Cross Bulletin January 1917

--- Page 1 --- January 1917 . Vol. VII . No. 9 . January . almost tragic close in its circumstances to a long and Franz Josef and Fr. Ignatius . Mother St. Jerome Maeve Cavanagh ' A New Year Wish . By Brian Hugh A. MacCarran Unsuitable MRS will not be returned unless accompanied by starred . spencer . addressed envelope . Thomas Kelly New Year Resolutions . By THE FLOOD Tide . ( Poem ) . By THE LAIN GLAMOUR . who was once brought to heel by the Sinn Fein policy of his spencer . corrins " Teine . By Mupur ns . generosity might have mingled with the estimates of a ruler Franz Yosek and Fr. Ignatics By Owen Dolan ... Mother St. Jerome Literary Communications to the Editor . at the same address The Late Mr. Fahy . ( Story ) . troubled reign , found little sympathetic record in the Press of Doctor Dick . ( Story ) . Business Letters to be addressed to the Manager , Mt. Argus , D O'Higgins . obituaries were written to order . Had there been less need to HE recent death of the aged Emperor of Austria , an Annual Subscription to THE CROSS . Three shilling # girls . 1961 1957 1959 1959 1959 1959 1959 The New Year . By Edith page . Gabriel for Boys and In Thanksgiving . mons . Pearson . ' page . " The Sacrament of keep an eve on that all-important fact a little justice and even the 262 . 264 257 an Irish Doctor . se countries . He died the foe of Great Britain , and 273 that . 0 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 265 The Guild of Blessed 277 284 282 278 271 . 261 . 1934 by 288 business Letters to be addressed to the Man Moment . " ( Poem ) . " 261 . by ( Poem ) . He by Cometh . " ( Poem ) . 281 . Blessed . - 281 . " 265 . ' Blessed . ... 257 by 1907 08 to 284 . cometh . ' ( Poem ) . By --- Page 2 --- and interest all whose co-operation he thought worth having . salvation of souls for their end . ... . I got an introduction to real carried him all over the European continent to interview not the place nor this the time to revise these estimates . but after leaving Rome with papal appreciation of his campaign him in turn and urged to work or brav . or at least to allow great designs : the people whom he rules are the people to for England's conversion . Among the persons in high places one . After leaving Rome in the beginning of February ( 1852 ) . the circumstances , we think , give a new and enhanced interest Father Ignatius , whose name is now rarely mentioned in that understand how utterly insignificant are all enterprises in comparison with those which have the glory of God and the institutes and schools under their care - all were visited by established in power over France , he is the man evidently for man . If he survive the assaults of his enemies , and become conversion of England to the Catholic faith was set on foot by found himself in the latter country in the early part of 1852 . version of Egypt , for instance , is due almost solely to his arrived , and did not return for a fortnight after . In conse- with myself that moment , here is a man for me-perhaps the interview with his chief . This may be in reserve for me Four several times he visited Germany , and on one or more bably a descendant of one of the " Wild Geese . " His inter- home . The Emperor had just left Vienna for Venice when I ecclesiastics of every degree , religious of both sexes , and the and the lights dimmed in the posthumous portraits drawn of the French ambassador at Rome , in order to open my way to an furtherance of the object which so obsessed him , his burning Father Ignatius Spencer . ' The modern movement for the which he deemed the regeneration of the world depended . some future day : but I was first to see another great man- the coup d' etat of the now Emperor of the French . ' I thought him is best told in his own words : wart was changed into an effort to show him all want . This is view with the young Emperor and the impression it left with movement for the conversion of England instead of the con- of these occasions he made an excursion into Austria . He circumstances will be interesting in more points of view than the young Emperor of Austria . realous life-work . For that he lived and in that he died . In Hungarian subjects . As it was the shadows were deepened While at Rome . I heard one day the wonderful account of tim for public exhibition . The usual tendency to conceal the " I think an account of this audience and some accompanying I went to Vienna , and stopped there three weeks before coming others to work and draw , in promotion of the great work upon follow him in them : and he has a mind , so I conceived , to country in connection with it . But that there exists at all a Pope and cardinals , emperors , kings and princes , bishops and who befriended him in Austria was a Count O'Donnell was to an incident in the life of the saintly English Passionist . 1961 1957 1959 References with --- Page 3 --- on me . A young Emperor . I suppose , has great advantage in might do in this cause . As the principal means is prayer , I have seen equalled . I was greatly struck on my entrance , move Catholics throughout the world to interest themselves in further . It is to the bishops that I made my principal appeal dignity , wisdom , and modesty , which I do not remember to of it : behind him , to the left , was a small table , on which was sion which his appearance and the few words he spoke made they overwhelm one with many words which often mean not to say captivated , with my observations on any person . better in England in regard to religion than they have done . ' this I am deeply convinced depends the happiness of my justice . In this case , I say that I was never more satisfied , a pile of memorials which he had already received . He was who wish to be gracious . Ordinarily , my impression is that they would and must be averse to any public measures which do not take on me to prescribe what your Majesty in person air and manner and tone a union of grace and affability , with what appeared to me such a contrast between what I think with myself , after I had approached him , ' Am I then witnessed and the receptions usually given by great personages might seem to involve political inconvenience . I would , there - gaining upon one's feelings , if he will in any degree do himself country : and . I conceive , nothing would more contribute to line of action to your Maiestv : but I may explain myself in military uniform . I should be glad to convey the impres- obtaining the return of my country to the Catholic faith . On nothing . The Emperor was perfectly silent . I had time to your Majesty the object for which I am travelling . It is to movements : but I ask help and sympathy from all . I thought of public reception . The Emperor stood alone in the middle am aware that it belongs rather to the bishops to direct such want great help . I am come to ask the help of Austria . I it could not be anything but right to ask your Majesty . to interest the people in this object . Now , I am aware that with great grace : ' I am happy to hear that things go on to speak first ? ' So it was . I have a very clear recollection His figure is not in itself commanding ; but there was in his I now put my hand to the breast of my habit to take out a " I added : I have said . I did not intend to propose any act . the government should not object to it , as I conceive there fore , ask of your Majesty , that if the bishops are pleased to " There is much , ' I said , ' to encourage hopes : but we ' The Emperor seemed to intimate assent to this , and said THE CROSS . of what was said . " He answered : ' I will interest myself as much as possible " I have requested this audience . ' I said . ' to represent to " I was aware that my audience could not be a long one , and would be no reason . ' I was introduced into a large salon on one of the days . " The Emperor said something to the effect , as I thought , he happiness of other nations of the world . ' re happiness of other nations of the world . ' at he saw no reason to object to what I said . --- Page 4 --- ous issues - and yet , miracle of miracles , it will either be like a mosaic of great beauty and perfection , an indifferently inlaid the Truth , the Life . He showed us the new year's hope , the on New Year's Eve , comforts us by saving : " You and I no such thing as fighting on the winning side : one fights to pattern with missing pieces of varied import , or it will be of sense of hopelessness . But this is not quite fair to ourselves burning heart of His , for He loved till his sacred sigh on in swaddling clothes . lest it should go to pieces , yet so living failures , our sister in new year's strength to the end , Magda- came warm on Mary's cheek . No love could ever surpass that born resolution , very fragile , very delicate and small , switched speaking of the many broken resolutions of last year like the poor craven he is . As Chesterton says : " There is lene saw Him as He longs to see us in the novelist new year one long new year . No one had hope till His little breath women working well or ill . The Cosmos is a great thing , but Child in the Crib was only eight days old , and He is the Way , Calvary told the world that His life had gone and the world hat it would form our redemption and our eternal reward . ' the Kingdom of Heaven . ... . In this new year , when kneel- new year's love , the new year's glorious end - for His life was by its heavy lapses . What are those little pieces ? Men and weapon of prayer on New Year's morning , looks down the year which worry us so terribly when the clock strikes twelve some little resolution blessed by God may grow up into find out which is the winning side . " And so hope , with the have broken so many resolutions that we may start with a dull it is no greater than the individual soul . One year is like a thought it the end . But Magdalene , our sister in new year watchful kindness for poor human creatures , when so simply expressed by Emerson : " Nothing can bring you workmanship so shameful that the after-year will be affected ing at the feet of the First-born , ask Him to give us a first- found at the end of the year prostrate at the foot of the fence , to come with manifold courage and self-reliance so grandly and triumph of principles . ' peace but yourself . Nothing can bring you peace but the There New Year . of all-when resolutions , " and plans , endeavours and struggles national , universal-and we can hardly estimate the momen- the price of God's death . The new year comes so soon after Christmas that our Little shall cease and we shall " Cease upon the midnight with no who is for ever needing for bogies behind the fence will be This year will be one of vast import to the whole world - breath-mark on the glass of Eternity - but each soul is worth father Vincent McNabb . O.P. in his open-armed and Edith Pearson . pain . www remires --- Page 5 --- late summer , and Bat's death would now be a lucrative one . sobriety for Bartle , and , to his delight , there ensued also for the final attack on the strong box of the Insurance Com- assured income to live a happy and pious old age . ' It were towards affluence . For instance , how was the money for the into the more reasonable proposition that he should insure would drink , most of his earnings . But though his wife's viewed in person the owners of sick cattle and by painting not condemn Bartle to the fate which finally overlook him mysteriously disguising Bartle's oldest and most forgotten Yet the abnormal health of bullocks could not wholly explain constant anger was justifiable the sternest of moralists would bad company , by which she meant entirely in her own . ' In portion of his earnings . Further , she kept Bat strictly out of in sombre colours the starvation of her home and the thirst premium to beriz ? His mind wrestled in vain with this temperance may be explained by the fact that his wife inter- an insult to temptation not to fall sometimes . Mr. Fahy fell . pany . In the meantime Mrs. Fahy busied herself in tion roused no enthusiasm in her husband until it , developed which prompted Mrs. Fahv's hint that he might " drownd ' tested itself among the cattle of the district is not so easily himself , " purtend to drownd " himself , and return with an short , she watched him . The sudden delicacy which mani- himself and leave his wife in ease and peace . ' This sugges- quite an epidemic of sickness among the neighbouring cattle , in it , her husband was almost unrecognisable . It was already intelligence suggested to him many obstacles in the path explainable , unless we accept Bartle's devout theory that it was due to the intervention of Divine Providence , but this was the burden of his song , " the country will be ruined . ' with clothes of divers shapes and startling hues , " and , arrayed lot so easily though as might be imagined : for his natural The Late Mr. Fahy . of her husband induced them to hand over to her the major coat . Her method was simple . She merely patched it up the publichouse would eat up , or , more correctly , Mr. Fahy Mr. Fahv's straitened circumstances . One must admit that will hardly be accepted by the dispassionate critic . the hard times . " What with the war , and no sick cattle . " ensued , to the wonder of neighbours , a term of unwanted problem until Providence and his wife solved it thus . " There It began with the circular from the Insurance Company paid , the policy safe , and preparations went meirily forward so that he made a deal of money and insured himself . Mr. Fahy's reformation was not wholly voluntary . His I late he had been continually bewailing what he called Be that as it may , the money was raised , the premium was PARTLE FAHY was by profession a cattle doctor , and of 264 --- Page 6 --- So one night he made a furtive , darkling visit to the sea shore . beyond question the fact that Bartholomew Fahy had really tion at this unexpected affluent Mrs. Fahy only caught some- the leg and hurled it after him . It missed him-luckily , as she reflected afterwards , or she would never have got the menting , and also some food with which to stave off the im- carrying away a parcel and returning home empty-handed . gone to babe on the evening of the twenty-sixth . The news thing about " your own dirty mug , ' but it was enough , mediate pangs of a hunger which both man and wife evidently insurance money ; and this passage had quite a happy result . Art gave place to nature , and she seized the first thing that " Don't dirty the sea , like we dirtied me basin . ' to her for a moment that the neighbours , hearing the news of recognise in the shaven stranger , clothed in that startling and departed without a spoken word . For the benefit of the costume , her own unobtrusive husband , even if he chanceed to fine dramatic instinct , that it would be unnatural if her hus- reason to be satisfied . Nobody , she flattered herself , would caused quite a diversion in the village as an unprecedented came to her hand , which happened to be a creepy stool , by se seen in the vicinity . Her dramatic instinct , too , suggested But she got a surprise . Battle , craftily conscious of the the motley garment on which Mrs. Fahy had been expert . The parcel contained a complete change of clothing , including strength of his position , ventured , for the first time in his life , to answer back . In her mingled astonishment and indigna- as it brought the neighbours to their doors and established neighbours she walked to the door and called after him- going to earn an honest penny for the first time in your life . ' The subtlety of this appeal to the Patron of a happy death merely said " Good-bye . " soap , and a small looking-glass , sung a towel round his neck , and prepared to set out for death . was quite lost on her husband , who had fallen into gloom . He went out . Next evening , then , he showed in his pocket a razor , a piece of direction of " the salt . ' expected would attack Bartle immediately after his decrease At this moment it struck Mrs. Fahy , who must have had a Mrs. Bartle , when her anger cooled , felt she had every Bartle looked at her in silent reproach . slice could not refrain from commenting on her husband's your moth-eaten beard . " personal appearance . Fahy had nothing to say to this impious sarcasm . He Yerra keep ver heart up . " she said , cheerfully . " You're Good-bye . " said Mrs. Fahv again , and even in that crisis " Good-five . now . " said Mrs. Fahv. and she added with event , and Bat walked very sheepishly down the road in the unseemly levy . " Pray to St. Joseph . ' " Good-bye , " she said , " and don't forget to shave off Good-bve . " she said , " Good-bye , now , " said Mrs. Fahy . ' and don't forget to shave off . --- Page 7 --- took him quite by surprise . Could this nicely white-washed moment the late Mr. Fahv was decidedly hungry , and when mansion , with new painted windows , be the home wherein he It was the late Mr. Fahv. During his funeral games . like a a figure insinuated itself into the kitchen through the back . ing round the premises . The opulence of his former dwelling had suffered penury and drought ? It would seem that even a which is not given to everybody - he stole furitively into the guests departed . " Kathy's house boasted two doors , a front kitchen , rubbing his hands in anticipation of this abundance . able . The last mourner had hardly left the front door when and a back , which , though draughtv . was distinctly fashion- spirit cannot exist comfortably on short nations . At that musingly : " but of course he's dead . He went out of this and ghost revisiting the glimpses of the moon , he had been prowl- said he was goin' to purtend to drown himself . But he met he , " we're goin' to swindle me out of me hard earning . he heard , his widow dismissing his mourners - an experience mouth slowly and uttered , not one , but three appalling yells . her attention . Though he gave her quite a surprise , she momitude with But I'm keeping you , sir , " she added briskly . Katty , " he began , desperately . It was Bartle's turn to be surprised . so familiar ! " I don't know yet Katty did not seem to hear him . It would be clear to the nearest intellect that he was out- recovered herself in no time . " This broke up the festivities , or the observies , and the this case he wound up a long passage of magnificent rhodo- " I knew a Mr. Dunne , " she continued , " that insured him . with the truth was becoming only too clear . " Ye mean , " said And then a strange thing happened . Kathy opened her ' Ye're very like me poor husband , ' said Mrs. ' Fahy What's wrong " inquired Bartle , anxiously His wife addressed herself to the wall . self and purtended to drown himself . He got twenty year . ' No. nor even wet himself , " interposed the late Mr. Fahy . His widow's back was turned and he coughed gently to attract " Ye don't know me ? " he gasped . But even to Bartle's dull vanished . ' taying his welcome , yet her visitor made no movement to go . Who might you be ? " she asked coldly And think of the fine young man we all knew so well- The polls will be here in a minute , " she remarked . Katty looked at him . smile . smoulderin' in the grave . ' But there's no use cryin' over spilt milk . ' Good evening , Katy , " remarked the ghost , with a jovial Are ye jokin ' , Katy ? ' he inquired , but his smile had ' Don't call me Katy . " said his wife . " How dare we be a mistake , and drowned himself sure enough : THE Ladies were a man . Don't call me Kattv . ' said his wife . remarked the ghost , with a jovial . self and purtended to drown himself . He got " How dare ye be 1908 ( W.M.000 --- Page 8 --- tranquil days and hearts that keep night the fires of youth warn and roof of the poetry of Francis Thompson and Lionel Father Rome has introduced me in his little book of poems , ages of Faith , of the middle ages . Something of the magic of see that the middle ages , and those places which still retain principles of living and progress . In this world to which something is called happiness . For happiness is a state , not not feel the need for great armaments or colossal factories or or the stories of Renie Basin - a world of simple faith and roaring machinery . or the Stock Exchange or wireless that old-world remains in the valleys of Brittany and Nor- in faith , not in the conquest of the air or the earth , but in the very memory is lost , except where its faint afterglow still their essential spirit , " are the custodians of something more modern progress , the people living in those sheltered places lingers in sequestered valleys . or little towns which the strident little ecstatic while in an age so unlike our own , and which where the afterglow of the middle ages still fingers , appear to strongly as in the mountains and dells of Italy , remote from spring , or the joyance of the leaves in summer . To the jaded which Ruskin dared to dream , which William Morris spent his ter of our cities , so fraved and disillusioned , but a laughter as a mood , a condition of being , not an endless pursuit of the conquest of oneself , not in an unbridled individualism expressed yet if our moderns could only look deep enough they would Rev. Henry E. G. Rose , for the privilege of wandering for a the stress and storm of things . I have to thank a priest-poet , Johnson . It is the world which greets us in Millet's paintings pelled to kneel at the feet of the fifteenth for the secret of true till the very fire of life is extinguished . It is the world of the life in a vain endeavour to recall , and which is woven into the has conquered , i.e . the great gift of laughter - not the laugh- makes one ask whether , for all its vaunted progress in purely modern taste , and of new sensations , that old world would , telegraphy , or the cinema . Deprived of all these triumphs of Religionis Ancilla ( Heath . Cranton , Ltd. ) , the people do mandy and Provence , but nowhere does its fragrance linger so vation of sweet and human relations between all the members spontaneous and natural as the willing of the waters in a O'er plains the white mist drowns . in the formula , " the survival of the fittest , " but in the culti- HAVE just spent a delicious hour in a world of which the of the community . How mistful is the contrast between modern industrialism , with Mammon throned in the market-place , and nineteenth century has left unspoiled . It is the world of vandering fires of pleasure . It has its roots not in reason , but possess one priceless gift beyond all that modern " progress " valuable than all the machinery of modern pleasure , and that material things , the twentieth century may not yet feel im- The Latin Glamour . the Latin simplicity which Father Rope evokes in these verses : to doubt , be labelled " tiresome " and " uninteresting . " and Where lonely Rocca Priora . Her cloud-high mountain crowns , On the man of Easter Tuesday in remote Italian towns ; And her bells come pealing downwards --- Page 9 --- countryside , is not a little too shy and reserved in Ireland . Even advanced Socialist thought in England has gone back to The guilds or glad devotion , This little book has no special application to Ireland . except warning against the system called the " spirit of the age . " It The high road-tokens bear : where we do not so often meet the road by the roadway , torch to the future . Those who love the spirit of Catholicism Astrain for some far-distant golden fruit . Shall ring the greeting of Saint Gabriel . Man. woman , child accident And men" nor heed nor care . Rope for his little book . There are many signs on the horizon that the great war And dedicate with prayer , Rome to see at least the dawn of the vision of a new " Merrie And prizing not God's gifts of light and air . Where life's ways and needs are simple , faith and simple , human conditions of living , and perhaps as a reaction towards the old ideals of simplicity and humanity . And toil wherein the heart has little share , which in Latin countries' scatters beauty and magic over the interests of humanity . Of golden corn and homely husbandry ; At dawn and noon and ever Our Lady's bell pages of his little book he has captured the lingering glamour Pollutes not ever or more , of an age that even in its dying seems to be handing on a Yes , with glad thorps she shall be clad upon . the old Catholic guilds for a true solution of that country's and its expression in homely surroundings will thank Father And o'erlooks the rising corn . Beset with laughing stream and swaying tree . however , mainly for those countries which have surrendered But the sunlight , clouds , and breezes fill the circle of the hills . Fall Swift a-knee in prayer , to the list for gain and power , to the neglect of the essential But Father Rope's true spiritual home is among " the little towns of Italy , " whose very names are magical . " Within the economic and social ills . Perhaps it may be given to Father England " : A life scarce conscious of its toilsome goal . Where the road stands by the roadway , Where the past is held in honour , And once again our land her robe shall don may also provoke the inquiry whether the Catholic Church . And the King comes forth and blesses His people of the hills - And the smoke of Mammon's altars Hugh A. MacCarran . For the chatter of changeful worldlings in the cities of er the hills ; oking the rising corn . " Father Rove's message is . For the chatter of changeful worldlings in t high has changed so many things will be followed b incentive to the more jealous wardenship of her ' gifts of --- Page 10 --- distraught at the condition of her beloved mistress , pushed him back into the room and fastened the door securely . ' She through the great chimneys and passages of the castle . Then above the hills silence again fell upon the fatal chamber . It rage and grief ; but when the sun began to piece the gloom and a Tempest such as the inhabitants of Conway had never vanished as completely as if the earth had swallowed him up . dreadful silence , broken ever and soon by the wind howling case , and drawing the heavy bolt , admitted - not the old doctor , on a couch near the window . But the little doctor had increased when the portal bell began to tell . but summoning grizzled and bent and weather-beaten , turned out to be the thirty years elapsed before he was seen again in Conway . state of anxiety . " He never reached the doctor's house , and up the remnant of her courage she ran down the spiral stair- much experience in professional work ; and of a highly nervous , broken heart , the gossips say . old doctor , and lay down outside the door in a most suitable experienced colleague ; but the housekeeper , feeling almost shoot the firmament . the heavens opened in a furious defence . out of the house when he was seized by a gang of sailors and John Wynne . for him altogether . temperament . " The danger in which he found Lady Wynne as she had prayed and hoped , but the dripping figure of Sir was not the slightest trace of the fugitive . before experienced desolated North Wales . Her terror was right long continued his wild search . with furious cries of tragic night of long ago . His story was that he was hardly the knight ransacked every corner . It was useless . ' There a prematurely-born infant by her side , and the little boy dead anchor near Conway . The first man who stepped ashore , he . too . was found a corpse : suicide probably-died of a made a sudden effort to get away to fetch his older and more In a few hurried words she explained to him what had Soon the meaning in the lantern room was replaced by the cross . Many years passed away . happened , and when they reached the door of the lantern room One day a strange craft crept round Llandudno and dropped The lantern light showed the mother lifeless on the bed and He became terrified , muttered a few incoherent words , and poring over some musty volume , but unfortunately without Doctor Dick was gone ! extremely active and energetic : an ardent student . always lit chamber . Sir John pushed the housekeeper from the room and all and her boy . and the responsibility it entitled proved too much With sword in hand , and the fury of despair in his hear was the silence of death , for when at last assistance arrive sent the most trustworthy retainer in the house for the ning began to flash above the sleeping town , thunder peas retainer of Plas Mawr , who went to seek the old doctor on unlocked the door herself and accompanied him into the dimly- 275 . --- Page 11 --- home-coming . Heavy timbers , black with age , supported the training stood me in good stead . and the slight projections at empty barrel after barrel into the silent figure . ' The echoes all I possess to be on the other side of the door . However . I reither man nor devil , so quickly diverting myself of my outer ceiling ; the floor was of oak ; the walls were decorated in some but all in vain - I found nothing . I was about to give up the cautiously proceeded to climb the chimney . My gymnastic swake , for a footstep sounds on the oaken floor , and now I of the detonations deal through the house above the roar of delight . I found an opening in the stonework , through which search in despair , when , as I moved towards the great fire- tell into an uneasy slumber . ' I was awakened by the telling some dreadful hallucination ? - distinctly I see the form of a to unravel an old woman's tale . the external wall . Here it was that the lantern was placed to decided promptly that I was a fool to waste my time in trying the wind ; as they die away I rush to the fireplace and find- from side to side . ' Mr course deserts me , and I would give steady myself sufficiently to flash the electric light around the cold and stiff and sore . mentally reviewed my position , and ful efforts I managed to climb about ten feet . Then , to my the wind . In a moment I am upright and with every sense chamber to Sir John Wynne on the night of his sorrowful One end of the chamber was almost entirely occupied by a tight the courtyard below , and which showed the death- On a sudden all fear leaves me , and drawing my revolver I : Tcrawled into a small chamber about six feet square , and garments I fastened the electric torch to my forehead and My nerves were now in such a state of tension that I feared circumstances permitted , and , hulled by the mean of the wind , great stone fireplace , and it was lit by a stone-mullioned lattice room . Empty ! And a grateful prayer goes up to God , there lay down thoroughly exhausted . a small angular window projecting outwards from the face of rad escaped on that tragic night . The chimney ! nothing ! How vividly it all comes back to me as I write , even But that shadow ! - it moves , it moves ! And now - is it window . To do so I was obliged to push aside some rubbish , as I after so many years ! ' thought at first , but feeling something round and hard under little man in a dark suit groping wildly around the fireplace . I made myself as comfortable in the window seat as the ind tried the door , which I had securely fastened on entering , THE CROSS . wav that I was unable to distinguish in the uncertain light . But what is that ? No ! no ! that is neither the rats nor brough the wall tapering inwards at the sides and too . with of the midnight bell of the church tower , and feeling very hear it patterns from one corner to another and then rapidly an angle gave me a trifting foothold , so after several unsuccessful- place , it suddenly slashed into my mind how the little doctor I searched the room , examined the floor , tapped the walls , there lay down thoroughly exhausted . --- Page 12 --- is something so peculiarly pleasant in making up one's minor afford to treat with cutness , to eschew the luxuries without over , having come to the last page in the book . For the end subtle attractions of the less popular phases of these by ways of wonder to ourselves why we have been blind so long to the which we are positive we would actually be better , to get up waiting than he gains in his spasmodic and half-hearted of all things creeps imperceptibly upon us , the end of our the afternoon that he never attempted the feat again-one up the hill and by his policy of drift loses more ground while which is not far off , and he is usually of that sardonic type gives up , that is , if no goader is by : but the man with the that it wasn't exhaustion which compelled us to retire . The little trial suffices to alter our view-point - we wonder , we udopt a deferential tone towards even those whom we can really exhausted man hasn't energy enough left to vawn- in so far as most details of our particular driving is concerned to read nothing save the best thoughts of human genius , to have often not even the sense to cross our vehicle on the hesitate , we pause , and a lately-deserted groove has its old final quenching of that light once so radiant , we cannot escape up the avoirdupois of flesh and failed , though we are not a little less keep them . The unwilling horse that stops quarter way hearts are really the best part of the day , that we secretly upon him that his jerky efforts are worse than waste . He to feel so self-righteous all the forenoon and so sleepy through angry to find there is so much dead weight in that body of and enjoy those early morning hours which we believe in our With all its poor attempt of getting a lunch from a scare- which the hopeful start was made . It is not much consolation of a spurt for a beginning , because the dominant truth remains crow , there is a modicum of wisdom of a sort in that story of endered but wasted effort . Yet we - who are our own masters tenant under a new lease once more . Spirit has tried to hoist and we can always manage a fairly good yawn , stifted or new leaf and his discovery that he hadn't a new one to turn of attention at the critical stage , of promise taking the way which leads to obscurity and the might now be progressing with that same virile race with the ne'er-do-well who announced his readiness to turn over a Of things to come at large , efforts at ascent , ultimately gives up in despair when it dawns life . But-like the gentleman who got up early one morning from those unwelcome reminders that with just a particle more to try and persuade ourselves that we really put up too much Like the hopeful and expectant master who sees his pupil . book , and the end of our ability to make good resolves , much unabashed . whose sympathy is in inverse ratio to the magnitude of any The baby figure of the giant mass ours . 278 --- Page 13 --- came . See in your downfall's but a reason why won should anyone can readily retort that it is poor advice to suggest that for the test which might find you wanting , for the greatest than failure in the effort is to be grinned at . The chief thing And , after all , an attempt to improve is more to be admired source of strength lies often in a knowledge of your own that is . if he ever decided on anything noble or commendable . gather all your forces for a greater effort and you may have know to be exactly what would keep them in form , or could at all . They have only made a wish ! They think it would be quite a good idea if they could limit themselves to just one of lost possibilities is far from a vice-provided always the your faith in the old one is dying . without waiting altogether to poke fun at the breaking of new year determination made a lities is the vice of dreamers . " For our purpose the regretting not half-hearted . ' But have no sacred repinings . ' I know between his teeth has often meant the winning of the race for to be so faint-hearted at the thoughts of what terrible official - pretty poor attempt at living up to those he made himself - ties will cross your path that you shrink back into the old run of the type which stimulates to more solid determination when firmly resolve on you can ultimately effect , provided you are pipe a day , or could do that five-mile walk after tea that they One thing you may take for granted . The man who tries and point the arrows of your sarcasm at those who thought to when our burden goes a wheel down the slope we smile and sit And there isn't . Make a fresh one every time you find that what is : and to regret lost possibilities and anticipate probabi- to failure , but the better advice is to use the experience gained many a stood . Only your poor-blooded horse gives up in ingloriously fail . But they really have not made resolutions do better than they actually could when the hour of trial road to gain breath , as the careful driver rests his horse and sullenness when the first fence has proved a trifle higher than what John Oliver Hobbes wrote in Love and the Soul-Hunters : Not a few people are disappointed with what they call their There are no night-have-beans . There is what has been , resolutions at other times than the beginning of the year . in defeat for a new effort as soon as a chance may present may be no next year . Still , in one sense there is much in And that chance for all of us is now . It is one thing to be if you fail this year you can try again next year - for there new year resolutions , and the manner in which they so onquered by the unexpected tests of a high resolve , another There seems no great reason why we shouldn't make good he thought . another opportunity is vouchsafed us . veakness . Some stick to their theory that failure is conducive cause to marvel at the results . For the taking of the bit itself . regret is tuged with no suspicion of despair , but is rather is to keep the notion at the back of your mind that what you stop to enjoy the short and clearly-bought ride to the bottom . 281 . --- Page 14 --- toward sp interest down a German-oin drain of a drug misto fast can 50 noeanfamiliar com to whom he came at his history to rant spur na mbatro , and dreams from . Mr. Evans me as using peaked for , a carpipe ! To fill as a surprise museum more scurposes . 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Listen to St. Helens ( what a host of friends I have there now ! ) - Hilda Ash are welcome as the berries of the Christmas holly . From the delightful letter the festivities . It is a sad Christmas for the mothers of the men who lost grace necessary to enable you to carry on this great work , for many " a long perhaps it is better so . It will bring nearer to our minds the dread realities for them than was the first Christmas following the greatest of all sacrifices . new members from Carrickmacross during the next few months . " They will admittance . She is welcome , and she is right when she says I like the enerously of their friendship ! I must mention first of all the members whose germission to reveal it that sets my heart bounding with joy every time I he as welcome as she is herself to-riav . Rita Carlos having heard I " like the return for all your generosity and kindness to me . and also to give you the written to the from Carrick also by Emma Couff and her sister Josephme . with them through being absent from school . Two very nice letters have been Joyle , Kathleen Hardy , and Mary O'Grady . The latter's little essay was scellent , and it is a great pity she had the mistorture to be late . hink of it . God's best and sweetest reward be her share and that of her St. Louis Carrickmacross , Presentation Convention , Drogheda , and Presentation working hard in her own sweet war for Blessed Gabriel in St. Helens . God one dear friend was absent . but I know her heart's wishes are with us in scramble to get hold of it to read . If you'd seen the way we all favoured Flora McDonald ( an historic name ) . Annie Howarth , and Alice Hilton , who never overwhelming or defeat her . Agnes Trevor promises me a big influx of were her school companions last month . She missed being welcomed along Rennie had won the prize . " Her essay was very fine , " and all the class ' You've no idea of how proud we were when we got to know that Mary gent as Mary Rennie has written this month . I wish I could quote it in full of the first Christmas Navy , which are sometimes likely to be forgotten amidst hey are welcome , and that I am deeply grateful for all their good wishes . I before the Humble Orb of the Child-God , I will ask him to bless you , in the Easterns , and every Gael who is true to our Mother Eire . And she will companions in the new year ! From other famous schools - the Convent of members who , though not of our race , have reached us the hand of friendship Westerns . So also do I like ( nay love ) the Northerns and the Southerns for her who lost her Son and her friend , her God and her all . " It is surely velcome one from my old friend , Provinsias Mac Thighearnain , in the ferr hour . ' Mr blessing on the boys and girls who have given the so of which he says : " This year Christmas is sad for all or nearly all , but HERE is the concluding paragraph : " On Christmas morning " when I knew I knew I hearts in the new year ! Another new friend in the Marist Convent School . been out on " a recruiting expedition also , and introduces three new members - post bag would be rather empty this month . Imagine pre a joy and delight to me . Their names are Doris Ashton , Frances nowarth , spirit of the letters and essays contained in them have made me feel that while ery hearty welcome . Winnie Finn brings me five new members from St. across the sea and are united with us under the mantle of our dear patron . good to be able to award a prize when you receive such a letter of acknowledgment . Eire has such daughters to remember her and her martyred dead , her foes can Carrick-on-Shannon . ' Her name is Kathleen Doyle , and she is as his from another little English member , Alice Holt ( also of St. Helens ) : Ursula Morris , Bridget McDermott , and Mary McHale . I need hardly say written by Hilda I can gather that my dear friend . Mary Rennie , has been I had been saying to myself that on account of the holidays and Christmas stiers did not reach me in time last month . They are J. P. Cassidy , Kitty exams . " and the excitement attendant upon both , my Blessed Gabriel of Our Lady of ' So knows . Among my " letters there is a s a newcomer from the Presentation Convention Convention Convention , Drogheda , to whom I offer telens , in England , all of whom ( including Winnie ) have written letters that less her and all her young comrades , and give them every wish of their their lives fighting for their country at Easter , but it can be no more sorrowful The latter has told me something . ' It is a dead secret until she gives me THE GUILD OF BLESSED GADNED . Convent , Athenry-bulky envelopes have come again this month , and the ear to come . " And may He bless the sender of that wish and every young sope to hear from them every month in future . Another friend of mine in Westerns , " comes to me from Ballina with a ' merry smile and demands ny surprise and delight , then , when the Editor My Post Bag . wanted me the biggest bundle at letters I have received for months ! Only Many surprise and delight , then , when the Editor d me the biggest bundle of letters I have received for months ! Only 1907 08 with them through being absent from school . Two very nice letter new members from Carrickmacross during the next few month --- Page 16 --- attempts at composition will not drive away your Christmas' appetite-though all that I'd love to visit is St. Patrick's Pureatory . Louch Dere . Thanks to my old friend Chrisie Burke for her beautiful letter and greeting four more along with her brother , whom I welcome this month . ' Ada O'Neill , England , and four badges are to be sent to the From the Convent of Notre Dame . St. Helens , comes another new friend in your promise to pray for me . From Eichlis' Sedigiae comes an exceptionally you in class when you'll them that fact . ' Your friend Mabel' Gaskell is speaking of it . My mother's relations are really Irish , ' you know . ' but when I the member bringing five recruits into the Guild , a list of new members from ' Carrick-on-Shannon , offered by May Shamley or express . ' I wish I could accept her generous invitation : perhaps I may be to know . Alice that one of the harvest of the " rebels " who fought for the awful threat . " The ' Carrick-on-Shannon people need not father themselves competition papers , asking to be admitted to member- proud . Two nice little letters came also from Bessie and John G. Reid . Yes sends me a hearty greeting . She is welcome for her friend's sake and for see Drogheda take a back seat in the Guild . " : Now , Carrick ! Vora Breheny . Aggie Mallov . Mollie Mulvey , Gretta Carter the Children of Mary Sodality . ' I can imagine their happiness on that Malone and her brother Edward . They are two friends of whom I am very Joniff . Mary S. Rooney , Kathleen Doyle , Allie Gorman , Katie Beatrie , Iary Feelv. Jane McCabe. Lena Coles . ' Mary E. Rourke . Mary THE CROSS . out of the politicians' book and resort to constricting new members before we Kathleen McCloskey , Katie Doyle , and Mollie Joyce . goes to Winnie Finn , 152 Livingston Road . St. Helens . ent School , Carrick-on-Shannon , to be cut for by this month's ship of the Guild . Always put your name and address Keogh and adding her name to the list . Letters and greeting cards have also who has reached the 12th milestone and will compete in future with the senior her own . My big host of friends in Harold's Cross , Dublin , increases from are students of our own beautiful language . I am nile failure from the many members of the Guild who on your competition paper , whether you send a letter Badge Winners . an Irish girl with an English name like ' Alice Holt . ' " You will be interested new recruits . All newcomers will please write a personal note to Francis , apart from their one ambition is to visit Ireland . One of these holidays I'll be landing on The badge , bearing month to month . I have great pleasure in welcoming Margaret Philomena eagerly watching out for it myself . last commenced to read it now , and oh I have I have tales of Irish life . My Good News ! month's issue of " The Cross . " I bespeak for it Aime Brewery . A thousand welcomes to them , one and all . Now , Drogheda important . proudly relate this fact in class , the others' launch and ask who ever heard of illie B. Mulvey , Little Moreton , Eveleen Crotton , Lizzie able to do so some day . I was well pleased with the nice letters from Iizzie the portrait of Blessed Gabriel , which is awarded to or not . told me that he is starting an Irish Pack in this 286 Marist Convent School , with the idea that they will succeed in outrivalling us . We will take a leaf The Editor has just members ! . Nellie Rennie . C. Willmark . Julia M. Kennedy , of Ireland in 1798 was named Joseph Holt . See will then laugh at welcome . And very many thanks for your pretty Christmas card and Bessie must get five new members before she can receive a badge that Erin's sunny shore , and how delighted will be that day . One place " that fifteen of my Drogheda friends have recently been admitted to gheda , is a bit of a humorist . She writes : ' I hope our delightful card . I wish her every blessing and gift in the year that is at our e to me from Bridie and Chrisie Sweeney , Ada O'Neill , Mary Kate Healey greeting card and a wish as warm as any Irish heart could learn for of Drogheda , is a bit of a humorist . She writes : ' I hope memorable day . I had only just finished reading Ada's threat when up a mystical person such as you lives on air . " Then's he ts visited it last summer , whilst staying in Derry , and they never tire person of Marie Rigby , who writes me a very nice , friendly letter and returns thanks for her prize volume . Her recruits are N --- Page 17 --- In Thanksgiving , etc. and the Little Flower . members of the Congregation of the Passion . acknowledged in these pages . TO OUR PRONOTERS . In answer to inquiries made from time to time forwarded to the Postulator at Rome . K. Clarke sends two shillings and sixpence towards Cause of Gemma' Galig and promoters participate in the benefit of four hundred and thirty-four Masses , # correlations , for which # # # Sr. M. Philomena ( Roscommon ) has forwarded us a number of donations a situation for her , I/ ; and from another client , 2 ) - in thanksgiving . mounting to 16 - from various clients of Blessed Gabriel towards the expenses received through the intercession of B.essed Gabriel : from Mrs. F. 3/3/ om Miss Thompson have been received towards the Cause of Gemma Galgani . rwarded to the Powers of the Causes of Blessed Gabriel and pecially offered every year for benefactors by the Fathers of this Province , as well as in the prayers , penances and good works performed daily by all the similar intention ; from a young girl who is asking Blessed Gabriel to obtain Per Fr. Alban ( Glasgow ) , ten shillings from Miss Donohoe , and two this Canonization : From a lady , ro ) - in Thanksgiving for a great favour t well to let supporters of this magazine know that all our supporters # mini and favours received through their intercession will be gladly and trustfully . The year is dying in the night : shadowy future with a brave and manly heart . ' Ring out , wild bells , and let him die . Rita Carlos . joy and gladness in " our hearts to whatever the future may bring-joy or thus in regretting the old war , which reminds us of the swift fight of nature to all her verdant beauty , and so all people look forward to it hopedfully When pursuing this a gloomy and peaceful train of thought . the thought of the new year strikes a glad chord in our hearts and banishes all desoon- think of that happiness which has no end , and explain with Tennyson- ITAIN CRAWERS . the past year may have "brought care and sorrow , we can nail the advent of man : " Think not of the past : it cannot come back : face the dim and think with ineffable joy of the many they shall spend in the better land . ' The happiness in looking forward to the future that we admit the old year has happiness in store for them . People who have reached the winter of their life of the sweet . " So marry and light-hearted do we become that we involuntarily the new with " one equal temper of heroic hearts " ; we can look forward with may have bitter trials in store for us , but the air of peace and joy , peculiar to arrows , and to bring them brighter and happier days . ' Those who have as time , we can afford to give a real " dead mile failure " to the new . Although sorrow , success or failure - and we can exemplify the words of a great states - brought us many joys intermingled with its sorrows-giving us the " bitter fency . " Just for a moment , perhaps , we are inclined to think the coming year year reminds everyone of the advent of spring and the re-awakening of get only seen the rosy hue of life look forward " confidently to joy and Welcome the new year as perhaps the last one they spend on earth , and ss or failure and we can exemplify the words of a great states - the new year , drives away all care . We are filled with such gladness and people afflicted with trouble look to the new year to lighten their 288