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THE BULLETIN OF THE CATHOLIC LAYMEN’S ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA
my vision with such clearness, that I could hesitate no
longer, and hastened my steps to enter within her sa
cred portals. May 6th, at the Cathedral in Savannah,
I made my abjuration of the Protestant faith to Bishop
Keiley, was baptized sub conditionally and confirmed
by him. The following morning at Holy Mass I re
ceived from the hands of the Bishop the Blessed Body
and Blood of the Lord Jesus Christ.
If I should attempt to tell of all I have found in the
Catholic Church, of the certitude of faith, of the rest
for both intellect and heart, of the ineffable sweetness
of Divine consolation, of a life of unceasing prayer and
activity in union with Christ Jesus, of that unspeakable
love which emanates from His Own Sacred Heart and
is communicated to those who form His Mystic Body;
if I undertook to tell of all this I would have to write a
volume. Truly, everything that mind and heart can
desire in religion is found in the Catholic Church, and
until faith shall give place to the Beatific Vision of
Glory, she is the nearest approach to Heaven on earth.
Every day do I realize more and more Her majesty,
divinity, eternal truth and glory. For I never cease to
wonder why God in His goodness opened my blinded
eyes. It is a mystery of His infinite love and goodness.
Of course my conversion created a stir among my
old friends. Some blamed and some pitied me. Those
who knew me intimately, and believed in my sincerity,
said that my heart was right but my head had gone
wrong. Others who did not know me so well, said
I had a sinister motive for becoming a Catholic. I
think it is Newman who has said that a convert to
the Catholic Church is considered by his old friends
and acquaintances as either a knave or a fool.
But after all it is a small matter what people say and
think provided one obeys God. He will vindicate His
own at the proper moment. The only regret that I
have is that I came so late (thank God not too late),
but I did not know. The lament of St. Augustine so
fully expresses what I feel towards the Catholic
Church, that I add it as a closing paragraph to this
little recital of God’s goodness to me: “Too late have
I loved Thee, O Beauty so ancient, O Beauty so new!
Too late have I loved Thee Thou hast called me
thou hast cried out, and hast pierced my deafness.
Thou hast lightened, thou hast shone forth and hast
dispelled my blindness. Thou hast sent forth thy frag-
rancy and I have drawn my breath and pant after
Thee, and am hungry after Thee; Thou hast touched
me and I am inflamed with the desire of Thy em
braces.”
(The End).
The National Council of Catholic Men will meet in
annual convention in Washington, D. C., Sept. 20, 21
and 22. The president and publicity director of the
Catholic Laymen’s Association of Georgia will repre*
sent the state at the great gathering.
The Georgetown University football eleven will
come to Georgia November 1 2 to play Georgia Tech at
Atlanta. Tech defeated Georgetown last year in a
hard-fought and clean game, and the Washington boys
hope to turn the tables this year.
Hon. Frank McGIoin, formerly judge of the Court of
Appeals in Louisiana, died recently near New Orleans.
Judge McGIoin was well and favorably known through
out the South. He was honored by the Holy Father
some time ago by Knighthood in the order of St. Greg
ory the Great.
Senator A. O. Stanley, of Kentucky, a non-Catholic,
recently took advantage of an opportunity afforded by
an invitation to speak at the dedication of a Catholic
Church at Nicholasville, Ky., to pay glowing tributes
to the Sisterhoods which were recenty vilely slandered
by a colleague of the Senator. Senator Watson of In
diana also publicly scored the attack in his home state.
The Demands of Honesty
The following circular is being widely dis
tributed in Macon. A member of the Laymen’s
Association recently found a number of them in
his automobile. Comment is unnecessary.
GUARDIANS OF LIBERTY
P. O. Box 721
MACON, GA.,
August 18, 1921
The Demands of Honesty
An honest man or woman will make sacrifices
to enable them to pay honest debts.
Our forefathers were honest, realizing their
duty to mankind, they came here, thousands of
miles away from their home, to a strange land
and fought to establish a white man’s govern
ment for free men.
As the only means by which a free government
could be preserved, free men were given the bal
lot—without the BALLOT there can be no free
dom.
The Ballot is the ONLY WEAPON by which
our free government can be maintained or de
stroyed from within; it is the great broom that
should be used to keep our home-land as clean
and as pure as when our fathers committed it to
our care, and unless we use the broom there
will be a nasty house.
Just as every member of a family has certain
duties to perform for the good of all, so every
member of the community and nation owes a
great duty and no man or woman can be honest
unless that duty is discharged and that duty is
to USE THE BALLOT.
A filthy housekeeper never uses the broom,
the slacker never uses the gun, neither does the
unworthy citizen ever use the Ballot.
It is just as much a citizen’s duty to register
and vote to help preserve the government as it
is to pay taxes.
In our day the obligation to register and vote
to preserve what our forefathers gave is as much
our duty as it was for them to fight for the lib
erty and ballot we enjoy; for the same forces
that made life unbearable in other countries
where there was no ballot and so no freedom
are now concentrating every effort to control
the Ballot AND USE IT AS A WEAPON WITH
WHICH TO DESTROY WHAT OUR FATHERS
DIED TO WIN FOR US.
To control our politics is to control our gov
ernment and liberties.
The old enemy of human freedom from across
the seas is going to see that every man and I
woman under its control and every dissatisfied
man and woman, white and black, registers and
votes to destroy the white (Anglo-Saxon) civi
lization, and no WHITE man or woman can be
honest unless they pay the debt they owe to
their God, their country, their neighbor, and
themselves by making use of the only weapon
freemen possess, which is the BALLOT.
BE PREPARED. REGISTER NOW. See that
OTHER MEMBERS of your FAMILY and
FRIENDS REGISTER.
Guardians of Liberty.
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