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August 28, 1912 ]
H0? TO START A MORAL OR RELIGIOUS
MOVEMENT.
First get an office and several stenographers.
Then raise by correspondence
or personal solicitation some money for
tbls new movement. It Is necessary
then to think up something that seems
to you a defect in "modern religious life
aud label the movement with mat. Let
us say that you have felt, as you sat
thinking for a name for the movement,
that it would be a good thing to get
young married people to read the Bible
more on a Sunday afternoon. You call
the movement "The Sunday Afternoon
Bible Reading Movement'' Send out a
million circulars. Keep dvery minister's
waste paper 'basket full for a couple
of months with literature about the
movement.
Then call a number of men together
to Chicago. Let them meet in a hotel
for three days to. see if they can discover
any idea. When it is plain that
none of them have any idea as to how
to get young married people to read
the Bible on Sunday afternoons, let
them appoint a committee of fifty to be
an advisory board for the movement.
Brobably you will have to help them
raise more money by more co r res pond nice,
and send six orators out through
me country to tell tne hlsory of the
movement, culminating with the apl>oiiitment
of the committee of fifty at
Chicago. Write more letters and raise
more money and send out a questionalre
to all married couples.
Write more letters. Then call your
committee of fifty to Chicago and have
a banquet, after which the answers to
the questionaires, if any, will be opened.
Draft a senes of recommendations to
be sent out broadcast by bhe committee
of fifty embracing the result of fifty
of their investigations.
Write more letters. Then close down
and start another movement.
But supposing you are lese ambitious.
Suppose you do not presume to start
a moral mo.vement, supposing you
only desire to start a religious movement.
Then you must cease from this
Idle bustle. You must let the rattle
of machinery correspondence and
speeches cease. Pray for an idea. Work
with the brain rather than with the jaws
and che typewriter. Maybe toy thought
and study you will come upon an idea
which, as you pass it on to others, will
make the Bible so interesting that one
young married couple will acually toe
found some Sunday afternoon reading
It.?Christian Register.
THE REMEDY AT HAKD.
B*v. Win. Houston, Ohio State University
Faster.
I recently visited St. Coleman's
Cathedral, Queenstown, and aocepted a
Catholic Social Catechism that was for
distribution and will quote some of the
Questions and answers to indicate how
simple is the solution of all the social
Questions and problems that have ibeen
disturbing society for centuries. ThiB
cathedral is one of the flue buildings of
-he south of Ireland. Work on the
tower was resumed in April and It is
expected that H will be completed in
One could readily toelieve that the
cathedral represented a larger investmeut
than all of the private residences
Queenstown combined.
The catechism represents society as
R,ck. The following are a few of the
Questions and answers:
"I? government a divine institution?
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'How do you know thin? Because
government Is necessary for society."
"How does this show that government
's divine? Because God commands and
8anctions all that is absolutely required
by our human nature. Now human
" 'ture requires society, and society re
THE PBESBYTX&l
quires government; therefore government
is from God."
"Do rulers receive their power from
God? Yes."
"is society ill? Yea."
"ttuat are tue signs of this sickness?
Capital and laoor are often ?n connici
instead of in narmony."
"Mention other symptoms of social
disorder? Tue intrusion of tne State
into the religious sphere and its iuteilerence
witn tne ngnts of conscience.
v? herein is this disorder chietiy manifest?
In the attempt made to deprive
cnildren of religious education."
"Why is society sick? Because men
have forgotten God."
,*??uy nave politicians neglected their
uutj ! necaube tney nave uegiected uie
icacuug of tne catuoue ^auicu.
do we owe our liberties 10 tue
cuurcn? Yea."
v? uen England was cacnoiic am i.>e
^nurcu protect mens liberties, piov.uc
tor ute poor, ana teaca me uiguity o*
iuuoi lee. society nas oecome lit because
it would not listen to tue Cuurcn.
"lb 11 true to eay mat social eviis are
an ute result ot macuinery ana tue
giowtu o? industry. .\o. Mines e are uie
occasions of. tne ev>ls, not tneir causes."
"is tne irope an expert on social ques-'
Lions.' certainly be is. He is a kiuu 01
uoctor lor society.
"ihen wuy is society sick now? Hecause
n wouia not let tne aoctor cure it
out prefers to try various quack remedies."
"Does tbe Catholic Church know wnat
is good tor the uatient? Yes."
"Has tne Tope given a prescription.'
lea. me prescription Is to toe round in
tne Encyclicals of Tope .Leo on tiie
'condition of tne working Classes.' "
".same one country wnere tne remed>
aas been tried, it lias been studied m
Uermany. The Catnoilcs there have
Helped to pass many laws for tne working
men as a result."
"Are there limits to what the government
can do? Yes. The government
may not 'banish religion from the
schools, as it has done, to a large extent
in France. It may not undermine
the family, by sanctioning the entire
dissolution of the marriage 'bond."
"Should Catholic working men take
an interest in their trade unions? Yes.
Ihey should get good men to represent
them and who will not try to turn religion
out of the schools or to spread
socialism."
So here is the whole thing so far as a
part of society is concerned. All of the
ills result from neglecting the Catholic
Church and the cure is at hand and
ready made in the encyclical of Pope
Leo XIII.
Columbus, Ohio.
54 16th Avenue.
wonderful prophesy of, etc.
(Continued from page 19).
while they are yet speaking, I will
hear.
25. The wolf and the lamb shall feed
together, and the lion shall eat straw
like the bullock: and dust shall be the
serpent's meat. They shall not hurt
nor destroy in all my holy mountain,
saith the Lord.
The prayers of the righteous shall be
answered before God's throne.
The great division existing between
the Protestant power and the Roman
Catholic Churoh since the days of the
Reformation are undoubtedly referred
to in the words of the wolf and the
lamb, Living side by side amidst the
Christian nations of the earth; the one
enjoying blessings through Christ upon
the earth, while the other receives only
chaff and straw through its prayers,
from God's throne.
Bernhard Bisentrout.
Beaumont, Texas.
726 Sabine Pass Avenue.
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EPISCOPALIAN.
(Continued from Pago 17.)
possessed at one time one of Che finest
organists in the United States, Leo r.
Wheat, as the manager of its music.
Here also preached a clergyman whose
facial contour, use of a crutch, pale
tace conveying the impression of dreading
a spectre's appearance, historic
powers and private habits made men
say he was John Wilkes Booth. In Atlanta,
where he served later, one entering
the church withdrew with strained
expression saying, "That's Booth."
Delighted with this satisfying and
unanimous action, the mass meeting adjourned.
Some days passed, when citizens
reflected that no denomination was
named as the caretaker and servitor for
tills monument, which, was to be a
cuurch. Another meeting was therefore
called. It was explained that grief at
and consternation over the fearful catastrophe
that had plunged the city in
gloom and those far from the city in
despair, had caused the assembly to forget
that a monument that is a house of
worship differs from other monuments,
it must be given in trust to some denomination,
that it may be put to. the
use designated. There is mention of no
other than Episcopalian and Presbyterian.
The vote is a tie and Parson
Blair casts the vote that makes the
church that is a monument Episcopalian.
The harmony and fraternal
feeling 'between the two denominations
had then an emphasis, it had always
existed, and is one of the pleasant
things a stranger visiting Richmond remarks
upon. A tablet to the memory of
Parson Blair may be seen on the wall
on oue side of the pulpit of Grace Street
church.
\B. A Pendleton.
McMLnnville, Tenn.
FORETOKENS OF GREATNESS.
By William Thomas McElroy.
Many interesting stories have been
told of the boyhood of the world's great
men and women, for even as boys and
girls many of them gave indications of
their greatness still to. come. Here are
a few which have been collected from
various sources and condensed:
It Is said that many years ago a large
woman fell from the dock of one of the
seaports of Italy. Many persons were
about, but the woman' was so large and
so badly frightened that none of them
dared to attempt to rescue her. Then
it was that a small boy nearby saw what
was going on. In a moment he was In
the water with her, and by great exertions
he managed to keep her on the
surface until help arrived. That boy
was Garibaldi, one of the greatest and
the most famous of Italian patriots.
One time in a small town three boys
were asked to go and get the exact
time by the town clock. The first boy
who went to look came back and said,
"It is twelve o'clock." He spent bis
life as a poor bookseller. The second
boy said, "It is three minutes past
twelve." He, too, never did anything to
distinguish himself. But the third boy
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at the clock, found out how long it
would take to go to th? clock and return,
then came back and reported, "It
is at this moment ten minutes and fitteen
seconds past twelve." He became
Helmholtz, the noted scientist.
One time in Italy an old painter sat
watching a small boy making drawings
' his pot and easel and stool and
brushes. After a little he said to those
who stood by: "That boy will be a
greater painter than I am some day."
He was right, for the boy was Michel
Angelo.
Another story cornea from Germany
of a boy who once sat reading a "bloodand-thunder"
novel. At one of the most
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thrilling parts he stopped. "This will
never do," he Baud to (himself. '>1 get
?o excited over these books that 1 cannot
study well. So here goes!" With
that he iiung the book into the riVer,
and forever abandoned reading of the
sort. He was Fichte. the famous Oer- ji
man philosopher.
One cold winter morning some children
in Concord, Massachusetts, found
in the garden a Little bird that was
half-starved and almost frozen. The*y
carried it in and fed and warmed it.
then one of the children?a little gifl
eight years old?wrote a poem to it. It
was not a very wonderful poena, even
for a eight year old girl to write, but
it was not a bad poem either, and her
mother took it to preserve assuring her
little daughter that in time she might
become a second Shakespeare. She did
not become a second Shakespeare, but
that little girl was Louisa May Alcoti.
a writer beloved by young readers all
over he world.
When the United States was still a
very young nation, a certain small boy
who was to play no unimportant part '
in her history was attending a district
school In the state of New Hampshire.
One day his teacher offered a knife as a
prize to the boy who on the next day
couid recite the greatest number of
Bible verses. The next day when his
turn came thlB boy began to recite and
continued without a pause until his
teacher was finally forced to ask him to
stop. The boy was Daniel Webster, Who
throughout bis life attributed his great
success to his diligent study of the
BVble.
And so we might go on for hours telling
one story after another, all of them
Interesting and helpful, were it not that
our space Is used np. But these are
enough to show us that Hie qualities
(Nov mane lutju great are too aiMiity to
work hard, determination, preseverance,
courage, truthfulness, self-control, the
desire for knowledge, and trust in God.
These are not all the qualities of great)-ess.
but they aTe essential ones. And
although we may never become famous,
it we have these qualities, we can not
but be great.
Louisville, Ky.
The Little Pongee Gown is the title
of a little volume by David. Patrick McMillan,
and is just off the press. It is
called a simple little message and will,
we think, amply justify the cost and the
reading. The profits from the sale of
this little volume will be given for enlarging
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Price, 50 cents.
The ideal toward wnlch every worker
for God is striving is to be "a workman
that needeth not to be ashamed." This
means that we Shall strive not to become
angular and hard to be dealt with
in our intercourse with our fellowmen.
The way by which we can attain this
Ideal Is to labor to show ourselves "approved
unto God." In this way alone
can we be also acceptable unto men.
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