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THE BULLETIN OF THE CATHOLIC LAYMEN’S ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA
only by devoting our highest energy and our deepest
love to the wholesome development of our spiritual
faculties and those of our children, by putting in
practice the precepts and the counsels of the oldest
and most experienced teacher in all the world.
CATHOLIC LAYMEN’S ASSOCIATION OF
GEORGIA.
[B. E. D. A.]
C atholic sons of Georgia aroused by bigots’ taunts,
A re panoplied in might of Truth; have donned the
Casque of Right;
T ake up the gauge cast down by hate of all that’s
good and true;
H ell’s Minions, paralyzed with fear—seek safety in
flight.
0 Id Satan’s lies re-echoed from Pulpit and from
Press,
L ed many from the path of truth to wander far
astray;
1 nstructed, now, by men of worth, commissioned
from on High
C an they retrace their erring course and tread the
narrow way.
L ove is their Motive and Truth their chief aim;
A bide in harmony, with hope and with prayer.
Y ouths and fair maidens; all hearts in the cause,
M ake fervent orisons to God’s throne repair;
E ager for conquest of souls held in bondage,
N eedful are courage, devotedness, love;
S uch only may conquer, as secure aid from above.
A ssociation is your title, your labarum of strife;
S houlder to shoulder must you march, while on the
foe you press,
S erried may your columns prove, and hopeful be
your breasts;
0 ur Leader’s ensign is the Cross, which vice can
ne’er depress.
C ourage, then, and fealty! Your cause is just and
right;
1 n unison is strength indeed; in harmony content;
A 11 for each, and each for all,” will be your hearten
ing cry,
T o steel your arm to achieve brave deeds, and for
God’s Truth to fight;
I ntrepid souls must sally forth, with faith and hope
and love;
O n the heights with Christ is Victory sure; with Him
you cannot fail;
N o human power can Faith destroy; Hell’s Gates
can ne’er prevail.
O ne in mind and one in purpose; then, let our
purpose be,
F aithful to impart the Truth:—the Truth that makes
men free.
G rand old State of Georgia; our dear Old ‘‘Cracker
State.”
E rror, vice and bigotry befoul thy beauteous plains.
0 rganized for nobler aims, men prostitute their
skill;
R ecreant heirs of manly sires invade your holy
fanes;
G allant sons of Georgia repel aspersions vile,
1 gnobly cast on woman’s fame and consecrated toil;
A rise, brave knights of Christ and Truth; foul Satan’s
power despoil.
REBUKING A TROUBLE-MAKER.
(Editorial from The Charlotte Observer, March 9th.)
The national prohibition advocates may have reason
to regret the indiscretions continually developed by
their State Superintendent in New York, Mr. Ander
son. His latest ‘‘break” was in addressing a letter
to the Protestant preachers in that State attacking
the Catholic clergy as ‘‘enemies of prohibition,” and
‘‘in league with Tammany to further a State-wide anti
prohibition movement.” This new play by the New
York Superintendent was plainly an undertaking to
stir up enmity between Protestants and Catholics, and
we may be sure it is calculated to do the cause of pro
hibition more harm than good. It has been the ob
servation of this paper that within the ranks of protes-
tantism there has been a more vicious arraignment of
prohibition by constitutional amendment than has
come from Catholic sources. In fact, the attitude of
Catholic clergy and Catholic membership toward pro
hibition has been of a nature which should have pro
tected it from assault such as has been made by the
rampant leader of the New York prohibition forces.
There has been more occasion for rebuke to Protes
tant ministers than for arraignment of the Catholic
priests. Temperance and sobriety has been a tenet
of the Catholic Church. Cardinal, bishop and priest
ever stand for morality and temperance, but in the
Catholic, as in the Protestant world, there is a rebel
lious element to take into account. Because some
Catholics are lined up against the prohibition amend
ment is poor reason that the Catholic Church should
be publicly arraigned as opposed to this great moral
reform movement. The country will deprecate any
attempt to arraign Protestant against Catholic in a
movement which means so much to the welfare of
each and all, and it might be regarded as significant
that in the same New York papers that carried An
derson’s gratuitous attack upon the clergy, was printed
an assault upon the methods of the Anti-Saloon
League, headed by Mr. Anderson, by a New York
preacher, in which contention was made that the
league’s program of action, linked in any way with
the churches, ‘‘cannot fail to lead the churches into a
social conflict from which they cannot escape with
out the. permanent impairment of their highest vir
tues.” It was further contended that ‘‘the league has
not put into exercise those elements of good will,
that patience of action, that poise of purpose, that