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16 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. •4