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THE BULLETIN OF THE CATHOLIC LAYMEN’S ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA
DECEMBER 21. 1937
Greenville, N. C. , Recent Mission, Now Center
Fr. Cairns Describes
Christmas in China
Maryknoll Missioner Widely
Known in the South
(Continued from Page 3)
To prove that they were not mistaken,
one of the men punctured the body
from which blood flowed. Even the
vestments which clothed his body
were in excellent condition. The
Saint appeared to be merely sleeping.
Three hundred and eighty-five years
ago this man died that we Chinese
should live. He gave his life on this
island for the cause of Christ Whom
he wished to preach to us. He was de
termined to get into China despite the
forbidding penalties of imprisonment
or death, because he had the Pearl of
Great Price, the Catholic Faith, to give
the Chinese people. Some thirty years
later his Jesuit Confrere, Matthew Ric
ci. did succeed in entering China at
Shiu Hing, the then capital of Kwang
Tung. Some of those listening to me
studied at the college which is still
conducted there by the Jesuits origin
ally from Portugal, but now directed
by Chinese Fathers Chan, Tang and
Leung, educated in Europe and Amer
ica.
St. Francis Xavier Is ours nd we are
his. Xavier led the way, pioneered,
opened the gate of China to the Faith
and it is because of this fact that
Rome s Cardinal Salotti calls Sancian
“The Cradle of Catholicity in China."
The prayer of Midnight Mass is in
keeping with our setting on the dark
hillsides. “Oh God, Who has made this
holy night to be bright with the en
kindling of True Light, grant, we pray,
that we. who have known the mys
teries of that Light on earth, may re
joice also for ever in its joys in heav
en. '
After the High Mass, firecrackers are
exploded outside the Church door,
then the people gather at the cate
chist's house where chicken-rice gruel
is served to the cold and hungry men.
women and children who had received
Jesus into their hearts in Holy Com
munion and who had made this mid
night. manifestation of their Faith. As
I walk alone down the hill that Xavier
once trod. I am very happy
GREENVILLE JUNIOR COUNCIL .
ADDBFEEED BY FATHER DEAN
GREENVILLE, S. C.—The Rev.
Sydney F. Dean of St. Mary's Church
addressed the Junior Council of
Catholic Women at the December
meeting here, giving an illustrated
talk on his travels in Mexico- Miss
Winifred Bahan. president, presided
at the meeting, held at the heme of
Miss Mae Binninnar. The January
meeting will be held at the home of
Miss Josephine Seaman.
4 CHURCHES, SCHOOL
HAVE BEEN ERECTED
WITHIN A FEW YEARS
Father Gable Pastor of St.
Peter’s, Father Maurice of
St. Gabriel’s There
Greenville, N. C., quite recently
was a mission of the little parish of
Kinston, which itself is of compara
tively recent origin as a parish. Now
Greenville has the distinction not
only of beng a parish in its own
right and a mission center, but the
home of a new religious society of
nuns, that of Christ the King.
The Rev. Charles J. Gable is pas
tor at Greenville, as he was at Kin
ston before, and to his zeal and en
thusiasm is due in large measure the
progress that the Church has made
in this recent mission.
Greenville has not one parish,
now but two, St. Peter's for white
Catholics, and St. Gabriel’s for the
colored, with Father Maurice Tew,
C. P„ as pastor. Greenville's mission
include St. Jude’s, Grifton and St.
Mary's, Ayden, with Witnerville,
Grimesland, Haddocks, Black Jack,
Haurahans, Little Field and Belvoir
as stations. From a churchless mis
sion to a mission center with four
churches, and a convent and school
in the space of a few years is the
story of Greenville during the epis
copacy of Bishop Hafey and while
Father Gable has been pastor.
Father Gable is assisted in caring
for his parish and missions by the
Rev. James J. Noonan. Father
Noonan was ordained by Bishop
Hafey last year.
The Greenville school is conducted
by the Society of Christ the King,
a school at which practically all the
pupils have been non-Catholics. Two
Greenville ladies who joined the so
ciety turned over to it their splendid
home, to which a beautiful chapel
was added. The object of the soc
iety is to foster devotion to the Mass,
to disseminate knowledge of the
Holy Sacrifice, to teaching Christian
Doctrine in the city and the rural
missions, and to render clinical ser
vice to the poor.
ST. AMBROSE COLLEGE at Dav
enport. Iowa, has a new president, rhe
Rev. Carl H. Meinberg, a member c.f
ihe .faculty since 1914 and head of the
department of history, being appoint
ed to succeed the Rt. Rev. Msgr. Mar
tin Cone.
St. Peter's Church, Greenville, N. C., the Rev. Cha rles J. Gable, pastor.
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Father Tobin Recalls Labors
of Sisters of Mercy in U. S.
(Continued From Page Thirteen)
was borne into the Stanton Hospital.
“Get me . . . some one . . . from
Pittsburgh,” his dying lips faltered
To a Sister of Mercy from the
Smoky City he confided that be had
gone to the front leaving an 18-ycar-
old wife behind him, and during his
absence a baby was born.
“Mary writes me.” he whisoered,
“that the baby has two little fingers
on the left hand .... tell her no
cutting up of that boy .... no
matter what they sav.” And then
the end came suddenly.
Years passed away—twelve to be
precise—and the Sister of Mercy of
the war era was back in her Pitts
burgh classroom. Suddenly pandem
onium seemed to bre'k loose, and
the school door was violently thrown
open by some eager young waifs,
who dragged into the teacher's pres
ence a lad who was resisting might
and main. “Wooden Will’’ was what
they called him, because his only
home was a wood pile (for his par
ents were dead).
“ 'Wooden Will’ is a Catholic,” said
the well-meaning captors, “but he
was too scared to come along of his
own accord, and so we used strong
arm methods.”
Gently the Sister asked the fright
ened Will to bless himself. To his
forehead speedily went his left hand,
and with a gasp of astonishment she
noted a deformed member, a second
little finger on the left hand.
Before her was the son of the sol
dier who had died thinking of his
Mary and the boy he was never des
tined to see.
Needless to say. “Wooden Will”
aroused plenty of helpful interest
from that day on, and his chances
of success in later life were height*
ened because of the singular circum
stances in which he played the cen
tral part.
The daughters of Mother McAuley
now living in th“ U. S. A. are pres
ently reaping the reward of the he
roic efforts pf those who went be
fore them. Where the pioneers sow
ed in tears they are carrying the
sheaves of victory. Those early com
munities went to the far West with
the “forty-niners", they knew the
South of ante-bellum days, they were
in Chicago, and lost their all when
the fabled cow of Mrs. O'Leary kick
ed over the lamp that set the city
ablaze.
In 1937 the State of Rhode Island
is about the most Catholic in the
Unio, but it was far from being that in
1855 -when Mother Warde and her
dauntless band of nuns were lucky
to escape with their lives. The
“Know-Nothing” bullies of the day,
flushed with a few victories at the
polls, were in ugly mood, and Mother
Warde showed real courage when
she defied them: “We will remain
in our house, and if needs be. die
rather than fly from the field of duty
tvherein God has placed us.”
Providence, R. I , had a stout-heart
ed prelate in Bishop O'Reilly at this
critical era, and the mob quailed
before his wrath: “The Sisters are
in their home; they shall not leave it
for an hour, I shall protect them
while I have life and if necessary
register their safety with my blood.”
Among the first Sisters of Mercy
in the United States were a daughter
and a niece of the famous Mother
Seton. Mother Katherine Drexel,
whose labors for the lowly races of
America have made her a household
word, began her religious career as
a Sister of Mercy.
In recent months the Sisters of
Mercy of the Union in the United
States have taken over the work of
the Order in British Guiana, S.
America. American nuns will staff
the school and have charge, too, of
a leper hospital near Georgetown.
The Vicar Apostolic of British Guiana
is Most Rev. George Weld. S. J- His
priests are members of the English
Jesuit Province.
The mention of that leper hospital
near Georgetown recalls this tale of
an American tourist in Northern Af
rica. The Yankee traveller saw a fair
young nun nursing some lepers, and,
drawing near, he said: “Sister. I
wouldn't do work like yours for ten
thousand dollars a year.”
"Neither would I,” said the Sister,
“—for JIO.(“0 a year.” .
We will close on the pleasing
thought that there are 125.000 nuns in
the United States (nearly one in
eleven being Sisters of Mercy) who
are gladly doing work no money
could buy.
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