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tuu KIH.J1.IN 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. LEADING GREENVILLE, N. C. FIRMS WHITE’S STORES, Inc. Sc to $5.00 Something for Everybody Greenville, N. C. Mesdames Moore & Randolph FLORISTS Greenville, N. C. W. C. CLARK Ice, Coal and Wood Yard Greenville, N. C. Phone 131 Dana Coal Is the Best 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. HILL HORNE Dependable Druggist GREENVILLE, NORTH CAROLINA Baker & Davis Hardware Do. Hardware, Paints and Builders Supplies Greenville, N. C. Best Wishes BENZO GAS STATION E. W. HARVEY AMOCO GAS AMERICAN GAS AMERICAN OIL PRODUCTS Washing—Polishing— Greasing Office Phone 26 Plant Phone 663 GREENVILLE. N. C. pm THEATRE Greenville, N. C. Meeks Hardware Company 323 Evans Street HARDWARE, PAINTS AND CHINAWARE “Things Both . Useful and Decorative for the Home” Phone 751 Lautares Bros. “Fine Jewelry for Less Money” Watch and Clock Repairing, Jewelry Repairing. Engraving Phone 1491 GREENVILLE. N. C. COBURN’S SHOES, Inc. “YOUR SHOE STORE” Greenville, N. C. Greenville Floral Company L. S. Spence 316 Cotanch St. Greenville, N. C. S, V. MORTON, JR. Office Equipment Mid Supplies Blank Books, Loose-Leaf Devices, and Systems Filing Equipment. Effing Sup plies. Steel Office Furniture, Desks, Chairs. Safes, Typewrit ers, New and Rebuilt. Greenville, N. C.