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THE BULLETIN OF THE CATHOLIC LAYMEN’S ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA
IN CATHOLIC CIRCLES
GEORGIA
Augusta has a new Catholic high school in St. Pat
rick’s Parish, of which Rev. H. A. Schonhardt is pas
tor. This year there will be one year of high school
work in the new high school, and an additional year
will be added every fall until the four classes are be
ing conducted.
Brother Abdas of the Christian Brothers, which or
der conducted the St. Patrick’s Commercial Institute,
succeeded by the new school, is its principal. The
Christian Brothers constitute one of the greatest
teaching order for boys in the Church, and conduct
many notable schools throughout the United States.
Augusta considers itself fortunate in securing them.
Rev. T. P. Daly, S. J., a native of Macon, was or
dained to the priesthood in St. Louis, Mo., by Arch
bishop Glennon this summer. Another Georgian,
Rev. Eugene O Connor, S. J., of Augusta, was ordained
at the same time.
Father Daly entered the Jesuits in 1906 at Macon;
after his preliminary studies he taught at the Im
maculate Conception College at New Orleans, and at
Grand Coteau. His subsequent studies were made at
Woodstock, Md., and at St. Louis University.
Sister Clare of Mount de Sales Academy, Macon, is
a sister of Father Daly.
The Knights of Columbus baseball team of Atlanta,
after winning the pennant in the Spalding League at
the state capital, looked around for other fields to
conquer, and so journeyed recently to Douglasville,
where it took the strong Douglasville nine into camp to
the tune of 7 to 2. The members of the Knights of
Columbus team are diamond stars of the highest
calibre, but they shine even more brilliantly as gen
tlemen on the athletic field. That is what the At
lanta sporting editors say about them.
The Sacred Heart Benevolent Association of Au
gusta staged another entertainment for the young peo
ple of the parish September 8. The entertainment was
for those young at heart as well as in years. The
women in charge of the series of entertainments—this
was the second one are Mrs. P. H. Rice, Mrs. E. J.
O'Connor, Mrs. J. P. Mulherin and Miss May Mahoney.
Lieut. C. M. Gailmard, Jr., a former Atlantan, has
received from his majesty, King Albert of Belgium,^the
grade of “Chevalier of the Order of the Crown, in
recognition of services rendered the Belgian prisoners
of war in the prison camps of Germany immediately af
ter the armistice. Lieut. Gailmard and General George
H. Harries were the first Americans to reach Berlin
after the close of military operations.
The work of Rev. Michael Byrne, chaplain at the
Federal Penitentiary at Atlanta, is attracting wide at
tention. A recent issue of the Atlanta Sunday Am
erican carried a full account of his life and work, to
gether with two large cuts of the popular Catholic
clergyman.
The Cathedral School for boys and girls was put on
an eight grade basis at the beginning of the present
term. The schools were greeted by a record registra
tion when the term started. The Marist Brothers are
in charge of the school.
Dr. W. A. Mulherin of Augusta, professor of pedi
atrics at the Medical College of the University of
Georgia, was elected president of the Southern Pedi
atric Seminar for the ensuing year at the annual
gathering in Asheville this summer. Dr. Mulherin is
chairman of the children’s disease section of the South
ern Medical Association, and Vice-chairman of the
children’s disease section of the American Medical
Association.
NOTES
Mrs. Clara O’Connell of Augusta, widow of the late
John J. O’Connell, and a daughter of the late Major
Clem Thompson, died recently at her Augusta home.
She was a member of St. Patrick’s church. A daugh
ter, Miss Annie Mae O’Connell, survives her.
Daniel Scully, a member of St. Patrick’s parish, Au
gusta, died at University Hospital in that city during
August, after a short illness. . He is survived by his
parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Scully, a sister, Miss Joe
May Scully, and a brother, Jeremiah Scully. He was
an active and popular member of Patrick Walsh
Council Knights of Columbus. .
CLERICAL LIFE—SOME OF ITS SERIOUS
AND HUMOROUS SIDES
(Continued from page 7.)
Apostles. Do you see that little boy over there who
is trying, guided by his mother’s hands to take his
first steps? Well, there we see the promise of the
athletic man of thirty years. Now he stumbles and
would fall but for the careful hand that guides and di
rects him; thirty years from now he will astonish all
by his strength; but all his future strength is potentially
there in the weak child. The little seed which you
may find on the ground and of which you can hold
hundreds in your hands, has the mighty oak concealed
in it. You place it in the ground and in due time it
pushes through the soil and little by little it grows
until in good time the great tree with massive trunk,
wide spreading branches and restful shade is seen.
Do you recall that our Blessed Lord compared his
Kingdom to a grain of mustard seed which is the
smallest of all seeds, but at last grows to be a tree?
“As to the Church’s teaching authority, the
Apostles received from our Lord the commission to
teach all men the truth, and were assured of Divine
assistance in their labors. Were the men in that
day at liberty to refuse to listen to them? Was it any
enslaving of the minds and consciences of men for the
Apostles to insist as they did on men believing the
truth? Christ unquestionably told the Apostles that
those who heard them heard Him, and that those who
refused to hear them, refused to hear Him. Were the
men slaves who then heard and believed? If the
Apostles taught in various parts of the world, and if
we find the men so taught handing down to their
children certain truths and practices as delivered to
them by the Apostles, it seems to me that when it was
found in after times that in every land where the
Apostles and their legitimate successors had preached,
the same faith and the same liturgical observances
were found, no other reason for this can be given than
that they came from those whom Christ Himself had
sent to teach and to establish His religion. The Mass of
today was in the olden days said, for we read that the
early Christians ‘persevered in the doctrine of the
Apostles and the breaking of bread.’ And the Cath
olic Church of today therefore insists on the accept
ance of the teachings of the Apostles by all her chil
dren, and she invites them all to the ‘breaking of
bread ’—The Mass.
Change in Unessentials
“I do not deny that there has been a change in many
unessential things. We have left the Catacombs and
worship God in Churches; we have in our love for
God’s house lavished decorations on it; we have, while
preserving the general shape of the vesture of Apos
tolic days, brought to the Altar vestments of richer
material. Oh yes! the early Christians of Rome met
daily in the Catacombs and there heard Mass and there
listened often to those who had seen the Lord in
flesh, telling of His wonders and His words. There
was no New Testament Bible then in existence, and
so the faithful were told what they had to do and to be-