public high school to educate Australian States, depending colony) was forced to take no- trict Boards to attend to local their sons beyond the primary mainly for the economic welfare tice of their claims. The ques- needs. It was obviously model- stage. of its 25,000 inhabitants on the It was a laudable movement; annual expenditure of the Imoertion raised sectarian issues and led on the Act that had been many of their opponents asSumed passed in England in the previous the section who seized upon it ial Government. The Press askthat the Anglican was the offi- year. No reference was made to were not those who needed the ed if the movement was opporcial, as well as the favoured, re- any religious denomination in schooling so much as those who tune, Catholics asked if it was The socially sound. Its advocates Hamp- the context of the Bill. It sat- needed the opportunity. ligion of the Colony. ton's sympathy with Father Gib- isfied the demands of the Catho- secularists in education used this looked upon it as a splendid op ney was inspired by the Colonial lic people of the State who claim- demand for a high school to press portunity to link up secularism Office, which, through Earl Gran- ed payment frond public funds, the claims of secularism in educa- with a probable ,if expensive, ville stressed "the principle of re- for the education they were giv- tion. A similar move on a larg- necessity. The movement shelligious equality which has long ing to the Catholic citizens of er scale had just succeeded in tered under the influence of Govbeen realised in the Australian the State; they educated the chil- Victoria, where Stephen passed ernment House and of the Civil Colonies." (Dispatch No. 80, July dren of many non-Catholics as his Act in 1872. It was clever Service: it was developed by re10, 1869). The Colonial Office well. Though it provided for politics that made a general de- ligious jealousy. to attempts isolated making was assistance.to schools of any or no mand serve a particular purpose. The Catholic Position. break through the ring of pre- creed, the only ones to make any All people wanted compulsory The Catholic position was judice that surrounded the Gov- use of its provisions were Catho- education, all people wanted free defined by Father J. clearly did had not it people all 1848, but In education, offices. ernment Other denominations were lics. Yet O'Reilly, of Fremantle, who was appointed a Catholic, Mr. R. R. satisfied with the general religi- want secular education. later Bishop of Port Augusta and carat Madden. Colonial Secretary ous instruction provided by the secular education had been "The Archbishop of Adelaide. stay for popular brief demand his by a in during ried but Perth, State schools. Here nothing spea from derived be to advantages he was the only Catholic of offi- cific was legislated for, and schools. where education, higher of system Morality. Citizenship Without cial standing in the whole congre- nothing specific was taught. No Secularism said it would sup- the conditions of a country pergation. Twenty-one years later dogma or doctrine could be it sent out Frederic Aloysius taught in the State school be- port religion as far as it applies mit its existence, are so indisput\Veld to right the injustices of cause there was no dogma or doc- to civics and morality; it did not ably great that a speaker labours the Catholics of West Australia, trine they could teach. Catho- want to kill religion by direct under a very decided lisadvantas he had righted the injustices lics had a definite body of doc- hostility, but it wanted to para- acre who ventures to raise his of the Maori warriors of New trine to impart and they taught lyse it by inactivity ; the second voice, directly or indirectly, under would only be a lingering death. any circumstances imaginable in Zealand. it. There can be no true citizenship opposition to the subject. . . . Born in Dorset in 1823. he was The Bill allowed the sum of £2 without morality and there can The choicest fruits that luxurieducated at Stonyhurst College 15s. for every efficient pupil in the be no true morality that does .not ate on the topmost branches of He State school, but only half that and Freiburg University. recognise man's duty to God; the the lofty tree of knowledge should sought health in New Zealand, £1 is 6d. was allowed for recognition of man's duty to God be. if possible, within easy reach and having found it, lost it again each efficient pupil in an assisted is religion. If morality is obe- of those who have time and talin fighting for representative school. Equal pay for equal work dience to social conventions, it ent to enjoy it." government for the people whose was not recognised. Eleven as- will be as variable and as contraElementary education he must Premier he came; in pacifying sisted schools started off under dictory as obedience to fashion. have, higher education he would the Maoris by parliamentary re- the scheme. The Church conis based on have, but education—primary or land tinued to build its schools whose But conduct that presentation and native men's responsibility to. God has high—that refused to give God a courts; in straightening out the managers kept them in touch supports that are as fixed as the place in His own world, he would A with the Board. The allowance tangle of national finance. Ten Commanlments and these oppose to the utmost. man of his courage and genius voted in 1871 was found too were graven on stone. ". . . a purely secular system of was needed in W.A., where there small for the adequate working on is inimical to the moral educati trywere advocates Because its was not a mile of rail for pas- of the State schools; in 1874, the with and, social welfare of society." secularism in force to ing senger traffic; roads often bad, on payment was raised -to £3 lOs per the proposed high school. it was and he would oppose "any system occasion impassable; rivers with- head for the State school child, opposed by the Catholics of public education which excludes out bridges ; swamps without and £1 15s for the assisted schools Perth. The public press at the religious instruction from its causeways: not a harbour worIn spite of the half pay, the time thought that the state of de- schools." thy of the name save one that efficiency of the Catholic schools was in an out of the way rocality ; was equal if not superior to that no attempt at all at any artificial of the State schools. More adsubstitutes; but one unmated vanced education was given the ANY QUANTITY SUPPLIED. s teamer afloat in our seas, and girls by the Sisters of Mercy in RUNS PATHS, TENNIS COURTS, GARDENS, AND MOTOR that supposed to combine in it- Perth and the Sisters of St. JosL AWNS CAREFULLY LAID OUT. self the incombinable qualities of eph of the Apparition in FremanA. E. CRANSTON, 21 Bennett -street, East Perth mail steamer, passenger packet tle. No provision was made for 'Phone: B5331. and cargo boat." (Reminiscences the higher education of Catholic Austraof Fifty Years in West boys for many years to come. lia, J. T. Reilly, p. 175.) NeW $outh Wales, with all its deBefore deciding on a "CISTERN" for your sewerage connection, In attacking the education pro- velopment was just opening its explode blem, Weld had first to inspect the "WESTRALIA" range at the manufacturers diocesan colleges at Bathurst, the myth of the legal superiority Goulburn and West Maitland; St. 231 William Street of the Anglican claims. He could Francis Xavier, in Melbourne, (Near James Street) Perth find that no legal superiority "de- was just commencing. and the enactment local any rivable from the great Sydney Colleges, St. We also Stock Baths, Basins, Gas Stoves, Bath Heaters, etc. has ever been possessed by any Joseph's ,at Hunter's Hill, and church, whether in respect to its St. Ignatius, at Riverview, were connection with the Crown or not even thought of. f rom any other cause." (Reply The First Move for Secularism. No. 37 Dispatch, 1/3/1871.) Back in June, 1858, the Church The Elementary Education Act, of England Bishop, Dr. Hale, W.A., 1871. opened a school in Perth for the His constructive measure was higher education of boys, under the Elementary Education Act of the control of the Church of 1871. Its purpose was to syste- England. It failed to attract his afore ye go matise the educational activities people; the more wealthy resi•pf the State schools and to assist dents and higher Government voluntary effort to promote ele- officials preferred to send their 17 Burt St., Mt. Lawley mentary education. State schools sons to England or to the rising Wine and Spirit Merchant. or Melbourne Sydney. in schools of a Board were placed under 'Phone B4735. Education, private schools of any Adelaide. The Bishop was forc-
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Modern Injustice AND THE CATHOLIC REACTION. number of families. And before (By W. R. TITTERTON.) we can hope to be just in the The first step in the Catholic wider social sphere we must be Reaction to social injustice to- just in our family relations. day is the confession: "I have Now there are many grave inThat is what makes sinned." in the modern world. justices Catholic Action so much :ess capitalism, which grew Modern ready-to-wear palatable than the ruins of mediaeval among theories like Communism. If we up and battencivilisation, Catholic want to put the world right, our dispossessed peasantry a on ed first business is to strive to put their land, has now been comourselves right. Is that a tru- of to observe a certain, meapelled But I am ism? I hope it is. decency in its treatment of sure afraid that usually we neglect It. But it has revengserfs. its of For too often we seem to think them less and making by itself ed that if only we organise properly That mirself-supporting. less right. the individual will come competiliberty-"free" of age Sheer poppycock! Based on the have We vanished. tion-has baseless assumption that men of combines closenumber a now good naturally (you and I) are inter-locked which are fast and only go wrong be,.-a use of ly small master-craftssqueezing unfortunate environment. men and small traders out of exAll men must be aware that istence, and are attaining a posithis world is full of injustice. tion of dictatorship towards their Only those who believe -con- employees and the consumers. trary to their own experience of who will finally be identified, so themselves-that mankind can far as internal trade is concernin this life ever become entirely ed. sinless, will hope that ever in The machine every day throws this life will there be no injusNevertheless, or perhaps more and more men out of work. tice. therefore, it is our duty to war There are temporary, illusory against injustice, striving first al- periods of boom in trade. But ways to be just ourselves. But each succeeding slump is longer There is This and more desperate. we must begin at home. wear; to plenty eat, to plenty is the scientific method. Firstly, are children and women, men, yet a of consists nation because a Not number of individuals, and its half-starving and ill-clad. quality depends on the quality of completely starving, not completely naked, but decaying in Secondly, beits individuals. cause a nation depends on a dreadful idleness upon "relief."
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Even the captains of indt,stry Living With The Church have begun to realise that, judged not in the scales of justice, but Sunday, March 21: Palm Sunday. in those of material success, the Violet. Creed. Semi-double. capitalist system, as it is working Preface of Cross. out, is a failure. Monday, March 22: Monday in No wonder that workmen, bred VioSimple. Holy Week. up in the capitalist system, and Church or Pope. Pre2, let. seeing their masters combine to face of the Cross. cut-throat competition, avoid The Epistle is taken from seeing themselves and their felwho foretells with such saias, I lows thrown out of work by the all-devouring machine, should wonderful accuracy all the cirsay: "Let us nationalise indus- cumstances of the Passion. The try and avoid all competition; Gospel gives us another prophecy let us take over the machine and of the Passion, uttered by Our use it, instead of allowing it to Lord Himself. destroy us!" What they pro- Tuesday, March 23: Tuesday in pose is a logical completion of Simple. VioHoly Week. the process. let. 2, Church or Pope. Preface of Cross. C.B.C. Cricket Again the Passion of Our Lord is the pervading thought First XI. throughout the Mass, the psalms Two practice games were played durJeremias ing last week. On Wednesday, March and the Epistle from the College XI. are prophecies of it, the account 10, at the met a team of Old Boys. The college according to St. Mark is read as scored 109 runs for the loss of 8 wicthe Gospel and St. Paul in the kets; 125 runs were made by the Old ntroit tells us that it is by the I The best perBoys for six wickets. Cross that we have been saved. formances by the College boys were:
Max McDermott 34, Jim Moran 35, Cohn Pollett 15, H. Rigg 26 not out.. Wednesday, March 24: WednesSimple. With the ball Phil Worner obtained 4 day in Holy Week. wickets for 30, W. ..A.Iderman 1 for 13, ArchGabriel, St. 2, Violet. and Reg Hesford 1 for 24. For the Last Cross. of Preface angel. Old Boys Frank Bryant (67 retired) Gospel of St. Gabriel. and Bob Paul (5 wickets for 30) were outstanding. The two lessons, both taken On Sunday, March 14, on the College wicket, which was considerably from Isaias, describe the princiaffected by overnight rain, the first pal circumstances of the PasXI. did well to score 96 runs, in reply sion, the history of which is read to Stan Kingston's XI., who compiled Batting again the College lost 4 as the Gospel for the third time 75. Best performduring this sacred week. wickets for 17 runs. ers for C.B.C. were: Reg. Hesford 31, Thursday, March 25: Maundy Bowling for and Jack Evans 27. C.B.C., Reg. secured 5 wickets for 14, Thursday. Double of First and Jim Moran 4 for 20. Creed. PreWhite. Class. For Kingston's XI. the best were: face of Cross. Gordon 20, Kilpin 15. Bowling: Gordon 2 for 25 and 3 for 4, Kilpin 4 for This Thursday is the great The College 17, and Willet 2 for 8. of the Holy Eucharist. The feast won by 21 runs on first innings. A match with the Old Boys will be Epistle, Gospel, Secret, "Complayed at the College on Sunday, municantes," and Post-CommuMarch 21. nion, the Procession at which the Under 13. Sacred Host is triumphantly carC.B.C., at 13, March On Saturday, the College under 15 team defeated ried to the altar of repose until Guildford Grammar School under 15 the next day when it is again on the first innings by 72 runs. Bat- brought to the High Altar to be ting first, C.B.C. scored 119 runs for the loss of 3 wickets before closing the consumed by the priest-all these innings. Alderman 59, Evans 38 not are in memory of the. Institution uncomfortable G.G.S. were out. of the Holy Eucharist; it was its against a fast attack and totalled only only feast until in the thirteenth 47 (Geoff Worner 5 wickets for 4, W. the feast of Corpus century: Alderman 2 for 15, K. Clohessy 2 for Christi was established as a new 15, 2nd Brian I3ourke 1 for Under 14, triumph for Our Lord in the Played at King's Park on WednesBlessed Sacrament, C.B.C., first innings, day, March 10. 35 (K. Clohessy 21 not out) ; second Friday, March 26: Good Friday. innings, 78 (G. Russel 24, J. Frawley Double of the First Class. Hale 24). H.S., first innings. 76. Adoration of the Cross. Mass School won by 41 runs on first innings, Under 13, of the Presanctified. Played on Saturday, March 13, at C.B.C., first innings, 126 Guildford. This, the day on which Christ ( T. Cullity 50, Mansell 24, R. King 20 died, is unique in character and G.G.S., 2 wickets for 131. not (Ian. recalls the oldest rites of the Guildford won on first innings ancient liturgy. It is the only Prendergast Cup, Progressive Totals: School, 36 points; day in the whole year on which Prendergast, 25; Scott, 11; Bromley, the Sacrifice of the Mass is not 10. The Consecra.ticn does Results of second round, played on offered. in to-day's .;ervice, not take place Wr:drir!day March 10:which is not therefore a Mass in Scott 1st., 6 for 78, drew wi.:h School. 100. the proper sense, as tho Host has Bromley 1st., 9 for 85, deleatel Pren- been sanctified beforehand. dergast, 41, by 44 runs. 29. So)t.t, 81, defeated 2nd., School Saturday. March 27: Holy Saturand 3 for 9, by 52 runs. day. Double of First Class. Prendergast, 2nd., 85, defeated Bromley, 8 for 50 (declared), by 26 runs. White. Easter Preface. School, 3rds., 5 for 77, defeated Scott, 20, and 2 for 23. by 57 runs. Formerly no Mass was celePrendergast, 3rds., 3 for 70, defeated to-day, the service actualbrated Bromley, 25 and 8 for 34, by 45 runs. School, 4ths.. 87. defeated Scott, 41 ly being an anticipation of EastThe Epistle, like that er Day. and 6 for 24, by 36 runs. Prendergast, 4th., 56, defeated Brom- of to-morrow, is addressed to the lev, 36 and 3 for 49, by 20 runs. newly baptised. School, 5ths., 6 for 69, defeated Scott, 31, by 38 runs. Sunday. March 28: Easter SunSchool, 6ths., 7 for 99, beat Scott, 42, day. Double of First Class, by 57 runs Best Performances. with privileged octave. White. Batting: B. Burke 36 not out, E. Sequence. Creed. Easter PreFord. 32 rlot out. K. McKnight, 33 not face. out, J. Brady 30 not out, R. Pearson 27, C. Guilfoyle 27, T. Crowe 26, J. To-day we are called upon to Ahern 26, P. Donaldson 25 not out, T3. rejoice because, Christ being Cocks 24, F. Barnet 23. Bowling: R. King 13 for 15. B. risen, it is now made easy for all Burke 6 for 7, P. Donaldson 13 for 30, to he horn again into eternal life, C. Guilfoyle 9 for 18, J. Flynn 6 for has opened heaven to all Christ for 3 W. Ellis 20, for 15, J. St. John 6 the just. 6.
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and wished to serve God as a broHE tiny kitchen was OUR SHORT STORY ther—but his Superiors saw that silent and dim, for the he had an unmistakable Vocation lamp had not yet been to the priesthood. He was highlighted, but the glow . ly intelligent and had no diffiof the turf fire glimculty with his studies; besides, mered through the gloom and a they gave him plenty of time. (By A. CONWAY.) rt,by star gleamed before the picFinally he was ordained and sent and ture of the Sacred Heart. An old, would not care, she thought, if had finished her frugal meal to give Missions. and out cup her back handing was God old woman sat telling her beads she knew he was safe with had had a young brother "He She was saying and yet—and yet—she longed to plate, that she noticed the girl's who had died on the brink of Orby the hearth. the Joyful Mysteries, because it see his dear face before she died. expression. dination; also a sister who had great "it's Mary, said "Maise," was New Year's Eve. Sometimes he become a nun. on look the recall to liked She Out of doors the desolate his face the morning he bade her you are surely looking to-night." wondered if his sister were still Roise smiled. He had forgotten the alive. world was shrouded in glistening farewell; the tears that had dimof the Congregation she name she she story," when hills eyes wild the young on his lay a med lovely It snow. "I heard and in the fields, white and un- gave him her badge of the Sac- began, "and I just after my Con- joined and did not quite know There were very few how to set about tracing her. He trodden ; was piled in huge drifts red Heart, earnestly commend- fession. protection. loving mounto him Its crooked ing steep, the along to be heard and Father Cleary did not think of writing to the tainy roads. Like veils of price- He had promised her he would bade me wait. We went round priest in charge of the parish at year it until they met again and to the Parochial House but, .may- home or, if he did, dismissed the less lace it hung on the few bare Their old pasidea as absurd. Mary And had felt then, as she knew be, I am tiring you, dear." she trees. scattered Donnellan forgot the aches which now, that he would not break his The old woman shook her head. tor was dead and his successor would not know. He made a Nointense cold always brought her word. "Tell me, Roise," she said. vena to the Sacred Heart which her Bethlecontinued, of Babe girl the the thanked and "Well," When memories, sad and sweet, "it's was barely finished when the embers, glowing the on hem for the beauty of it all. eyes caused the slow tears of age to It had always been her way fall, she always counted the just about a boy's devotion to answer came. throughout her long and useful blessings which had consoled her the Sacred Heart, a boy who "His photograph had appeared life to accept, without murmur- through all the years. First of went, years ago, to seek his for- in some religious magazine and ing, the grey clouds and the dark; all, there was the kindliness of tune in New York. He did his his sister had happened to see and to receive, with loving gratitude, her good neighbours which never best but his earnings were small recognise it. Bewildered, she the had witten . . . of ashamed grew he and soon the occasional gleams of gold. had failed or since faltered Sorrow she had known, losses and Michael had been laid to rest. tiny sums of money which were "An affectionate correspondbitterness—but He to Whom she Year after year they saw to the all he could manage to send home ence between them ensued and He moved out the priest learned with grateful had given her heart had upheld letting of her land, to the plough- to his mother. finding a bet- joy that his mother was not dead of hope the in West her and given her strength. ing, sowing and reaping of the long unem- after all. so been was had but job home ter little her Once couple of fields she still reserved. glad with children's laughter and They sent their sons to dig her ployed that he lost heart alto"She had been very ill certainConsidering himself a a kindly, industrious husband few drills of potatoes and see gether. ly and had been taken to hospoor his left he the failure, and her complete between stood had that she had the turf and sticks mother for years without a line. pital, but the man who had spokSometimes she cares of life. she needed for her fire. Their en of her death had, somehow. tried to recall the quiet. joyous daughters came, in turn, to fod- He did not seem to realise how She was very been mistaken. content of those days and pic- der and milk her one cow, to he was hurting her; boys are and might not now and old feeble ture herself again as a young and feed her hens and gather in her sometimes like that, you know. which. live Learning very long. badge little a But he always wore And happy wife and mother. small store of eggs. As she grew perhim gave his Superiors kind now as she neared her journey's older and feebler, they scrubbed of the Sacred Heart she had givher." to see to go home mission end, she was glad that she had out and kept tidy her house, en him and his love for and loyThe girl glanced at her comnot rebelled when her partner had knowing how she had always lik- alty to his Lord and King kept who sat there so very panion perils. many him amid safe carried and down been stricken ed to have it fresh and fragrant. "After some years he drifted motionless ,dawning hope and to an early grave. Bravely she They did her bits of laundry. too, had shouldered her many re- and prepared her room for the back to New York and eventual- dawning awe in her sweet, worn. sponsibilities and struggled on as priest who came every week and ly found a well-paid, if danger- wrinkled face. She knelt and best she could while rearing her brought her the Greatest Blessing ous. job in the Fire Brigade. He encircled the thin form in her decided to save enough to enable warm young arms. seven children. of All. . . . And once, years ago, him to take a trip to Ireland. He "Mary," she cried. "Mary, you and now They were all gone when she had been very ill inthere would not be even one to deed with rheumatic fever and would explain all to his mother, do understand." The old woman smiled. close her tired eyes when "God's had, despite their protestations. he thought, and she would underit Hugh." she asked soft"Was the y, . Unfortunatel . . stand. Three kindliest Angel" came. been taken to hospital. they had of them had died in childhood. tramped miles and miles across very next week, he was seriously ly, "my little baby. Hugh?" "It is Hugh and he is come. injured fighting a big fire in one little white, fragrant blossoms the mountain to visit her. . He is with the parish priest . . was He factories. the city's of which she had, despite her sorThen there were the monthly taken to hospital and lay for and. Mary, he is wearing still the row ,gladly laid at the Feet of God. And one had stolen away letters from her daughter who weeks between life and death. little badge von gave him: it is in the dawning of young man- still lived and laboured for Christ But his tough constitution and r,l1 tattered now but he treasures hood, the one who had been des- in a far, foreign, pagan land. ‘viry frame pulled him through in it so much. . . . Yes, they are folThey were to give lowing me. tined for the service of the Eagerly she looked forward to the end. to prepare you a me just time that he hospital, fact in still the "While despite coming their Church. Nyonder at all I shouldn't little. and mother's dear his dim of learned too grown had eyes her in sobbed "If only," she had the long night's silences, "if only too tired to read them. But lit- death. The man in the next bed *if they were waiting outside in Dear, do you think he had lived until after his Or- tle Roise Kelly, who was going happened to be from a neighbour- the snow. enough to see are you strong blurthad too and home only at ing parish was herself. "enter," to Surely. ,Lord, You dination. knew how I wanted to kneel and willing to do that little service ed it out as soon as he recognised them?" She rose from her knees and him. He, himself. had seen her for her. hear his first Mass." Two tall. wide the door. flung and maydie to away taken being To-night as she sat by her And then she had kissed her were standfigures aware black-coated not he was added, be. he Joyful the Crucifix and explained that she ruddy hearth, saying the clear snow ing in tinder the too. was dead. brother his that was not murmuring but only eas- Mysteries, she sometimes paused sky. n star-strew and say, luminous to needless blow, "The ing the pain of her heart to her for a second to listen for Roise's nearly killed the young fireman. Slowly they advanced and then be The priests would coming. best and dearest Friend. Bitterly he reproached himself the nastor's voice rang out: Her one fair remaining daugh- hearing Confession below in the for his carelessness and neglect. "Mary. the Sacred Heart has ter had been lent her a little long- church in the glen and Roise, no His love for and devotion to the c ent You a wonderful New Year's er a lovely slender girl with in- ' doubt, would kneel by the Crib Sacred Heart kept him sane. Gift." Then she and say her Penance there. . . . nocence in her eves. Smiling, the old woman held A fter he left the hospital he behad heard the Call of Christ and Mary Donnellan would have came a daily Communicant and r.lit her arms to her son. And had eagerly followed Him, leav- given the world to look on the shortly afterwards applied for " 'folded him ;n a tender embrace was that ing for the Foreign Missions Crib again but, since admission into a. certain religious while her heart sang its Nunc while Mary was still voting and not to be. young Roise would tell Order. He was still tinder thirty nimittis. active. Hugh had gone to Am- her all about it. Roise, she told her erica the following year and herself, smiling, was one of Michael had staved with his brightest rays of gold. Half way through the Third mother, toiling day by day on the of her Rosary. she heard Decade years -long ten little farm for until he caught the heavy chill the familiar little timid knock at SPECIALISE IN Then the latch was which had cost him his life. . . . the door. All was past now, the terrible lifted and Roise hurried in, greetgrief that had beaten her down. ing the old woman with a Gaelic With hands that A LSO but the loneliness remained and salutation. she made a paper oddly, bled trem would be hers, she feared, till the spill and, thrusting it into the end. If only, she sometimes sighed. heart of the embers, proceeded to she could learn what became of light the lamp. 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two demoniacs of Gergesa, and by pushing out to sea without delay He could reach the fertile land of Genesareth again that same day. A long time before they hove to and dropped anchor in the little bay eager crowds had spied the vessel which had borne Him away, and hastening down along the banks, they waited to greet Him. But none welcomed Him more gladly than Levi. Evidently this Apostle had remained behind in Capharnaum, and having in the interval called together a number of His friends—publicans and sinners, like himself—he begged the Lord to partake of a great feast, which he immediately prepared for this assemblage. Jesus showed no hesitation about accepting the invitation, and in good time sat down to the banquet, surrounded by His disciples.
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ed throughout the town. The Scribes and Pharisees were the first to make their way into the great hall, thrown open wide to all comers. There they saw, enacted under their very eyes, this sad scandal, the rumour of which had so shocked them. Scandal! Verily! ay, true enough! there sat a Master of Israel, at the some table with publicans, and familiarly talking with such low company- ! They were too wary now to grumble and mutter in the Saviour's hearing; but feeling that they might act more freely with the Apostles, they gave vent to their distrust and horror in their ear. "How comes it." they said, "that you and that master of yours eat and drink with publicans and sinners?" Censure such as this, coining from men they were accustomed to look up to with reverence, could not fail to disturb these simple minds, little versed in controversy. Jesus, knowing every movement of their souls, discerned their troubles and Himself replied to the formalists, "that Me was not come to call the ju-it, but sinners. For men ii, guod hea:iii have no need of a physiiian, but only the sick." Then, bcrrr.- wing an expression co::.,mon anumg their Rabbis, He added. -"Go, ye, and learn the meaning of those words: 'I \yin have mercy, and not sacrifice!' "—that is, Charity rather than mere stickling for observances. Such precepts as this uttered by the Prophet Osee conferred upon the Law its only true dignity, by permeating it with the real Spirit of Christianity before the time. But the 19harisee5 of Capharnaum had not so construed it; and now they efused to comprehend more than that Jesus undertook to defend His friends, and so for their part, they would refrain, hereafter from all disputes with Him ! The Real Spirit of Christianity. Some of John's disciples. attracted thither by the hurrying throngs, had aLo entered the great hall. At sight of Jesus seated there. taking His part in the good things of the feast, mindful too of how the Baptist "would neither eat nor drink," and even now was languishing in the dungeons of Macheronte--these sad memories quite broke down all their hopes. So then. the Christ had already forgotten His Precursor! Far from spendHis time in fasting and tears, like these mourners over the downfall of their great Prophet , He lvas actually enjoying rich banauets, and diverting himself in the company of sinners! Such a spectacle embittered their minds the more against Him and made their disappointment over their own master's fate all the harder to bear. Finding that the Pharisees were ready to make common cause against kim, they joined them in reproaching the Lord anew.
Saturday, March 20, 1937. "Why," they began, "should we and the Pharisees multiply our fasts, while you and yours eat and drink?" The Bridegroom of Humanity. Jesus forgave their presumption, because their zeal made it excusable; but He recalled to the minds of John's disciples how their master had compared Him to the Bridegroom amid the marriage festivities, and continuing the figure, He said: "Would you have the sons of the Spouse fasting and weeping while the Spouse is w ith them?" It is befitting for us to fast in seasons of mourning only ; now John had foretold that the coming of the Kingdom of God would be like a wedding festival, wherein the Christ should celebrate His espousals with Humanity; and therefore, on this day of gladness, to demand that the Apostles, the friends of the Bridegroom, should abandon themselves to grief, would be to discredit the testimony of John himself. "But a time will come," He added. "when the Spouse shall be taken from them ,and they shall fast in those days." For the first time Jesus allowed the multitude to have some inkling of the violent death which awaited Him; but He did not dwell at any length upon this dark fc reboding; indeed, He rather made haste to restore hapand peace among .Levi's guests, who had been disturbed by these ill-timed questionings.
changing the tone their I;°alkN, H ofEi( and looking round Him upon the gay furnishings which decked the board, the joyous company in their bright-coloured festal robes, the tankards from which flowed sparkling wines, He began to speak in a Parable, which had now come to be His usual manner of teaching. Under this figure He propounded a truth which would be most apt to shock the Jewish mind: for He wished to have them know that in His Kingdom the ceremonies of the Mosaic worship were to be abolished— the bloody sacrifices, the symbolical ceremonies, circumcision, and everything else which in the Law was but a shadow of future things, would now fade away under the clear light of the Gospel. The Lord knew, were He to announce abruptly that the Ancient Covenant had already passed away. He would arouse all Judea against Him: hence He must needs prepare men's minds, as usual, with g-entle condescension. Reform and Conservatism. "No one," he began, "puts a piece of unworn cloth into an old garment, other'.-is-2 the new," when damp and shrunken. "gathers up the old .and the rent is made the woi Ana so mor does any one irt* new wine into old bottles ; otherwise the bottles break, the wine flows away, and the bottles themselves are lost. Rather you put new wine into new bottles, and both are preserved." Mysterious and little understood though they were, these words could not fail to excite some surprise in the minds of His audience: perhaps they even caused renewed murmurs of disapproval. Jesus fully realised how strong the attachment to timehonoured observances can be. and so He added: "He who is wont to drink old wine does not at first relish the new, hut finds the old better."
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THE CHURCH IN SP IN the century and a half of this progress the Church had consistently sought to negotiate with the government of Spain amicable agreetnents, known as Concordats, which would establish a just basis for the relations between civil and ecclesiastical authority in Spain. The last of these agreements is that of 1860. (By WILLIAM I. AIONTAVON.) Up to the 1936 elections - the reN the following complete re- of the opposition and the disso, stored the convents, and permit- publican government of Spain ted the Jesuits to re-establish was negotiating for a revised view of the Church in lution of the Cortes by presiden Spain, the NCWC corres- tial decree. This bill of amend- t hemselves in Spain and thus re- Concordat with the Holy See. A brief submitted to the conpondent discloses the con- ment, which had the full appro- cognised the loyalty of members fiscatory tactics of different val and co-operation of the Ca- of Religious Orders during the stitutional Cortes in the fall of 1931 by attorneys representing Governments during the past 200 tholic in Spain, certainly did not war against the invaders. years, and gives the lie direct seek to endow the Church with In 1820 the Cortes by law de- Catholic authorities in Spain conto the oft -repeated charge that any property rights or authority nied the civil validity of vows tamed the following summary the Church is a wealthy and op- which would be held to be exces- and repealed earlier laws which history of the conflict concerning pressive Institution. it alleged made the clergy a pri- the property of the Church in sive. At the same Spain: vileged class. The civil war that for many Review of History. months has been devastating time the Cortes, refusing to re"The Church in Spain owned During the Middle Ages and cognise the juridical personality, Spain from one end to the other properties the income from which particularly under the Hapsis not, as many commentators of the Church, denied the right provided adequately for her life. would have one believe, a class burg dynasty, the Church and of the Church to own property, Far from receiving aid from the State in Spain were intimately aswar. True, the Anarcho-Syndiclosed monasteries, and prohibitState. the Church contributed libsociated. Because of the intered the establishment of additional calists, the Communists ,and erally to the support of the State, some of their allies have endeav- national conflicts waged by the convents or the reception of new doing this of her own initiative oured to win world sympathy by Government of Spain, ecclesias- members by Religious Orders or at the suggestion of the Holy tical authorities were at .times presenting their cauTe as that of not suppressed by the law. WithSee. With special generosity the lower classes against their compelled both in Spain proper in three years the re-action came the Church thus contributed to and in her colonies, to exercise economic overlords: Others have and with it the loss of Spanish the support of the State at the civil purfunctions, using for that endeavoured to win sympathy colonies in America. In 1823 by representing the war as one pose in great measure income the government reversed its deci- end of the XVIII. and the beginning of the XIX. Centuries and between democracy and fascism, derived from endowments, which sion. particularly during the war had been the product of econoand there is certainly some reaAnti-Clericalism. against the French invasion, in son to fear as a remedy for the my and deprivation practised by The death of Ferdinand VII. in 1808, when even the sacred vesexcesses of the Left Wingers the the secular as well as the regurr 1834 was followed by a period of sels were melted down and conclergy. acOne of the proudest Rightists might deem it necesconfusion. An outbreak of verted into money with which to sary at least temporarily, in case hievements of the Spanish was cholera added tragedy to the polipay the army. The Army Corps the victory of Lepanto. won of their victory, but they have tical desorder. Mad with terror, r ecruited by General Castanos in s olemnly promised that such a under the able generalship of under the leadership of anti-cleriAndalusia. which defeated Du(lictatorsh•ip if adopted, would be Cardinal Jimenez, Archbishop of cals. the Spanish mob for the pon at Bailen, was paid for alToledo. political and temporary, not to be first time laid violent hands on most entirely lw the Church as A change in this position of e xtended beyond the emergency the Religious Orders. "Render- shown by the records. r esulting from the armed con- the Church is to be noted almost ed brutal by terror," writes Canoimmediately after the War of Property Confiscated. flict. vas Cervantes, "those, who only Succession which resulted in "Under pretext of liquidating Absurd Charge. yesterday were being fed in the Few commentators have inter- placing a Bourbon on the throne convent, to-day were cutting the property held in mortmain, to Charles III .in some raise funds with which to meet p;:eted the war as one of religion of Spain. respects doubtless the greatest of throats of the poor little friars its own extravagance and defray again st anti-religion. Walter from whom they had received so !)uranty in at least one of his the Bourbon kings of Spain, un- many comforts, material as well the cost of political turbulence, curb the powers of ecdertook to r ticies seems to inckine in this as spiritual." Thus was in- the property of the Church Nva.!% direction. "The Church." he clesiastics, particularly in the augurated the reign of Isabel II., confiscated and no compensation says, "had become the greatest field of education, and suppres- which went from one catastrophe was made. single prcprietor of landed finan- sed the Jesuits. The economic into another; public administra"The lowest estimate places at cial and industrial wealth." His policy of Charles III. had for its tion collapsed; public finances 3 billion pesetas the value of authority is an anonymous in- foundation a wider distribution were in bankruptcy. Church property thus confiscatThe mortmain former who told him "the Church of property. At five per cent, the interI n 1835-36, property held in ed. owned one-third of all the wealth laws enacted under Charles III. mortmain that had escaped ear- est of this sum would amount to in Spain." The Rightists, ac- were not aimed directly at the lier laws was confiscated and sold an obligation of 150,000,000 pe%cording to Duranty, brought on property held by Religious Or- at a public auction. The sum voted The Mow etas annually. the civil war because .of "efforts ders but at all property held in fell heaviest on the defenceless for clergy and worship has never by the radicals to restrict the mortmain in Spain, the purpose properties of the Church. In been in excess of 60,000,000 anholdings and authority of the being to enable tenants and other 1843, the Cortes amended the nually, and has averaged only dependable groups to acquire Church." . ..)..00Omo pesetas (at par about property rights in the land in a Constitution of 1812 and in it The charge that the Church in i1.700,000). embodies a provision outlawing scale proportionately larger but Spain is in possession of too "The Concordat of 1851, still Not until not unlike the tenancy problem Religious Orders. great wealth and authority has in force, and the Convention be1851 was it possible to conclude which to-day confronts the Unitno foundations in conditions exan amicable agreement in the tween the Spanish Government ed States. isting at present in Spain, and form of a Concordat between and the Holy See concluded in Suppression of Orders. 1860, provides for sonic compencannot be justified by the history Spain and the Holy See. of the Spanish nation. The charge The practice of suppressing The Concordat of 1851 did not sation for the abuses of the laws that the Church possesses too Religious Orders by civil law surprise any Religious Orders, as liquidating mortmain property cY great authority in Spain is comwas imported into Spain from is sometimes alleged. In these agreeUnder the Church. pletely refuted by the action of France. The political doctrines this Concordat the government ments the Spanish State solemnthe recognised Catholic Party in and methods of the French Re- of Spain undertook to give spe- ly recognises its obligation and the Spanish Cortes. When in volution entered Spain with the cial protection to the Congrega- agrees to a minimum annual payThe govern- tion of Religious Orders engaged ment of 36,000.000 pesetas, unthe Cortes immediately succeed- Napoleonic army. ing the Constitutional Cortes ment of Joseph Napoleon was in the training of priests. 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raffle and such like. I hope to send .a contribution in due course, this being an acceptable but not convenient time. Till then—Yours sincerely, GRETCHEN. Dear Gretchen,----Please don't give me up when you do send the contribution—your "till then" has given me a disturbed feeling round the heart! All times are acceptable tinies with me where contributions are concerned, as you know to your cost ,or shouldI say, Thank to your eternal recompense? you for "adopting" a family who will value "The Record," and thank you also for the nicely expressed wishes Prepare to be for Bushies and self. AUNT BESSY, surprised!
Dear Wilkins,—Your euphonic pen name has such a Dickensian flavour about it that I feel rather awed to think our humble "Corner" has been noticed by you, but property sellers always impress intending buyers with the fact that corner sites have an attraction all their own, so that may be the case with mine when all the Cornerites foregather here. Just now it looks rather like a vacant allotment, but for all that I would not put an "Up for Sale" notice on it, though I will give you sufficient room to air your views from time to time, since I perceive them to be both sensible and witty—a rare combination in a lady, Mr. Micawber, but a rarer in a gentleman. Your letter throws interesting sidelights on a personage of high standing in our company, for though she travelled abroad last year, unlike most travellers, she did not give us too much information on what she did and where she went, and with whom she made friends, and as far as Tiddles and I go, she kept her meeting with King Neptune as dark as a lazy housekeeper keeps her apartments when sweeping and dusting do not appeal to her. I presume you were one of her companions on the very wobbly Damtroon. It is not generally known that one of the reasons why she did not go down on that return journey to the West was that she had a member of the Cork aristocracy on board and that helped her to float safely into port, but so far Her Royal Highness has not received any lucrative recognition from the ship's company for that service, and that is why, besides having to be careful of her p's and q's now, she must even look after her knobby pins. We are under the impression that Sandy McDougall has the treasure, so your surmise about it being in the Bight is not as correct as my knowledge of your identity. However, we will know for certain next week, as H.R.H. is to interview Sandy on St. Patrick's Day. !AUNT BESSY.
Mt. Lawley. Dear Aunt Bessy,—As I am a regular reader of "The Record" and other Catholic periodicals, I will be delighted if you will supply name and address of some family wishing to receive them. The Bushies' Scheme inaugurOUR LADY'S FIFTH DOLOUR. ated here by Rev. Dr. McMahon has my most sincere admiration for the wonderful work it has carried on for Lo! She who had, kneeling, said, so long, and when I obtain regular em"Be it done unto me according to thy ployment I hope to write to you w ord," often and enclose a little contribution Whose girlish Fiat brought Our God towards the propagation of the to earth, Scheme.—Sincerely yours, Collie. Now stands beside His Cross to help Dear Aunt I3essy,H notice that E. de M. Him die. Dear E. de M.,—My best thanks for since last year most of your (oil EsMatured of age is Mary as she stands, pondents are neglecting you, so I your prompt response to the appeal for And yet so young in mfid. thought I would not follow their ex- 'Record" and other literature. So That when she hears The Dying Word ample. Even though you don't re- much lasting good can be accomplishsigh down, quire £1,000 this year, you still need ed by beneficial reading that it be"Woman, behold thy son!" constant support. I see you have hoves all who wish to see the extenShe does not upwards look to view His some families wishing for "The Re- sion of our holy Faith to be more aragony, cord," so give me the name of a really dent in circulating Catholic literature. Nor does she turn her mournful gaze out back one and I shall be pleased I hope for reasons, apart from our on John, to send my copy on. "Wait a Jiff" is Scheme, that the regular employment But, looking out beyond, her thoughts home but a couple of your older nieces will soon be yours. Ite ad Joseph— can see are launching out into the world: per- he knows the necessity of having to Our ransomed souls for fresh maternhaps they will write to you some 'lay. earn one's daily bread as he had to do ity. I hope you will have a prozo.rous year it for Three once upon a time. Again she hears His voice—Its "con* for the Bushies and one of health, peace AUNT BESSY. summatum est!" aed content for yourself. All are And ere the sword has pierced His busy preparing for St. Pat's Ball and Claremont. Sacred Heart, Dear Aunt Bessy,—I do hope you the shops are full of lovely dresses. I That Voice has pierced her own. am interested to know what your next don't think I have forgotten you, for —AUNT BESSY. surprise is to be- the shape of the I haven't. As you see, I am away c/o Katanning Bank. from home and haven't much time to Dear Aunt Bessy,—I am writing for write, but I still have time to read all of us this time and enclosing 7/6 your Corner every week. What is and the Pinkies. Please send us three your Objective this year? (Some say this, and some say that, but I'm not more. Our dear priest, Father Doddy, has left us and we are sorry to lose saying anything until the heat has himHe is going to Rosalie, so you gone.) Whatever it is I hope you reach it, and I enclose 5s. towards it, may see him when he goes to the • Father Byrne is coming to in thanksgiving for a favour obtained office. take his place: he must be a lovely through the Holy Souls. priest, judging by his name. The EIGHT PLUS. beatific smiles are still going strong Dear Eight Plus,—'Tis just as well down here and waiting for you to you didn't sign your name "Plus carry out your threat and make a Fours," as the home folk, recognising rhyme about them. I've never yet your style of writing, might begin to seen Mr. Clune without a smile, and as think there was a lot of golfing going for Father Doddy! I don't know what on where you are. "fiddles says I we'll do without him and his smile on must excuse anyone being tardy about a Sunday morning. It has been rainwriting when they assure us they read ing hard these last two days, but it is the Corner so faithfully: besides, the raining harder now, and all our tanks sight of the is. P.N. had a softening are filled, which is a good thing, as effect, and I thank you very much for they were just about empty. Give being among the first to help this my love to Tiddles.—Your loving year's Objective. niece. PAT BYRNE. AUNT BESSY. Dear Pat,—The Pinkies and the 7/6 came in to cheer my heart up last Brokers Lan , Cainpden Town. Monday, and it wanted cheering Dear Aunt Bessy,—Although I have badly, for everyone round me had not yet the pleasure of being a mem"Mondayitis,' 'and I would have ber of your famous "Corner," I am excaught it if I hadn't just got my mail tremely interested in its sorrows and bag in time. They say the only cure joys. While reading "The Record" a for Mondayitis is to get up and prefew weeks ago I saw that II.R.H. Printend it is still Sunday, but so far it cess Elizabeth of Cork was in great hasn't acted in our office, so I'm wondistress, caused by the loss of a very by The v aluable relic, a black knobby pin. dering if you could coax Mr. Clune OUNCENow, as I have a spot of affection, I and all those other beatific Sunday . cutct smilers to send me their photographs. must say a large spot, I thought it my in handy and I'd hang them up and see if that charitable duty to send her through would be any use. I hope Rev. you my deepest sympathy for her sad Gd loss, and also to give her some advice. Father Byrne sees what you said about him, because he will have to smile at I think the Princess will realise after CARTONS your Pinkies then, the same as Father this experience that it is very unwise, AT ALL I might even say wrong, to become Dodd' used to do, SWEET SHOPS AUNT BESSY. over attached to the things of this earth, however high their sentimental value may be. Of course I realise Kalgoorlie. that a black knobby pin is very useful Dear Aunt Bessy,- Thanks for the and its loss 'would be as keenly felt as kind wishes for the 25th. I am enits presence when intruding too far closing &s., my first offering for this into a sensitive portion of one's anatMother and I were in Perth Year. omy. As it was lost between Vic- for the holidays and enjoyed our visit toria and W.A., it might possibly be We were delighted you very much. lying in the middle of the Bight, so I got the £1,000. It was really wonderwould advise Her Royal Highness to fut. Good-bye ,and all my love and get in touch with her old and trusted best wishes for this year.—Your lovfriend, "King Neptune," and I'm sure ing niece, His Majesty would be only too deANNETTE MILLS. lighted to make inquiries amongst his 145 Fitzgerald Street. Phone B1041 friends, the mermaids. I must not Dear Annette,—Thank You for the take up any more of your time, so love and best wishes and for the 5s. OUR MOTTO "QUALI1Y AND SERVICE with kindest regards to yourself and My bank account for the Bushies is deepest sympathy to Princess Eliza- just like the water tanks were a couDorman & Sons, Proprietors beth.—Ever your devoted servant. ple of weeks ago at Katanning but as WILKINS MICAWBER. soon as the summer has gone I hope
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Him when His death was being callother many in W. R. MADDEFORD, Manager. ed for, and even nowLEN HOPE, Foreman. lands, outside our country, the little childr,:n are being trained to hate Our Lord and to ghow all kinds of disrespc,ot towar* His (Adorable Piesenct in the Blessed -Sacrament. Therefore, my special wish for you on this Palm Sunday will be that now and always you will remain among those who will love Our Blessed Lord at all times, who will be ready to be loyal to and St. Joseph's Convent, Kellerberrin. Him even if tempted to be otherwise. Dear Aunt Bessy,—I am writing this Mary and Allan are partners for honletter chiefly to thank you for the ours on the 22nd., but we do not know and pleasure my for wrote poem you how old you are going to be, Mary, I on. Naught that of a certain John and as Allan will only be 1, the only I as much hope John enjoyed it as wish we can wish for him is that he did, for I have read it several times will be 2 in twelve months time. On with delight. I could not think for a TOMATO SAUCE —PICKLES—VINEGAR—WORCESTERSHIRE SAUCE the 27th., it will be your turn to get moment how you managed to know with many nice Then I remembered kissed and presented Eileen, and we my birthday. Even if you tried you would not find any Sauce or Pickles gifts. ble accepta and had Peggy, sister, that my younger put will y birthda as pleasingly flavoured as this old established SOVEREIGN written you some time ago and had all hope your 8th. tely in the shade. comple one 7th. the BRAND—made from a recipe of the home-made type. have told you the date of my birth. I AUNT BESSY. never written to you myself, but I often read the letters which you re- 1111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111!) There's No Nicer Tomato Sauce or Pickle than Sovereign Brand ceive from other children and the grown-ups and I think they are all THE OVERFLOW FOR THE splendid. Many times I have meant BUSHIES. not s. d, to write to you, but I have either had the time or I had that "can't be Our Monthly Subscribers, per bothered" feeling. Thanking you once "The Five Little Murphys" 2 14 0 again —I am, your affectionately, Ardent Admirer" (per "The EILEEN JACK. 1 2 9i the "Malvern Star") off typing was I Dear Eileen,—While West Perth (In Friend," A " myself, your letter I was saying to honour of The Sacred "What a nice letter this is," and then 1 1 0 art) He when I came on the last sentence, I Per Miss Pat and Masters said "0!" I think it must have been Kevin and Brian Byrne, an 0 'without an H to it, as it sound7 6 Katanning with up wake I ed so round ,and if Plus" (In thanksgivht "Eig I'll morrow 5 0 the whooping cough toing to the Holy Souls) .. .") 0 know I got it from saying that 0, be- Miss Annette Mills, Kalgoorlie WHOLESALE DAIRY PRODUCE MERCHANTS cause it was just as round as a hoop without the W to it. 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I am so gliti You have come "Ah, Jobson," said the managing diinto our Corner and I hope you will NEW NORCIA he a regular correspondent from rector, "so you complete forty-seven you've , BESSY suppose AUNT years' service to-day. I this on, come to ask for a rise?" CONDUCTED BY THE MARIST BROTHERS SAVE MONEY on Stoves, Coppers, I'm afraid I've come to "No, sir. B aths, Bath Heaters, and repairs to all startling reW.A. STOVE COY., corm: give notice," was Jobson's want to get Stoves. For Particulars Apply to—THE BROTHER DIRECTOR I don't see, "You Perth. ply. Ste., Queen aad Wellington rut," a into B2241. and 'Phones: B6307
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THE FIRST HOLY THURSDAY. This, the day before He suffered for the salvatio n of us, and of all men, the Lord Christ took bread into and venerable hands, and with His eyes lifted His holy broke and gave to His disciples, saying: Take up to heaven, unto God His Almighty Father, giving thanks, He blessed. and eat ye all of this. FOR THIS IS MY BODY.
PALM SUNDAY.
Wednesday: Lord , by Thee HE WENT ON. Jesus was criticised about His rights, may we follow Thee, by Thee Condemned as one who was unor(Archbish m op Goodier, ay we go unto Thee, for Thou To-day Our Lord had a brief thodox, Proved wrong out of His own mouth, triumph; thereby he fulfilled art the Way, the Truth, and the Jesus from .His childhood had the Yet He went on. another prophecy of Isaias, and Life—the Way by Thy examdeadliest of enemies, confirmed His Alessiahship. At ple, the Truth by Thy promise. Yet He went on. Jesus was worn to death by labour, Now by excessive loneliness, the end of the week these same the Life by Thy rewards. Jesus was ignored and passed over Now by the pressure of the crowd, crowds were induced to reject For thirty years, Thursday: He who seeks God Yet He went on. Him. Still many would again will find Him Yet He went on. ,and at all times. come back to Him after He had The most appropriate place for Jesus was not quite understood even risen and ascended, and the Holy in Jesus was sneered at by the great. by His Mother, however, is the Patronised by the learned and old. Ghost had come; they would be church, Yet He went on. in the presence of Jesus Treated by His friends with galling among the thousands who accept- Christ familiarity, in the Blessed Sacrament. Jesus had the very worst interpretaed St. Peter's first sermons (Acts —St. Yet He went on. tions Alphonsus Liguori. ii. and iv.). They would come Put upon His very kindest actions. .resus knew very little gratitude, Friday back to Him, not in the fleeting Yet He went on. Trials, temptations, Yet He went on. enthusiasm of an excited hour, disappointments—all these are Jesus had all His words warped, twist. but in entire and lasting submis- helps instead of hindrances if ed, Falsely reported, magnified. miniJesus had none to share His burthen, sion. Hence we see that it is not one uses them rightly. They not mised, None with whom He could talk. sweet affections or mass dis- only test the fibre of character, Made to mean the very opposite Yet He went on. plays of piety that finally count, but strengthen it. Every conBy men set expressly to catch Him, but earnest personal service in quered temptation represents a Jesus was slighted even laughed Lc, Yet He went on. the joys and sorrows and the new fund of moral energy. scorn, Jesus had no support from those in When He gave of His very best, humdrum routine of life. Saturday: Rejoice in the Lord authority, Yet He went on. Only suspicion, heckling, condemnaThe ceremony special to always; again. I say, rejoice. tion, Jesus had sententious and wise friends, • this day dramatically re-enacts Let your modesty be known to Yet He went on. To tell Him what mistakes He made all men ; for the Lord is nigh. Christ's triumph. It is a very And What He ought to do, ancient ceremony; it began in Be nothing solicitous; but in With the people failed rather than Yet He went on. everyth succeded, ing by prayer let your reJesusalem itself in the fourth cenSucceeded in things that meant tury. Jesus was deserted by everyone. By it we have professed quests be made known to God.-nothing. Even His best friends, our loyalty to the true Christ. St. Paul. . Yet He went on. Who were scandalised in Him, our spiritual King, triumphing Disappointed by Him, through His cross. We have Yet He went on. proclaimed ourselves to be of one Jesus was betrayed, mind and heart with the unnumB y one He had most trusted, bered in of faithful Betrayed by one of His first priests, Christians who in every century Betrayed for such a paltry price have honoured Christ by zealous Betrayed with a kiss, Betrayed to a rabble of ruffians, service, upright living, surrenYet He went on. der of self and sometimes of life Jesus was denied itself. Our partaking in it must R v one on whom He most relied, never be mere lip service or a Yet He went on. passing honour that gives place presently to the crucifying of Jesus was hanged as a common maifactor Christ by mortal sin. Between two other malefactors, Yet He went on,
THOUGHTS FOR THE WEEK.
Jesus endured the sense of utter deser. tion. E ven by God His Father, Yet He went on.
Sunday : Don't think your acts of self-denial small because sometimes they don't cost you very much. It is the love which they express that is invaluable. Monday : If thou wilt not stiffer, thou refuseth to be crowned., but if thou desirest to be crowned, fight manfully and endure patien tiv.—Thomas a Kempis. Tuesday: Our enemies show in their conduct what their master has taught them. Let us show in ours what we have learned at the feet of Jesus.—St. Gregory Nazianzen.
J esus was never without those wl,o 7-irr,o4 1 ! ! ,11, Really vindictively hated Him, Who plotted against Him, Who maligned Him behind His back, Who did all they could to ruin Him. And in the end He knew they would succeed, Yet He went on. resus saved others. Himself He would not save. Yet He went on GOOD FRIDAY. Christ became obedient for us unto death, death of the Cross.
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Are Punishments Salutary? ( 11.\ MARIE FARGUES.). Somebody remarked to me the other day (and very rightly, too) that the value of punishments, especially those belonging to the category of practical works, is eminently subjective. "The very fact of being given certain, things to do as a punishment makes these things odious—polishing silver, peeling potatoes, or shelling peas—.-things which would be, done almost joyfully as an especial treat." Why not suppress that "almost"? Another friend, a seminarist, during his holidays, made his nephews water the garden, just as a certain schoolmaster, whom I know, used to make his pupils do. But he altered the si,,o-nificance of the deed from one of punishment to that of a game. John, "I am working like Daddy now." Peter. "Yes, it's great fun to hose he garden. _Uncle made me a lovely helmet and told me that I was like a real chief-fireman." The child is an active being. To make it bored of activity it must be tired out, or engaged in s, )ine work perhaps of . dubiotts value: a suggestion of boredom, an unspoken attitude of vengeance ("You did, that to me! Y on are going to see what is going to happen to you now !"), an inversion of the natural order of things ("You have just corn( home after a walk, von want to play in your room, but instead ot t his you will work in the gar den"). A s soon as sonic work is represented in the light of a pu11. ishment. it loses in future its v alue as a reward, totally or at 111N* rate in part. This need for punishment join, ed to our progress in education, causes us to arrive at an idea of education which is truly obnoxious in its dread calm. We seem to say to the child, "Your actions are watched over, counted and w eighed up; you will have to pay if you do not correspond to t he programme which I have fixed for you. For my part, I have paid in advance owing to the trouble caused me on your account—besides you are an expense. Your sins of omission are trifles, but it is your sins of deed wh;rh- I shall punish. I shall punish deeds by deeds, and all your life you can remember this prohibition." It is necessary to keep equilibrium throughout the child's life, that the home task and the school t as.1 should be represented from t he sane outlook. Parents and t eac+er, must impregnate them-
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selves with the spirit of Boy Scouts—in short, they must have the joyful spirit of true Christians. It is said that the souls in Purgatory, even in the midst of their sufferings, experience the most intimate joy which is in accord with Happiness, the feeling of a work which has been completed. Ought not our children b1\ cleansing themselves of their faults to raise themselves higher by this? Then, what matter how they do it? They should do it in harmony with themselves, and with us, and by that means. they can liberate their souls. "To-day, you have not tried as you ought; vou are selfish. self-centered and a rebel. Don't you want to remedy this:: To put some. discipline on yourself? Come into the garden; by this small thing which I ask of you. the Evil which von have allowed to reach you will be expelled. Come all the same. Dc you want to? And you can hose and water the garden. How many watering cans will you carry to drive away the Evil? Fix the number." My reader smiles: what a sermon! No. such a long tirade is not necessary ; a good parent or teacher says all this in one word, if he succeeds in bringing- his views to meet those of the child. In education directed with depth of understanding-,. the personal intention is all important. Whatever means are suggested by parent or teacher, these do not matter, yet they are necessary at first until, little by little, a right outlook is formed. The true point is then not " What punishment is efficacious?" but what viewpoint can work out for the best progress ' 'wards improvement? What at on the part of the parent or the teacher can suggest t his improvement? How can we. in a spirit of friendship and love. collaborate with our children in t his important work of education - -- — The midget had obtained a job in a factory. .At the end of the first week, however, he gave notice. The foreman expressed his surprise. "Well, you see, sir," explained the midget, "one of the first questions my mates asked me was how tall I am. I t old them I was exactly two feet high." "Well." returned the foreman, "why should you want to leave us? Didn't y ou like the question?" "Oh, I didn't mind that," came the response. "but I do object to being picked up every five minutes and used as a two-foot rule."
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Catholic News From Everywhere MEXICO BISHOP RETURNS TO DIOCESE— But Expelled by Police. Bishop Anaya y Diez de Bonilla, of Chiapas, a State in Mexico, who returned to his See recently, has been expelled. He was forcibly removed by State police from San Cristobal. It was stated by "La Prensa' that Catholics of the State of Chiapas had finally obtained guarantees of liberty for the celebration of religious services and that the Bishop had returned. The Bishop was in Mexico It is believed that the City. police have taken him to Tuxtla ( utierrez. State capital. FRANKLIN ROOSEVELT.
EDUCATION MUST HAVE RELIGION, SAYS ROOSEVELT. "Axiomatic That it is Essential." "Religion is essential to complete education," declared President Franklin D. Roosevelt, in a letter addressed to the National Conference of Church-Related Colleges, which has just held its annual meeting in Washington. The Very Rev. Dr. Edward V. Stanford. 0.S.A., President of Villanoya College, • was elected National Chairman of the Conference. "The intrepid pioneers who laid the foundations of this country in early days, and those who followed them and extended our domain from coast to coast, all found strength to do and achieve in the everlasting reality of religion," President Roosevelt said in his letter.
PRIEST-ASTRONOMER OF CHILE FEARED TO BE DEAD IN VOLCANO. Father 1)omingt. Conde. an astronomer from Talca, is one of a party of Chilean scientists who are at best in grave peril of their lives in the crater of the Onizapu In the v olcano in the Andes. course of their exploration of this volcanic region, they reached the edge of the Quizapu at the moment when an earthquake occurred. The shock threw them into the crater and it is gravely Feared that they have been killed.
SISTERS SAVE CHILDREN A S NIGHT FIRE BURNS CANADA ORPHANAGE. Sisters of the Societe des Fille:; Consolatrices du Divin Coeur saved 200 children when fire broke out at 3 in the morning at the St. Francis of Assisi orphanOrphans, from age. Montreal. 2 to 6 years old, were quickly dressed and led out by the nuns. Firemen carried the children and edso some of the Sisters down the ladders. Telephone workers and taxi-drivers helped in the fight to control the flames, while other religious prayed in the chapel in another section of the building. A bout £3.000 damage was done. SOUTH AFRICA CATHOLICS • NUMBER 450,000 M ost recent statistics k• incepting the Church in South Africa show that the total number of Catholics there is 450.939; only about 42,000 more than in the Archdiocese of Liverpool. Native nuns increased from 147 to 277 during 1936, while the total rost by 38.000 in the same period. POLICE BAN ANTI-CATHOLIC PLAY. An anti-Catholic play, "Kohouti," by J. Hais Tynecky, due for presentation in a Prague theatre, has been banned by the city police.
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ALL NATIONALIST SPAIN OBSERVES POPE'S DAY. "Pope's Day.- the 15th. anniversary of the Pope's election, was celebrated recently throughout Nationalist Spain. Communion Masses were offered in all churches for his rapid recovery and for peace in Spain.
Civilisation's Bulwarks. "They placed their faith and trust in those twin institutions— the church and the school—and wherever men went in search of new homes, their first thought was to establish those two bulwarks of civilisation. "I take it to be axiomatic that religion is essential to complete e ducation and by the same token that education is necessary to the advancement of the Christian T trust that your programme. discussions of problems of the church-related colleges in a free State will be fruitful of constructive ideas and T hope for vonr deliberations the success Nvhich t heir high purpose merits." NEW CATHOLIC DAILY IN INDIA. An anglo-vernacular daily entitled. "The Malabar Mail." has been founded under the auspices of the Catholic Welfare Company at Ernakulam,
MISS MERCIA DE MANUEL. An interview in a recent issue of the " Wanganui Herald" (New Zealand.' w ith Signor and' Signora Marotta, visiting singers, has some very complimentary references to Miss NIercia de Mamiel, who is spoken of as "one of Signor .Marotta's prize pupils" (In Sydney). Miss de Mamiel is about to embark on an operatic career ,and will leave for London and Italy shortly with Signor and Signora Marotta. "Miss de Mamiel possesses a fine mezzo-soprano voice and Signor Marotta told the interviewer that Australia will one day be proud of her," says the New Zealand newspaper. "In addition to having a splendid voice, she possesses a charming personality and has a good According to Signora appearance. Marotta. Miss de Mamiel is a shining e xample of what every conscientious singing pupil should be, and the fact that she was willing to devote 18 months to exercises alone is proof of her determination to provide herself w ith a thorough grounding in the rudiments of voice production. After she has completed her training under Signor Marotta's tutelage in Italy, Miss de .Mamiel will then be ready to make her debut as an operatic artist. Signora Marotta stated that ,R. mezzosoprano of Miss de Mamiel's calibre was rare, even in Italy, the home of grand opera."
MOSCOW PULLS DOWN ITS CATHEDRAL. Site Will be Radio Centre. Minsk Cathedral, one of the biggest churches in Moscow, is to be demolished. A radio building will probably be erected on the site. The largest church in the city, the Church of Our Redemptor. was pulled down recently. The following pupils were successful at the recent Theory Examination held in connection with the Trinity College of Music:— Advanced Junior Honours: Kathleen Knox Thomson, 99 marks. Junior Honours: Janet Daniels, 97 marks: Nellie Chapman, 97 marks; Patricia Ruland, 86 marks. Preparatory Honours: Thelma Canova, 96 marks: Marie Baseden, 91 marks; Phyllis Hird, 89 marks; and Nela Petroff, 88 marks.
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