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6 THE BULLETIN OF THE CATHOLIC LAYMEN’S ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA they abandoned the Gospel, went into politics, prohibi tion and money collecting, I told them “good night.’’ This has been now some 30 years. They are out first for vast sums of money, and second for political control of the government. Cuthbert, Ga. You are right on the remarriage, I think. Don’t think your marriage is any better than ours. Atlanta, Ga.—Your argument is like your religion —sorry, fairly good political organization, but almost every one onto it and getting wiser all the time. One has only to look up the history of it it speaks for itself, the priesthood blights all the countries it touches, look at Spain, Mexico, Austria and any place so dominated. Save the postage. (No signature.) Athens, Ga.—I am just in receipt of your letter. I have received some of the leaflets you have sent— probably not all, as I am in extension work and on the road much of the time. I have seen more of Catholics, perhaps, than many Georgians. There are comparatively few in Georgia, and most people, I think, are too ready to judge without having all the evidence. The jury are prej udiced, and should not be serving. Where we lived in Illinois there were strong Catholic Churches. Many of our neighbors were Catholics. In my school the children used to have religious wars—never while I was there. I am not prejudiced at all. If any way, in favor of the careful training that is given the children. I do not know whether or not some of that training becomes automatic, and lacks that and rev erence I wonder sometimes. As to divorce—the point made in a recent cir cular is well taken. If a Catholic lives up to his pro fession, he is indeed a good man and a good citizen. So also is a Protestant. A question How many are good men? The fault is not so much in the creed perhaps as in the follower. A Newspaper Comment. Catholics have recently sent out an open letter to the Protestants of Georgia, and in the letter the blame for the prevalence of divorces in Georgia is laid upon the Protestant Church. There is no doubt that Protestants are to blame in some measure, but in the letter the Catholic Church overlooks the fact that tlie relation between church and state is not the same in Protestant as in Catholic countries. Therefore, the Protestant Church can not be held directly re sponsible for the faults of the government. With us there is not only a separation between Church and State, but a distinction is also made between the mem bers of a single family, some of whom are members of the church and some of whom are not. It may, therefore, be possible that lax divorce laws are en acted largely by those who are not members of the Protestant Church. From Forsyth (Ga.) Advertiser, May 2 7, 1920. A BEAUTIFUL CATHEDRAL. The consecration of the Cathedral of St. John the Baptist yesterday marked the consumma tion of the plans of several years of those who have worshipped in that imposingly beautiful building. Savannah as a whole had interest in the event because it meant accomplishment, be cause it had to do with the formal progress of the plan of forces of religious activity. A few weeks ago the government officials of two departments had photographs made of Sa vannah—some from the plane of Lieutenant Maynard, some for the reels of motion pictures which are to be shown in many places over the country. In both pictures the stately Cathedral stands out—a massive gem in a setting of foliage, like one of the historic piles of some era of years ago in France. From a distance in any direction, approaching Savannah, the tow ers stand out with prominence in the sky-line. Free from debt, after years of history in which the building had its disasters of trial by fire, the Cathedral will long be one of the places of real interest in Savannah. From The Savannah Morning News. The consecration of the Cathedral of St. John the Baptist in Savannah, June 3d, marks an epoch in Georgia Catholicity. The donation of $8,000 by Mrs. Mary E. Hagan enabled the Pastor, Very Rev erend Joseph D. Mitchell, to wipe out the debt, and the consecration followed almost as a matter of course. The ceremonies at which Rt. Rev. W. T. Russell, Bishop of Charleston, officiated, began at 3:30 in the morning and concluded with the pontifical bene diction following a solemn pontifical Mass, of which Rt. Rev. M. J. Curley, of St. Augustine, was cele brant. The sermon was preached by Most Rev. J. J. Glennon, Archbishop of St. Louis. It was as remark able for its learning as for the simplicity of its diction and its lack of apparent effort. It was an argument for the authenticity of the Catholic Church such as only a scholar of the Archbishop’s standing could make. His tributes to the Cathedrals, which he called the fortress towers of God, standing as sen tinels of the Faith from the coasts to the prairies,’’ was an especially beautiful bit of word-painting. As the consecration of the Cathedral is of interest to every Georgia Catholic The Bulletin reprints the following account of the event from The Morning News of June 4th: All the pomp and ceremony which distinguish the solemn rituals of the Catholic Church marked the consecration yesterday of the Cathedral of St. John the Baptist, which began at a very early hour and concluded with a pontifical high mass at 10:30 o’clock, attended by about a thousand people.