Cross Bulletin July 1915

--- Page 1 --- Vol. VI . July . 1915 . No. 3 . No . The hour for prayer grow closer , for now waves The darkness , while the whisper upward steals : Beneath the blazoned windows' glowing planes , How long before Thy peace desired shall bless Full many a mourner , and each sad heart feels Bartie Field Sketches . TV . In Time of War . P. Wareing , C.P. VI . By Felicia Curtis ... They children who amid the bitter tray THE Pope's Critics . By Rev. ' Lo . I forget not in their sorest stress , Business Letters to be addressed to the Manager . Mt. " Argus , ' Dublin Oswald Donnelly , C.P. ... 121 Gather , as reverent of His Root , where kneels Titerary Communications to the Editor , at the same address The Guild of Blessed Very Rev. Philip Ooghlan , Slowly the organ's solemn cadence peas . Hall , Chapters V. and ( Adapted from the Italian of Cesare Rossi . ) Gabriel for Boys and In the Flying Line . By a St. Mary Magdalen Through the dim aisles the dying day , till reigns orous Blood . By G.M. Passionist Army Chaplain 123 By Pacific Gregory The Real Germany . By The Owner of Gorreston . O Lord , Who for our life did stand the tomb , Unsuitable MSS will not be returned unless accompanied by stamped , By-thoughts on the Pre- girls . II. Gethsemane . By Rev. The Highway of the Cross . Anna Tendenda Via Est. And round the imaged Christ the lingering strains Battle . ' ? But , hear a Voice sound thro'd the gloom- addressed envelope . Hart . c.p. 110 . n. Annual Subscription to THE CROSS . Three Shillinas , most tree . 106 . Mr Chosen ones who suffers to its own . " Mr.A.V. 102 . 0.117 105 . ' 117 0. 127 . 127 . VI . By Felicia Curtis ... 90 They children who amid the bitter tray - the Woman was written to 0 0 90 . in --- Page 2 --- would be no more : it was not for the sake of the girl beside sitting chatting in the shade , and took Rosalie for long tramps it , except Gorreston , the lawyer , your mother , and myself . has promised to keep the information strictly to herself . in the house , ' objected Mrs. Trevyck : but Jemima had her knew that the day was fast coming when , for him , days vigorously in progress . up the mountains , employing the time in teaching that young full of sketches , and Jemima noticed that her father was much my little daughter , I am much better . ' Peter Bretton saw them off on their journey . helping Leo not sure that your dear grandmama will like having a foreigner thought it advisable for various reasons to tell her . She before the return to Cappella : he brought with him a portfolio hood . " You need not put on that woe-begone expression , day , are you not ? ' awkward if I thought everybody knew that ridiculous though Even your mother did not know until the other day , when I she said when they were back at Cappella , and packing was in love with each other . ' walked together under the palms , " you are worrying yourself the little group of three gathered round the portfolio , or Peter Bretton arrived , according to promise . two days ny own delicacy of constitution I should become a confirmed Rosulte is quite willing to go with me , if you will let her ? " A little , father . It would make me feel dreadfully invalid . ' about that little bit of confidence I made to you the other THE OVERNER OF GORRESTON HALL : his health . It is quite easy . I believe , to imagine yourself My dear little girl . " putting her shoulder kindly , as they There is not a living being who knows anything about woman English . ' matter . Does this reassure you ? ' increase of cheerfulness . into a state of real ill-health . ' If I allowed myself to dwell upon you are better , father ; ' are you really better , or do you only pretty , quiet-mannered maid , only two or three years older ' I shall want a maid when I so to England , mother and than herself . She is absolutely inexperienced , my dear child , and I am Gorreston , himself , will believe you to be in ignorance of the it sounds cousin John Gorreston and I were expected to fall Rosalie liked her young mistress , and Temima liked the The relief was great . Jemima thanked him with a sudden ' But I would rather go to Trevyck with you and mother , So Jemima carried her appeal to her father . more cheerful for his coming . She held herself almost from say it to stop us from ' bothering you ? " than stay with granny , " she said . " You ' Oh . I am better : really better . ' " The man knew he lied . You're always say that way . matter . Does this reassure you ? " but for his own reassurance that he repeated the false- 91 . Oh , I am better ; really better . " with you and mother , 90 . --- Page 3 --- asked : and , of course , nobody ever talks about such things . in the middle of the Square . The trees were in all the sitting in a large , pleasant room overlooking the garden lying ordinary , but Lady Gorreston felt as if the foundations of turquoise , Recked with white . It was all very peaceful . " and myself , I really do not know what mother thinks , I have never chapel , have you and your mother and father attended ? ' civilisation had suffered a shock . " The worst of it was that asked her , but I suppose she is the same-are atheists . ' she had been doing , and went on with it quietly . They were ' Certainly , grandmama , I will not mention it , unless I am beautiful young foliage of the English spring : the sky pale We have met crowds of people while we have been travelling , ' What church-or " bracing herself for the worst- There was a silence . Jemima picked up the embroidery contrary to all precedent - she did not know how to manage We do not attend any church or chapel . ' We don't and I do not know what was the religion of any single one of The owner of Gorkesian Hall . believe in it , you understand . ' me , Jemima ; and to go with me to church . ' You will be good enough not to repeat that statement to the case . in any particular religion ? " unbelief sounds very shocking to a Christian . ' Lady Gorreston became a little more erect . The girl's eyes twinkled mirthfully . In ' it " ? ' In what ? ' In my case , grandmama . if the lower classes knew the " Yes , It means " without God ' ; we father , Leo and to the lower classes . " stocking she was knitting . " I wish you to attend family prayers while you are with atheists . ' truth . they would decide that I was setting an example of ' I suppose , grandmama , that one is not obliged to believe nyone . Femima , she said at last ; " such a profession of not do justice to Lady Gorreston's tone . note of offence in her voice as she said : The girl looked at her in surprise . There was a perceptible ' It is the duty of every gentlewoman to set a good example " Do you know what the word " atheist " means ? " hypocrisy . Lady Gorreston's fingers busied themselves with the silk them . ' You must leave such matters to the better judgment of quietly : jemima reflected for an instant before replying , then said ' Very well , grandmama . I do not mind , of course . " mother , as though stating some commonplace fact . your elders , my dear . " In religion . " Jemima smiled pleasantly at her grand- ' Jemima ! ! " Half-a-dozen notes of exclamation would elders , my dear . Your cousins Clare and Teresa " Very well , grandparents . Your cousins Clare and Teresa " In religion . ' 98 . --- Page 4 --- to the Protestant mind . A frightful east window depicting a figure bending over her work in the opposite chair , and won- people make about religion ! ' Rosalie Hatly refused to be present at that worship again . There was a pause . Lady Gorreston glanced at the graceful wishes about the church-going and prayers certainly , so the rosary was an object abhorrent to the Protestant mind . the fact , " hitherto unknown , presented itself to the devoutly you about it ; but will you be so kind as to tell your maid she though of course she can pray to them if she likes ; but I reply , and Jemima did not trust herself to answer . She here a fresh surprise awaited her : for , when with considerable actually praying to the beads . ' replied Temima thoughtfully . old lady reflected , saved appearances - and appearances Rosalie is a very sensible girl ; I do not think she can he ' It really is absolutely sickening , ' said the disgusted want to ask about English ways , that are far more interest - descendant of hers . The girl's courageous acquiescence in her one of those uninterested hideous Georgian buildings , dear if you like . Their father , your Uncle Newton , you know , is There is another matter , my dear - I am sorry to trouble secutive mornings and evenings at a heretical form of worship . " They are publish : a part of the idolatrous worship of was reading , but her lips moving in prayer to those ridiculous beads , poor thing . ' you can talk to them about this unfortunate belief of yours morning , paving not the slightest attention to the chapter I exceedingly respected what she mentally dubbed her grand- want to talk about such things . ' There are so " many things Protestant teaching , showing the errors of Rome , " said Lady ng . I really am not a bit interested in religion . ' Why mustn't she bring them ? mother's interference . String of beads , grandmama ? . Oh , you mean her rosary . That is no reason why she should remain one . " was the Miss Trevick went dutifully to church beside the old lady The interview over . Temima went in search of Rosalie , and Oh thank you , grandmama , but I do not suppose we shall in the comfortable carriage next morning . The church was " I must get some little books in Italian for her . Sound Gorreston . a clergyman . ' Catholic young woman that she had been present for five con- Newton will be here next week ; they are very nice , good girls : But Rosalie is a Roman Catholic . " THE CROSS . Jemima in her letter to Leo that night , " the fuss English I tell her she is not to bring them to pravers . ' difficulty the girl made her attendant understand that it me . I was horrified when I happened to see her this ist not bring that string of " beads with " her to prayers ? " counted for much in Lady Gorreston's estimation : but red what she was going to do with this perplexing it . ant to ask about English ways , that are far 1 Then she is not to bring them to prayers . " " Yes : but --- Page 5 --- " We thought you might have liked to go to Mass with us , cases . Femima stood by the window making up her mind to ead it in any language . It is about heaven and saints and they were gracefully condescending , with that indefinable air Dante ? You mean the Divna Commedia ? I have not cult , when her cousins came into the room next morning . Of course we are in a sense ; we belong to the Church of the windows ; there were books in abundance in the tall hook- what is in the newspapers most of them , but that is all . ' standing . ' To the inferior inhabitants of their father's parish cousin , this morning : but your maid said you were asleep of the sisters . " I wish I could speak Italian ; you must be original , " from Teresa , with a slightly sentimental air . THE CROSS . quite a linguist after so much travelling . right people such people being those of their own social of clerical feminine belongings when those clerics are of the A delightful room overlooking the Square was appropriated The Wvanes ? Oh they are not Catholics , " with a little guages , " replied Jemima with a little laugh , " and make out Mass " at Gimp Street . ' are Anglican Catholics . ' contempt in the tone . is well as we were able to understand " said Clare , the elder religion ? " thought you were of the same religion as grandmama . ' of stopping from celestial heights characteristic of the manner the head that caused Jemima a severe struggle with inward ing , ' replied Miss Trevyck airily . mean ? What are they ? " Establishment . England . Dear grandmama , however , is Low Church . ' And my other cousins ? Those at Blurton-on-Snows , I There was a wicked twinkle in her eyes as she asked : " It must be delightful to be able to read Dante in the And what are you ? " she asked , when she had sufficient write to her mother , a task she always found extremely difficult Jemima's sense of humour was gaining the upper hand . Clare : " it is a ten minutes walk-we go to the eight o'clock control over herself to speak . Rosalie , my maid , is a Catholic ; are you of the same Her hearers looked slightly shocked . ray quite outside her comprehension . given offence . " But No . That is not if your maid is a Roman Catholic . We ' I beg your pardon . ' " Temima saw that she had in some mirth . such things , isn't it ? I do not think it can be very interest - We are Catholics . ' to the use of the three girls ; a writing-table stood in each of " Very Low ! " asserted Teresa , with a mournful shake of " I thought Protestants did not go to Mass ? ' flush . " I can manage to ask for what I want in sundry lan- Would you like to go with us to-morrow ? " inquired " We are not Protestants , " returned Clare , with a little 96 . " I can manage to ask for what I want in " We are not Protestants , " returned Clare , --- Page 6 --- sousins ; both were apparently regarding the sparrows in the of irritation . She glanced from one to the other of her whether I was right or wrong in this chaos of creeds . ' regarded the girl with something approaching horror . inyone but herself . ' went on Clare disgustedly . " If she ambition it was to be the future Lady Charleston ; an ambition vas coming . That is just like granny . She never thinks of a strong inclination to laugh , was yet conscious of a sense daughter Femima is one of the few young women who know Square . Then with the air of performing a funeral rite- she will not out me as accompanist . " observed Teresa , whose ' At any rate she cannot possibly know John's songs , so Silence , a silence full of meaning , followed . Femima , with liked she could give us any number of chances ! Fancy very dreadful thing to say ! But of course you must belong Ofare gathered her writing materials together and departed , THE CROSS . though . She is a downright pagan ! ' Come into my room , " said the elder girl ; " I really could " Thank goodness . I haven't any ! I should never know wasting one's time upon . ' to the Church , because you would be baptized into it when called himself " Father , " and vested himself to correspond- " I wonder if she can sing . " must Clare anxiously . She said that she didn't understand anything about it . how to enter a room properly . She certainly cannot be thing about it-so do I . ' but at any rate he is orthodox . ' having three girls to stay with her at the same time , and one referring to her grandmother . Clare at length . ments ! " remarked Teresa : " he is not particularly religious : She is dreadfully brown : but her hair is beautiful - I sup- followed by Teresa . " I heard the gran say to John last night that her gra " Do you mind telling us what your religion is ? " asked Father thinks that kind of thing not trust myself to speak ! ' Granny ought not to have asked her here just when John accused of shyness . you were a baby . ' " You have no religion ? Cousin femima . that is a ' What can my Aunt Selina be like to allow a girl to grow nonsense ! ' It is a subject not worth solitary man ! ' " And yet belongs to your ose it is all her own ; and her eyes are fine . returned Jemima , who was getting up like this one has done ? You heard her call Baptism - nonsense , and-though I cannot say that I understand any- tired of being catechised . I don't think I was , ' The two well-brought-up daughters of the Rector-who But , ' there , what does it matter ? " What do you think of her looks ? " Teresa was not " I wonder what John Gorreston will think of such senti- You heard her call Baptism - Church ! It is illogical ! cannot say that I understand any- Teresa was not --- Page 7 --- jemima , it is the joy of Dr. Sclater's otherwise useless exis- ' It is as big as the British Museum , cousin Temima , and and cram them with fables about its contents . ' Seventh ; then there is a bit of Queen Elizabeth ; and any What do you say . Femima ? " inquired the old lady Clare and Teresa , who had now joined the group , and who quantity of George the First and Second ; and the house is scarcely anything about it in fact , but strings of names and smiling as she saw the pleasure in the girl's eyes . " The THE CROSS . about as comfortable a residence , " interposed John Gorreston . no attention to Gorreston , he is an ignoramus . upon that gentleman . The sisters were inclined to be exceed - wonder at Jemima's heathenish condition to John Gorreston dates . Who persecuted these priests , so that they were forced people to meet you ? " I do not know what the Museum is like . ' Who persecuted them ? I am sorry to ask so many seen one ; they are in the Elizabethan part of the house . So an appointment was made for to-morrow . to include Clare had conveyed the expression of her sorrow and Peerea with a proprietary air that slightly puzzled Iemima . We gods ! Fancy that , Sclater ! Here's a treat for you . Oh , it is a great rambling place of all ages . " replied I shall be delighted to show some of its treasures to you , expressed much satisfaction at the prospect of the visit to without the communication having made any visible effect questions , but I am dreadfully ignorant about history : I know Gorreston hawthorns are famous ; and the Hall is an interest- " The most ancient part was built in the reign of Henry the girls were alone together . Gorreston . Miss Trevyck , if you will allow me , " said the Doctor : " pay Catholic , " replied Clare briefly . fair self , and come at the same time , and I'll ask one or two rence , to take unsuspecting strangers round that curio , shop ing old place . ' There are priests' hiding-holes , too ; though I have never Jemima said no more . " That convevs nothing to me . " she answered with a laugh . to hide ? " What priests ? " asked jemima . " I mean of what reli- " Yes . " answered Clare snappishly . full of old furniture and pictures and china . " The Protestants . ' of course ? " " That means the Church of England , doesn't it ? It must . " Do you mean real that is Roman Catholic , cousin What is the Hall really like ? " asked Jemima , when the gion ? " " suppose it does , " replied her cousin reluctantly ; and Clare ? " 1940s . do not know what the Museum is like . ' " I suppose it does . " 100 . --- Page 8 --- political parties . Yet since the war-began we have looked in the French official Report how the soldiers from Bavaria . a Kingdom for the most part Catholic , were not behind their We must bear in mind that the Catholics in Germany do not terms of that crowning act of savagery , the sinking of the Catholic deputy , as " like nothing so much as the hallucina- tions of homicidal madness " : while the Koelnische Lusitania : " The sinking of the Lusitania is a success for our in spite of his repeated protestations that he would never go soldiers , inflated by passion , who had cast off all restraint . oppose his measures for the enslavement of the Church ; and to think that the outrages were merely the work of individual standing and special qualifications for the delicate task of advice of Bismark : " Cause to non-combatants the maximum Reichstag constitute the most numerous of all the German do in England . They amount to considerably more than a word and " act that they are not in the least better than their third of the whole population ; and their representatives in the Protestant or unbelieving fellow-countrymen . We learn from the common guilt . On the contrary , they have shown by mittee already mentioned composed of men whose high ments in this naval war . The sinking of the great British they continued to maintain the same determination and union . shadow of a doubt by the conclusions arrived at by the Com- sought to carry out with characteristic thoroughness the describes the ravings of Herr Erzberger . the well-known rain for any utterance of theirs which would exempt them from brother Germans in atrocities ; the London Observer here must be a proportion of men of criminal instincts whose fidence in their judgments . steamer is a success , the moral significance of which is still greater than the material success . With joyful pride we con- take that memorable journey . And when happier days came , zenith of his power , they boldly presented a United front to paper in the German Empire , wrote in the following callous of suffering : leave the women and children nothing but their eyes to keep with . " That this is true is proved beyond the judicial inquiry are sufficient to inspire us with absolute con- outrageous acts ' must be expected . ' for in every large " army ditions of warfare afford . " It would be a consolation We were formerly proud of our German fellow-Catholics , part of a system sanctioned by the German authorities who Volksseitung , the most popular and widely read Catholic War is war : ' and in all wars many shocking and to Canossa , they succeeded at length in compelling him to ind not without reason . When the great Bismark was at the worst passions are imposed by the immunity which the con- form an insignificant fraction of the people as their brethren submarines , which must be placed beside the greatest achieve- Unfortunately we cannot believe this . The outrages were THE REAL GERMANY . 103 . to American Parliament on our --- Page 9 --- powerless for good , and subject Europe to a domination the most malign and heartless imaginative . I have been informed recognised body in the Empire which preserves its indenen- pestilential vapours which at present poison it and would sian autocracy regards with a jealous and hostile eye the only their weapons against the Church , and endeavour to accom- organizations which are subservient to the State and to the rumiliation it would entail , would set back the clock of pro- requires no great capacity to perceive that it would be impos- may for us be regarded as a holy war , as holy as those wars military party were successful in this war they would turn their utter disbelief in the existence of God itself . ends it has in view , and which are directed by it . What was he vortex of destruction where all the noble feelings and experienced , when all the people of these islands are con- of the slender or who impudently and unblushingly profess of Germany to achieve her objects would clear the air of those n a time such as our fathers or our fathers' fathers never sible for the Church to ' flourish in such an atmosphere as ceivable . A victory for the Germans , over and above the fully perpetrated . We have thus the spectacle of a whole siasics were enough to apprehend that if the Kaiser and the it would gain draw the Church into the vast network of steeling their hearts against the instincts of our common slow at Christianity which would render it comparatively dish the design which Bismark in vain attempted . The Prus- exists in Germany at present . On the other hand , the failure ronted with a common danger and that the greatest con- wonder at the conduct of those whose hold on Christianity is Catholics . If they have allowed themselves to be sucked into power for evil falls only a little short of their will . We live restraints of Christianity , ignoring all laws human and divine . nature , and joining in a vast orgy where a greater measure of success . However this may be . it some fresh deed of horror worse than the last had been success - Viewed then from almost any standpoint the present war Such are the enemies who face us , and unfortunately their finer instincts of our nature are swallowed up , we need not I have drawn special attention to the attitude of the German THE CROSS . A dance more wild than e'er was maniac's dream . nild dissent from the triumphant means that ascended when gress , substitute the law of might for that of right , strike a template this latest deed of our Navy , and it will not be the all the fierce and drunken passions wore ender it comparatively wholesome to breathe once more . last . ' attempted before might be attempted again , and this time with 104 . good authority that there are in Germany Catholic eccle- ion United almost as one man for evil . throwing off the ice of the State and resolutely refuses to surrender it : and Only a small section of the Socialists ventured to express a the first time was written to the ch are the enemies who face us , and uniform --- Page 10 --- watch and pray with Him : but as they crouched under shelter and splendidour at Jerusalem over a world-wide empire . With ments wet with the Jews of night , and stained with the dust tude and prayer ; sometimes He took the evening meal . or with Him into the recesses of the garden and perceive fear , while the three who had seen Him glorified on Thabor go men , he had expected a Messias who would reign in power astonished eyes be held him as they had never seen Him opportunities for himself and friends . But in his shrewd one of His kindred , for the sepulchre of Our Lady's parents furthest northern extremity is a grotto , about fifty-six feet . waves have gone over Him , " weak and trembling : His par- His apostles reached it ; they would have had a key and long , thirty feet wide , and twelve feet high . The garden agony and prayer to His Father . He had asked them to leader , " one of the twelve , " knew the place right well . Judas gradually yielded to sleep . When He weakened them , their ye now and take your rest . ' Behold the hour is at hand . ' pallid , His hair and beard matted , His eyes full of tears , His were her birthplace and ' childhood's home . ' In His visits to was close to the grotto , and afterwards she herself was laid voice sweet with tenderness and entirety . He left them and Jerusalem Our Lord was accustomed to resort here for soli- in it-perhaps to the control of its vast revenues with golden the other apostles he had been looking forward to a high place garden , and lights were seen glimmering at the gate . Their yet strange words fall upon their awakening senses : " Sleep apostle Judea had given Our Lord . With all his country- grumbling about the ointment poured over Our Lord's feet away . The severe warning given him in the synagogue of THE Highway of the Cross . Capharaum , the marked disapprobation of St. John at his Him . Then He went alone far into the grotto , for the long convenient to go to His friends at Bethany . Consequently intered at once . Eight were told to rest near the entrance , one just rescued from the death of drowning , for " all the of the grotto , and here and there spots of blood , His face came to them ; and now calmness has surrounded suffering , passed the night in the shelter of the grotto , when it was not of trees or rock with mantle drawn over head , they had Ludas knew the garden , every path and corner of it . certainly belonged to some friend of Our Lord , probably to these witnessed the last visit of Jesus to Gethsemane . At its He was yet speaking when the second group reached the It was about half-past ten or eleven when Our Lord and year put forth leaves and branches . It is just possible that made their way . to rest in a tomb close by . In fact we may believe that here before in the years of their close companionship . He is as To this garden , late at night , on the Pasch , two groups again they slept " for their eyes were heavy . " Again He mind these visions had soon grown dim , and then had died weakness and some great weight of sorrow overwhelming of Kerinth ( a little town south of Hebron ) was the ' only 107 --- Page 11 --- etc. , of the Council , these were armed with clubs or slaves : with Temple guards , a quasi-military force under the control of of the garden ; seize the prisoner and bind him at once , last by approaching . " The dark green of the olive trees encircles and looking into his face , " O Judas does thou betray the deliver Jesus of Nazareth , with certainly , secrecy and at once tunic touched with light as with silver , under the lastly a few priests and doctors of the law with their friends : only thirty silver shekels . " the market price of a slave , and of the Sanhedrim , a quasi-police force , to carry out the orders . asks him why he has come : then holding him slightly away moonbeams . sorrowful , pitiful , yet majestic in sur- the private residence of the high priest Caiphas , a villa with these he was fair to be content . The time was fixed , situated outside the walls , and overlooking the city from the Three of the apostles are close to Him-the other eight are asks the crowd whom they seek , yet it drives them back , and repeated his instructions . They are to search every corner clubs . lanterns and toirches . There were : first some of the carefully organised to secure success . There were no Roman south , and had there made his infamous proposal . " He would drove as hard a bargain as possible , but they would give him and precincts of the sacred fame , they were armed with a short Procurator . The inspired narrative speaks of swords and curving single-edged sword ; with them , some of the servants Son of Man with a kiss ? ' His voice is very gentle as He thrown back from his shoulders , His white woollen his master in his own , bends forward and kisses Him . Jesus was numerous , for it is called " a multitude , " and was these were other servants bearing lanterns and torches ; and attracted by curiosity . ' Near the entrance of the garden Tudas sign of resistance : if in the dimness of light or confusion there and , scarce knowing what he does , takes the two hands of with amazement , in his bewilderment goes forward . darkness , he had slipped away from the others , and gone to The band was probably augmented by some of the populace On Wednesday , or perhaps on the Tuesday night in the go forward and kiss him . Such the leader ; what of the company he led ? . It should be any doubt as to whom to arrest , he himself would clearing of the garden , He is there , coming to meet them . THE CROSS . render . The crowd falter and hesitate . " Judas , struck soldiers , for the case had not yet been brought before the " The silver sheet was a coin worth about three shillings at our money . into their power-but for a consideration . He doubtless hem . He stands in the midst . His feet bare . His mantle They enter : no need to search , no need of torch ! In a by Macdalen had reached but to harden his narrow heart . some magical art he disappear ; the guards would overcome any Thursday evening , and the escort duly promised . the priests , and charged with the defence of the approaches . -00 . --- Page 12 --- conditions . " The young soldier-priest might possibly live- gious woman , and after he began to doubt he had gone on fessor's chair at a University , yet he had filled one before the An Act of Faith . debates and was making this Book of them - the Book that attending Mass to please her , and from habit , he supposed ? listening intelligently-very intelligently . He smiled when in nature . Like most people of highly-developed intellect , var called him away from his beloved books . He told the the Unknowable . He described his magnificent library , for this scholarly young man was over-strung and painfully matter-of-fact through it all , with his somewhat hacknered . detrimental to the attitude adopted by so-called believers in With the eager erotism that is frequently found in her no points and ideas from the papers which he had read at their he gathered that his fellow-patient was a man of education . tion about himself before he sought to learn anything con- the other reverted to his beloved library , left behind in the Ek , bien ! ' His God's will ! ' The soldier-savant had but when he got in with the set that thought for themselves them , though the doctor spoke gravely of their respective sensitive . The priest-he belonged to the Franciscan Order little university town that lay almost in the grip of the enemy . the Society of Truth-tellers , and he had collected all the poured out his troubles into the ears of his neighbour . He dust type of learned person that one associates with a pro- brought up a Catholic . His mother had been a very reli- means unloveable natures . he had imparted all this informa- of writing a Book-a philosophical work destined to prove he threw it all up . They the Set-made him president of was a bright-eyed , boyish young man , not at all the dry-as- throwing in only the comments that showed that he was hands were badly hurt , but he had been perfectly calm and other , among many things , that he had been on the point paradise to make progress on the brave , thorny ways of out under a nervous breakdown , following on a wound , slight got friendly . They were both alert to things round about Doubt and Incertitude . was to teach the erstwhile occupant of the Believer's fool's " I was able to bring my library with me . " he remarked , was limited in the Base hospital , and they naturally the scholar-in-arms hardly . The latter's heart had given HEY lay side by side , their beds close together , for space the ' Imitation . ' " three books , that is the New Testament , the Psalter , and cerning his listener . ' The other had been a good listener , Had he never been a believer ? Well , yes . He had been was merely suffering from physical injuries both his 110 . 111 . --- Page 13 --- lying , very still and white , but he listened sympathetically lost heart , and one arm . The priest's eyes held his . are my constitutional enemies . savant answered , his eyes giving out a defiant light . ' Despite the other said . quickly . eyes , till they brought a boy up to see him a boy who had really did die for you when you can no longer die for his misfortune to his neighbour . ' the priest . ' The latter was quieted him . when you have nothing to give ? What it you find that Christ The young scholar was silent . destroyed , made void , in one fell moment . What was there an Act of Faith . When he came out of the morphia he proceeded to bewail Suddenly the victim of unexampled misfortune pulled up . like this man of three books . there , in pain , too great to permit him so much as to open his to the story of all the accumulated wisdom of years being At this moment the surgeon appeared . At length the doctor gave him a dose of morphia and so And how about the hazard ? ' " I'll take the risk of meeting a peaceful deity , " the young The savant fell to thinking . He watched the other lying for that " the surgeon had produced his syringe " please , grow intolerable . What , indeed ? a God . ' " Van priests don't often put it like that , " he observed . christ ? ' ' Fairly , was the reply , ' but , no , no ! not bad enough not that ! ' vened . the scholar replied . be done ! You see , " he said , " I take religion , but not the other drug . ' I'm sorry , " he whispered . ' But what about the risk of finding yourself for given- When he had gone the priest looked across at his neighbour- left ? ervous attack , affecting the heart to a perilous degree , super- bour . " Is the pain bad ? " he asked of the priest . It's the certainly that I deny . ' You admit the possibility ? " The doctor replaced the little leather case . ' God help you - if there is As you will , " he said , " but I warn you , the pain will ' You've been operated on ' haven't you ? ' he enquired . " I " They've cut off my right hand . " the priest answered : an The sick man started to rave . heard them saying so . Whereabouts ? ' His companion was genuinely touched - he had grown to God's will uddenly the tell-tale tears came into his eyes . " never saw Mass now , " he added . " Eli , bien ! God His pulse gave out , and a " I shall shall . never saw Mass now , " he added . " You priests don't often put it like that , ' --- Page 14 --- the other's gaze , and smiled-radiantly . The smile recalled tion from his nurse that he was " very ill indeed . " He had Opium , as everyone knows , produces vivid dreams , and the words that had accompanied it on another occasion . The their eyes . The priest lay , white and motionless , but he met failed . He could not speak the words of absolution . The the measured breath of the sleeper when the nurse approached . was at the moment when he had just extracted the informa- and that he stood before the Vision of God , and the beauty existing in the brain . The scholar dream that he was dead , but he had held out against the blandishments of the religion AN ACT OF FAITH . had supervened , in spite of all precautions . ' His speech had duced by the drug . How terribly the manhood had departed a voice said . " Nav. " Man can worship in one way only- to worship . But as he attempted to fall down in adoration towards the man in the next bed , as many others had turned hours of unspeakable agony . Feigning sleep and breathing collected the material of which it was woven from impressions and splendid of this vision made him faint with the desire at his elbow . The doctor surveyed him . The man in the He could still pray for a miracle of grace to be performed scholar knew that if he could have articulated he would have said . " Courage , brother ! God's behind it all , and Heaven's dying savant caught sight of him during a lucid interval . ' It Late that night the doctor visited his patients . He went to the end now , nurse . What ? Morphia no good ? We must the face of the man sleeping the heavy , unnatural sleep pro- They both moved away and the priest opened his eyes . He at the end . ' And he realised that he , indeed , could not give his soul next bed heard him say , " We must keep him under it till to worship , for the will is part of the soul , and his will no lain still for a moment , and then the nurse saw his eyes turn from it . ' So he watched and proved . Prayed through long he's sleeping . Give him the dose if he wakes . ' end was inevitable . the scholar first . He had become a poor wreck of a man , is vigil that night beside the soul which was neither in the sphere of action nor yet in eternity . give him . " He named another drug , used only in the by faith . Blessed are they that have not seen yet have believed . ' last extremity . The priest's condition had become equally grave . " Tetanus nurse wore a crucifix ) . Poor chap ! them . The patient when conscious grew so violent , and the ' If he comes out of that it will be one of your miracles ( the He passed on to the next bed . the soul still abiding in the unconscious form . He watched avant dreamed a dream . A dream that , like all dreams , had deceived them successfully . He would be able to keep " Why , " he whispered , Then followed the operation . " Ah ! " the doctor breathed . --- Page 15 --- in sophistical argument . savant . He could no longer perform his functions . ' The ing . Then he spoke again . lying patient turned his head again to the occupant of the He could not but feel a human satisfaction in receiving the patient was also wide awake , and he lay smiling at the dying next bed . The nurse's attention was also diverted at the confession of faith of the man who had so often cornered him When she had disappeared , the dying man turned his eyes make my peace with God . ' the nurse that showed that his mind was as clear as daylight , the doctor , who loathed death-bed religion , could not object . chaplain would have to be fetched . The nurse fled on her case He was crucified for me . ' he knew , too , that memory is a power of the soul , and memory knee . So the three powers of his soul memory , understand- errand . The dying patient could not be circumvented . Even held only the refusal , the turning aside the stubborn , unbent And the poignant agony of that moment burst the bonds to the next bed . ing , and will , turned on him and rent him . eyes . The light of reason alone in them . He looked at her He lay quiet and quite conscious , making a few remarks to THE CROSS . And then a great wave of love and remorse burst over She told him to go to sleep again . She was pale with He was quiet , but he remained conscious , apparently think- hither with nothing done for Me ! " When the nurse came back from fetching the priest the man . There was an " I told you all along : " air about him . moment . longer possessed freedom-be believed without choice . And I went to earth to give Mr. All for thee , and thou contest Instinctively she glanced at the next bed . Her other quite calmly . ' How long ? ' he cried , in his agony . " How long must What can I suffer for thee ? " And the One at his side looked hat held his mind in durance . The nurse , seated at his Am I dying ? " he asked . fright . It was eerie , this coming-to of the moribund man . bedside , was amazed and terrified to see her patient open his I suffer thus ? im , and he cried . " Lord ! Lord ! what can I do for these ? ' It's only in case , ' he whispered again . " It's only in case , " he whispered , " in case it's true . In sorrowfully on him and said , " Nothing . ' " I'd like to see the priest , ' And then he heard a voice saying , " Unto eternity : for , to ! The padre was found . He was a breeay , matter-of-fact 116 The padre was found . " I'd like to see the priest . " he whispered . " I want to He was a breezy , matter-of-fact And then he heard a voice saying . ' he whispered . " I want to --- Page 16 --- of Ritual Murder - the capture and murder of a Christian child religious people , would necessarily learn for some ceremony would not accept the Great Sacrifice might be led back into completely our forefathers identified confidence in Christ's blood in a bowl of wine . The peace which ended a blood-feed excitable , such a thought bred panic-deplorable indeed , but not unexplainable , if once we take the trouble to realise how to be smeared with the victim's blood was held to bring some Atonement with humanity and tenderness towards others . Of oken and likeness of the Sangrael . " had to repent and be magic spell which involves the shedding of blood . Sir Galahad were eager to drink his blood - and inherit his courage ! Even It is probable that there was but little truth in the charges recognising it as their own only safeguard against mortal fear ments by wounding themselves , and drinking each the other's those who had not that confidence , they could hope but little , Those who followed the Holy Quest , and hoped to see " the was made by the same ceremony ; though it is interesting to attitude . Here , the thought of the Precious Blood and of accusations were sternly discouraged by the then Pontiffs , but Brebeuf , were so struck by his fortitude under torture that they of expulsion . ' It was a not unnatural inference that those who to control their natural fears . and from the bloodthirstiness and reckless cruelty in which confer the characteristic virtue of the slain , as when the makers , kneeling . Sometimes indeed , perhaps , invariably it was thought to the truth it was incapable of realising , and sought satisfaction The " History of the Sangrael " illustrates this mental sanctified by its use . The Jews , left without sacrifice for sin , yet still a deeply fear too often expresses itself . Ego-known as " the blood-sound " did not take its " share . Herodotus says of the Scythians that they concluded agree - source of knightly courage and serene self-possession . So again and again has the mind of man grouped towards shriven of their sins , and then to fear no danger ; or , at least , offered in sacrifice , or of persons who had died a violent death , When blood was used for charms or spells , that of victims of a God-given yearning in some ghastly human device ndians of Huron , having murdered the Jesuit . Iean de THE CROSS . everything connected with its shedding is represented as the was generally chosen . Superstition is hateful to the knights of the Grael . " Of a and national , compacts made their final appeal to it , and were nurderous beaten rites and , in the " more nervous and the thought behind them is significant . There was no serious concern of life in which the mystical ness . at Passover-time brought against the mediaeval Jews . These note . that in that case , the blood would be drunk by the peace- secondary benefit . It suggested , at least , the idea of one- 114 . --- Page 17 --- Perhaps , deep down in their hearts , the scoffers themselves recognised the great natural truth on which that confidence had come to our dear ones by any other path . would have side , familiar to us in those chosen souls to whom its call was Devotion to the Precious Blood has always had its militant ng it . But , at any rate , it is inevitable that it should come . shall not lag behind the pagan in our recognition of the thoughts this year . It will be well for us if our dravers , our sourage , and our self-sacrifice should have a share in hasten- element of redemption . " Satum Iatum ! " will be our cry , grieved almost without hope : but who now can commend them No conceivable triumph of hatred and bitterness can keep it Blood " fall over our battlefields and hospital-beds , surely scious will and readiness for sacrifice co-operate with God . Beckett's early life , the voice of Christ is heard , as in effec- holocaust we all know , and remember , many , in whom con- has need of my blood . ' of blood " - in its cleansing power over the sufferer's soul . strongest compelling force in the world . ng cry of the pagan onlookers as the victims , dragged to Sufferer than they . essentially a call to arms . Thus , in a vision of St. Thomas a It is this final miracle of healing , of life renewed through It was the true word spoken in brutal jet . Heathen Rome was familiar with the Christian confidence in " the baptism whole world kin ! . such sacrifices ever result in nothing . Sooner or later , the effect of them must be seen and felt . tionate rallying : " Thomas ! My brother ! My Church back for ever . The Precious Blood must conquer . It is the waters of her Well . And the legend speaks truth , though but tially , democratic ; and the touch of Nature's God makes the trustfully to the Infinite Mercy , and the merits of a greater blood , spattered on the stones around , that gives virtue to the breaks the sudden overwhelming sense that he too must be as Salrum lobum ! " " " " Washed and saved ! " was the mock- too at once a prayer , and a thanksgiving , however choked In the legend of St. Winifride the Healer , it is her life- bathed in their own blood . We have said that the Devotion will have for us . this year , THE CROSS . Nor will permitted comfort stop there . In this terrible a special significance . There are some of us who , if death the Divine Abandoned . ' country and every social rank . The Precious Blood is , essen- with tears . by an allegory . death . that the Festival of the Precious Blood turns our Thus , on Bernardino of Siena , praying before the crucifix , was founded . And we , who see " the shadow of the Precious marytrdom are they could receive baptism , fell in the arena , The spirit that animated such saints is not extinct . Nor can 120 . are Mr. Thomas such sacrifices ever result in nothing . S 121 . --- Page 18 --- disregarded the rights of the Belgian people . These are the Pope's silence . if that silence were blamable . " is Cardinal neither : he is the Patron of all his children : and . God be chaplains who will serve in the Italian army during the war ; praised , his children love him and trust him . We thought Mercier . Yet in his very last pastoral letter to his Belgian hey had given his Apostolic Delegate . His heart beats for Belgian children . If His Eminence is satisfied with the could the Holy Father have done for us Belgiums that he has citizens bidding to unwise deeds , ... ... shakes his staunch Republic . Brazil and Chile have made in order to insure destitute Poles ; he has given ( 200 to furnish chalices for the and tokens of affection which His Holiness has shown for his Speaking ex cathedral , as Christ's Vicar , he is infallible ; as themselves peace and progress . The same week he called to resolve . " When God calls a man to any office or vocation , ing the report that our Holy Father , Benedict XV , has spiritual truth , " decreed that Anglican orders were invalid . wrongs and sufferings of his millions of spiritual children . It manner the large prudence of diplomacy and a firm hold on heart of Benedict XV is wrong at present with grief over the Australia thanking the Catholics there for the warm reception Republic , congratulating him on the alliance which that critics call him in one breath Australia and Italian . He is Cardinal Gasparri to the President of the Argentine Church Times in the above issue , condemning Benedict XV. a public man and a sovereign , his judgments will be prudent present great poverty ; he sent thousands of live to the crafty , wicked and perfidious minds , who are bent on spread- infamous calmies , my Brethren . " What more righteous " and steadfast , " writes Horace , " no eagerness of Peter's Pence sent him by the Belgian nation , knowing her morally favoured our enemies , and has , through weakness . Pope has been called by Him to fill the Chair of Peter . Does this admirer of him agree with that pronouncement ? for they are the outcome of prayer . which he is the honoured head . He refused to accept the that sorrow commanded at least silent respect . The paternal The one man in the world who should feel aggrieved by the Pope ? " Leo XIII , " says the leader-writer in the The Pope's sympathy is as universal as is the Church of of neutrality which he is following by the criticisms passed Benedict XV will not be moved one white from the attitude THE CROSS . English Reformation but one of disobedience to the voice of in this supreme moment of woe that his critics attack him ! all his people ; his mind thinks for their good . His English people , he defends His Holiness from the attacks " of certain not done ? " The Cardinal then enumerates the many marks on him by men less wise than himself . " The man that is Not at all . He gives him the graces and helps necessary to fulfil it . The he wrote the other day , through his Secretary of State , who knew how to combine after the traditional Roman 122 . for they are the outcome of prayer . 1961 62m. 123 . --- Page 19 --- Not a doubt of it , the motor had been struck . Then came with anxious hearts for the end of the ghastly scene . Soon we was in a disadvantageous position and made repeated efforts distinctly the report of their guns . ' The German saw that it saw distinctly that a black smoke was rising from the table . in flames . It fell with appalling rapidity , leaving behind it report from its machine-gun , and suddenly the German began guns : their hollow sound , proceeding doubtless from the fact gaining upon it , getting gradually closer and closer : another that they lack the support of terra firma , was easily recognised . often without result , and after a while the various aeroplanes able : and both according to the doctor must have been quite to go and visit the fallen table . But just at that moment enabled to make a reconnaissance of the scene of the defeat to descend slowly at first . then , more rapidly . Had it been lines , pursued by a French monoplane flying at a little higher Battlefield sketches . a sudden flash , and a moment later the whole machine was side , with his skull fractured . Both were quite unrecognis- air . A black table was making in hot haste for the German height : it had doubtless noticed the fall of the first and was suddenly caught above our heads the report of air machine - hostile aviators circle above in the blue , " in mutual pursuit present attempt a surprise attack upon our trenches I resolved to rise higher . but without success . The monoplane was a French biplane was manoeuvring . We could hear quite Of the aeroplane nothing remained but the skeleton . One another table sprang up into the air and rose to a pretty good applauded wildly , clapped their hands and cried : " Vive In hit ? No one could say for certain , and so we could but wait We all looked up and , behold , a battle was going on in mid- later within our lines . by reason of the smoke which still came from the smouldering danger was past , resumed my way . both had been decorated with the Iron Cross . And yet an in the calm air a trail of fire and smoke . The soldiers quite near the spot . I stayed under cover , and when the wreck of the machine . A few minutes later some bombs fell " The German storyline at a distance bases some resemblance to a pigeon fingers the steering gear of his machine : the other lay at his in an instant : and a brilliant career it promised to be , for Belgique ! " altitude than its enemy : and above both machines another the victor-I learned afterwards it was Garros kept on lying for a while around the scene of the struggle and returned rigorously attacked by our anti-aircraft guns : friendly and As it was hardly probable that the Germans would for the of the two dead aviators was still holding with his charred eturn whence they came . But towards three o'clock we young fellows . There they lay , their future career shattered from their hanging . The " Labour " # come forth and are ( salute ) : Hence the name by which they are popularly known . 1/2u . from their hangars . --- Page 20 --- feel a certain amount of security : everyone knows that there is nothing else to be done unless to wait for the end of the bombs down upon you is something to terrify and dismay : experiences of this frightful war . The aviator who Kings dropped seven bombs on a group of us , happily without what not , and you put as much distance as may be between went through the experience only a few days ago . A table to find what the enemy is trying to hit , a battery , a house , or you and his target and that is all . Even when you hear the nothing in the world can put the nerves to so severe a test . So after the aeroplane attack of which I have first spoken I tion-a distraction of some sort , a little chat , a just , a laugh . met a woman selling fruit and bought some oranges from her . hole or other , like a submarine under the waters , and you soon as the danger is over one feels the need of a little recrea- THE CROSS . hitting anyone . But it was an anxious moment or two , and attacks of hostile aircraft and this is one of the most frightful hiss of the shell in the air , there is still time to take cover You have no possible shelter against the attack : you don't I couldn't help feeling a desire to be safe back in my little in which you happen to be is bombarded : you look around When the trenches are bombarded , you take cover in some to speak , an everyday story in this gigantic struggle . O , War I who will make men understand that you are War spectators , but very often we are ourselves the target for the cell at home . event so terrible counts for very little at the front : it is , so rasket ! " " I was just thinking of that , sir , " she rejoined ; In the scene which I have just described we were merely But against bombs hurled from aeroplanes there is nothing right or the left . The danger is everywhere . is suspended over your head-and even falls at times ! somewhere . and ' Danish you from the face of the earth ! I think I may end on this : it seems to me an excellent to protect you . You feel that a veritable sword of Damocles Fortunately these hours of tension do not last land " and as how horribly the fruit would be smashed ! ' attack patiently . It is much the same thing when the village conclusion . - F. "C. now whether to advance or draw back , whether to take to the Then I said . " Take care a bomb doesn't fall into your 126 . know whether to advance or draw back , whether --- Page 21 --- the highest place among the author's novels of modern life . " ledging her prize : " I am very grateful to you , dear Francis , retire from the tray . " ' ' ' Mollie Joyce writes thus in acknow- the standard of the essays goes higher , as far as I can see ; is read by so many foolish young people to-day . to the detri- yourself ! " Look at that now ! It is absolutely impossible I have read many of Mgr. Benson's novels , and they have and an essay that at the beginning would have surely won a other works , seems to eclipse them all , and ought to take essavists don't stop improving I'm afraid I shall have to indeed , though perhaps not yet as well known as some of his ever'set in the Guild . If you don't believe this , just try it and would like to tell you of the joy I felt on receiving the Proinsias Mac Thighearnain : " I was led to enter for the except a mother's love . ' Win the friendship of one true instead of hearing her gust over the trashy brain-poison that writing of the progress of the Guild , says : " Every month the hardest subjects I can think of . An esteemed member , prize volume . It was just the book I had been wishing for . there is nothing in all the world that can compare with it I must drop simple and easy contests in the future and set the world may drown . rate you ! ' It was certainly the hardest of all the competitions say that if it gives you half as much trouble to correct the in the warm days . ' As regards this , however . I can only papers as it has given me to write mine . I heartily commise- all the gold of all the treasuries of the world would " not be I thought I was letting the members off very to say that she couldn't understand the competition at all ! month-nothing could be simpler it seemed for , to be earned hard , to be jealously guarded when won- to me-but I was quickly disillusioned when I opened my post-bag a few days ago . ' Listen to the caustic comments of easy when I set the senior competition last THE CROSS . in all your ways you will be happy no matter how darkly of a true and generous heart is a treasure beyond all price - pleasure for one whom they have never seen . And some bloomed in the gardens of God's goodness . The friendship always filled me with a desire to read more . ' Ioneliness . Is it not a hopeful sign to see these words from a young girl I have been scolded and lectured at a great rate this month . One truth those letters have brought home to me more the truth that friendship is one of the sweetest and rarest flowers that ever forcibly and clearly than ever before it is sufficient for its purchase . It is something to be hungered competition by your saying that it would not be too trying My Post Bag . prize would now , I imagine , be hardly mentioned . ' If the Friendship . day , who knows - to please some people . Another competitor a girl-wrote heart , my children , prize it as it deserves to be prized , an -48 . me-but , " month-nothing could be simpler it seemed 1961 62m. --- Page 22 --- for them . I bid a heavy welcome to Nan Carr , who comes nothing bad about it . Mau Morris is also delighted with her apart from their competition papers , asking prize , and says it has won unstinted praise from all the girls to the number . We have plenty of room still for hundreds he month for the following month's number , and then the stirring-up to make them increase their orders . ' Mary Kate friends there now , and I hope Nan will do her best to add has appealed to her so much that she means to win a com- all her Uncle Johnnie's corn . No wonder she has no grudk sharmed with the prize book won by her some time ago : it Kiernan , 123 Upper Rathmines . Dublin . except crows . The latter she doesn't like because they eat work was excellent . After long considera- vice to the ' Belfast members is to place their orders early in Cross , but its booksellers and newspapers need a bit of a tion I decided to award the prize offered to number anywhere , though she tried several shops . My ad- agents will be forced to get in a full supply . ' Kitty Rice is to us from the town of Fermoy . We have a few staunch reed . She asks me to excuse her bad writing . but I see special prize goes to Kathleen Gaffney , 1/ King Edward- Mary F. Kelly . St. Martha's School . Monaghan , and a best and most neatly-written list of birds and to be admitted to membership of the Guild . page of The Cross the handsome book ing of the competition . street . Slough , Bucks , England . I was well pleased with street , Slough , Bucks , England . How month to Florrie Burke , 1/2 Wellington- five new recruits into the Guild , goes this flowers known to the competitor , and all the and they may be sure of a welcome always in the Guild of Blessed Gabriel . prize offered has been awarded to Francis will please write a personal note to FRANCIS . panion volume to keep it company . And I hope she'll suc- the competitors seemed not to have grasped the correct mean- which is awarded to the member who brings whose clever paragraph will be appreciated by all . Some of have acquired the knack of selling out all its copies of THE of clean , sturdy boys and gentle , helpful , high-minded girls , Winner . The Victory . A Badge . The pretty badge , bearing the portrait of Blessed Gabriel . Under 12 . Important . All newcomers . Members . For the best paragraph made up of three words from each many mean to qualify for it next month ? here was a very large entry in the competition for the her class at school . " Maureen O"Brien loves all birds Reilly complains that she could not get a copy of the Tune IEEE UNUSS . --- Page 23 --- Prisoners Society " for 2014 , which is a very interesting record of a most risoners were interviewed , of whom 133 were assisted : and 24 others were God , was granted in the most marvellous manner , though the desquamation doing well , only a having been re-imprisoned . The Committee also visit the sued , aims at doing for the teaching profession in Great Britain and Ireland and were spreading it among their companions . It was then ( may both ) I lays' illness , showed signs of a rash , and the characteristic ' bush " of before us was not cheering , as evidently they had the disease in a light form had resumed their ordinary school duties began to desquamate , and the prospect We have just received the " Report of the Dublin Catholic Male Discharged Gemma Galgani , in " Heartfelt thanksgiving to the loving Heart of Jesus was joined by another pupil in whom the symptoms of the disease were hem to Hon. Secretary of the Institute at 4 Sir John Robertson's Quay , Dublin . many of these have been placed in good situations . On the whole , wonderful what is already done for the clergy by the various " Catholic Directories . " In Prison weekly for the purpose of interviewing the prisoners . ' Last year 175 assisted at the office of the Society . Of this large number 143 are reported scarlatina quickly developed . She was isolated , and a day or two afterwards and as influenza was very prevalent throughout the country we looked on it his , aim it succeeds admirably . ' It is a very complete hand-book and guide who have assisted it in this good work . The Committee would be glad of easily found elsewhere , which should make it indispensable to teachers and ven more assistance in the same direction . and we are sure our readers will is a form of that disease . ' About the beginning of ' May a little girl , after two een recognised to return to their classes after a fortnight . " After the Easter holidays there was a good deal of illness among our intercession the favour of the cessation of the epidemic , which , thanks be to sident pupils . It was not severe , but evidently of the nature of an epidemic . Fay , is to be congratulated on the skill with which he has acquitted himself made in 1914 . Juvenile adults are also a particular care of the Society , and of the United Kingdom : and its 500 pages are replete with information not work has been done by the Society with the very limited means at its disposal . unmistakable . At the same time , several children who were convalescent and continued its usual course : and we allowed those in whom the disease had THE CROSS . sends five shillings towards the expenses of the Causes of Blessed Gabriel and greatness of the favour obtained for us by dear Gemma . " Macquerite M. O"Brien ( Chateau de Montavit , Par Ey is . The Institute does excellent work , especially in the distribution of whole- charitable work . The members of the Committee of the Society visit Mountjoy all those who are interested in educational work . The editor , Mr. B. Essington comes of prisoners and assist their families , 68 visits of this kind having been will be received and acknowledged by the Hon . Treasurer , 46 Middle Abbey - publications . " The Catholic Educational Year Bank . 1915 " ( Art and Bank Co. London : ( 6 ) , which owing to the dislocation caused by the war has only just been some literature to Catholic sailors , and we are desired to thank our readers made a promise to dear Gemma and began a novena to obtain through her St. Paul of the Cross , Blessed Gabriel and Gemma Galgani , after novena pike the hint and instead of destroying old magazines , papers , etc , will send and His Immaculate Mother for favour received through the intercession of well-known convent boarding school in Ireland : - tercession of the servant of God . Gemma Galgani , from the Superioress Anyone who knows what an outbreak of scarlatina means in a boarding street , Dublin . We have received the following account of a favour received through the school , ' especially when the disease begins obscurely , will be able to realise the to the numerous Catholic colleges , schools and other educational institutions The " Annual Report of the Catholic Seamen's Institute " has also reached prayers . ' le earnestly command its efforts to the charity of our readers : subscriptions his task , and we heartily command the Year-Book to our readers . 132 . 1961 62 . 0.000 greatness of the favour obtained for us by dear Gemma .