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12 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-