The Cross Vol X 1919-1920

--- Page 1 --- 0 --- Page 2 --- paternal charity the blessing you request , so that the the sole plank of salvation and of life , the symbol of for your pious tribute , has been pleased to grant with and may bind them indissolably to the Cross of Christ . apostolate in the bosom of Christian families may rescue piously presented at His Throne in token of your devout from shipwreck ever increasing numbers of the brethren which , collected into an elegant volume , you have peace , and the source of all true civil progress . sentiments of the Pontiff , I have pleasure in subscribing Apostolic Blessing for the contributors to this excellent periodical continuing with increasing zeal its salutary publication and for its readers . and fillial homage , at the same time begging the he numbers of the monthly periodical - " THE CROSS " The following is a translation of a letter addressed to In conveying to your Reference these gracious The Cross and praises its work the Editor of " THE CROSS " by His Eminence Cardinal I am happy to inform you that His Holiness , grateful March 9 , 1918 . The Sovereign Pointiff has received with pleasure Gasparri , Secretary of State : Reverend Father , The Vatican , myself , Secretariate of State of His Holiness Yours affectionately in the Lord , His Holiness Pope the Apostolic . Benediction on of State of His Holiness Benedict XV. Secretariat . the Apostolic Benediction on --- Page 3 --- Vihil obstat . Michael Hickey , S.T.D. , May . 1919 . Censor Dep. Archiep . Dublinen . " No. 1 . S Gulielmus , Hiberniae Primas . Imprimi Forest : Vol. X . shown at Angelus-time , for , then , the faith and practical Catholicity of the may be added that native customs Irish . One of these is beautifully and His Blessed Mother . Ireland is then most beautiful . act as a true index to the sterling Miscellaneous addressed envelope . This good practice suggests a state of mind compatible genuine culture . Without such basis of sound morality in Ireland . are temporarily forgotten , and hearts are lifted to God with true happiness , and is the lasting foundation of Angelus-time work of the hour ceases ; earthly cares and thoughts how the wind blows ; as a corollary it Unsuitable MSS , will not be returned unless accompanied by stamped Literary Communications in the LUNVI , at the same success A straw shows our ceases ; earthly cares and thoughts happiness , and is the lasting foundation of --- Page 4 --- injury of familiarising young minds . the minority prevailing over the blessing . The crowds which surged round him bowed fiscation and other penalties , as rebels , was monstrous weigh to my mind the heavy social ment of Ireland , when they appeared in arms against throw himself at the feet of Christ's Vicar and beg a low before him , and applauded one whose fame was them it would be above board ; to punish them by con- sovereign : he had not been acknowledged by the Parlia- the Catholics . Did we tell them we had conquered that , afterwards on meeting O'Connell's youngest son . the Scotch if they had anything of which we could have which the Protestants of Ireland have exercised against Pius the Ninth embraced him as he had not " the great unnatural state ; for we see there as his shattered health would permit , so that he could injustice . King William was not their lawful One trembles to think how easily that moral wealth wrote , in September , 1869 , to Miss umite with you only to rob you . We should have robbed ferred to Irish questions in terms land , said : " Do not make a union with us . We should periodicals and pamphlets is simply odious to me . European , were unheeded . The Pope was then the only him . " On another occasion Johnson , referring to Ire- for he died at Genoa . His Holiness , too , was not the less anxious to see the liberator , and history records one O'Connell longed to see . His wish was not granted pleasure of embracing the great hero of Catholicity . ' wished to see the Pope and hastened to Rome as quickly Sara Hensell : " Nothing can out- ( Mary Anne Evans ) , born in 1819 . suggesting present-day notions . with the desecration of family The Irish , " said he , " are in a most world and turned his attention to higher things . He More than a century and a half ago . Dr. Johnson re- majority . There is no instance of such severity as that robbed them . ' Present Day . Miscellaneous . ties . The discussion of the subject in newspapers , Dr. Johnson and Bad Literature . Notions . George Eliot ' George Eliot " on . ties . # --- Page 5 --- rops against it , whether by the selection of proper seed dence abroad I frequently assured in another not twenty miles away , indicates that there and the sulphate of copper treatment or other means . lighting effects go , if due measures are taken to protect success . But , as has been truly said the fact that the prevented , but its sting may be removed , so far as its able passage occurs in one of her letters to Mrs. Bray . comparatively rarely lightly used in potative succeeds in one country , and fails constantly foreigners that the name of God was Ireland . It was an unpleasant sur- It must be remembered , in reading it , that , brought up ection against frost , and with the most encouraging of the congested districts . The frost itself cannot be without them , hence the constantly recurring families owing to her connection with Lewes . Another remark- a Protestant , George Eliot ended by renouncing Christi- because of the moral wreck of the writer's own life . he first week in June , whereas May is practically never prise to me , however , to find on re- tions ( writes a Correspondent ) , Irish able Spring , that goes with a sea is a problem here which experiments made in England , the month of May . The interim- pelled me to give up the high estimate I had formed of frosts . In Ireland these frosts sometimes last well into farmers have good reason to dread coast climate , necessarily means late Bertholot in the Revue des Deux' Mondes , have com- connection with the apostate . Ernest Renan's , blas- phemous book , " and still more , Renan's letter to France or Belgium may not touch . Much has been done in other countries to insure pro- anity altogether . " This Vie de Jesus , " she says , in affectionate relations . " Words all the more significant his mind . ' to produce in the refinement and differing of the THE CROSS . may be lost which it has been the work of ages urning recently to her shores , that , the Holy Name is Dangers . Divine Name . May Frost . A Contributor . Reverence for rwirthstanding its religious and poetical associa- writes :During many years' resi- the Norwithstanding # # --- Page 6 --- known the false scientist , the atheistical destroyer of the hope of the despairing . Lourdes is like a great miracle wrought to bring the world back to its Creator . to the Causa Nostrae Laetitiae , the Cause of our Joy , will turn to L'ourdes " they will turn in trust and love the Catholic world , a new joy for all good men . natural has triumphed hundreds of times , and over- social order and morality . Lourdes is a new glory in Nor in proud words delight , During May , Mary's own month , desolate hearts Ye do indeed presume ; amidst the ruin of war . At the great shrine the super- We shall fulfil our hopes ! came not to help the needy , but to make an Olympus for Beheld the scene height To weary ones , who like an outcast child . But only ultimate gloom ; It is , thank God , a great encouragement , a great relief To climb the lower slopes . To darken utterly . Nor yet possess the Word The incomunicable sound Fourth Sunday in Trent 1919 . To whisper : is my power yet undone ? Importimate prince draws high And Lourdes brings Truth and more than Truth , their hearts , Horatian snobbery of shunning the masses of men . It Orying : to us the promise may not fail . Upon the heavenly ground : WE , who in subtletv might find no peace . The path , scarce-found : and that abhorred , proud , THE CROSS . Felt throngs of men , Saharas lone and wild , air pilibin . Or fought for joys at worldly , noisy marts . ' the rich . Even as a framing sword ! Of those who walk with the eternal Word the ascent of Carmel . No rest from thought , nor of our pain suitcase , Ye shall not know or stars , or moon , or sun Upon the summit : only I prevail A bitter blast drove down a sudden cloud And with fast tears for sook the poisoned Vale of Carmel , crowned by constant stars , and heard in the rule , Neither the peace of sinners in the Vale . Neither the peace of singers --- Page 7 --- deep blue scaly tiles , is an irregular group of seven- St. Peter's . But the Cluniac and Cistercian period masonry . Too little is made of these brick companies . whose upper tiers are pierced with through-light arches , with a rayed cross . The builder of the portico was and St. Mary in Trastevere . Before the fifteenth and lasting mark of the Middle Age upon a city that in couples or triplets , marble-colonnetted . " Perhaps did not behold Rome burning ) took the place of the but so flagrantly violated from the very first in its vital the most perfect are those of St. Frances of Rome . St. They are the legacy of medieval Rome , the distinctive George in Valabro . St. Mary in Cosmedin . St. Mary the Fain would one believe the Bull a forgery obtained by slightly recessed arcading carried by marble colonnettes , knew no Gothic period , but only inorganic details of gave Rome these exceedingly graceful belief-shafts , century these and the gaunt blank cubes of baronial Henry II , who so nearly forestalled Henry VIII as none other than Adrian IV , of unfortunate memory ! A portico of small but graceful marble columns carries church and then opens into a wide space on the left . tower ( such as the Torre delle Milizie from which Nero pointed door and window and the unconvincing More ( as I would gain translate S. Maria Maggiore ) , appealing to it . eaves , behind which is seen the broad gable crowned The western facade has a signally vertical character . Minerva , " a city that passed quite suddenly from the twelfth century ) a variable for an epoch convalescent circle of long , narrow Roman brick with a band of campanile ( of about 1200 ) that rises from much older document , if genuine , was not only obtained " by fraud . from a surfest of lifelong decoration . teenth century conventional buildings allowing a brick position of this medieval masterpiece ( probably of the conditions that no rational Unionist would think of an upper storey with shuttered windows and deep would seem to learn the other way . ' In any case the basilica to the Renaissance , from the old to the new and around it the imperial sunshine such is the com- The steer lane passes under the south wall of the Roman Foundation of St. Paul of the Cross . A defender of the Faith , " but on the whole the evidence Abutting on the north-east corner , near a dome of --- Page 8 --- have forgotten that the pride of Imperialism is a granted him . Alas ! some English Catholics seem to example of an early Christian dwelling , filled up with the very house of St. John and St. Paul ( put to death Roman Foundation of St. Paul of the Cross . 11 In the nave a spot is nailed off above the chamber the apostate Julian , and many have a presentiment that supreme obstacle to the necessary change of heart , and like S. " Cicely in their own home ) , perhaps an unique seems that a consoling vision of the future was once continually for the conversion of England . And it Heaven's interest in an empire is less than its interest of them pagan in date , but excellent in craftsmanship the consequences of a soul . This is the estimate which the Irish Dominicans of SS. Giovanni e Paolo joined cavation has reaped a rich harvest and revealed a be restored and the crime of September , 1870 , compared their religious brethren , to ma's room for the " newly earth by St. Jerome's friend St. Pammachius , who built in a soul . The consequences of an empire are less than the blood of martyrs will flow again before Christendom the first church thereabove about 398 , and excavated founded Passionist Order . In both cases modern ex- that could impede his perfect union with God . " With estimate which is binding upon all Catholics . Christ , it was a labour of love , a very vacation to pray the Precious Blood takes of a single soul " t-an century . The walls are covered with paintings , many and void of offence birds , flowers , vines and children- wherewith the seizure of Alsace-Lorraine was as empires , were well lost if the Faith were regained . him , as with many an Irish soul fired by the charity of under the high altar , remained till the sixteenth that a thousand empires , even we e they justly acquired entered by a stair from the end of the north aisle . is and S. " Clemente , where , after some 60 years' tenure , nothing , be expiated . Religious depopulata . Fides Many parallels might be drawn between this church intrepida . # Life of St. Paul of the Cross ( Eng. trans. , 1953 ) , Vol. another example of the great truth that " in the where St. John and St. Paul offered martyrdom under some 30 years since . ' Here the martyrs' bodies . now marvellous history . Underneath the Passionist shrine , t Faber , The Precious Blood ( 914 ) . --- Page 9 --- weary land , the rock whence healing waters break forth all things the Revolution is blank , rigid , and , uniform , fevered modernity , that shadow of a great rock in a beautiful shrine and grateful oasis amid dusty and builders and profiteers reject the one corner-stone of all ing ways of the wiser Romans . Everywhere and in the lasting impression left upon the writer by that with straight blistering boulevards " the cool and curve- hallowed and lasting foundations , the Cross . That is inhuman , while the old Christian regime is wise , for man at the Divine behest . the rock which is Christ . rarer as the usurpers extend their ravages and replace rich in grateful shade a treasure that becomes daily answer cannot , to a Catholic , be far to seek . Empire- not founded upon and crowned with the Root . Vain and trebly vain all the reconstructions that are human , gracious and beautiful . Why is this so ? " The The floral jewels of the emirald glade ; As she her carpet for the feet of May ; That spreads its arch o'er the rejoicing land . To the north-east stretches a long . beautiful garden . A tapestry of flowers among leaves , THE CROSS And birds , for Mary's month , their sweetest sing . When tinkling streams in sparkling di'monds set Seems as if coloured from the rainbow ray . What tribute should not her own children bring ! might ( of it ) , When every design fashioned by her hand . # Rev. J. Huby , Religion of Ancient Greece ( C.T.S. ) May no grisly ghost glide there ( where ) it shadoweth . " t From golden sunshine and from silver shade , t Langland Piers Plowman ad finem . M. Barry O' Delany . only survives but reaches full development and perfec- " For God's blessed body it bare for our foot ( advantage ) , And fragrant hawthorn branches blossom-bent ; And it afearth ( frighteneth ) the fend , for such is the When unseen fingers fragile patterns feet . With skill unrivalled , for ' his heaven-sent , Mary's month . tion . " " Catholic Church . everything that is good not WHEN Nature , never idle , deftly weaves , 12 . --- Page 10 --- plot also in Ireland ( the Titus Oates' plot having been Ireland he engaged to raise fifty to seventy thousand the French there was a Spanish army to join them . " evidence swore that upon his being made Primate of Protestant religion , and to get Dublin , Londonderry prayer , that he fasted usually three or four days a week . Eachard , in his history of England , continues the on his arrest in Ireland was a different one to the accusation made against him in London . Dr. Burnett . were . " I might have saved my life . " he said , in his did not crush or weary the brave spirit of Plunkett or reckoned as one of the most difficult things to bear , keepers , viz. : that he spent his time in almost continual speech before the King's Bench . " for I was offered it certainly not a partial writer , refers in the history of by divers people here , if I would but confess my own his keepers , until his arraignment , so that I can only and all the seaports into their hands , and that besides guilt and accuse others ; but I had rather die ten accusation brought against the Archbishop of Armagh make him hesitate one moment in refusing the means thousand deaths than wrongfully accuse anybody cern at his danger or straight confinement , and that by already successfully manufactured in England ) . The his demeanor he attracted an esteem and reverence gather that eight months of solitary confinement . land , and therefore came over and gave evidence of a always quietly cheerful , without any anguish or con- men , who found how good a trade swearing was in Eng- his own times to the arrest and trial . " He was con- inform you what I learned from the months of the said from those few who had come near him . ' From this we of liberation . His own words tell what these means Irish to be ready to join the French and destroy the with nothing but bread ; that he appeared to them demned only upon the testimony of " brited profigate fined and secluded from all conversation , save that of story : " The accusation looked very romantic not to one day of his liberty . one minute of his life . " The a Benedictine , we find that " ... he was close con- say malicious ... . He had been assured by an in- ment . " From a letter written by his friend Dr. Corker , the cross cited to appear in London before " the King and Parlia- for take away one farthing of any man's goods , he had been assured by an in- --- Page 11 --- before the Prisoner of Love was wondrous sanctity for himself , and Life of Father Charles , C.P. It was in that holy place that he acquired the science of the Saints , it Eucharist were two modes of life that could not co-exist ; that if which Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament was daily exposed came Yet this joy was not without its alloy , for the humiliating to the obtaining of manifold gifts of Grace for others . While in the ng's light struggled through the windows , the solitary figure of is He was on Calvary , or as He is now in Heaven . ' Are the mom amongst us , love for Our Lord's sufferings could not be genuine , he Lord dwelleth were so deserted that man , to whom the Re- prostrate himself before the altar , and adore the hidden God . " And the door of the Tabernacle , could not but think that within his heavily burdened and I will refresh you . " " The Bread that I sentive to all who observed him a greater love for the Blessed rad but a weak hold on many hearts , that the holy places where film not when He says : " Come to Me all you that labour and are with Jesus in the unseen world . His very appearance was an in- for God's honour : and the outcome of his unwearied watchfulness it was there that he pleaded with tearful eyes for the return of out there was a heavenly rapture , and a longing to be at home and we remained cold and indifferent to the dwelling of Jesus for the Bucharist is the great memorial of the Passion-the com- the servant of God was frequently observed stealing noiselessly to leemer had given Himself wholly and entirely , was sadly un- nindful of His Presence , and deaf to His numerous calls , heeding Passion and to be Luke-warm in devotion to the Most Holy of the sanctuary lamp fickered upon it , as he knelt gazing upon and that in it he had " found him whom his soul loveth : pendium of all mysteries . Edited by a PASSIONISE FATHER . the door , with their sores and wounds , became warm and strong : He that eateth My flesh and drinketh My blood hath ever- he spent in abortion before the Tabernacle . ' Like an such a life of love , where He is as truly and as completely present My Flesh and drinketh Mr. Blood abideth in ' Me and I in him . Whoever be held the man face of Father Charles when the rays was there that he received fresh impetus to do still greater things He was mindful of the fact that to be a faithful son of the Angel of the Altar , he loved to linger where Jesus lives His Devotion to the Blessed Sacrament . THE happiest hours of Father Charles ' life were those which lasting life , and I will raise him up on the last day . chapter IX . our belief in the Real Presence did not assume practical shape , sinners from their darksome ways of error . all-sanctifying ' Sacramental Presence the love of Father Charles for Sacrament : he gave visible signs that It had for him " all deli y before him ; he was conscious that this Adorable Mystery sinners from their darksome ways of error . " useful son of the give is My Flesh for the life of the world . " " e is My Flesh for the life of the world . " " He that eatett --- Page 12 --- that obvious morning long ago when , in the humble village of converse with the Sacred Heart . On days of Solemn Exposition comings of ungrateful hearts . He could not , moreover , shut his such is the Kingdom of Heaven . " And his memory went back to unworthiness , He , whose look pierced the heart of Peter . would ciples at Emmaus , but his eye's were not held like theirs , nor did such a change in their hearts , and imbue them with such strength Jesus like the prodigal , and acknowledged their infratitude and for Faith told him that in the Sacrament of the Most Holy of Jesus . And in token of his deep reverence for the holy mystery , Writing in 1873 from St. Joseph's Retrest , London , to the mother that they would never again deny Him . And , furthermore . He there are times when fewer friends are around the Tahernacle of It was truly the Son of God Who hung upon the Cross . a visitation to the Blessed Sacrament , to stone for the short- Bucharist are contained " truly , really , and substantially the Body It sent a thrill of gladness through his heart to hear of the first gaze upon them with tenderest love from the Tabernacle , work be always uncovered his head when he heard the name of the possibly could , and no one was readier than the venerable priest of the Blessed Sacrament or in his cell . Before entering on his Jesus than there were on the lonely height of Calvary , when the daces in either of which he was invariably found - viz " in presence daily mission among the people , he prepared himself by ' holding and blood together with the Soul and Divinity of Our Lord Jesus larkened sun , and the great upheaval of nature , proclaimed that charity , it gave him an opportunity of being nearer the altar . to lose " hope in God's mercy , for if they only came to the feet of be could adore with all the powers of his soul the Sacred Heart work of all devotion-being specially directed against this grand which , now more than ever , are being utilised to say the ground- Every day , besides celebrating . he heard all the Masses he disciple of old , but would give Himself to be the food of their Jesus once said . " Suffer little children to come unto Me for of Master in whose vineyard he had since become a heroic tailor . Blessed Sacrament pronounced . Whenever Father Charles was required there were only two Holy Communications of the young and innocent , for he knew that to Jesus sacramentally present , and his heart burned like the dis- Adence , and promises them refreshment , light , and peace , yet be imagine that he was speaking with " a stranger in Jerusalem so that whenever he left his call he was instinctively led to make Though Our Lord this circumstances all to approach Him in one . His whole life may be said to be one constant act of adoption dogma of Faith . christ . ' Thoughs like these weighed upon the heart of Father Charles , eyes to the blasphemous doctrines of nationalists and materialists , re hid himself away in some remote corner , where , undisturbed , souls . It grieved Father Charles to know that sinners were so inclined would not only allow them to rest on His bosom . like the virgin to serve the Masses of others , for , besides performing an act Munster-Geleen , he received for the first time that Lord a Blessed Sacrament pronounced . --- Page 13 --- given by the King at Versailles ; next in importance to it came day with the same result , and Helen seemed to fade away like a a visit for three months : these had not yet expired . What if Helen Conti Palace . This was the principal ball of the season , after that Then an intense longing came just to see him , and to her aunt's At the conclusion of peace the Marquise had invited Helen on But to-day . Why did he not come to her ? ' How she would have complied , as she hoped thus to pass near the O'Driscoll , who , on Prince di Conti far down the ballroom . received him ! What plans she had formed for the future ! ' They the night of the ball she said : " Why , Helen , where have the roses When she came rather near she became unusually animated seeing her , would at least give a sign of recognition . But , not he or would be near the entrance to welcome her . None of the evidently did not see her , for he did not look towards her . graciously . When the Princess di Conti welcomed Helen and her aunt on three hypotheses came true . She could see him speaking to the Her aunt became seriously alarmed at the change in her niece . given to celebrate the Carnival and the conclusion of peace . the masked ball on Shreve Tuesday . which closed the festivities got seriously ill-she was an only daughter , and idolised by her and not show how keenly she felt his treatment of her ? And now was it all at an end ? . Instinctively , she felt it was . But the next day came , and he arrived not - and day succeeded la Marquise hastened to interpose , " She requires the fresh breezes Parisian late hours do not seem to agree with her , " Madame she had fully expected it , but she had prevented him by urging Patrick's religion . return to her parents , who plead to get back their child . ' ted ? . You have become so pale ! ' After a while the Baron de Chantal asked her to dance - she Well , their gain will be our loss , " said the Princess , was the O'Driscoll dancing - or would be wait to dance with her- but then felt she had only done what was plainly her duty . would be absurd , for she never by word or sign would object so him to remain with his brother . very day he would have asked her to be his wife . The previous day Patrick that she could enjoy herself without the stimulation of his Helen had contrived to arrive a little late . She wished to see parents . The Marquise tried to induce Helen to go into society . but the presence . in the days of the wild geese . happy . and early hours of her Irish home , so I am thinking of letting he Prince di Conti far down the ballroom . could the priestly brother have objected to her religion ? " That surprise and relief . Helen expressed a wish to go to the ball at the " Oh I why did I interfere ? " she asked herself in self-revroach ther shrunk from the ordeal . How could she meet him there self believe that he would come the next day . would , of course , return to Ireland , and make their poor people so A flood of tears relieved the tension , and she tried to make her- chatted and laughed with her partner - " just to show Mr. autiful flower which an untimely winter blast had struck . f believe that he would come the next day . 21 . --- Page 14 --- ime to Patrick O'Driscoll to see her , she could judge finally how would return to Ireland . She resolved to attend the masked ball tures to him , nor would she seek him in any way . Next week she got faint . " Had she been able to remain longer , and thus given asked her partner to bring her back to her aunt . at the door in a few minutes , " said the Comte de Varennes , who this promise he would have left Paris on the day following his Not the slightest trouble : one of my former servants is just it too urgent in seeking information . ' If Madame la Marquise will allow me , I can have her carriage on Shore Tuesday . She and he had long since settled their cas- the aunt anxiously , for Helen did , indeed . look ill . meantime throbbing wildly . Aunt . please take me home . I feel ill . " she said quietly . from the palace . " though I was so angry with that poor man , he she would go as Erin-if he wished to speak to her he could , and at that time she felt secure of a very different offer of marriage . have all their luggage ready , as he intended to leave Paris on Ash the festivities given to celebrate the conclusion of peace ; but for I fear it would be too much trouble . ' Monsieur ' le Comte . ' me so soon , " he thought . And the hot blood surged to her face as she remembered how early did nothing except to ask me to marry him : he was just a This brought her thoughts back to the ball ; she was sorry she had THE GROSS in a short time he came to offer to conduct madame and her niece his room expecting Darby to lay out his costume for the ball . brother's ordination . her to marry him . Oh I wirrasthrue-wirrasthrue . When Shreve Tuesday drew near the O'Driscoll babe Darby safety departed , she felt the room swimming round her , and she her surprise , Helen did the same . to their carriage , which was waiting . if not she would pluck him out of her heart . The O'Driscoll turned deadly pale . but said , with as much calm - It was the evening of Shreve Tuesday - the O'Driscoll was in You see . aunt . " she said in explanation as the carriage drove Time ran on and no Darby appeared . had heard question and answer as he was passing by . As madame thanked him she shook hands with him , and , to it too urgent in seeking information . ' " My darling child , how can I get our carriage now ? " asked " I think I had better put on my toss myself , " solidognised umes for it she was to passionate Erin and he a Crusader . Well claiming- Now tell me exactly how you came to hear this , " his own heart outside the door , and I can send him , " which the Count did , and Wednesday . He was bound by his promise to the King to attend ness as he could command : " " Sir down and collect yourself . " Oh ! Yet honour , yet honour ! That villainous Count largey ! - he intends to carry off Miss Helen to-night , and to force rhero , when the door was burst open and in rushed Darby ex- Poor Helen ! Once she had passed the magnet harwahmad He saw her-and he noticed her gaiety . Has she forgotten stood . Of course , she would not make the smallest over : He saw her-and he noticed her gaiety . " Has she forgotten card question and answer as he was passing by ter surprise , Helen did the same . ness as he could command : " Sir down and collect yourself . 23 . --- Page 15 --- tamail snpo com no come ! moip . It does surprising easier . rior up an nzalso untbarac in an flu-50 . tpear's smaller spirit . In wait it cuminition e pin pipeac an using in large e . cots ns teine . 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In all probability , the one time since has far eclipsed and the dusk and twilights come , and ( outside the ' shifting of the evil , will they not explain if God said : " The scarlet shall be made as still as the little scattered velvet hedge behind his seat . ' If the rows from the father's stern runoff . and perhaps connives at the his definition ? Oh , the depths of the meaning . to " understand " glasses , as though caught else could stop his reading ) he remains what God said on His Cross of voice and bitter suffering . When the square or by his little fire , through glasses nearing . till the birds of human kind do not . " They know not what they do , " that is ustracising the one who once had pinned , but whose sorrow had and his mind singles with anticipation of coming rupture , if he can Christians presumably following His dicta-refusing to condone . old chair and a fireside , where he can live again , away from the sound and heart do you not forgive her if she shields their erring negations . ' Some pages are illumined with gold and precious as white as snow " what shall He do with the grey ? shivers , and thrusts his treasure under his arm and softly goes to The Charles Lambs , the Clarence Mangans , the Fleckers , and bed . Can you blame him if the price was over great for his scant- their hearts , the mind of men would not for ever be lamenting the The Scrooges of this world - the David " Garricks , the Hitty purse , and the lesson of his former lives to this stall of Alladin sometimes it seems to level or rather enfold every possible little one's escapes from the call at the library door ? childhood to death ; those who find the good when seeking for the What more human , and yet what more deeply psychological , than afford just this one treasure more . He sees himself in garden good , one's very soul and heart turn in loathing from devotees of ing eye , who fingers the books on the stalls ; his old heart is warm , lotted and scratched , erased and confused , like the copy-books of Magdalenes and all-would we not forgive them all ? the mother , who hugs her children with the very fibre of her subject of pardon . She says : " To forgive is to understand . " " If people would but look at the positive in life , and hug it to THE CROSS . our children . were learnt in vain ? himself till the lamp burns low and the last coal falls , and he wiped out the stain , and indeed the life been made better by after When there is the book-lover of old , with wistful face and long- Mucenists and the Praginatists combined could not but pardon this sin . the Dowsons-those who know life and the outweighing good from I think Madame de Steel expresses in a few words the whole Surely , the economists of this world the calours , the Missals and " Home " of the perfect . Some are is the obstacle . if you sort out the reason to its root . You will find another's need . s piercing cold and his collar is thin and worn . he knows an rels and the Bessie Costrells , the St. Augustine and Mary another's need . Surely , the economists of this world-the --- Page 17 --- for bells , and throughout the book the bells are ringing out their eaceful message to labourers in the secluded Italian valleys . In he lonely " town of Assisi , " firm builded in the slope above the In his latest volume Father Rope has captured an inspiration of that amorphous giant . Note the reference of this satire on a upper vessels to the singing well . " He has a truly medieval love his soul never strays far from Rome and the shv little towns of pathy that one would expect only from an Irishman in whose veins Beautiful as Headingley . passionate a lover of the ages of Faith should ultimately be attracted But in the presence of British Imperialism his mood is one of Baghdad of a future fame , Baghdad new and prosperous , medical peace runs like a silver thread . He would be back in Go happy in your faith ; but I piration of Kathleen . In was inevitable that so cells of Rocca Priora spilling their music over the Campagna . wiceless things of the spirit that have vanished before the march Grown of Widnes emulous , to the land that has remained so faithful to its heritage . But in Hear Erin's deep and bitter cry . ' Gathering all thy children But if Father Roye's heart is in a sort of subliminal England . the glory and the sorrow of Ireland run . To an Imperialist , he Baghdad won for Imperialism : Laughter or scorn their need . Baghdad that may come to be Queen of these island blast , her might feel the call of the unveorled hills and dales again . Unto thy breast . vines , " or among " the happy throngs of Alban Bocca bringing Only my prayer so feeble Other bands will now proclaim . Words of mine may avail not : utters these words : Who see the doom of slavery In our Imperial destiny : " Go happy you , who can believe God may heed . ' And in another little poem , to Robin Dubh , he puts a world of KEVIEW . Fain would I see these reigning Where're our ships the waters cleave ; fervour into a few simple words : - very resentment , for he realises as keenly as any Irishman the high was absent from " Religious Ancilla - the age-long in- poem he hears , through the distance of years , the silver Through all his poems the passion for those haunts of 29 his poems on Ireland Father Rope displays an insight and --- Page 18 --- and Francis , though she may not always be able to write . Who is she ? ' There . of May for the land that has loved her always . Let us ask Mary . while old and young will join in the Rosary at home by the firesides onstant friend we have in the Mother of God ! Little do we know of Ireland , and began the protection of Mary for themselves and their rough places of the world . Little do we know what a true and times each day in our hearts to plead Ireland's cause before the Throne of her Son , and leg of Him to grant us the freedom for which made us ! Let us pray fervently to her during this beautiful month lays she will be honoured with a special honour in our churches , rippling brooks ; but sweeter far is the thought that this is to write ? " and the thought frightens me . I am confident , though that such a Cabhruigh le h'Eirinn ! . the Guild of Blessed Gabriel . we have waited so patiently and so long . A Mhuire ' Mhathair . sy living lives worthy of him who is to be their model and their guide . IV. They will endeavour to bring as many new members as they can into My post bag . che Guildy conducted by FRANCIS . and sweet the croon of the May breezes and the murmur of Blessed Gabriel . the month of Mary , the Mother of God's own Son . " For thirty-one Sir Boysgr Girls ) petitions will be held . " under 18 years of age . A WEST to us is the song of the dark above flower-studded fields . III . They will at all times observe the conditions under which the com- Rules of the Guild . nind : " Will there come a month when every member of the Guild will forget land , as well as for the loved ones who are far away walking the of " The Cross . ' 11 . The members will be expected to spread devotion to Blessed Gabriel of A Literary I . The Guild of Blessed Gabriel is a literary circle open to boys and girls 1907 Circle for Young Readers Mother of God , every morning and evening , and a hundred 1940s # he has saved us time and again from the anger of Him who ur Lady of Sorrows , by practising the virtues of purity , charity , and truth , t is wonderful how Francis is never forgotten . Sometimes I saw in my own 1940s. --- Page 19 --- as from the gifted pens of Lilian Nally , Ellis Ni Risin and Rita and Nina And nestling in that smiling glen where daisies shine words of the birds , the sky , tender buds on the trees , and the greening meadows and Hanna and Kate Kinsella , Lizzie Ogady , Christopher Walshe and James use pink ones looked shyly down on the waking earth . " Ellis expresses , too , in received a very nice letter from Hannie Ward , who , although she has made a very Josie McGuinness has won many prizes in the Guild , but success has not spoiled lled with the desire to tell you of the boys and blessings I will ask God to give you her once more a free and happy nation . " Isn't it good to read such a prayer Coady have joined the Guild . Two new members come to us from Drumcondra to the Guild . ' Nova McGowan returns' thanks to B. M. O'Neill the cross . linch . Graiguenamaugh , promises to be an energetic member of the Guild . Along the goal sands that fringe the sapphire sea . ustice . " ' Ellis Ni" Plain complains of her handwriting , but she has no need to lark clouds that hung over our land and of how quickly they were disnelled by t Dundrum : " The sun was shining in through my window , the birds in the fav morning breezes from the Dublin hills . ' Here is how she saw an April morning look in . " There's humility for you ! A thousand grateful thanks to Mary her . Writing of the poetry competition she says : " All I can do is my best , and ho is already a member ) , and they are heartily and truly welcome . I have words have ever appeared in the Guild pages , and I trust Rosie will repeat them her credit . " You need not expect such great things from my pen . " She writes , avourite subject at school is Irish , and I am proud of her choice . ' To live in Magazine , edited so capably by Ellis Ni Riain . ' Rosie Kenny says that but they had to make a start , too , Hannie , and who knows but that a certain during this glad time . I will remember in particular poor suffering Eire and ask fine letter of greeting to all of us . " Is it not wonderful . " she writes . " this month . ' They are Donagh Fogarty and Gilbert Fogarty ( brothers to John rightened by the spring flowers , he would the approach of Easter , and my heart is month at all events . Josie O'Brien is obliged to sever her connection with the mologies for the beautiful thoughts it conveys to others . " Her letters are like must pass into the ranks of the honorary members . She has been a good and I'm tired of the city's ceasefire strife and woo : Where daffodils in golden glory away he Guild . Our Beann Badair representative . Ellis Ni Mhadileoin wrote at Easter withful friend of Francis , and I trust she will often be represented by a letter in little songster will yet bring fame to Killaloe ? Connie Walsh ( Carmarthen ) sends I know a sun-loved emerald valley sweet Ireland . " she says , " and not to know your own language is a disgrace . " No grow up the slur of ignorance of their own language may not cause them to bush ridden words the sympathy her heart feels for Nova McGowan in her great loss . Away to a Mayo glen I wish to go : for shame . Ellis Ni Riain sends three sweet stanzas entitled : And return to gain wonder hand in hand with thee I see they pretty cottage-home , dear friend o' mine , now , is a guessing competition for my readers . I haven't been forgotten this him who freed the world from servitude to break the fetters that bind her and make Where violots cluster round spring's fairy feet , Beneath the skies one moment blue , one moment gray . a devotional poem on " Our Lady of May . " She and her brother Jack are welcome Yearning . Parater the hills I love so proud and wild . with and prayer my heart glows with thanksgiving to the great God of mercy and gain and again in the hearing of her young comrades at school , so that when they To roam with these . once more a careless child had I will do , but in your garden of poeteness a weed like myself cannot get even erence there is in Ireland's outlook this Easter and last ? When I think of the 32 . g branches sang of joy and gladness , while white , fleery clouds and soft H.B.S. , for her beautiful little letter . Here is a bit of it : generous heart of one who is not of our race ? Martin Kinsella . Tinna letter of sympathy . She writes in high terms of praise of " Dawn , " the N individual poem on " Our Lady of May . " She and her brother Jack are welcome an active member . She has reached the 18th milestone on build as an active member . She has reached the 18th milestone on life's road and 38 . --- Page 20 --- As Freedom wings its fight on every wind As weary convicts make their weary round . Close by the shingled pathway , rudely barred And thus in penal soil unblessed they lie . Oh , lonely graves ! that hold such lonely shame , Oh , wretched spot ! of all this wretched place , Where none of kith or kin may view the spot ; Where guilt and sorrow trample every day , Beneath my still the prison yard is spread . I gave through iron bars with wistful eye , And relatives , perchance , as Nature tends That carries from my window but a sigh . prison graves . Two harmless graves beneath the gloomy wall , Have bent beneath the shadow of their fate . There are two graves within this prison yard , Where never tribute from a friendly eye Nor sign to tell what that black earth may hide . With shingle and with hint , just as the ground , No flower , nor leaf , nor blade of grass grows here , Their loves and hopes , as well as their wild hate : A prison yard that shows a prison tomb And keep their endless , aimless , graceless line . In charity may mourn their direful lot . The voice of even shame itself upbraids . Their bodies cast to smoulder here in line . Tis said two lowly wretched here are laid . In grim companionship lie side by side , And shame to shame where shame each day For which within this goal the price was paid- Where convicts crawl each day with painful tread There kinder to have hid that naked clay These graves within a corner , dark and dear , None of England's prisons here confined . Mayhap , e'en these poor watches had their friends - There kinder to have left no tell-tale trace . but they have left it , adding gloom to gloom , Since o'er the turf they dare not place a name , By stones from slavish feet that here might fall . Who in this life were stained with grievous crime With rude , unlovely paths that circling twice G. A. Lyons . parades , THE CROSS . Retreat , Mount Argus , Dublin . Competitors will please remember the following rules : All competition papers must be certified by some responsible person to be the unsided and original 14th . All letters to be addressed : - Francis , cjo " The Cross , " St this issue ( one coupon will be sufficient for all the members of a family ) . They 3th ust be sent so as to reach the office of " The Cross " not later than May work of the sender . They must have attached to them the coupon to be found in der . They must have attached to them the coupon to be found o as to reach the office of " The Cross " not later than rik of the sender . They must have attached to them the coupor --- Page 21 --- for , like his brother , Father Pius Devine , C.P. , who died a years ago , Father Arthur was a Gaelic scholar , preached in Irish , of Our Divine Master . He perfected his splendid intellect by con- stant and persevering study . Acquirement of knowledge only on November 16th , 1866 . ' His philosophical and theological studies 1849 , and having entered the Passionist Congregation , had the those associated with him . Outside the immediate sphere of his happiness of making his profession at Broadway , Worcestershire , His life was an inspiring example of incessant labour in the service of religion and charity-loved ' Christ Crucified with his whole matters of conscience , or who , while yet outside the Fold , were confide , and a counsellor whose advice they could safely follow . erved to increase his humility and his desire to be considered the in his dealings with others , painstaking in all duties , a great lover and gave a course of catechetical instructions at Mount Argus in anxious to depose doubts and difficulties in matters of Faith . His of religious observance , a friend to the friendless and afflicted , heart-and to such a life there could be only one sequel - the death religion ) was born at Kilmacleige , Co. Sligo , on 1st December The language movement has lost in him an ardent supporter , last and least in the community . He spent himself in the cause highly appreciated . ' religious life , many will lose in him a friend in whom they could services , too , as spiritual director of religious communities were from 1879 to 1881 , and elected Provincial Consultor in 1884 , a the cross Church ; his advice was frequently sought by those troubled with Bector of Mount Argus testify to the general esteem in which Father Father Arthur of St. Paul of the Cross ( as he was known in priests of Achonry on death of distinguished diocesan-Father of a saint . our native tongue . The talent confided to Father Arthur crucified under his care . Rev. Dr. Morrisroe : " Sincere confidence from Bishop and were made at Mount Argus , and his ordination took place in 1872 . Retiring in disposition , humble , considerate and condescending position which he occupied for three years . The numerous telegrams and letters of sympathy received by the Arthur " He filled the office of Superior of St. Mungo's Retreat , Glasgow , agreeable and pleasant in manner , Father Arthur was beloved Arthur was held . The following telegram was received from M Rev. Dr. Morrisroe : " Sincere condolence from Bishop an Yours affectionately in the Lord , P. Card. Gasparri . --- Page 22 --- Nihil obstat . Michael Hickey . S.T.D. . Archiep . Dublinen . Sculielmus . June , 1919 . Imprimi Potest : Hiberniae Primas . Censor Dep. Vol. X. No. 2 . # Passionist THE sacred heart --- Page 23 --- efforts to repel the evil and advance desire to aid Ireland can be of real help , and this with- of country : there must be distinct of Orders , Monsignori , and distinguished laymen . The brate the festival with great solem- and place . The blowing of trumpets at the moment of or , sometimes , within the sacred building itself . of rushing of the wind when the days of Pentecost were Gori . The visitors included several Bishops . Generals the entoning of the " Veni Creator Spiritus , during relics of the Saint repose , the decorations were most Mass , is one of the oldest of these , and symbolises the preached and his relics venerated by the people . In Community of SS. John and Paul's present included the Fathers , the festival was observed the Basilica of SS. John and Paul . ' Rome , where the snow-white does in honour of the Holy Ghost , is also elaborate , and the splendid edifice illuminated by over very ancient . In Russia flowers and green branches sented by Cardinals Friirwith . Ronuzzi . Boschi and by acts than by words . ' Mere words April ) the Passionist Fathers tele- the Fiery Tongues , and the letting loose from a tower , the good . Some will be called to do ficated , and the Sacred College was further repre- are not sufficient indication of love ceremonies attendant upon it vary according to time more than others ; some must work in the limelight : some in the shade . All who profess even a small are carried in the hands during religious concessions at discharge of fire from the church roof , in memory of C.P. of the Anglo-Hibernian' Province ) , General Parrrorsm is a virtue and is , ' his , shown more clearly accomplished and they were together in one place . " The with befitting ceremonial . Danegyrics of the saint were the Father-Vice-General and Very Rev. Father Hilary , Consultor . custom , in the various churches of fifteen hundred electric lights . Cardinal Vicko ponti- Pentecost . Holy Ghost fifty days after the Resurrection , and the THE CROSS . nity . This year , according to Each year on the feast of St. Paul of the Cross 128th An Acid Test . of the St. Paul . Patriotism . Cross . 38 . Each year on the of feast of St. Paul of the Cross ( 28th. --- Page 24 --- cular , its noble historical traditions and the suffering ranting in his duty to Belgium , then they will , surely , Germany in peace and to refuse to condemn them either time , preferred politics to ethics , expeditioncy , or what political questions , notably those relating to Armenia , evacuation of Belgium , with a guarantee of her full political , military and economic independence towards the Pope's Peace Note ( August , 1917 ) we read : " On International , " publishes in a recent ignorance thought to be expedient , to right , and is and most Catholic people . " It was not , at all events , with regard to Ireland and her " admittedly innocent well to draw attention to the absurdity of the following innocent and most Catholic people . The Roman for turning peace into war , or for turning war into hell , paragraph : " The Vatican in 1914 , not for the first the part of Germany there must be the complete Rome to pronounce judgment on her professors . " In grief because his efforts to avert the and that at the immediate expense of an admittedly in connection with Belgium alone that the Pope tried must reign in the study of the other territorial and anonymous author of " National and catastrophe of the world-war were all in vain , is a fact of which the be more than ready to act in accordance with their own of the ancient Kingdom of Poland , to which , in parti- the Balkan States , and to the territories' forming part times readers too , are ill-instructed , it may be just as to influence the Heads of the belligerent States . " The It was convenient to lean on the support of Austria and same spirit of equity and justice , " said Pope Benedict . and found wanting when Belgium appealed in vain to discharged in our time or in that of our sons . all powers whatsoever ; likewise the evacuation of French territory . " However , if in spite of these suggestions from the Holy Father , some consider he was Miscellaneous . some other matters . But as not writers only , but some- Times Literary Supplement , " is appar- Most Catholic . heart of the saintly Pius X broke with claim to a wide-world spiritual authority was judged utly ignorant . A deplorable ignorance for , surely , beginning the payment of a penalty which will not be " An Admittedly is could not be malice ! - is also shown with regard to Innocent and That the great heart of the saintly Pius X broke with People . ently ignorant . sue of " The Times Literary Supplement , " is appar- That the great issue of --- Page 25 --- The Synod furthermore declared that the Protestants fellow countrymen to that of their foreign co-religion- are every bit as patriotic as their of Poland would prefer the rule of their Catholic which should be right . be St. Thomas-a-Becket Street ! ists . If Sir Edward Carson and his followers would name from the Abbev founded by Henry the Second Poland . But the Polish Protestants Poles sink them for the sake of Poland . they would be contrary . ' It is the street where Emmet was hanged , and other United Irishmen . Why mutulate its name , been named after Tam-o-Shamter , while in Ireland , as an expulsion for his share in the Catholic compatriots . The Protestant Synod of War- German claim to kindred with the Polish Protestants . might be called the Belfast of religious differences for the sake of Ireland . as the acting in the best interests , not only of Ireland in world . But it might as well have justly to assure the sympathies of nations . " And no the most Catholic country " in the the Catholics of Poland , and indignantly rejected the and is " also associated with memories of Wolfe Tone murder , and should , therefore , be not simply " Thomas Patrick's division of the capital of munder of the Holy Archbishop of Canterbury . His blood is not upon their heads . The street took its the Poland of the Seas ! saw recently drew attention to its complete union with the majority . Danzie , for instance . or Tom-o-Bedlam for all its title board says to the Street , " but St. Thomas-a-Becket Street . THE CROSS . endured , especially during the present war , ought Ulster " where Protestants are in general , but also of Ulster in particular . I.ish people have no cause to bush for the brutal Thomas d Becket . take a lesson from the Polish Protestants , and sink the Irish of the Continent " - and ignore Ireland , Why not Saint Porann is a Catholic country , but she too has her A Lesson for Street ? ne could consistently sympathise with the Poles - Ulster . Thomas Street . thoroughfare in the St. ( writes a Correspondent ) is the prin- cipal . thoroughfare . --- Page 26 --- essence of Spiritism , and Moses declares that for this seeking the truth from the dead , seeking to learn by for- devil go to the devil . " Mr. Raupert , who has devoted bidden means what God has not revealed , this is the inforces , but a medium ! And who can fail to see cause the Canaanites were abandoned to destruction . What is a medium but one in whom there is a mythical but thou art otherwise instructed by the Lord thy God . ' truth from the dead . For the Lord abhorrett all these psychonic spirits , or fortune-tellers , or that seeketh the feeding a chill , and the spirit of the age seems to have pythoness at Delphi , subjected to a trance before utter- or diving spirit ? And what was the priestess , the essentially the same thing . Spiritism in the cave of Endor , where Saul , by a witch the devil and his angels , and " those who deal with the observenth dreams and omens , neither let there be any them : their blood be upon them " ( Leviticus xx. 27 ) . you any one that ... " consulted soothsayers , or of those nations . Neither let there be found among wizard , nor charmer , nor anyone that consulteth tion , the black art , necromancy , spiritualism , are blurred the subject even in Catholic minds . Divina- thou shall possess , hearten to soon-shsavers and diviners : masters " ( Acts xvi. 16-19 ) . Philippi , again , St. Paul exercised a mythical spirit medium , criminally invoked the spirit of Samuel ? At living spirit , dying let them die : they shall stone and hypnotism are but different forms of dealing with ware last thou have a mind to imitate the abominations . himself to warning others of the abyss from which he them at thy coming . ... These nations , whose land Spiritism , " magic and unlawful kinds of magnetism it she has definitely legislated , as did Moses . A man or woman in whom there is a mythical r cannot live near icebergs . Father Haber said , with from a girl whose obsession had brought gain to her into the land which the Lord thy God shall give thee , be- very real thing , as it was in the Mosaic law . hings , and for these administrations He will destroy THE CROSS . In Deuteronomy xviii , we read : " When thou art come # The correct name . Spiritualism means properly the opposite Against . of materialism in philosophy . But one without . --- Page 27 --- Faith and Morals on April 24 , 1917 , to the question who appear to them are not the dead-how absurd is spiritistic phenomena which are not fraudulent are the educated as a general explanation . They have dead , receiving answers , discovering things unknown turnings and ravines of 1832 and 1848 in America . 1856 ) expressly includes " invoking the souls of the and preternatural . Huxley and Tyndall reign no whatsoever , through a medium in common parlance or tion . Those who seek to know what God has hidden due to Satanic intervention , and can scarcely be ex- proposed whether it is lawful to assist at any spirit- the strange happenings are , generally speaking , real demons , and they do not even then gain their desire . contravene His decrees we involve ourselves in destruc- whence it spread swiftly over Europe , to fill the void a certain proportion of cases , but is now abandoned by ism upon its victims , the gradual surrender of the will , natural means we must be content not to know . If we within the reach of human reason or investigation by them on to ruin , or nothing at all . And those beings he notion that God would permit them to leave ourgatory , heaven , or hell to assist others in breaking Baltimore says it can scarcely be doubted that those as conscious trickery . This may doubtless account for and a scandal to good morals . The Second Council of from us can only apply to their fellow-rebels , the and distant " as superstitious . forbidden , heretical . His law ! but demons who personate the departed . ' loss of the Faith , moral , mental and physical wreckage , plained otherwise . The results of dabbling in Spirit- istic communications ( locutionibus ) or manifestations Either they are told lies , or truth , so worded as to lead ing of the Cardinals' Inquisitors General in matters of longer . The Encyclical of the Holy Office ( 30 July , come to admit what the Church has always taught , that left by materialism . Agnostics sneered at these things What Almighty God has neither revealed nor placed spiritism , whose present phase dates from the table- spoken , recently and decisively . " In a planary meet- are warning set forth by Raupert and others who It is hardly necessary to describe the phenomena of Finally , to clinch the matter , Holy Church has THE CROSS . speak what they have heard and seen . --- Page 28 --- be heard . Suffered to hang until he was dead , his body speech from the scaffold added another entertaining different and perhaps oblivious of the crowd , Oliver addressed to the condemned man as he was dragged of accusation against him ; refuting them one by one he proclaimed his innocence . Then he said : ' I do heartily generally lay in thick layers on the surface splashed up morally impossible for me to have a fair trial . I for- pushed to the hanging rope that awaited its burden . past , and many a lump of mud fungi at him . ' In- bringing me from Ireland . to be tried here , when it was Plunkett recited the Miserare , the Credo , the Pater , as have responded painfully to each jerk . The wire which ever offended by thought , word or deed . The black cap gibbet Oliver Plunkett mounted the cart and was witnesses from Ireland , did expose my life to evident eighteen months of imprisonment had weighed upon worn , feeble man ? For nearly an hour he held the forgive them . This betrayalers ) and also the judges who , of his life , the anxiety of his labours , as well as the bumping way over the rutty , uneven ground every ras pulled over his head . He recited the Miserere into his face , and with hands tied he could not wipe it scene to the drama . But had he strength to speak , that populace . He gave the history of his arrest , the points until the cart was drawn away , and his voice ceased to bull-batting to the Spaniards . Many an epithet was by denying me sufficient time to bring my records and give all who did concur directly or indirectly to take nerve , in the weak emaciated body of the victim must my life , and I ask forgiveness of all those whom I have danger . I do also forgive all those who had a hand in him and had done the work of years . Arrived at the worn ; the marks of age were on him . The hardships sea of upturned faces of the expectant , noisy crowd . He eager spectators of a sport as entertaining to them as tion , and as the springless , wheeless vehicle made its two years old , but his hair was white , his face lined and raised his hand and the rowdy voices were quelled a he was carried along his via dolorosa . ' He was fifty- Venerable Oliver Plunkett . rough road separated Newgate from the place of execu- away . In groups along the highway were the populace , Pale , emaciated , weak , he stood looking down upon the through the gateway over the stones . Three miles of 49 . --- Page 29 --- portrait of Catherine , attired in the black habit , her golden hair be . We find they are too high above us . It is different with hidden beneath the white coif and black veil , her blue eyes shining the 27th September , 1787 , at Stomanstown House , Co. Dublin , of the Sisters of Mercy . we find it difficult to picture them to ourselves , to Catherine was born on the Feast of St. Michael the Archangel . She is practically of our own time ; at any pelled to sell Stormanstown . affairs of the family got so involved that Mrs. McAaley was com- eal human love for them . glorious and heroic though they our beautiful capital . After her father's death , when she was still a child , the peouniary Saints , but many of them lived in the distant Past , and She and her three children-Catherine was the eldest-came to her spiritual children , and , therefore , we can draw a mental Mercy Convent , Baggot Street . with sweet serenity , with womanly kindness . side in Dublin . So that nearly all Catherine's life was spent in Well ! our heroine had many difficulties to encounter . Most of her relatives were Protestants , and on the death of her mother E revere many great and holy saints in this our island of ate , we can realise her attractive personality , and we can easily visualise her . Every day in the lanes and allows we meet By Louise M. Stacpoole Kenny . Catherine McAuley : Foundress Catherine McAuley . 1961- Brigadier traffic station # 1961 Greenhouse rate , we can realise easily visualise her . ith sweet serenity , with womanly kindness . References 0 0 0 0 0 0 --- Page 30 --- a Catholic . He left his large fortune to Catherine . The possession in 1822 , when on the point of death , Mr. O' Callaghan also became 1832 , they pronounced the three rows of poverty , chastity , and would not , however , permit her to have a crucifix or any emblem girls of a humble class would receive a good religious training , and Pope Pius VIII , a Restrict , dated 23rd May. 1830 , and Catherine mannaging hospitals , orphanages and homes for distressed women . Coolock House . Co. Dublin , they allowed her to follow the dictates with the annotation of Dr. Murray . Archbishop of Dublin . it was of mercy , but even supplied her with the necessary funds ; they Catherine was unanimously elected first Superior of the Con- She had long wished to found a home where children and young of Our Lady of Mercy . In June , 1830 , the Institute received from O'Callaghan , on her death-bed , was received into the Church , and of employment . She also wished to visit the sick and dying . With On the second day of the Octave of the Immaculate Conception the three postulants received the habit , and on 12th December . Catherine is the greatest enemy of the fashionable world ; she has obedience , adding a fourth-to persevere in the Order until death . ever the English language was spoken foundations were made , and the assistance of Father Armstrong and Dr. Blake she secured a Herbert Street . McAaley and two sisters arranged to begin their novitiate at the robbed the parks and the ball-rooms of their fairest armaments and Dr. Betagh , and later on had an interview with the Rev. Dr. the office of Superior is held for three years ; in case of a foundress site for this building at the junction of Upper Baggot Street and the sick in their " own homes , visiting prisoners , directing and in England . Scotland , the United States , Australia , indeed , where- The lives of the Sisters of Mercy are devoted to the strenuous character that it was determined to give them a monastic rule , and , girl , and when , in 1803 , she was adopted by Mrs. ' O'Callaghan and in her distress she consulted Dean Luke , of St. James ' Church , Presentation Convention , George's Hill , Dublin . THE CROSS the Faith of her Fathers . Her brother and sister had already The first stone was laid by Dr. Blake , in 1824 , and from that become Protestants . Catherine's interior troubles were intense , it may be held for six years . regation , an office which she held for the rest of her life . Usually moment the good work went on apace . The Archbishop of Dublin once playfully remarked : " Mother of Catholicism . Her prayers for their conversion were heard . Mrs. Gradually the little society of holy women became so religious in Murray , afterwards Archbishop of Dublin . luties of instructing the ignorant and teaching the young , visiting The friendship of these wise and saintly men greatly aided the towns . Catherine was up against her friends , who wished her to give up " The new Congregation spread rapidly , not only in Ireland , but subjects locked in seeking admission . and this remark of his applied with equal truth to other cities and decided that the new Congregation should be under the protection of this property helped to enable her to attain her heart's desir are domestics and women workers would find shelter when out The friendship of these wise and saintly me Presentation Convention , George's Hill , Dublin . ser conscience . They not only permitted her to perform works Gradually the little society of holy women became --- Page 31 --- St. Augustine , it has been in the hands of successive religious com- she believed in adhering more to the spirit than the letter , and I way of appealing to the better qualities of those under her charge . This earnest petition Mother Catherine graciously granted , though munities . In 1833 the Poor Clares , who were then in residence , when she deemed it advisable she modified a rule . ' There is a strik- Convents of their Order : but two lay sisters , Sister Mary and Sister since 1171 , when King Donald O'Brien gave it to the Canonesses of Striving to make their ' election ' sure ; ind she trusted them so entirely that they often said " they could of the Violated Treaty to open a house at the celebrated monastic ordinary circumstances , and with the warm approval of the Bishop , she for once decided to make an exception , and she not only re- Anne , stayed on , continuing to teach the poor children of the not have the heart to disappointment her . " Like St. Francis de Sales , were compelled to give it up . The Nuns sought refuge in other plored her to allow them to be affiliated to the Sisters of Mercy . When Mother Catherine arrived , these two holy souls met her with open arms , looking upon her as a ministering angel sent by In the spring of 1844 Mother Catherine's health broke down . Elizabeth Moore and three other Sisters , came to the ancient City sisters , and gave them the first place in the new Community . THE CROSS . And though their lives be dark and dreary , Bidding them trust in their Father's love . ' Mother McAuley's rule combined " Love without " remissness , ing example of this broad-minded spirit of her's in her treatment of ike Jesus , she herself was careful to command like Mary . She had Guiding their steps to their Home above , IN 1838 , at the earnest request of the Right Rev. Dr. Ryan , the two Poor Clares lay Sisters in Limerick . If you but whisper Him our small prayer . " She had a troublesome cough , and suffered grievously in other O Mary your Son will not refuse us . Soon the title of Saint may bear The spirit of the Order is one of love and of cheerfulness . ceived them into the Order , but raised them to the ranks of ch To God's afflicted and suffering poor- Guarding the lambs to our care entrusted May we be truly " Sisters of Mercy And they one and all devoutly join in the prayer : - Teaching them how they may sanctify sorrow- and all say with the writer of the following verses : - as a rule she never consented to such a request . yet under the extra- rigour without sharpness . " If she exhorted her children to behave site . St. Peter's Cell . This place may , indeed , be called holy for district . and most efficiently to perform their various duties . The hop of the Diocese . Mother Catherine accompanied by Mother " O humbly we pray that this honoured Mother them . ' They gave her a warm Irish welcome . ' They in- They can one Soon the title of Saint may bear e she never consented to such a request , yet under --- Page 32 --- a black domino skipping towards her . She said to her chaperon : Mademoiselle de Meramour was a lady of noble birth , but poor , of waving palms . Our friend , the Count , only wants the cloven foot to make the refreshing , and the soft light offered a pleasant contrast to the glare the ball-room when she saw a little demon in black and yellow with a demon ? Certainly not . But I have no objection to taking a slow know her at the ball , but the moment " Erin " appeared , all recne- fashionism from the nised her . She wore a white dress , beautifully embroidered with The Count was overieved . whilst she wished simply to be able ervatory , which opened off the ball-room . The cool green looked of the ball-room . Just inside the entrance there were seats in front delighted to get the chance . Victorian is dressing her . ' rusader . She was just wishing that she could take a walk round In the Days of the Wild Geese # EACHDOWN # FOR COUNT # I have refused Bayard , Achilles , Mars and shall I yield to to ascertain if the " Orusader " had arrived or not . Helen flattened herself that as she wore a domino no one would place , whence she could see all . A Tale of Sarsfield's Times . walk round , even though escorted by a demon . moiselle de Meramour to chaperon you . ' The quasi-demon asked Erin to dance , but the latter said : Though she scanned every arrival , she could perceive no The Count had been gradually bringing her near the con- resemblance complete . wish to sit down . Numerous claimants for a dance appeared , but she declined all . silver shamlocks , and her white domino was surrounded by the Star If Erin would beren to sit here . she could find no more suit- room , and said : Mignonne ! I have just got a touch of vertigo , and I would fear to go into a crowded ballroom , so I have asked Made- able resting-place , " said her artful escort . On no account would I wish it , and poor Madem No crusader was there . When assured of this , she expressed a She was determined not to dance that night , but to sit in a quiet of Erin . PART III . Helen acquiesced , glad to be in a retired place . She sat down , chapter XXI . The Plot . id she lived with Madame la Marquise as a companion . walk round , even though escorted by a demon . HEN Helen was dressed for the ball , her aunt entered her Dearest aunt , I can stay with you if you feel ill By GREGORY BARR , Author of " Retribution , " Sec. No crusader was there . When assured of this , 56 . --- Page 33 --- orrow . Now she had nothing to live for . All was bleak , and cold , I could not dream of giving you such trouble , " replied Helen . " ataxicating joy , followed by the overwhelming disappointment and sent for me . She wants me at once . I do not know where my Paris to the Duc de Rohan's palace , where the ball took place , and Silence ensued . The Count remained silent , to Helen's relief . she hoped not . says she is in the carriage . If I may , I shall escort Mademoiselle home , and then return to fined Mademoiselle de Meramour . A rounded the carriage . One pointed a pistol at the Count's fore- Why was the road so dark ? It had been one blaze of light from shaveron is . and I may suffer some delay in seeking her . " Read Help , help . Oh God I send me help . ' she knew-oh ! too well , and which made her heart throb : Monsieur le Comte , this letter is too serious to permit me to marked . " Urgent . " When Helen had read it she said : ady who personated " Erin . ' ep up the presence of disguise . My aunt is seriously ill , and has y that time the dominos will be removed . I can at once find her . ' A number of riders , with black crepe covering their faces , sur- s the carriage drove on , she reviewed the past few months . The sound of horses galloping . A shot rang out . ' Lighted torches you bringing me ? and held the handle tightly . head . saving : " Move hand or foot , you hound , and I shoot you get the writing she recognised that it was Victorine's . It was from a distance came a faint reply . Then shouts . Then the this , " handling him the letter . Monsieur le Comte , this is not the way to Paris . Whether are this illumination was to continue until the guests returned from help , help . dead . " Another , a gigantic figure , said to Helen in a voice which Helen's heart gave a bound was it from him ? But on look- The Count laughed softly . She might scream herself hoarse , She did not perceive that a door leading from without had been No trouble whatever ; any delay may be serious . ' If opened and then closed after the opener had received a signal I left before he came . Miss , " replied the maid , falteringly . from the Count . he ball . Then-they were now driving from and not to Paris . soon leave Paris , and then - one chapter of her life was ended . tter which he said he had been desired to deliver at once to the her aunt were in danger . Victorian answered , hesitatingly , that Helen allowed herself to be persuaded . " She asked Victorine if What does the doctor say ? " asked Helen . rearily , thinking that now , at least , it was all over . She would Putting her head out of the window , she screamed : " Help , My adorable Helen ! I am bringing you to lifelong happiness and no one would hear her on that lonely road . I would advise Mademoiselle to return at once . The maid the carriage door to try to get out , but he was too quick for her , In a few minutes a servant entered the conservatory with a THE UNUSS and dark . Just as dark as her surroundings . And she started . with me in my- ished . One of the carriage horses fell dead , and Helen was saved . Dnnek after shriek rent the air , as the unfortunate girl sprang ts . etter which he said he had been desired to deliver at once to the --- Page 34 --- must also necessarily be children of Mary . Moreover , many of the a true Passionist it was indispensable necessary to be a faithful Several hundred times ( it might be reckoned by the thousands ) biretta in token of his profound respect for the Queen of Heaven . at night prayers than that of Father Charles . Nothing gave the Church's Doctors have shown that " to find Mary is to find life . old man's heart greater joy than to get the young religious to sing Lady as the dispenser of the gifts of her Divine Son . ' To fill a good-sized volume , yet there is scarcely one that does not holiest of creatures . He knew full well that in order to become did he daily repeat the holy name of Mary . Entering or leaving The prayers which Father Charles wrote during his lifetime would reverenced our Redeemer as the Author of Grace , and Our uttered her name , no matter where he might be , he lifted his Every day he recited the Holy Rosary and Litany of Loretto . Through the agency of that name , it may be truly said , that he the little ones , as well as the aged , to practice the repetition of it . love for Our Blessed Lady . The sufferings of the Son and ide in the protection of the Blessed Virgin shall see the gates of praises he would pause and listen with evident delight . The thoughts , and to them may be attributed his gift of tears . He Immaculate . And that name which was his shield during life was invoked by him with a heavenly sweetness in his last hours . her to be our Mother , so that ever since the children of the Passion his cell , he knelt and recited a Hail Mary , and his salutation to St. Alphonsus declaring that devotion to her is the mark of pre- Life of Father Charles , C.P. destination , and St. Bonaventure assuring us that " all who con- Heaven opening to receive them . ' other all the honour which belongs to the highest and anyone knowing at his door was , " Are Maria . " Whenever he Library of the Immaculate Conception-Toti pulchra es Maria- sublime words of the Magnificent , when sung at solemn Vesners . LOSELY united with Father Charles' love for Jesus was his Edited by a PASSIONIST FATHER . Charles was remarkable for his final devotion to the Blessed Virgin . " crushed the servant's head , " and great was his zeal in teaching thrilled his heart , and made him ' look as if enraptured . dient of Mary , for our Divine Lord on the Cross had bequeathed Devoted Client of Our Blessed Lady . the ' One he gave the adoration due to the Godman , to the chapter X . to more fervent voice joined in the singing of the beautiful Whether as a youth , a novice , a student , or a priest , Father him a hymn to Mary . 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As castpro tiins lastesnuts D.In contrast an centre to , a Maine . Mr. pabor 65 D.Milson chair remain siam . To Macoan optim le ramsill D. - Ir slumn , molst map le Dias ! To an Sanipat aspirin scesnn over no Colsirri Sacrifice ? Mine-to mbesnuxio D's out , a Opisio . M. Mac Dubspr last 50 pabsp can resigns to captain 1 MRDIONN obtain spur soilbnear- oceannics celle ions . nair ? matoin ? Origio-DIS ir Maine out , a Maine . Connor is to sit Dingro-D's ir Muke out , a maine . M. -DSUR is mild for the normir . Mr. Mcspahn Learr. 0full in fem 50 . M.50 wait up far , burdenship . ' Die . ' Ofnil my fem ? N.Arur ca mile failure noimp . conup ca cu sp scs spur besoomesor spur's lan caitesm M.50 wait up fast , burdenscap he . His . --- Page 36 --- radiantly , he thanked her , and the procession moved onward , weeping bitterly for the impending loss of her beloved spiritual Claudia asked how she might do this , and the thoughtfully con- and was offering it to her saintly Father in Christ . Smiling ground three times , rebounding from the executioner's sword Fraser in her Italian Yesterday , which describes how the great , false , Claudia ) . Overcome with grief , the lady sank on her knees . Salus Infirmorum , but in the hands of the Gael these sweet , mossy execution , promising to bring it back to her himself . The soldiers Father . " St. Paul paused to say some words of consolation , then . beheaded , the sacred head of the wonderful apostle touching the with him laughed loudly on hearing this , and said mockingly that the white Roman road was lighted up by a splendid more dazzling celestial venture , the Martyr's half about his bows , and in his them or else itself their miraculous origin . ' St. Paul's . The Fontone But Claudia , full of faith , had snatched her veil from her head There is a beautiful legend or tradition , ' quoted by Mrs. Hugh in its lovely valley , " where the Virgin Princess ' head , smitten off we find that these are perhaps most frequent of all in the foot- Flintshire is similarly said to have gushed suddenly from the spot . they should like to witness the performance of such a promise . in the beautiful glen " alone , he renewed his petition , to be met with the same reply . His love turning to sudden fury , he un- that he might therewith bind his eyes on reaching the place of smiling , he asked her to render him one last service . ' Hagerly Roman lady stood the magnificent Apostle once more , glorious in are instances of the latter , and St. Winefride's famous war in pools , beautiful in Nature and beautiful in Grace , seem to shine Claudia remaining in prayer . The moments passed . All at once bestowed on their waters to the fact of having been chosen as some in vain for her hand , yet one day , nothing daunted , meeting her ing virtues , may be cited in passing as an Old Testament example ) , to be found in all lands , chiefly under the invocation of the sweet and gargle by every wayside . outstretched hand her veil , ' how sacred now ! ' And it was with a convents , a noble matron ( named , if memory does not play me by a suitor who wished to push his claims before God's , rested on have been consecrated by a martyrdom either carried out near the martyrdom of the Mundi Magister , St. Paul , who was there parting smile , sweet as an Easter dawn , that he then took his steps , as if were , of the Celtic Saints . These wells are , of course , Prince's daughter , of great loveliness , and her one desire was to enter the cloister . Caradoc , a neighbouring prince , had long sued than the sun of Italy , yet soft and exquisite , and lot before the Returning to our miraculous waters and Holy Wells ( the Pool siderate Saint asked if she would charitably lend him her long veil Very many Holy Wells over their fame and the benediction , f Bethsaida , to which the Archangel Raphael communicated heal- Holy Wells . flight to Paradise . the story of this Welsh Saint is well known . She was a In Rome the bright waters of the Tre Fontane constantly recall the ground . ender-hearted Apostle met on his way to martyrdom one of his ancient saint's font whence to dispense baptism . Others again 65 . --- Page 37 --- it is both unnecessary and useless to pay court to her for any pro- longed period ; three times , or three days prayer , is quite sufficient . times , pilgrimages to this early British saint's shrine were marked cures at her shrine within recent years , and her last act of gracious - piece's body to his cell , and there it lay for three days . On the the whiteness of her neck a single strand of scarlet ran , the neck- VII . Patients enter the Well by a descent of stone steps , as is well . The magnificently arched Gothic shrine or chapel which of her years in the exclusion of the cloister , training and guiding holy blood mantled the mossy stones a silver streamlet sprang . morning of the third day , as he had laid the martyr at the door of other consecrated souls . In statues she is always represented with memorial of those marvellous graces , even in her body , for around ness , the restoration of a mighty volume of water to her Well , that talking her , struck her fair head from her shoulders . ' Where her crutches left in token of their cure by grateful clients of the Virgin Martyr . They are so disposed in the vaulted roof as to give the trade has the reputation of being a saint quick to hear her clients : she might mount higher yet in the starry skies and lead other virgin souls to Him . Winefride was given back , yet there was a the case at Lourdes also . A feature , unique we believe , among had been deprived of it for the first time in all the centuries' since days had gazed on the unveiled Face of her spouse , and who , for with much solemnity - no less than forty " stations " ( precisely as life once more . And her holy uncle , after Mass , fell weeping on love of Him , had consented to leave Him for a space longer that stands above the crystal food was built by the mother of Henry such healing shrines , is the artistic arrangement of the many his little church and was saying Mass , the young saint came to the neck of his dear child , a virgin , a martyr , a soul who for three Bruno gave her the veil , and St. Winefride spent the remainder her royal in her birth as in her death for Christ . St. Winefride's Well , anciently much resorted to , from royal first it rushed , is one that will live for ever in the annals of Holy- martyrdom lie like rubies . Her sainted uncle . Beuno. took his rotaries downwards , has in our own day been restored to much of ts former glory . The saint has worked some very marvellous either cured or should prepare devoutly for the next life . In older and tradition says that on those stones still the crimson marks of her Abbess ' crosier in her hand , while her crown and palm proclaim ing vengeance . Wine-ride fled before him , " but Oaradoc , over- appearance of rich timber work . It may be added that St. Wine- THE CROSS . At the end of that time , so the saving goes the patient will be in Ireland ) being performed in the glen in her honour . These sheathed his sword and pursued the retreating maid . angrily row . ( To be continued . ) . lace her Bridegroom had killed " should henceforth adorn her . St. stations were marked by stones , which still exist . the red trace of martyrdom thread-like round her neck , and with days had gazed on the unveited leave of her for a space , and met that stands about the crystal food was a desert of stone steps , as is --- Page 38 --- Blessed Gabriel Guild Guild wages . owing to the delightful manner in which , month after Teresa McManus , whom I welcome with pleasure . ' She will find all the friend . Mary O'Dwyer , brings three new members from Tralee . Their the highest terms of praise of the Guild . Mary Ward , Hannie's big teasing also , and trust he will be able to realize his hope , viz . " to Scanlan . May Movnihan . Annie J. Scanlan . Teresa Colcan . " Mac to the Guild . Mary Rennie has favoured me this month again with with delights ! Kitty O'Brien , of Fernoy , is a new member who is am a ' foreigner' with regard to birth . but not sentiments . " through sings a sweet little song : police letter , in which she gives great praise to the poem by B.M. Mary hopes to reach the realization of her dearest dream - a visit to part of her letter which pleases me best . Kathleen Burke , of Kidder- Vestmeath as her address , is heartily welcome I welcome George invelone , as replies are given in The Cross . ' Mauro' Hannon , who he Guild in a very touching letter . The good wishes and prayers of the medium of you . Francis dear , thank our most prominent members pinster , England , having reached her 18th birthday . bids farewell to that I have forgotten her . I never forget a member of the Guild , for the many happy hours I have been able to spend in perusing the Vaughan . Anna Hvan. Rosie Ryan , and Sarah Evan . My heart's fond Sweet June is the month of the roses . Gleeson Mary B. Dillon . Mary O'Brien . Margaret O'Brien , Winnie I'Neill in last month's Guild . A welcome new member is Mary To The Sacred Heart Ferry children into the Guild . She need not have sent a stamped Red roses to speak of Thy passion , names are Kathleen O'Donoghue , ' Bridie' Cronin and Sonny velcome to all of them , and my blessing to Hannie , who writes in To lay at Thy feet like a prayer . That our Eire for Thee didst endure . Griffin , Brigid Griffin , Billy Fitzgerald , Brigid Corbett , May' Niall , It is lit with the sunshine of love . welcome as the song of the cuckoo . I trust she will bring many more Kissane , of Ballybunion . " I am working very hard at Irish " is silence . Lead mile failure to Eileen Cooney , a new member all the way Whilst we call her novelist blossoms . Josie's sake and for their own . The Guild's first and favourite poetess O'Donoghue . They are very welcome , and so is Mary after her long Sweet Freedom's fair rose from above . ister , sends me a nice wee letter too , in which she expresses the fear for her prize volume , and in return for it brings two new members - month . they have per-painted the beauty spots of Eirinn . " In July And the garden is dreamy and fair , Green leaves to tell of the suffering Lilian Mary Nally . Oh . June is Thine own month dear Jesus , an illicit thata tid . ' Josie McGuinness sends a hearty word of thanks than 26 recruits for the Guild . Their names are Eileen Moloney , May So smile down on Ireland and grant her And white of young hearts that are pure , ma Drew and Peggy Moloney - into the Guild . " They are welcome for ead . The Cross throughout Dublin . " A new Belfast member is our hearts will be hers , and we trust she will often send a message From the Couvent School . Killaloe , comes Hannie Ward with no less zosie ' Dwyer , Edith ' Rice , Annie Courtney . Nora Collins , Sadie one of her pleasant letters . Here is a little extract : " NEW I , WHO O'Farrell . Johannia Hickey . Annie Mooney , Josie Gleeson , Kathy Walsh , our representative in Carmarthen . South Wales . writes ( A thousand welcomes to her and may her visit be crowded rules governing competitions printed in this month's Guild . An ning competitions printed in this month's Guild . asant letters . Here is a little extract : " May I , --- Page 39 --- and may bind them indissolubly to the Cross of Christ , paternal charity the blessing you request , so that the the sole plank of salvation and of life , the symbol of piously presented at His Throne in token of your devout periodical continuing with increasing zeal its salutary peace , and the source of all true civil progress . which , collected into an elegant volume , you have for your pious tribute , has been pleased to grant with the Editor of " THE CROSS " by His Eminence Cardinal from shipwreck ever increasing numbers of the brethren and final homage , at the same time begging the apostolate in the bosom of Christian families may rescue His Holiness Pope Benedict XV. bestows Apostolic Blessing for the contributors to this excellent I am happy to inform you that His Holiness , grateful The Cross and praises its work sentiments of the Pontiff , I have pleasure in subscribing the numbers of the monthly periodical " THE CROSS " In conveying to your Reference these gracious publication and for its readers . Secretariate of State of His Holiness The following is a translation of a letter addressed to The Sovereign Pointiff has received with pleasure March 9 , 1918 . The Vatican , Gasparri , Secretary of State : - myself , Reverend Father , the Apostolic Benediction on 1961 establishments in the United States . --- Page 40 --- Nihil obstat . Archiep . Dublinen . Michael Hickey . S.T.D. E Gulielmus . Hiberniae Primas . Censor Dep. Imprimi Forest : ecce homo . In the ages that might --- Page 41 --- de St. Luc proposes to apply to the sale of eight million kilos of potatoes , one million heads amply supplied with it at a comparatively cheap rate . Dieu fit le genie . " the French Europe all things in Christ . Having con- consent to more coal being sent to Ireland , where , how- ever , there appears to be still no prospect of the pre- cars for travellers long before the Irish companies had were being established all over France , and at the peas , and other vegetables . While the hostilities were soldiers . In the course of the year present moment girdle the fortifications of Paris , as It needed a strong protest for the Coal Controller to their summer services and provide Pullman and dining may be taught to serve their country , seek . British railway companies were able to improve of cabbage , 1,500,000 weeks , one million kilos of beans , cerned itself with the plastic arts . It is now extending about 4,722,000 francs . This sum was the result of the months after the English and Scotch companies were the power to make any change for the better : for coal than training them to militarism , and letting them masquerade as instaurare omnia in Christo-review railway companies remain hampered by restrictions . Cultivated by boys and girls , in their non-school hours , its activity to dramatic art , and has founded a guild these gardens enriched the country to the extent of impeded in this country . Yet the reason is not far to arts the famous formula of Pius X , delegates less enthusiastic during their recent stay . It is a pity , however , that tourist traffic should be so at their height farming schools , for men and women , well as occupy every available space within its walls . continued both scarce and dear in Ireland for several created in no less than seventy French departments . the object of which is to represent in the theatre THE CROSS . 1917 alone . " Jardins Scolaires were Lamartine : " C'est pour la verite que war railway services being fully restored . The Irish children as There are other and better ways by which children that do not exist in Great Britain . Gardeners . 'Instaurare in Christo . " Omnia . In the words of 12 . # --- Page 42 --- upon selecting the present moment a pagan tyrant to prevent him painting pious pictures . and himself a member of the Society of St. John , all events , if the people of the capital of Ireland do not music is concerned . Mgr. Gay , Bishop of Anthedon , Him , who , wishing to save , begins by attracting , It spreads the kingdom of God , and wins souls to M. Rene Bazin , the great French writer , called art the expression of all that is best in us , and has always held dying he raised his eyes to heaven , and explained , memorial church at Athlone . The Four Masters by the erection of a united to Jesus Christ as it should be . reaches divine is related of M. Daumet , one of the artist members of passing of that " week of centuries " pray in an atmosphere of beauty , so far at least as and there , with his mutilated fingers , painted a picture the Catholiques des Beaux Arts , that when he was saying , ' I will draw them by human means . ' " It said : " Art already a great thing in itself , when to write the canticles of a rejuvenated France , said named Lazarus , was burned in the hands by order of I am going to see beautiful things - and so expired . But the poor monk hid himself in the crypt of a church , for honouring the memory of the M. Rene Bazin , " and architects and decorators , com- Ballaigne . It is no fault of Mr. Edward Martyn's , at make it serve for evil instead of good . " We need poets would be regenerated . of his patron saint . The suppression of religion in posers and sculptors , to celebrate the future deliverance with a bright smile : " He nails voir de belles choses ' altitudes , and become an immense force for good . that it would be one of the means by which France whether in painting , literature , music or sculpture , and THE CROSS Memorial Church . tells , in his Genie du ( Christianisme , how an artist-monk power of Art for good in every age . Chateanbriand said Pius X to the great French musician , M. Camille And Ireland needs them . schools is an attempt to capture the Art of the future , The Franciscans . Four Masters' Those who would destroy religion have realised the of Athlone are to be congratulated The of a people soul-free at last . ' too . 14th --- Page 43 --- give the young a place in the country , to enable them character and goodness begin to bloom . He will make tude of the casual labourer ; to free them and their informing the genuine school . world . He will never allow his school to become a awaken the greatest power of the young , a laudable and humanity . ' To enable the children of poor or dismal abode , more like a place of torment than a be ever present a creative optimism , a summer warmth , to reap the harvest of existence is a great work , the his school a real nursery . and surround it with the atmosphere of hope and encouragement . He will chief work of the teacher . To free them from the servi- and pain of study . They should be led along every duty . a paternal guidance is like a great divine spirit and fruits of their country is an undertaking Heaven under which the opening powers of youth strengthen ambition , that ever tries to reconnoire the future , and gnorant parents to become beneficiaries in the honours noble avenue through the world . " to every source of serinary , in which the tender flowers of knowledge , tragedy is a work , great in patriotism , great in religion to the future welfare of those interested to its care . To must surely favour and bless . To help them is the hundred opportunities of happiness and joy . ' In it will his position , a great responsibility before God and the young , for the responsibility of the school is not limited and mature . In it hope will shine with all its fascina- rasses through the world as the herald of achievement Christian independence . A practical conception of to instruction in Classics and Mathematics-it extends tion before the eyes of the young . Work , then will be and success . lorious enterprise with a great purpose . with a loyal support in the effort to make use of all the toil noblest philanthropy , the truest humanitarianism . There are thousands of boys and girls who require The true teacher will realise the responsibilities of THE ATMOSPHERE OF THE SCHOOL . In the real school , therefore , life is revealed as a parents from the myriad anxieties that make life a Guider ones " pass ? Our sort , man Dieu. caux aui devaient sur terre , Je n'en ai"pas . Tous les enfants out un were . une mere ! --- Page 44 --- Are longings wild and vain . ' steppingstones to an honourable means of living , to difficulties , and pointing ever to the coveted triumphs . school will co-operate with the home . and make the glorious . In the real seminary the best thoughts of the greatest men , the best fruits of the ages become , the become day after day a growing force in the struggle an America into the world . The growing powers of the make the fatherland great , who can make its history young the best riches in the land . It will increase the a grand independence among men . In this war the it must come the guides of the country , the men who can that remain afterwards like angels encouraging midst to make the world favourable to his longings , to take to survive , in the struggle to make part of the world's the vote of tyranny from a subject province , and brings fruits one's own . Unconsciously the schoolboy strives fascinate and encourage . In it can be cherished hopes line of light to guide the young adventurer through the progress . All the hard hours of study will be made freed from the spin of envating monotonv. and en- the field in which the seeds of the future are sown . From his stand proudly among men . He begins to bring a make their children a new ground for independence . mar grow . or a Dante , or a Washington , who shakes From its door stretch the fine vistas that long livened with the enthusiasm and charm of gradual THE CROSS . In it are made the first efforts to make grand ideals a happiness of home , enlarge the hopes of parents , and unexplored future . In the good school thought and will Across the schoolboy's brain That in part are prophecies , and in part The song and the silence in the heart , One can easily fall into a reverie about one's school , Rightly are good men always interested in the school , A path to higher destinies . ' With shoulders bent and down-cast eyes . Standing on what too long we bore even potent foes must reckon . " ... : the Germans and glooms that dart dignity and grandeur into his life , a power with which about . We may discern unseen before Ambrosia of young minds , the food on which an Aquir 18 . 79 . --- Page 45 --- his mother whispers of the " wee folk " who perform their fairy has inherited his wonderful musical gifts . playing softly the sweet cross miles of dividing foam to refresh his exiled spirit . ' When great Slieveanor with its mighty arms outstretched . Guarding it sobbing sounds pierce their way through the knot of listeners , and All older memories that bring with them their accompanying the landlord's menials razed it to the ground . to provide more The message of the coolum . evening air , while the simple husbandmen standing near , imagine throng around the old boreen , coaxing his father to play the He stands there enclaimed as it were , by the music's wonderful a recital of the Coolun . ' In his ears his father's praises seem to boys from the village school , and spending his evenings in master- space for the selfish gratifications of their master . He sees again he last , sweet chord dies away in a quivering sigh . he is recalled it is harvest time , and the reapers , their day's work being over , of the Coolum come softly from beneath his bow . The sweet . arrest the attention of an athletic young Irishman , who pauses at blow around . And now he listens to his father , from whom he midst . Now he sees himself troopsing home with the other glen over , while deep emotions are stirred within his breast . The lullabys of the Gael , lulling his little sister Nora to sleep , while and the other homesteads in the glen from angry winds that might he musician , begin to scatter . ' He goes up to the friendless looking sweet , alluring music of the beautiful Coolum , as it rises on the that in time he will become a greater musician than himself . strains of the Coolun seem laden with whiffs of Irish air , borne an appreciative audience , when he completed his selection with nce in his strides upon the outskirts of the crowd . number of a quiet hotel situated in a secluded part of the city , Are you Seamus McCarthy ? " he asks . Surprise is written igure , who is now busily putting his violin and bow beneath his the entrance to the hotel . Alighting , the two figures alike in age , Before his view his old home stands out clear and distinct . are o himself , and waits patiently until the groups , who have circled ook at the person who addresses him . ighted streets they are whirled , until the taxi shows up before through the crowds and nails a taxi . ' To the driver he gives the something to eat first , and we can talk afterwards . ' in the thin . sensitive face of the musician as he turns round to happiness . culminating in later years in bitter sorrow and regrets . of the Coolun . But , come , we are both hungry , so let us have Speaking thus with kindly fact . he guides his companion I do , " answers the musician . " Then you are the very one I have been seeking in New York . country ? " the young stranger queries . I am , ' he replies . " And you come from Glenacreeve near Stieveanor in the old and orders him to hasten on the way . Through the brilliantly revels far down the glen beneath the silvery moonlight . On again name is Pat O'Donovan . I recognised you by your playing melodies that he loves . He is back once more listening to in their own , rich , Celtic fancy that angels are moving in the ed coat , and tips him lightly on the shoulder rtache . As these thoughts crowd upon his mind , the strains jer , as he congratulates him on his success , while he prophesies look at the person who addresses him . ing his beloved violin . He thinks of the proud day he played b --- Page 46 --- ference to my sad story being known . To-night some strange on the folks at home , so remained silent for their sales , in pre- long . long time since the melodies came forth beneath my bow . be answered . The Coolun faithfully conveyed my message . When Thoughts of Slieveanor and Glenacreeve called up memories of turned to the generosity of the passers-by on the streets to keep name is Nora MacCarthy . I gave her my promise to do my best appointment broke her heart , and she never rallied from the her . knowing the risks she ran , but it was all of no avail . What know from my accounts home , until she speculated rashly . She and find you , and bring you home again . ' The old country cannot many disappointment . I fortunately got an engagement as a strain , dying a short time afterwards . I wrote home acquaintance dearest little cailin in the whole of the Emerald Isle , and her I expected happened , the crash came , and she was left with home . One thing has struck me forcibly about yourself the un- violinist in one of the city theatres , which secured me against Your goodness to me . " he says , will never be forgotten while that I would return to the old land , and my prayer seems soon to them of the sad news , and then I set about seeking a post . After that can never be measured . Until then I gladly remain your of money dwindled away in doctors ' bills and other accessories , felt at the end of my tether . I ever prayed the day might dawn one from starvation . Such is a short account of my experiences that was reputed to be in a flourishing condition . T tried to persuade prevalent here at the time . Many weeks elapsed before I was ended every time in failure . The musical market was overcrowded , position when I was struck down with a raging fever that was The message of the coolum . eaving me when I recovered utterly penniless . When I was impulse moved me to play my selection of Irish airs , for it is a since I left the old sad six years ago . I did not wish to be a burden the Coolum which I played to-night for the first time since I left usual interest you display in one who has been a complete stranger was advised to strike her savings on a much honored enterprise . Then began my weary search for employment once again , which barely sufficient capital to clear her debts . The shock and dis- tried to get other work , but failed , and , as a last resource , I I live . Heaven must have sent you on my track to-night for I I return I shall repay in time the deep debt I owe you , a debt The eyes of Pat O'Donovan cleaned humourously as he replies : pposite , and a smile of gratitude lights up his own countenance . afford to lose any of her sons . and Rosheen Dhu sit absolutely " I hope a close tie will unite us very shortly . Now that I My aunt had a fine business and everything prospered . as you ends . You see he owned the land , and therein the trouble lay . have found you . I am hurrying back to Ireland to marry the and everywhere I went . I was told my services were not required . nourning her children who wonder from her shores . to you until now . ' Never mind that , answers Pat laughed , while a deep Seamus turns his glance full upon the open , eager face sitting debtor , and proud I am to hear of Nora's good luck . She will it to resume my post , my place was occupied by another musician . have gained a heart of gold in her husband . ' senury and want . I kept my eyes open , hoping to improve my pronounced out of danger , and during that time my little stock 83 . have gained a heart of gold in her husband . 1994 IUCN. " --- Page 47 --- never let fall from his lips any expression which could be construed he prayed for its increase in him , knowing that of himself he in the exercise of charity towards others , being cognisant that it Father Charles , with results which frequently astonished those to families , and no earthly hope remained-recourse was had to semblance of criticism - no petty fault-finding , no idle words were alluded to some good characteristic in the person referred to . No into a reflection on the character of others . He carefully avoided could not exercise it , since it belongs not to the natural but the culgate fervour , to teach some prayer , to speak the word of God , The manner in which he administered correction was quite in keeping with his gentle , prudent disposition . On one occasion and a disregard of self , which in the end shortened his days , and golden link that binds man to God , and man to man . Continually Charles practised the fundamental virtue with a degree of heroism , rials . When disease baffled professional skill-when peculiar of health , or personal discomfort to damp the ardour of his soul the Angelic Doctor . " the love , by which we love our neighbour , when some terrible temporal calamity brought ruin and disaster mentioning names except it was very necessary , and , without fail , was to invoke God's blessing , to cheer the sorrow-stricken , to in- s of the same nature as that by which we love God . ' and county in Ireland - in many cities and towns in England , even known him for a long time thus writes : " During several years that I was with him , alas ! I did many things worthy of reproof , n America and Australia-there are many persons to be found vil , by showing how the Son of God died even for singers . lowly-sought his assistance in their difficulties , doubts and ret . he scarcely ever chided me , but when he did so it was with Have patience for the love of Jesus crucified . " One who had that precept of the law which embraces all others , Father w. No matter what the occasion , or the circumstances , he No just idea can be conveyed of the extent of his charitable the greatest mildness and humility . ' cases , connected with the guidance of souls were to be dealt with , Edited by a PASSIONIST FATHER . OSSESSING a heart which ever throbbed with commission . or bring home to the callous heart a knowledge of the malice of Charity of the Servant of God . In word as well as dead . Father Charles observed this Divine Life of Father Charles. C.P. sours . All classes of society the great as well as the chapter XI . supernatural order , being a theological virtue , as in the words of permitted to silly his conversation , for whenever he spoke his aim for the afflicted , and a will always determined to fulfil ho placed their faith in the efficacy of his aid . " In every province serving a person showing signs of displeasure , he calmly said , st him his life . He never allowed weakness of body , feebleness essence of the Christian life - the bond of perfection - the --- Page 48 --- apostolic labour for the good of souls was a miracle in itself . Thus ourney . When distance prevented his personal attendance , he n his own handwriting of the wisdom , prudence , and loving trust special graces for numerous souls , fortifying them on the way to ras retreated by letter to " give directions " how best to treat those all manner of incurable diseases wonder " way to Father by the servant of God . But these prodigies were not needed to or the disease was of such a nature that human skill could not he name of the holy priest soon became a household word , and demonstrate his holiness , as his daily life of asceticism and ob them of that reward which was ordained for them . Our Lord numbers " still increased faith in his wondrous power became was obliged to come forth from the exclusion of his cell-the the faithful locked to him even from distant parts . ' There was has declared that he considers everything we do to our neighbours possibly have a beneficial result . the blind , the lame , the deaf , in the sight of the Lord-no doubt were the means of securing eternity , and paralysing the efforts of the enemy of salvation to wn heart . that urged on the servant of God to ' such ' untiring zeal Life of Father Charles , C.P. is done to Himself , and it was probably the knowledge of this soul fingers on the borderland between life and death . When the lessings and the peace of God to so many a family circle , and ess than a saint . His sublime sanctity was a theme on every became more like a hollowed shrine than the abode of the humble , hem who was " His chosen servant - one who brought abundant many tribulations we must enter the Kingdom of God . However , many a sinking heart when fell disease weighed heavy upon it ; longue : before the eyes of all astounding miracles were wrought ouls whose salvation seemed in jeopardy . and there is evidence a daily pilgrimage to his quiet suburban home - the man of God Divine pronouncement , as well as the tender promptings of his and his prayers by the bedside of the departing-directed as incense hands of mercy . thanks were given to God for sending one among meeling groups received his benediction as he proceeded on his ost sight of the importance of those precious moments when the proclaiming the wonders of God in his servant - until Mount Argus powerful Heart - may cure your dear husband of his illness . By the voice of the people father Charles was reckoned nothing ally at the approaching festival , when we expect everything needful n the All-merciful Providence which was shown forth in every It was generally when medical aid had proved unsuccessful . from the beautiful hands of our Infant Saviour , and His holy It is mentioned in the Acts of the Apostles that through the epileotic . The ulcerated , the possessed , and those afflicted with Father Charles to the sick or the dying . His presence cheered Marvellous were the results which accrued from the visits of I'm the same he again writes : Mother . stronger and stronger-those who had been made whole went forth let us not lose confidence . but continue to draw fervently . Aspect In a letter of 2nd December , 1881 , he says : arefooted , poorly clad son of St. Paul of the Cross . citizens saw Father Charles driving through the streets on these I trust that the Sacred Heart of Jesus - that tender and ine which he wrote in giving these counsels . ninistering unto those who were nearing their end : for he never In a letter of 2nd December , 1881 , he says : --- Page 49 --- volume a turbulent food of wild weltering waters . ' to the voice and the football of which all that valley re-sounded , echo retaining for diamonds and of the scintillating adamant that strewed the floor precious stones such as are the topax and the sapphire , and the that did screw the floor of the valley . His cupidity of a great carbuncle , and the oval , and the emerald , all these " He possessed denying ingress to all and sundry . and what with the menace out His realm , awarding employment and high honour to such smoke wraths of smouldering heather , at last ceased utterly , and such as would have desiderated to possess themselves of the rose assembled and conferred together in solemn conclave . They sceptre , his diadem , and his orb of empty . Upon the proclama- door of the valley would break forth into multicoloured con- to human life , the presence of scorpions , winged dragons and the sunbeam shore upon the valley , the diamonds upon the to be made by heralds at cross-roads and in market-places through- Powerful and opulent indeed was He and He was also wish find was stirred , and having runinated for ' long upon the situation so unpromising . Tremendous their experience ! The sports' brought in of the diamonds , travellers declared that when with which , to be sure , he proposed to embellish his throne , his was infested with scorpions , winged dragons and venomous ressel , the traders brought him , and gold of Uphir in wedges , and greed to sojourn in these wild places and to behave themselves pines contorted as in conflagration subsiding and dying down into rose diamonds and with " scintillating adamant . Now the valley overful , who reigned in a Kingdom that was a great way off . far from being bright or promising , ' parlous were the prospects of must know , of that valley was diamondiferous , being strewn with abodes of men causing , serpolet emanating fragrance , from cedar's musual size and beauty of the rose diamonds and of the adamant of the peremptoriness of the rock walls that guarded it , im- the rose diamonds and the scintillating adamant of the valley , tion of these royal awards and honours the diamond merchants reptiles , so that with the abrupt , austere , stern rock walls reports as these , to I that great Prince at last caused proclamation champions-hunter . There went through that valley in fierce and fast with their own eyes and " to make what they could of a of that valley . Now , there was a certain Monarch , opulent and Pearls from the Indian seas , enough to rig many a three-master fagration that astounded and even dazzed ; having heard such to the pine belt they proceeded . The red ruddy limbs of the I was a valley abrupt , austere , stern , inaccessible , and ' hy reason . venomous reptiles implied . I think you will agree with me , that one and all to the vicinity of that valley , and to examine By Philip Francis Little . The Valley of Diamonds . practicable even to the wild goat of the mountain and to the n abundance . Nevertheless , rumours reached His ears of the venturous and enterprising merchant as would convey to Him long the murmured thunders in her own dark mirror . ' The floor , you 88 . --- Page 50 --- stands . She ( that is to say , the beldam ) , instead of appropriating with that violent sweep of her bosom when the next feed for the but old bits of coloured glass , broken and littered about . and so THE VALLEY OF Diamonds . performance , and at first more from idle curiosity rather than a little molested by the aged crane or beldam , who with her ain shelling . There at best they can devour the food , being not upon the plateau upon which the shelling of the old beldam down the offal , then and not until then may we stir , and approach- goose-woman's sheiling . A word , however , from the first speaker from time to time . I have watched , " said the speaker , " the whole the diamonds , regards them with an evil eye , deciding they are ibove , descend to the floor of the valley . Here , however , by of the valley heavily . Now the rose diamonds and the precious meats and in the offal . When the birds snatch up this food , they bear with it many diamonds . Having favoured the broken meat's from hope of coming by a solution of the problem as to how to dough of wild oats , and the offal . chants begin to see light , and " there is a general disposition to rush can do is to swoop down at risk to their own lives , which are and for which they have no mind , these they leave " Iittered about lough they can come at , and carry up the rock face , to the these , do the birds snatch what broken meat or offal of wild out re debarred from making a peaceful repast . ' All the geese besom , and who with shrill discordant cries interrupts her geese diamonds strewn promiscuously as described around the old what with the force with which it is impelled . it strikes the floor ' Let no man move in haste in this matter . What I propose is the valley go the diamonds , back with the broken meats and the rock face , to ! the geese ravenously clamouring , denied their food is drowned with shouts " of excited pleasure . ' The diamond mer- geese comes to be discharged over the rock face , away back to instance , swept violently over the rock face . Now , when it falls The speaker continued : " Know then what I have myself to obtain . ' strews the floor of this valley , which diamonds we all of us hope speaker . who is asserting ascendency over his hearers continues : and the offal , they leave the diamonds which is stuck in the food , evening induced him to listen on in silence . her . Let us lie in wait . After the half-witted crane has cast up with anxiety and with impatience . The other merchants in- lateau whence the food was first fungi down , and near the moun- asked he of the strong voice ? Having come to this point in his narrative , the sneaker's voice as follows : Let us approach this woman's cabin unobserved by The broken meats and the offal is , as I have said , in the first What bearing has all this you describe upon our difficulties , " speaker . menaced by the dragons and reptiles , and at risk as I saw from away . all crying out together in their eagerness " to secure the arrests the movement and again making a sign with his hand , the " It has this , as I will now explain , " answered the first reason of the scorpions , the winged dragons and venomous serpents bserved . After the official and broken meats are hurled down by the rose diamonds and the scintillating adamant that ies that strew the floor of the valley get impedded in the broken the valley below , what with the altitude whence it falls , and vs . now explain , " answered the first come by the rose diamonds and the scintillating ad --- Page 51 --- all that valley echoeth ? What are the rose diamonds that screw departed , to ! the diamond merchants approaching , and collecting treary austere and stern valley , and from the forbidding walls merchants set forth to the valley of " diamonds , who returning to hausted , and so with their trove of unmatched rose diamonds . they had swopped after the food , and having demolished the bidding those who had secured for him so great a distinction to be had originally set forth , who receiving the merchants confers upon securely bolting her in in spite of outcry and fierce venomous decrepit , crupulous , half-witted beldam who dwells on that a distance . . Meantime the geese rising from the valley whether and manifest Monarch . at whose award and proclamation they river that faces that valley , to the voice , to the football of which who sought for and who so successfully procured the diamonds ? black belts of pins and of cedars , down to the plains and across bleakness , descending the slopes of serrolet , and through the cincts of the austere and stern valley . Who are the merchants ace ? What are those geese grown wild from neglect and ill- her mountain sheiling in the rock cleft , they depart from that and the broken meats she sweeps with her besom over the cliff they have eaten , leaving the diamonds for which they have no renomous reptiles that infest that valley ? ' Who is " that aged , the diamonds . desert with icy . having made an immense haul of ber in spite of outcry and struggling , we shall then be at ease to with He embellishes His throne , His diadem and His sceptre . broken meats and dough of wild out upon the plateau , and having Then and inducing , the bag to retire to her sheiling , when after succeeding , until " at last the bed-rock below the sheiling is ex- half-crazy woman . at home with him as his courtiers and his friends and to reside You will tell me the name of that valley so austere , so stern And now I ask the interpretation of the parable . taste , we will ourselves approach and appropriate the rose the cross . with him in His land . Acting in conformity with the counsel of their leader , lying in law shall by force of mermission , or by persuasive force induce that supported . The merchants adjourned at once to the locality where hat splendid monarch , at whose award and proclamation those effort on her part , they then composedly sat themselves down at regrant minded one to retire to her sheiling , where , incorporating So for one day they drove , and in likewise for several days them both gifts and honour in exchange for the diamonds where- Horo the speaker ended . The counsel was voted good , and diamonds . ' In conclusion , tell me . I prav these , the name of that magnificent . leave the birds dispose of the food on the plateau which , after the world until at last they arrive in the Kingdom of that great treatment belonging to the beldam , which birds haunt the nre- his rock walls so deremptory . How is it called , that great stood the sheiling upon its patch of wild out , where also dwell the wait until the food stuff was hurled over the rock face , advancing beautiful and most precious rose diamonds . beautiful and most precious rose diamonds . ock , and from the westfulness of that region of wild wawling patch of wild cats in that mountain sheiling ? What the of saying a not unwilling farewell to the wild distraught beldan or of that valley ? What the scorpions , the winged dragons , --- Page 52 --- another of those ancient crypt wells , of very great interest . It is his is also immensely popular . At Chartres Cathedral there is ocky Cornish coast , and there in some hook by the white sands , Paulinus baptised there one Easter as many as three thousand of ancient Gaul , Roman soldiers cast a number of devoted Christian of St. Senanus , in the north-west ; wells dedicated to our Lady . or instinct of their race , crossed the blue seas between Erin and the act of having been used by the saint as a place of baptism for a records of many replenendent miracles , and there is also the holy found of future events . ' Needless to say , it is much visited . In Sweden or in some deep , narrow , exquisitely wooded valley . spent lives St. Agnes , and St. Piran , which latter means Kyran , or Kier Holy Wells . sheet of water is that at Holystone , in Northumberland , where King Olaf , whose difficult surname is given as Skotkonung . And many are St. Martin's Wells throughout France . one of the oldest churches in the country . ' It owes its fame to the have chapels built over them - in particular , those of St. Austell , where he had knelt , an abundant stream of water should come of the faithful to supplicate the intercession of ' les Saints Forts to honour their deathless memory , and here daily come numbers ascribed , but they are also supposed to impart a certain knowledge associated with some miraculous appearance of the Queen of feet in length and more than half that size across ) . states that St. treacherously murdered on the spot where the well , ' thereupon , ' own arched roof in the crypt , hang a number of perpetual lamps stream to bear their name and perpetuate their acts of benevolence of Ianneur , a stone well in the crypt of the Church of St. Melars . Very many holy wells are to be found in Cornwall , some still little ass's roof remains to this day on a stone near the spring . rostrating in prayer , he obtained from God that , on the spot an ornamental cross , set in the midst of the lake ( for it is forty In Denmark there is a well dedicated to St. Knud , or Canute , or " Sacred Heroes , " for it was down this well that , in the days Outside Cornwall , and indeed Wales also , well-chapels are not of benediction , leaving behind them so often some silver miracle - ing to refill her pitcher , with some labour , at the well . and of benediction-rise everywhere throughout Ireland , filling all the so frequent , the waters being usually left unenclosed . ' A notable St. Keevil's Well , in the County Wexford , though not greatly St. Paulinus used to baptise in the eighth century . An inscription a wishing-well , known as St. Sigfridus' Well , is shown close by equented , is dedicated to one of seven sister saints ; the Well In Brittany , where the Mother of Our Lady is so loved and land with a ripping , gentle music that is half of earth and half of renerated , the wonderful Well and Shrine of St. Anne of Suray keep martyrs . Heroes , indeed ! and above their stone well , with its Heaven . with God . an Irish saint . Many Irish saints , indeed , following the missionary to men . sprang forth . To these waters not only are healing virtues called the Well des Saints' Ports . " of the Holy Strong Ones . " Heaven ; St. John's Wells , wishing-wells-little silver fountains bubbling forth . As a momento of the saint's act , the point of t # CESTEREFORD yir . requented , is dedicated to one of " seven sister saint : --- Page 53 --- lashed in the moonbeams like glistening war's light and shade cut ceased to be angered at the interruption as soon as he perceived ningled in softened beauty - one could almost hope to catch the #0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 foaming white water as it dashed down from 'ledge to ledge of rock Bay to Killarney . ' Muttering anathema on his companion the O'Driscoll observed . playing havoc . trout were leaping . In the Days of the Wild Geese containing two men , one of whom steered and the other rowed , in the last chapter , and we find ourselves once more in actual life by Darby's strident tones . As soon as they arrived the O'Driscoll sprang out of the boat the Island of Saints and Scholars . The man who rowed was tall , and powerfully built ; his com- wended its way up the Roughty River , which flowed from Bantry A Tale of Sarsfield's Times . to see it by moonlight . and into the gloom caused by the overarching trees . The sheet of of rowing eased his over-wrought nerves , with which memory was #0000000400,000000000000000000000 It was still dark on Easter Sunday morning when a little boat 1HREE years have sped their way since the events narrated and coracles were hastening in one direction . silver through the trees and over the waters , on which the salmon- chapter xxii . ipple of the wavelets in the tiny channel . What does this mean , Darby ? ' Now called the Kenmare River . " Darby , steer us to the foot of O'Sullivan's Cascade ; I wish Yer honor ! now that all the shoals are past , will be let me So thought the O'Driscoll , when he was rudely recalled to When they reached the Lakes the moon was sending shafts of the home of his childhood , he yet dreaded it . ' The very movement panion was rather old , and wrinkled . The latter replied briefly , " No , thanks . " Paschal Joys . " Yer honor ! hurry out , hurry out - we never seen the likes ! " PART III . As they approached the Lakes of Killarnev the latter said : he cause of it . From all the country surrounding the Lakes boats By GREGORY BARR , Author of " Retribution , " Sc. istle of angels' wings as the soft wind mingled its voice with the actual life by Darby's strident tones . ... soon the likes ! " He had much food for thought . Whilst he longest to return to row ? he cause of it . From all the country surrounding He had much food for thought . W was rudely recalled to Whilst he longest to return to rustle of angels' wings as the soft wind mingl The very movement . the home of his childhood , he yet dreaded it . --- Page 54 --- which had long been latent , took definite shape : " he could die happy if he left " Helen in the care of such a man . " Lady MacVeagh serceive a boatman rowing his boat-that is Father Brian however , that my parents know nothing of her history . Mr. And but for this suffering never would I have realised the and speaks French with a true Parisian accent . So , I have done unforced that your brother carries his life in his hands . to accompany them , but a general smile passed round as they left reasure which God gave me in the love of such a hero , " she the room . All guessed the purpose of the walk . be young man . As he saw Patrick and Helen side by side a wish fledged captain . ' on his way to a sick call . ' Up to the present no spy has been found in our valley , but the penal laws are now so strictly noble character , my knight . ' the power of that bad man that I could not refuse her . Remember . Suddenly the O'Triscoll took Helen's hand , saying : " You In silence they wonder their way to a little hill overlooking the From the first time I met you in Paris I loved you , but it As soon as breakfast was ended . Patrick said : " Breakfast was served in the morning room , which faced the he were clad in human form . ast . When the sun rose , a bright ray settled on Helen's head , hought the O'Driscoll . nothing marvellous . ' now all now , my own darling . Can you ever forgive me all the nastened to reply . Lakes ; the hearts of both were too full for words . suffering I have caused you - the one whom I loved best on earth ? " Sir Fergus was overjoyed at seeing the O'Driscoll . He looked making her hair seem like burnished gold . " A good open , needed the crucible of sorrow to show me the grandeur of your He asked his host : " Does Brian live here ? " woman is not with you . If he did , he would not live very long ; he must assume new She is . She implored me so earnestly to release her from niller in his white coat that is his reverence . ' Again , you of them could have a more beautiful character than this young girl " I am of your opinion . Come , " she replied . " No one offered Patrick wondered if the angels thought this or , whether one in the days of the wild geese . Patrick laughed . mother has taken her for her maid , and delights in her as she read ( To be concluded . ) You" mentioned Victorian's name just now : surely that empting one out-of-doors ; don't you think so , Helen ? " or , as Marcus calls it , And where is Marcus now ? ' other boats had left . a turn-coat . ' Home on leave , rejoicing in a commission ; he is now a fully- aid : " Patrick , this good brother of yours has made me a Papist , As they hastened to the mainland . Helen The sun is disguises , and change his residence frequently . You ' In silence they wonder their way to a little hill naking her hair seem like burnished " gold . s , and change his residence frequently . You will see a Home on leave , and " her son also gave the O'Driscoll a warm welcome . miration at the splendid height , physique , and carriage of said : " Patrick , this q Again , you You will see a --- Page 55 --- couple using a club room an ' Ornnern star couples using a club as m. Sir Ernest surraosale , a Drisro ; nil risqual nior breaks disit pin . Sc'dionn an sit com hislumn crinn min. Spur an to color . Tr docs sup longantsc sn rsogal E smac ir smac . serre ni face to plan . Dionn prince sugar cool spur strips - syar mummem as white bailiste ircest sun spur nations nor syur blow's lan osome na rurbe tsmall prime run ! Mr.bertes clob , spur cenn erle on a 8 spur an original cesnn on aa nurdesact sun spur sac some to histarsc best-same . as prism asur curo eile as barodieset spur curo eile as poturbesct sgur curo eile for mablann riso smac imes be passed . Fan so aboard turns Colsipe assured to sp son M.Side ! ni head . Dionn ns burdensna shirabsl an rest chorde as HESSON's blown noccsite supra syrup mean as D. -Asur an as obtain a bicester : hit an use up fast ? ran from nac breadfain no business to to paint San Tuillest , n-arpedcast time an calm as plearing tapre . Mr. Caprisil : municipins have sent down into its forlum uses spur as rcni esna biodifurmann stain in Colsirce sac marom sp. 7. percrine com mod spimstorn ? com plan ran about 5ac soinne com candestrail run in Mac up rest-resorb ? curprise in so" cop 1 nsic map retro . M.Tazann . Dionn cellio sea pan halls nor sac castnons na haire pin room . B.O , a M.sire , in bsoglac 50 mbest shus M.Dionn cash is cop at 750 soinne . Ferbesnn curo sc b . Asur's occasion also go left to cease spin out a D.Cain an cent 1 orsold on Colsire 3sedilze com map Mr. Emerson native . Must a bior-scappers an Cabaltars M.Dionn usignesp sp sac soinne syrup 150 55 interest . Ac signe spur up son focal lion . corolaro ro01b ? . D-Azur can a blown sp rubbish nusip a blown chair on Lee largness usual tread # Macroemeson biobsil ac's malstep . hotship in son sick in so ' cop . D. - An emphasis to mod snpuro ? cailini as calm . neipesnn spur asirleset as heipesin . maine-De too boats-ra chigsinn . a b rior reassimpsin asur sac wife pope . M.MIL SIGING ! Cso ns tsob go mbesro ? " D. ( sign an calm ( or sold an Colsippe ? rior reassampain asur sad wife port . success to # success Eipesnn spur usirlesor na heipesin . s Opisio . Drisco so misimp-re , a Maine . Opull longnast one Origio-so main-n-re . a marine . cainr . Dfull tongnato opt me --- Page 56 --- letters have come from John Fogarty . Bertie Foearty and Dunagh to be a member of the Guild . ' She promises to work very hard for little poem by our friend is published in this number . Martin Kinsella happiness and health . A happy welcome to Life NI Thustail , who all replies are given here in the Guild . ' The proper address she will ny dear friend , B. M. O'Neill , for her beautiful letter , which pleased young friends in ' Camarthen . Connie Walsh and Jack Walsh ' send two trust the prayers of all our members will ascend to God on his in the days of Brian Boru. Patrick Barsfield , or any other Irish hero Bernie never forgets to write , and her letter this month , though short . rived at the office not later than the morning of the 14th. but good enough to win a prize . Ros Ni Cheannaigh sends thanks for prize injured again . Such a book I have been fortunate enough to get , but on her lips . I am sure she will be one of our best members . She was that our members , after working hard for the competitions , do not ng specimen of pure Irish literature . My favourite tales are those often . There was no necessity for a stamped addressed envelope as Knowles . Make Ni Chearbhaill and Mairead Ni'Bhrain . It is volume received . She is delighted with it . Annie Drew writes a ' very elfish , principled soul , void of all duplicity and deceit , and we have incere thanks I feel towards you and will therefore accent it . etter from an old friend of ours . I feel that it is well worth a corner her request is granted and that she is welcome as the roses of June ! is as welcome as any she has ever written . The verses by her young will be revered and honoured by our race forever . These are my free cross . in example in the Guild-Ada O'Neill-when we read her beautiful avourite tales . for their remind us of the freedom and liberty enjoyed Needless to say what admiration we felt for her who has set such ind guide . Dear Francis . When writing to you the first thing that claims my Ballina , Killaloe . watch the work of the Guild with interest and pleasure . " I can embers almost " went out of their element " at " seeing their names Your loving Guilder . n the Guild : attention is my delightful book prize . hanks of nprint . I hope they will prove a credit to the Guild of Blessed Dear Fre-is , please accept the warmest wishes and most heartfelt very reason to know that it is true in the case of dear Ada . and written . " What I shall be always a member in spirit and shall June 13th , 1919 . Had I been asked to choose the book myself I could not have chosen Hannie Ward . whose name is enrolled in the hearts of the Irish people , and who ice were letter asking for admission to the Guild . ' Need I say that your island in the past , and which , with the help of God , will be late for last month's competitions , as were also Bright Daichis . Eva ich a charming one . It is an edifying , incorrect and interest was late for last month's competition . The verses , however , were not abriel , and that they will prove themselves worthy of their model Dunnettzettman's When we received THE Cross for this month the younger of the new Polartv . God bless them for their kind and loving words ! Mary friend are not up to publication standard . I regret to say . Mr. t ter words breathe forth the sentiments of a pure , ine greatly , except that part of it which told of her brother's illne send in their work until after the last moment . All work must promise to Moya on behalf of the members , the heartiest wishes id win " for him the priceless blessing of health . nice letters for which I am most grateful . Teresa McManus is delight I thank the given . Francis , I am sure you understand what attention is my delightful book prize . These I am't at the find in the announcement of the competitions . " A thousand thanks the characters are purely Irish , " and which have is success . Mary O'Grady is welcome and I hope to hear from her to the Guild with a song of praise for it and for charming one . It is an edifying , incorrupt an ery competitor could manage to be in before then . ' --- Page 57 --- which , collected into an elegant volume , you have periodical continying with increasing zeal its salutary the sole plank of salvation and of life , the symbol of apostolate in the bosom of Christian families may rescue from shipwreck ever increasing numbers of the brethren piously presented at His Throne in token of your devout paternal charity the blessing you request , so that the for your pious tribute , has been pleased to grant with and final homage , at the same time begging the peace , and the source of all true civil progress . P. Card. Gasparri . and may bind them indissolably to the Cross of Christ . Apostolic Blessing for the contributors to this excellent I am happy to inform you that His Holiness , grateful the Editor of " THE CROSS " by His Eminence Cardinal the numbers of the monthly periodical - " THE CROSS " sentiments of the Pontiff , I have pleasure in subscribing publication and for its readers . The Cross and praises its work The Sovereign Pointiff has received with pleasure Secretariate of State of His Holiness The following is a translation of a letter addressed to Gasparri , Secretary of State : - March 9 , 1918 . In conveying to your Reference these gracious The Vatican , Yours affectionately in the Lord , Reverend Father , myself , the Apostolic Benediction on His Holiness Pope Benedict XV. bestows Benedict XV. bestows 1/0.6 --- Page 58 --- October , 1919 . Nihil obstat . No. 6 . Hiberniae Primas . Michael Hickey . S.T.D. Archiep. Dublinen . Vol. X . Censor Dep. S Gulielmus . Imprimi Forest : addressed envelope . free , payable in advance . itenary Communications to the Editor , at the same address . Annual Subscription to THE CROSS , Four Shilings and Sixpence post Business Letters to be addressed to the Manager . Mt. Argus , Dublin . insuitable MSS , will not be returned unless accompanied by The sacred heart of Mary --- Page 59 --- spout at Chairotopa , near Colossae , tion tells us that St. Michael caused --- Page 60 --- dence , and Providence , which does not always use need of some separation is generally admitted by vicious " Circle " ) are now seldom put forward . The a presidential institution ; and who is ignorant of the divine institution ; who does not know that ? But it is cannot shut out the hope that Rome may at last be- Catholics . Few now condone as did even Justin to greatly increase the spiritual power of the Papacy . " I Italian cities towards junction in one great kingdom . miracles for its purpose , ended by founding on the most Mrs. Craven . Analys miss Anglier , writing from plebiscites , which one after the other lead all the but surely they had a right to another sort of indepen- only possessed independence enough to die martyrs : McCarthy , the crime of 20th September , 1870 . Dear opinions as those of the late Lord Acton ( and his very the Pontiff . " Certainly , his temporal power is not a from others , that , perceiving the moral force of these had the Temporal Power of the Holy See is a The Temporal Power not is condemned by the Syllabus , Ixxvi . come the gran rifruto of her lost provinces , which would Dupantoup , ( Sept. 30 , 1859 ) : is compromise to the Anglo-Saxon mind ! We find We may be glad , indeed , that such scandalous fact ? Doubtless through three centuries the Popes In answer to such delusions we may quote one who Yet I will not conceal from you , as generally I do vas certainly not an extreme Ultramontane , Bishop of S.S. Cyril and Methodius ) . thing of the past , for which some substitute must People say that to touch the sovereign is not to touch assumption been made too hastily ? be found , no restoration being possible . Has not this # Pope Leo XIII . ( 1896 ) , 242 . Naples on December 1 , 1860 : Obsolete . T seems to be commonly assumed , even by Catholics , By REV. H. E. G. ROPE , M.A. t In her life , by Mrs. Bishop ( ed. 3 ) , p. 162 . This ' Quee dealt princess , dabit idea semper Roma saluten . " ( Office --- Page 61 --- atoned for by any tinkering compromise ? No one pro- order to secure the common parent of all the faithful far will your detestable principles lead you ? " In posed that Germany should give back to Belgium a guided by something higher than Allied expediency . interior , but it must be evident to all that he is so ... . ments for the Church ? ' Where are you going ? ' How why leave him even Rome ? ... Why should not remains to the Vicar of Christ . Spoliation was no ful Secret Treaty . Catholics , at least , ought to be Diodetian and the Catacombs be the best of all govern- You say he will only lose the Romagna and the take them ? And why not take all the rest , if you frequent wars between Christian powers . The Pope half measure . How then shall it be reversed or Aton for a ton " in British merchant shipping , but Legations . ' But allow me to ask by what right you security of our own consciousness : this must be so in all eminent intellects have confessed it , all true states - the government of the Church , as well as ' for " the must not only be free in his own conscience , in his own part of her territory ! But the crime of September . B. O'Reilly's Life of Pous IX , 11th ed. , ch. xx the Pope must be free and independent . pp. 360-2 ) . " please ? ... . Why have you not made up your minds the Vatican ? You have said this , you know . But nen know it ... . ' . Yes : that the Church may be free , Societies will never be satisfied while even the Vatican is aggravated by the shameful clause XV of a shame- History proves it beyond the probability of denial ; This must be so for the sake of his own dignity in dence necessary to the Church . lawful sovereignty in Europe the freedom , the indepen- a field or two for the Sovereign Pontiff . " The as in his exterior government . the cross This forecast , we know , was fulfilled , yet the Secret That independence must be sovereign . The Pope must be free , and he must be evidently that neutrality which is indispensable to him amid the The Pope must be free in his own interior as well 110 0 , was far greater than that of August , 1914 , and take everything outside Rome with the ' Garden of so . --- Page 62 --- me adopt the words of Cardinal Manning : " The day a temporal power that it may exercise its spiritual Holy See a Divine provision for the maintenance and will come when prince and people , nations and their statesmen , will recognize in the Temporal Power of the tion or bring back the Catholic order of things . No the alternative is this : the Catacombs or the Vatican : the Papacy . Here is the governing principle : No stopgap ephemeral compromise will save civilisa- was at Savona : Pius IX , when he was at Gaeta . But martydom or sovereignty : warfare and persecution . powers when he was at Salerno : Pius VII . When he Church shall in perfect freedom exercise its spiritual temporalis jurisdiction principum per spiritualem Petri powers . ... . It is not necessary to the Church to have tent with the present Antichristendom . We pray and work for the restoration . Instaurare omnia in Christo . The O'Clery's Making of Italy ? For a conclusion let Leo XIII clearly implied , that civil sovereignty , though indirect Providence of God ; ... is in order that the or civil sovereignty and its relation to Christian all Christendom " feeble makeshift can renew the sanctity of treaties . As power . St. Gregory VII , exercised his spiritual to this , do the Irishmen of to-day read and know This temporal sovereignty , which has arisen in the animam habit esse virtutem et operationem , ita et it could not in persecution have exercise , is inherent in et succession eius . " 4 Manning set forth what order of the Christian world , and will return to it as No Catholic , above all no Irish Catholic , will be con- ( At Munich , Sept. 11 , 1861 . ) . you will . ' ' I The temporal power not obsolete . t Manning , The Temporal Power ( 1862 , ed. 2 ) , lecture i , p. s Ibid . , lecture iii . revolution . " S . sovereignty becomes the common interest and work of monarchies and to Christian Europe . Choose which the only preservation against the rising tide of t De Reg. Princ. , quoted in Bryce , Holy Roman Empire , p. 104 . operatio per virtutem animae . ' Sicut ergo corpus per # In J. F. Maenire's Pius IX. ( 1878 ) , x ex spirituali et perpetuo dependent , sicut corporis This recalls St. Thomas : " Corporate et temporale This recalls St. Thomas : " Corporate et temporale . dependet , sick corporis . ex spirituali et perpetuo . --- Page 63 --- 115 . --- Page 64 --- Arranged for a week's spiritual pilgrimage it says : Gate ( 300 eills further on ) where He again fell prostrate Arch ( 23 ells ) . from the arch to the place of our Lady's Falls " by Adam Kraft of Nuremburg ( about 1490 ) as our Blessed Suvyour impressed yet range of His journey from ' the place of the fall ' to the Eccre Homo that our Lord fell seven times ; to four of these some Sanctuary of the Holy Face . It has not pleased the it to know that her brave act received a magnificent tions varied , according to the varying accounts of the United Greeks , who hope to transform it into a her house , and unfolded the cloth expecting to find on sents' Veronica taking back her veil from our Lord with the miraculous impression upon it . There is a refer- form was that of the " Seven Falls " : this supposes book published at Antwerp in 1536 , giving meditation the actual pilgrimage manifested itself at an early house of Veronica ( 282 ella ) and finally to the Judicial still preserved , the " Fourth Fall beautifully repre- on the Passion with measurements from site to site . date , especially in the Netherlands . These reproduc- reward . When trembling with emotion she re-entered On the Thursday we are hidden to contemplate the pilgrims , and the devotion of their framers . One Veronica , which is from Pilate's house 550 faces , where and could not rise . Veronica's house now belongs to us must draw the picture as devotion suggests . Suffice marked ; the origin of the three is our present arrange- swoon ( 100 eills ) , thence again to the place of meeting ment . In a famous series of carvings of the " Seven it some traces of blood , she perceived the Sacred Coun- tenance clearly outlined . ' The Iacerated brow , the half with Simon of Cyrene (72 ella ) , thence again to the of Himself and His compassionate servant . Each of face in her wympell which is at Rome , and is there special occurrence is assigned . ' leaving three thus un- A desire to reproduce the holy places in other lands the cross the account written by his chaplain we find : " And in order to satisfy the devotion of those unable to make called the Varnacle . ' of the Stations about fifty years later . in 1506 . In firste , as our way laye , we came to the house of Lord that we should know the details of this meeting ence to the traditional site of her house in a " Stations " 110 --- Page 65 --- olted by what is intended presumably to attract them . Well- his national autumnalia , and many men in their own set are re- Nowadays the same licence is perceptible among Britishers and morals and a laxness in the manners of the Roman women , and pure living , high thinking , are the rule among our people . But some section of the population are becoming tainted with objec- general moral contagion , and we are justified to a certain extent of late . The sights to be seen at present in London hotel lounges , Roman Empire , which was preceded by a deterioration in the remarkable and novel . Hitherto the British conventional code British Empire is likely to follow the cult of indecency to which ostentatiously . In other countries a greater frankness prevailed symptoms of decadence are non-existent in Ireland . Strong faith , to me the other day a very acute observer who has travelled widely Hypocrisy constrained Mrs. Grundy's devotees to sin quietly , un- is that we are , at the end of the European war , on the verge of oint to national decadence . They ponder on the downfall of the a Gaelic , Catholic girl . If there was one thing we Irish prided our- humanity . ' The women , strange to say , have taken the lead in scientifically educated men and women will open the manners of so many British women and girls have so openly abandoned them- is to congratulate ourselves that our country has escaped this but people who have been recently in Russia . France , Germany . ing into sheer savagery-religion and convention , " so remarked of immediately dress to which English society has abandoned itself when hearing of or noticing some unseenly action on the part of moral anarchy . ' woman the other day when discussing with an English- to God . Europe will become a land of pedantic barbarians . where Italy , and other countries abroad have very disagreeable ex- Decadents . denied , and convention is now being thrown overboard , the result periences to relate . ' There are two restraining forces which keen men from relans - It is no exaggeration to say that if Europe be not re-converted This orgy of vice is not confined to England . It is almost uni- versal . It is the lack of restraint now shown in London which is By Maire de Butler . Where does Ireland come in in all this ? Our first inclination woman the orgy of shameless vice , of brazen manners . ADAME , c'est la decadence d'un peuple . " said a French- selves . he Fiji Islanders , and the morals of the farmyard . staurants , and even private houses are calculated to " stagger ecreed that it was bad farm to make certain displays in public . other European peoples . The British are the grossest offend ishers to Britain are grieved at these signs of the times , which they are clear-sighted enough to realise that the downfall of th in the Eastern and Western worlds . " Religion has been foreignisms . However , one is both sorry and surprised aiming that Ireland has escaped the plague . The worst nl . iji Islanders , and the morals of the farmyard --- Page 66 --- was enough to overtake a young and robust frame . The cell which he occupied was situated in the upper story of the Retreat . so their service , he laboured for them during all the days of his their defects , but regarding them only as representing Jesus , who to his tomb . The following reference is made to this matter in a priest had a power of penetration which enabled him to form a and friends . Always appearing to keep in mind the words of Christ . " As long as " you did it to the least of these brethren you record of events connected with his Order , dated 10th January . did it to Mr. " not only did he attend to them at the Retreat , but which had to be revealed so often " that it was fatigue in the patience , with intense sympathy , and an ever-increasing zeal in never did he deny them audience , never did he despite them for he received the summons so frequently during the day . that it Life of Father Charles , C.P. to descend the long stairway leading to the basement , a journey him for his blessing he had become very weak . ' The Superiors , in ' wellness , and brought peace and for beneath their humble roof- whom he conversed , and so was prevented from being misguided prayer , for to meditate on God was his rest . in the counsels and opinions which he gave . at once returned to the quietude of his cell , there to continue his from Mount Argus , in order to give him a little rest , and so restore ing labours , in order that he might not hurry himself prematurely sought his advice were not aware that the simple , unassuming weather , or how weak in body he might be , once he heard that the religious observances , until his health became so shattered In consequence of his attending the people who came to "s so that " rough hearts looked smooth and beautiful in A remarkable feature in the servant of God was the special gift his broken-down constitution . ' or be told " in memory of him . " With sweet and unwarying fessional , with the exception of those hours devoted to the consideration of this , thought better to remove him for some time Charity's eclipse . poor were waiting for him he would hasten to attend them : and No matter how great the inconvenience , how inclement the CHAPTER XI.continued . that his Superior was obliged to withdraw him from such exhaust - Long , indeed , will the story of Father Charles' love for the Charity of the Servant of God . Edited by a PASSIONIST FATHER . NTIL his strength failed he laboured all day long in the con- 1874 , announcing his return to Dublin : - while his strength lasted . sought them out in their miserable renever he had to go to the church or parlour . he was obliged cue estimate of the leanings and peculiarities of the versions with It he possessed of discerning character . Doubtless those who not whereon to lay His Head , he treated them as brethren extreme . When disengaged from his works of active charity priestly life . ' Never did he use an unkind word towards " life . " Never did he use an unkind word towards them . 121 . --- Page 67 --- and I found she was suffering from cancer of the upper lip , together a wicked man may work a miracle in attestation of truth for , as may honour God , at those invocation such miracles have been knowledge of nature's forces than man , he can produce extra- of them , " so did the Almighty , through the instrumentality of faith ; that the person working them is not actuated by vain-glory , of spiritual gifts , " to one is given the word of wisdom , to another being still fulfilled , and that the seal of God's sanction has been Apostles , God confirms the mission and teaching of His ministers St. Jerome says : " To prophesy or to work wonders , or cast out His disciples that they would do greater works than He had done Hearing that we were about to introduce into this work some speaks of saints and angels as working miracles , yet , they are only necessity of confirming a doctrine so opposed to the maxims of an to do good , cannot work a miracle ; yet , possessing a far higher he disease departed from them , and the wicked spirits went out here related , they have been carefully investigated . closely scru- the word of knowledge . to another the gift of healing , to another e that what is done is not opposed to any truth or reason or of Mary Jane Martyn . Miss Martyn consulted me many years ago , they never be performed except for a good end . Though Scripture with a most dangerous malady called cancerum oris . When I saw stentation , or the satisfaction of curiosity ; and that they are not ordinary phenomena in order to deceive . ' The test of true miracles levils , sometimes is not on account of the merit of him who works abiding presence of God . In our own time , as in that of the its very existence to-day is a living miracle . testifying to the by " signs and wonders ; " in our own time , too , is there a diversity Though the Church has not yet given her decision on the miracles of the miracles attributed to Father Charles . Dr. Marmin. of Dun- tributions of the Holy Ghost . according to His own Will operation to be performed , and as it was spreading at a very rapid them , but is done by the invocation and name of Christ , that men and of Paul more than common miracles , so that even there were It is true , miracles are not an infallible proof of saintliness , as the working of miracles . ' in the process of canonization fully proves that this promise is rate , and her entire face so disgusting to look at , I considered that the case first . I found the disease was too far advanced for any derogatory to the attributes of God . I am only too glad , " writes this medical man . " to give you Our Lord , who confirmed His doctrine by miracles , promised As is related in the Acts of the Apostles , " God wrought by the Father Charles , perform " wonders , and divers miracles , and " dis- frequent occurrence than at the present day . on account of the cannon , kindly supplied us with the following particulars on the the disease . 3rd February , " 1893 : - laced upon their actions by the performance of miracles instruments in the hands of the Almighty . The devil , being unable incredulous world . still Our Lord remains with His Church , and any details concerning ' Father Charles' miraculous cure of Miss The Church's undoubted testimony to the sanctity of her children tinised by ourselves , and called from a large number . vrought . " However , as God only is the Author of all "mirac ught from his body to the sick handkerchiefs and a prons , and --- Page 68 --- Sure , yet honor , I always said she was the right college , but is over , what would you say to a walk in the pleasant sunshine . I There was a slight touch of frost in the air , which was in vigorat- accruing from these estates . ' And now that this serious business the birds calling to their mates , the bleating of the lambs , the O'Driscoll property ; to collect the rents , and to make what changes come another time to speak with them , but that now he wanted in the days of the wild geese . tains the title deeds of your estates . ' Whilst the other , which I of the brooklets , swelled by the melting of the snow , the songs of Island , glory be to God ! His holy Mother , and St. Patrick ; ing without being unpleasant ; the bright sunbeams illuminated Laying his hand on the bible , and making a sign to his son to Clad " in her simple daily dress , and wearing her mother's had been so long united in heart . taining two small oak caskets clasped in silver . He handed one wedding veil , the young bride gave her hand to him to whom she A silence full of eloquence reigned among the little party as it of Castle Mor was opened by whom ? And I swear the same , " said Captain Marcus . Mother might be lonely , " said Helen . chamber cut in the rock , whence he brought a strong iron case con- him a hearty welcome . He thanked them , and said he would make use of it . ' sleep of winter was everywhere visible . ' rying out " Spring is here , Spring is here . ' This is yours , O'Driscoll ; keep it in your strong room : it can- The congratulations ended . Sir Fergus said : " One duty now ferring those estates on me and my descendants . ' reening foliage this joyful Easter morning , the beautiful young joyed when he heard what the business was . absence . We can easily be back in time for dinner . any , which is fortunate , now that her daughter is deserting her . ' could like to show you the care we took of Castle Mor in your Life was pulsating through the apparently dead trees , causing An evil bewildachment . iride leaning on her husband , whose arm she pressed lovely as The door opened and the O'Driscoll appeared . All rose to give to safeguard your possession of your estates , and that I shall never tears of joy came to her eyes . I now appoint you , Patrick O'Driscoll , my agent over the of these to the bridegroom , saying : silence broken . Then Sir Fergus said : " Prepare for a surprising Accompanied by Darby , he descended to an underground shall keep , contains the " deed . signed by William of Orange , co some civil put a piskogue " on ye , which was took off in the Ho Not until they came in sight of Castle . Mor was the sacred Darby , " and truly the good man did get one when the great gate is mine ; please await my return . ' e branches to bush until their tips burst into buds . The gurgling Darby on particular business . This faithful servant was over- you wish , nominally subject to me - but I shall never touch a penny of these to the bridegroom , saying : owing of the line-all swelled into a mighty symphony of nature , mountain , oppose and valley ; the awakening of nature after t to the same , he continued : " I swear that I only keep this vended its way in sight of the beautiful Lakes , through gradual Not at all , my dear . ' Mother has Victorine to keep her com- had been so long united in heart . Prepare for a surprise , joyed when he heard what the business was . --- Page 69 --- father , as he marshalled his little band for their last brave stand . hose hallowed walls . Above all , the grand figure of his noble in the home of his childhood : the great joy of the present could amongst the Rapparees , numbers of whom were most willing to give up their lawless life if they could otherwise obtain means of small farms to all the poor fellows , thus enabling them to resume rose before the mind of the young chief , and he firmly resolved Varied were the feelings of the O'Driscoll as he stood once more Protestant friend kept their estates and castle in trust for them . dying chief to God , the zealous priest worked a veritable Mission Sean Rua-whilst beside him stood pretty Maureen , with two THE CROSS . The priest appealed to Sir Fergus , who offered employment or appearance . To which all reply - " Amen . They and their descendants lived in perfect safety in the home of Some time previously Father Brian had been called to assist fine youngsters hiding their faces in her " dress whilst shyly peeping admiring the good care which had been taken of it . As you and my father were as you and I are so may our Again , an O'Driscoll and his lady ascend the winding stone it was restored to its lawful owners . arms by their father's friend . descendants ever be united in bonds of friendship ! ras killed with his five sons whilst defending their Castle . His two the Wild Geese . " I facing the bewildching scene . Some years ago a gentleman who had been the previous week in the rown up , returning to their native land . They were received with open subsistence . loved parents . Escorted by Sean , the whole party went through the castle , This story is founded on the following fact : - the least understand . After the Battle of the Boyne , a gentleman in the North of Ireland nally kept possession of the estate until Catholic Emancipation , when little boat over the historic Lough Neach-they were the two sons now the two hours . told the above to the writer of the tale " In the Days of Brian made good boys of us all . " not Danish the recollection of the last sad days he had spent within ir ancestors , thanks to this friend and his descendants , who nomi- staircase " of Castle Mor. He and his friends stand on the roof By the powers , out . shed at this vigorous greeting , which the O'Driscoll could not in Galloping Hogan in his last hours . After having reconciled the Grasping the hand of Sir Fergus , the O'Driscoll says : Iocating Sean's arm . ts Sean himself , " cried Darby , almost dic- The End . " Thieving . " answered the other , laughing . This story is founded on the following fact - How's every bit o' ye , man ? " All said Darby , lowering his voice , " Are ye An't tell me , still- " No. Father . i with God's assistance , he would walk in the footsteps of his n honest life . He installed Sean as caretaker of Castle . Mr. Whilst they are so engaged we will tell the ca Brian made good boys of us all . ' Years passed away , when one evening at dusk two young men row Whilst they are so engaged we will tell the cause of Sean's ns-mere boys-escaped to France with their mo" laughed at this vigorou He boat over the historic Lough Neagh - they were the two sons now d their descendants lived in perfect safety in the home of e this preserved , and had there conversed with the descendants of --- Page 70 --- missed a collision with the prop which held up her mother's clothes - line . At first the butterfly seemed inclined to turn towards the butterfly , a creature of the sunshine , with shimmering wings , movement was followed by a pair of eager . blue eyes - a little heart stranger , stood a veritable image of delighted wonder . Uncer- word , and the woman moved into the bedroom off the kitchen . room . Through the opening thus formed had danced a gorgeous brought the " child swiftly outside the doorway and into the centre many colours as the rainbow . The child did not think thus of turn inwards again . But it was only for a couple of seconds , for course , for she had never heard of , much less seen , the arc which beat faster as the butterfly seemed to hesitate near the door and of the lane . A blank look was on the little face , and tears were A little body was gently slid off the chair , a pair of pattern feet aware that it had made a mistake , and decided to rectify it . Every aquiver and eyes strained to take in every detail of the wonderful oes . In a few minutes the man went out to his work without a aflutter with the sheer joy of life , wings which seemed to have as only for the vision that had come within herken . In silence , both filtered instead straight towards where the child , with body She gave a little scream of dismay as the lovely visitant barely tainly on and on came the glinting wings , till they all but touched much the gaudy creature , then was drawn suddenly down with the had she only got the chance . ' and faded . A scrap of pink ribbon which tied her hair hung down in a way that gave her somewhat of a rubbish appearance . Despite watched by two strained eyes over which a scrap of pink ribbon blends " the hues between violet and red into one harmony of shade . the youngster unwillingly abandoned her vigil for a plate of pots - The ring doll fell discarded and forgotten at her feet-she had eyes the kitchen window had been removed to let a little air into the was hanging unheeded . near the strained eyes which looked up into the Great Unknown , wards . Over the roofs of the houses it went-every motion tensely gesture of one who restrains himself from desecration not a minute he pink ribbon . ... . A tiny hand went up narrowly as if to all at once the realendent creature had flown outwards and up- her parents went on with their meal . THE CROSS . The scintillating wings beat uncertainly for a few moments . and dress had once been red . but now it was stained and discovered Are you giving her nothing ? " asked the man . whether had vanished the one touch of romance which had come little girl , jumping up and clapping her grubby , grimy hands , " She's not hungry . " said the woman , at the same time rising then turned towards the door . The gorgeous creature seemed Come in here and have your dinner , " called the mother , and 500 soon . There was a sudden exclamation . " Do-o , look , " crowd the the allev . She would probably have been a brightly youngster able in the centre of the ' floor , but soon changed its mind , and into a little life . A piece of board which did duty for glass in the upper half of and fetching a little plate from the dresser . A piece of board which did duty for glass in the There was a sudden exclamation . --- Page 71 --- His adorable Majesty was to be approached rather in His quality from the office , which he had proved himself unworthy to fulfil knelt silent and abashed , and the compassionate Lord Christ , see- he first step of humility and therein lies a similitude - am all too His children . But Brother James , having made his salutation , None the less , it is mete that having striven to probe a wound in touch lacked nothing of the gentleness which made him so apt to So , having obtained a blessing . the penitent brother went to when once , having want only flung a stone , he had silenced for ever he church , where , it not being an hour for Office and for the re might leave the infirmary he bought the Abbot and made humble confession of his fault , craving that he might be removed Heart of Christ , where is the panacea for every ill . fully the truth that I , who have scarce gotten firm foothold on Brother James could not so easily forgive himself . As soon as monks to stand as courtiers and make melody before their King , to make His mercies shine out the more apparent . then , when it begins to give way beneath you , instead of laying clutch at a rusty hook in such clumsy fashion as is well known to still marvel to see how He didn take occasion of my very miseries for himself far more than for the one he feared to have wounded . to apply the palm . I counsel you to seek it straightway in the learn the lesson you needed in order to fulfil it more perfectly . its' blithe song . you are too want to account as special gifts and graces from on be all your own . And so it is with the most part of the mishaps ras seized with conjunction . He had much the same feeling as Wherefore should I be hurt ? Rather hath Christ made me Brother Columbia's eyes were glistening with generous emotion pour upon him the healing palm of Divine consolation he needed a woodland bird which a moment before had been trilling forth the better to speak to my soul . Quid retribuam ! " Methinks you have none other than yourself to thank for what as with his uninjured hand he strove to raise the brother information you when my office should be to heal . ' The hasty speech was no sooner spoken than Brother James irreverent , though as he tended the injured members his skiltal them . And pray for me who am in such evil case as to have hurt Brother James ' reply was unsubathetic , not to say slightly has befallen you . You climb on a ladder carelessly set up , and which I deem there was little or no venom . it is your bounden duty ng this soul bruised with contribution , awaited no further plea to Brother , think no more of my heedless words save to forgive The other's silence smoke him as no reproach could have done . your debtor in that you have striven to bring home to me more his office . you when my office should be to heal . " ront to walk in wonders beyond me . Yet take it not amiss if I He was down on his knees by the bed . away by exterior business . He hath thus called me into this solitude high . hold of the firm beam close to your hand to steady yourself , you prise . of a tender Father . ready to listen to the individual concerns " That shall not be , my son , for even in this very hour you he from his lowly posture . His silence had been that of simple s THE VAVED . " Brother James " reply was unsympathetic , not t --- Page 72 --- lows , air and light free to enter across these pages . ' So it is a the Cycloys and humbug : too fond of the dictionary to give his looks half professor , half farmer , with a beard bristling out , " and And to think of him believing all his life that he will make a over seventy , the best-abused Irishman of his generation , an actor norbid lapses of the pen , past magnificent Bobbie Burns , whose reading . looks hard at his fellow-customer , raises his named again . a ragged , paper-walled sort of a caravansary , all holes , like fortune on a linotype machine " he is perfecting , until in the end the under-law shaved to the point of the chin . Such a firm mouth , heart a chance . One remembers his opposition when a portrait We have time for no more calls now . So we must hasten past letter than the best , remembering how on Monday one has heard James Joyce , who is almost as great an artist , but has certain Lancashire miners into the wildest protection enthusiasm . picture , framed large , is in every Edinburgh publichouse , and white at the English King's garden party , and who could only speak spoch . And , at last , there is Henry Kirke White , the prodiev of A journey along a bookshelf-Dream-TRAVEL133 book by Mark Twain , the " funny little man , who dressed in eloquently when he saw children scattered through his audience . Ibsen , the story is well known , lowers the paper he has been his time-tuberculous and charming , full of English sentiment and jeering at " Sartor Resartus , " one misjudgment balancing the to unwind a poem he had coiled amid her hair ; and past this , too . And now this other habitue , who for the past two years has tool Exchange , and on Tuesday stampeding a colony of Mid- swiftly , is in a cafe in Munich . At that table by the window the seriousness , very fascinating for his devotion to his own family . next door again , such an ill-sorted neighbour ! Thomas Carlyle . well-clad , well-shaved , of the host appears . A " daring fellow , Henrik Ibsen , bound up solemnly in German . One's mind , London , and one thinks of Edward Fitzgerald , the " Rubaijat , " achieved ! It is a relief to be gone from him , a few doors down . to rather low-sized man is seated as usual , reading a paper . He had house of Rosetti , who buried his wife and dug her up again against oblivion ! Reid . Poor Mayne Reid , forgotten in the surge of machine-shop Old Love Stories ; " his house is marked . And the figure , smiling , of Father Mathew was being hung at the National Gallery in So , by romantic removal , here we are at T. P. O.Connor ; " Some That is the end of the episode , and the acquaintance is never stories and flying men , to whom the cinema remains a last hope ' I have often intended to address you , sir . My name is whose memory must be praised and damned to the end of his But here now is a stern building . None shall dare enter ! other . rim , exquisite and cultured , addressing the brokers of the Liver- he has wasted 540,000 , and gone bankrupt on the show ! And , ften sat at the same table will venture a word sat at the same table will venture a word . --- Page 73 --- ette it had again as nksebills asur 'ra resin beinn com a priest . Despite com wait as Sean Duroe belt as merteam in face me plan-ns some eye , asp from . sp ns fastesants sitne sea squinn snoir . an repro spur an opoc-ars to be seen to pass in corn basited comce le ppob in best as ispast an rppro censons bert as curtainism up an damp scs tape ? D'pru fanarmsome s . Di re go man sons , a Dispumato , so can e an maitear oreas caince . s .Dinesc ! 1r us mbest of muncip com Zaebest clirce run in his best s turtle producers , 55 resptsil Concarse . Tim as Dul presc sp cinn per ns comp- n'Sall as rip peo . ' an real help , 45ur pin into his protest it mo set 0 sort 05 P.Asur besorts as out so ori sn roinescap 1 5Catship P. Maps pass map pin 150 , no flip boots ! Mac 10nts sets S.AC smain no flip acts for star as Ballistic for . s . Di an Jesetily visit to leap swim , percest e , spur fespismail pin . P. Da modesto an openo-rperre sasm-ps 1 1,500 DISRMUID . - Ir micro or best to break . A lettero de D.An unbero MB. 55 interest 6 while so last ? rescraine , Le constam De . 00 cup fe coir . p.Miteson conur an emit than. 55 in. perlou . Mr. asumn to beipe . O.Aroe , s Paops15 , Mr. Mippro ns nl3 mopile O.s . S. Deep-vs s5 out to disapprove tem injunction 1 550esnn stard himself , as keeps to miss before he returned no rests air spur run to noest an onoc-mirness . cipe inrou . org from Sup temest pain to-mist in so,com . raoyal tools to help sun 1 mobilians . O-bierdin so nasann lead . In color room so understood an carpib ann. P. spur O.1p flop out . PRORATE . - It is an aimrip to halumn sp fast , purchaser O.SIN may a ritesnn tax outline . Dionn ragar eagle usim . & A BUSCAILL , to his lastesants pro-ne seam-hupa ! --- Page 74 --- the Guild . Her poem is not quite up to the usual level of her work . but I am Lilian realise now and then what a great source of pleasure her talents are to us who can never hope to reach the heights on which she stands triumphant : and air which tells us that the golden days are gone and warns us of the grey . dream success to her always and to all who have ever planted a flower in the garden of not witness the reddening of the leaves . I shall not be able to bid them farewell the fame of the Guild . Secsainhin Nie Chathmhaoil should not Francis because the person who sends out the prizes made a mistake hard worker and I am glad to see contributions from her pen in several magazines . the Guild as he used to be . My ever-faithful friend , B. M. O i hail . Gura fada buan i ) Another promising Gael is Ellis Ni Mhad incere wish that she may be as happy and as popular there as she has been in her Nina Carlvis' liter and ideas in Gaedhily chugham agus bhi the chill breath of Winter has touched us - that unmistakeable something in the he Manager . Many thanks to John , Bertie and Denis Fogarty for their nice letters gentle and unaffected girl I have always imagined her to be since first I placed her , many years ago , amongst the dearest of my unknown acquaintances . " " The other although the trees are still rich in their verdant burdens . This autumn I shall be attention of Eichlin Ni Chuana to this reply . I am forwarding her letter to so gently to kiss Mother Earth for , Francis , I shall very , very shortly leave the beloved Drogheda . And I trust she will not forget us in the new associations of to hear again from George A. England and to learn that he is as much in love with college life . ' Nellie Jennings is a new member from Mayo , and it is with pleasure spirited you away to his mysterious domain . You can therefore imagine my what of herself and of Nina ? Have they not shed many a bright ray of sunshine familiar country-side to take up my abode nearer to that illusive person whom of the Guild has added fresh laurels to her snowy brow , and I often wonder does o fear that some terrible bogey ( of whom we once stood so much in awe ) had on the pages of the Guild and given pleasure again and again to all of us ? Indeed . of the language God meant them to speak . ' Writes our old friend , Ada O'Neill another year has passed . Success to all who are striving to gain a knowledge Rika Carlos pays a tribute to several of her fellow-writers in the Guild , and writes In one of the most beautiful letters I have received for many a'dav my dear friend Arroll , Eileen McFarland . A hearty welcome to each and every one of this Margaret O'Connor , Una Hughes , Nellie Walsh , Eibhim . Ni relief when I again found you basking in the glad sunshine of the Guild . " new cross appearance of the Guild . I am sorry I have not space for a beautiful poem by Maire Nie Borheim . Nuda Ni Chuthain . Irena Kinsella Rita Carlos . ne no less than three letters , to make up for all the weeks of silence . ' She is Sunshine have we in the Guild but not in the world , I am forced to say . ' am now addressing . Ada is now in Carysfort Training College and it is my specially of Lillian Nally as follows : " I have noted how the young Poet- It last , my dear Francis , you have emerged from the land of shades . I had begun I place her name on the roll of my friends . I'm sure she will do her best to 180 . and to the many other members who sent messages of congratulation on the re list of those who have done so would be a very long one . I was delighted if she does I know that her knowledge of that power cannot change her first d of girls , and a thousand thanks for the nice letters they have written me . a glorious in the mellow colourings of their dresses , they shall further down ing hard at Irish these times and hopes to be a perfect Irish girl before the Guild but not in the world . I am forced to say . Already Francis only awards the prizes , and there his connection with them or months before us . The dull , heavy clouds too tend to streng keeping it by me in the hope of being able to find space for it g. Ada is now in Carysfort Training College and it is my is working hard at Irish these times and hopes to be a perfe people mentioned by Rita , are Ellis Ni Riain , Hannie Ward an Comes a whisper thro' the gloaming , Cease the white waves in their foaming , To the angels in their house of woolly clouds . Twilight and Dark . ind the sun's a-tumbling down the little golden-duste Down along the purple mountains , down the weather-beaten track There's a little boat a-gathering of the wet sea-wreck , --- Page 75 --- coupon . Blessed Gabriel's Guild THE CROSS , OCT ... 1919 . Blessed . Argus , Dublin . November . must be certified by some responsible person to be the unaided and original work or verse . I . For Members over 12 and under 18 years of age . issue ( one coupon will be sufficient for all the members of a family ) . They must be sent so as to reach the office of " The Cross " not later than October 14th . of the sender . They must have attached to them the coupon to be found in this letters to be addressed : Francis , c )o " The Cross , " St. Paul's Ret A handsome book prize will be given for the best letter on any subject . A handsome book prize will be given for the best original contribution in prose competitions . Competitors will please remember the following rules : All competition papers II . For Members under 12 years of age . --- Page 76 --- Archiep. Dublinen . " Nihil obstat . Hiberniae Primas . Michael Hickey . S.T.D. E Gulielmus . Imprimi Potest : Vol. X . Censor Dep. November , 1919 . No. 7 . addressed envelope . free , payable in advance . Literary Communications to the Editor , at the same address Business Letters to be addressed to the Manager , Mt. Argus , Dublin . Annual Subscription to THE CROSS , Four Shillines and Sixpence post Unsuitable MSS . will not be returned unless accompanied b martyrdom being usually celebrated Baptist , only ; the anniversary of the at the place where it occurred . But Miscellaneous . to martyrs , and to St. John the faithful in the celebration of saints' feasts during the all martyrs . The Festival of All Saints was instituted , unknown . Pope Boniface the Fourth consecrated the times special days were consecrated . All Saints . year , " whether martyrs or not , and whether known or of Diocletian that a separate feast could not be assigned to each , and the Church appointed a common day for In early Christian ope Urban said , " to supply any deficiencies in the for the Faith during the persecution so many suffered so many suffered for the Faith during the persecution --- Page 77 --- reliable advertisements are issued in ings . It is saddened to think that notwithstanding the a necessity for the daughters of Ireland to seek employ- given , but alas ! in but too many instances they have order to lure girls away from their England . It would appear that un- been unheeded . We cannot understand how parents excellent record for the provision of the Cork Young Men's Society dresses will be delivered by eminent lecturers , and of the hospital , and eight hundred by the destruction Liverpool , has issued a warning to that both their faith and morals are ruined . ' This is not the first time that warnings of this nature have been of the Society are maintaining its Johalan heads the programme with an Inaugural Ad- protection before instituting rigorous inquiries regard - Irish girls who seek situations in the bar dry , and then came rolling back again as a shows that the responsible officials ing the character of their employers and their surround- diminished population of Ireland there should still be of the prison . The sea retired from the harbour . leaving the Churches of the Reform . ' During the session ad- dress entitled , " The Movement towards Union among were all filled at the time , and falling ' , crushed the con- bers of the society are to be congratulated on the excel- the winter months . ' His Lordship , the Most Rev. Dr. The shock of the Lisbon earthquake was felt at Loch literary and musical treats during gregations . Over a thousand were killed by the collapse the leading Professors of Music . Altogether , the mem- deaths the crowds that had taken refuge on the quay . native land , and traps are set for them , with the result lance of the winter's programme . or guardians permit these young girls to leave their The programme arranged for the 1919-20 session of Lomond in Scotland . THE Secretary of the Catholic Prisoners' Aid Society . Miscellaneous . mighty wave , fifty or sixty feet high , sweeping to their thousand people perishing miserably . The churches Irish Girls . Cork Catholic . A Warning to Young . " musical nights " will be given under the auspices of Men's Society . 141 . # 8 f the Catholic Prisoners' Aid Society , --- Page 78 --- And misery enough for everyone ! In sorrowing with others who are sad ! Some little kindness to another done , at last . Oh , there is planteous sorrow in the town , There shall be planteous happiness at last . So . though the soul be never so downcast There still is something to rejoice upon ; And others gladdening thou shalt to be glad ! Save sorrow ; sorrow of itself makes ending Some cheering word to smile away a brown . So joy , for fractions time will soon be gone , And all his mean despite for ever flown ! spend joy , for joy is saved in the spending Edmund B. FitzGerald . LTHOUGH the soul be never so cast down , A . There still is something to rejoice upon ; --- Page 79 --- Fursey saw demons flying about and fighting terribly , angels , and Beoan and Meldan , two saints who had vere weak ; others provoked anger , being themselves his name . ' St. Meldan told Fursey of the famine and of their hands ; others were idle , and ceased to grow in lived in his own country , came forth from amongst abundance but yet desired more , since money did not Supreme Judge overhung such " men yet His anger them and spake with him as a friend , each telling him were driven back by the angel at his side . The demons and the death of wealth , when men stored riches in of these , if chaste , were avaricious ; others , if gentle , fire was great and terrible it only searched and tried walls on either side to allow their passage . In the fire vere enemies of souls rather than teachers , and they were lost , and whose work was left half done . Some virtue . They who thought lightly of these shortcomings too easily provoked thereto ; others were vain-glorious heard the choirs of heaven singing , and thought within kindled would not burn him , and that although the and some approached to throw darts at him , but they of God's gifts , as if they had earned them by the pain satisfy the avaricious . Although the wrath of the proached the fire was cloven in two , and it rose in high when men understood but did not fulfil the Lord's word ; ence for envy , confession of truth for false witness . they drew near Fursey became afraid , but the angel told him to have no fear . as that which he had not THE Visions of St. Fursey . passions , had earned just punishment . As they ap- should practise humiliation for their pride . benevo- rejoined , and a great light stone around Fursev . He one another , so that they became one great flame . When hrough whose neglect and bad example faithful souls eternity . He saw about him the heavenly hosts of contended six times for the soul of Fursey , but each famine was to be of two kinds , the death of wisdom , himself that henceforth no labour could be too hard . no time too long to seek the joy and sweetness of time they were unquished by the angels who accom- When the demons had been conquered , the angels panied him . increased as they approached , and extended to meet the souls of those who , being inflamed by unlawful chiefly burned against the teachers of His Church restilence which were about to fall on Ireland . The --- Page 80 --- The Visions of St. Fursey . --- Page 81 --- 1491 . --- Page 82 --- eye of the tripper , and only reveals its charms to these simple coats and scythes , as they hasten homewards for their evening time , with gaunt frame and drooping shoulders as if hope had died ing sun now linger , tipping their heights with shades of crimson var to a sober glance as Tim Mulcahr appears at the open door . unnoticed . His heart is full of tears as he stands engrossed in a valley adjoining the little village of Ballykeen , the hum of day ters have ceased their toil . Across their shoulders they sling their laughter , caused by one of their quick-witted companions . rings following the mountain path , while the remainder turn in the of its kind in Ireland , remains completely hidden from the vulgar across the evening sky . Like a rosy trail they stretch across the leerest thought . Sounds of a galloping horse fast approaching , when the cross-roads are reached . Here they separate , some had marked him for her own . They pass by , their hearts full of white road leading by the forge , their happy , gay expression gives ing day . On top of the Kerry hills the rays of the even- direction of Tim Mulcahy's forge . It stands at the edge of a of an old man . Depression has aged him , leaving him before his sympathy for the Smith , whose story is so well known around the he recognises the agent . MacClure . ' for the Castledonnell estate . where the grain lies now in readiness for the mill , the busy harves - the sparkling waters to dance and clean like crimson lights . In rear before , would have called forth his ardent praise , now remains horse is brought to a standstill outside the forge door , while the and haggard from long illness and trouble . Fifty years have work well done always brings its own reward . Their sudden Tim remains motionless in the evening shadows , his face drawn like a monarch in all his glory . His glowing orbs dart fiery lights straighten while a spirited look deeper's in his eyes . In the rider faint response from the careworn man . who looks as if trouble gives way to the calm and peace of eventide . In the cornfields , luties , and place implicit reliance in their imported hirelings . The Gone , alas ! like our youth too soon . of evening begin to set their seal " upon the face of the depart- Oh ! the ring of the piper's tune , Oh ! for one of those hours of gladness . Oh ! the days of the Kerry dancing , By Margaret Cunningham . Their fervent salutation . " God save " you . ' Tim . " only evokes a The Forge in the Glen . countryside . I has been a beautiful autumn day in late September . Shades whose master is one of those absentee landlords , who neglect their itkin his breast . The beauty of the autumn evening , which , a and gold . Above a distant peak the mighty traveller sits enthrone green , overlooking one of the most beautiful glens . that . like many at joyously on the evening breeze . " Scarcely has the fun subsided , upon his sorrowful reverie . " Involuntarily his shoulders evenly pathway , until their reflection in the distant ocean causes Tired though they be , they are content and happy , for the soil . As the harvesters saunter down the narrow . passed over his head , and already he has the appearance --- Page 83 --- that has led to their present position . The great silence of the it affects them not , as they sit in silence enjoying their welcome ind brushwood , seeking cover for the night . In the distance the and wind has promised their features to a healthy tan . They are it wrapped in profound thought . dwelling on the circle of events heir partnership dissolved . Having reaped the reward of industry , heir varied experiences . Through all their toil and labour , they erman are resting upon a wooden bench . The hour is late , but her realise it is a potent force claiming recognition . In the recesses by the sounds of the forest animals . scurring through the mass elbows , displaying their drawny arms . In the corners of their eyes since I saw it last . And yet , I'm hoping that the forge and its motherland are very vivid , as they picture to themselves the until their goal is reached . Now , their labour is at an end , and board a steamer , emigrants bound for Canadian soil . By dirt of patient toil and hardships overcome , they have laboured at return . After a prolonged silence . Terry O'Neill rises from his endent , their means exceeding their happiest expectations . They hey find themselves on this September night , enriched and inde- come . Suppressed it may have been in the fight for fortune , but hanging skies , and the warm hearts that beat beneath them . " roaring noise of the turbulent rapids comes faintly across the firm friends from the day eight years ago their found themselves Thady O'Sullivan stretches his legs out of their cramped posi- seat , and moving a few faces away , stands gazing far into the noonlit air . Outside a log hut in the heart of the wilds . two lum- the lumbering trade . climbing steadily the stiff ladder of success moonlight night . Eventually , he turns to his companion and rooding wild lends itself to clarity of vision as they ponder over fine specimens of young manhood , as they sit in the warm moon- light , with necks exposed , and sleeves tucked up above their a march upon me , and I'm longing for the sight of our island's to call these wandering exiles home . To-night , thoughts of the aused by the towering vines . The stillness of the night is broken smoke . Both are young and free from care . Exposure to the sun of the many changes that must be evident in my native valley have never lost consciousness of the inner voice that speaks of in Canadian skies . Its deep , golden radiance fingers softly over igent's message a task which brings his heart with pain . be still the same . What a proud moment it will be , when I'll share Thady , a chara . it is good to feel we shall soon be able to see will be sweet to tread the old sad once more . ' I have been thinking You have voiced my own sentiments , " he replies . " It the great forests of the west . throwing into vast relief the shadows expression in his eyes . ur native shares again . Homesickness has been gradually stealing The scene is in another clime . The harvest moon hangs low my wealth with Tim Mulcahy for all his former care and goodness ! valks with lagging feet . In break to his wife and daughter the speaks : ion , and looks to where his companion stands with a far away velcome that lies before them in their native glens on their the steam of humour lurks revealing their nationality . They are of their minds it has also dormant , ever waiting for an opportunity THE FORGE IN THE GLEN . surroundings wherein my happy boyhood days were spent , may lou ... 152 . --- Page 84 --- state of lethargy is diverted by the sounds of the village car it on the marrow . Their preparations are complete to remove to the fire is the only cheerful object in the little kitchen . ' Their there steps inside a tall , bronzed young man who looks ' eagerly at brightly , defying winter's arrival . In Tim Mulcahy's forge , there undergoes a lightning change . All the sorrow that has gripped a distant cousin's , until such time as Tim will be able to work Then , with " It's Thady . himself , sure enough . God bless him ' his senses , until Thady takes his hands in his and wings them long manner worthy of its best traditions . Over Ballvkeen , nightfall verse with Tim and his . This is their last night in the old home , ad who used to assist him in the forge . He doubts the evidence of a deep contentment " fills their hearts that he is in their midst feet . Billy hastens to the door , and drawing back the bolted bar . reaks suddenly into joyful tears . Thaty's own eyes are misty , as he holds her in his strong young arms . ' Tim stands looking on . day he got the agent's warning , things have gone from bad to Immediately , a quick , rapid knocking brings the inmates to their one . No approaches pass their lips at his length of absence , only me ? " leave them going at the stranger in blank amazement . The Forge in the Glen . the story of the song will reveal itself " when you return to your relcomes home the wanderer . The atmosphere of the little home ude hut , while Thady follows leisurely , his face brightening at his It is a month later and October is drawing to a close . The in inky darkness . In the homesteads the warm turf fires burn He stops suddenly and turns to his companion and speaks : the traveller , while Thady sits near the blazing fire , recounting your wedding . " With this pleasant bit of revartee he enters the and winter is heralding its approach with cutting blasts in a He leaves a sigh of sadness as he ends the tender words , but rumbling down the valley track . Outside the forge it stops . be similar to your own and Ellv Mulcahy's ? I venture to predict the little group . His cries of " ' Mother , Eily , Tim , don't you know In the dance than Eily Moore ? his travels to the astonished blacksmith and his wife . mainder : Terry chases away the momentary fit by his rendering of the re- Or a provider lad than " Thady As he boldly took the floor ? " friend's words , and his thoughts dwelling on the fair picture the future paints for him in the dear homeland . Was there ever a sweeter cailin again at his trade . Around the hearth they sit in silence , where and their hearts are well high bursting at the thought of leaving mountain glen . And Thady , remember I'll be glad to dance at s . Mulcahy throws her arms around the wanderer's neck , and It is a strange coincidence , that the names in the ballad should turn season is disappearing amid wild gusts of wind and rain . to recognise in the broad shouldered man . The once , slight their heartstrings , now flies away in presence of their return in . " Soon Eily is bustling around preparing refreshments for nly sorrow with broken hearts to keep it company . Since the future paints for him in the dear homeland . farm clasp . ' Eily's eyes are full of gladness as she shyly cends , enveloping the little village and the surrounding glens Immediately . ' a quick . rapid knocking brings the inmates to their lu . glen . And Thady , remember I'll be glad to d --- Page 85 --- being indicated to him , he prayed over her , and told her boy , not feeling well , was put to bed with symptoms of a feverish and the boy , instead of getting better , rapidly grew weaker and strong . When the two eminent men who saw the case at first mother's joy the following morning on perceiving her daughter's Father Charles visited her home , and her helpless condition njury to his right leg whilst playing . ' Some days afterwards the ype . Subsequently an abscess developed at the seat of injury to amputate the leg , to which course the boy's mother would not Argus , and received Father Charles' blessing . Great was her oom , explaining . " It is God cured me , " though up to that time Argus . ' The holy priest braveed over the boy , and offered up a success . . Matters becoming serious , another doctor was called in , Josephine Cassin , a young girl residing at Gardiner Street , mother , who was in the same apartment , the child ran across the which affected the surrounding tissues , and burrowed deeply , so ake whether to have the operation performed , which , probably , tion of septic matter from the ulcers . Ultimately , it was advised esult . On Sunday , May , 1st , 1885 , she was ' brought to Mount and a thought suddenly sprang up in his mind . " O , marima , " who examined , dressed , and treated the disease , but without sains in her eyes , and had to be led about by the hand he had neither walked nor spoken . She has had the perfect use might cost her dear son his life , or leave him maimed , or let nature veaker , partly from his delicate years and partly from the absorb- Mass for him , with the result that the leg was completely healed cure me . " Mrs. O'Brien promptly brought the sufferer to Mount Life of Father Charles , C.P. old us the story of her cure with singular intelligence . consent , and for some days remained undecided what course to to the eyes , she has never since had the slightest symptom of her six years , of 31, Booterstown Avenue , Booterstown , received an of her legs ever since , and when the matter was being investigated , Dublin , had been blind for three months , suffering from acute o get up and walk . To the intense astonishment of her sight restored ; and though engaged in work which is very trying peak , and was treated without avail in several of the city hospitals . About the middle of the year 1887 , Charles E. H. O"Brien , aged leigned to work a miracle through the instrumentality of His former affection . Fortunately , the lad had often heard the name of Father Charles , in a few days . and since that time he has been quite well and ervant . Up to her eighth year she had been a cripple , unable to Healing the Sick . take its course . Edited by a PASSIONIST FATHER . daughter of Mr. Matthew Kavanagh , in whose favour God MENDING the convent of the Sisters of Mercy , Brown is to almost lay bare the bone . A leading surgeon was summoned , Street , Dublin , was a little girl named Norah Kavanagh . Doulists were consulted , and remedies applied , with " no beneficial be explained . " bring me to Father Charles ; I am sure he will CHAPTER XII-continued . --- Page 86 --- use of his legs , was brought to me by his mother . I made no pain , had now , by a supernatural power , been restored and re- Charles was blessing the boy . I put on my secular dress to an into to her , giving her a prayer to St. Paul of the Cross , desiring her and to the sanctified priest , when she found that nothing less than She was utterly unable to walk . ' having to be carried to the cab crowds that were clustering around him , spoke some kindly words ng at her house , Mrs. Belton , her sister , could scarcely believe she , who had to be assisted into the church , now walked ' forth delay in calling Father Charles to bless him . Whilst Father Quakeress my " Manual of the Cross and Passion , ' and " Catholic natism . Her days were spent in extreme anguish , to be succeeded and with a heart full of joy proceeded homewards on foot . Arriv- very time they became unwell instead of sending for a doctor . a miracle had been wrought in her behalf ; for those limbs , which to him full of faith , and besought his blessing , which he gave . She relates how the heart of the holy priest was moved to pity at walking in front of the house waiting for me . perfectly cured . " fruitless , the doctors declaring her case to be a hopeless one . invigorated to healthy action . A new life came to her , and belief ' to the Presbyterian , which they promised faithfully to rostration , she consulted three physicians , but medical aid proved into the new Retreat , a boy about 12 years of age . having lost the rad continually suffered excruciating pains from chronic rheu- about thirty years ago she came in a cash to see Father Charles . a moment before had been excavated with disease and racked by had been transformed into such a picture of health and vigour . I often saw them at Mount Argus , and on one occasion gave the Shortly . " he states . " before we left the old house to arms . gentleman , to my knowledge , came to Father Charles to be cured faithful to his promise , became a Catholic , and received his first A Protestant , some years ago , came to one of the " Passionist to say it . Great was her surprise , and deep her gratitude to God Communion at Mount Argus . following miracle which came under his notice : - The news of this remarkable incident soon became the all-absorb- study . This Quakeress has since died a Catholic . and could scarcely realise what had occurred . Father , and said : Catholic Church . Father Charles will cure me I will believe in the Divinity of the The following statement was also made by the late Father Father Charles blessed him : he was cured of his disease ; and , Dublin . Great , indeed , was my surprise to find the little fell Mrs. Penfold , of 2 Bessboro' Parade , Rathmines , states that Sebastian , C.P. : the woebegone sight she presented , and taking her aside from " the The late Father Sebastian . C.P. has left his testimony of the next examined the leg . it is asserted " they were spell-bound , ' Hearing of the wonders that Father Charles had wrought , she came I am given over by the doctors . who saw I am doing . If with groups . confiding in her strength , dismissed the cab , which was waiting An educated and wealthy Quakeress and a rich Presbyterian when leaving her own home . For twelve months previously sl is , that the chronic invalid who left the house that morning y nights of weary wakefulness . " Reduced to a fearful state Mrs. Penfold , of 2 Bessboro' Parade . Rathmin lowing miracle which came under his notice : - --- Page 87 --- round the new portion , so as to harmonize with the other parts ratic statesmen there were men of the type of Lord Byron , who rom the Hill of Tara he trained the plant to spread its leaves her were put into operation . He saw that among English aristo- shelter from all confusion of tongues ! In the shadow of thy sacred ainlv would provide its recesses saving to both in the language reat friends of human liberty . Even Lord John Russell had already wo-storied building of three gables , and two porches , the walls re exercise of religion , as in politics , he awakened , will long survive and if the walls of this room could only speak what takes of revelry systemies let my soul henceforth repose , remote alike from the him , and go ringing down the future , chanting as it were , an un- reasoning and profound research , that in the Roman Catholic up , " Hail , then to thee , thou one and only true Church which art thyhow , it cannot be gainsaid that the notes for freedom in tenant he built a wing to the residence . Having brought some ivv have been maintained for a time by statesmen who , may , con- or , to quote some of his own beautiful language in his summing of the house . The drawingroom , where Moore entertained his many friends with music and song . is situated on the ground floor . scientiously believed that such systems were beneficial for whom begun to see that Ireland was not to be dealt with as a high while I believe : and , beholding the heights of Divine Power , for- Religion , " in which the poet maintains with great cogency of lying requiem for the poet whose most precious gifts , during his wohahlv due to the well-known lines of Denis F. MacCarthy , in the same as when the poet lived there . The house is an irregular of which are thickly overgrown with ivv . When Moore became of St. Augustine . ' Do you reason while I wonder , do you dispute Tom Moore's cottage home . were not only in sympathy with Irish national aspirations , but robably , he received the brothers Griffin in 1832 , when they were the spot where the remains of Moore lie . This misconception is nettled horse by force and coercion but by suasion and sympathy . Doubtless . Moore knew that some of the worst political systems nd with they could tell ? Opposite it is the diningroom where , It was in this home , too , that he gave to the world his cele- of his native land by a foreign army . When in the summer of 1892 , while living at Marlborough ard Moore lies buried . Many Irishmen regard Devizes as being Near Sloverton is the little village of Bromham , in whose grave- bear to approach its depths ! ' nfidel who scoffs at their darkness , and the rash believer who Brumham , as a matter of fact , is five miles from Devizes . had he been a warrior in an early battlefield resisting the invasion deputed by the electors of Limerick to ask Moore to become their Where Moore lies sleeping from his land star . Fatherland ! . O'er thy sword Devizes . church , and in it only , was the true religion to be found : his poem : alone the way of life : and to whose tabernacle alone there is ' One of beautiful devotion , were laid at the shrine of Faith and " A green sword rises . in Wiltshire . I visited Sloperton and found Moore's cottage much ated work . " Travels of an Irish Gentleman in Search of a --- Page 88 --- friendship , of his single-minded devotion to parents , wife and cutting , which would rank him as a great writer , ' even if he had him , on his death-bed , murmur with a truly Catholic faith- to his great sorrow , found Moore in an unconscious state . " The Tom Moore's cottage home . tame of Moore , by charging him with religious apostasy or calm- poor husband . Since he told me he met you he is in a constant Nevertheless , the priest was admitted to the poet's bedroom , and , affliction , of his unbounded confidence in God's mercy which made the sun was sinking I turned away from this hollowed ground : and children ; of his simplicity of character , and his great patience in dameless as a patriot , and blameless as a man - of his fidelity in When first I heard their evening chime ! religious calumny who have , again and again revited the name and song , and that treasure of inimitable prose-work , powerful and riating the creed which he did so much to craft and advance in the Those joyous hours have passed away , not been a great poet , both of which express , as nothing else could , all the elemental feelings of our patriotism and our faith . How many a tale their music tells Within the tomb now darkly dwells , Bessie . trust in God . " As I thought of that " legacy of beautiful While other bands shall walk these tells , my God , what have you done to cause the present state of my state of Belgium , and is now in bed too ill to see anybody . ' inference the priest drew was , that the effort of preparation for a I thought of the child that with innocent glue , general confession was too much for the poor bard's weak memory , For silent and sad is the social retreat , Where the wild harp of Erin once echoed so sweet . and flower-spangled fields . I thought of the poem of W. L. Bowles - as I was wondering my way homeward through rich pasture-land And sing your praise , sweet evening bells . ' go , by the poet's grave . I thought of his long unblemished life- I was both to leave this place of revered associations . As And so 'twill be when I am gone , And many a heart that then was gay sunshine of religious liberty . So often had welcomed my pony and me ! Of youth and home , and that sweet time trepidation at the door , threw up her hands and explained . " Oh ! And hears no more those evening bells . That tuneful deal will still ring on , I was awakened from my reverse by the chime of bells from Who walked all the chords with his magical ' hand ; This incident in itself should silence for ever those vendors of As I stood on that bright , summer evening twenty-seven years I thought of the bard in a far distant land , " Those evening bells , those evening bells , the parson-poet , a neighbour of Moore's : ' If this is the cottage ! before I pass by , following lines : Let me stop for a minute , and gaze with a sigh , he tower of the church which Moore has immortalised by the and caused the result so much to be , deplored nd caused the result so much to be deplored . For silent and sad is the social retreat . A so sure This incident in itself should silence for ever riating the creed which he did so much to exert and advance in the --- Page 89 --- Annals of the Poor . now the widow , still weak from her illness , had to face the world ut even that little was such a price . ' There are charitable organi- return drew on the Widow Moloney cast many an anxious thought working couple who had managed to keep a comfortable home for een the children together , and the Sisters at the convent school , to her coal bill in the winter . They could manage with very little , ations that help such cases , but Mrs. Moloney was never one said . " God is good . " and she was fortunate in securing a tiny where all but the baby attended , daily gave her work , that with truck down with typhus . to which the latter had succumbed . and he best of husbands , but God had taken him , and He knew what to beg . at least not from earthly gives . ' Daily ' she begged from ier way than the tragedy of the Moloneys . Such a good , hard- At least their could manage in the summer weather but as the seroic fight for her , but she faced it the right way . She had lost put a sound she fell back on the bench in the Sister's room , where racated for a much smaller , much poorer one , but , as she always God for all , both spiritual and temporal , what she and the children ind support her children alone . It would be a hard struggle , a needed , and every night before the statue of the Sacred Heart , for was best . The neighbours have seen to them , Mrs. Moloney . " They In this spirit she went back to the home which had soon to be By Alice Dease . sours , kept the little family from want . are expecting you . But it will be such a home-coming for you . cottage her dread had been a tenement room-where she could expecting such a collapse , was ready with restoratives , but almost Oh I you poor thing . I have told Nurse Whelan to go back in the that " her very appearance warned the freshly-discharged patient not want to throw you back " with bad news . ' And he's in hospital himself ? ' The Sister was accustomed to sad scenes in her daily life at here was a silence , but Mrs. Moloney understood , and , with- nstantly Mrs. Moloney sat up again . He he was . ' the Sister nodded her head . " What's the children about ? that something was wrong . tell me what is wrong ? Mr. Moloney , " faltered the Sister . coming out to-day ? ' I" I am afraid there is no one . Mrs. Moloney . " The Sister in heir five children : first the mother , and then the father was re great city fever hospital , but nothing sudden had ever " come in That's it . Mrs. Moloney . You see when you were ill we did he few pence the two elder children were able to earn after school " T.S there no one to meet me , Sister ? Didn't they know I was cab with you - Tahn is it ? Oh I mv God . He got the fever , too , then " What is it ? " she asked quickly . " For God's sake , Sister , What is it ? " she asked quickly . he had been summoned to appear before going home . ' The ' Sister . charge of the fever hospital looked so distressed " and embarrassed " Did he have the priest ? " her voice was strained and harsh , " For God's sake , Sister , of the fever hospital looked so distressed " and embarrassed 1.04 --- Page 90 --- money , I have been given the price of a bag of coal . and I if a shilling could go to the list of the dead , but , knowing that the of God , " but repeating it over and over with her lips , she meant out of her work , she had counted so surely on an answer to those an extra bag of coal to come to them now and again , in particular . never continue running " his after-school errands without a new up daily Mass for her husband as often as she possibly could ; And the tears that misfortune could not bring . came to show how pair of boots , and both the little school-going girls had need of could not keep her eyes quite free from tears , as the needle flew in always attended had said a Mass for John Moloney's soul , and as with her lips , that splendid ejaculation , " Welcome be the Will would have managed to spare a shilling from her weekly bills . week's work ' would be done , and , brave heart though she had , she sister would very likely refuse the sacrifice , she held her tongue , prayers . It was hard , very hard to say from her heart , as well ' God knows . Sister dear . God only knows how I've named for this more , she could only manage , in spite of all her work , to offer thought of you this bitter weather . ' The Sister held five shillings warmer clothes to keep away the chilblains that were already and going quickly out . " she almost ran to the shop where only the poral and spiritual . Had the weather been less cold , Mrs. Moloney forced itself upon her . The priest at the church which the Molonews Mrs. Moloney had a bit of sewing to finish at the convent before her THE CROSS . store , and some means of adding John Moloney's name to the it , with all the force of her will as though she could not feel that A blast of real winter weather , ushering in the month of spare anything from her weekly output to have her John's name in her hand the widow wondered if she could bring herself to ask given her the work to do. entered the room with her weekly nav . chapel list of the dead , without having actually to ask charity but now it was not only coal that was needed . ' Johneen could she made the children pray for all their wasts " in general , but for put on the list of the dead for public prayers . tingling on their finger tips . to get it , for any day ' His up again it will be . ' It was a Saturday . the last day of October , and on the narrow up for these two special intentions , an addition to the winter coal It was entironed in her new home as It had been in her old . nent , " and Mrs. Moloney , " she continued , after paying the reartfelt was her gratitude . For a moment as she held the money woman be upon you and upon those that gave it , " said Mrs. Moloney . he dead list would be given out from the pulpit at St. Joseph's . a similar bag of coal . it was an added heartache to the widow that she could afford no And as the days of October crept by another very pressing need she wished things as they were . to do so . She had almost finished her task when Sister Paula , who had five shillines this week . ' This down for a wonder , but you're lucky November , brought home to the Molonews their needs , both tem- but now with November at hand she felt she scarcely dared to " It is , then , and may God's blessing and the blessing of a widow- week before she had spent another five shillings upon just " such The nightly prayers and the October Rosary were all offered A bag of coal . Mrs Malonov Verv and ma'am . No not out . " That's the price of a bag , is it not ? ut . " That's the price of a bag , is it not ? " --- Page 91 --- Ismall visit spur cupism as hombpe best sniser sin to them . dioman diomsom rul su transosp ; ni festafamir son obsin's an Scott Amir . If people I bear do to mine best up gossip up a bisexual an feat rem , it does him sup com lastesnics people best swimn on Sesmur-Mi descann , map ni biorn sn t-star ins Schorst spina lieteants inline car farnze asur an right to less desnism sc sp cumnest opts . ' As most statements people anoir . 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Jean-Mac is an result as Laetesnitz , people best cartte a session ; so can be an master best as calm ? Dionn' people Sean-Ir mart an resp tid , a Seamur ! ' Do curry near 5 an recail sac mi . Sean-" Comur ran ? seamer-Azur cabins took ? Msp bion laetesnnnnt a nleirce . ' Soo curg na h-orbrei n-Aim nio-rusinear . seamp-If best older best descures swim as being as sur runne tap n-air up room spin ? desnism squinn , canup a best on roest ? Sesmur-fest sp ns to some parobpe nsc mbionn proc or apison niro . " Sean-D'perom an cost too best seat , a micro , sci ni festasp muiris na moma . seismur-11i mist from e sctainesto sgur ir mist last pain scornui SCs , San facto Le desnain in Sanison Cunam in so impin , must a tazzon an rolpe , stamp up far into a spur desnism squinn , comur a best on roest ? me . --- Page 92 --- Blessed Gabriel Guild . A Song of Hope . Upon the laughing breeze . Seosaimhin Nic Chathmhaoil . Oh God , keep a little hook above . And watch it through the woodlands pour , My spirit friend . Our Irish Rivers . And grant I may meet in the land of love , Hope thou on and on . Sincere unto the last . And hear the music of its waves . Struggle hopeful on . Then keep the place within your heart , Where Irish Rivers Now . As where the shamrocks grow . And hear its magic roar ! Oh I look a-down the wooded glen , Oh I see the shamrocks grow ! Construct its crystal lakes . Oh I listen to the music soft ! and blossomed in the garden of the Guild . May it never die : If earth were always fairer than the starry Throne of God , And hear it tell in murmured tones . And hear how soft its murmurs fly If the lone sea-waves were dancing say from rosy dawn . Fill eye . But never will then be so grand Lilian Mary Nally . And see the mulsing river flow , Then what though grief of mind opposes thee ? Your heart may roam through distant lands , If the song of wind and wave and bird . If friends were ever true : If the sun were always shining . if the clouds were always gold , Gloom will soon be gone . As on the " logs " it breaks , soon will glean the dawn . which touch the bending trees . And by the cottage door . Where flashing rivers Now . What though sad-lipped care caress thee ? And watch it with a magic sweep Ah ! where would be the bright , bright thoughts that hope can ever What a grand spirit of friendship and comradeship has sprung to life The story of the past- Rita Carlos . Of tears that fell . of honour bright , weave ? If the way of life were pleasant . if its charms were always new For those to memory and heart most dear , to Nina . in ! where would be the hope that springs from every chastening Then what through the dusk of night be clearly ? rod ? fragile flowers never died . if hearts were never cold What though the faltering 171 . What though the faltering footsteps weary ? footsteps weary ? --- Page 93 --- 172 . and may bind them indissolubly to the Cross of Christ , paternal charity the blessing you request , so that the for your pious tribute , has been pleased to grant with the sole plank of salvation and of life , the symbol of piously presented at His Throne in token of your devout from shipwreck ever increasing numbers of the brethren Apostolic Blessing for the contributors to this excellent peace , and the source of all true civil progress . apostolate in the bosom of Christian families may rescue which , collected into an elegant volume , you have the Editor of " THE CROSS " by His Eminence Cardinal periodical continuing with increasing zeal its salutary the numbers of the monthly periodical - " THE CROSS " In conveying to your Reference these gracious I am happy to inform you that His Holiness , grateful and final homage , at the same time begging the sentiments of the Pontiff , I have pleasure in subscribing The Sovereign Pontiff has received with pleasure Secretariate of State of His Holiness The following is a translation of a letter addressed to The Vatican , March 9 , 1918 . publication and for its readers . Gasparri , Secretary of State : - Yours affectionately in the Lord , The Cross and praises its work myself , Reverend Father , His Holiness Pope the Apostolic . Benediction on His Holiness Pope Benedict XV. bestows Benedict XV. bestows . the Apostolic Benediction on --- Page 94 --- Hiberniae Primas . Archiep . Dublinen . Nihil obstat . Michael Hickey . S.T.D. # Gulielmus . Censor Dep. Imprimi Forest : Passionism LSTOR Miscellaneous . standing abide in their hearts and peace which surpassed all under- remain with them for ever . heartily wish an abundant share of Christmas blessings . May that the Nativity of our Divine Lord will be celebrated with and its Memories . Christmas . birthday of the world's Redeemer . The memory of our aviour's advent and its attendant circumstances will that traditional reverence ever associated with the In the churches and homes of Ireland the Festival of to all the readers and friends of The Cross we # # # 8 # addressed envelope . insuitable MSS . will not be returned unless accompanied by free , payable in advance . itenary Communications to the Editor , at the same address . December , 1914 . Business Letters to be addressed to the Manager , Mt. Argus , Dublin . Annual Subscription to THE CROSS , Four Shillings and Sixpence post Vol. A. No. 8 . stamped . --- Page 95 --- the sweet charm and row of the Christmas can hardly be found , for the spirit of winning innocence is quickly Every home in Ireland owes much to our Faith , and of the triumphs of our Catholic Art . In such places now " during the Christmas , the jubilee of the ordered ductions of questionable work using the rightful place world , every parlour should be encobled by at least one crowned at Westminster on Christmas Day . An insult pictures is not a true Irish home , and certainly not a through his palace on Christmas Day , in the presence church of St. Mary Major during the celebration of the other . This is supposed to have been the reason that acknowledged himself to be his subject . The Irish on Christmas Day was deemed more deadly than on any true Catholic home . In many places very sorry repro- stifted by the " culture " that favours dubious aesthetics . of the Norwegian ambassadors , as a sign that he king told the Norwegians present that he was ready Magnus . King of Norway , in 1098 , sent his shoes to desecake the Catholic home . A house without Catholic third Mass . From that out it became a favourite date King Muracard of Ireland , with orders to carry them for court ceremonies . William of Normandy was homes ? No semi-atheistical views should be allowed to Why are the inspiring pictures of the duty of our people to adorn their Catholic picture , by one representation of our own un- Roman Empire . The ceremony took place in the not only to carry their master's shoes , but was quite homes with pictures that become the Miscellaneous . him to conquer a single province of Ireland . prepared to swallow them . too , before he would allow Leo the Third crowned Charlemagne head of the Holy sacredness of the Catholic home . surpassed religious . Art the Madonna absent from so many It was on Christmas Day , in the year 800 , that Pope assigns the 25th of that month as the date of His birth . Catholic Art . in the Home . From the fourth century every say , in March , and , consequently , at this season to direct attention to born in December . 175 . It is appropriate . is appropriate at this season to direct attention to say , in March , and , consequently , born in December Western Calendar From the fourth century every Western Calendar --- Page 96 --- patients ( writes a correspondent ) , as perfectly , but considered it a bad well as to those who have left threatens the ruin of German trade in this as well as in Germany also fully realises the value of goat's milk medium for singing , and preferred to for children . When several prominent Frenchmen pro- out that such an action would mean death to thousands women , and especially those with delicate children . the Peace Treaty compelling the Germans to surrender 140,000 milch cows and 10,000 goats , it was pointed war , the Thuringian doll industry gave employment to hospital cured , is a pressing need . come hurrying to their doors with jugs to be filled . tested , in the name of humanity , against the clause in the sole result of the inquiry was a stem the dreadful tide of infant Its establishment would do much to her . So far as Ireland was concerned over 50,000 hands , but that now " Japanese enterprise career appeared in the February issue of The Cross-knew English suggestion of toy-making as a similar suggestion in 1919 . He tells us that , before the in France . At the sound of the goat-herd's pipe , any other city of Europe . Goat's milk is much valued to find a German , Victor Zorn , making a precisely industry for an Irish village , and although see what foreign schools could teach write in French , which she called of infants . mission to the Continent , in 1882 , to written in French that it is so little To remedy educational deficiencies , England sent a com- London music halls are on sale ? THE UNOSS A depot for supplying coat's milk to baby out-door mortality , said to be more appalling in Dublin than in nothing seems to have ever come of the idea it is curious where so many productions of the as an Irish . Toy-Making popular Christmas carols in France . An Irish Industry . The Milk . Question . The late Augusta Christmas Carol . language of her heart . " Her " Noel d'Irlande " Is it because it is known in Ireland , a Holmes a brief sketch of whose mortality ... a stem the dreadful tide of infant is one of the most 1 6 708 one of the most popular Christmas cards in France . " the language of possible industry . The late Augusta Holmes - a brief sketch of whose --- Page 97 --- is , doubtless . to opposition to each its suitable need of anarchy ! Ten years since a Catholic observer com- Stage , Literature , and Schooling to regard the possess- bred up to despite the simple pleasures of rural life , oft bare of tillage because her sons and daughters are blame . That all contribute to a like result no English man or woman will dare to dispute . For , sheeplike , and are trained from their tenderest years by Press . sion of Education as a boon which opens to its recipients Well , it did spin . and the grooves rang , with a verge- all the treasures that the world can bestowed it energy , we are beginning to suspect that the land is it is called who break the laws first of society , then of Even from a secular standpoint the costly failure of It seems then , after thirty-nine years of wasted every scribbler , rhetorician , and statesman in turn their country - are commonly the very men who have assimilating the knowledge with which we have stuffed may show us that those persons who turn out badly , as ance , and now we find ourselves on the brink of received more than the ordinary share of intellectual ourselves . " ( Faith of the Millions , Ser. ii , xiii , p. 5 our State venture should remind men of Newman's go to history or philosophy , when the humblest village digested and indigestible ; and this is the evil of our our time and energy as to " leave us no leisure for watchword . own day , when to be possibly well-informed so taxes mented : Is it not a fact , for the truth of which we need not Forward , forward , let us range , It is hard to understand the abyssal folly of the some false ideals in education warning . dained to pause for reflection . " Progress " was the ' Let the great world spin for ever down the ringing grooves of change . ' gifts ! " ( University Sermons ( 1890 ) , iv. 60-1 ) . them , uplift them . ' ' Whether ! Where unto ? " To ineteenth Century . " Educate , educate , educate . " it Educate , educate , educate . " it How ? To what end ? " Educate everybody , develop he swine of Gadara . But the age of railways dis- ried with deafening insistence . Educate whom ? progress , to advance . " Again , in Heaven's name , Educate everybody , develop How ? To what end ? whether ? A runaway cab horse progresses . So did't in Heaven's name , Let the great Where unto ? " To cried with deafening . age of railways dis- insistence . Progress " was the Again , progress . to advance . " --- Page 98 --- Marie Corelli : if they have not been grounded in the Education as the sole cure for all ill , and sole source 1870 desired a nation of clerks , despising agriculture , ence of all human generations ) . They succeeded . " and had any definite ideal it would seem that the men of ploughmen ? Shall we " better our position ! " in that knowledge and practice of the great permanent rules parents , aim to be equal to those whom God has taught God has called us . And how if God calls us to be bad , designing men , who are unfaithful to their wives . to virtue , and to God . " ( Life of Mother Margaret Mr. Henry Arthur Jones asks of what avail is it ? " If they are ashamed of the conversation of their poor ming-is now discredited by reflective persons as an innocent , interesting girls , who would be farm-servants , their will upon us . Vana salus hominis . been far more educative , he claims , than the costly or servants of some class or other , too refined , so that schools and boards of education , whose triumphs may us to be subject to , and thus become easily the dupes of case by becoming quill-drivers , or rather , type- know a little about Cicero , and a great deal about Miss and handicraft ( and with these the wisdom and expert- of life and conduct ? " The Boy Scout movement has barbarism . In his Patriotism and Popular Education sanctified . By the duties of that state of life to which We have souls to be sacrificed and saved . How middle-class entertainments are largely compact of dull wasted upon the gospel to which " enlightened " One of the greatest evils is that of making young , England so long gave full credence . So far as they The panacea of 1870-secular information , cram- the scholars " have passed all sorts of standards , and liberty " has vanished , and brazen professors work cabbles the same farrago in praising and holding up ugly imposture , a ludicrous failure . Satire would be Hallahan ( 1869 ) , p. 207 . ) thumpers ? Let us hear a wise and valiant woman : This idolising of a false refinement results in actual low a naval accident may starve us : our boasted " The bulk and staple of our middle-class and lower of national greatness and progress . " be studied in their pupils' habits : Charles Weld-Blundell in " The Englishman , " 17th March , 1909 . #LESS --- Page 99 --- Life of Father Charles , C.P. oices were now silent . Father Charles never relaxed his efforts Whenever it fell to his lot to take the Superior's place at the induced his fellow-religious , and all to whom he spoke , to accom- people in the busy world were , for the most part , devoting their dessing of the religious before retiring for the night , he never nergies to the pursuit of things vain and unprofitable , heedless of them , pain was apparent in his countenance , and he invariably continual prayer was for the suffering souls ; and this meditation any him in his recital of some indulgenced prayer on their behalf . in pleading the cause of the members of the Church Suffering . charge of duties would permit , ' applied solely to this end . While of the one thing necessary , and forgetful of departed friends , whose he subject he had so clearly at heart , directing their attention ment to the Sacred Passion , and the Dolours of our Blessed souls : " and it was closely associated with his inexuressible attack- This was his great life thought , to gaze in spirit on the " burning is cell , or when walking within the precincts of the Retreat , his ng with charity , he frequently funny himself down in the shadow to release " those that are in fetters ; " and , when the thoughts ind affictions , which were at all times by no means slight . Glow - ailed to tell some little incident which turned their minds upon and the actions of the worldly-minded differ widely in this , as in lection of an interchange of mutual help with those beyond the of the King . ' nent , and appealing to their friends on earth for pity . In speaking ascends daily " the voice of petition , " beseeching the Most High to the fact that even small imperfections deserved to be purified frave illumines with rays of heavenly consolation , and fills the prayer , every exhortation , every sacrifice was , so far as the dis- transcends temporal-can realise the superiority of the one , the souls is afforded me by one of our Missionaries , who will get all ives . The pure of heart alone can realize how far spiritual aid in the flames of Purgatory . for the Holy Souls in Purgatory , and especially in procuring as Now . one good opportunity I have of benefiting the poor From every altar . as well as from the homes of the people . heart with supernatural joy . What we have remarked is borne out by the following letter there can be no manner of doubt . Every action of his life , every I am at present engaged in obtaining suffrages and prayers Works of mercy towards the dead grace the life of every saint ; written by Father Charles from St. Anne's Retreat , Sutton , works of satisfaction and indulgences during life for the suffering That Father Charles practised this devotion in a heroic degree , All who came to him were reminded of the thousands dying laily , many of the souls of whom were languishing in their banish- inferiority of the other . of the Tabernacle , craving mercy and pardon for the " Prisoners Lancashire , on the 3rd February . 1870 : the people on the missions to make the Heroic Act , and offer their Lady . ' Whether in the church or in the choir , in the solitude of souls . many as possible to make the Heroic Act . many other respects , from those which are the outcome of sanctified in their region of anguish provided a panacea for his own pains ent ones might naturally bring a cloud of sorrow , the recol- two many as possible to make the Heroic Act . --- Page 100 --- our merits multiplied a hundred-fold . We are by no means hindered charity to the souls of the faithful demanded will be compensated of mine died , who had been blessed with temporal prosperity , and souls in Purgatory , whom she desires to free from their torments by the Heroic Act , the subjoined extract may prove interesting : Virgin , to be distributed according to her good pleasure to the papers printed for distribution , so that the people might have some- will be offered for us after death , into the hands of the Blessed my uncle . He mentions that about eight months ago a relative ne . " Father Charles not only braveed for them , ' but , ' for their laily gained by our good works are voluntarily resigned into her firtues are "communicable , and in " the Heroic Act these are We need not fear to do ourselves any injury . All that we give in given to the Blessed Virgin to be beautiful , and the satisfactions lands to be employed for the greatest glory of God , and to bring from praying for ourselves or others , for we only give the satis- bliged to your paternity if , in your great charity , you will grant souls to sing His praises . the cross . only seven every tie , but even sacrifice their own actions and make said , " I pray for the dead , that the dead released , may pray for And as these souls left the realms of pain to take possession of tory part of our works , all indulgences and all suffrages , which grace and glory hereafter . Strictly sneaking . merits oranges and of eternal glory . It is truly one of the highest works of Faith and all things to follow Him , what will be the reward to those who not ternal crowns by the intercessory prayers of Father Charles ! lactory fruit of pravers and good works , but we keep the propitia- written to Father Provincial , dated 30th May , 1871 , which affords of mercy , done with such minute perfection , what a vast number nembers of the family . My share amounts to the sum of 259 mother convincing proof of the devotion uppermost in his mind : holy but afflicted souls , and for numbers of them the possession tory and impetatory merit . ' As some of our readers may not understand fully what is meant There is " a difference between the satisfactory and meritorious Charity in which we can engage . ' guilders . The same comes to my other brothers and sisters , who In the foregoing he also expressed his intention of getting are eight in number . This movement cannot fail to obtain immense relief for the After so many prayers , so many modifications , so many works n Purgatory , according to my intention . T shall he very much Among his private documents was found a draft of a letter , If our Lord made great promises to those who would relinquish I wish to have 100 Masses offered for the repose of the souls ransom , sacrificed the work of his life . The Heroic Act of " Charity consists in resigning the satisfaction f souls " in Heaven must have been placed in possession of their ne permission to do so . " by increase of grace in ourselves ; and , after death , we shall find alue of good works . The former stones for sin-the latter obtains n'oblation of them through the hands of Mary ? St. Augustine thing to remind them of their resolution in this regard . her property to be divided into lawful portions among the 1st Saturday I received a letter from Holland written by Last Saturday I received a letter from Holland written by Charity in which we can engage . ' --- Page 101 --- land , gives the imagination new scenes . ' new pictures , a renewed or a while can make fields , roads , streets , " and towns a little em- world . " The young get a fresh licence for pleasure and play , and Anniversary comes to close the fading year with a blessing , with pire of their own . The snow seems to prove that the world was not scrooge , softens the hardest hearts , and for a while bridges the rges them to brighten their homes , and enable their children to he jubilant bells on the happy morning , the midnight Mass , and dissful days make existence seem a finer possession , make new urn the dark December into an basis of human love and encourage ieve the distressed . A splendid sincerity enables the humblest . and drudgery . It seems to spread the spirit of the Sabbath and Heaven-sent veil , gives the earth the appearance of a new fair- created exclusively for farmers , and money-makers , for endless toil sphere of adventure and movement over frozen lakes and rivers . he joyous " Adeste Fidelis , ' awaken a thousand memories , and spread peace and charity over the earth . attraction unsurpassed throughout the other seasons . The great unocence over the earth . Falling so gently . it writes the suages - he Nativity . The divine influence of Christmas overcomes even a ill the visits of Santa Claus bring a freshness into our lives and more like a home for men . The acts of kindness inspired by the The white virginal snow spread out everywhere , like a great nakes the shaking boy as firm as the railroad , and extends the contrasts in prolific nature . hasm between rich and poor . Verily , the real emancipation of The obvious season makes the world more like the work of God . Over the harvest-fields forsaken , A chant sublime , Yet the frost does more than the snow to favour the sportsman . ' as the day had come , Of peace on earth , good-will to men . ' Had rolled along . Descends the snow . ' Over the woodlands brown and bare , The beliefries of all Christendom . falling so gently over the ground , Nature . A voice , a chime , Till ringing , singing on its way The world revolves from night to day , Silent and soft and slow Out in the bosom of the air , esurgent hopes , with a Christian solemnity . Christmas Eve itself . nen is celebrated in the dark December days . and in wondering at the great Of peace on earth , good-will to men . " The unbroken song Out of the cloud-folds of her garments shaken , make a winter vacation a treasure of freedom and health . It tners in a great service . Christmas presents and greetings . ion of wonder and mystery , with a tendency to playfulness in Christmas , however , is the chief attraction in the winter- THE GORDMAN NILLUSVANCING Men learn to help one another to extend their joys . to re like the joy and charms of the world's greatest historical event - istmas , however , is the chief attraction in the --- Page 102 --- erves for window . He leaves it burning in memory of the first has lived on the headland . trying to else out a bare existence in the war . After a stiff climb . Meehaul O'Neill spies his little he turns , and walks with lagging feet and dropping head , across carrier to night . ' With his arms laden with his stock of goods , picture he presents , as he sits amid the stillness and silence of his little store he takes a ' Christmas candle , and placing it in its tames , until the numbness leaves them . Full of pathos is the with the thoughtful care that old age requires . All his life he corner and pulling back the dead " greeshach , " dresses up the fire turf . Sean brings his animal to a halt , and aids the old turf- property-stricken home . Loneliness truly typifies him , revealing im without kit . or kin. to tend to his wants . or surround him conce , strikes a match and lights it . ' In the little aperture that the snow to his cabin home . Tifting the latch he steps inside , Christmas , to act as guide to any wayfarer who may be marooned with fresh gods of turf . until the embers are ' coaxed into a warm in winning tones to the donkey , and the spirited animal hastens in the headland , without food and shelter for the night . Moving y cutting and drawing for his more fortunate neighbours in remains in the snow until the cart moves along the beaten track . and places his humble purchases on the kitchen table . From his sitting on the rude seat . holds his childed hands to the dancing blaze . He draws the old wooden bench near the hearth , and Sean's home lies further ahead , and as he urges on his donkey , summer , the turf from the boglands near the extreme points of Meehaul wishes his neighbour the blessings of Christmastide . and cabin at a turn of the headland , sheltered behind a stack of call with the cart and give you a lift down the headland . so that and Mechaul gaze across at the wonderful scene . Be sure , Meehaul , and waken early in the morning . I will until the sounds of the donkey cart cease in the distance . " Then his whip . he shouts pleasantly a further " Happy Christmas , collar of his coat more closely round his ears . Teehaul , " are the cart jobs noisily away . into the giant arms of the Horn , responds Sean , as he pulls the nature stretches before his view . " " Such a look of purity it wears , the moon . The donkey is brought to a standstill , while its driver is if sin had fled in dismay at its approach . ' his companion to a smoke . Then the driver speaks a few words booms up before their view , vast and mysterious in the glory of They linger a little longer while Sean lights his pipe , and helps now ! " unless Meehaul , as his eyes linger on the fair picture that ning speed . ' How beautiful and white the world seems in its dress of murs Meehaul . " See their forelegs ploughing the surf at light- A CHRISTMAS DAWN. for Him whose Coming and Birthday we hail with gladness to- Meehaul O'Neill gazes wistfully after his kindly neighbour calls back to the forlorn figure by the wayside . towards the hearthstone he lifts the poker from the chimney norrow ? " " The " Capalleense Bana " are at full gallon to-night . " mur- Aye , " answers his companion . Aye , and listen to their dying , shrieks as they dash themselves ' Aye , " answers his companion . " Isn't it a fitting setting you may be in time for first Mass in Dunfanghy . " Flourishing Isn't it a fitting setting s back to the forlorn figure by the wayside . murs Meehaul . --- Page 103 --- rove a dream . To a wonderful palace of glittering stones his into insignificance , in comparison with the ravishing glory that have loved my Rosary well , " she says , " and now you will be vercome with happiness , and as the angel leads him from the Great Presence , he holds his companion " tightly last it should God has set apart for you . " Through gardens' the grant with rated breath at the beauty of the ' Angels' faces . His companion into his eyes , with a glad welcome shining in her own . " You milingly bends his head and says : ' You haven't reached what rows , more quickly to and fro through the spacious halls , while Neehaul goes . beholding fresh beauties at every turn . " " See the manates from Heaven's King . The longings of his soul are the angel places Meehaul . Suddenly on the heavenly air rise wide now leads him . Myriads of saints wearing crowns on their stilled to rest in the loving glance he receives from his Creator . in their hands , appear in view playing celestial airs . Meehaul gases upon the Face of God . All the beauties he has seen , fade mingled awe and ecstasy dawn in Meehaul's countenance as he Christmas dawn in Heaven's dome , " murmers his companion . got strict injunctions to bring you in time for the feast . " Fearing looks at his companion with mute inquiry in his eyes . and the A voice of ineffable sweetness bids him draw near , and he listens enjoy the delights of Heaven . " " Oh ! " says poor Meehaul , re ne of my most favoured children in Heaven . " Poor Machaul is to words of praise that send thrills of cladness through his being . sirthday of their King , and you will be present at the banquet . reavenly regions . " Dazed with joy the turf-carrier gases with At last the " Great White Throne " is reached . Looks of requisite strains of music as the myriads sound their golden beautiful still . " " Is this heaven ? " " Mechaul whispers . His guide passes through . Along corridors paved with precious stones , and under arches overhanging with myriads of touax lights . Machaul hoicest blooms and through groves of ever-increasing wonders . e your future companions through endless ages , helping you to is ears . A company of angelic forms with golden instruments guide in silence , and looks benignly on the poor turf-carrier as he gems , and at that instant the Queen of Heaven looks , graciously loes not stop . but passes on . leading him through courts more The sweetest music Meehaul has ever heard now breaks upon membrance stabbing him with sudden pain . " What business such for My sake on thy earthly pilgrimage , so now will I reward mountain cabin . Meehaul humbly bows his head . is led until a magnificent court is reached . orenation , " the angel whispers . " " All these glorious beings will as a poor turf-carrier amid such happy scenes , and how shall I standing , with cleaning sword in hand . He salutes Meehaul's these . Receive thy crown . ive again in my humble cabin after tasting of these delights ? Rising from His Throne , God places upon his brow a diadem of trumpets and gather round him . " They are honouring your The heavenly citizens are busy this morning preparing for the at the side of each " an angelic form hovers . Upon a golden dais speak last he should break the spell , and find himself in his ingel bends low and whispers . " They are welcoming you to Tell done , good Meehaul . For as thou suffered and endured A UNNIPIND Warner --- Page 104 --- another a dirty brown , while the third showed traces of its original anxious that everybody else should know . He pointed out that the ranches along the lane , carrying signals of the piled carts which rain . Thick wisps of hay and straw still clung to the over-hanging stem , to which clung three leaves , one of which was a rich red . had discovered why leaves change colours in autumn , and was and the daffodil . A reinforcement of anthocyan pigments in asso- home and centered back in their mission of securing the last fruits ring to the surface . The birds in a little arc nearest the wall flew somebody's potato-lifter had , in spite of all its patents , failed to carpet of rotting grass and leaves , noting casually that there was well " are they aware of man's lordship over creation ! recently read . My mentor was one of those tantalising insensitive green colouring matter , another pigment named chlorophyll . There the recent passage of the farmer's field-carts as they lumbered in which a flock of rocks those . ' Manks of the feathered people . ' showed traces of the havoc of wind and rain-the purple blue of than repulsion . And so I stepped over the bars , on to the thick I reached the end of the lane and crossed another amateur gate . everything , but insists on scattering his knowledge broadcast . " He but my pleasure was married by the recollection of something I had quantity of anthocyan , a pigment which takes the place of the A gap in the trees lining the lane showed a huge potato-field ; these , named xanthophyll , is responsible for the hues of the cross I proud display of red , but the few blackberries which yet lingered masonry . From the top of one of the pillars hung a single brief are lipochrome pigments , which differ from anthocyan in that they he clay they displaced into mud . Stooping down I looked for are insoluble in cell-sap and unaffected by ammonia , while one of traces of animal life , for there had come to my mind that story of The muck was yeasty with worms . " But my search was in way a short distance as I passed . Had I only been carrying a gun In the middle of the wide but uneven war two deep ruts marked every solitary one of these hooks would have " fled out of range , so structed of five poles fastened to a pair of thick uprights by their once juicy berries having gone to dye the mass-covered stones of the walls which supported the parent stem . than the even monetary of the road . Its rustic gate con- By Thomas Kelly . green merged into yellow borders . I thought it a very pretty effect entlemen , the type of which not only wants to know the why of When Leaves have Fallen . worn-out horse-shoes-appeared to suggest invitation rather THE lane , straggling but sheltered , seemed more inviting of the walls which supported the parent stem . his time constructed of poles let into holes in two pillars of crimson in the blackberry leaves was due to the great increase in inished autumn . The wheels , aided by the rain , had churned to notice about threatening prosecution for the trespasser . here a few months agree . The sturdy hawthorns still held critic who held that the most graphic line in literature was . as Lord Lytton calls them-were quietly sharing the spoils 192 . --- Page 105 --- leels followed a flock of the ubiquitous crows with a solitary sea- for food until the frost has " sweetened " it . But he can give no emperature of 12 degrees F. the absorption of water and soluble were retained in the circumstance the loss of moisture by evapora- of stalk and twig until , with the weight of the leaf itself , the fall team , with heads bent low , forged steadily onwards , while at his irying to keep their science aloof from the common mortals ? A being thick , part with very little moisture during the dead season . about it that air of comfort which early winter brings to the farm- ts withered leaves throughout the winter . I will let one of the and left were fields of stable in which the crows were busy - what gull in their midst . Near by stood a snug-looking cottage , having Around me a drove of cattle were snifffastfully at the of-doors all the winter , seeing that so much of what they eat must potanists who shuns " technical terms " give his explanation : fall ? ' The fall is prompted by desire for life instead of death . All course-looking , sedgy grass which the farmer assures one is too sour when they start talking on botanical matters ? Are they just difficulty , as the temperature grows less in autumn , the tree gradu- The whole thing rests upon the question of water . Below the earth-salts by most plants is an impossibility , and if the leaves taken advantage of the weather to plough his stable . His sturdy explanation of his contention that cattle thrive best when left out- the dull flavour of decay . " In one of the fields a farmer had leaf-stalk a layer of corky cells , which slowly severe the connection field of still rich green , the aftergrowth of a late meadow . To right cours . " The evergreens retain their leaves because the latter , neutralising effect gives a purple-black leaf , but nobody has yet , it the sun shone would represent a serious loss . ' To get over this crumbled brown fragments about its base . And why do the leaves notice ? In front of me"stretched a rich slope of country , of which pansies . When chlorophyll is " superimposed on anthocyan the the breeze there came to one an odour of fresh clay mixed with And all things back , and nothing swift or strange briar leaves . Why cannot those " people deal in ordinary words But to-day the orchards were in the sleep of early winter and Disturbs the passing hours . ' cosiness of the homestead without emphasising the months of James laden with the breath of flowers , appears , been able to discover why white leaves are found in places stead-the piled stacks of turf , corn and havoc to suggest the fully exposed to the light . storm for which they are a preparation . the poet of summer might have sung : ciation with the lipochromes produces the hues of tulips and ion which , of course , would go on to a certain extent whenever lessons in economy they preach to the farmer who wishes to take I felt wearing by my naturalist . and so I passed on from the Where orchards slumber , and the breeze eaves that die do not fall - a dead branch or twig will often retain go to replenish bodily heat . ... A smile brought me into a illy denies the leaf its water-supply by forming at the base of the A land . 1948 . " YOUUS . bare sycamore stood in front of me . Its summer garb lying in --- Page 106 --- were leagued against him , he would more ' Heaven and earth to his arm . The stranger was pointing to where a blurred light but for the dispensation ; and again he said . " Confound it ! " And cheeked man , who , although he could not succeed in making him- with one hand , and made a speaking trumpet of the other , for Christmas Eve , or rather , on Christmas morning as it would glimbered on their left . Edwards understood and brought the lost in thought , while his companion was obliged to concentrate been a difficult task to drive it across the field at the further end simply sign their names at the nearest registry office . What a hing sweet Mary Butler would like him to do : especially on their destination without accident . At length he felt a hand upon fuss about nothing ! They might have been man and wife already not hear of this , and then walked together in the direction of the of which stood the cabin from whose window the light shame snow . And , just as he did this , he fancied he heard a voice stout- snorting motor to a stand : for , even in the daytime , it would have I was on my way to see a dying woman when my bicycle broke too glad to be of use : " and , having fastened the broken bicycle It meant giving up all hope of dining with his Dublin friends re swore that , come what would , and though the powers of hell have gone the rest of the way alone . " But John Edwards would to the back seat , he helped the stranger to the on- beside his should drive his car into some danger hidden by the blinding had night : but he was a humane man at heart . Besides , as he of a clean-shaven , white-haired old man , who pushed a bicycle by the police for having exceeded the regulation speed limit a few ossible in the storm . The old man sat with bowed head , as if Hallo !-hal-to ! stop-st-o-op ! " of medieval superstition ! " And , as will be seen , he kept his own , and wheeled the car round . to him from the darkness . An instant later and a tall , black you for a lift , although it will mean turning back . The woman lives near Glenmalure - an out-of-the-way spot . ing in jerks , like one who had been running for some time : " but rand upon the door . It was opened on the instant by a hollow- all his attention on the road before him if they were to reach " Excuse my want of ceremony , said the new corner , speak- John Edwards was obliged to slacken speed somewhat . lest he figure came within the light of the motor lamps . It was that aid to himself in a half shamefaced way . It was just the sort of pringing to the ground . " No excuses needed , doctor : I am only It was quite dark by this time , and well as he knew the way . moments earlier . he slowed down . There could be no mistake this time . Someone was calling a Christmas night at Glenmalure light . When they reached it Edwards thumb with his gloved " I passed it as I came along , " young Edwards answered . he snow-storm was at its height just them . " com word . ener he said it the more angry he grew : till in a final burst As the case is urgent . I thought I might venture to ask wishing to delay his conductor any longer . He old man would him to stop . Wondering if he was about to be held up the time it was all over . Conversation was practically im- her without " that confounded dispensation : a mere relic 18m . " Excuse my want of ceremony , " said the new --- Page 107 --- winfair fears off-vs in insector's tsbapt com . 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As call's react ends using his best just 1,cominui full an choice feacts syrup caitre 1ONS . p. -1/1/1/1/1,2, Inc. 50,000 caitresp an omato sign into an fast sac ' Modlary shopo' 1 up cuffi reserves Moolsg star sp s scporotib . 50 drussio O.s . --- Page 108 --- proud to know that in her heart there is the spirit of uncompromising hardly say that I am glad to have her in the Guild . ' Her essay is not a very nice letter which pleased me very much , but some of which it yearning for membership of the Guild and the strange story ( which I Gildes is a new member from Loreto Convent , Letterkenny , and I need James Doyle , and they are all Knights of the Blessed Sacrament . I give O'Neill , is with us again , as keenly interested as ever in the welfare of Brigidine Convent , Mountain , never fails to send representatives to the he Guild and in the work of its young members . We are glad that day . Mary Rennie breaks a three months' silence ( or is it longer ? ) with need not have apologised for her letter . I was delighted with it . and they will come to us often and try to carry off some of our prizes . The Chair an litir do scriobb Trease Nic. Mkaghnuis chugam no choice . ' I'd an Ghaelig go with aici asus to still again go cannot disclose here ) of how a little Dublin girl became acquainted with them a hearty welcome for their promoter's sake and for their own . Fuild , and they have always something interesting to say when they as we talk and play and tell our stories and sing our songs here in the thrown aside by Francis . From Corduff School . Co. Dublin ( a famous patriotism . She need never fear that such a letter as hers will be our activities here . ' Little do we know how many eyes are watching us heartening and sincere enough to make me the happiest man in Firinn . would never do to publish . What has become of Nellie , or has she for- suitable for the Christmas Competitions , but I am sure she will com- midst . Another new and welcome member is Maggie Rodgers , who Brigid and Michael , and I trust they will remain with us for many a brings five new members into the Guild this month , each one of whom gotten me this month , still my postbag is well filled , and the many arrive . This time two new members have come -Ena Hayes and Mollie promises to bring her sister Anna into the Guild next month . ' I trust MY POSTBAG . Rogers , and Rita Murtagh - all welcome as Santa Claus himself . " Mary names are Jerry Nolan , Peter Betton , Edward Barry , Christopher Walsh and he has recovered from her severe illness . John Cullen , K.B.S. , Carlow messages that have come to me from every corner of the land are from Brigid Barrett and her brother Michael . It tells of many a month's they are going to be faithful members . Our staunch friend , B. M. ich si go mi nic chugam . Its math an cailin ! ' Ellis' Ni pete again , and bring several of her school companions into our saken us entirely ? A welcome new member is Frances Burke , who Mordaunt - and they are welcome as any one has ever been . I think Although several of my oldest and dearest friends seem to have for- uild of Blessed Gabriel . However , I have great pleasure in welcoming spot ) come three new members whose names are Sophie Healey , Katie he most welcome letters I have received for a long time comes rises to write me a personal letter for the January Number . Their cannot disclose here ) of how a little Dublin girl became acquainted with Blessed Gabriel Guild sweet . I wish that all the peace and gladness and joy that come Christ-Child's eternal Home . young , like Him Who gave it to us nearly two thousand years ago , abide with you all through the years , and accompany you , when at Christmas may be in your hearts and homes , that they may the day's work is done , into the radiance and the glory of the o are its greetings and salutations and wishes ever fresh and 01 --- Page 109 --- Argus , Dublin . Competitors will please remember the following rules : All competition papers letters to be addressed : Francis , c.o " The Cross , " St. Paul's Ret of the sender . They must have attached to them the coupon to be found in this be sent so as to reach the office of " The Cross " not later than December 12th . same ( one coupon will be sufficient for all the members of a family ) . They must nust be certified by some responsible person to be the unaided and original work Lies by the side of Mary mild . Holy Saint Joseph a vigil keeps , All , all adore this Babe divine , Whilst Jesus in Mary's arms sleeps . Surrounded by a glorious light . Then shepherds see an angel bright , Bethlehem , Who seems to whisper " My Heart Gloria in excelsis , ' Loving and week , the Holy Child In excelsis . " Deo . " They come to adore the Child-King , saying . Ward . Hannie is thine . ' praying . Child-King , They come to adore the Hannie Ward . The Children's Song . As Thy Birthday speeds along . Blessing our dear native land ; singing on His infant-ear , Hail ! Infant Jesus , is our song , Join we soon the starry throng . Hail ! Babe of Bethlehem . Lead them to Thy throne above Chasing every childish tear- Child-god , raise Thy baby hand , Hail ! Babe of Bethlehem . With every blessing He could send . Hear their voices sweet and clear Asking Him to bless their friend Bless the hearts of those we love , To Mary's Son the children sing : A Happy Birthday to our King B. M. ( --- Page 110 --- the sole plank of salvation and of life , the symbol of periodical continuing with increasing zeal its salutary and may bind them indissolubly to the Cross of Christ , apostolate in the bosom of Christian families may rescue Apostolic Blessing for the contributors to this excellent paternal charity the blessing you request , so that the and final homage , at the same time begging the piously presented at His Throne in token of your devout for your pious tribute , has been pleased to grant with peace , and the source of all true civil progress . from shipwreck ever increasing numbers of the brethren the Editor of " THE Cross " by His Eminence Cardinal which , collected into an elegant volume , you have sentiments of the Pontiff , I have pleasure in subscribing In conveying to your Reference these gracious I am happy to inform you that His Holiness , grateful The Cross and praises its work the numbers of the monthly periodical - " THE CROSS " The Sovereign Pointiff has received with pleasure publication and for its readers . Gasparri , Secretary of State : The Vatican , March 9 , 1918 . The following is a translation of a letter addressed to Secretariate of State of His Holiness His Holiness Pope Benedict XV. bestows Reverend Father . myself , the Apostolic Benediction on Yours affectionately in the I ard . of State of His Holiness Secretariat . His Holiness Pope 204 --- Page 111 --- Nihil obstat . Imprimi Forest : January , 1920 . Vol. X. Archiep. Dublinen . Michael Hickey , S.T.D. E Gulielmus . Hiberniae Primas . Censor Dep. No. 9 . tree , payable in advance . Literary Communications to the Editor , at the same address addressed envelope . Business Letters to be addressed to the Manager , Mt. Argus , Dublin . Unsuitable MSS , will not be returned unless accompanied by stamped Annual Subscription to THE CROSS , Four Shillings and Sixpence , post antiphon to the Benedictus we read : Adoration of the Magi , the Raising of Lazarus , and the Transfiguration Miscellaneous . the Sixth day of January . In the are all more or less associated with miracles : to-day a star led the Magi to the crib , to-day To-day the Church is joined to her celestial spouse , tests exit in the water turned to " wine . ' Again , in ind : " We keep our Holy Day adorned with three asten with gifts to the royal marriage feast , and the Epiphany . ecause in Jordan Christ down her sins ; the Magi Our Lord , the Miracle of Canada , the The e Magnificent ambition of the Second Vespers , we the Baptism of --- Page 112 --- dicated by a heart , the reason being , so it is supposed Poor Richard's Almanac . " filling with proceeds , in they were transferred to Cologne in the twelfth . I these words , pondering them in her heart . " I artyrdom of St. Paul , a true-lovers' knot for S. people . " Now blustering Boreas sends out of his Partridge came forward and publicly declared Benjamin Franklin published the first number of han ever . It was at Philadelphia in 1733 . that akers . Yet those who want fires must now turn related what they had seen and heard . " Mary kept New Year in lines that , whether They were not Kings , but belonged , it is asserted , to and principal holidays of the year . Ordinary have Zoroaster , and , while forbidding anything partaking issue dated 1664 introduced the he 29th of March , and when , that date passed . save us . " The Gospel is silent as to the number of the Danes invaded that country . ' It was quite common in compilation of the earlier numbers . Messianic prophesies , and shared the general belief The festivals of the Blessed Virgin were invariably ulcating industry and frueality . The little spaces that for Persia . Their religion was fundamentally that of n Denmark , it is interesting to note that Christmas meant the birth of some important person . But . spect , and skill in the interpretation of dreams , led shiver . And though we hate sects and their vile par- John Partridge , the almanac maker , set all Dublin occurred between the most remarkable days . The Son . The Nazi are said to have eventually received ever-running " river , as the Book of Wisdom calls the the study of astrology . Their knowledge in this re- symbols , such as an axe for the anniversary of the said to have found its way to England when the three , while a tradition in the East makes them twelve . Valentine , and a Welsh harm for St. David's Dav. of Christ . ' Then probably were well aware of the connection with the popularity of the Cloe Almanac Epiphany . Even in our own time . It is usual to din 6th of January for the ceremony known to Greek ere" indicated by slender notches , and Sundays b broader . Special feasts were shown by suitable other hard wood , mainly designed to mark the Sundays with water in which a crucifix is immersed . appearance of a new and beautiful star would have the application of the water so treated . The monas- tion from God with regard to the birth of His Divine from his pen or not , give a because when the shepherds came to Bethlehem and fortell the future . Swift's humorous attacks upon People who lived near enough bathed in the Jordan were discovered in Persia , and taken to Constantinople by St. Helena . Removed to Milan in the fifth century , of " Poor Robin's " Almanac . The period , but also of the religious sentiments of the enmark . It was a short , square block of box . o then , and cures often resulted . ' The Antiochians used in the Jordan Christ willed to be baptised by John to of Almanac , still in use in the seventeenth " century ised to Wassail , or drink healths . The first almanac Vile , not accepted . ' It was formerly a favourite date evertheless . they must have had some special revel vase painted by Domenichino , and which is used on the to carry away water consecrated on the night of the Epiphanius tells us that in many places , where the a crucifix into lakes or rivers when blessing them , and mself to be very much alive . the laughter was greate Miscellaneous . Catholics as the Baptism of Christ , when it is filled many miracles have been recorded as resulting from ughing . He predicted the death of Partridge for Miracle of Canada was celebrated on the 6th of January . glimpse not only of the state of the weather at that Herrick . it is said . assisted in the for baptisms , as well as for the consecration of Virgins . water turned into wine , and even whole rivers : " the uptism from the hands of St. Thomas . Their remain is indicated by a horn , the vessel in which the Dane ry of Grotto Ferrata , near Rome , possesses a lar- Magi . " The popular idea in the West is that they were THE CROSS . Quakers . " Then , as now , almanacs often pretended to Almanacs and The poet Robert Calendars . quiver . Arrows of snow and nail , which makes men the speech coming of a Deliverer . For them the vine was made from water at the marriage . to-day the sacred caste of the Medes that provided priests to their undertaking the journey that led to the finding of the nature of sorcery , attached much importance to 207 . 206 --- Page 113 --- freedom ; and in the early days of the war , when I the contrary : he is brave , charming , devoted , cheerful ; ing the liberty of our thought and persecuting our distrust of the clergy : I reproached them with conceal- congratulated a French gentleman on having , as she name of Croker , that , on the following New Year's Senator Monservin , he said : " Formerly I had a great and especially at the New Year , given as presents . The soldiers invariably replied : ' Annoy us ! ' Quite precious gifts . It is related as a proof of the integrity of Day , she sent him a pair of gloves filled with forty the renovation of the French spirit , ' instead ; just as when pins first came into use they ( or sometimes money , called " glove-money , " was given the price of them , " pin-money " ) were regarded as supposed , become a Protestant for he had just told pointing to the chaplain , ' Does he not annoy you ? an easy one in France . An English lady who once it were against good manners to refuse your New Year's said a leader of a Protestant Com- Miscellaneous . lining , I utterly refuse it ! we love him much . ' ; The Protestant Committee for mittee for the conversion of Catholic events , than they cost in pre-war'days , they were often , her he had " lost his faith-received the following churches which we have in view as on that account our mission is harder . ' It was never the Conversion of the Eldest Daughter of the Church Blessed Thomas More that when , as Lord Chancellor . he decided a cause in favour of a lady of the ominous pieces of gold . " Mistress , " said Sir Thomas , " since travelled to the trenches , ' I used to ask the soldiers , answer : " Ah , no , madam ! You mistake me . I said Clemenceau has altered his long around opinion with mirth , " says his son-in-law . Roper . In former times . when gloves cost more than they cost now , or , at all gift , I am content to take your gloves , but as for the regard to French priests . In a conversation with " It is not so much the reconstruction of the devastated has , indeed , a hard task before it ! Church , during the war , has gained in popularity , and I have lost my faith , not my reason . " Even Mr. Religion in France . " Unhappily , the Catholic France . and France . " Unhappily , the Catholic egard to French priests . --- Page 114 --- not been sufficiently chronicled . viz . the part they took in the wonderful fight the Irish people put up , Irish boys during Penal days . have to their credit , and which , as far as I know , has There is one fight at the ford " which our Irish boys hearts ! lips ; strength in our arms , and purity in our on our Photo by ! ( Lafayette . Mrs. Helena Concannon , M.A. 1,000 days . --- Page 115 --- 218 --- Page 116 --- mitted to the Court everyone regarded him with old when appointed page to the Archdukes , having been Brussels , where young Brian , son to the great Earl of reared almost from his cradle by our brethren , and by left us a touching account of the tragic event , and in tutor , Father Nicholas Aylmer , who had gone to pro- him dead . When the awful intelligence reached the that the boy was fully murdered , in the absence of his Tyrone , came to his death . He was only nine years the boy's hands behind his back . ' The inquest showed was found that the assassin , whoever he was , had tied Becky to investigate the whole matter , and report upon thirteen-year old brother . Brian , even at the Court of affectionate admiration , blessed his innocent soul , and them brought up so excellently . that when he was ad- doing so he presents us with a fair picture of Irish it without loss of time . After searching inquiry , it called him their young rosebud , redolent of choices boy , the other Irish , coming to his apartment , found Archdukes , they instantly commanded Chancellor which , had God spared him , he might one day have boyhood during the Penal Days , which may well close August , 1617 , a most deplorable event occurred in virtues . A fair child in south was Brian , devout , Con-that made by the Constable of the Tower of four or five feet long . His servants , the one a French Five years previous to the last record we have of rivalled his illustrious father . ... He had been found of books , learned men , and military science , in London in 1622-the assassin's cord strangled his About six o'clock in the afternoon of the 16th Archdukes . Clara Eugenia . The Franciscan , Father Mooney , has the day and hour aforesaid , some Judas four years in the service of their Highnesses , when , on this little sketch : stole upon him , and strangled him with a cord about cure lodgings for him near the former palace of the irish boys during Penal days . where he was a favourite page of 215 The Franciscan , Father Mooney , has the Archdukes , the Archdukes , where he was a favourite page of --- Page 117 --- the Bible ' ) , the faith of the halfpenny ( or penny ) example may be generously followed , where time and their early years then find within the walls of their persuaded that the minds of children are most in- cation of youth . It is highly desirable that such noble fluenced by the training they receive at home . If in circumstances demand ; yet all should be intimately homes the rule of an upright life and the discipline and bestow much zeal in founding schools for the edu- ties ' was the branch of learning which the Renaissance newsrag , the morals of the " cinema , " and the manners of Darwin's boasted ancestors , with abysmal ignorance of general admiration , who incur considerable outlaw worshiped , while our idol is physical science . " ( C. still may not be called for . In this regard , indeed , there as the result of abysmal outlay . The heralds of Anti- absurd importance was attached to intellectual train- training at home and at school was despised , and to increase it . Mr. Elbert , an advocate of the lav ing at school . The difference was that the ' humani- of Christian virtues , the future welfare of the State christ are often unconscious of their mission ! ( v. Emile de Laveleye , Letters from Italy , 1886 , p. 57 are to be found in many countries Catholics worthy schools of France , confesses that " it cannot be dis- Temple farce ( " N.B. this is not secularism , we read be undertaken , how great soever , but that even greater youth is concerned , no amount of trouble or labour can unable to abolish or diminish crime , but rather tends will in great measure be guaranteed . delusion to that of our own day prevailed : the moral Thus the Vicar of Christ . The world held on its puted that since we entered upon the new era of ( C.T.S. , England ) p. 136 . chargeable with the weakening of the moral sense . The world has discovered that the secular school is Eng. translation . ) Hear Leo XIII . " Where the right education of ay , preferring the school Inspector , the Cowper- some false ideals in education . ' At the beginning of the sixteenth century a similar almost nothing . This fearful blank is undeniably Devas , POLITICAL Economy , I , ii. 88. ) Sabientic Christiane . Sanientia Christiane ( 1890 ) . The Pope and the People mould the moral and spiritual being ? Nothing , or Nothing , or and spiritual being ? 217 almost nothing . This fearful blank is undeniably ( 1890 ) . The Pope and the People --- Page 118 --- On the steep brow of the hill above , reached by a the rocks green with arbutus , gleams of the towers knew with our hearts , in the single of Monte Pisano . descent , quietly laborious and honest ; and keeping the sessing these lovely places , a people of pure Etruscan greatest efforts of art sink to the level of an abomina- we may include the kindred Orange conspiracy - has ( the building is still there the monks have since been The Church has ever upheld and fostered the of Lucca seen here and there down the glen ; and pos- tion . " A. W. Pugin , Revival Xtian Archit. 33 ) trasts as in one where the spirit of society is at greatest driven away ) ; far above receded the summits of the pine-clad hills ; beneath , the grand spaces between the winding path , rose a beautiful Franciscan monastery happiness of their earliest Christian faith unchanged , must live by daily labour ? And this is the very life rocks were all shaded either with chestnut or vine : peasant , whom industrialism has enslaved , degraded , moral eyes . in their Lord's vineyard . " ( Ruskin , in maturity produce such abrupt and disagreeable con- expressed by a Catholic lover of children and of Tre- variance with the ancient religion of Christendom . even down to little Adam and Eve at play , before our without such results all talents are vain , and the it truly discerns the future soldiers of the hated Cross . which a freemason world - and under freemasonry of religion and the welfare of their own souls : for could there " be a more excellent life for those who set itself to destroy . In innocent , happy childhood religious or false teaching ! ' This has been well Roadside Songs of Tuscany , 31-32 . ) life more perfect than we thus saw with our eyes , and Childhood has no natural affinity with false ' It would be difficult to conceive an ideal of human some false ideals in education land , a convert who traced his conversion's beginnings tivate the talents of her children to the advancement Henry Digby . In such a land every stranger is enchanted to the happy influence of his Irish nurse , Kenelm In no country does the transition from youth to Butler's Light of the West ( 1910 ) , pp. 239-240 . and in England well-nigh abolished . Compare the paper At Waterford ( 1908 ) , in Sir William and in England well-nigh abolished . in Sir William . --- Page 119 --- man must be without the sense of beauty and of the broad indications of evil , which the bluntest feeling those fine , ingenious lads in a few years will all be highways hourly , out-reaching all efforts of conception natural affinity between youth and truth explains the and discordant elements , to which men yield in later the Eton boys at play - ' What a pity to think that self had thought of this when he explained , upon seeing as all power of realisation , were it Raffaelle's three fact , however it may impress him . ' Is it that the and everything except the training of character , the may perceive , ' as pride , disdain of what is below them , times over ? And is it that the artificial , antagonistic , changed into frivolous members of Parliament ! ' A metry and repose , as you meet them in the streets and persons' more advanced in years , who , to their boast life , have produced the latter , containing ' so many to and utterly separate from the home , as " a valuable ludicrous who has not often been struck with this the school , and we in England know to our cost that of roses at the Viceroy's feet . He reminded the hearers that commercial asset , " as a means of livelihood anything Jacquenetta's answer . With that face ? ' Ellia him- Education ( dare we whisper it ? is possible without THE CROSS with the countenances of children and young people up to fifteen or even twenty years of age , while feeling that they will tell us wonders , deserve to hear a totally different impression from observing those of Mgr. Agliardi , and the students ( of all creeds ) presented an education as mere information , as something superior education was meant , not to nourish conceit , but to glorify God . ubiquitous . The wisecres of modernity interpret of St. Francis Xavier . Here the Bishop , the Apostolic Delegate , the invinciblist ignorance is very possible with schools leaving the scene of his labours , and the evidences that he was be- avarice , luxury . profaneness , brutality ? " ( The address . Fifty little Parsee boys gaily dressed , each laid a bunch will and not merely the mind , the heart and not merely impression . " ( J. H. Pollen in Anne" Pollen's Life ( 1912 expression of the former , so full of sweetness , sym- These , the last words of his last Indian speech , made a profound # Well . I got down to Bombay on Friday morning , and there a very different drama was in course of action . Lord Ripon was the head . " Children's Bower , xii , II , 65 ) ch.xxx , pp. 339-341 . ) . loved were not to be mistaken for an instant . I went to the College 420 . --- Page 120 --- he's students of the Retreat to accompany him in the recitation of with Mary Immaculate . When sometimes asked why he was not creation , " the angels and saints and to this , ' mayhap , in a great Humanity in Heaven when he would see the Spotless Virgin the Mass with rapt attention , and answered all the responses . When aking repose , he answered : " Meditation . I must meditate . " and measure may be assigned that invincible patience which ruled him Mother of God face to face and those lovely creatures of God's more being " present at the offering of the clean' obligation . " With candles , and other appointments . He followed the different parts of one of the Fathers announced to him that he was about to say Mass , not under the humble sacramental veil , but face to face as He is : uttered these words . which he was accustomed to say in all his until the happy time arrived when he had an opportunity of once of love to the heart of Jesus . The Sacred Passion was always in Whenever a priest came to see him , Father Charles asked for his came upon him . He was like one who saw our Lord and Redeemer , even made suggestions as to the arrangement of the cloths , cards . tribulations : " My Jesus I embrace this affliction for " the love of he was observed to remain in contemplation for hours . When the sound of the psalmody reached his ears he was somewhat saddened to the contrary from his professor , he became resigned , and asked frequent devotional exercise during these heavy hours was to get of the Holy Rule filled him with a desire to be with them , and as the superior or any visitor inquired how he was progressing , he he was soon to have in the Heavenly Kingdom , and his look was rupted as to be an unmistakable prelude to that perfect union which he would recite the Canonical Hours , but at the slightest indication see those Sacred Wounds which Jesus preserves in his Adorable brief sleep was to kiss the Sacred Wounds , and send forth sighs answered , with a serene countenance , that he felt better , though it In his hands was constantly clasped the Crucifix with which he how excruciating the torture , or how malignant the disease . observances , the thought of his brethren fulfilling the obligations like of rather Charles , O.P. could be plainly seen that he was sinking fast . assisted at the celebration of the Holy Sacrifice in his room . When soul , proceeding from the consciousness of being in a place where is favourite prayers , and with all the fervour of his heart he often hand , when , instead of gazing at more representations , he would Words cannot cover an idea of the devotion with which he was with the Blessed . is heart and on his lips , and he seemed to be in perpetual converse the glory of God dwelleth . Thmanahant his illness his communion with God was so uninter- loving looks he watched the preparation of the temporary altar , and in all his actions , and remained unclouded to the last , no matt the solemn moment of Conservation arrived , a complete change him for some " penance instead . When the bell told for the choir dessing and received it with sentiments of great humility . His that of one , who , while corporally detained on earth , was in spirit Iou . I desire to suffer in order to please You . Such was his love for the Divine Office , that were he permitted . You . I desire to suffer in order to please You . ears of joy filled his eyes , and he anxiously counted the hours d to bless the people , and his first act on awakening from his and his countenance lighted up , reflecting an inner ravishment 220 --- Page 121 --- Life of Father Charles , C.P. expected the end , and the Superior imparted the Indulgences which pronouncement . That evening bronchial affection , which had been priest held the hand of the dying Passionist , and the licking of the awaiting the summons to appear before his Master . ' At about half- Church was then celebrating with solemn ceremonial - that he , like Father Charles' strength enabled him to say his three Masses for did all that lay in his power to assign his pain . On the 4th Viaticum , he anxiously awaited the time when his confessor was The new year at length dawned , and Father Charles still lay the reward of a good and faithful servant . ' The body , clothed in fight of the pure-souled , sacrificed Father Charles . ing seemed to have left him , and he lay calm , yet conscious . A youthful freshness brightened his countenance . The features nigh , and the prostrate condition of the patient amply verified this breathe with great difficulty ; each moment the anxious watchers in order to understand how he assisted at that last Christmas Mass . January the vigil of the Epiphany , 1893-marked the spirit's warm personal friend of the sufferer . called daily to see him , and was the cause of his " great joy . ' Having received the Holy tions given , and the prayers for the departing commenced . A feelings they experienced . The memory of that motionless form , told the kneelers that all was over , and that he had gone to receive cheering words they spoke were in reality but a sad farewell . have known Father Charles - and to have known him intimately- as if in ecstasy - of that spiritualised figure in silent adoration- to the customary practices of the Order , each priest offered up the companion throughout his whole religious life . aviour-the Incarnate Son of God-whose Birthday Holy crossed on his breast clasped the Orucifix which was his inseparable An affecting scene was witnessed when the religious gathered to day for him . That he was to receive that self-same Infant aid out on a bare board , and a stole placed around the neck . were different from what they had been twelve months ago , when was recited , for their deceased brother . ( To be continued . ) elegraphed to the various houses of the Province , so that according During the day silent figures glided into the lonely room and minds . past five the religious were called to his bedside . the final absolu- his intercession rather than invoke mercy on his behalf . the Church grants in articula mortis . Towards midnight all suffer- Holy Sacrifice , and in every retreat the entire Office of the Dead a source of much uneasiness throughout his illness , caused him to rayed beside the bier . But all found a stronger impulse to seek January the doctor intimated to the Infirmarian that death was he holy habit , according to the rite observed by Passionists , There was no struggle , not a muscle moved ; a deep-drawn sigh rose who were present at the ceremonies will never forget the hepherds of old . was soon to gaze on the same Redeemer- remaining unaltered , whilst his aged hands , white as marble struggling between life and death . The physician , who was ebrate Holy Mass in his presence . It would be necessary to ve the usual Christmas greeting to the invalid . Their thoughts now their hearts were tired with the sad resentment that vas recited , for their deceased brother . The sad news was notified to the Father-General at Rome , an clock at 17 minutes to six " on the morning of Thursday , 5t 20- of the wondrous recollection manifested will never fade from their re was ' no struggle , not a muscle moved ; a deep- --- Page 122 --- With a tear in his soft eye ! thing . Then all silently depart . ) THE THREE SHEPHERDS AT THE CRIB And good doggie , keep the others Shepherds pause and look in . ) To the lovely rosy Child ! Fluffy little shirts to make ! We have seen the Virgin's Boy . his arms joyfully ) " We have seen a godly grace , A big or that looked in wonder He says - " Yes , " he ways his tail ! He hath sent the Saviour promised , Stable . Inside are seen the Blessed Virgin Mary and St. But how poor the place was , father ! On an earthly Mother's face . That we may not wake the Child . When we shear the sheep in Spring- haughty . In the features of the Infant And a heavenly beauty shining And the old man-grave and thought- 1st Shepherd ( throwing up The 3 Shepherds together - See the signs the Angel gave us I could shoot and leap with joy ! When I showed my little lambkin moment the third Shepherd walks about on tip-toe looking at every- Fleeces to His Gentle Mother- Glory be to God the Highest . In the corner I could spy Yet I thought that once he smiled , 3rd Shepherd ( continues ) - Joseph in an attitude of abortion before the Munger . The That He loves us poor ones best . Infant , Manger . Mother mild . From the whites . I will take Let us enter , treading softly Sheltered from the snow and nail ( They hasten away joyfully . ) In the sheep-pen in our absence - 2nd Shepherd- He hath sent His Angel for us . He the Great , would show the Second scene . The three Shepherds grouped near the door of the ( They enter and kneel down and adore in silence . After a 3rd Shepherd- 2nd Shepherd- time , dressed . Shepherds , 2nd Shepherd- 1st Shepherd- poorly . ful ! Wef . poor . --- Page 123 --- DONA MORAN , the grey , sad-eyed woman whose cottage upon her . For she was alone now , utterly alone , with no relative in all the wide world ; but she had not ' always ' been alone ; and sainly forms amongst them , ' hovering close to God , gazing down watching the starry skies after off , above the dark crests of the spite her seventy years , her shoulders were scarcely stopped . She road which led to the village . She was singing to herself . shawl , silhouetted against the bright whiteness of the snow . De- that her voice went abroad pleasantly into the winter silence , vonderful night of stars it will be ! Not an angel of God but would she became older she grew founder of crooning to herself sweet reaching the woman who sat 'shivering , with a babe on her lap . the blue deeps , looking through - and she visioned at times white , walked with an easy step , her head erect , the dark sorrowful eyes of her face , which was thin and pale and rather withered . As stood alone on the hillside , went slowly down the narrow and when she had come around a bending in the road . a light A stately figure was Roona's as she moved along in her dark O sure , there it is the weenshire star ! " she cried aloud , so And rocking my babe , sad songs that were like a solace and companionship in her lone- beauty . She saw them as bright eyes of heaven-angel-eyes " beyond her , she ceased to sing , and moved slowly along with a look of knew but that they looked at times from on high ? in a rude cattle-shed near by . But Roona knew nothing of this Famished we will be , a leinbh , waiting here for him . ' She glanced toward the valley , where the village lav twinkling : softly she was now singing a little folk-song of her youth : And then , as if the beauty and solemnity of the twilight silenced her much as would the coming of an old friend . " Poor tramp in lone places , Dear , " she said to herself after a little time . " but it is the She gazed wistfully through the gloom of the shed . The steeply wish he would come . " this poor woman said , as if to the be looking down on the Christmas Eve . to her . liness . Ah , pity me , Mary , strange woman's presence , or of how her voice brought comfort My arms for a cradle . " Weeping and sorrowing and making man . infant . husband , the parents , the children , whom she had loved : who ensive childhood upon her lifted face . ne suddenly through a thin belt of pins . Its appearance pleased phone suddenly through a thin belt of vines . Its ap clear and youthful-looking , in odd contrast to the fine wrinkli the husband , the parents , the children , whom she tains . To Roona the stars were a perpetual wonder and her much as would the coming of an old friend . ' --- Page 124 --- coming down the road , talking to one another , and some of the The Hero of Lishbeg . inan , the outcast tramp in lone places , who did this noble deed ; and I saw the girl , and then I saw the poor fellow springing over meaning a little . It broke his leg . They are bringing him to the on her arm , and her shawl drawn close about her , thinking of a time she did not speak . She was thinking how it was the poor turned away , and went homeward presently , with her little basket the poor little One of the cold stable of Bethlehem will reward him , nodded her head solemnly , seeming to look through Maire , and a friendless singer who sheltered , maybe , in stables and the like , illumining strongly all that end of Fishbeg which lay beyond the You would pity him , and he trying to put the broken limb the danger . But the car struck him , and he lay on the ground , ning out , laughing , to the street . The car came flashing by me , the dark car slipped away into the distance , bearing with it the God and Mary will reward him . " she said then slowly . " and Only for him , " said Maire Ni. Vora , " the child would be dead shriek had come . ROona and Brigid Maguire followed them slowly . under him when he was lifted up . The poor face twitching with and get only a scanty reward for his courageous deed . In the quiet place it looked an alien , a dark thing , rushing away And it might be that he would be a cripple for the time to come , gathered ; but the blaze of the motor car's lights stood still now , town . But thanks be to God , he is not killed , and the child is towards the town following a great light . And then Roona and They could not see much because of the little crowd that had crowd . They heard voices . unconscious victim of its speed . The men who had borne the stricken singer to the car were Maire Ni'Vora turned eloquent dark eyes upon Roona . who A loud throbbing arose beyond the shop of Nial Tansey , and he kept the black sorrow out of the poor mother's heart . voice he has . He was at the ballads in the street a while ago . A decent-looking , respectable poor creature , but as thin as a faith , at last to a silence of admiration . Mrs. Quinlan's door , a motor car came into the street , and passed . while other people had the comfort of a home . like a man in a decline ; or starvation , maybe . Men and women hastened in the direction from which the Christmas Eve that he saved a child . Ah , Maire a croidhe , roads he is . to her . Like lightning he leaved , and snatched her around from Brigid heard a sharp , brief scream . The voice of Eilish Hayes , who was a wonderful talker , sank the poor wanderer who had risked his own life to save the child's . Running out by the gate she was , and the car coming . Run- A singer he is , " said Conor O'Friel , " and a good , sweet the pain of it . He is gone , said Maire Ni Vora . beyond her , with a great pathos and solicitude in the look . ' For lder people , curious and pitying , moved to meet them ; but Roona this minute , and the mother's heart breaking- ( To be mentioned ) like a man in a decline ; or starvation , maybe . hile other people had the comfort of a home . s minute , and the mother's heart breaking- safe . God bless the brave fellow . Just a poor tramp of the zu- A singer he is , " said Conor O'Friel , " an --- Page 125 --- scatttest red sight sac Models intro in Eininn an earnings oreas cainte . rest in son troops : mDles that no in son , While eight too robsize pervin Ruso left an rasant on large verge . r ca rail again supp Expennacian borne min. Deritesp 50 Sean Cuipesosp calls rolling a space tune again , a Micil , Miceal-Muipe , so been back in no goile 50 wait again , map milresin ir ns roluirci go left so best scs . ' Ni" pes ispite as Upsysinn' Eipre . perhapship leap . Taperlbaum had done . Maine-ly prop mulp ' . Mr. beso le desnain szac signne syrup e lan de Capesi besgs vol dsitre's fusion ns Sean-Ir sit in Macle an piroin seasons . ' Mi paid me plan Maine-Conupra ru , a Micil ? sp a lan . 1r. besolsc 50 n-itesnn also nior mo n Maine-Nion cup na resin osome-hour ns bflstar cuca ! miceal-basil # O's intro irresc . an tomatoes no niop busileso opposite tin , in docs ? scene offs and scepto . ' Dorn must sing to a copain mind it ca osome sun spur ni heroin rirca san na purogs ir na nonte Dis ! . Act do help sac cushforce ni bionn sn r-so ran Micest-So or us to ' His call run . ' Micest-Deps , do cuippest curb sea dinner sp rapid . As son their imp as purosi pin . Maine-Conup spimp on Moolsig last , a Micil ? Nico itir besorb for sight . scartessm as become um Moolsis ni po-follain a bionn san ploc maitesps ionts . Sean-Dis't Muse out up mile false point ! Sean-Amen ,'s trjespons ! . Sean-Ir flop out . Agur curo per ns nuosi's blown o's Sean-Missingscap upset plan up a letteroi spur pe mo san freasna perouine cuippesto cent cuse . Micest-shop tools cescasp ten as pub , a Maine , burdescar so' cop . Micest-Miop Banesasp le capasi Mools5 sc com best tusipim gunab ambaro a b'despp a biosom . muiris nations . pur night son callssinsint opts . ' As bpercts sn tik in surmingham can disseminations outside . Disdepresents such as --- Page 126 --- My Postbag . the Guild . Monaghan , Ellis Ni. Mkaoil Eoin , Mary M.Donnell , Ellis N dents forgive me if I only just mention their names and acknowledge welcome Frances Gallagher , Convent of Mercy School , as a member of hearts , and that are sweeter to me than any music . Will my correspondence- ever-welcome letters . Dundalk is bestirring itself , and I cordially Seamus McMahon , John Fogarty , and the following new members , who Martin Blake . I hope to hear from each and every one of them next then come in glad procession Ada O'Neill , B. M. O'Neill , Mary R Mary Nally , always first among those who send greetings to Francis , and month , when I'll be able to pay a great deal more attention to their o all who have filled it with words that I know have come from loving Hannie Ward , with one of the most touching letters of the whole year . And are heartily welcome : Harry Bourke , Dermot Bourke , Seamus Bourke , A big , bulky bag it is this month , and I wish I had time to do justice Annie Vaughan , Kathleen Phelan , Claire Browne , Sean O' Croinin , K es Burke , Eileen Cooney , Patrick Kearns , Maire Ni Chiosain , ughtfulness in writing to me for Christmas ? ' There is Lillian Reaching the gates of Paradise . As a sweet in his fingers he held Winged its way to the skies , When he heard that holy Mary She'll get it then you'll see ; Stroking the Virgin's hair . That the tender heart of Mary The little hands were busy Raymond's Gift to Mary . Lived up in the heavenly skies . That it soared above as a prayer , Understood the little one , And his great eyes gleamed with love , His usual night-time prayer . And tears bedimmed his eyes , His face had a look of Heaven , And Raymond's simple gift to her Twill fly to the heavenly city , In baby language he prattled " I'll send the sweet in a letter , Please say its just from me . ' To give to the Queen above . The little face was clouded , Can we doubt that the baby letter Is treasured now by her Son . ' comrades in the Guild of Blessed Gabriel ! Blesed Gabriel's Guild written and for those who haven't - for all my dear friends and 235 --- Page 127 --- the help of Iosagan , we will be true to them until Blessed Gabriel Guild . the breezes sing their hopeful songs . Ring in the thousand years of peace . ' Eilis Ni Riain . The long , sad kiss that waits us all . ' And earth's brown clinging lips impress le till the new year bells real out once more their old , old message " Ring out the thousand years of war . And now , when we are starting life afresh , let us make so " Life's autumnal blossoms fall , smiles in the heavens as if eager to bless the mystic maiden 1920 , and And , oh ! let us trust that when 1921 dawns the children of a free And so , having said so much . I think it is now time to conclude . we will attend Mass as often as possible , and , turning to Mary , I ells have ceased to ring : their gladsome message has been told , and The New Year has dawned . We have made our resolutions , and , with happy Erin may be able to echo Tennyson's words : - ' or as yet the angel Peace has not visited the shores of Erin . which , in a special way , is beloved of the Gael . Now we have done our o help in every way to promote the welfare of the Motherland . and buoyant now . Leaving the dead past behind us , we are starting We are starting to tread an unknown road . but we need not fear-for can do to help our Koisin of the wistful eyes . And first and foremost , itions . First and foremost , we will promise the Infant Bavio The new year is charming . The old , with its mistakes and screws , ilence , the twin sister of peace , now reigns in all her glory . Cynthia do not wish to rank as slaves , let us learn our own sweet language h a clean page , and it is our duty to keep that page as white as Let us be true to Erin through usual and vote . Let us read her history ; is and cares , has passed away . We are entering upon a new lit I her lovely that we will never forget her Rosary - that devotion to God , so let us remember our land . There are many things v scherish her literature ; let us learn Irish dances and Irish song re is One Who will help us in all our tribulations . We must be be tarnished when 1921 dawns . and hope for the best . ours . Oh ! let us not refuse her our aid . whisper in moments of trial , " They Will be done . " We can but trust " hides in thickest night the issue of the years to come " : but whether now passed away , and down the purple aisles of time another maiden may still be spotless . Let us hope that 1920's white robe may glean un- During this coming year I intend , above all things , to pray very is of stainless white , and in her hand she carries an open book whose We are starting a new year with hope and confidence . We do not the hours of 1920 hold joy or gladness for us we can do our duty and adieu to us that the pages in that volume whereon our names are written now what the coming days may hold for us , for God in His mercy stand for an instant to listen to their solemn message . The old year has pages are pure and clean . Oh ! let us hope that when this maiden says THE NEW YEAR . The bells are ringing slowly and softly . In the silvery moonlight I greet us . She is very sweet and fair , this newcomer ; her gown arnestly for Ireland . " She needs many prayers , this beloved queen of prize . essay . Prize essay . --- Page 128 --- and may bind them indissolably to the Cross of Christ , and final homage , at the same time begging the apostolate in the bosom of Christian families may rescue piously presented at His Throne in token of your devout periodical continuing with increasing zeal its salutary paternal charity the blessing you request , so that the for your pious tribute , has been pleased to grant with the sole plank of salvation and of life , the symbol of from shipwreck ever increasing numbers of the brethren Apostolic Blessing for the contributors to this excellent peace , and the source of all true civil progress . the numbers of the monthly periodical - " THE CROSS " I am happy to inform you that His Holiness , grateful the Editor of " THE Cross " by His Eminence Cardinal In conveying to your Reference these gracious sentiments of the Pontiff , I have pleasure in subscribing which , collected into an elegant volume , you have publication and for its readers . The Sovereign Pontiff has received with pleasure The Cross and praises its work Gasparri , Secretary of State : - His Holiness Pope Benedict XV. bestows Yours affectionately in the Lord , March 9 , 1918 . Secretariate of State of His Holiness P. Card Gasparri . The following is a translation of a letter addressed to The Vatican , myself , Reverend Father , the Apostolic Benediction on the Apostolic . Benediction on --- Page 129 --- Iviimid obstat . Hiberniae Primas . Archiep . Dublinen . Michael Hickey . S.T.D. February . 1920 . # Gulielmus . " Censor Dep. Imprimi Forest : No. 10 . Vol X . addressed envelope . free , payable in advance . Unsuitable MSS , will not be returned unless accompanied by stamped itenary Communications to the Editor , at the same address . Business Letters to be addressed to the Manager . Mt. Argus . Dublin . Annual Subscription to THE CROSS , Four Shillings and Sixpence , post using candles in churches is , of duced into the English language as Miscellaneous . eighth century , but the custom of the candles were lighted , when the Gospel was read , Christians with lighting great piles of candles while the The word candle . to fight . " Eusebus speaks of the " pillars of wax third century the heretic , Vigilantius , reproached the an ecclesiastical term about the sun was shining . St. Jerome declared , however , that with which Constantine illuminated the churches . From Candlemas . ( from candere , to glow ) was intro- gn of joy , and not with the idea of putting darkness of a much earlier date . Towards the close of the --- Page 130 --- At any time they light , and carried in procession , with hymn chanting , round time of St. Radegund , who died in 587 , was that of Patroness of Ireland , is , " The Candle of the Gael . ' offering at a shrine a candle , or a number of candles by in heaven , light us through the darkness that precedes those seeking graces and favours . In England a mean- One of the many beautiful names given to St. Brigid , May her memory here on earth , joined to her prayers and crimson dresses , but on their usual robes , and the Mass of the morning is sung . retreat , or as they say in Scotland : hangings , the Pope and cardinal's take off their gold candles are lighted , the Pope is mounted in his chair . because it is supposed to blossom about Candlemas . mas day , and if the ground is covered with snow , goes the anti-chapel : the throne is stripped of its splendid The badger , it is said , means out of his den on Candle- If Candlemas Day be wet and foul , A medieval practice that can be traced back to the Nor any devils' pride , The half c' winter's game at Yule . ' A wondrous force and might Flower , " and also the " Fair Maid of February , ' Where chiefest seemeth he , The snowdrop is sometimes called the " Purification Whose taper greatest may be seen ; Whose candle burneth clear and bright : Nor hurts of frost or nail . ' ing was attached to the size of the candles carried in processions , and to the way in which they burned . They sure believe that neither storm Both in these candles lie , ' which if " This done , each man his candle lights , Nor tempest both abide , Nor fearful writes that walk by night , The half o' winter's to come and hair ; And fortunate to be , for a walk : but if the sun is shining retires to his Nor thunder in the skies be heard , An old rhyme says : - " If Candlemas Day be dry and fair , and people receive theirs . This ceremony over , the 1961 62m. retreat , or as they say in Scotland : and people receive theirs . 0 0 --- Page 131 --- privileges of his manhood and work . His emancipation , and more important than the ambition of lawless indeed , the brightened fortunes of the toiling masses to an end as quickly as poisoned gas and submarines , for Church and State , for all who love God and man , Norarum " than from Wilsonian verbiage or from the mask-word , " it should mean a genuine attempt to give men better opportunities for living happy Chris- it from the plethora of undermining luxuries , and is not another fraudulent shibboleth , another deceptive of the rising age , seems " to ring out the old , to ring in however , has come more from the Papal ' Return lasting reconstruction , no divine order - the real and desire true progress and happiness . For such re- war , the slaughtered millions , the roaring guns , the more conscious feeling of Christian brotherhood is strange war for freedom . Until the workers' interests desecrated elements were " the thus far and no further " the elaborate machinery of war , and should be brought from the other extreme of continuous want . Already , are really consulted , until his life becomes more sacred necessary necessary to reform society , and free cohesion in citizenship and society . If reconstruction wronged humanity . is emerging from servitude , and enjoying some of the of an unparalleled tyranny , and have at last aroused somewhere in the firmament . Gradually , the labourer the new . " It denotes a great programme , an enterprise Napoleons , there can be no stability in the State , no reaches for higher ideals than pleasure and wealth . A to be a retrograde barbarism . The wild anarchy of Miscellaneous . make us believe that the Star of Democracy has arisen to a reductio ad absurdam on the battle-field , and shown ing squator of the slums are more menacing than all Omine numum " Proteus pecus eight altos Terruit gentes , grave ne rediret tian lives . The sunless novels in towns and cities , and the ravag- construction a firm basis is necessary , an ambition that Visere montes . Reconstruction " now seems to be the watch-word Saeculum Pyrrhae , nova monstra questae # 8 --- Page 132 --- The millions spent on revolting slaughter could renew governments . It is difficult to prevent men from giving who strain every nerve to establish ' Paganism without stood by the most ordinary man . And , indeed , there are even its gods , or Atheism with its deified states and and very helpful in the work of reconstruction . Men sanitary , beautiful buildings , where poisoning sums power to ungodly and adventurous politicians , to men after the Battle of Blenheim would be very illuminating A correct answer to this question asked by a child now undermine health and strength , and ravage for all the towns and cities in Europe , and erect airv. historical writing has prevented a clear conception of country in the world , education , the training of the energy and gold have not been devoted to lawful ends . exists for the common good . not for the good of a few History , who celebrated the Marlboroughs of great politicians are what Plato calls " moneymakers , " there or of one , there must be discontent and chaos . While and wealth have been wasted , why all the thought , given a really living wage ; a means of decent livelihood will be intrigue and coalitions , injustice and cabals . events and threw the masses into obscurity . False In the vast field of work now before almost every The measures waste of war should be now under- hard work it is hard to Christianise and civilian pended by the nations for the last five years could " have And what they fought each other for . ' Quoth little Peterkin . ' to the myriads now in clay . few who have not asked themselves why all the blood Now tell us all about the war . the trophies of libertine science . Reconstruction is a But what good came of it at last THE CROSS . Young Peterkin he cries : statesmen . Until the masses realise that the State the function of the State and of Society . have been long blinded by the aristocratic Muse of With wonder-waiting eyes ; And little Wilhelmine looks up Now tell us what " twas all about and innocence . The boundless wealth so lavishly ex- 244 . --- Page 133 --- but in order that he may no longer rest in his unhappy the Spirit , let us pick up diligently even the tiny show . day , the headmaster provided the boys with slips of ing of our soul , not enkindling a flame , but the fire of condition , a volume has been prepared for him , by Prof it into the furnace , but putting it by in the understand une Regle absolute de l'education chretienne : their beauty , so it is in the reading of the Divine Serin- for much that is trilling , it is full of silly talk to its melt down the gold of the Apostles' mines . not throwing in which the literary charm of the Bible is " pointed paper and desired them to write a reply to the question . Moulton and others , entitled The Bible and Ultratium the special worth of pearls lies not in their bulk but in interest your leurs semblables . Eveiller en aux , par des stre les bienfaiteurs de leur race . ' Voila l'education the literary beauties of the Bible . ' In our opinion the Christian reader extracts other matter from " the Bible tures . On the one hand , secular education has a rare has prevented the Christian reader from recognising false ideals in education says a notice sent to us by Messrs . Service & Paton . il repetait sans cesse cette parole de Channing commo pupils , and sends them away empty-handed . without conversations et des examples , une sympathic profonde sostom ! : " Not infrequently excessive reverened . I'ecole de Salazzo , qu'il visitait presque chaque jour , Has the age of steam improved upon St. John Ohry , chretienne , ' a joutait il : ' tout en approval la science your les pauvres et les ignorants et les prepared a standards of a Birmingham Board school the other Faire naitre dans le coeur des enfants un gendreux which compensates him for this lack of aesthetic vision . je trouve qu'elle vaut toutes les sciences . " greatest of the Greek fathers : " Since , therefore , we ings . ' For if the word is brief , its power is great . It gain small or great . It is not so with the grace of the t Leaves from St. John Chrysostom . By M. H. Allies , p. 100 nowledge before the belles lettres ! Let us hear the As regards books a Catholic will place Biblical Who wrote the Bible ? ' One answer given was Mantua , thus spoke of education : " Aux maitres do Spirit , but just the contrary . ' ' t out . " " Meanwhile it is stated that in one of the lower # Vicomte de Colleville . Pie X Intime ( 1904 ) , p. 10 Pius X. of most holy memory , when Bishop of Pius X. of most holy memory , when Bishop --- Page 134 --- argumentsagainst them I are so obvious that anyone voice , which breathe joyous simplicity and angelic in- human life , when restored and spiritualised by the who chooses may see them . . They might be before men in their lowest scale , according to the views of the age , than in all the desires of good and learned men to everybody's eyes : but instead they are under every- is there in the simplicity and modesty of nature . For in the mud , and to pick up the truths that are being body's feet . My occupation has been merely to kneel picturesque stage background ! and yet . " Such beauty be forward to dispute its justice . Cardinal Wiseman , haughty . There are forms of moving , even tones of Catholic religion , is full of grace and loveliness . There # Essays ( 1853 ) , vol. 3 , p. 229 . the most unkindest cut of all ? Yet no true Catholic will Church , Mr. Mallock , waves thus indignant : " The destroyed by the absurd vanities of the rich and trampled into it , by a headstrong and uneducated materialism , in the plans for civilising and bettering nocence , and which young hearts would not exchange theon of PROGLESS ! Catholic . 1 , i-ii. never lacking in courage , deemed the age of the Great visionary inutility in the modern schemes of industrial Exhibition impractical ! He dared blasphemy the pan- are a thousand expressions of goodness , which are only rekindle enthusiasm for the spirit of the middle ages , 8th October , 1898 . ) down with scorn upon the Catholic peasant , save as a THE CROSS . for the wealth of worlds . ' K. H. Digby , More's Speaking of the anti-religious sophistries of Huxley's borne testimony from without to the claims of Holy almost protane in such a place , that there is more The later nineteenth century uneducated ! Surely . neyday , a non-Christian writer who has more than once and even to revive its usages . ' I And here let us indulge a remark , that will appear generation . ' The nineteenth century " educationists " looked ( Academy , " Is Life worth Living ? ( 1879 ) . Dedication . third Mr. Jowett , ' and a fourth , ' Shakespeare . ' 48 . David , ' another ' Mr. Cadbury , ' --- Page 135 --- 251 . worlds , while he who sets out to do so seeks his life and come a machine . Now a machine has to do with dead developing into progressive , ambitious , patriotic , loyal out intelligence , swelling the ranks of the discontented , humidrum creature , void of understanding . Instead of Americans to repair our own machinery or to serve as mined for it from the beginning . What it fails to fashion foremen in our own shops . We find our men growing a fundamental blunder which mistook its nature and functions . In an age of machinery education had be- things which it shapes and moulds and fashions into ductiveness we find ourselves to-day without enough . York , complains : " In spite of our wonderful pro- McAndrew , of Washington Irvine High School , New men , these youths grow up without aspirations , with- up in increasing numbers were automators , incapable modern conception of education , vitiated as it was by be recognised as a great educationist , one of Ireland's loses it . Once more we are brought back to Our used it not , alone succeeds in making the best of both Blessed Lord's words : " Seek we first the Kingdom of reciprocity , is turning man , its creator , into a stupid , an ever-growing menace to our Government , our social materials alike , for its manner of working is deter- vised the marvellous machinery which now , by a tragic noblestchildren : " Pearse ... was repelled by the aspirations , and our ideals for American progress . ' t with which it deals - or rather it " deals with all THE CROSS . bidden to seek their salvation ! In the truest sense the zealous Catholic , who uses this world as though he Let me end with the words of one who will some day prosaid , or utilitarian ; it must be idealistic , humane , 1905 , ad finem . Education for efficiency must not be materialistic . ciency-in whose name all persons and states were Another American educationist , Mr. William of exercising any initiative whatever . These men de- Charles W. Eliot , Education for Efficiency ( Harvard Univ. ) , Problem . BV.T.C. ( 1918 ) . other dead things . It takes no account of the material and passionate , or it will not win its goal . " t Quoted in The Education Riddle Answered . How to solve the God . --- Page 136 --- Among them is the old woman whose outburst roused his interest strands of hair brushed carefully back and tucked beneath her he many changes that are taking place there . Every Irish child cluding his office Father Tom shuts his book and , raising his head , bright August day as I sailed away with a broken heart from all mother tongue falls sweetly upon her ears . Her wrinkled counten- ing now like silver in the morning sunlight . As the liner ploughs the experienced during my sixty odd years have been enough to dis- mind . As she draws near the spot where the priest is standing her another . The morning breeze , laden with ocean snrav . blows Homeward bound . upon the distant horizon until it fades completely out of view . Con- of the waning day . As darkness creeps along enveloping the would reach so long a stretch . The scenes I have witnessed and the night before . Next and trim is her appearance , with her white sples some of the passengers appearing on the deserted deck . are not the hardships and privations that some of us of an older . has been racked and torn . ' You have heard and read of 67 . Well . ing the ruddy rays of the sun and shutting out completely the light kindly down into her faded blue ones . While a salutation in the my Seumas took part in that ill-fated attempt at instruction , and , Next morning the young priest is early astir with harvard in if memories of a dead-and-gone yesterday were ever present to her Occasionally his eyes strav across the vast expense of water franc- be " long time out of Ireland . " he says . " when you don't know as she grasps " the outstretched hand of the priest in a warm clasp . retires to his berth for the night . " from us in the long ago , and helping to make our beloved land , as From her lips issue a torrent of blessings in response to his foot on Irish soil . A lifetime surely ! Little did I think on that Father Tom puts her sitting in a deck chair while he occupies And where . Ashore , did you learn to speak the language at appearing overhead , stretches across the mimic canary obliterate roud and glad I am to know that the generations spring up date have had to endure . ' spoken last , and it comes like a fracrant breath of the old country ' It is forty years next summer . " she begins . " since I last set ready sympathy asserts itself as he questions her gently on her The priest's glance rests upon her care-worn face and his quick vaves on its northern journey , the sight of land grows more shadowy greeting . as a result , he occupies a quiet grave in his Wicklow Vale to-day , she was of yore , a Gaelic-speaking nation ! " history . all ? " she says . ' It is well high forty years since I heard it that I shall soon see again , please God . ' ince lights up with sudden joy , chasing away its habitual sadness , little cap . Her face , bearing traces of a hidden sorrow , looks as softly across their faces , cooling the still atmosphere . " You must that I shall soon see again , please God . ' rearten the stoutest hearts , and God alone knows know after many mind Thank God for that ' Father . ' relies his listener . ' ' ' His hand , pacing to and fro upon the deck , reciting his daily office . worthy of the name is now learning the language that was filmed hat I held most dear . that the separation from my native show scene Father Carney leaves his position with a sigh of regret It is well high forty years since I heard it gaze encounters that of Father Tom's . His smiling eyes " to --- Page 137 --- hard , as my poor toil-worn hands can testify . Uncle Maurice words were : ' Mother , dear , he sure and go back to Ireland , the died some years ago , and Sean , to whom he was deeply attached , And now I am all alone . The week before his death he was plan- and I set out for Australian climes in the summer of 68 . " Ever my boy . Are he was snatched away in the class of Death his last My life has nearly reached its span and I'll be glad to be at rest Homeward bound . him of my tragic bereavement . His reply was kind and my Sean follow . " He looks at the bowed head of his countrywoman and Australia . Every time his still , young form presents itself before since I have had a home for myself and my boy . but I have worked have borne cheerfully will win a crown hereafter . ' If our lives side and he sleeps on a sunny slope beneath Australian skies to-day . lingering on the Via Dolorosa so many poor Irish exiles have to were always cast in pleasant places we would have no desire to promise to the dead . I sold the ranch and started tracks for home . sorrows recorded in His Great Heart . ' At best , life is very brief . inviting me out to take charge of his home . I wrote back telling come , but I shall seek you out when I am settled down in my her old home in Wicklow and the one she has recently vacated in Mrs. O'Dwyer meet frequently on board . A friendship springs up ' Your story has touched me deeply , and I'm sure God has your Only I have business to transact in London I would accompany your her her dim old eyes brighten involuntarily . He seems to fill her after all I have endured . ' place , and he should be a fairly old clergyman now . ' thinking how strong is the Irish Faith within native land again . ' eave this world , and only through sufferings does God draw us nearer to Himself . ' Her voice ceases , and Father Carney sits in silence . his thoughts It is the very same . " Father Tom replies . " So there w more , " she replies . between them , and he listens to many incidents connected with ears in Australia for my health's sake . them . " " Aloud he speaks : What part of Wicklow do you come from ? ' During the days and weeks that follow Father Tom Carney and She is just a type . land that holds your heart's love . ' And sure I'm keeping now my Thank God " for Father Carney looks upon her with deep admiration in his eye : of our Irish mothers . " he says to himself . I'm his new curate returning there myself after a sojourn of two od , and I know anything He decrees is for the best . ' others might have grown cold with adversity . Aye , Father , that is so , " she replies . " At times I used to ice knew a Maynooth student of that name belonging to the ner heart . that in " Mr old home is in a little village near the valley of the Avon- " That is part of Father O'Donnell's parish , " remarks the priest his voice quivers with emotion as he speaks : eel it had to believe . but now I am reconciled to his chastening ' Is it Father Anthony O'Donnell ? ' asks his listener . " I Aye , Father , that is so , " she replies . some one to the good in Wicklow who has known you in the past . ed his ranch . Last year my poor Sean was taken from my 2009 and you have the sure consolation of knowing that the trials y siration in his eyes . your return to our Wicklow Hills , but God stepped in and took At times I used to --- Page 138 --- be gives her full instructions on the shortest route to Ireland . on English soil . The young Irish priest attends to the wants of ittered fervently . linger in his ears as the train steams out of the hurts and hers pinned me beyond words . God just granted her uvites her to dinner in an hotel adjoining the pier . Are they part Amid bustle and excitement passengers leave their berths to step of his young companion . He enters into earnest conversation , re- ing for Wicklow . ' " Leaving her in the care of a railway guard he stant prayer was : " God is good to bring me home to Seums . ' personal matters , the young Sagart touches on the return to the ris aged countrywoman , and as morning merges into noon he she arrived in the valley her strength gradually failed and her con- She was one of God's gems set in the world for a time to make shakes hands warmly , remarking he will call upon her when he coat for Kingstown , and you will have no difficulty then in certain- Father O'Donnell softly . ' A look of regret passes over the features parish priest in his Wicklow home . Having spoken on many im- Where all the perfume , sun distilled , beneath an azure sky , and she had no fear of death when his shadow crossed the inds himself installed in his curate's home . ' Her parting words . " " She was a brave , faithful soul , " nurses Father Tom . gladness when she came amongst us . ' There is a gladness that threshold . She was fair to be at rest for the world ceased to Where rainbows splinter into stars and noon melts to moonlight- iner anchors in an English port on a mild February morning Three days ago her spirit passed away , and she lies beside her to tread . patriot dead in the little churchyard beyond the hill . Davlight . blinking tired even . sinks into dreams of night . it nobler and better are he took her away again . " replies his com- anion . " During her last moments I stood by her dying bedside Are mirrored in the diamonds that snarkle under down - village of the old exile . ' Mrs. O'Dwyer . " She is dead M. Barry O' Delany . But sounds still in the Song of Songs that's sacred to the night ! tation house : " God be with you a Sagart Arun . ' Is swung by silver censers that are both to let it die . The six weeks' voyage over sunny seas ends at last , and the Where not a note of singing birds , that long have taken flight , " It was pitiful , Tom , " Father O'Donnell replies , " to see her ating to his listener his encounters with the old woman . Twilight . vision with glimpses of a dear world that her tired feet are asking interest her . ' Where fairest this that flowers wore , before they closed to view Amen , " replies Father O'Donnell softly . " I am glad to have met her . " says Father Tom . " To me sh Three weeks later sees Father Tom Carney dining with his seemed one of Ireland's unknown heroines . May she rest in peace . " When you reach Holyhead , " he says , " you will catch the Mail the wish of her heart to see her native hills again . From the day To me she --- Page 139 --- greatness is but a shadow when compared with that which pro- had read in that emaciated countenance , in that modest look , in day . The heavy downpour of rain during the day did not damp that poor garden , indubitable proofs of the practice of heroic virtues : eager were then to obtain some moment of the deceased priest outside , but had not the consolation of viewing the remains . well as the cabins of the peasantry , had been blessed by him . " Mr. lay the firm hold which he had on their hearts , and proved that city . but from the most distant parts of Ireland , testified on Sun- out a few weeks before he had been a dispenser of the mysteries presence of a number of the religious , who had no easy task to the ardour of the multitudes who journeyed to see the dead touch the body with some object of devotion . necessitated the priest recited the prescribed prayers , and the numerous mourners report went forth that he lay dead at the foot of the Altar where At first the people were allowed to approach and touch the body who were unable to come during the day , arrived and congregated should be taken to restrain their extraordinary veneration . An he knowledge that Father Charles had made the Cross time and caused his memory to be held in such benediction . Earthly claimed him to be like a saint in his life and in his actions : they crowded around , praying long and earnestly on that holy spot , that they did not scruple to tear away portions of the holy habit Saturday's influx exceeded by far the numbers of the preceding his name was a household word - the mansions of the noble , as ceeds from the heroism of Christian chivalry . for one is transient outside the sanctuary rails , in front of the High Altar , and six large sting place on the morrow , tens of thousands , not only from the candles of unbleached wax burned beside it . The utmost sim- racked the avenues of Mount Argus on that January day . It was Accordingly , no human impulse , no fulfilment of conventional each one desirous to gaze on all that was mortal of Father Charles . recited , and the De Profundis sung , by the Community . were made whole , and went their way rejoicing . the other immortal . The former has its reward here , and has to that it was time to depart . se content with the applause of men : the latter looks for no recom- From early morning on the Feast of the Epiphany there was a was carried up the centre of the church , placed on a catafallque which surrounded him . This together with the efforts made to THE CROSS . pense in this life , but seeks eternal beatitude hereafter . before their eyes , too , at the touch of his anointed hand , the sick licity was observed in the funeral appointments . The officiating of Christ . The voice of the people had for many decades per- themselves , but in a short time it became manifest that steps where they lingered until the sound of the porter's keys told them , of the Cross . Father Charles was known far and wide 458 . constant stream of mourners to Mount Argus - a vast pilgrimage torn , no inferior motive , actuated that surging mass which Inowing that Father Charles would be consigned to the last istian holiness has lost nothing of its attractiveness in our own the desires of the faithful . That evening the Rosary was , and , after the church had been closed for the night many . tome of his life that excited those sentiments of admiration . vently there was general mourning in the land when the Knowing that Father Charles would be consigned to the la --- Page 140 --- consideration of the saintly career that had just closed . Fresh solding objects of devotion . awaiting their turn to bring them in having the dead present . though that was but a reminder of the the 9th January , would be the final day on which they could see him again on earth . That morning there was a repetition of the remains and the table shroud which covered them . and the dosing of the coffin . Lay and cleric were then interningled , discourse , ' showing what great lessons were to be derived from the the scene of the preceding days ; the church was filled at an early instant on the habit of the departed religious . The solemn office forced their way like a wedge through the inrushing mass , and thus than it hitherto had been . ' There was a certain consolation in course of newcomers seemed endless , and numbers coming after in a wondrous way , permit that the purity of his servant should be concluded shortly after five o'clock , and from this until 7.30 the The coffin , bearing a modest inscription . notifying his name , their hopes of seeing the saintly dead . state contrary to the ordinary course of nature . Thus did God , sented the same animated scene as in the afternoon . ' The con- people were kept in motion , making a circuit of the catafalone . phalanx placed themselves at the head of those making an exit , lead body of him whose life-long renunciation had been consum- the body , pronounced that it was quite flexible and so was in a manifested , presaging the glorious resurrection that avoided him hadows of night deepened , the roadways of Mount Argus still pre- in a numberless array of beads and scapulars to be laid for one hour , and the eagerness to secure relics was even more intense gladness faded when at 10 o'clock preparations were made for the ead faces gazed with lingering looks towards the bier , and tears fell guarded the body , but they succeeded in preserving intact both Thus , for four days the people of Ireland mourned beside the late of his demise , together with the age which he had attained- so that all were able to see him who had laboured and suffered for mated by the Angel of Death . ' It was announced that Monday . Before the lid was adjusted an eminent doctor , having examined averted the impending catastrophe . which a priest ascended the pulpit and delivered a sympathetic nearer when the last glimpse of the revered dead could be obtained orted to . A group of able-bodied men inside formed into a the sake of Christ . It was a trying moment . ' too , for the black-robed figures who serious results . In order to remedy matters an expedient was to- THE CROSS . ( To be continued . ) . namely , 72 years was then duly sealed in presence of his brethren , loved life that no longer existed . but even this raw of melancholy the closing of the church had to return homewards disappointed in contact with the body . As the moment approached nearer and freely . people who swayed to and fro from sanctuary to doorway handed . arrivals still continued to make their appearance , and , though the It this hour the Community recited Vespers of the Dead , after 260 --- Page 141 --- if rude tasks had broken the skin . Her dress was poor , and same sweet name of Nora . ' Yet it was not more strange . Rooms The slim hands clasping the child were rudey and cracked , as shawl , a cheap thing of bright colours . had been given to the child . reflected . than her going into the cattle-shed , to find the two of against the freezing winds of the cold December . Her threadhare loved feature of that child , and strange , too , that she bore the clear eyes , and thinking that the smooth brow and the shining curve of the lips was gentle and sorrowful . Anoning a little , and She sat now watching the quiet Nora . for whom a strange affection ras strange how her presence set Roona striving to recall every the way , with the infant still caught costly underneath her woollen Lacy's gard . She was marvelling at the great beauty of her hers to welcome for God's sake ; here to keep because of love . her ill news ; and they had entered the cottage , Roona leading hair were much like those of her own Nora , who had died . It ooking at the glad young face . She thought she was a very comely , fragile , sweet mother . She had clear , grey eyes that shawl . " Then she had given the precious burden to the young ccount . " And now , " she had said , happily , with a reverent look . the Madonna which was in the Church . Above her white fore- chiefly of cotton material , scant protection , as Roona knew . that the candle was lit in the stable below . And you will stay But Roona , except in city , gave little heed to poor Nora ras springing in her breast . ' She took a peculiar pleasure in giving her face a look of pathos , like that beautiful picture of quivering now and then , and her fine , straight nose was yet a But she had not spoken of the accident . deeming it better to little pinched and bluish . because of long exposure to the cold . lay between Roona's eyes and the fame of the candle . The them there . ... . A poor woman and her child : it was good to mother , and lighted the Christmas candle once more , bidding let the frail woman have nourishment and warmth before telling them welcome as she did so . Sure it was for yourself , to welcome yourself and the babe , be passing by in the night , seeing you here with me , and the child , rou to me , a crisis , and I will not be letting you go on any them in that place . are giving the child and myself ! I cannot speak to you - Oh , you Roona had turned to busy herself , preparing to make tea . head her autumn hair gleamed like gold where the strands of it She had her reward now in a maternal trembling invousness poor stranger of the road was no longer a stranger . She was Travellers of the lonely places . ... Who knows but they will good , kind woman , my heart is primarily . . ' And Seurias ' we will set the 'candle by the window for ' Them . ' ... ' the of spirit . She felt as if her child had returned to her . The when he comes will thank you . ' THE HERO of Lismdou shelter them : it was the merciful Child of Mary had led her to here with me , for the Christmas , my poor child , " God brought God and His Mother be kind to run for the kind with von And thank God for His kindness , daughter . ... It was the out of the stable ... " ? " ' There now , a leinbh . He will come . He will come , surely . Roona loved : even of a child , with darkish shadows beneath them , led me to the stable . ' And thank God for His kindness , daughter . led me to the stable . " ... " --- Page 142 --- will for me . It is little I have , indeed : but the house , and the husband , will be getting the sweet winds of the hills every day a good girl . And in my mind there is an angel telling me that of the year instead of the dark smoke of the town . " . " Oh- table for tea . Her eyes were very bright , and her fingers shook Ever ? But you will be a daughter to me , and there is a little Ah , who knows the reason that God gave you to me this Christmas few fields that I do let in con-acre they will be yours , and they he will be coming soon , daughter . ... . The blessing of God room within will be yours , and the delicate Seumas , your poor ightly between hers . " " It is well I know , a stoirin , that you are ain . her arm around the stopping shoulders of Koona , caressing will be over us all . And I will get the schoolmaster to make a be with me until I die ... ... to go for the priest , maybe . Heaven and and you , " she cried , and then , her tears falling like striking against wood , and then Nora Lacy saw Roona coming . At the pale face , expectant and loving , into the sad eyes with their solerinity of eagerness , the girl looked long and earnestly . beauty on her face . And in her eyes , shining with tears , there took from the cupboard a white cloth which she spread on the You are a good girl , " she said , clasping one of Nora's hands will go to the weenshire Seumas when he is grown , for I have no THE CROSS In the room there was a confusion of low sounds , as of wood would be the child of her old age . ... She would keep the angels of Heaven , hovering in whiteness beyond the stars of God , The girl looked in wonder . There was , Roona thought , a new would smile upon them . ' This Nora , who had been desolate . ras a look that might have been in the eyes of one of the shop- The innocent babe ... ... " said Roona . " It is a gift for the ' Oh , but it is underving we are of this kindness of of Above the hearth the kettle began to sing . ROona arose , and The little Boy of Bethlehem , " she said softly , in her sweet kept the bitter grief out of the poor mother's heart below . God send he will be better soon . ' . He will be singing here . each me to be kind to her . For it is not that we deserve it- Maybe singing with the schoolmaster in the choir of a Sunday . you will be the daughter of my old age and loneliness ... ... to Roona slipped away from her , and went into another room . Then all at once she burst into tears . And the other Nora , looking upon them would be glad . And the She else ... ... . It was God's will : " voice , and grew calm , even as she spoke . mother who has come to me . Sweet Mary intercede for her , and girl for ever . By and by I will tell her , " she was saying to herself . " It herds . drawing with her into the light a wooden cradle . singing to them brought Nora to me . singing to them brought Nora to me . as she placed the cups and saucers . Suddenly she went to Nor uild of the Stable . ... . The little Boy of Bethlehem , a croidhe . 264 . # " Oh , mother , mother . " she sathed . " nrav for this other she subdued , " pray for this other one else ... ... . It was God's will . ser : " " Oh , mother , ' mother , ' He all at once she burst into tears . " this time --- Page 143 --- state , " and expresses the same opinion repeatedly before the a man with a keen sight but no vision , with a Protestant mind but Sergeant Bullfinch soon has enough of the Yeomanry and finds the land can't be cultivated without them , and they are certainly by remarking that " the country is most certainly in an awful afety and employment in the Castle pantry . Tommy Tool is the an Irish heart . He is shocked when " educated Protestants openly seroine in very truth . Hubert is an attractive figure , worthy of his lare to suffer for one's country , is a glorious lot . " As for Ellie . I see it all . ' To be locked up in the heart of such a woman , and to if only for the sake of his old black hunter who gallops so splendidly full of unconscious humour , and the reader will forgive him much , says in a later passage : " I'd be in favour of treating them kindly : spirit of self-sacrifice which is necessary for a nation's salvation . They stand out . loving-hearted and yet almost austere . full of that be most useful if they were kindly treated . " Yes , Parson Jacob is we recognise the old Castle with its indispensable dungeon , the all for poor old Ireland . ' adventure , but destined to settle down after fulfilling his duty occasion , " conquers a " natural timidity , " and " Esther becomes a unrelieved . and delightful comedy that sometimes just escapes the tage as much as some others , but they give a distinction , an Captain Branton is the true type of a coward in a responsible through the story . he country . The machinery of the novel is complete and workable- you go what will your life be ? your heart full of love for " all God's creatures , and with good and true and loving hearts turning to you and cherishing you wherever letter than himself - and there is the unforgettable Paudheen-na- Madraidhe . servants , yeomen and dragoons . ' There is tragedy that is never Fergus had joined him , " I envy you ; I have been thinking of you . Esther and Hubert provide the romance . Their love story is position - a man who is afraid to do the strong and just thing , and O'Carroll , " explained Hubert Butler , in his impulsive way , when Armel O'Connor . re Fergus O'Carroll and Billie McManus . They do not occupy the air lady , ready to die for his country and to enjoy the exciting grave words : " I have a firm faith , " she said , Perhaps the most important characters in this entrance hook Reviews . brutality which he inwardly condemns . yet none the less types of men and women to be found up and down What will her life be ? ' The answer is best given in Billie's own exaggeration of farce . Parson Jacob is an interesting personality . He begins the story people have the Vision that is without frontiers , and - " ' His onely church-yard , the mountains and narrow paths , the old levation , which otherwise the " Eagle of Garryroe " would lack . reader comes to the last page . He is a sportsman of the old school . enable me to submit to His will in all things . 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Turning to Brigid , she said , " Sweet and holy ose from behind the Wicklow mountains , and clothed the grassy plains of the on the flowers , so new to her , and so fresh and sweet in the morning sunshine . ut on the Curragh . ' It was a cloudless night and myriads of tw the first time she behold the beauty of her native land . She gazed long on the be sent so as to reach the office of " The Cross " not later than February 12 . All o Aida McPhailand , c/o Mrs. J. Byrne , Carrickbrack letters to be addressed : Francis , 0/ The Cross , " St. Paul's Retreat , of the sender . They must have attached to them the coupon to be found in this Dara , whose eyes were closed to all Nature's loveliness , she was deeply relieved to jurraph with all the radiance of its golden light . Like some enchanted sleeping with her hand , making the sign of the Cross on them . Immediately Dara's eyes mother , close my eyes again , because when the world is so visible , God is seen lown her head she prayed fervently , and presently she touched Dara's eyes gently in order that she might behold the earthly wonders of God's creation . Very truly beauts the country lay , with her gem-encrusted mantle , verdant , of St. Brigid is the picture we get of her opening the eyes of the blind Sister D A handsome prize will be given for the best little letter on St. Patrick . Competitors will please remember the following rules : All competition papers St. Brigid and Sister Dara . must be certified by some responsible person to be the unaided and original work MARCH competitions . delightedly Brigid gazed on the beauty of the morning . but when she turned to Never , thought Brigid , did she see a night so lovely , and she raised a canticle Perhaps the most beautiful incident we find in the glorious and wonderful life lasting red and white and blue and golden fire , studded the vault of heaven . ve of Jesus for mankind : of His Sacred Passion : and lastly . of the joys of sister Dara . One night she accompanied Brigid on her visit to the convent Rocks College View Terrace , Millbourne Avenue , Drumcondra , Dublin . words , of an incident in the life of St. Patrick . around her . A handsome prize will be awarded for the best telling , in the competitor's own II .Members under 12 years . Members under 12 years . She and the sister began to talk of the greatness and goodness of God : of the of her nuns . l . For Members over 12 and under 18 years of age . praise to God for the glory of the starry heavens . The Prize for the best letter on St. Brigid is awarded to John M. Fogarty , Among the saintly company which surrounded Brigid in Kildare was the blind hink she could not share with her the wondrous glory of the sunrise . ' Bowing ( one coupon will be sufficient for all the members of a family ) . They must ened , and she saw . For the first time she be held the face of Brigid . For Dublin . sing of the hours . The nearly dawn stole softly on them from the East . t mortravs the depth of Brigid's compassionate heart , and the estimate training M. Fogarty , 12 . 1961-00080006000600060006000600060006000 the first time she behold the beauty of her native land . One gazed long on one lasting red and white and blue and golden fire , studded the vault of heaven . 270 --- Page 146 --- and may bind them indissolably to the Cross of Christ . piously presented at His Throne in token of your devout for your pious tribute , has been pleased to grant with paternal charity the blessing you request , so that the from shipwreck ever increasing numbers of the brethren apostolate in the bosom of Christian families may rescue the sole plank of salvation and of life , the symbol of peace , and the source of all true civil progress . periodical continuing with increasing zeal its salutary which , collected into an elegant volume , you have and final homage , at the same time begging the the Editor of " THE CROSS " by His Eminence Cardinal In conveying to your Reference these gracious Apostolic Blessing for the contributors to this excellent publication and for its readers . the numbers of the monthly periodical - " THE CROSS " The Sovereign Pontiff has received with pleasure I am happy to inform you that His Holiness , grateful sentiments of the Pontiff , I have pleasure in subscribing The Cross and praises its work The Valican , The following is a translation of a letter addressed to March 9 , 1918 . Secretariate of State of His Holiness Reverend Father , myself , Gasparri , Secretary of State : His Holiness Pope Benedict XV. bestows the Apostolic Benediction on 1934imann Massachusetts the Apostolic . Benediction on --- Page 147 --- Nihil obstat . March , 1920 . No. 11 . Archiep . Dublinen . Imprimi Forest : Hiberniae Primas , # GULIELMUS . Michael Hickey . S.T.D. censor Dep. Val X . --- Page 148 --- the ancient Irish delighted in the beauties of nature and loved bird , gratitude for the miracle , the king ordered a goose to bird ( the " bunawn bowed " ) is supposed to hybernate legend , the son of one of the reigning kings of ancient their native land , are said to be confined . St. Patrick's one of the " sacred birds " of Ireland , in whose bodies way connected with St. Patrick , and is regarded as birds " on the eve of every 17th of March . Few Ireland was choked by a goose bone while at a feast . beneath the ice , and to call to the other " sacred linnet - the souls of poor Irish exiles , who died far from St. Patrick restored the youth to life , and to show his The yellow bunting , or " bunawn bowed , " is in some preached , and , in illustration of one of the dogmas of are many phrases that prove how and especially in those of the sedge warbler and the people connect the Michaelmas goose with Ireland's patron saint . Yet , according to an old Irish Miscellaneous . our holy religion a triple leaf is said to have been em- others could , for it is an echo from the voice of God . ployed by him . beast and tree . The saints under- that Ireland has remained true to the Faith he stood the language of Nature as none Dialogue of Oisin and St. Patrick there fifteen hundred years ago . all authorities are agreed skerry ruins in 16/20 . similar or not , to that used by the saint himself , some St. Patrick . Legends . THE NEW PROPPONDING NEW YORK NEW YORK NEW YORK NEW YORK What links hereRelated statements for the corresponding article . In IN the Ossianic Dialogue of Oisin and St. Patrick there What links hereRelated statements , Download as PDFPrintable version 1930s of the most common government was transferred to 1961 British American Army personnel was transferred at the In the Ossianic . A F 1961 62 . 0 0 # 1940sompton # A FRS -75 . and demands American government , from a number of --- Page 149 --- Ireland he landed at Innis-Patrick , and when he re- Kilvatrick . Returning to Ireland he landed on the where he wrestled in prayer for the people of Ireland . Patrick in Antrim the saint went to Croach Patrick , called " Innis-Patrick , " and founded the church of an abbey , and the Cathedral of St. Patrick's stands on turned after a long absence . at Holmpatrick . Co. There is also a Portpatrick in Scotland . Whether the Dublin . He then went to the Isle of Man , sometimes places named after St. Patrick in Wales refer to Ire- coast of Down . a district filled with his name . Saul Cardinal Moran was among those who held that On the spot known as Dommach-Padraigh he founded erected in his honour there . Dulpatrick , in Lanark- threshing floor of the Chieftain Dichu . From Temple- destined Apostle of Ireland . For land's Apostle , or to some other saint of the same name , patrick , in Dumbartonshire , suggests a church or cell this reason it has been often called perpetuates the memory of the conversion on his own for the arrival of St. Patrick , the is derived from the Irish for " Patrick's Barn , " and Seven angels from Paradise will help me , that I may traced , even after the lapse of so many centuries , by shire , indicates a district where he worked . ' There is seems uncertain . When Patrick came first to Patrick was born in Scotland . At all events . Kil- gray to Fleming , several churches consecrated to him . studving the names of the places associated with him . St. Patrick's Rock . " or " stone . " Patrick's footsteps in Ireland and elsewhere might be wherein there is terror . I kill also his wicked broad . a " Rock of Patrick " near Inverness , and , from Iron- was called " the great worm " in Irish . ' An ancient Irish prayer says , ' I kill a hound . ' I kill a small hound . ' I kill a deceitful hound . I kill a worn , The " Book of Days " holds that St. than while " I recite this prayer . " be sacrificed annually on its anniversary , that is to THE CROSS . angel Michael . The servant destroyed by St. Patrick say , on the 29th of September , the feast of the Arch- Angels are said to have waited on the Rock of Cashel steps of do valiantly . and give no more time to the worm to live In the Foot- the Saint . 276 ps in Ireland and elsewhere might be # --- Page 150 --- whom St. Patrick has been often compared healed worthy master , Henry the Eighth , that he had caused ccpal See of Armagh . In the popular estimation its supported himself by leaning on the staff . whilst was long preserved amongst the insignia of the epis- lum Christi , in the presence of Kyng's Deputies , Chan- had a prominent place in the working of many of his the ancestor of the Gaels , who had been bitten by a He gave Patrick the Staff , thenceforth known as the to the Primacy . A record preserved to this day in sea . It is interesting to remember in this connection that it was with his staff , or rod , that Moses with must have taken place in Dublin . for the relief was accompanied St. Patrick in all his wanderings , and serpent ; and that , in commemation of this miracle . preaching in the open air . ' It was thus that he to be some essential part of the ceremony . The staff the Gospel to the people of Ireland . At the same time the sunburst , a rod , or staff , with a dead serpent twined possession was supposed to give the holder the right the ancient banner of the Milesians displayed with happened to accidentally piece the foot of King Angus Gerald Macshayne , Knight , was sworn upon the Holie The Staff of St. Patrick Masebook and the great relic of Erlonde , called Bacu- of Munster , who never minced ; supposing the torture and with it also that he drove the servants into the Baculus Jesu , or Staff of Jesus . This priceless relic Westminster Abbey states that , in the year 1529 , " Sir testant Archbishop of Dublin , wrote boasting to his Crunch , the sun-god idol , on the fair plains of Cavan . miracles . It was with it that he overthrew Crom This swearing of a knight upon St. Patrick's staff cellour , Treasurer and Justice . which it was his custom to stick in the ground . as he thousand years when the vandal Brown . First Pro- St. Patrick's crozier terminated in an iron spike . m 1180 , and remained there for close on four hundred mon , and it was there , says the legend , that Our Lord removed from Armagh to Christ's Church Cathedral appeared to him in person , commanding him to preach household . Later on he betook himself to Mount Her- round it . The Baculus Jesu had been in Ireland over a years . --- Page 151 --- in the Burgundian Museum at Brussels ) as befitted a maiden of trained her in the ways of that spiritual life of which she was to her childhood , under the spiritual care of St. Mel : and whilst he Book of Proverbs : " she hath sought wool and flax , and hath that " she had beeneth her mouth " to wisdom and the law of intermost coasts . " " Of her alone may it be spoken with reserve Our Blessed Lady is the ideal woman for all time and the in. practice to gather the poor about her and to enhance the merit of doing " good " ; even before her entrance into religion it was her of cattle . Of her night it indeed be said in the words of the lost and hungry dogs ; it was as though her heart were too small spindle . " " She had opened her hand to the needy and stretched to hold all her love for God , so that it overflowed upon His of music and literature ( a hymn of her composition is treasured hand to strong things , and her fingers have taken hold of the though it be but in dim and feeble fashion , some of the attributes Carpenter of Nazareth , that she " hath not eaten her bread idle . " cut her hands to the poor . ' Tender and far-reaching was the wrought by the counsel of her hands " ; " she hath put out her means neglected . We know that , though excelling in the arts serving , weaving , embroidery , and even of dairving and the care clothing " : and truly may it be said of the spouse of Joseph , the ought to be . harity of Brigid . Like her Divine Master , she " went about of Her who is the model of all that a true and valiant woman the " valiant woman " whose " price " is " far and from the Only one of his creatures ever realised that ideal : only Mary their value from one source only from the fact that they mirror , Her charity was wide enough to feel compassion even for the ing of St. Patrick's mission in Ireland , St. Brigid came , early in Of these traditions , the life-story of our Nation's patroness , St. Ireland . The tale of St. Brigid's life as a religious is that of a true that a faithful follower of Mary . re Immaculate Mother of the Son of God , can claim the title of By Ruth C. Nicolls . caused to be set before us a word painting of God's ideal creatures , whom she loved for love of Him . Surely , she was in royal blood , she became proficient also in the domestic sciences of Born about the year 436 , some four years later than the open- Brigid , is the sweetest and most holy . iring traditions of the women of Ireland draw their beauty and ecome such a shining example , her secular education was by no temency is on her tongue . " that " strength and beauty are her woman . I the inspired Book of Proverbs ( chap . 31 ) the Holy Ghost er arms-giving by the added gifts of personal service . Women of Traditions of the Women of Traditions . Traditions of the Wo 280 --- Page 152 --- be mentioned here that the Most Rev. Dr. Walsh . Archbishop of Dublin , wrote to the Rector at the last moment , expressing his state . Many of them had known Father Charles intimately , and frequently were the recipients of his benediction . At the termina- High Mass ; and last of all the members of the Confraternity of Preachers . Franciscans . Carmelites . Jesuits . Augustinians , Life of Father Charles , C.P. dergy walked two by two ; next in order was the celebrant of the different Religious Orders wearing their various habits . The Friars and accompanied by acolytes : after which the secular and secular a people's love they forgot everything but the dead servant of attempt to adequately depict what now took place . Inside the as possible , the flow of the vast tide of the multitude was in that the Most Rev. Dr. Donnelly , Bishop of Canada , presiding . It may says an eyewitness , " as if the people were about to snatch up the n St. Paul's Retreat since its foundation . An air of sadness and to obtain a place at the cemetery , but the crush and rush was so great that their efforts were rendered powerless . " It seemed . ' Edited by a PASSIONIST Father . proceeded to the seats assigned to them . Besides the re- tion of the Office of the Dead . the solemn Requiem Mass was sung . present . When the Holy Sacrifice had concluded , the Liberal me coffin with some object , so that they might treasure it up as a Church and his Order a legacy of saintly fame . ' In this display of Christ , and , not taking into account the consequences of this sorrow , that owing to certain circumstances , he was unable to be beeches , are laid to rest the brethren of the Order who have died coffin and prevent the burial . " Those who had the good fortune the Cross and Passion , bearing the coffin . Fruitless would be the to honour one who was a glory and an ornament to the religious the cemetery . In front walked the Sub-Deacon , carrying a cross demonstration of reverence , their action did not tend to facilitate human beings ; and as each one struggled to get as near the grave tirection . Those inside endeavoured to vacate their seats in order repose the ashes of zealous missioners , of fervent religious , who to be near the line of procession made every exertion to touch the The Passionist Cemetery at Mount Areas is situated continuous CHAPTER XV-continued . and the sweet voices of the songsters in the ancient trees . Here emotion was intoned by the cantors , and the Bishop gave the to the church at the eastern side . Here , beneath the spreading I'll o'clock the long file of clergy entered the sanctuary and presentatives of the secular priesthood were to be seen the stillness pervades the place , broken only by the telling of the bells final absolutions . Vincentians , Marists , and the Oblates of Mary Immaculate , came Scenes of Mourning at Mount Argus . matters . memorial of their true friend and kind comforter who left to the church , and away down the avenues , was one dense mass of The funeral procession then moved down the nave and towards Domine-a palm which always caused Father Charles the greatest A --- Page 153 --- rary to the natural sequence , as time grows older there is no deep sense of loss at the void that has been created . And can nstil into their young breasts a desire to embrace that ' perfect without purifying their hearts , and taking fresh courage to act arms and the rear of battle . He died in arms , a soldier of charity , have violated the rule of life marked out for them by Him , and Life of Father Charles , O.P. stained their soul by sir , they ought not to leave the precincts be to tell them what the living voice incubated for many years spot of earth . When , too , the story of that career of sacrifice for way of life of which the holy man was such a beautiful ideal , and appeared from his tomb , and the grass shall grow green over his effect that if the dead priest could speak from the tomb , it would around him , and now , when they can see him no more , they come What we have said is fully borne out by the course of events which the saintly Father gave them . If they are true to them of the faithful for the elect . ' It is generally " when He has called poor " ; they are written on fleshy tablets of grateful hearts ; they and where Charity alone remains , if they have the wisdom not to thus , while growing in grace they will secure that peace and joy be deluded by transient things , and fulfil the requirements which its results , and transcends all triumphs gained amid the clash of o his own happiness , and that they may look forward to meeting who now , with moistened eyes , beware his loss , will reverence that pensation of Providence , length of years only intensifies the love conquered in the great spiritual warfare of life , and has won' laurels consciences reproaching them when they ponder over the counsels and unknown , to be honoured , so that their sound is heard the since Father Charles has passed away . During life he drew crowds hose whom he loved and laboured for here on earth , which tends hey are giving glory to God and joy to His servant , but if they benediction . And when the newness and freshness shall have dis- cheering hope , for the saddened hearts that are mourning the on earth ; it is then that He permits their names , hitherto lowly The eminent holiness and priestly devotedness of Father The servant of God was a real Christian hero : he fought and which is to be found in religion alone . God will be told to the little ones on their mother's knee . it will hold a prominent place in the train of thought , and bring on a are essential " to the attainment of the end for which they were and the deeds he has won are recorded in the " annals of the world over . That lonely grave , too , possesses one grand consolation , one are treasured up in the Bosom of God . rim again in that blissful land " where partings are unknown at Mount Argus . Happy , indeed , are those who do not feel their them to Himself , that the Almighty glorifies His chosen ones here created . The End . ravely , like Father Charles , in God's service . which will never fade . He achieved a victory which is eternal in leparted Passionist-namely , that he knows everything about aries will induce generations yet to come to hold his name in to feast their eyes upon that simple grave . And they cannot I stained ashes , the children and the children's children of those liminution in these graveside groupings , for , by a peculiar d ravelv. like Father Charles , in God's service . which is to be found in religion alone . --- Page 154 --- attention to the misty heights behind . " See the Crescent moon valleys , touching them gently , and throwing into sudden clearness ago , asking one of us to go out , I regarded it as a heaven-sent against the fate that has held ine here against my will offer no non His voice changes as he halts with ' Nairin and draws her little use to the glen ? In the years that lie ahead , when I reap and when Uncle Meehaul's letter from the States arrived a month young voice quivering now with hopefulness , painting in forceful outlet for my energies . Many a time I have learned and asked colours the splendid future that lies ahead waiting to be carved with their unceasing monotony . Often has my nature rebelled saying good-bye , " he remarks . " He is unable to come to the heart of Nairin . Og shoots a range of vain as she listens in the Turning impulsively to his companion he begins discussing glens has been eating into my heart . " he says . " I have common in the old country . ' beginning to be fulfilled , and I mean to foil and labour until fame sid me God-speed before I leave the glen to-morrow . I return to Ireland you shall all be proud of your Paistin Finnm . " Haven't the neighbours always regarded me as a dreamer and of in a distant land . laughingly , relieving her of her empty club and falling into step sorrow shall leave his own untouched . watch it rising , as it is the last time I shall see it for many years wn Donegal . Sure , you are your mother's Paistin Frown , and we tones and familiar step of Mantis O'Donnell , who quickly gains he surrounding scenes . ' The moonbeams play on the glens and beside her . and fortune crown my efforts . ' Mother will have Seumas and Denis still to take my place . shall miss you sorely when you leave . ' A quick answer swings to her lips as she glances at the smiling face of her companion full of youth and boyish hopes . Since I was a lad the longing to get away from the hills and THE OLD YOU WUALD And yet , Manus , " she remarks , " where're you go no hearts I have been over with Paidin Gallagher , the greasuidhe . replies softly : her side . the warm hearts that shall be saddened by his going , while expression in his countenance and creeps into his voice as he You disappeared so suddenly when I saw you outlined against agerly the one subject that fills his mental horizon . Through the the hill-top that I took you for a mountain sprite , " he says success , I mean to prove how wrong they are , and some day when A momentary feeling of sadness , that ambition fails to crush . gathering in the ' hollow ' to-night , and he wished to see Mairin Duffy listens in silence to his ambitious words , thinking ired and weary cooped up within these mountain boundaries . A brightness looms up behind the distant peak lighting softly her head on top of Arrival . " he says . " " T.et ins stand and ilence for the varied scenes the world's great cities only give , for my being missed I'll soon be forgotten when I am far aw : hall ever love you like the kindly ones you leave behind in your to my restless drawings . ' Now the wish of my heart is --- Page 155 --- His letters home are watched with eager joy , and no visitor is so they linger in the ears of one of her listeners , and are recalled to ing hovers . Manus O'Donnell moves amid the friends of his boy- rears , spending the remaining hours with one who has loved him the valley . Her native songs , betraying such depth of feeling that give their parting blessing and good wishes to Peig O'Donnell's One and all Manus promises to keep in remembrance , and as he listens to their fervent beannacht last a stir . His heart is moved words of the kindly-hearted people , the shadow of a coming part- work rearming for the absent one who is far beyond the ocean her to the little home that has sheltered him for two and twenty buachaillin ban . Mairin Duffy , bravely hiding the pain that seems away as the ' merry Highland' rebels are danced upon the open around Cashelnagore . Peig O'Donnell moves about her household sed upon the land . In Peig O'Donnell's kitchen the whirr of the ind her daughter as they appear on the health where the gathering Stripes . The list of a fiddle greets the ears of the Widow Duffy a letter bearing the American post-mark , telling an old Irish only a memory . Paddy Ruarty's bagpipes help to pipe the time to part . He fingers behind with Nairin Oc. his husband's little to lag as she walks slowly to her little home . her thanahts linger - comes when the final handshakes bring the gathering to an end . dreading the hour to come that shall separate her from her radiant beams . " Yet over all , despite the smiles and pleasant to snap her heart asunder , sings , with a voice like the thrust in is assembled . Upon the scene the summer man sends down her he is in the strangers ' land . He joins his mother and accompanies see again . His mother is present too , with tears in her heart . relcome to the little cottage as Sean the postman when he brings path to where the neighbours are gathered in the " hollow . " to the growing force of his life - a driving power that sets at bought tance . They linger for awhile watching the moonlight deesenine . prove so true as these generous-hearted ones from whom he is about her later at the dance in the " hollow . " Nairin's steps begin her rich attire , spreading her gorgeous colourings over the glens O'Donnell bids farewell to his native hills , leaving loneliness in all the hearts behind who love him . and Stripes . Thus time marches onward and winter sets its cold and then proceed on their way in silence . At the foot of the hill who soon will be far away . With a sigh she realised ambition is A short time later Mairin and her mother hasten by the river affection's claims . rest of all her sons . Morning breaks eventually , and Manus the mighty ocean , with the lights of Tory revolving in the dis- reath . The hours " speed swiftly on , and too soon the moment mother how her son is able to hold his own in the land of the Stars riend , and wins a promise from her that she will write when and touched . He realizes firmly no future friends shall ever mind in the years to come , when the hour and the scene shall hood , receiving their benediction , many of whom he may never The pleasant summer weather passes and autumn arrives in on the lad of her heart , who is all unconscious of her love , and the sails away on the morrow to the land of the Stars and they separate , Manus remarking to his companion he shall --- Page 156 --- a tableaux in which Eire is represented welcoming the Dawn which isle of the west . Proudly they march through the principal audience , calling up tender associations of lays gone by in the contingents bands discourse national airs , bringing the old is broad rash of green caught across his shoulder and looked at rears the spring of Shamrocks called by the fingers of Main O" their breasts , which only Irish hearts can truly feel . On high , greats the finely conceived scene , being , as it is a reproduction of the vast hall presents a unique sight when he appears . Thousands mighty gathering as the curtain rises . " The opening item reveals brings to her the realization of all her hopes . A burst of applause Excitement's flush , from the day's events . ' still rests upon his ags and banners are borne proudly , waving gaily in the sunshine . excitement and enthusiasm reveal how true , and loyal are their Gael . Folk-songs , that their mothers loved , are sung to the vast sentiments towards Dark Rosaleen . A bush descends upon the that morning . Thousands of exiled Gaels , all wearing the little longing for familiar faces and familiar scenes among his Donegal plant sent by loving hands from far beyond the seas , meet together o participate in honouring their National Apostle and their green Feast . ' Manus O'Donnell reserves a seat , and the scene within grade through the streets of New York . In his buttonhole he thoroughfares , stalwart sons of Erin . At the heads of the different brilliant concert , organized by the friends of Ireland , is held in and goes to his sittingroom , where his supper is awaiting him watching the march past , that Irish patriotism is a very noble and sacred thing , ranking next to love of God in the heart of an motherland . It is a night purely Irish in tone and sentiment , and unshine to welcome St. Patrick's Dar. Manus O'Donnell , with row misty as he follows mentally her last journey across the old at its close . " Manus O'Donnell goes slowly home with the sweet Towards evening the huge procession ends its fine display , and thoughts circle round the dear homeland , setting his pulses THE CROSS . refrain of one of the ballads echoing persistently in his ears : have gained admission-exiles all from Eire's " shores , and their proving to the vast concourse of people that line the streets . green , to join her kindred dead , who lie in rest in their quick the large contingents separate for home . When night arrives a rossed rise before his mind , and a sudden heartache leaves him brobbing and a strong desire , seize him to leave the land of the And the old bog-road . ' rom his favourite haunt in the glen at home , and only received A picture of another bog-road that his boyish steps have often Irishman . ountenance as he sits down to his evening rival . ' His busy hills . Taking his latch-key from his pocket he opens his hall-door It is two months later , and Spring ushers in a bright , clear country very near to-day , and inspiring mingled feelings within raves near the old cill at the foot of the hill . " Mau God be with old Ireland the wonderful wish that is ever uppermost in the heart of every one of the great city auditoriums to honour the passing of the he side , joins his countrymen at an early hour for their gras 990 . --- Page 157 --- with a dozen other cookers about him . In the midst a white wand move off along the shining , wood-paved roads , and see the re- Fallic spirit has had its food of rhetoric loosed . So in thirty strained de-idealised faces on the queues waiting for the first trams a jolt as he rises and , in unacceptable slang , exchanges emotions of lines . And , knowing that loss of adventure is for Man-soul a ask the second and you will find that he has a flatterer in his and , by his silence , you will discover that he has a sweetheart there : ince . This indiscipline is the proof of an unfendalised soul . How- by a train arriving at early morning , just after daylight for prefer- spontaneity and the brains and heart that are behind its disorder . Buclidean figure to which new Babylon has reduced its multitude white staff and all though he be , shall only be observed when the But here now is Berlin . The challenge is quick ; one talks of At the end of the Unter den Linden that Emperor's house- secret , ' instinctive , final . ' One ' will say . " Oh . I love A but liable to a frightful breakdown when the hinges wear from use , she spirit . Let every man have his say . So Paris claims you at down from the Gare du Nord under the Porte St. Martin . ' Hardly to draught-board smoothness-Liberte , fraternite , equalite . That as they are beginning to do now . ence . The ramness of the air , the degenerate sparrow tuning up by cold analysis . But ultimately there will arise tests which are driver , suffers a quick change . ' There he is jerking the cab up with promise of Machiavelli and the devil , perfect up to a certain point colour and spiritual quality . The psychologist and the re too have acquiesced in the make-believe . " Here we are jingling the magical equilibrium is not to be restored thus . This genderme , ever we shall otherwise dislike the place we must love it for it . perfect geometry , some annihilation of adventure in this splendid of the cabinet these will remain in your memory . And as you Yet , beyond these shallow indgings of merely individual likes . is company which pays him sixteen per cent . has its headquarters in the mass-sensation that one gets from cities . " Enter London , say , their half notes along the Euston Road . the cold storage accents place in the world as nice as C-ville . " Question the first further By D. L. Kelleher . a high-grade gramophone , a consciousness of ambition and pride , TOWN , like a family , takes in the process of time . a certain Let us , then , pass over to Paris out of the splendid routine before The Soul of Cities . his chosen C-ville . ' course of 1913 . What a town ! Perfect organisation , the ease of mother . " I simply long for B-ville . " A third . " There isn't a In economist will , each in his own sphere , explain the origins nd buses you will have the sense of something lacking in this loss of salvation , you will feel straight away that here is the com seconds a silence falls , automatically the traffic-block solves itself we we in sight of the Boulevard before the White-hat , who is our wings parallel and perpendicular , and all angles , by turns . But avourite place ; a third puzzling it out will only know that the --- Page 158 --- taken up third-hand in Ireland , where , after loss of money as well as national dignity . they are paraded when they are about to be guides . and obey rather the edicts of some member of the Masonic consider to be reliable authority . that the principal designers of cast off where they originated . ' When will our Catholic women their indecent dresses . " And again , the Bishop adds : " Does it It is painful to observe , too , that our Irish-Irelander women and society and bring it back to paganism . ' For we cannot conceal from ourselves that corruption of morals leads eventually to loss of respective spheres of life . according to the innate dictates of their a certain Irish usage : " It is strange that when people wish to show some little independence of national character . and whilst According to the Verf Rev. Canon Peter O'Leary . One of the dressing themselves in a suitable and becoming manner in their who are bitterly opposed to Christianity , and seek amongst other in Ireland , nor anywhere else , any woman named ' 11 1/0"1/1/ slavishly imitate the English , and they set down " Dressman saw furthermore . that they are generally Parisian Jews or Freemasons . London . They are not improved in the transit , and thus they are not seem as if the Spirit of Evil were now using , amongst other nothing but rather take from the grace and dignity of their sex " sense of wouriety and Christian modesty , avoid these indecent question of indecent fastions . ' I have seen it stated on what I girls , who profess their abhorrence of the anglicisation which is turn a deafear to the Vicar of Christ as well as their other spiritual made among speakers of Irish . " They see in some newspaper the ashions condemned by the Holy Father . ' which are now so pre- conclusion of a change being essential to future happiness and THE GREATNESS of GOODNESS escaped the taint of this service imitation . He says , in explaining age through Paris or London . in brain . ' Now , in the first place , ' Drestano ' does not mean ask themselves how that sort of announcement has been always not set down in the newspaper announcement exactly what our any person in particular . In the second place there never has been Walsh and Miss O'Brien have been married . So they proceed to going on in our midst , fall a victim themselves to it , in this very development . No nation , much less an ambitious one like Ireland , matter how silk . unsuitable , and outrageous , was saved by a pass- of continuation , and that a radical change was imperative . The this change , which should have meant nothing more than a ushion , the Most Rev. Dr. Hallman , Bishop of Limerick , says : imitation of English forms is a shame ! The effort to improve by means of blind imitation was due to words ' Walsh ' and ' O"Brien . ' then they see it stated that James With regard to the evils attendant on the blind following of he fact of the prevailing condition of Ireland being one impossible insert the announcement of a marriage in a newspaper they never modern fashions in women's dress are men and not women-and , t , and which . whilst involving much extravaearce , add people have being saving in words during all the ages ? Slavish and Orient of France ? From Paris these fashions pass on to rity was correct , but a mistake was made in the manner of ost Irish scholars of the day , the Irish language even has not th . What then is to be thought of those Catholic women who s to uproar it by the introduction into Christian society of encies . this most odious and demonstrations one to dechristianise --- Page 159 --- Ireland has never ceased to be great , and has been looked upon as a gress must be attempted along Irish lines , or else failure will even- Lloyd George . When Ireland is being examined it must not be necessarily mean to be good . It is along the line of goodness for but a breath . ' To be good is to be great ; but to be great does not be truly patriotic , and for this end . like Davis , they should failure only by those who think in measures of another nation , and to the hooded cloak and grilled cap . But it is advocated that pro- forgotten that goodness is the chief asset of a nation . Goodness is it meant that Irish agriculture will put aside the threshing become great than Dublin become a city , or Cork become Catholic . for , at best , it can but advance in greatness . Ireland can no more who would condemn the beauties of Goldsmith and the eloquence passion . ' Love of country must go hand in hand with love of God . which Ireland has been always remarkable that development must of greatness and wealth . All will be but a beginning of the end if great name should encourage every Irishman and Irishwoman to endeavour to rid themselves of " every selfish plan and cruel 's the real element of greatness , for without goodness greatness is in far off days made Ireland the Lamp of the World . among the nations of the world , it may , perhaps , have won a name of Burke by merely saying that they were not like Kipling or may such a glorious record render futile the calumny of all characteristics which have made the Irish name renowned for steadfastness in pity , warmheartedness in charity , and for an machine for the nail of their forefathers , nor Irish women return aggressors ! When Ireland will have taken its rightful place The greatness of Ireland consists chiefly in the teaching and aptitude for shining where bravery and brains are required . This practice of Christian honour . May such be ever respected , and return to the manners and customs of times now long past . Nor can afford to stand still and remain satisfied with conditions suit- there is not a steadfast upholding of that beautiful life which even must be designed by Irish women . The foundation of Irish happy- ness must be in Ireland rather than outside it . tually ensure . The work of the Irish agriculture must be developed under the supervision of Irish brains and aims , and Irish dress is a mistake to say that future action will make Ireland great , able in a century or more ago . No one of foresight will advocate a The Cross take place . There must be a continuance of those splen sire . --- Page 160 --- Blarney Stone . Next we find the author of " Waverley " coming ellow-citizens , who , with all their broad-mindedness , have not a Lansdowne to inspect a Cork Brewery . to invite Keats and talk of Faith by the lyrical company of his child . " his daughter Mary the city of days long gone that he forgets the failings of his own Edward Fitzgerald ' on the run , ' as many another whose heart oor Sarah Curran . Now passes before us Father Mathew , at a with us ? " So the doctor . But the Sheriff jokes behind the fire- To one guest in particular is the doctor all attention . Conversa- South Mall . " Moore comes with the Vannis and Varchionese of meet Carlyle in the drawing-room of a hotel , and are shown Scott and Maria Edgeworth on their way back from kissing the in its outlook on aesthetics in practice in its midst . A kind of local again at the United Irishman's cottage . ' Jemappes " Lord had become a byword for Drunkenness . " Here goes in the name Presidency of the Royal Academy . Charlotte Bronte , back from to his principal guest : " through the landing . " and a calm pro- a honeymoon at Killarney with her narson-husband from Yorks . essional man faces the uninvited one who rushes up the stairs . little of the mentality which Bernard Shaw summarises : " Wood- page we are shown Parnell speaking from the window of a hotel by the American Senate , and Carlyle refuses to allow his portrait in Patrick Street , wild duck and water rats along the line of the The Sheriff-ah ! ' The rebel lord ? ' No ! we were dining ; you you ! " . " The fugitive has reached Blackrock , crossed the comes to view " Brandon and St. Mary's : but her thoughts are in now by road past Tivali , and swiftly to Sunday's Well to shelter to the torch-lighted sea of faces beneath him ; we turn over to meet row Wilson a great man ! Why . I knew his grandfather . " We he writes : " Cork then , as now , was a narrow , provincial place the author does not worry about chronological order . On one Sisters of Charity-and we are introduced to the dinner party . igetry calculated , as in the case of James Barry , to drive the neeting in a house in Cove Street . a meeting called because Clark round the corner of the neighbouring street . The host whispers know my friends here ? Perhaps you will take a glass of wine artist " to extremes of defence . " But he is usually so stepped in river in a fisherman's boat and . " Oh. thank God . he is away on begun . He administers the pledge in Trinity College is welcomed blusteringly impudent . " He was seen coming in here ! I warm of Daunt's Square , where lived Dr. Aikenhead a man " won to We follow Mr. Kelleher to that hasnitable house at the corner Brussels , beautiful Brussels to which we owe that novel " written The pageant which passes before us is a varied one ; fortunately Mr. Kelleher does not think Cork all that some of its admirers destined to be the foundress and inspire of the Order of Irish rofess it to be . ' Dealing with the career of James Barry . R.A ion is cryptic at times . until the heel-clicks of the troops are heard rains roses down the lengthening years . ' A CUMRONIAN ON THE HOME-DOWN creen , jobs his stick under the big ' Ottoman , then takes breath . in letters of blood , " " Villette . arsfield entering " the little swamp-ringed city , cranes massive to encourage Daniel Maclise , the Cork artist who refused the of God , " said the Apostle of Temperance , and his life-work I --- Page 161 --- is not yet forgotten . " For this is Fursey , Bishop of Ferns , come Sheares and Nan O'Nagle . Sir Walter Raleigh and Gerald Griffin ! destroying all his letters and diaries there just before the end , to pray by the body of Finnbarr and so " soon commitment with est any bitterness should come out of a word he left behind . ' chin , and ' long , slender cloak . walking as is his want all his journeys , now at the gates of Cork . " And then Daniel O'Connell romanhood has come to see the last of their men folk : " Till they parture of Barsfield and the " Wild Geese . " A horde of weeping To the Hill of Gill Abbev comes St. Finnbarr . Inoking down an and soon his university is in being . turning out finished scholars leck ... ... . Oh gallant fellow , tortured with this last sight of wives killed one and wounded several in duels . has spent his days in and mothers drowned before those eyes ! Until at Steenkirk and below , thoughts for the uplifting of his fellow-men ever with him ; for has he not won for them the status of free men ? coffin " wheels a reverent throng . One amongst them whose name than a local appeal . Especially should the Cork man who sees no prostrate himself upon the Marine bank by Paris , and to whom an the glamour undoubtedly possessed by the Cork that has passed next breath we are watching Prince Rupert as he rides in from thy war-horse on , the ghosts of them shall stand in fire and flower vailing , screaming up to the great hull . ... " Rave , rave upon the into history . And Mr. Kelleher is a world-wizard who convinces . British Parliamentary machine , has achieved Emancipation , has the crowd to invoke his horses and draw the carriage themselves hen back to Donerville to prepare for the death that was so near : Landen in the stirrup beside thee , on the saddle before the urging while the names of most are still honoured in the land . Henry Comes Lord Macaulay , only to go back to London again , with tales haggard , clad as an humble monk , with his scant beard , pointed as the Wild Geese . ' with ringing , with singing of swords , ' deserve the name , though the book has the quality that ought make more Anglia and put off his crown , for whom Clovis the Second shall lamour in the city of his day go to the author for a quality of And just one more quotation from the scene that marked the de- Gallery over-ruled Carlyle , and the portrait was duly honoured . One by one they slide by . all of them now stilled in death We are taken to the wedding of the poet Spenser , and in the and embryo saints . Next , Finnbarr is dead , and by his " silver down the English line . ives " in by way of Carrigrohane , he who has " smashed into the The book " is very creditably turned out by the Talbot Press THE CROSS Mr. Kelleher has made a debtor of every Corkonian worthy of " the bantering men he found in Cork . ' into the Portrait Gallery of London . But the Trustees of the insale to beg food for his men . Before us passes St. Malachy . Emperor of Thuringia shall cry out for solace . ' picturesque penances and emotional deeds . " He refuses to allow of Dublin . ush out into the river , clutching at the ship's ropes trailing loose , little clusters of mud and wattle huts which dot the slope We see Canon Sheghan as he comes to the South Infirmary , and the dead : Fursey , the Saint to whom a king shall kneel in East imperor of Thuringia shall cry out for solace . ' "00 . --- Page 162 --- have made the name of Cork almost a synonym for poetry . He McCarthy is a worthy successor to the long line of versifiers who he tunes his lyre to sing of his vanished love . I like him best when ocean and set down for all who run his version of the answer . ' For , though I am far from any desire to quarrel with him when the thoughts of that mystic maiden who seems often to monopolise Theatre , and he figures largely in the repertoire of Mr. Sinclair's land over the rocks which guard the coast of Cork , and soon to And who are we to question him , for has not " the mantle of his As becomes the young poet , of course , he is almost gloomy the bend by Myrtleville , he has listened to the message of the his day-dreams . Seated in the rocks below Church Bay or round better-class English magazines . present modest volume will be welcomed by that large circle of Talbot Press containing the first offerings of his muse . though Then into greenness now . readers which delights in noting how the young poet first flutters fame as a dramatist . He has had works produced at the Abbey previously his name was not unknown as a poet to readers of the play a very wide range of poetic imagination they show that Mr. his wings in preparation for that longer fight that is always in his And scattered tough from tough : little fishing fleet ' battling their frail strength against the fury Though the twenty-six pieces in this little volume do not dis- Dublin : The Talbot Press . ' Is . Company on tour . And now comes a slim volume from the Nature , by the simple things of the everyday life around him . of the weather . As when he sings of . " The Storm , " which We cannot ever separate , mental eye . In bondage ' death the leafy sky : lady by his side must surely keep his thoughts in a brighter frame betimes . " But gloomy only in his own imagining , for the elusive Review . Mr. J. BERNARD M.CARTRY has already found a modicum of life's gloom , " as he tells us , been lined . Mr. McCarthy has in him the promise of greater things , but the And no Spring kiss of breeze can blow Nor do we wish it , she and I . With fair soft words , that fur its sombre folds ? " than he would have us know . THE SHADOW OF THE ROSE . By J. Bernard McCarthy . laid our woodland temple low , She holds me like a kindly fate T. K. He is most successful in the poems which have been inspired by be waves are surging around his feet , when he gazes out at the goes for his inspiration now to the pungent spray that drives --- Page 163 --- rinn as came to . Mr. map , pin for no ozone time nomann . Of no purposes . I sedize its modestback acts , ann-mina crunn'simplide-asur sp. 5ac per leats in an lesbian . 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Bonnie's verses are promising , but they are not yet quite Of brown candles in the trees . The gladsome sound of carolling . ally appreciate the sunshine , just as , after the winter storms of this life we hope May she smile where'rer we be . By the singing stream she's stealing , o awaken to the bright spring of the next , where turbulent souls find peace and learest little friends - Rita Carlos - and I found pleasure in every line of it . Rita sassage : " What a pity Winter ever comes to tear with cruel hands all that Springs to greet the balmy air . THE CROSS spring is here . O. run to meet her , Lillian Mary Nally . Primposes and sweet wild theme . Autumn and Winter of life be as bright for all of you as Francis came this sweet-song of ( Spring : Whispers : " She's drawing near . ' View the great expenses " green . " The first to write me this month was Lilian Mary Nally , and with her letter Full of joys from God to you . With her laughing eyes of blue , List while birds are happy thrilling . For a grace of God is she : Thrust their heads , and , tip toe peeping , soem of her's in The Cross . A very welcome letter came to me from one of my Lusmore bells and balancing ; Vating songs upon the breeze , My Postbag . See 1 she comes . the sunshine maiden , Little flowers weary sleeping . Vithered grass her soft footing Out in the woods I hear . telling of the fair and glad time Daffodils and tall Narcissi . tark ! 'tis the herald of the spring Hiding wee buds everywhere : Neath their leafy mantis screen , And her hands all heavy laden . The Coming of Spring . Jeannabhan in bogland lonely : Never season was there sweeter - good enough to appear in print . Some day she will have the pleasure of reading My dear friend from historic Killaloe . Hannie Ward , has written me a big . long 306 . one . s very proud , and very glad that Lilian Nally claims her as a " spirit friend " ort , warned by the sunny rays of God's infinite love . The trials and crosses the concept was written to the number of a number of different number of ther that is just delightful . I wish I could publish every word of it . Here is a es this earth look beautiful ! But then , if Winter never came we would not comfort , warned by the sunny rays of God's infinite love . The trials and crosses al thoughts that we may treasure in our minds and dwell Spring . --- Page 165 --- His Holiness Pope Benedict XV. bestows paternal charity the blessing you request , so that the periodical continuing with increasing zeal its salutary apostolate in the bosom of Christian families may rescue peace , and the source of all true civil progress . and final homage , at the same time begging the from shipwreck ever increasing numbers of the brethren the sole plank of salvation and of life , the symbol of Apostolic Blessing for the contributors to this excellent and may bind them indissolubly to the Cross of Christ , the Editor of " THE CROSS " by His Eminence Cardinal piously presented at His Throne in token of your devout for your pious tribute , has been pleased to grant with sentiments of the Pontiff , I have pleasure in subscribing which , collected into an elegant volume , you have the numbers of the monthly periodical " THE CROSS ' In conveying to your Reference these gracious I am happy to inform you that His Holiness , grateful The Cross and praises its work publication and for its readers . Secretariate of State of His Holiness The Sovereign Pontiff has received with pleasure The following is a translation of a letter addressed to Yours affectionately in the Lord . Gasparri , Secretary of State : The Vatican , March 9 , 1918 . Reverend Father , myself , the Apostolic Benediction on 808 ; --- Page 166 --- man # antitrust . 0 0 0 0 6 7 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 6 4 6tho's 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 6 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 7 July 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 --- Page 167 --- 310 . 811 . --- Page 168 --- 818 Paschal Fire . --- Page 169 --- Ireland show . And it was , under God , mainly because many incidents in his years of missionary labour in true with a truth more living than that of mere literal would gain have prevented the lad when they saw him down to rest on the sweet , green sword . Presently , he lonely nights of cold and misery , guarding his flock on the boy , and the sun shore on his fair head and on the lovely flower-load he carried in his strong , young arms dependents , and before he left their hospitals abode accuracy . How dear to Patrick Irish children were saint , and kiss his feet , for they feared his rest might and wretchedness , long days of hunger and hardship he himself had so great a power over the generous had the great joy of receiving them into the one true fold . Then , married out after his great labours , he lay at whose din in death the Saint and his little band of little slave boy , he had known nothing but privation words in his Confession , it is nevertheless true - and blossoms . The white robe of his baptism was still upon Irish Saints and Irish Boys . and against his pure and ardent heart . The watchers the faith to beschen and his wife and children and in his regained patria to the land where , as a poor and unremitting labour under a stern master ; long , attendant missioners were hospitality entertained soon fell asleep , and those who watched his slumbers saw a after their arrival in Ireland . " The holy man preached back from all the dear delights of home and kindred hearts of Irish boys that his mission had such a speedy the bleak . snow-mantled mountain slopes . If this Fochlart by the Western Sea ' that called Patrick was young Benen , son of a chieftain called Seschen , belief receives no confirmation from the Saint's own success . The cause which enlists the boys of Ireland little boy approach him with arms full of fragrant One of the earliest of St. Patrick's Irish boy friends scatter the flower petals over the bosom of the sleeping was the " cries of the children of the wood of never fails . This always been the belief of our people that it By HELENA CONCANNON , M.A. --- Page 170 --- [no ALTO file] --- Page 171 --- Donaghmore ( Co. Heath ) . He made even quicker pro- task , the learning of the Psalter . The old hooks relate mined the Saint to obtain the boy's liberation , and to Richella , brought him one day to the Saint as he passed should bless him and have him instructed for the priest- and set him to work at the mediaeval schoolboy's first that after his baptism Patrick determined to train him the hungry days he spent herding his master's sheep passed on , leaving his pupil the Gospels to read . When irish saints and Irish boys amid " the silence of the lonely hills . " of the cruel times unnumbered through all the centuries set to be : advanced in saintliness , each aided by the other . hood . ( Here we witness a scene that was to be repeated belonging to a different rank ; and it is one of the most delightful object lessons in that true democracy for the Irish mother making known the dearest wish of for the priesthood . He taught him to read , therefore , to the care of a holy priest called Cassarf , whom Patrick nights of frost and snow and storm-must have been Benen and Mochae shared each other's studies , and prayer was heard , and her boy , Loman , was entrusted very vivid in the Saint's mind when on one of his years went by . There was young Roman , whose mother take him under his own permanent care . And so missionary journeys he came across a little swineherd that Mochae mastered this in a month . Then Patrick noble foregathered on an equal footing beneath his house . But St. Patrick soon made another boy friend Mochae was , a wonderful miracle , we are told , deter- his missionary labours again led him to the place where elements of the faith . So quick was the lad to learn stay with the boy for a time , and to teach him the which our Church stands , to see how swine-herd and her heart , to see her son a priest of God ) Richella's her home in his chariot , with a request that Patrick St. Benignus was the son of an ancient and noble ravishing with his voice the hearts of all . ' fostering care . The memory of his own boyhood of him , or thrust for instruction to his disciples , as the had recently established in a little church near called Mochua ( or Mochae ) , he broke his journey to Many other little boys did St. Patrick gather around ance , pure and stainless , in deed as in name , Benignus , " A youth most fair to look upon modest of counten- " Many other little boys did St. Patrick gather arc --- Page 172 --- Ireland has won the right to interpret the message , St. Patrick . As a reward , the holy men pronounced a his prayer by that historic tomb with a great hope , of his royal rank , and study for the priesthood . He young prince had gone forth to Patrick at first sight , staff in his hand , and with the sharp end of it he en- Aubrey de Vere has seen in the gravity of the Cross message of victory which is written around it - In. Hoc Conall's famous descendants , the O'Donnells : and pass them , thus , in Patrick's saintly company we are and it was his ardent wish to lay aside the burden it is cut upon the Angstone under which Ruairi and brought face to face with the knightly figure of Prince the little father lady of the Drowse , the heart of this Cathbar , brothers of South Ruadh , were laid to await blessing on the Drowes , and he promised that , in wanted him to serve Him ; and he took his pastoral great kindness , no other little boy should ever fish in been true to the Cross , each Irish pilgrim rises from sweetening the sorrow in his heart . He knows that him that it was as a soldier not as a priest Christ Signo" Vinces was graven on the escutcheon of all graved on Conall's shield a Cross . That Cross , with the the Resurrection " in the mound whereon the mar- memory of the little boys who had done him and his a were only too happy to offer what they had taken to aries of Sir Conaill , " the land of Conall , " and as we Conall himself . Like the peasant youth , Nissan , and on Prince Conall's shield the " Inauguration of Irish as addressed to herself , " In Hoc Signo Vinces . and because of his knowledge that Ireland has always tyred saint was crucified . " Because of that " sign , made known his desire to Patrick . But Patrick told the Drowse in vain . irish saints and Irish boys . The Duff and the Drowse form portion of the bound- Christ has for these a bowlier task . Mercy with justice . love with law , Put on God's armour . faithful knight ! His Cross upon thy shield and casque ! Nor e'er , except for truth and right , Be thou His soldier ! Wear with dread They sword , cross-hitted , dare to draw . ' which every Irish boy should know : Though shall not be a Priest . " he said : Chivalry , " and has celebrated it in exquisite verse , --- Page 173 --- ing Midlands , once the tentacles of Birmingham were left behind . dwellings of chequered brickwork . " their finten churches . Their will pass . But for many years my acquaintances shook their laughs last . It is almost a truism now that modern industrialism gardens' alternate with mammoth structures of steel and concrete , Other . That arid , hard , waterless , treeless city , that frontage of Truly Birmingham and Joseph Chamberlain were made for each In childhood , indeed . it held for me two pleasures - the steads of mellow birds and darkened timber that nestled under cabs still playing , the last brave protest of the old , unburied world expression , putting me in mind of a cook-boy in the English College heads with compassion over my madness when I ventured to against the " Dionysiac origins of speed-worship . This , too , will rich , who are also cultivated , it may well be an earthly paradise : I set out to walk the six miles to Craven Arms , and let myself triumph and taken of the new " civilisation . " Truly , architect - brick and wrinkled iron larger than Christian cathedrals , the they can still command all that urban civilisation can give : superb Beautiful , too , were the folded uplands of the chalk hills . the be the phrase is Ruskin's " dragged behind a kettle " to Hundreds ! with their russet-carpeted beachwoods , and their streaming London's central row " ( so Tennyson could sneak al- ture , or the lack of it , is a great revealed of national character . gradually into the clayey revels of Middlesex , where market at R.me , who well observed that over a grande la citta , la bel pass away . I repent it with confidence . They laugh longest who ready in 1830 ) . The sun shone out over the pleasant . but mininsnir- suggest that it would not be permanent . The superstition of has been these many years one of repulsion , not attrac- Commercial blatancy has its structural as well as its " linotypal By REV. H. E. G. ROPE , M.A. And London itself ? Truly , a theme for meditation . For the new Imperialism , living and encroaching upon the quiet farm- copse and sleeping field ? nibus , not the vibrant netrollers of to-day , with a genital old driver scluded peace . Beyond them , stopping course and tilth sink to talk to . But the " eighties " are far away in another epoch . King Pardion , he is dead . ' Chilterns-would that our rulers might apply en masse for its friend , an elderly Irish priest , was dying in Milbank Hospital . well content to die in that provision . To me its influence In Paddington Station I rejoiced to find a few horse-drawn Monday's post ( March I ) brought me tidings that a very dear glazed terra-cotta-what else was it but the clay-tablets of the Zoological Gardens and a ride on the top of an omnibus , a real om- OR over three years I had not seen London , and had been non c's . absolute Progress dies hard , but it is mortally wounded . 1907 1910s or autumn . tion . --- Page 174 --- Wilfrid Reynell , a true lover of Ireland . has a noble arose poem from the grinding , throbbing nerve-wearing currents to Westminster well be proud of her Cathedral . No one loves the true Gothic persons near the chapel of the Blessed Sacrament . T.andon mar- regarded these weary centuries , who are , did she but know it , perpetually burn for the conversion of England , where kneeling nuns make separation day by day for the past and present horrors these explain our hopes of England's eventual re-conversion . of the pride-drunken city , whose blaring lights would rain exclude perhaps also by the desperate morbid craze for parish modernity , to seek the intercession of those , her sons , unknown and dis- the Light of the World . ' ( In his Tale of Faith found in London . to the architectural speech of Rome and of Bavance . So much vainly tries to be . But this vast Cathedral is intensely living , how false and tedious is thy refrain ! How paltry they bedizen modern Gothic is bad , not because it is Gothic , but because it more than I do , but no Catholic can keep his ears closed mortal beings should not resemble machines . It was a joy to escape an impression of London . city , the unrevealed Montmartre . Tyburn and Westminster- Mammon to the Cross , turns from her nuclear Rmnira-huilders which even daughters of Erin are lured by ostensibly high wages . pealing to an English Catholic , the hidden Calvary of this gigantic darkness , while far beneath a few lights showed some two-score and a splendid venture of veiled and royal marble is weaving for ment ! Cannot religion , cannot patriotism , keep them at home : grace , for defiverance ; the other , anticipating the hoped-for trees a-blossom on the fringes of Hyde Park and a faint , golden dawn the Venerable Oliver Plunkett , won his crown . Trburn , where lights her sole true glory in modern ages , the three hundred and more her piece by piece . She , too , has " the height , the space , the He rejoices when I affirm my conviction that Ireland will emerge from the distant line-trees . Tyburn , of all shrines the most ap- calm'satisfaction of Ireland's enemies ! Loathsome , Syren city , ured , it is only too probable , in some cases to tradition to the rise a noble church when England turns at last from Mars and longed-for summons . Not many minutes have I the privilege of who bowed no knee to Baal , and sealed their Faith with their Early next morning , on the way to Tyburn . I saw the almond machine is impressive only so long as it runs smoothly . But im- his converse . Of only one earthly matter do we speak-Ireland . to whom I have come to say farewell in this world . waiting the Cathedral , whose austere and massive vaults " were majestic in gloom , the glory . lyburn and Westminster - the one sunpliant for mercy for " Fly hence , our contact fear . " # In a letter , written about 1843 ( given in his life and Telters , by Down yonder by the Thames lies waiting for death the priest riumph , the desired miracle . At Tyburn , too , some day shall Tyburn , where Ireland's own martyr , soon , we trust , to be beatified . to the altar-lights of London . ) Oh , that horrible Babylon into Fr. J. B. Bowden ) . Faber well says that austerity is the mother of blo id . beauty , and no other parentage is legitimate --- Page 175 --- would be home by now . Maybe she has waited for Pat O'Hegarty , to cast its spell upon the waiting girl as she relapses into silence . being as she claims for birthplace the spot where once the mighty the Fianna bounds up the mountain slaves in pursuit of the fairy her . " The evening stillness grows more pronounced , and seems before . From where she stands Steve Gullion tears his lofty is replaced by one of a later date . ' The stalwart young Finn of ready to defend the Ulster Pass from all intruders . This mental ing now upon the mind of Bride , and a glow of pride thrills her home Bride MacManus appears , giving a living touch of colour to the quiet scene . Standing tall and slim upon the threshold . in Dundalk , " she says aloud , unconsciously : " otherwise she tress of the master Smith , and standing , with his sword in hand maid . So well have been the tales imprinted upon her mind by beyond the mountain slopes . Across the smiling face of nature dark eyes' crews a virtual look as she glances down the open road Her eyes stray round the familiar scenes , and a proud , glad light rosy pall over the wide-spreading valleys that stretch for miles the village searchaides , that the young girl has often traversed deevens in their depths , replacing the westfulness of a moment spirit of Cuchulain near , watching with his eagle eve the for- picture of a glorious past fades away into the mists of time and town . I wish she would soon return , for it is lonely here without the glare , watching and listening for her mother's step . Into her to rescue their famous captain from the miles of the mountain now to echo clearly down the hillside , as they follow in the chosen forge of the Valiant Oulainn stood . She seems to feel the youthful sheltered by their purple hills . " " Mother must have been delayed Vladh and the Ulster plans . The tales of childhood come crowd - silence to record her passage . At the open door of her mountain which appeared in March Number . eading into the distant villages of Forkhill and Mullahbawn , she presents a graceful picture , with hands shading her gaze from family . The brilliant sunlight of a summer's eye falls like of Dromintee , stands the cottage home of the MacManus Paistin Fionn . ' I've foot of Sleeve Gullion , and bordering the little village That lie beyond where the ships go in . ' Her sad heart . loving and hoping on Awaits your footsteps from dark to dawn . The thin cheeks pater and pater grow . head . looking like a mighty sentry watching and guarding Beurne he harbour of evening lightly steps . leaving behind a peace and " This is a companion sketch to the storm of " The Old Boy Road , " ' O . Paistin Fionn. but it vexed her sore With hunger for you as the hours drift slow . " By Margaret Cunningham . For the wide , grey sea and the strife and din for I saw him and his car pass by this morning on the way to The day you turned from your mother's door , deer , and to Bride , the shouts of his illustrious comrades seem A 324 --- Page 176 --- but his only reply is a shake of his head and a flourish of his whim . of nationality , so often crushed by a ruthless hand , but never to slight , and gives Bride some of her mother's purchases from and Eoghan Ruadh and ' Andh the Valiant stood in the gap and helped to swell the lists of those who fought and fell for Rosheen rejoinder . " Mrs. MacManus calls after him in a pleasant voice , leads to his home . Bride and her mother walk across the narrow down the road to meet her . Pat O'Hegarty helps Mrs. MacManus liquid she relates to Bride the events of the day . entering into panorama of hill and glen and sea . Oh , Ulster ! they saw you are illustrious spot which cradle the young Setanta . ' Nearrer to her the mighty waves roll and break upon Dundealgan's shores . that common shire of another country . But . Ulster ! as Cuchulainn the well of the car . He greets the girl in bantering tones , and and hallowed by the childish footsteps of her who became the far , and no further . ' Or , again , when Ireland's hopes law low . rowned by Faughart Mound , she thinks to herself how the saintly servent . cast its trail across the fertile Leinster plains , chilling peded its northern march , saving in your own round tones : " This the interest details , so dear to the heart of every country dweller Mhuire of the Gael . " As Bride gazes long at the sacred grove drives away laughingly are she has time to think of a witty ing your robust sons to stand in the breach and lead the cause she hears the familiar sounds of Pat O'Hegarty's car approaching own daring courage into the droosing spirit of the nation by offer- but dark and stern-never . When , in the past , the Pale , like a as he drives his horse carefully along the precipitons track that fought for you in the past , so the silly intrigues of those who hate you will " either away like a foul blast before those same mighty proud and dark and stern . Proud you may be , and rightly so . town news as her daughter sets the tea . While she sits the hot broken . Your roll of honour claims many a gallant heart , who you raised about the fallen standard of the Gael , and infused your the soul of Eire , you stretched forth your mighty arms and im- Brigid in her girlhood days must have loved the beauty of her she produces a parcel addressed to Mrs. MacNulty from her store seraic scenes of a chivalrous age . Her glance now travels to the aloud , with fervour . " and to claim this fair Trish heritage as view stands the belt of trees shading the tiny brook , sanctified guardians of your Ulster Hills for their spirit and nationality are one's own . Surely , no spot in Ireland can excel this wonderful the side seat , and leaving her position by the oven door , hastens childhood surroundings , which constantly reminded her of the stretching away to where they meet the sea . After off , she sees unaccustomed to the ways of a busy town . When tea is finished Dhu . And now your enemies would deny your rightful place in the nation your sons have served so well , and ranks you as a The girl's ardent sentiments of patriotism suddenly end as It is good to be alive on such an eve as this , " the girl says the historic mountain re-exacting in her vivid imagination the wonder and glory of Heaven's King . glens and valleys , dotted with their quaint , white homesteads . very much abroad in the land to-day . ' in the distance . As it draws night , she recognises her mother on very much abroad in the land to-day . boreen and enter their little cottage . The latter is harmful of I am discuss --- Page 177 --- send you back the wanderer . Who knows . but Our Blessed Lady worshipers are intent on prayer , and pay to heed to the girl's that day out no tidings ever reached me from the lad . With his absorbed in prayer . Eventually , he rises from his knees , and goes hastens along as twilight deepens , exchanging many a cheery son , Eamonn would be here to-day . His father wished him to fitful shadows upon the walls of the little building . A few silent greeting with the stray wayfarers she meets on the way . At the church door she halts . stenning inside to make a hurried visit wondered at the far-away expression in her thoughtful eyes , and bed he graveed in vain to be his son to win forgiveness . From I'll respect your confidence , and pray fervently that God may why she refused Seumas Hearty when he offered her his hand . would never darken the threshold of his home while his father leat , for I see the mists creeping down Steve Gullion ; and if I drove the lad away in bitter anger , and are he went he swore he a look of certainly passes across her face as she scans his features church . Her heart beats quickly as her wondering brain tries to aftertime poor Pat regretted the bitter scene , and on his dying was alive . Too well , marrone , has he kept his row . In the bitter But now I understand the cause . Well , dear Mrs. MacNulty . a stranger who is kneeling by . ' Something in the noise of his may work a favour on your behalf . I must now say heavyweight Her hopeful words lighten the heart of her listener , and as marry Rose MacSweeney , from Clohogue district . She had a interference in his affairs , even from his own father . Poor Pat He had no affection for the girl . for his heart was centired on often think if he had shown more leniency in dealing with his From her pocket she takes her beads and begins to tell her Rosary . to a fault , he was high-spirited and proud . and would Brook no Occasionally her eyes wonder to the young stranger , who seems may yet return . And poor Mairin' Cullinane . Many a time I in the wake of the young stranger . Outside the church he stands , maybe . like many another he has drifted , and been whirled under empty pocket , he was too proud to marry Mairin Cullinane , and The red glow of the sanctuary lamp glimmers faintly . casting paistin Fionn . ing figure until a bend of the hill hides her from her view . Bride quietly out of the little church . Bride watches him intentionally , and entrance . Bride kneels down , her wandering glance straving to momentary forgetfulness the motive which led her within the before the Blessed Sacrament and leaves the building . Following is now in his quiet grave , so I'll not discuss the dead . Yet , I A stormy scene ensued . Hot , passionate words were uttered that and yet how like he is to the fair-haired lad I used to know . ' tidy fortune , but Eamonn refused to carry out his father's wishes . he leaves the little home the widow's gaze lingers upon her retreat - mountain calm , and which me away in her magic clasp . icate him in her memory . " It cannot be , " she says to herself , don't bestir myself , the Callleach Biorra may step out of her Don't lose hope . " Bride replies . Something tells me he he had no desire to sneak to any of the villagers . Though lovable Mairin Cullinane , from Mullahbawn , and he told his father so . closely . With a final prayer upon her lips she genuflects reverently he sea of life if fate has proved too strong . head and the waving hair arrests her attention . driving into -40 the sea of life if fate has proved too strong . " 828 --- Page 178 --- the open hill-sides near Bouvernier till Orsiers is reached . This Bernard . The usual approach to the latter is made by the road St. Bernard branching off to the right at Porclaz , and descending forest-path among rocks and roots of pine trees , and presented a period of almost a thousand years . Throughout the Christendom was the line of March taken by the army of Napoleon when desire to undertake an ascent to Mount Blanc or to Mount St. intent , or from the pages of descriptive history - than the Alpine monastery of Mount St. Bernard . ' Nor is poetry wanting to im- Reformer of ecclesiastical discipline , and preacher of the Second Uttered the off-repeated prayer connection with the name or personality of the twelfth century crossing the Alps in May , 1800 . It was then , however , but a of to-day there are few religious institutions more universally known whether from the experience of travellers on the Con- the Rhone above the head of Lake General : the route to Mount world-famed monastery of the Alps was another Bernard , a native to which the monks of its hospice devote themselves recall The pious monks of St. Bernard bears the name of St. Bernard . Like that of St. Gothard , the name is given only to the " Pass . " Neither has the title any of our readers , a strange fact that there is no mountain which Still grasping in his hand of ice pirations for verse and song . Who fails to remember the stanzas Irusade the great St. Bernard of Clairvaux . The founder of the of Longfellow's poem : - Half-buried in the snow was found , case , survive and have lost nothing of their first freshness - after he Vale of Channounix is a favourite starting point for those who Although commonly spoken of as such , it will appear to many most gifted bards this storied spot has supplied themes " and in- mortalise " its fame in the domain of literature . ' To many of our A voice cried through the startled air from Chamounix to Martigny ( a dull little town on the banks of A traveller , by the faithful hound . At break of day , as heavenward That banner , with the strange device , Monks . THE name of Mount St. Bernard , and the works of charity Excelsior ! By J. B. Cullen . of Savoy , of whom we shall speak later on . and its Excelsior ! . memories of the Ages of Faith , which , however , in this As travellers who have been to Switzerland will remember . Mount St. Bernard As travellers who have been to Switzerland w Bernard . --- Page 179 --- Val Ferrex , which is part of the property of the monastery . The the route of the travellers to the summit . ' The ' thrilling stories so are given to the poor . Nothing , in fact , that human charity could cartage of timber-which can be performed only for about two no foundation , since this would be wholly impossible owing to the 2,000 pedestrians monthly have been known to go by , for , at this are obliged to keep some fifty horses all the year through for the guide them up to the monastery . It appears the dog never misses resters , in November , when they bring back their earnings to their of the year . Not a tree grows within miles around . The monks poetic charms of Longfellow's verses . ' Needless to tell , unfortunate and the production of butter and cheese . Later on in the year his way . but , entirely hidden in the snow , except his tail , directs bitten limbs are at once amputated by one of the brethren , who months in summer . This is mainly brought from the Forest of the valleys , but in winter salted vlands are alone available . A at about 190 degrees , which is much less favourable for cooking These , when they come to a building lying at some distance below a lay brother , accompanied by a dog , descends from the Hospice to often told of the monks going out in search of lost travellers have ointments are applied . " If neither treatment succeeds the frost- journey . Frozen limbs and more serious experiences are of frequent of the most important items , since it is in requisition at all times occurrence . When the monks meet cases of this kind the frozen i less elevated atmosphere . In summer fresh meat is supplied from air stores . Owing to the extreme of temperature , water boils here assertion must not , however , destroy with any of our readers the hese are removed to the house of the Order in Martigny , whenco he summit , are desired to wait till the following morning , when is skilled in surgery . Stockings and warm clothing , when needed , the hospitable monks , and are ever welcome to food and shelter . provided for , that the wants of those who through necessities of life out to seek work in remote districts , returning . like the Irish har- that , notwithstanding the care bestowed on them , they seldom live season " the poorer inhabitants of the villages , in the lowlands , set over nine years , when the poor animals succumb to the effects of these regions of perpetual snow . devise is left undue by the ' Good Samaritans " of Mount St. April . " In the more severe of those months , sometimes as many as he situation of the monastery - all contingencies are so Admirably Bernard . parts are rubbed strongly with snow , and that failing , stimulating The system by which the purveyance , or necessary supplies for tain is during the months of November . February March and The labour of the dogs , we are told , is so constant and trying MOUNT ST. Bernard and its monks risks and dangers that would attend any attempt of the kind . This number of cows are kept during summer at the Hospice for milk . Despite the disadvantages and inconveniences consequent on the monastery are provided is interesting . Wood for firing is one theumatism to which ailment man and beast alike are subject in travellers frequently suffer from the hardships of their toilsome the supplies are sent up to Mount St. Bernard . whole establishment is kept perpetually " heated by means of ho solated homes . One and all of those wayfarers claim hospitality of at especially ) , which takes almost double the time required in supplies are sent up to Mount St. Bernard . 882 . --- Page 180 --- Temple of Jupiter , which in Pagan times stood close to the site suffragan house at Martigny , whether also they retire when their of charity in one of its most extreme ideals is the only variety been discovered . From the rapid , evaporation at the high ; at- the gift of the late King Edward VII . of England , when he was surroundings of the many distinguished visitors who from time to peculiar to the Alps' together with some interesting relics of the runze figures , arms , coins , and personal ornaments , which are ings are free from deep snow-the average depth is seven or eight time twice a year for recreation , which is usually spent in the The remains when found are usually in a frozen condition , and room , to which we have before alluded , one is reminded in the museum , containing collections of plants , insects and minerals the frequent avalanches that occur in the mountains are placed . poses them . Few weeks of the year pass without a fall of snow . In the altitude of the monastery it always freezes in the morning . remains as long as he is able-being allowed fifteen days at a and it is rarely for three months together the immediate surround- Bernard . Here the bodies of those who " parish in the storms and mosphere they dry up without the usual decay . On some of the brated composer , Blumenthal . Adjoining this apartment is a the kind and courteous attention of the monks . In the reception dead ; and a further reason for keeping the corpses thus permitted of solemnity . It contains the tomb of General Dessaix , who fell are able to stand the climate for more than eighteen years . but resulting from the severity of the climate to which their calling ex- time shared the hospitality of the community . Here is a piano . Prince of Wales , and an harmonium , presented by the cele- bodies the clothes remain for years and years . It appears the are deposited in the Morgue in the position in which they have of the Monastery . These antiquities consist of motive , tablets , of their existence with the certainty of an enfeebled constitution , rocky and frozen soil prevents the possibility of even burning the there is no stated period for which they devote their lives . Each enter on their religious career at about eighteen years of age . Few vocation of a religious of Mount St. Bernard must involve . Acts feet , but many times " a year the drifts accumulate to over forty cholly disappeared , but the steps cut in the solid rock which led eisted in this Pass in pre-Christian times . The Temple has health fails , and they become unfit to fulfil the arduous duties of The Morgue is a spot of melancholy interest at Mount St delightful experience never to be forgotten . Nothing can exceed architecture or armament . Yet it is imposing in its appearance As a rule the members of the community are young men who The Church of the Monastery has not much pretentions to curiously illustrative of the early intercourse that must have It is difficult to imagine the excess of human sacrifice which the up to it may still be seen . or on errands of pleasure or travel , visit the place , are empty cured feet . the Hospice of Mount St. Bernard . at Marengo . The monument was erected by Napoleon for . For a visit on a summer holiday Mount St. Bernard affords a 1934 55 For a visit on a summer holiday Mount St. B --- Page 181 --- depicted by Dickens is without a trace of exaggeration ? Yet on writes with " such confident knowledge , so sure a touch , that one volume was the means of my anticipating the alarm clock , but hazard the guests that not a few of these names are veiled auto- about triffing slips in the work ; absorbed , because Miss Smithson tained to the very last page . Miss Smithson is without doubt . the pen that depicted the scenes for us . that the interest is sus- marvellous heroine so much as the fact that her life is limited the heroine through to the end-not perhaps that she is such a before her as her pen travelled over sheet after sheet one would biography . The chapters that deal with hospital life are par- every page the authors has set a seal of reality : those people the book on the ground that it conveys an unfair idea of hospital ing it . Miss Smithson wields a compelling pen. and I for one ( Chap. 8 ) is not true of Catholic Ireland - one gathers that our to say that it is a good while since the desire to continue a certain ticularly realistic . though a journal devoted to nursing has attacked Reviews . for us in such a vivid way , with such a touch of genius behind a little licence what one amongst all the scenes and characters twice . That scene where the woman is dying in the tenement glady welcome this work . The striking poem that gives its title an unappropriate remark as that attributed to the Rev. Mr. Wilson . Paths " is a compelling novel . One feels that he must follow that every scene with which she deals was there in cold reality on page 150 ? Miss Smithson's hard-hearted folk are very icy , Church of Ireland " own a minister capable of making such I became absorbed in the story to the exclusion of netty thoughts authoress is a recent convert to Catholicity . ' And can the book which caused him to get up before his usual hour . I regret merits are such that a very large public should be found discuss - gives to the world . Here is a personality to be reckoned with in shall be more than anxious to read the next volume which she I started to read the book in a fault-finding mood , and had regulations and practice . But , after all , the novelist can claim the future of Irish literature . ctually decided on making a note of errors . But almost at once The blemishes in the book are trifles , scarce worth noting : its met several of them . tured and delightful contributions of this talented poetess . will London : John Long , Ltd . Most of us are familiar with the story of Dr. Johnson and the indeed . recently such an experience has come to me again . " By Strange Readers of THE Cross , who are already acquainted with the cul- a novelist with a future before her ; she gives one the impression Smithson . who pass before us are real folk-one seems to remember having T. K. follows her without thought of query . Save , indeed once Dublin : The Talbot Press , Ltd. 6s. net. the priest ' BY STRANGE PATHS . " . By. Annie M.P. OF ISIS . " Eric . By Ethna Kavanagh . OF TSTR . " Find . Rev. E. Elena Kavanagh . --- Page 182 --- no define bears usirle to taking pumps . ' Mi' Beroir map scaro trods in Spain ' no Brazilian nzallos a tafann' curtain on cogas ac ratio react n-ustre nior means snoir . 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The Siege and Capture of Drogheda . their way into the town , the storming parties were beaten back through the breach . rossession of the north side . Then began the indiscriminate slaughter which made the name of the Protector one of execution throughout Ireland . We cannot to be addressed to the Manager . important owns , and being situated opposite England it afforded the most direct com . prize essay . THE AWARDS he third time Cromwell led them in person , forced Aston back , and before night order was then given to storm the town , but the work proved harder than they Having landed in Dublin with an army of 9,000 foot and 4,000 horse some months essays were sent by Brigid Lynch , Brendan F. O'Brien , Kathleen O' Re II . Members under 12 years . to the River Boyne , ranks almost first . Its very walls and ruins speak to us , as had to be battered with cannon for two days before a breach was made . The itally destroyed and massacred . Sir Arthur Aston was among the first who fell . from the blood of those slain which , as tradition states . formed a regular stream unication between the two countries . It was carried by Ormond with 3,000 reviously , he proceeded to Drogheda . ' This was the passport to the northern in this street . The following days the towers were visited , but those inside refused Kitty Mathews , Margaret Goudie , Mona Brady and Susan Fitzpatrick . magine the cruelty with which these innocent people were treated . Many of them , as not necessary to send stamps ) , Seosaimhin Nic Chathmhaoil , For Members under 12 years of age . dianismal underneath curling or not . 13 ) Orders for Copies of " The Cross " and all other business letters are in Irish History is awarded to Nora Corry , Presentation Convention , Drogheda . Good became master of the town . simplution papers , asking to be admitted to membership of the Guild . " 2 ) Always e spared , and he was determined to carry it through . A body of 3,000 men was but your name and address on your competition paper , ' whether you send a letter I. For Members over 12 and under 18 years of age . ad histories to relate . Drogheda , the ancient town which commands the entrance A handsome Prize is offered for the best letter to Francis on " May Devotions . " A handsome Prize is offered for the best essay on " Maytime . " The prize for the best specimen of School Work is awarded to Douncha . O dimagined . The garrison fought with extreme courage , and twice , after forcing I .-Members over 12 and under 18 years . 10 All newcomers will please write a personal note to Francis , apart from their in Ireland . d to St. Peter's Church , then Catholic , and shut themselves up there for safety , The street leading to St. Peter's Church retained the name of " Bloody " Street " Cromwell issued an order that the life of neither man , woman , nor child should The prize offered for the best telling in the competitor's own words . of an incident being enclosed by a large wall , part of which still exists . Being very strong , it There are many towns in Ireland which , if they could but speak , would have beartainment . 12 College View Terrace , Melbourne Avenue , Drumcondra , Dublin . thing else can of its sad fate in 1649 , when Cromwell and his army first set foot until . y part of the town was commanded from Millmount , further resistance