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THE BULLETIN OF THE CATHOLIC LAYMEN’S ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA
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Death oj Noted Woman Recalls
Pretty Story of Her Conversion
Father Wynne Tells How Susan Vanderpool Gifford, Fa
mous for Her Hospital Work, and Who Recently Died in
Los Angeles, Received the Gift of Faith.
i .BY REV. JOHN I*. WYMAN, S. J..
New Yorlt.—The news which has
conic from Los Angeles of the death
of Susan Vanderpoel Gofford will
cause sorrow to her many devoted
■friends and admirers here.
For many years she was Superin
tendent of the House of Belief in
Variek Street, famous during her
time as the down-town accident hos
pital. Her extraordinary tact and
skill in management made her re
spected and endeared to all con
cerned with that establishment, to
doctors and patients alike, and also
to the visitors.
By none was she more esteemed
and liked than by the priests of old
St. Peter’s, among them the vener
able pastor, Monsignor McGean, and
the present Chancellor, Monsignor
Dineen, who spent some of the first
years of his ministry in that parish,
and who was particularly zealous in
visiting parishioners andk ind in
treating their afflicted or bereaved
friends.
Miss Gifford was expecting to ob
serve the twentieth anniversary of
her entrance into the Church during
the coming month of July, but the
|hearl ailment which compelled her
|to live in Los Angeles the past seven
years terminated suddenly her long
and useful life on St. Joseph’s Day.
A Pretty Story.
Shortly after meeting Miss Gifford,
11 asked her how it happend that one
who was so naturally Catholic had
not entered the Church earlier in
life; and she told me this remark
ably pretty story:
She was living near the Catholic
(.Cathedral in Newark when only six
Lvcars old, and there while playing
"with other children, she used often
meet the venerable pastor, Monsig-
|uor Doane. One evening as he was
returning to the Rectory, the chil
dren ran as usual to greet him, and
get his kindly attentions. Little'Sus-
an poutedt hat so long as she had
known him he had never invited her
ito come and see him. When he told
her she was welcome at any time,
she insisted that he must fix the
time. He immediately said she
might come and see him next morn
ing al eight o’clock, pointing to the
Church when she asked where, and
saying, “This is where I live.”
That night the little Quakeress, as
she was at the time, astonished her
family by announcing the visit she
was to make next morning. They
humored her, thinking that she
would forget it, and feeling quite
, sure that good old Monsignor Doane
simply meant to humor her by an
| appointment which be would never
' think of keeping.
Little Susan was not to he hum
ored. Next morning she rose, in
sisted on being dressed in her best,
and marched off to the Church at
eight o’clock. It was Holy Thurs
day morning. Bishop Corrigan was
officiating, and Monsignor Doane was
sitting next him at the Throne. The
Alatr was aglow with lights and
ffowers, the music at its most trium
phant tones for the Gloria in Ex-
cclsis, when up the aisle marches
the pretty little visitor, quite pleased
that her coming should be the occa
sion of all this splendor. Arriving at
the Altar rail, she looked about for
her host. It took but a moment for
the venerable pastor to recognize
his guest and remember an invita
tion which he had never expected to
be taken seriously. Down he came
from the Throne in all his altar ves
ture, and, taking the little one up in
his arms, he brought her to some
friends and had them take her into
their pew.
As one can imagine, the vision and
he kindlinessn ever left her mem
ory. As she used to say, although
shew as not a Catholic until her 41st
year, she was really a member of
Monsignor Doane’s church from her
6tli year.
Became Catholic.
The immediate occasion of her
becoming a Catliolis was a gift from
a friend of a copy of “The Faith of
Our Fathers.” By this lime she had
become a very earnest member of
he Spiscopalian Church and short
ly before had actually been engaged
o her minister, though, with mut
ual consent, the engagement was
cancelled. She was, therefore, in
l kindly mood when such a book
s given her. On the contrary she
e it to pieces and scattered it over
e floor,an act of redeness of which
e had never been guilty before
d which quickly brought remorse
d repentance. So sincere was the
*JtanfieffiS®«f%«s^sbe asked her
py, promising
Protestants Gather in Cathe
dral at “Service of Humila-
tion” for City’s Crimes.
to read it as a penance. The penance
was a salutary one, for after read
ing she went with her friend to
speak with Father Van Rensselaer,
who quickly told her where she be
longed.
It is proverbial that those who
enter the Church when on in years
are exceptionally earnest and de
voted. Few could surpass Miss
Gifford, who in this respect, had the
singular characteristic of acting and
speaking in such a manner that one
would think she had been a Catholic,
as she claimed from the moment
she was such a welcome and dis
tinguished visitor in Monsignor
Doaue’s house.
BEEF1ST DEPHES
Dublin.—“A service of humiliation
before Almighty God for the sins
of the city,” was recently held in
St. Anne’s Protestant Cathedral in
Belfast.
This service, in conjunction with
statements from leading Protestants
denouncing the four murders that
have disgraced the city ip the last
few weeqs, followed closely on the
murder of the four members of the
McMahon family—a crime which
seems to have brought to a cul
mination the series of horrors which
have caused such widespread hor
ror.
The funeral of the murdered Cath
olics, held from St. Patrick’s Church
was very large and impressive, Bish
op MacRory walked in the proces
sion from the church to the ceme
tery and officiated at the grave.
Father Laverty, who gave a short
address, said that a family of men
and boys who had never interfered
in politics had been shot down for
no other reason than that they were
Catholics. Many crimes he declar
ed, had been perpetrated by the
Black and Tans, but none to equal
this in barbarity.
SOLDIERS GUARD
FUNERAL.
The terrible state of Belfast was
vividly illustrated by the prepara
tions which the authorities deemed
it wise to carry out in connection
with the funeral. There were caged
lorries of police and fully-equipped
British soldiers. An armored car
headed the procession and another
followed it. No reason was given
for this display of force, but a fre
quent comment was. that it must
have been that an attack was appre
hended from the Orange mob on the
funeral.
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the McMahon home wore police uni
forms. Practically no persons ex
cept police, or tlios? acting in con
junction with them are permitted
to be abroad during curfew hours.
A distinguished Irishman, writing
on the murderous attempts by Or
angemen to exterminate the Catho
lics in Belfast and the six counties
that the Orange government means
to erect the edifice of its power up
on a pyramid of Catholic skulls.
“The Belfast Parliament,” he de
clares. “is like a criminal who is
hurried from one crime of blood-
guiltiness to another.” Meetings of
protest in the south and west the
compilation of speeches and state
ments showing the true inwardness
of the Belfast crimes and the trans
mission to the rulers and press of
the world of resolutions protesting
in the name of Christianity and civi
lization against the barbarities, are
suggested as means whereby the
crime wave may be combatted.
A challenge direct and personal,
to the various non-Catholic bodies
outside the six counties has been
suggested with the observation that
“they can no longer be permitted to
observe their Pilate-like attitude to
ward a religious persecution on the
old model, carried out by their ad
herents whom they positively incit
ed at the start.”
Lecturer at University of
California, State Institu
tion, Bitterly Hostile.
HOPE IN AGREEMENT.
Along the frontier between East
Ulster and the adjoining counties,
Catholics are fleeing from their
homes. In several cases after they
had departed the housese were burn
ed by special constables in the em
ploy of the Belfast government.
Roads and bridges have been de
stroyed and in the border towns it
is impossible to hold fairs and mar
kets. Even children are stopped
and asked if they are Catholics.
Priests arc held up.
In all cases in which Catholics
are charged with political offenses
in courts within the six counties,
Catholics arc excluded .from the
juries by officials of the Belfast
government.
Cardinal I.ogue and many of the
bishops of Ireland are of the opin
ion that the Collins-Craig agree
ment, if honestly carried out, will
bring peace to the sorely distracted
Catholics of Ulster and this is the
fervent hope of all the south. The
safeguards for Catholics - arc the dis
banding of the “B” specials, the
putting of all police into uniform
and the inclusion of a number of
Catholics in the police force.
Berkeley, Calif.,—Attacks made
on tlie Catholic Church and appar
ently deliberate misrepresentations
of facts of history in which the
Church is concerned are being made
in the classrooms of the University
of California by Professor Galvez,
an exchange professor from Chile
and have greatly incensed many
Catholic students who are compelled
to listen to his lectures.
Ostensibly Professor Galvez was
called to the University of Califor
nia to lecture on a specific subject.
Under the guise of an “introduction”
to his course, he spent the first
few weeks disseminating his ideals
of religion, covering the renaissance,
the reformation and the subject
of Protestantism and Catholicity.
He boldly attributed what he de
clared to be backward conditions
in South America to the Catholic
Church;declared that if he had his
way he would do away with the
celibacy of the clergy; called for the
obolition of confession and left no
doubt in the minds of his auditors
as to his hatred of the Church and
its institutions.
“This Spanish professor” declares
the Monitor, the official organ of
the arch-diocese of San Francisco,
in an editorial on his activities, “is
furiously hostile to Ihe Catholic re
ligion and makes no bones about
it in his classroom talks. He is
said to take particular pleasure in
attacking all religious and proclaims
himself to be an out-and-out atheist,
without any belief in God. His
special delight is in vilifying the
Catholic Church and denouncing it
as an enemy of progress.
“Now the University at Berkeley
is a state institution and is support
ed by the taxes of the common peo
ple of California, including the Cath
olics and the Protestant elements,
as well as all others. It is governed
by a President of a Board of Re
gents, who are responsible for the
kind of knowledge that is dispensed
by the professors.
Do the president of the Board
of Regents approve of the insults
and lies about religion in general
and the Catholic faith in particu
lar that arc calmly altered in the
classroom at Berkeley as part of so-
called instruction in history by a
Barcelona Bolshevist and anarchist
of the school of Ferrer? Do Protes
tant as well as Catholic communi
cants desire to have the Christian
faith of their sons and daughters
uprooted by a cheap materialist with
a one-track, narrow-gauge mind who
poses as a paragon of morality? If
the Christian people of California
once get the impression that Berke
ley University is a school of atheism
and cheap anti-clericalism conduct
ed by a coterie of anti-religionists
under the control of an exclusive
Board of Regents, the administra
tion over there is bound to receive
a rude awakening.”
FRENCH CATHOLIC SCHOOL CEN
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P a r i s.—According to a survey
made by' the Socicte Gencrale d’Edu-
cation et d’Enseignement the num
ber of parochial schools in France
is 12,000, of which 3,000 are for boys
and 9,000 for girls. These schools
are attended by 950,000 pupils. The
number of teachers, men and women,
in these parochial schools is 29,000.
CATHOLIC ARCHITECT DEAD.
Pittsburgh—John Theodore Comes, ^
noted Catholic architect and senior
member of the firm of Comes, Per
ry and - McMullen, died at his borne
in this city. He had been in in
different health for several months.
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OMAN CAHICS
CATHOLICS DO NOT BELIEVE
That the Pope is God.
That the Pope cannot do wrong.
That the Pope has temporal rights in America.
1 hat the Pope can claim their political allegiance
That the Pope can nullify laws, oaths, or contracts at will.
THEY DO NOT BELIEVE
That the marriages of Protestants arc invalid.
That Protestant husbands and wives are living in sin.
That the children of Protestants are illegitimate.
That contracts with Protestants may be broken.
That Protestants may he hated or persecuted.
I hat Protestants will all be damned.
THEY DO NOT BELIEVE
That public schools are an evil.
lhat they ought to be abolished or destroyed.
That they ought not to he supported by a comomn tax.
That education ought not to he universal and free.
That it ought not to be compulsory where necessary.
THEY DO NOT BELIEVE
That they can buy forgiveness of sin.
That they can purchase freedom from purgatory.
That they can get indulgence to commit sin.
That sin can be forgiven without repentence.
THEY DO NOT BELIEVE
That images may he worshipped.
That anybody or thing may be worshipped or adored “in the
heavens above, or the earth below, or the waters be
neath the earth,” but the (hie True God.
IF YOU WANT TO KNOW WHAT CATHOLICS DO BELIEVE,
WRITE THE
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