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NOVEMBER 10, 1923 THE BULLETIN OF THE CATHOLIC LAYMEN’S ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA 5 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. New York Life Insurance Co. New Policy It pays you if you live $10,000 Pays your family when you die $10,000 Accidental death, pays cash $10,000 Plus $100 each month for 10 years for mother, wife and chil dren, or $22,000. If disabled thru sickness or acci dent, pays a life income of $100 each month. Also pays all premiums for you and pays dividends regularly. Matt. C. Carroll Georgia Agent 600 Haas Howell Bldg., Atlanta. 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 Chicago realtor. 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