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NOVEMBER 10, 1923
THE BULLETIN OF THE CATHOLIC LAYMEN’S ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA
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Rev. John F. Walsh Pastor
of Palm Bay, Fla., Parish
Palm Bay, Florida.—The people of
this community are giving a warm
welcome to Rev. John K. Walsh,
whom Bishop Barry recently ap
pointed pastor of the Pam Bay and
Rockledge churches. These churches
have been under the supervision of
Father Gabriel of Fort Pierce for
many years, and now the people are
quite enthusiastic over the idea of a
resident pastor.
Palm Bay is one of the really
Catholic communities in Florida, and
besides the people of the community
the Catholics of Melbourne, Eau Gal-
lie, Malabar, Micco and Grant at
tend the St. Joseph’s Church here.
Father Walsh was bom in Ireland.
The last four years of his education
was in Rome, where he was ordain
ed two years ago. He came to Or
lando, Florida, soon after his ordi
nation, and worked there in St.
James’ Church until appointed pas
tor of the parish.
The people of St. Joseph’s Church
are very proud of their children’s
choir, which Father Walsh recently
organized. Sixteen excellent voices
are now in it and more will be add
ed later. This promises to be one
of the best children’s choirs in the
state.
St. Joseph's Altar Society had o
new well driven on the parish lot
recently.
Among the first duties Father
Walsh found awaiting him in this
parish was a double christening. The
little tots were David Eugene Knecht,
son of Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Knecht, and
Evelyn Marie Bcnsen, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. John Bensen. They
were christened Sunday, October 20.
Dying English Bishop Saw
Trend to Catholic Church
(Bv N. C. W. C. News Service.)
London—In his last pastoral letter
to the Plymouth diocese, Bishop
Keily, who died recently expressed
hi s conviction that in many parts
of the world “a great renewal of
Christianity is on the way—almost
a compulsory return to the old Cath
olic Faith.” The letter was read in
the churches of th&\ diocese just
three days after Dr. Keily died.
“The human race,” said the Bish
ops. “is like one tossing in sleep,
and a general tendency exists to
take things in hand and get away
from all discords.
“A great renewal of Christian uni
ty is on the way. We do not mean
by any means what is called “Re
union,’ but almost a compulsory re
turn to the old Catholic faith.
“There is no other thought that
weighs with people except what is
said so often to us anywhere wc
may be—that ‘there is nowhere else
where real faith is to he found.’ Now
a time has come in which the great
mass has found it no use to look
to anyone except the Catholic
Church.”
Yonkers Mourns Mayor
Synagogue Holds Services
For Catholic Mayor
New York—All Yonkers mourned
the passing of Mayor Thomas F.
Larkin, who died suddenly on the
golf course of Briarcliff Lodge, and
whose funeral was held from St.
Peter’s Catholic church.
During the funeral, places of busi
ness along the route from his late
home to the church and from the
church to St. Mary’s cemetery were
closed. Some 500 marched in the
procession, in which there also were
numerous automobiles. While a Re-
? uiem Mass was being sung in St.
’eter’s church, memorial services
were being held by the congregation
of the Sons of Isreal, Yonkers, at
the Prospect Street Synagogue.
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Alabama Anti-Catholic Evangelist
Once Religious Tolerance Advocate
Montgomery Advertiser Locates Rev. “Bob” Jones’ De
nunciation. of Bigotry in “The Fairest Argument,” Pub
lished Some Time Ago by Bishop Noll
FR. STANISLAUS, 0. S. B.
Addresses Savannah Catho
lic Women’s Club’s Meeting
(From The Montgomery Advertiser)
Some thoughtful agent of the Pope
sends us a copy of The Fairest Argu
ment, a hook “for our non-Catholic
friends,” by the Rt. Rev. Ms dr. Jobn
F. Noll, LL.D., of Huntington, lad.
The author quotes numerous Protes
tant ministers and statesmen as
spekaiug tolerantly and charitably of
the Roman Catholic Church.
Can we believe our eys? On page
41, the author quotes the Rev. Bob
Jones, evangelist, as having said in
a sermon at Waverly, Pa., January
26, 1915:
“It would grieve the Master to
come back here and find us quarrel
ing among ourselves. God loves the
Roman Catholics just as much as He
loves the Methodists. Would Jesus
Christ subscribe for a paper which
appeals to prejudice and hatred?”
Opposite the page from which
these benevolent remarks are print
ed, wc find the following striking
utterances from the late Bishop E.
E. Hoss, M. E. Church, South, speak
ing at Memphis, May 30, 1915:
“As we have no State church we
can have no dissenters or non-con-
fdrmists. Religious bodies, like in
dividuals, are entitled to follow their
own will and judgment without beg
ging permission to do so. My fellow
religionists, who once in a while be
come the victims of a great scare,
and imagine that it is necessary for
them to organize themselves into se
cret societies and. to use the meth
ods of political parties for resisting
the spread of Romanism, seem to me
to betray a profound distrust in the
security of their own position. I want
that church to have an open field
and a fair chance. The members of
it arc entitled as citizens of our com
mon country, to precisely the same
right as the Protestants possess.”
The author cites a great many ex
pressions similar to these, all 'from
non-Catliolic sources.
The late William Jennings Bryan’s
hostility to Catholic-baiting is well
known. But is is well to quote here
from an editorial by him published
in the Commoner August, 1915. Said
Mr. Bryan:
“Those who have come into inti
mate "acquaintance with the repre
sentative Catholic families did not
need to be informed that they do not
concede to the church authorities the
right to direct their course in polit
ical matters but many Protestants
lacking his knowledge, which conies
with personal acquaintance, have
been misled.”
houses of congress, in all depart
ments of the government, Catholics
and Protestants of all denominations
take part on equal terms. It is es
tablished as our principle that a
man's,religion is a matter above law,
because he is responsible to none
but his Maker for it. Religion is a
communication between man and his
Maker.”
According to Lamon’s Recollection'
of Abraham Lincoln—which should
have weight with Lincoln's new fol
lowing in Alabama—the Rail-Split
ter, said:
“I am not a Know-Nothing that is
certain . . . When the Know-Noth
ings get control, it will read: “All
men arc created equal, except ne
groes, foreigners and Catholics.
When it comes to this, I should pre
fer emigration to some country
where they make no pretense of lov
ing liberty—where despotism can be
taken pure,, and without the base
alloy of hypocrisy.
And George Washington! His
Americanism was sound, indeed it
assayed almost 100 per cent. He
knew the character and religion of
the men who- tpllowed him from the
elm tree to Yorktown.
Said <iur country’s greatest man,
March 12, 1790:
“1 hope ever to sec Antcrica among
the foremost nations in examples of
justice and liberality: and I pre
sume your fellow citizens will not
forget the patriotic part which; you
took in the accomplishment of their
revolution and the establishment of
their government, or the important
assistance which they received from
a nation in which the Roman Cath
olic faith is professed.
Again in an order issued bv him
on the fifth of November. 1775, pro
hibiting fanatics of Boston from
burning the Pope in effigy, Wash
ington says:
“As the commander-in-chief has
been apprised of a design formed
for the observance of the ridiculous
an<l childish custom of burning the
effigy of the Pope, he can not help
expressing his surprise that there
should he officers and soldiers in
this army so devoid of common
sense as not to see tlic impropriety
of si;ch a step. It is so monstrous
as not to be suffered, or excused;
indeed, instead of offering the most
remote insult, it is our duty to ad
dress public thanks to our Catholic
brethren, as to them wc are indebt
ed for every late success over the
common enemy in Canada.”
(Special to The Bulletin)
Savannah, Ga.—Rev. Fr. Stanislaus,
O. S. B., of Benedictine School ad
dressed the first fall meeting ot im.
Catholic Women’s Club, his subject
being “The Crown of Individuality..”
He stressed the importance of each
person mastering his or her own
thoughts and urged the development
of individuality as distinguished
from standardization.
Anglican Synod In Ontario
Hears Divorce Scored
(By N. C. W. C, News Service).
North Bay, Ontario.—Of interest
to Catholics, not only in Canada but
in the United States, were the delib
erations of the Anglican Synod of
Ontario just held here. Among the
matters discussed were matrimony
and divorce.
The Synod went on record as ap
proving the principles that clergy
men should give instructions regard
ing “the holy, state of matrimony.”
A motion which would have com
mitted the Synod to a solemn pro
test against the setting up of di
vorce courts in Ontario was referred
to the Provincial Council. The Syn
od, however, adopted the clause in
the council’s report dealing with the
subject of divorce and suggesting
that, in view of the possibility that
divorce courts would be established
in Ontario, the council should be in
structed to consider the matter so
that “in the event of a change the
voice of the Church should be
heard.”
During the discussion Bishop Ro
per, of Ottawa, declared that the
Church of England in Canada “does
not know divorce and does not sanc
tion divorce.” Some steps should he
taken, he urged, to keep before the
people the high ideals of marriage
which they had inherited. Marriage
was a life-long union of one man
with gne woman, to the exclusion of
all others, and there could he no
question of the stand of the Church
on the matter. “Temporary marri
age cannot be accepted, as a marri
age at all," he declared. “There can
be no debate about it.”
Hotel Men of New England
Honor Andrew E. Martin
Widely Known Catholic,
Georgian in Winter, Fifty
Years With Equinox House
Sisters’ Hospital Honored.
Sacramento, Calif.— The Sisters’
hospital here was one of three re
ceiving the highest rating by the
American College of Surgeons, ac
cording lo announcement by Dr. Na
than G. Hale, member of the surgi
cal institute. The rating was award
ed upon the recommendation of the
hospital standardization committee
of the college, based upon the re
port of special investigators who in
spect all the hospitals in the coun
try.
(Special to The Bulletin)
Manchester, Vt.—A rare event in
the history of hotels in this country
took place here October 8 when
three hundred members of the New
England Hotel Association gathered
here to honor Andrew E. Martin of
Manchester and Augusta, Ga., on tne
occasion of the fiftieth anniversary
of his connection with the famous
Equinox House, of which he has
been manager for many years. Mrs.
George Orvis, owner of the Equinox
House, was hostess to the gathering
honoring Mr. Martin, who is a mem
ber of the Catholic Laymen’s As
sociation of Georgia and for more
than a generation a winter resident
of Georgia where he is manager of
the famed Bon Air-Vanderbilt Ho-'
tel there.
William B. Edgerton was toast
master and introduced Congressman
Allen T. Treadway' of Massachusetts
who in the name of the New Eng
land Hotel Association presented to
Mr. Martin a beautiful antique
grandfather’s clock 200 years old.
Governor John E. Weeks of Ver
mont sent Hon. Herbert T. John
son, adjutant-general of the state,
to represent him. Rev. Chas. F.
Regan, pastor of St. Paul’s Church,
Manchester, Mr. Martin’s pastor, wel
comed the visitors. Other speakers
included Dr. Edmund L. Wyman,
one of Manchester’s oldest residents,
Benjamin A. Bulkley of Southport,
Conn., who has been coming to the
Equinox House for 65 years, fifteen
years before Mr. Martin’s connection
with it in 1878, and Hugh ltinchley,
of Augusta, Ga., Mr. Martin's winter
home. President Coolidgc sent a let
ter felicitating Mr. Martin on his
golden jubilee and regretted his ina
bility to be present at the celebra
tion in the hills of his native Ver
mont.
After Mr. Martin’s response, in
which he expressed heartfelt appre
ciation for the manner in which
his visiting and local friends mark
ed his anniversary, he announced
that he had a surprise for every
one and he then introduced Father
Francis P. Duffy, the famous chap
lain of the Sixty-Ninth Regiment,
who after a few remarks closed by
saying to Mr. Martin: “May the
Lord take a lik’n to ye, hut not too
soon.” Guests at the jubilee came
from as far away as California, Mrs.
Eilna Moore Murphy coming from
Pasadena to represent the Bowman
hotel interests there. Present also
were two former pastors of Mr. Mar
tin’s parish church in Manchester,
Rev. John W. Dwyer of St. Johns-
bury and Rev. Bernard Kelly, Rut
land.
And WoodroW^Wilson—did he say
anything on this subject? Certain
ly. Speaking before the Manhattan
Club, in New York, November 4, 1915
President Wilson said:
“Wc should rebuke not only the
manifestations of racial feeling here
in America, where there should be
none, but also every manifestation
of religious and sectarian antago
nism. It does not become America
that within her borders, where every
man is free to follow the dictates of
his conscience and worship God as he
pleases, men should raise the cry of
church against state. To do that is
to strike at the very spirit and heart
of America.”
What did Theodore Roosevelt, Pro
testant, think and say? According
to the New York Herald of htat date,
this former President said October
13, 1915, less than a month before
President Wilson had rebuked the
bigots at the Manhattan club:
“Any political movement directed
against any body of our fellow citi
zens because of their religious creed
is a grave offlense against Ameri
can principles and American institu
tions. It is a wicked thing either
to support or oppose a man hecause
of the creed he professes. This ap
plies to Jew and Gentile, to Cath
olic and Protestants, and to tlje men
who would be regarded as unortho
dox .by all of them alike.”
William Howard Taft, former
president. Dec. 20, 1914, said:
“There is nothing so despicable as
a secret society that is based upon
religious prejudice and that it will
attempt in any way to defeat a man
because of his religious beliefs. Such
a society is like a cockroach—it
thrives in the dark.”
Daniel Webster, a statesman not
without prestige in his day, speak
ing at the New England "Society’s
dinner, December, 1851, said:
“In opr day there is more en
larged and comprehensive Christian
philanthropy; and a conviction pre
vails, justified by the experience of
our government, that all sects and
denominations may be safely toler
ated. Wc are Protestants, general
ly speaking, but we ail know that
the gentleman who presides at the
head of the supreme judicature of
the United States (Roger B. Taney)
is a Roman Catholic. No man sup
poses that the judicature of the
country is less safe or that justice
is dispensed with less certainty and
purity because the chief justice is a
sincere and ardent adherent of the
Catholic religion. And so in every'
department of society, in both
Finally, in August, 1787, Washing
ton wrote to Lafayette: “Being no
bigot myself to any mode of wor
ship,.! am disposed to indulge the
professors of Christianity in the
choice of that road to heaven which
to them shall seem most direct,
plainest, easiest and least liable to
axception.’”
An Anti-Catholic’s Attitude
Toward a Catholic School
Tlie following extract from a let
ter to an inquirer in Georgia recent
ly is self-explanatory:
“Your inquiry about the late
Thomas E. Watson sendiug his dau
ghter to a Calholic school is noted
He did; his daughter Agnes, atten
ded Mt. St. Joseph’s Academy, Wash
ington, Ga., conducted by the Sis
ters of St. Joseph, from the fall of
1899 and came to March or April of
1900. Miss Watson married a Mr.
Lee, widower with two small boys
and she sent the children to Sacred
Heart Seminary, Sharon, Ga. Mr.
Watson also had two nephews who
attended the same school as recent
ly as 1919. The Sisters of St.
Joseph wrote to this office Septem
ber 12, 1920 giving us these facts.”
O’CONNOR-CROHEN
Augusta Girl and Chicago
Realtor United in Marriage
(Special to The Bulletin)
Chicago, III.—A marriage of wide
interest in Illinois and Georgia took
place here October 27 wiicn Miss Al
ma Marguerite Brislan O’Connor,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Daniel O’
Connor of Augusta, Ga.. was united
in marriage to Russell P. Crohen of
Chicago, at the Church of Our Lady
of the Ijikc, Rev. John J. Dennison
officiating. The bride’s parents and
sisters, the Misses Katherine and
Genevieve, came from Augusta for
the ceremony. After the ceremony a
wedding luncheon was served at the
Congress Hotel, where Mr. and Mrs.
Crohen will make their home. Mrs.
Crohen is a. member of a widely
known Georgia family and a grand
niece of the late. Father Brislan, S.
J.; Mr. Crohen is a widely known
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