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THE BULLETIN OF THE CATHOLIC LAYMEN'S ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA
HOW HISTORY IS “WROTE.”
(From Seattle Union-Record.)
The Pacific, a California weekly, quoted an article,
supposed to have been printed in a paper called The
National Catholic Register, to the effect that the
Catholic Church was glorifying over its influence in
the United States, and expressed the belief that the
Pope would some day be the temporal spiritual head
of God’s Kingdom on earth. It was also said to be a
source of great joy that the secretary of the President
was a Catholic.
The Pacific found the article in The Herald and
Presbytery, a Cincinnati publication, the writer who
made use of it having stated that The National Labor
Tribune of Pittsburgh, had quoted it as a declaration
of The National Catholic Register.
The article went from The Pacific to the calendar
of Plymouth Church, Oakland, one of which was
mailed to the New York Christian Advocate. The
editor before publishing sought to ascertain its au
thenticity.
He found no such paper as The National Catholic
Register, but one at Denver called The Catholic Reg
ister. The editor of that paper disowned the article
with a judicial oath, and a number of Catholics have
denounced it as a forgery.
The editor of The Christian Advocate sent out sev
eral tracers and failed to locate the origin; except,
according to one paper, it was first issued by the
Guardians of Liberty, an organization of which Gen
eral Nelson A. Miles is the head.
ADMIRAL AND MRS BENSON GUESTS
OF K. OF C.
Admiral and Mrs. Be nson will be the honored guests
this evening at the Macon Council of the Knights of
Columbus when they will be entertained at a box
party for the performance of “Listen Lester” at the
Grand Theater.
Seated in the box will be Admiral and Mrs. Benson,
Mr. and Mrs. Charles O. Stone, Mr. and Mrs. D. C.
Hogan, Mr. and Mrs. Cecil Morgan, Mr. and Mrs.
Brown Taylor, and Mrs. Duncan Brown.—Macon
(Ga.) Telegraph, November 13th.
SEND IN NAMES.
Every member is urged to see that those of his or
her acquaintance who are opposed to Catholics owing
to misunderstanding get the literature of the Asso
ciation. Nearly forty thousand are now getting it,
but there are tens of thousands of others who should.
Each knows some of these. All that is necessary is
to send the name and address to the Publicity Depart
ment in Augusta, or to give the information to your
local president or secretary.
This is a part of your duty to the work. Keeping
the organization intact is praiseworthy, but keeping it
active is even more important. Let each do his or
her part. The officers will do their duty.
OUR ACTIVITIES FROM A BAPTIST
VIEWPOINT.
(From The Christian Index, January 1, 1920.)
We recently suggested a State and South-wide evan
gelistic campaign, following the success of the Baptist
Seventy-five Million Campaign. Prior to its inaugu
ration a State and South-wide campaign should be
put on for the purpose of giving a new emphasis to
Baptist doctrines and Baptist principles. These doc
trines and principles are not too well understood by
the rank and file of Baptists. If there ever was a
time when the Baptists should be rooted and grounded
in their faith it is now. Catholics have never been
so aggressive in the State and in the South as they
are today. Catholic Laymen’s Associations are being
organized in all the leading cities of the State, and
thousands of dollars are being raised and expended
for Catholic propaganda. The State is being sown
down in tactfully prepared literature in an effort to
win popular favor. The Interchurch World Move
ment and other unionizing agencies seem determined
to overthrow the distinct doctrines and principles of
Baptists. They have already overthrown the faith of
some, and there is among them at least one preacher.
It is a time when Baptists need to be deeply intrenched
in their doctrines and principles.
PROTESTANTS PRAISE TEACHING IN
CATHOLIC PAROCHIAL SCHOOLS.
At a recent meeting of the New York Association
of Congregational Churches in Brooklyn most of the
speakers emphasized the need today of religious edu
cation and teaching, and some of them pointed out
that the Protestant Churches were far behind the
Catholic Church in this matter, says The Catholic
News.
The Catholics maintain and pay for 1 1 4 element
ary schools and four high schools in Brooklyn, that
their children may receive adequate religious instruc
tion, remarks The Brooklyn Eagle, commenting edi
torially on the discussion by the Congregationalists.
' Long controversies have been waged in the past
over church schools, but there is at least this to be said
for them, that none of the young Socialists and in
cipient revolutionists who are now seen as a danger,
ever received their training in such schools.
Root of Revolution.
“The root of this revolutionary teaching is agnos
ticism or a thinly veiled atheism. Faith in God and
reverence for God make for the respect and obser
vance of moral and social law, and the need for re
ligious training is seen clearly at a time when men
and women go about seeking to overturn the founda
tions of the moral and social order.”
With the work of the money-geters out of the way
each Layman should devote himself to seeing that he
does his part toward distribution of literature among
his non-Catholic acquaintances, and should also fur
nish the publicity bureau with names and addresses of
those to whom he wishes Association literature sent.