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2 THE BULLETIN OF THE CATHOLIC LAYMEN’S ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA pointed to secure subscriptions. Two years later, while Rev. Dr. Brown was pastor, the first church was completed. In 1848, during the pastorate of Rev. Father Barry, the church was found to be too small, and was enlarged by adding a transept to the nave, mak ing the church cruciform in accordance with general usage throughout the Catholic world. The brick for the original church was furnished by Nicholas del’Aigle and Fedinand Phinizy, the latter the first of the family of that name to live in Augusta. There are still living in Augusta men and women who remember the original church with its addition. The first step toward erecting the present church, was taken in 1853, but the death of the Bishop of Savannah in the epidemic of 1854 and the elevation of Father Barry to the See of Savannah interrupted the movement. By 1857, $4,365 had been collected and the work started. As the contributions were received, the Church went up, and it was completed and consecrated, free of debt, in April, 1863, Rev. Gregory Duggan being at that time pastor. The Augusta Constitutionalist, now The Chronicle, gave the following list of distinguished churchmen present at the consecration: Rt. Rev. Augustus Verot, Bishop of Savannah, Rt. Rev. Dr. Lynch, Bishop of Charleston, Rt. Rev. Dr. McGill, Bishop of Richmond, and Rt. Rev. Dr. Quinlan, Bishon of Mobile. Bishop Quinlan delivered the consecration sermon to a congregation of 7,000 people, old ac counts say. The fiftieth anniversary of the consecration of St. Patrick’s, which was originally Holy Trinity Church, took place April 13, 1913, with Bishop Keiley of Savannah, the late Bishop Northrop of Charleston, Bishop O’Connell of Richmond and Bishop Allen of Mobile, the successors of the pre lates who officiated a half century before, present.. The pastors of the church since its foundation were Rev. Edward Sweeney, 1807; Rev. J. McEnroe, 1828; Rev. John Barry, 1830; Rev. Gregory Duggan, 1841; and since the war Rev. Wm. J. Hamilton, Rev. C. C. Prendergast, Rev. H. J. McNally, Rev. James O’Brien, Very Rev. L. Bazin, Very Rev. P. H. McMahon, all deceased, Rev. Wm. Quinlan, now of Sharon, and Rev. H. A. Schonhardt, the present pastor. In addition to the church, which, despite its age, is in perfect condition and still one of the show places of the city, the parish boasts of two fine schools, one for boys, taught by the Christian Brothers, and an other for girls, conducted by the Sisters of Mercy. The property occupies a whole block, having front age on four streets. The rectory faces the post-office and the railroad station, and is located but a minute or two from the business center of the city. THE INFLUENCE OF WOMEN By RT. REV. BENJAMIN J. KEILEY, D. D., Bishop of Savannah. The Bulletin is to issue a Woman’s Number, and I am asked to say a word. In so brief a space to which I must of necessity confine myself I can only write on one phase of my subject—the influence of woman. Christianity naturally and inevitably brought about a most wonderful change in her status. I say inevitably, because Christianity was a willing and loving witness to the great debt it owed to a Woman, the Immaculate Mother of our Lord. A debt in creased ten thousand fold since as each succeeding age felt the benign influence of Her name and the wonderful power of Her intercession! Constancy, devotion and courageous love were the special virtues which were so admired, and which so exorted willing recognition and eternal gratitude. Christianity told the story of her typifying and illus trating these sublime virtues of Courage, Devotion and deathless Love, as it showed woman the last to leave Calvary and the first at the tomb. I know not what became of the sweet spices borne by the blessed women that Easter morn ere the dawn had come, as they sorrowfully wended their way to the tomb, where they thought to find the body of the Lord, but though the sweet spices were lost the aroma of the Constancy, Courage and Love of these women has come down all the ages, to our own day. And today, as through His wonderful mercy once more does the Lord bring back the memory and the awful sacrifice of Calvary, differing only in manner from the tragedy of the first Good Friday, the wom en are found at Holy Mass as the women were found at the foot of the Cross. By all of us is a debt due our Mothers, for from their lips did we first learn the name of Jesus and Mary and the beautiful stories of Bethlehem and Calvary. As wife, mother or sister, she stands supreme as the personification of devotion to duty and loyalty to Home. In every work done for God and His Church, woman is first in responding, most faithful in doing and is the last to leave her post and only leaves when the work is done. No one will ever know until the last Great Day how often has the avenging arm of a justly angered God been withheld because of the pleading voices of His children in Convent, Monastery or Home. In our own State woman has done her duty in the Laymen’s Association, and all over the State have the Catholic women recently banded together to help the Priests on the Missions of the State. And yet even the mild reproof, which fell from the lips of our Blessed Lord regarding Martha’s anxiety in many things, does not apply to them for at the Altar at the feet of our Blessed Lord they too have sat and have learned there the better part, and have found always time amid other duties to wait on the Lord, minister to His wants and help His priests. BENJAMIN J. KEILEY, Bishop of Savannah. Savannah, Ga., June 15, 1921. DEVELOPMENTS IN THE LIBEL BY THE JUNIOR SENATOR FROM GEORGIA Mrs. Milton P. Higgins of Worcester, Mass., president of the National Convention of Moth ers, has condemned the statements of the Junior Senator from Georgia and his cunning attempt to link up the organization and his allegations. Representative Thomas J. Ryan, Republican, of New York, has introduced into the House of Representatives at Washington a resolution de manding that Congress order the discontinuance of the editoral headquarters of the Columbia Sentinel, of which the Junior Senator from Georgia is editor, in the Senate Office Building, that it send to President Harding an expres sion of disapproval of the Georgia Senator’s action, and that it publicly condemn his action and take disciplinary measures against him. At least two Georgia papers, and numerous other daily papers throughout the country, have referred editorially and with disapproval to the unfounded charges of the Junior Senator from Georgia against Bishop Keiley. ■ ■ —-u