Cross Bulletin August 1917

--- Page 1 --- Vol. VIII . August , 1917 . No. 4 , Passionist fathers . Miscellaneous . held , during the month of June , in St. Anne's Retreat , Retreat beneath the sanctuary of whose church lie the remains This Chanter had the happy augury of being held in a Sutton , Lancs . " the twenty-first trinnial Chapter of the UR readers will be interested to learn that there was Anglo-Hibernian Province of our Congregation , --- Page 2 --- Father . Benedict XV. , who referred to his own life-long years , of the spiritual and temporal affairs of the Province . qualifications of those chosen to hold office . On the follow- from his paternal heart a message of charity and peace to Rev. Father Philip Coghlan , on the responsibilities and liminaries , required by Canon Law , being complied with , fication is now proceeding at Rome , and of the widely-known ing morning a solemn motive Mass of the Holy Ghost was Rev. Father Alban Kennedy ( re-elected ) ; Holy Cross , First Consultor . Very Rev. Father Cyprian Meagher : Second all the religious of the Province . The labour of the Chapter Father'sidore Whelchan : St. Saviour's , Broadway , Very Master of Novices . Verv Rev. Father Ephrem O'Connell , ( re- the to-day difficult journey from Rome for the express pur- guidance and government of the Province for the next three pose . He had brought the special blessing of " our holy affection for and devotion to St. Paul of the Cross , and sent elected : St. Joseph's , Highgate , London , Very Rev. Father of the Confraternity of the Cross and Passion , 4,393 ; visits tion of our parishes , 27,559 ; baptisms , 2,254 : marriages , Rev. Father Egwin Wilkes ; St. Mungo's , Glasgow , Very sylvius , of St. Bernard , General of the Order , who had made Provincial . Verv Rev. Father John M.Mullan ( re-elected ) : Belfast . Verv Rev. Father Bernard Mangan : St. Mary's , and much-loved Father Ignatius Spencer , who so zealously Malachy Gavin ( re-elected ) : St. Anne's . Sutton . Very Rev. Kelly : St. Mary's , Carmarthen , ' Very Rev. ' Father Urban Harbourne . Birmingham , Very Rev. Father Antoninus Hull ; Consultor . " Very Rev. Father Sebastian Slean ( re-elected ) ; comprise , among other things , a review of the past three 441 : converts , 337 ; children in our schools , 3,928 ; members St. Paul's , Mount Argus , Dublin , Very Rev. Father Francis aided him in promoting and establishing the Order in these respectively celebrant , deacon , and sub-deacon . Other pre- The election of new Superiors on whom will rest the Missions and retreats , 427 ; charity sermons , 2/4 : popular- by a discourse on the previous evening , given by the Very the elections were proceeded with and resulted as follows : Dominic of the Mother of God , the cause of whose Beati- years was held on the third day , June 13th . It was preceded The assembly was presided over by the Most Rev. Father sung , the outgoing Provincial with his two Consultors being Young : Blessed Gabriel's , Enniskillen , Very Rev. Father William Brennan . countries . Among these items we call the following : to the sick , 14,200 ; communions , 940,000 . of the founder of the Province , the venerable Father THE CROSS . of the Confraternity of the Cross and Pass years , of the spiritual and temporal affairs of --- Page 3 --- like towards them has , I fear , been prompted by miserable neighbours , and the poor people grew so fond of her that are a client of our lady , approached the Sacraments for the past two years . ' Mother well-I admit that they are really good . Mr feeling of dis- morning as early as she desired , cheerfully sacrificing her everybody , and I have always resorted the admiration be- and knowing full well that God is never outdone in generosity . must hurry off to old Mrs. Brady : I promised her that I would stowed upon them . However , I'm sorry I spoke unlikely of pleasure-loving disposition-now managed to rise in the opportunity for many little acts of kindness towards her I'll try to imitate you sometimes . As for the Conway girls , But my greatest help comes from Our Blessed Lady . Just as a result they rise in the morning feeling dull and weary . his safety and conversion . For you know , Michael has not many weeks had elapsed Miss Cicely , as they affectionately thoughtless girl-possessed of a naturally easy-going and called her-the only daughter of indulgent and somewhat the dear Mother of our Saviour is ever ready to help us ! In much cherished cup of tea in order to receive Holy Com- larily . Mary ? ' good work , but thinking about the matter is as far as I get . " You , " interrupted Cicelv. earnestly . " Mary , dear , " she jealousy . You see , they are so much liked and esteemed by Edmund's parishioners . How on earth do you manage to attend early Mass so regu- Instead of ill-feeling there should be a bond of sympathy be- The good effect of the conversation with her friend was not future I shall appeal to her in all my difficulties . " six in the morning . ' and this she has never failed to do . ' way , " she admitted , " and yet , how sweet it is to realise that Well , for one thing . I seldom go to bed later than ten munion . This she offered for the salvation of her brother . less and alone . I'm afraid she would fare badly if it were not lost upon Cicety Lee . Suddenly she began to find time and o'clock . I can never make out why people keep late hours ; as I settle down to sleep I say : ' Dear Mother , wake me at for the kindness of the Sisters of Mercy and " myself , they have , I believe , a brother at the front , so that going to " Mass every morning and offering the Sacrifice for Cicely's pretty face clouded a little . you will experience so much comfort in doing so . But now I well-to-do parents-had become the best loved of all Father them : I did not mean to be uncharitable , really . Besides like ' I have seldom thought of appealing to Our Lady in that When my brother first went to the front I did runk about tween us . ' worries a great deal about him . ' I feel I ought to do some call in sometime to-day . Poor'soul ' ! She is so utterly help- " Yes do , dear , " urged Mary . " Appeal to her always : Indeed , it was surprising to witness how this formerly added , kissing her friend , " you're a thorough good sort , and 100s . --- Page 4 --- for the empty pleasures of this world , could scarcely have mingled feelings of sorrow and hope she continued to place of our Saviour , to whom all souls are dear , could not have straggling picturesque hedges on either side . smiling a little Michael , who had cared so little about religion , living only been invoked in vain ; and surely the sweet , merciful Mother In this thought Cicely experienced a little comfort ; so amid been prepared to meet his Judge , she feared . And yet , as had just received the Sacrament of Penance , and the kindly Cicely , feeling wonderfully light-hearted . left the little ing from Mass one morning her mother , pale and speechless with grief , placed in the girl's hands a letter bearing the news she sometimes tried to assure herself , never had Our Lady and there was a shade of disappointment in his tone . " you words of her good confessor had done much towards something During the weary weeks that followed , the awful thought and noble while attempting to rush a position . a moment left Cicelv's mind . Gav. light-hearted , reckless the girl's anxiety of soul and mind . she wondered contentedly along the narrow lane , with its ' I think I have seen you before . " said Cicely , thought - country church and turned into a winding lane beyond . She turned a deaf ear to the pleading of an anxious , loving sister . fields from the opposite direction , smiled too , thinking what all trust in Mary , and slowly but surely a wonderful peace and good works , by which means her brother's conversion fully , " but I cannot recall your name to mind . ' khaki-clad figure , seeing her suddenly as he came across the shaken-nay , almost dashed to the ground . For upon return- a charming figure she presented with the sunshine all round must certainly be won , she felt sure . that Michael Lee had been killed , having faced death bravely THE CROSS . though the green shadows were lengthening a little , when gravely , " for I have a trust-a sacred trust-to fulfil . But . " filled her soul . The sun lav in a golden glory over all the summer world , So , revelling in the peace that had descended upon her , o herself as she recalled Father Edmund's words . ' A tall , ' Excuse me , " he said , pausing by her side ; " I think I Then quite suddenly all Cicely's trust and , hopes were have the honour of addressing Miss Lee ? " to obtain for her the grace that she might preserve in piety " Then I am fortunate , indeed , to have met you . " he said Cicely prayed with all her heart and soul , begging Our Lady that her brother might not have been ready to die never for I am John Conway . You must know my sisters surely , not recognise me , I fear . Have I altered so very much ? " " I am Cicely Lee , answered the girl simply . " we was her . must certainly be won , she felt sure . --- Page 5 --- writers as an example of this typically French trait . " His together with impassioned expression , one looks for in a true thought enclosed , as in a casket , in priest fiction , that , minded immediately of Lionel Johnson among English poet . His poetry is , furthermore , stamped with the " truth is the carefulness as regards form , the concentration of work has in it something of the moulding of sculpture : there Else a vast silence reigns . to wisdom of soul and final essential happiness , surely Johnson with his fine ideal , could not have wished otherwise less yet audible . His cadences recall , at times . Keats' words : And have Eternity for period . ' The comfort of the sun is set . ' poetry , if it is to be of a high order of excellence . are the essentials of the French literary genius . One is re- Gently the night wind sighs ; How I can serve and thank him best : When he is with me I forget HERE are some lines from " The Statue of King Charles at Through sorrow to the only rest . " A classic saint , in self-control , All heaviness : and when he goes , and seriousness , which Matthew Arnold demands in all God I trouble him : that he may turn And yet if " per Crucem ad Lucem " be the appointed way There is , too , a strange haunting music in his verse , sound- path to God " the only rest . ' Take his conception of friendship : that compression and suggestion , combined with clearness , Must friendship be , through this great grace of God ; Sombre and rich , the skies : His presence wins me to repose : Who are His too : courageous and divine Johnson's subtle music is oftenest in minor key . Now let us see these things mirrored in some few examples . The thought contained in this last verse has been criticized . ' But in the lonely hours I learn That Virgil had : he walks the earth And compleness , and quiet mirth . " His are the whitenesses of soul , for his friend than the " Via Dolorosa " which is the surest Great glooms , and starry " I thank Eternal God , that you are mine , The Poetry of Lionel Johnson . Heard melodies are sweet , but those unheard are sweeter . ' Charing Cross " : Or again , as in " A Friend " : plains . grace of God ; 105 . --- Page 6 --- tribute to his beloved Oxford . Listen to these stanzas taken other equipments to culture he was stepped in the literatures . As Miss Imogen Guiney well says , " The proud melancholy in fullest measure , " command over his own faculties and the campaign better than Capua . " To him indeed we may apply ally , then , in such poems as " The Classics , " and his noble from the former . In faultless verse we are told what the to the laws and by-laws of rhythm ... excess and of Greece and Rome . We find some of his best work natur- unreservedly Newman's definition of culture . Johnson had , instinctive just estimate of things as they pass . " Among charm of his finest stanzas rests upon the sevent adherence ised as a medium of true poetic thought , and far removed Here we have an academic care for phrase and language Crowned and again discovered . Such an one , says Johnson , Dark night is all his own , The saddest of all kings . classics mean to one who loves and makes them his own . And every wandering star . In vain I watched for sleep to visit me : the cross . Gone , too , his Court : and yet , The stars his courtiers are : Stars in their station set : The fair and fatal king , Whose melancholy mood can best rejoice , Around me : and around My windows open to the autumn night . show were foreign to him . Here was a poet who liked the When Horace sings and roses bowed the tomb . " That strange and solemn thing . ' " scarce other lore need solemnize Enchanted hath with majorities of doom : " The splendid silence clings . Alone he rides , alone . Who saw the stars and listened to the sea ? ' " Whose conscience Eschvlus , a warrior voice , Whom Virgil calms , whom Sophocles controls . Who . And again in the fine poem , " Cadgwith , " where he celeb rom mere phrasing . This " care " is found in all he wrote . again , too , the beauty of night he loved so much- low should sleep dull mine ear , and , dim my sight , celebrates . --- Page 7 --- And this is all to the good , for Lionel Johnson's work in this Poetry , " which is well worthy of study . For example , he is cal nor devotional . " and he says - " Sacred poetry is the shortly after he came of age , thus , aided by grace , responding to a call , on the religious side of his nature , which had been lectly he himself escaped these pit-falls may be seen from self once wrote an illuminating essay on " The Soul of Sacred purely religious poetry has , we understand , been printed . deed , perhaps questions , but never doubts . " As regards the can , or Nonconformist ( as e.g. in Milton and Mavell ) style of too many " sacred " poems , he says wisely and present with him from childhood . Recently a volume of his have failed who otherwise wrote well . Much of what passes school log-trot of trite and sanctioned phrases . " How per- shall be really such is no slight task , and one in which many his treasure . In early life a Protestant , he became a Catholic " behind , beneath , beyond the poetry must be felt the definite- the Christian Urania and reduced her soarings to a Sunday- the One and All from Everlasting has clipped the wings of ing's " Easter Day " and " Christmas Eve , " however great they may be in the " speculative " order , are " neither mysti- mark that no matter what the creed may be . Catholic . Angli- the poetry of Lionel Johnson . and is often , at best , pietistic sentimentalism . Johnson him- explaining why Tennyson's " In Memoriam " and Brown- king is distinctive and special . To write sacred poetry which ness of faith which is sure of itself , and which wonders , in- flower in art of a creed . ' . ' And he goes on to re- But then with joy untold : Hearts greatly stationed in eternity . " current for sacred poetry is not far removed from doggerel , Johnson's idea of friendship . And , in truth , his faith was these lines , taken at haphazard from " A Descant upon the Friends , ever , as of old : pillows his head upon Joy , mightier than our mortal hearts can hold . Dear brother and dear brother , We shall clasp hands beneath the eternal roof , Ours . ' where the loved disciple , great Saint John , wittily , " a supposed correctness of expression in singing of One can see how clear-sounding is the religious note in The only rest , And later on he thus addresses one whom he has . " loved " Ah , dear our friends , ours past the mists of death ! God's Breast . ' and lost awhile . Litany of Loreto " : 108 --- Page 8 --- By love of love , which in our earthly tongue poems as " Harmonies " and " The Last Music . " Here hardly anything of his sense for music which prompted such ind not least among the poets of Catholic name and fame . loisters of Winchester College - his old school-runs . " he was jewel of Lionel Johnson's art . We have said nothing of his they were sacrament and symbol . meat and drink to him " : skilled and critical in " all good letters , " he undoubtedly was ; They chiefest excellence ! Lean breathing love over her . She will lie As the inscription on the tablet erected to his memory in the To sing there as thou art , nor leave unsung As mourning love can play . In earth thus calmly , under the wind's breath : The twilight wind that saith : The greatest of the graces thou hast won , Such music , for her sake , be read to be appreciated . Once again Johnson pipes " to Now . for a gentle comfort , let her take She travels down a pale and lonely way : threshold of the temple in which is enshrined " the chastened My soul through sacred wee ! They fame , divinely white ! ' Rest ! worthy found , to die . ' Our space has gone and we have barely crossed the Come . Lady of the Lilies ! blaunch to snow Is all too poor , though rich love's heart of fame , Music waves over her still face , and I Moonlit Gethsemani . ' flower of poesy could bloom in her garden as Lionel Johnson . great nature-love , and yet as one has said . " Sky and sea ! To thee our music flows , Silence a melody , no more . This day , ' Maidens ! make a low music : merely make ' Ah. Mother ! whom with many names we name . the cross . the spirit duties of no tone " ... melodies unheard in Mystical ! Tower of David , our Defence ! Come thou through whom I hold in memory Holy my queen lies in the arms of death : Who makes music for us to thy Son . " Bernarum omnium litterarum peritus aestimator . " Student Truly the Church has not forgive the laurel when such a Or this , from " Before the Cloister ' must be allowed one quotation where the whole poem should " Come . Vestal Lady ! in my vain heart light 1940somann 111 . --- Page 9 --- paganism . Could the zeal with which that bead-roll of mar- Maximin were forced to admit that the struggle had been ness to suffer as the Master had suffered , and their longing of His Providence Church and State were soon to be wedded think , that the Divinity was behind their Church , ' that here which Fabiola gives us but a faint picture , could their eager- stition . And thus it was , the early Christians came to be every city of the Empire , so that as Justyn Martyr said , " there these , one must ask , fail to prove to anyone who paused to of Nero on through the reigns of Marcus' Aurelius . Decian , Tertullian , " they filled the cities of the Empire , its armies . was the Church to be tolerated , but in the wonderful ways perors were never slow to assign the cause of all the nation's and a menace to the Empire , that while they were tolerated in Valerian , and Diocletian till the days when Galerius and the greatest means of establishing it firmly in the midst of Church spread till Christians were found in every town and come upon evil days , and the wise Councillors of the Em- peror after Emperor that this Christian sect was a danger the tortures the vindictiveness of men could devise , the Roman cause until the Empire was purged of the new super- was no place in the Empire where prayers were not offered up edicts . Why dwell on all those dreadful years from the time tions of the heart of man . Thus it was that in spite of all the early centuries , went forth to suffer all those agencies of Maximin' declare that henceforward the Empire must tolerate to God through Jesus Christ crucified . " In the words of are pitted against the powers of His creatures . And not only over , it was often and insistingly whispered in the ear of Em- the Christian Church . Thus the long-drawn out struggle yrs who are the glory and the ornament of the Church of At this time the decline of the Empire had set in ; it had in harmony and co-operation through the instrumentality of councils , palaces , and sanates . " Wisely , realising from all this that persecutions were awaiting bought , did Galerius and desire to bear testimony to the faith that was in them , could ended in the only way it ever can when the forces of God roubles to the new religious sect ; no deity could favour the carried on these 250 years in vain , and that nothing remained one whom God was to raise up for the purpose , and whom persecuted now by popular outbursts and now by Imperial was the religion which alone could satisfy the highest aspira- out the infant Church . Rather had it proved to be one of he State the old Roman divinities could not be propitious . Constantine was the son of one Constantius , the ruler of but to abandon persecution and to tolerate the practice of the Christian religion ? by this shalt thou conquer . history was to know as Constantine the Great . as the attention of the Emperors directed to them . More- Persecution indeed had failed - and hopelessly - to wipe children . Thus was the popular indignation aroused as well --- Page 10 --- of His Infant Church . ' And why ? ' Perhaps , because fol- war were let loose . With masterly powers of organization and now would rain extend the limits of his away at the ex- his undaunted spirit bore up and he was resolved to let his of marching since they left their homes far away to the north- Seeing One was upon this struggle for the mastery in the himself as the protector , defender , and strengthening arm by five to one . A less strong man would have finished , but Constantine placed an army in the field , and lost no time usurpation , had come to hold chief power in Italy and Africa , vacant rulership . To all who watched with attention the de- and succeeded in concentrating his forces on the banks of On the death of his father , Constantine was elected to the out loser from this encounter . It was only when Constan- lowing the example his father had set him . Constantine had His soldiers were footsteps and weary after their many a mile And his resolve must have found favour in heaven's sight . By heaven's assistance he was to win . The eye of the All- determined , even against most forbidding odds , not to come time drew on to the capital that he was spurred into activity the Tiber , determined to hold the city at all costs . And pense of the ruler of the Gallic province . But Constantine was not the man to Brook encroachments on his territory . fect accuracy , as in the case of Saint Paul-to win him to to Constantine , and thus-one could scarcely saw , with per- Relations became strained , nor was the complete rupture fresh and vigorous and numerous it outnumbered his own since the beginning of his operations he must have looked long delayed . Maxentius found a pretext , and the does of forward with misgivings to the issues of the morrow's battle . Constantine would are long be involved in a strife with an- ever treated with consideration and kindness and leniency other provincial ruler . Maxentius . This Maxentius , through like that his opponent was no mean one , and that he was thus finally the two armies faced each other from opposite the followers of Christ within his provinces . But at all and were men of great name as soldiers , leaders , and rulers . ward , while the army that disputed his march onward was in setting it in motion . Efficient leader and thorough man Meanwhile Maxentius , in vaunting self-confidence , was of action that he was he crossed into Italy and drove on tow- THE CROSS . southern joemen see what his northern troops could do . Even after all the success that had attended Constantine banks of the Tiber at a spot where it is spanned by the Milvian velopment of things within the Empire it was obvious that Gaul and Britain-both then provinces of the Roman Em- Western Empire , and He was to give proof of His favour Bridge . ards Rome . but leisurely collecting his troops , and did not seem to rea- pire . Father and son alike were possessed of various spirit 114 . 115 . --- Page 11 --- day before it . More glorious still waxed that day when with all the strength and the official power with which the divorced her , it affords us consolation to go back and dwell , was to be something more . He was to be their champion , in her very infancy was able to weather the gates and scath- For we cannot fail to realise the Divinity of a Church which granting toleration to the whole . Christian community , ing blasts of all the persecutions pagan Rome was able to victory of the , Milvian Bridge had invested him . One of Czesars to her feet , acknowledging her mistress and queen . on the state of things in the Church of the first three centuries . Similarly he commanded that the churches which had been his first official acts was the issuing of an edict in continu- destinies ? " Lo ! Jesus says : " Behold I am with you all days Eastern and Western Empire . Constantine became himself by them in the recent persecutions should be made good at even to the consumption of the world " ( Matthew xxviii . 20 ) down , may " even bring her persecutor-the Rome of the Ever he had been their friend , but now and henceforth he conjure up against her . Av. weather them and live them And while He is with us . is there anything to fear ? Though tion with the ruler of the eastern portion of the Empire , And can we doubt but that the same Divinity is with Christian's whose God had helped him in his hour of need . look cheerfully to the future . The God of the early Chris- the expense of the State . Countless favours were granted some years later . having obtained supremacy in both the taken from them should be restored , and all losses sustained the Catholic Church of to-day , guiding and watching over her a Christian , having been hitherto only one in sympathy , - to the faithful in general and to the clergy and higher digni- In the hour of his victory Constantine did not forget the nies against our Mother , still we may ever be confident and Thus at last did break the long-wished for dawn of the State is not openly perseverating the Church . it has at least tians will not desert us . In His own good time the will raise and declared the Christian religion to be henceforward the official religion of the Empire . Mother's eyes , pluck from her head the crown of thorns and Christian Church : its dark night was over and a glorious Powers and rulers may revise or address us , and hurt calm- In an age like the present , when in most countries , if the troops ; the day was his ; his entry into the Imperial city up other Constantines to wipe the salt tears from our would be now undisputed ; he was supreme master of the place instead upon it the laurels of victory . taries particularly . Western Empire . THE CROSS . Thomas H. Curneen , B.Sc. --- Page 12 --- proved the exception to this rule of racial suicide . ' They He poured over for months . I treasure one of those books - of Irish in the Barony of Frayne in those days . They were obsolete , and in the apathy thus perpetrated by old and young Diemen's Land . Within the country the people were being in the general indifference . There were men and women- both being very high-tempered , one never yielded to the retention of the dear old tongue . The period of which I in the native tongue , which only the two could understand . So far as the youth was concerned the native tongue was eservedly . to while the monetary of a holiday or the evening of O'Growney , provide an amusing recollection of the use lour , or to discuss private or other matters from which the father O'Growney . other without a struggle , even on the most minor matter . Meath , as a consequence , none others indeed than those who who were among the neighbours who regarded the boyhood calumniated and coerced : without , the Fenian prisoners were numbered among the older folk , and they used Irish they did . In their work and recreation , their walks and by then recent events to make a dogged stand for the attention of the younger generation was to be excluded . not many . it is true-mature in years , and adequately stirred the boy asked a question which delighted them . Very soon afterwards one of them lent him some Irish books , which need arose for domestic hostilities , the altercation was made hope of a saving grace . But I have spoken of exceptions Those who could speak it were , with a few exceptions , indeed , within the aftermath of " sixty-seven . " Irishmen keep the morals of their country's history to the fore , and alike there remained not sufficient enthusiasm to vividly the were in chains in English prisons , or slaying in Van grandfather , a farmer , of Kildalkey , and a literary student into the Diocesan Seminary , for a priest he had early in life music of the tongue which God had given them as one of those branches of education which would fit him for entrance being tortured to the death . There were " sullen " men in would keep the language living . and they did : they would To " save scandal , " however , as it was explained , when Relatives of my own , - an old couple with a large family . language , in fact , was dying rapidly in and around Athboy . a volume of Irish sermons , 1703-among my possessions , for a very devoted husband and wife , and good parents , but the lender who encouraged O'Growney was my maternal their talks , they spoke of Ireland , and spoke always in the School , and receiving occasionally some home lessons in Young O'Growney had eager ears for such things . One resolved to become . day in a field when one man was speaking in Irish to another , the rights of national independence . write was comprised within the seventies a few years , wood . At the same time he was attending the local National singularly neither of Eugene's parents spoke Irish . The --- Page 13 --- scholar , John Fleming , began to publish in Young Ireland Cork , and Connemara . His aptitude gained greater claims was undeniably charged with the cause of Emancipation . difficult language was incredible even to some of those who source of great delight to Eugene , and provided him with speak to him in the mother tongue . His vacations were the basis for a more complete and systematic study . He heard him speak . Does this prove , or tend to prove . that English , he visited and associated only with those who could he was born charged with that high purpose , as O'Connell Donegal Highlands , and often went to Kerry and West about 1885 . At either establishment his ambition towards void . Every moment he could have was given to such own language , and was , in fact regarded high among the Ireland . " which he contributed to The Tuam News , remark- ordination was impending he had a proud command of his and language pioneer , in collaboration with the renowned Islands of Arran , but occasionally he stayed awhile in the Irish achievement never flagged . While he was still at May- 100th. Father Nolan , the celebrated Irish-speaking Carmelite of professors and students alike . found the study of his national tongue the full of an asking of Eugene O'Growney's life ? ' It has been said of him that amazing result , for his proficiency with an unknown and About this time he translated T. D. Sullivan's " God Save stronghold , and giving it an unassailable garrison . And herculean duty of minimising the opportunities of speaking O'Growney will be conceded . He succeeded , where others had failed in erecting the Gaelic the comparative beginning of his Maynooth course ( 1886 ) , upon the marvellous year by year , so that by the time his Weekly ) , a series of lessons in Irish . This enterprise was a he had carried off the Solus for Gaelic , to the astonishment Navan , where he distinguished himself , passing to Maynooth ing . " If Ireland is ever to have an anthem of independence , Navan Seminary , where he became Prefect of Studies . when this was accomplished he quietly died . ' Who , but God unbroken manner from the good old days , and he in turn It was in 1882 that he entered St. Finian's Seminary . handed it on to me , wherein I hope my claim to write of became a subscriber to the normal , and resolving upon the the rescue of the Irish language was the beginning and end it is in Irish it must be sung . ' immediately upon which he was appointed by the late Most Irish speakers of the day . We must not forget that even in informal study as was possible , and with an altogether of the highest order . His Irish was hereditary in an Eugene finished at Maynooth in 1888 , and returned to the cross . 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' Start in a machine 0ga and c-son today no for do't us do into or sea as forlum strip Cupesan Pescasp 05 0 Mops organ in two subsift in five 1r 50 film-re an 10015 , ' buy people run 50 mph his best as interest in , 95 or three-beats . " underpmann brorst ! Mr. Stillipir do Sean Durde so been ! " Trinceall reaction from business him too own star star Bsevest with , outparac tooippi , spur ree . As reo ei- scommid trop-bats spur bloc-ners Seen Burke , I economic Ligir Abus . molaro . photo spino grove . Several bilt , butiacrac to roll , after sin set as Eymn now . Separate so near-egglac " a broro sp mo croroe . --- Page 15 --- heartily , and trust she will spend many a pleasant hour in the Guild . Not did battle on every part of the front , language , music , singing , and every- Crissie Mangan , Fergus Clarke , Dick " Sheridan , Terry Sheridan , Tony leer . ' and said : " If I remember rightly . you hinted last year that you were fancy Joyce , Clare Joyce , Angela Joyce , Grace Joyce , Maureen O'Sullivan , with the writing as well as with the artistic ornamentation . One of the I am glad to be able to congratulate my young Drogheda friends on their there in a veil . but if you wish to evade detection this time I would advise competitors was a new recruit-Nano Callan-and I welcome her right and we are ready to meet them in battle array on any day they care to you to put up a visor . ' Nothing less would help you to escape our careful letter from Ada O'Neill , in which she referred to the coming Feis in Dun- success there . They succeeded in carrying off several of the best prizes and Martin , Carmel Curley , Ethna Curley , Maureen Curley , Ursula Convent of the Holy Faith , Kilcool , Co. Wicklow : Jim. Hannigan scrutiny . " I am sorry that it was not in my power to go to the Bolton . Kevin Bolton , Jack Bolton . Kathleen Stokes , Mollie Fagan , May Nally . Here come twenty-three staunch supporters from the beautiful I. Brendan Muldoon , Leo Muldoon , Kevin Muldoon , Jack Martin , Donald O'Sullivan . Lucy O'Toole , Little McDonald , Mary Jennings , Kitty oblized to hold them over . As usual , there was a breeay and welcome thing . My hand to them and to their patriotic teachers ! I was delighted content with singing us the sweetest of songs . ' Lilian Nally has been out Clarke . Eddie Hannigan , Francis Smythe , Freddy Mangan , Larkin O'Neill From every worldly care . THE GUILD OF BLESSED GABRIEL . Italian of recruits are long . We challenge those who dare to rival us , with the copies of the " Hail Mary " in Irish sent to me from Drogheda- When the west wind sighs and murmuring dies , munique which has just come to hand : Dalton . Julia Glynn . Ellis Nally. Felicitie Nally. John N name . We call upon our friends in " the old ' Brigade ' to arise and get On the joys that never flee : declaring that no other clan in the world shall claim first place in our Mid the purpling heater there ; And God is everywhere . in " The Cross " for July , and I was reluctantly when peace is the poet's share , My spirit rain would fly to rest Progheda . It was then too late to deal with them the Cliath , with her banners waving and trumpets sounding , emphatically HERE come the signatories : Sheila Lennon . Hilda Gordon , Francis Gor- on a recruiting expedition , and the result is shown in the following con- " to the secretary of war . We defy competition , and we intend to bring in another fully trained That lighted the heart o' me . O for a dell on the mountain side , Guild except the Dublins . essays and Irish competition papers arrived from When some birds carol and flowers sleep , To muse on the friends that I love best , We had just gone to press last month when a big bundle of letters and ready for action . to us from her to cheer us and shorten the upward road . The songs I've heard , the books I've read , God bless the song and the singer ! May many another trill of music come Fag an dealacht ' Owen wide the gates . Francis , here comes Balie My Post Bag . " Fang an bealach ! . --- Page 16 --- ion business is set going in real earnest . What about a conference of dele- me if I only refer to them in a few words . Josie O'Brien asks the prayers membership of the Guild . ( 2 ) Always put your name by Nina Carlos , of Ballina : May Sheehy , Molly Tully , Annie Carroll , of her fellow-members for the repose of her brother's soul . R. I.P to it to bask in the delights of its romantic beauty and to think upon " the gates from the various provinces to evolve some programme of peace ? Will I'm beginning to grow nervous over all this mustering of forces and Carlos , 7 Convent Terrace , Ballina , Co. Mayo , and a or saw the flash of a bayonet , has need to be careful when all this mobilisa- grandeur , and which display to perfection the rugged beauty of her majestic Katie Moloney , Bridie Quinn , and John Doran . of Chrissie Burke . I'll try . Welcome to the following recruits , brought in ion letters , I must ask the writers of my own little personal notes to pardon Nally , Patrick Nally , Robert Nally . ' Bailey Atha Cliath about ' Carroll , May Carroll , and David Lavelle . " Thanks for letters to Ellis N. Special Prize goes to Kathleen Ternan , Presentation As I'm anxious to publish as many as possible of the delightful competi- and which have wrought so many changes in the little village beside the This month you have given me an excellent opportunity of describing some space next month . ' I wish I could publish in full the beautiful letter entirely too long . The prize offered is awarded to Rita 3 ) Orders for copies of " The Cross , " etc. , should not senior prize letters . and address on your competition paper , whether you mystic sea . their competition papers , asking to be admitted to the cross . The letters in the Senior Competition were all excellent . but some were My dear Francis , nto a cave , or some place of the kind , if he heard a shot looks the ocean . Pleasant green fields covered with wild fragrant flowers and 29 North Great Charles St. , Dublin . All the letters nificent picturesque places which adorn our western land with never-facing iriffin , Stephen Griffin , Jim Murray , Michael Kirwin , Jack Murphy , Richard to Lilian Nally , Homeville , Rathmines , Dublin , and Buniscrone is a pretty hamlet built on a dark moky eminense which ever Mary Rennie , Nellie Rennie , Rita Carlos , Margaret P. Keogh cliff scenery . Situated only six miles from Ballina . I can often cycle down ners will please write a personal note to Francis , apart from Ballina , to the Manager . ' send a letter or not . Healey . Denis Healey . Tom Lenikan . Dick Lenihan George Mannican Tom important . he prize for the best little letter on any subject goes to Josie McGuinness , Members under 12 . were good . 13th July , 1917 . 7 Convent Terrace . Nina Carlos , 7'Convent Terrace , Ballina , Co. Mayo . The Awards . Badge Winners . be sent to Francis , but't Convent , Drogheda , for her " threatening " letter . When the Badges . be sent to Francis , but to the Manager . nmandants O'Neill . Nally , and Carlos make a move in the matter ? O'Neill is too kind to me , and I am more than grateful . I hope to give active whenever that will be one each is to be sent told days " which have passed for ever into the great void of oblivion , nighty talk . A timid man of peace like myself , that would probably run ( r ) All newcomers , beautiful seaside resort of Enniscrane for you . It is one of those mad 127 --- Page 17 --- Retreat , Mount Argus , Dublin . fact disheartens many of the " ranks and file . " THE CROSS . Rathleen Ternan . serious or humorous . prize will be awarded to the sender of the best message received . I , - For Members over 12 and under 18 Years of Age . II.-For Members under 12 Years of Age . Good-bye , now , and hoping to renew your precious friendship , I remain , The subject is also a Holiday , Message to Francis , and a handsome book of a family ) , and must be written on one side only of the paper . They must A handsome book prize will be given for the best Holiday Message to 4th . All letters to be addressed : Francis , cjo " The Cross , " St. apers must be certified by some responsible person as being the unaided our next competition . I hope , dear Francis , you will not call this a " threatening " letter , for it Yours respectfully , wish to dispute the great literary powers of our Generals , but I think this work of the competitors . ' They must have attached to them the coupon which sent so as to reach the office not later than by the first post on August will be found in this issue ( one coupon will be sufficient for all the members s only the expression of the feelings of myself and many of my comrades . Competitors will please remember the following rules : All competition rancis . Messages need not be too long , and they'm