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THE BULLETIN OF THE CATHOLIC LAYMEN’S ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA
9
Early Days of The Paulist Order
(Continued from page Seven)
cident Hint occurred on my first
day in New York,” continued Father
Elliott, after the silence which fol
lowed his comment on Father Heck-
er. “I was accompanied by one
of my brothers who had lived in
New York, and who was anxious to
show me the town. So we strolled
about the city before we went to
Fifty—ninth Street, where the little
Congregation of the Paulists had
their headquarters even then as they
have today. I remember that we
went to Fulton Market, where my
brother treated me to what was a
great luxury to a man who had
lived far from the coast, which was
a feast of oysters—and very good
they were. There was an old Irish
apple woman who had a stall not
far from the oyster place, and when
I was strolling away, I noticed that
she looked at me in what seemed
a very strange manner, and at last
she came running after me and pul
a large juicy pear in my hand,, say
ing, ‘This is for the boy who is
going to be a' priest.’ It was a
very strange thing, because how did
she know?”
Father Elliott preached his first
mission in Wilmington, Del., soon
after his ordination, but it was in
1883 in St. Louis, that he gave his
first regular mission to non-Cath-
olics. This work was continued
vigorously for a time hut lapsed
during four years when Father El
liott devoted all his time to constant
companionship with and attendance
upon Father Hecker, up to the time
of the latter's death in 1888. It
was in 1893 that he resumed, and
then for many years continued, his
mission work among non-Catholics.
In 1900 was held a convention of
missionaries at which Rev. Alexan
der P. Doyle, C. S. P., obstained,
with Father Elliot’s assistance, sup
port for his long desired project of
the Apostolic Mission House for the
training of missionaries to non?
Catholics.
A close student of Father Elliott's
noble career writes concerning him
in the current issues of The Mis
sionary, the organ of the Apostolic
Mission House:
“A Golden Jubilee is always no
table, hut when the jubilarian has
had so long and varied and distin
guished a career it becomes an event
of historical significance. In the
earlier years of his priesthood Fath
er Elliott was almost constantly en
gaged in giving missions through
out the length and breadth of the
land. Those weic the days when
the life of a missionary was fraught
with real hardship and not seldom
with danger, for neither physical
ly nor otherwise were they cared
for then as now. Seeking strayed
sheep, or going out into the high
ways and hedges and compelling to
come in those who knew not even
the existence of the Ark of Safety
was, half a century ago, a new, and
often discouraging, undertaking. The
present high regard in which such
missioners are held, the great meas
ure of success which almost invari
ably attends their labors, is in large
part due to self-sacrificing and far-
seeing plans of those pioneer mis
sionaries. Fifty years ago the
idea of non-Catliolic missions was
rather looked upon askance by many
of our clergy and it was commonly
urged that such missions could not
he successful because it would he
impossible to get an audience for
them. Father Elliott spent a year
in his native state and effectively
demonstrated the falsity of his con
tention. Experience gained) from
year to year in this apostolatc made
his advice greatly sought not only
by the younger members of his
•community, hut by many others,
both religious and seculars, who
were fired with zeal for the souls
of their non-Catliolic neighbors. .
. . St. Francis de Sales has been
his ‘Patron of Convert-Makers,’ and
the gentle spirit of Geneva’s bishop
he has always held up as a model
for his auditors. Insistence upon
this has been the chief element in
rendering fruitful the work of the
Mission House graduates. Convert
statistics tell their story of how
well worth while that work has
been.
His Literary Career.
Equally notable with Father
Elliott’s record as a teacher and
missionaries has been his literary
career which remains uninterrupted
to this day. For a long time Edi
tor of The Catholic World, he has
been associated in an editorial capa
city with The Missionary since its
inception. It would he almost im
possible to enumerate the contri
butions from his pen in its pages,
but his “All Alone With the Mis
sionary” is too well known to need
further comment. Among his
larger works arc a “Life of Christ,”
“The Spiritual Life” and “Parish
Sermons.” He also translated and
arranged the first English edition
of “The Sermons and Conferences
of John Tauler, 0. P.” His most
recent literary production is “A
Manual of Missions” just issued,
which summarizes the results of his
life experience.”
ERRING GIRLS DUE
TO BROKEN HOMES
(By N. W. C. News Service)
Chicago, 111.—Broken homes are re
sponsible for thirty-five per cent
of the girl offenders against the
moral law, according to the quarter
ly report of the Illinois Vigilance
Association Welfare Department,
just made public. Seventy per cent
of these victims come into Chicago
from the smaller towns attracted by
the desire for employment, by the
lure of the stage, by the love of ad
venture or by false promises.
Vicious cabarets, jazz dance halls,
and soft drink parlors are the direct
cause of the wayfardness among
them. The appaling youth of these
girls, who form a new type in the
moral courts, should be a matter of
concern for every thinking, citizen,
says the report.
“Thirty-five per cent of the girls
who come under the charge of the
police comes from broken homes,”
the reports says. “They have been
without the protection of a normal
family life and with none of that
solicitous home training that is the
bases of morality. The widespread
immorality in all grades of society
is partly due to the failure of the
home properly to train children and
to instill in them the protective cle
ment of a virile religious faith.”
MADAME MILLERAND AT
FRENCH PASSION PLAY
Paris,—Madame Millerand, wife of
the President of France, will go to
Nancy this summer for the express
purpose of presiding at a perfor-
formance of the Passion Play Msgr.
Petit, pastor of the parish of Saint
Joseph of Nancy, who is the founder
and director /of the Theatre de la
Passion, has already received her
promise to attend.
Ambassador Myron T. Herrick, of
the United States, has also inform
ed Msgr. Petit of his intention to
visit Nancy in order to witness a
performance of the Passion Play.
POPE SENDS BLESSINGS
To Boys’ Brigade and Hopes
For Its Extension.
New York,—The extension of the
Catholic Boys’ Brigade movement in
the United Stales is the hope of
His Holiness, Pope Pius XI, who has
expressed his wish in this respect
in a message conveying the Aposto
lic upon its officers and members,
sent through the Archbishop of
Nicomedia. The Apostolic blessing
was imparted to members of the
New York branches at the quarterly
vesper service, held yesterday in St.
Joseph’s Church.
A notable tribute was paid to the
Catholic Boys’ Brigade by the Coun-
tes de Markievicz, wiio was the or
ganizer and supporter of this move
ment in Dublin, and not of the Boys’
Scouts, as often erroneously claim
ed .
“If more people were alive to the
need of bringing up our boys as
Catholics and of organizing them
along Catholic lines” said the Coun
tess “there would not be so much
cruelty, and oppression in the world.
I wish every good wish to the Catho
lic Boys’ Brigade of the United
States.”
FR. MAHONEY DEAD
New Orleans.—The body of the
Rev. George A. Mahoney, C.SS.R.,
who ^ died in Fresno, Cal., was
brought here for burial in his na
tive city. Father Mahoney, who was
formerly rector of several New Or
leans churches conducted by the
Jesuits, was born here in 1872. He
was for some time president of
St. Joseph’s College, Kirkwood, Mo.,
and was attached to St. Rocli Church
in St. Louis. Last year he was
sent to Rome ns a delegate from the
St. Louis pi’ovince of Rcdemptorists
to attend the general chapter. One
of Father Mahoney’s distinctive
works while in New Orleans was the
founding of the Ligouri Boy*’ High
School.
HAIL CATHOLIC GIRL
ARTIST AS A GENIUS
Pittsburg.—Elizabeth Chaplin, a
young Franch Catholic girl now
painting in Rome and Florence, is
being hailed by art critics, who have
been studying the exhibition now
on display )n Carnegie Institute as
“the discovery” of the Institute. Al
though only one of her paintings
is shown in the exhibition, this can
vas has distinctly placed the young
artist, according to the critics, in
the category of the painters who arc
worth while. The Pittsburgh Sun
day Post slates that, “from one ex
ample shown in the Carnegie In
stitute, and from other reproduc
tions, her work would seem to justi
fy considerable effort, since it
brings a fresh same note in a world
overridden by an insane desire for
the different, which is too often the
flashy and meretricious.”
Cable dispatches from Paris have
specially mentioned the examples of
Miss Chaplin’s work shown in this
year’s Salon, in the French Capital.
Elizabeth Chaplin is the grand
daughter of the famous French
painter, Charles Chaplin—not, how
ever, connected with the “Charlie”
of the motion pictures. She was
born at Fontainebleau, a historic
place in modern art. Her family
moved to Florence when she was
ten years old and at the age of 11
she passed a severe examination and
was permitted by the Academy of
Beaux-Arts to copy the masterpieces
in the Uffizi and Pitti Packers, and
before she was eighteen her paint
ings were accepted by the great ex
hibitions in Florence, Rome and
Paris.
MARY KNOLL MISSIONER
Rev. Anthony Hodgins, dies
In China.
Ossining, N. Y.—Rev. Janies A.
Walsh, superintendent of the Cath
olic Foreign Mission Seminary of
America, has just received word by
cablegram from Hongkong, China,
of the death of one of the Mary-
knoll missioners, Rev. Anthony Hod-
gins, on May 21.
Father Hodgin left America with
the third group of Maryknoll mis
sioners in September, 1920, and has
been stationed at Chiklung, in the
Province of Kwantung, the field as
signed to the Society of the Holy
See. His death was due to pneu
monia, but further details are
awaited. Father Hodgins was the
son of Mr. John Hodgins, of 392
St. Mark’s Avenue, Brooklyn, N. Y.
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PREJUDICE SPREADS
SAYS SEN. RANSDELL
Washington, D. C.—Educational
efforts to show the spurious
character of the “oath” which
anti-Catholic organizations are
attributing to members of the
Fouth Degree Knights of Colum
bus, and to remove prejudices
and misunderstandings regarding
Catholicism, were urged by Sen
ator Joseph E. Ransdell. of Louis
iana, in an address delivered at
the banquet of Washington Coun
cil, K. of C., here this week.
Religious intolerance is spread
ing through the United States
and reproducing the conditions
which Knownothingism begot
more than sixty year ago, Sena
tor Ransdell said.
“Many who harbor prejudices
against the Catholic Church ap
pear to be perfectly sincere, but
I can scarcely understand how
intelligent men and women be
lieve that we take such a horrible
oath,” Senator Ransdell declared.
Senator Ransdell read the state
incut of a committee of Masons
of Los Angeles, by whom the
entire ritual of the Knights of
Columbus was reviewed in 1914,
and described as a embodying
“the highest type of patriotism,
reverence for law and order and
love of country.”
Chief Justice Constantine J.
Smyth, of the District Court of
Appeals, sounded a note of warn
ing against misleading histories,
and pointed out the value of the
History Commission established
by the Knights of Columbus.
New Orleans Syrian Is
Ordained by Archbishop
New Orleans.—Rev. Moses Joseph
Habeo, ordained to the priesthood by
Most Rev. Archbishop J. W. Shaw,
today, has the distinction of being
the first Syrian to receive Holy Ord
ers in Louisiana. Father Ilabeb was
born in Syria in 1893 and came to the
United States with his parents at
the age of seven. He pursued his
studies for the priesthood at St.
Joseph’s Seminary, St. Benedict, La.,
St. Mary’s Seminary, Baltimore, and
the Sulpician Seminary, Washington.
GERMAN WOMEN MINISTER
Jena.—For the first time in the
history of Germany, a woman has
been ordained a minister of the
Gospel and placed in charge of a
congregation. A young woman of
Jena has been “ordained” by a Pro
testant sect and is now at work.
England and America have long
been accustomed to women in the
Protestant pulpit, but this is a nov
elty in Germany. It is expected that
otlier-Protestant districts of Ger
many will imitate the example of
their brethren in Jena.
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Detroit.—Five hundred thousand
dollars is being sought by the De
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paign that started yesterday and
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