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THE BULLETIN OF THE CATHOLIC LAYMEN’S ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA
9
LORD HALIFAX WORKING
FOR CHURCH REUNION
Cardinal Mercier Has Move
ment at Heart, Leader of
“Anglo-Catholics” Believes.
A round the World With Father
Mathis, Catholic Missionary
Thirteenth of a Series of Letters from a Catholic Univer
sity Priest Who is Circling Globe.
London—Viscount Halifax, vet
eran leader of the “Anglo-Cath-
olics,” and for 50 years president
of their organization, the English
Church Union, still has strong hopes
that some sort of a union may take
place between Rome and Canter
bury.
Lord Halifax pins a great deal of
his liojles on Cardinal Mercier, of
Malines, who, according to Lord
Halifax, has the subject of union
very much at heart. The English
Peer states that he had a three-day
conference with the Cardinal of Ma-
lincs in his Episcopal city last year,
and that a further conference has
taken place this year.
“It is not for me to say what
may come of it,” Viscount Halifax
declares, “hut it is a fact that both
in England and abroad there is a
very great desire to do what we can
to 'heal our quarrels, and to take
some steps toward the reunion of
Christendom.
“No one is more enthusiastic in
this cause than Cardinal Mercier.
What a splendid thing it would be
if Christians were all united. We
ought to try to bring all the Non
conformists back into the church,
and to bring about reunion between
East and West in the church. That
is a result we should devoutly pray
for, and I hope we may yet live to
see it.”
It will he remembered that Lord
Halifax startled the Anglican world
last year by declaring to his fel
low high Anglicans that there was
nothing in the Immaculate Concep
tion or the Pope’s headship of the
church to which Anglicans could
take serious exception.
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Dacca—East Bengal was originally
evangelized, as was the entire sea
board of India, by the Portuguese
Augustinians and Franciscans, work
ing out from Goa as their first cen
ter, and later from Mylapore, the
site of the tomb of St. Thomas the
Apostle. In the middle of the last
century, or a little earlier, owing to
the impoverishment of Portuguese
resources and the rise of the British
power in India, the mission of West
and East Bengal were offered the
English, Belgian and French miss
ionaries.
West Bengal came finally under
the care of the Belgian Jesuits;
East Bengal (and West Burma’ to
the Fathers of the Holy Cross whose
motherhouse at that time wus in
France. The anti-clerical persecu
tions in France broke up the French
province of the Holy Cross Fathers
and caused the removal of the moth
er-house to Notre-Dame, Indiana,
where the Superior-General, the
Very Reverend Gilbert I'rancais,
now makes liis residence* Coinci
dent with these changes has natur
ally come about the diminution of-
the French missionary element in
East Bengal, and the proportionate
increase of the Canadian and Ameri
can elements.
In the early days, the French
Fathers carried the major portion
of the burden; at the present time,
East Bengal looks t& Canada and to
the United States for its Catholic
apostles.
Taking the word American in its
broader and more proper sense, as
including Canada, we may say that
East Bengal is distinctly an Ameri
can mission, and_uutil the advent
of the St. Louis Jesuits two years
ago in the newly-organized Patna
Mission, on the middle Ganges, East
Bengal was the only American Mis
sion in India.
I have just returned from an in
spection of another American miss
ionary center, this time in the
swamplands of Gaurnadi district,
where Father Maurice Norckauer, of
Xenia, Ohio, is doing noble work
among the very poor Hindu rice-
growers of the Ganges delta.
His Mission (Narikelbari) is only
a year old, and Father Norckauer
has had to undergo the most severe
physical hardships of any of the
missionaries. The unusually high
floods drove him from his bamboo
house last spring, and during most
of the year he must wade barefoot
through mud and water.
I found his house a regular bee
hive of activity, however, with cate
chists buzzing in and out, conver
sions under way cn masse, and all
in all, as good a missionary organi
zation as I have seen anywhere in
the Orient. It is amazing to see
the amount of work that this young
Ohio missionary has gotten under
way. The fact that he has four
boys in Father Delaunay’s Apostolic
School is a striking evidence of his
success.
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I sa\v our first native priest, a
Burinan, make his final vows at
Bandliura. The Apostolic School was
selected as the place for the cere
mony prinicipally because of the
encouragement it would afford to
the young candidates seeking to fol
low in. Father Mascarenhas’ foot
steps. The Hindus and Mohamme
dans of the village gladly assisted
in decorating the hall and altar and
attended the Mass in large num
bers, so that the occasion was turned
into a grand demonstration of the
Faith.
The Hindus of this locality are
particularly favorable towards Cath
olicism, much more 'so than those
in southern India, where caste spirit
is stronger. Father Mascarenhas re
turns to his work among the Budd
hists and Chin hill tribes of the
Burmese section of the Mission to
morrow, failing from Dacca to Ak-
yab, and I shall accompany him in
order to make my visitation to our
Burmese centers. On the return
trip I shall see Father Charles Finn-
er, another American missionary, at
Noakhali, as well as many of our
French and Canadian brothren. But
that is the story of a new thousand
miles of travel by land and sea.
East Bengal is an American mis
sion in more than the personnel of
its missionaries. I have found on
all sides an absorbing interest and
profound respect among the Hindus
for everything American. Tell a
native that such and such a thing
is done in America, and that is
sufficient to break down his preju
dice and to secure his imitation.
Our American missionaries, thanks
to this respect for America, are able
to make really worth-while inroads
upon the caste spirit that has pa
ralyzed India for centuries, and pre
vented the growth of labor and in
dustries. At Bandura, qnc of our
centers thirty miles to the north
east of Dacca, Brother Walter and
Brother Joachim, both recent re
cruits from the United States, are
doing wonders in the wax' of offer
ing the Bengalese modern educa
tional facilities, with a beginning,
at least, in industrial training.
The type of education offered by
the British in India is generally
agreed to have been to prevailingly
literary; the broader and more
practical ideas of American educa
tion are in need of introduction.
Bother Joachim’s industrial shop
(whither another American recruit,
Brother Arnold, has recently been
sent( is already the center of in
tercst of the Bandhura villagers,
adults as well as villagers, and if
these energetic American mission
aries had only a larger working
fund to draw upon, there is no
doubt but that they would soon
create a model industrial school at
Baudliura. Under Brother Walter’s
direction, following in the lines set
by his two American predecessors,
Father Hennessey and Brother
Peter, the School at Bandhura has
grown to an enrollment of around
five hundred, with a staff of fif
teen native teachers.
Father Delaunay, my travelling
companion across the Pacific and
along the coast to China to India,
is now stationed at this American
center of Bandhura. He has been
appointed the head of a group of
hoys chosen from among their best
lads by the various missionaries,
who will prosecute their studies
and religious training under his di
rection to the end that they may
become the future catechists, native
Brothers and native prisest of the
Mission.
Already Father DeLaunay is hard
at work with his Apostolic school,
as the group is known, teaching
Latin nad English, forming religious
habits, and himself studying Ben
gali. “I don’t think I was ever so
busy, so happy, and so healthy,” he
tells me. Being a select group, care
fully chosen from all parts of the
Mission, his boys are good students
and a constant source of interest
to their new American director.
Haitan Archbishop
Pays Tribute to American
Officers On Duty There.
New York,—Msgr. Julian Conan,
Archbishop of Port-au-Prince, was
in the city last week on his way to
Brittany where he is to stay a few
months and is to oradin some priests
who are to go to Haiti to take up
missionary work there.
The Archbishop says that the num
ber of English speaking priests in
Haiti has increased. He also said
that many of the American officers
now stationed in Haiti are speaking
French fluently, which is a great aid
to the American administration. He
paid a high tribute to the type of
American officials now in Haiti.
Practically all of the Marines are
now in Port-au-Prince, owing to -the
peaceful conditions in the interior.
Msgr. Conan said be regretted
very much the departure of Majors
Torrey and Rupert of the Marine
Corps who were both devout Cath
olics and served as links between
Msgr. Conan and the Catholics in
the service. There is no one left
to do this, a fact which t$c Arch
bishop very much regretted.
BERLIN'S BISHOP CONSECRATED
Cologne, —The Rt. Rev. Joseph
Deitmer, Provost of St. Hedwig’s
Church in Berlin, has been consecra
ted as Auxiliary Bishop of Breslau
with residence in the German Fed
eral Capital. Cardinal Bertram,
Prince Bishop of Breslau, was the
consecrating prelate.
The Federal Chancellor, Dr. Cuno,
and the Minister Dr. Becker, to
gether with numerous other public
officials and representatives of or
ganizations attended the'ceremony
in St. Hedwig’s.
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Leader of French Radicals
Enters Church on Deathbed
Paris.—M. Jules Roche, 82
years of age, a former minister
and one of the founders of the
Third Republic died in the
Church. A member of the rad
ical party, M. Jules Roche was
far removed from the Catholics,
and his Christian death has been
explained in the speech deliv
ered at his grave by one of his
colleagues in the Chamber, M.
de Gailhard glance! said, “could
“The religious question,” M.
de Gailhard ?Bancel said, “could
not fail to attract the attention
of a mind such as his. He
studied it and voluntarily ap
proached it in his conversa
tions. He understood its im
portance and its grandeur, and
he had a profound respect for
everything concerning the
Church and its ministers. He
admired the “Imitation of
Christ” and had made it, he told
me so himself, his bedside book.
God, who sounds all hearts, saw
all the kindness and upright
ness, the love and desire of
truth and goodness in that soul.
He permitted him to receive the
Supreme Viaticum, the Sacra
ments of the Church.
Nofre Dame Sisters
Celebrate Golden Jubilee in
Washington.
Washington, D. C.—The golden
jubilee of the comiug of the Sisters
of Notre Dame de Namur to Wash
ington was celebrated at (be Acad
emy of Notre Dame, founded in
1873, in a little home furnished by
Mrs. William T. Sherman, wife of
the celebrated general of Civil War
fame.
Since that time the prestige and
influence of the Sisters of Notre
Dame has increased until they now
gonduct Trinity College, the first
accredited higher institution for
Catholic women in the United
States, and have established paro
chial schools in several Washing
ton parishes.
The golden jubilee exercises were
simple. A solemn high pontifical
Mass was sung by the Right Rev.
Thomas J. Shahan, rector of the
Catholic University, in St. Aloysius
Church, and a concert, at which the
Sisters of Notre Dame were guests,
was held in the afternoon. The ser
mon was preached by the Rev. Ed
ward J. Sweeney, S. J., who was
once a pupil of the Sisters of Notre
Dame.
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