Cross Bulletin July 1916

--- Page 1 --- Vol. VII . No. 3 . July , 1916 . Unsuitable MSS . will not be returned unless accompanied by stamped , Literary Communications to the Editor , at the same address Annual Subscription to THE CROSS , Three shillings , post tree Business Letters to be addressed to the Manager , Mr. Argus , Dublin addressed envelope . such a solemn deliberative assembly as the British House of Commons . greeted with " laughter and cheers . " It was the motto of the top dog , and pened to be largely a Catholic minority . ' So the wife , and witty sentiment was An English Cabinet Minister - we forget his name , but we think he was some years ago in the British House of Commons that " Minorities must suffer : ugh the highest and purest international motives - a decent measure of self- it is the badge of all their tribe . " The minority in question at that day hop- Times have changed . It is a question to-day of arranging amicably- he Last of the Chief Secretaries , " a " sympathetic " creature-declared s wit and humour of the top dog are generally keenly appreciated even I The Wizard's Knot . --- Page 2 --- experience of the almost too generous treatment of the Protestant minority surely , than to set up a new Pale with the " Athens of the North " as capital posals seem to have been made for the purpose , on the one hand , of conciliating thinkable that flour counties of 1Ulster should be coerced " or that potential equality of treatment might bring to the superior race . Let us , by all means , the very shadow of possible inconvenience . Besides the Protestant minority . thought of how the Catholics would face in the new Kingdom of Ulster . ending it by honest bullets . Logue , their Lordships have declared their conviction that " it would be ( only recently brought into fresh operation ) , on " the Statute Book . " Even the the ascendant that one shoulders to think of the disaster that anything like like baronets around and throughout the famous " Act for the Better Govern- other hand , of removing the obstacle of Ireland's position , which stands as a Derry , in making public their decision , puts his finger on the reason of this Roman Catholic Church in Ulster , as represented by its Bishops , has actually a large Catholic minority also within , but that is a mere detail ( " Suffering is spurned the snare laid for it . Following the views of His Eminence Cardinal than to accept these proposals " - of the aforesaid Wizard . " And the Bishop of barrier in the way of England's claim to speak in defence of the rights of small long since starved in most parts of Ireland . the badge of all their tribe " ) and the " mere Irish " without , struggling to bamboosing a naturally stupid race , still further stuffed by Catholicism and You can never account for the Roman Catholic Church . " You cannot . The as in France , for example ! The Protestant minority must be saved even from the rest of Ireland : it has been the centuries old badge of the Irish Papist Irish Freemasons are " safeguarded " by that precious Act from the oppression Experience is of some value in that respect too , and its lessons are not so old outh of the Boyne , and how they fallen on it-but imagination shoulders at the testant minority . ' One would think that the same motto held good , even if know that if we had been of the religion of the Boers we could have had our majority , and there are ways and means of bringing potency into act there and But the motto " Minorities must suffer " snalks of course only to THE CROSS . So the " Little Wizard of Wales " is appointed to the willing task of Well , we have no need to conciliate any outside opinion - and least of all ment of Ireland . " which has been so long , like the remnant of our Penal Laws to hurry . We have waited , more or less patiently , for seven centuries and a as to be forgotten . The whole question in Ireland is to a large extent one of religion . We all be generous and give Home Rule to the Distressful Country-but it is " an the opinion of neutral countries , and especially American opinion , and , on the Catholic minorities . In Ireland . " majorities being Catholic must suffer " - government for Ireland , a Catholic country with a comparatively small Per- half . And the settlement day for the small nations may come sooner than most people expect . We can wait . bombage . ' The Pale is his model so loved of Irishmen . ' And nothing simpler , and the true believers petted and pampered under a special Executive within- hurried scheme of large and generous statesmanship : " Lloyd George's p of their Catholic fellow-countrymen without whose patronage they would have exist under a maimed and truncated " Home Rule . " " One has some lit nations when the affairs of Europe must be settled at the end of the war . 00 ig were inevitable where it is not even possible . " Safeguards " bristle itors should be driven to extremes . Coercion is not at all unthinkable for nitely better to remain as we are , for fifty years to come . under English rule . long ago . But , as that Cabinet Minister above quoted said recently : be generous and give Home Rule to the Distressful Country-b anted from Britain to beaven the Irish Papist mass , has been so long in --- Page 3 --- proved to be , and you will discover the blessedness of those mind the poets till they practice what they preach , but we , henoe , if you be wise . the obvious thing is to save your head . all I'll we could only substitute our present ill for it , all the arrangement of all our plans , perhaps , a divergence from our does not go hand in hand with judgment . I once heard an old former line of policy . Then , something rather serious is their disciples . The would-be critics tell you never to that you fancied your head was a great deal ' harder than it and we wonder what we have done to deserve it , we half fancy ing by reason of the suddenness with which they bear down on mining as the minor one referred to ever cost us a thought at be in the least affected by your head " knowing against it- so hard . and you'll be lucky if somebody only tells you that man this sum up a neighbour who was noted for going full to say that you thought the wall was only imitation stone , or happens-something distinctly unpleasant , or disagreeable , US . As one of our philosophers has put it , when the child cally ! . There is no virtue less admired than courage " when it We are simply an enlarged edition of the small boy who denounces the unconcern of others while he is in the clutches The poets are wonderful people for distributing wisdom to of the demon of toothache , but turns an hour later to make who expect not . Go on to say that walls shouldn't be made It's a pity heads were made so soft . Most likely someone will last the conviction dawns upon us that trials are only stupely- man kicked wildly out of his path , swearing the while . He world would smile again . . It does smile ultimately , and at and think of how our first wonder is that such a trifting lap- If there be one , resolve to find it , that we are really most aggrieved beings . It means a re- those it is we have . wises to wonder at the elephant , he ceases to fear him . Some incident upsets us , some slight trouble comes our way . of a trifling pain in his tooth ! Expect consolation when you come back with a dinged crown a bull-but the bull would hate him . ' tilt without thought : " He was that class o' a man , he'd fight If you must nail against the ills that are - do it diplomati- vicious temper . The way was strewn with stones which the who prefer the placid spirit to the file-like tongue of the carper , If not , submit , and never mind it . ' as battered ramps . simple reason that it is so obvious . ' The stone wall will not in ridicule of somebody else who happens to be making a fuss ; have sung thus : be candid enough to remind you that heads were never made For every ill beneath the sun . There is some remedy or none : There is one of the most practical of philosophies , for the . Down the laneway swung a man-a man in a must " lie low and say nuffink . " A hypocrite could hardly just " lie low and say nuffink . ' a bull-but the bull would hate him . ' --- Page 4 --- many of them , but if we lose our tempers and tilt blindly against every object that obstructs our path the chances are always realise it , such a course is dictated by the sanest canons , of common-sense-our share of trouble is invariably lightened yourself to worry and show your annoyance , the result will be of it and somehow it gradually seems to desert you-allow it may not always appear wholly deserved . The ever-present re - that they may be less . With a lucky leap you may get clear don't forget that the frying-pan is oftener cold than it is hot . phically , and though like our fame as humourists some of teacher who couldn't punish the mite who came to meet the An old man once talked thus to me : " There's two kinds of that it fastens on to you as do the honey gatherers to anyone asked her if the stones did not hurt her feet . ' No , mister , risk them-only because they are always hoping against reason In one sense trouble is alike to a hive of bees . Take no notice she made answer , " you see I step between them . " THE CROSS . to the extent by which we counteract it with a ready recogni- cause the alternative 'ills are ' graver that many people like to ful aid to placid acceptance of the decrees of Fate . Could we but been ten times worse . ' And we all know the story of the where you realise that our motto exhorting the calm and cheerful acceptance of troubles is the best one , and the easiest cane with an outstretched hand and a smile on his face - a about a thousand to one that you'll drop in the fire . And tion of the fact that had as our case is it might easily have We Irish have the reputation of taking our troubles philoso- do not think you display any lack of courage . It is not be- I wish it how you will , you'll just arrive back at the point rials . If we but exercise caution we can step between a great very native smile , too . that's a date harder on himself than God is . ' people makes for themselves . And there's many the man injured his boots , his toes smarted , and these things did not improve his temper . Near the end of the lane he met a little barefooted girl . He stopped , and swore again . Then he That to a large extent sums up our ways of dealing with our Then fly to others that we know not of , trials in this world : the ones that God sends and the ones that once you know how . If you would rather Bear those ills we have Thomas Kelly . ery much that we shall be the most injured in the process . from the frying-pan on to the cooler earth - but the chances ignition of the Divine ruling at the back of things is a wonder- displaying flurry or hasty symptoms of retreat . playing flurry or heavy symptoms of retreat . Then he --- Page 5 --- generally ineffectually pleaded with him to show mercy to the the illusion to his mother - the only being who had loved him physical pain , her big eyes glowed in her hollow checks like " They told me you ate and drank and feasted while we order them to throw her out . She looked at him , and some- borne with his ungovernable temper , had constantly though Court . She shook her head slowly , and then in a voice of weak and suffering moved him in an unacceptable way . devotedly and unselfishly . the one being who had patiently the table . The man regarded her from under frowning knows . you and yours as a sacred charge . I would not believe it of coals of fire , her thin lips were cracked and blistered over wicked and heartless as they said - a cup of cold water in His creature . Her lined face had a pitiful expression of acute who the devil are you ? " your mother's son . Sure , she was ever the kind lady , kind straight into his angry countenance ; stared without fear , I would not have believed it , " she crooned to herself . the orange-tinted wine . starved we your poor people - we whom the Lord gave to unfeigned surprise said , in musing tones : " Faix it is true inflection in her cracked voice : " I knew you were not as why he did so , and why he did not summon his funkeys and With a slight shrug and raised bows , he poured out some and handed it to her . emaciation of starvation . She looked ninety , but as a matter ' In the devil's name , what's true ? ' he asked , rising and wolfish teeth . going towards the bell-rope . She swaved towards him . He supported her , wondering She raised a obtaining hand . and there was something in her rather with a certain surprised wonder . Shut that window , " he shouted ; and as the order was not apartment . At the same moment a rush of biting air swept through the Almost unconsciously he handed her his glass half full of of fact she was scarce fifty years of age . scarce audible voice . sbeyed he perceived that the funkeys were no longer in the She was horribly emaciated , with the appalling , gruesome She was in dirty , ragged garments , a gaunt , happened the cross . The woman drew a deep breath , grasped " water " in a thin , Her voice broke in her throat , she staggered and caught at " Where are those accused knaves ? " he stormed . " And " What are you doing here ? " thundered the Master of Old " No , water , " she insisted . The woman came forward , came close to him , and stared room . name . She drank it very slowly . then she said with a curious esture and in her deep-set eyes that gave him pause . and sweet to the poor . " of fact she was scarce fifty years of age . true . true " " What are you doing here ? " thundered t --- Page 6 --- gripped and held it . Hell opened before its affiliated vision . Angel of Light came forward . ' He placed a glass of cold he scales swayed for an instant , the balance was even , then the water and a heap of potatoes on the right side of the scales ; ound in a dazed way , looked at the familiar room , the Satan was on the point of dragging it down-down-when the land . ' He was bathed in perspiration from head to foot , his smouldering logs . " It was a dream , " he murmured , passing Then the scales were brought , and upon the left side were hair was damp with it , his face was wet with tears . He looked finding employment for the able-bodied , relieving the helpless . With a cry Mortimer awake . A spark of wood scorched his berless acts of pitiless cruelty . of sensual indulgence , of selfish its earthly tenement , flew forth-forth into the outer blackness , Northern Vandeleur gave generously , he helped wisely , perplexity into the wood tire , then he rose , hit his bedroom Realising its own weakness , its abominable deeds , despair candle , and slowly , mechanically as though still dreaming , he heaped all his sins , his wicked deeds , his extortions , his num- The brilliant light blinded it , it shrunk and shivered ; an noward-upward through myriads of stars until it gained the greed . On the right there was bought-nought . right side rose-rose - " I was hungry and you gave me to eat , I was thirsty and you gave me to drink " fire . " sang the angelic choir in a triumphant chant . His angel guardian bent a pitying glance upon him . whelming it . his hand across his damp forehead . He signed . He stared in with a short gasp . a low cry he fell forward - his soul , leaving The Seraphic voice rang forth , thrilling the black soul of He is mine , " said a terrible voice , a voice that caused the The famine lasted for some months , on into the spring of intolerable sense of its own littleness , its own blackness , over- gentle rain fell , cleansing and purifying . His soul was no poor , trembling soul to quiver with horror . hope stirred in Mortimer's soul . Then another voice spoke , a sad , low , ineffably sweet voice . fortunate soul quake with unspeakable terror . went upstairs . and naked we were , you would give us food and drink and Satan laughed , and his demoniacal laughter made the un- turning his own stately house into a hospital for the sick and longer black . Sure I told them if you only knew how hungry and thirsty Is it indeed so . Satan ? " it asked , and a quick furthering of Court , there was no lack of food or rainent . presence . 849 ; but from that morning , for several miles round Old Northern Vandeleur , and as it heard it seemed as though a infirm . THE CROSS . Suddenly something burned . " He is saved yet so as by 1849 ; but from that morning . " for several m Satan laughed , and his demoniacal laughter --- Page 7 --- olars were suppressed , not as guilty of the crimes alleged , but Roger , born in the Castle of Maumont , near Limoges , had most precious jewel in the Papal tiara , a carbuncle was lost . or residence the city of Avignon , capital of the Combat de no guest of the French King . He would not go to Italy , he the Oriental languages : the Hebrew , Arabic , and Chaldean held and in the Universities of Paris , Oxford , Salamanca , and Chancellor of France , Archbishop of Seas , Cardinal , he relatives . Most of the twenty-five Cardinal's whom he created assembled at Vienne , near Avignon . October. 13/2 . There tongues were to be taught wherever the Roman Court was weight of troubles he had to face in both the political and talers of St. John . Amongst many salutary decrees of this religious world was so heavy that to escape responsibility he cessive devotion to the interests of France , and those of his The next day " another brother of the Pope was slain in a the Church , and their property given to the Knights Hospi- were French ; and the King of France was given permission the good name of Boniface VIII . was vindicated , the Tem- was very death to leave his native land , and ultimately chose of disaster . For some time Clement resided in various places deputation which included Petrarch amongst its members , senatorial dignity offered him as " Knight Roger , ' by a entered at the age of ten . the Benedictine Monastery of La invitation to return to Rome . He even assured greater per- mals ; all which Italian historians hold to have been prophetic finally became Pope Clement VI . May 17 , 1342 . His policy quarrel , between his servants and the retainers of the Cardi- Popes . Clement himself was thrown from his horse and the The Popes at Avignon . and with a busy and troubled one . Nothing seemed to stay Chaise-Dieu , afterwards Abbot of Fecamp , Bishop of Arras to receive Communion under both kinds . He accepted the Venaissin , a diet of the Norman Kingdom of Naples . The in France , but he saw that the head of the Church could be elected John XXIII . He had a long reign of eighteen years , fifty instead of every hundred years , but firmly declined the their suppression as a matter of expediency for the peace of convoked the Fifteenth General Council of the Church . It sity rose to the height of its power and splendidour . Peter Council was one that introduced into the wars the study of and granted their request for the celebration of a jubilee every as head of the Church was unfortunately married by his ex- He was followed by the gentle Cistercian monk , Benedict Clement died in 1314 . and Bologna . Exhausted by his labours at the Council , But it was under the third Aviation Pope that the ancient sixty thousand documents were issued from Avignon . the tireless energy of his mind . During his Portificate killing the Pope's brother and the aged Cardinal Orsini , who had assisted at twelve conclaves and lived under thirteen James D'Euse , a native of Cahors , Cardinal of Osa , was The Holy See was then vacant for two years . At last xii . ' --- Page 8 --- in a fleet of richly-adorned gallery sent by the King of The Popes at Avignon . Rome bringing him the keys of St. Angelo . On October 21 in April , 1967 , and sailing from Marseilles on May 30 , after a long coasting journey reached Corneto , where he was re- He headed not . He embarked at Corneto , September 5 , 1370 . ambassador , to treat for peace . Catherine , daughter of Giacomo Order that he wore its habit during his Portificate . ' In spite Peter's , the Emperor of the East . John V. Paleologus , and years that Pope and Emperor had appeared side by side in absolved him from schism . But these fair promises brought Monastery of St. Victor at Marseilles . He so loved his Urban , ever pressed by the Cardinals , was meditating return 10 war . The Republic of Florence had sent to him , as its he entered Rome in triumph , accompanied by the Emperor . Sweden : if he returned to Avignon he would shortly die . warning from Bridget . " Princess of the Royal house of friendship . A year after he received , on the steps of St. little fruit . ' Sedition' again arose : Perugia revolted : and reached Avignon September 24 , and died on December 19 . his delegate to Italy Cardinal Alboros , renowned for colour li Benincasa , the dye of Sienna . From childhood the reri- joined the Sisters of Penance of St. Dominic , and now , in of the Cardinals threatening to desert him , he left Avignon France , but the Pope , " sad , suffering , and deeply moved . " to Rome . But return meant conquest . For this he sent as restoration of the Papacy to Rome . For six years he saw ambition , just touched , not achieved . The process of his 1376 , she wrote : " You ask my advice touching your return pient of extraordinary Divine favours , at sixteen she had canonisation was hindered by political troubles , and he has ceived by the redoubtable Alboros , and by a deputation from was the last Avignon Pope . Gregory XI , saw , as Urban Popes who had borne the name had been saints . A holy her twenty-ninth war , was a power for good in suffering Italy . Urban V. had been a Benedictine monk . then Abbot of the She strongly urged the Pope to return . Afterwards , in had seen . that there was no hope for Italy except in the Cardinal Peter Roger , of Beaufort , nephew of Clement VI . He had taken the name of Urban . he said , because all the remained " The Blessed Urban V. ' Limousin . He was the first to prepare in earnest for return to Rome . In the name of Jesus Crucified , I say that you Cardinal had the road ready . To Clement VI , succeeded Innocent VI . a native of to Avignon . At Montefascone he received the memorable It was , however , the last Pope who accomplished the project . and for diplomatic skill . In fifteen years the doughty Charles VI . It was the first time for more than a hundred in war he had been standard-bearer to the King of Castile # This is the St. Bridget whose beautiful prayers to Our Lord in His Passion are still found in our old manuals . of the displeasure of the French King , and the remonstrances In fifteen years the doughty --- Page 9 --- stitions . But natural feeling would not be frustrated ; and , in dving heroes of the Iliad and the Euclid , fearless of every- has no grave is covered with the sky , and the way to heaven death-bed , " the hope of consecrated ground " ; and this hope , out of all places is equal " ; but , to our loving and revered tingwished for their adherence to the Jewish mode of burial . We know how the fate of the unburied dead presented itself Further , it was the wish of all pious pagans to obtain burial pagan piety . It must have been comparatively simple to extravagance of funeral honours and their attendant super- one way or another . men managed to evade the law . If all else angel-guardian to compensate him for his own tale , and to thing else , prayed with their last breath against that . in one form or another . has probably been felt by everyone A poem , includes among the consultations of a Christian in a sacred precinct , or the temple of a guardian god . The later custom of cremation made things easier for such for hollowed ground is itself as old as human nature . prepare him to face it ! Those who are not called to go his More could reflect , without apparent emotion , that " he who to ancient thought as terrible beyond naming , and how the and the circumstances of early Christian history , this yearning road sympathise more fully with the yearning at which he retain a small um with a few ashes among holy associations was the old dread of ceremonial defilement and the law which tated more care and forethought in providing them . ' There to the older practice called down some ridicule . The Chris- to be interred with stealthy honours elsewhere ! failed , a limb would be cut from the dead body before burial 'ables " were directed mercilessly against this ; against the fancy , that serene vision was given to him by God and his This , if holy associations were to be provided at all , recessi- tians were gibingly told that they dared not put their faith in MODERN Catholic poet , " in a beautiful and well-known It was otherwise with the Christians , who were early dis- Encouraged and emphasised by early Christian sentiment or even by a household altar . forbade burial within the city bounds . among the Romans themselves , the reversion of the new sect Although earth-burial had , of course , preceded cremation . It is true that such calm philosophers as Blessed Thomas Holy Earth . could smile . of the most intimate kind - in a mortuary chapel for instance The laws of Solon and the prohibitions of the " Twelve who thinks about his death-bed at all . # Father Frederic Faber . It is true that such calm philosophers as Blessed 81 . 80 . --- Page 10 --- recame the happiest pilgrimage for holidays . Even those ceremonies so naturally and inevitably dear as those which her freedom . The Church of the Catacombs , by the very circumstances of her persecuted existence , had to discard the daylight funerals which vexed the soul of Tulian the Apostate gods . As it was , the Church was rescued , almost without ceremonies would be very dear to him by association ; and no for she brought her Blessed Dead with her : casting in her lot impress it laid on Christian morals , tending to keep alive the know how she became more closely united in love and loyalty the body of departed wife or husband should be dissolved into with them , unashamed , and proclaiming in the most practical from the Catacombs , it was like another " harrying of hell " : of their memory by the special prayers and sacrifices in the in sacrifice , that appeared to them a brutal and brutalising act ; her members back into the old errors . Her isolation became been completely emancipated from the cult of the household and they chose , rather , to follow the mode of burial to which within the bounds : whilst to visit the tombs of the martyrs mortuary chapel , around the household arms . for " awhile with her " fearful Hope " of martyrdom , we all ashes alike ! But , for the burning of human flesh , as though If Christians had adhered to the custom of cremation it is But even if its sole work had been the creation of " the dread of ceremonial defilement was not only forgotten , - it was Churches began to spring up over the tombs of the martyrs the aims of the new Community . Much might be said of the influence of this choice : of the its native earth . The Apologists calmly replied that the Resurrection was . bound to have a great deal in common with his old faith . Its the martyrs , on which was spread the Feast of Life , the old faithful departed . tions as the unseenliness of contracting another marriage until restoring a body burned to ashes ! Christian Churchyard " much would have been done to further their Lord Himself had submitted . reduced to the absurd . ' And when the clouds broke , and the Church had to part martyrs was felt to convey some vicarious triumph to all the outside the city : relics were eagerly transferred to churches ground . ' effort of her own . from just the associations most likely to lead like cross . the Resurrection to the test , that they feared the difficulty of difficult , humanity speaking , to see how they could ever her with those who had realised that Hope . When she emerged The convert from any kind of conscientious paganism was had centred round the burial of his dead , and the preservation were part and parcel of this sentiment . ' The triumph of the pagan fear of the dead . Around the subterranean tombs ( manner . her belief that wherever they lay was hollowed right of the dead , and giving birth to such Christian trade- their Lord Himself had submitted . way , concerned : God was able to raise both dust and the Resurrection to the test , that they fear --- Page 11 --- centre of devotion in the parish church : another seed-plot for near church walls where the sacred crumbs might fall from yard earth ; but in the heart of the Protestant peasant the holy thoughts and aspirations , prayers , and almsgiving . churchyard never regained its old place . With increasing As an antidote to all this , the churchyard was naturally feated its own object , for a rich man's grave meant , by the or a vault , and connect the sinister events of their romances their principal scenes of horror , as by choice , in a churchyard , Reformation contributed , indirectly , to its degradation . For hold graves : but as an integral part of the scheme of Religion With regard to the churchyard , we may notice that the more and more regarded as the resting-place of the less- Harrison Ainsworth and the Irish Sheridan Le Fanu , who lay a source of real evil . For the Reformation divorced it from might hard-back to Catholic tradition , and choose their grave's its one true meaning : and the results of the separation have character . ' is sufficiently shown by such writers as the English sincerely express , in prose or verse , their reverence for church- for anyone important or powerful enough to claim it become though its meaning was gone ; and as the churchyard was secularised as much as possible , and resorted to for sport or he often honours particular corners which contain his house - life . It meant another Altar for the Holy Sacrifice , another How strong was the impression of the churchyard's un- been sufficiently obvious and painful ever since . with the old pagan fear of death ; and the graveyard was in his grave , every churchyard was sure of a succession of avoided as a place of ill-omen . ' was clear to everyone , and besides , the naive selfishness de- favoured dead , it came to be associated in the popular mind tion to the effect that the man most recently buried never rested Tales of its vampires , its corpse-candles , and unquiet spirits regrets that they are not in a churchyard , where the surrounding's would suit business . Piots Anglican Prelates , such as Bishop Ken , canniness , and how shadowy and unreal the sense of its sacred tection by well-meaning Committees are an evidence of this . were easy to understand and forgive . The meaning of them it has ceased to exist for him . The very laws made for its pro- THE CROSS . to refute them . Shakespeare himself seems to have had a touch of them . His education , he has , of course , learnt to ignore its terrors , and ghosts ! # It will be remembered that such nacan fears are never very far from the simple mind : and that only the counterforce of holy associations can be made Only after the Reformation did the practice of church-burial very circumstances of the case , a poor man's fuller spiritual God's table " ; and moralists , such as Addison and Gray , might King John , trying to break to Hubert his murderous design against Arthur the words ! the desire to be buried inside church walls persisted , blindly ever apace ; and as there was a peculiarly unpleasant superstar --- Page 12 --- the marriage and during the deiefner . He had two mystic- occasionally giving them a kind of hug-all of which was was gilt on the cover . To Victor he handed what looked like totally opposed to the usual staid propriety of his movements . water were the contents of the parcel . A tiny note was in best champagne I shall reveal it . ' face , and he passed the card silently round the table . ' On a scroll wrapped in soft leather , on which was engraven and no more graced the wedding banquet . A grand feast Victor's countenance . Lucille stole her hand gently into his . he card was written : " From a broken-hearted father in a ring , a brooch , and a bracelet of diamonds of the first was spread for the villagers beneath the trees , and the village " Mr son , you must satisfy the unfortunate father by ac- a beautiful Morocco leather case to Lucille , whose monogram rious parcels , and wherever he looked at them he laughed , At last Mr. Delormes said : noble letter to M. Legrange reached him he cried out , ' Would Castle . All now belongs to you and your heirs forever . ' Mr. Blenmin acted in an extraordinary manner both before supremely happy . to speak . Mr. Victor Beauchamp , from one who asks to be called a talisman there which you are afraid we should steal . " the case containing the same words as those on Victor's children had cakes , fruit and games sufficient to make them Curiosity was aroused . and the healths were quickly pro- Who is the donor ? " he asked , instinctively divining what reparation of the sin of his only son . ' e have drunk the health of the bride and bridegroom in your A violent mental struggle wrote its message legibly on Open yours first . Lucille . " said M. Blenmin . As she lid so their eyes were almost dazzled by the flash of diamonds osed and responded to . Then M. Blenmin rose and handed the answer would be . " Mr secret to myself , " laughed M. Blenmin . " When sanded it to Victor , who flushed . A pinned look crossed his he looked at it in a dazed manner . Silence fell on the little group . M. Delormes was the first cepting his gift , " said the cure gently . What is the matter , man ? You look as if you had a f your forefathers , on which stands the ruins of Beauchamp friend . ' Victor unfolded a long roll of parchment heavily sealed : " Yes ; that is just it , " added the notary . " When your it on the table . " Now , Victor , yours . ' It is neither more nor less than the title-deed of the estate 1940s and known as a strong " No : not this . I cannot understand it . " And he threw scroll . " Can't you read , my lad ? " asked M. Blenmin . M. Blenmin took a small card from his notebook and ly secret to myself , " laughed Mr. Blenmin . take . ' " What does it mean ? " he asked . " When --- Page 13 --- denly said : " Yet , stav . I can test the truth of it . An old children , whom he worships . He has retired from business , Lucille for the orphans of the poor fishermen lost at sea . He father's wonderful escape from the eruption of St. Pierre sacred books which he and his fellow-Jews treasure so highly . This concession he makes on account of her three lovely seemed to be in such an amiable mood that she ventured to the rascal seems really to believe in Christianity ! Yet , he endowing largely the orphanage founded by Victor and ( which is told them minus the fact that he was a prisoner ) . lieve a word of it . " He was silent for a time . Then he such exactly with those mentioned in the gospel , M. Legrange had brains ! " A discussion followed in which he was sur- unbeliever . though he no longer scoffs openly at religion . prised to find that the fair discount also had brains . ' He " Well , it will be a novelty . " When it was ended he said : lives with his daughter and her husband in the neat chalet friend of mine , Rabbi Ben Levi , gave me some of their ask him to allow her to read one of the gossipels for him . If I find that his books contain the prophecies which that " How beautiful it would be were it true ! ' But I don't be- Finding that the prophecies in the Rabbi's book tallied may " was the only reply . Some days later he said : " Why , The children never weary of listening to the story of their hear the off-repeated tale , and when he winds up with , " See Tiny three-year-old Lucy sits on her grandfather's knee to Victor's arms . grily pointed to the door . Lucille has , however , one sorrow : her father is still an what a lucky chance saved him . " she asks : restribution . What book are you reading ? ' signage law . sleeping quietly . He wrote and called her . loving assiduity . believed . made his peace with God , and expired calmly in sked timidly would she continue the reading . ' A curt . ' You gosnel avers that Christ fulfilled , then ' I will believe in Read me a few pages . ' they have built at a little distance from the old chateau . ( The End . ) . God , he will leave out the " perhaps . ' " Perhaps so , little one . " The young couple did not lose heart , and tended him with She did so , and he seemed to like it . The next day she Lucille hears , smiles , and says softly : " One day , please want was God ! ' " Ga-and-da . wasn't it . Dod saved him ? " he answers : " Human ! Rubbish , of course ; but his style , is good . A week later Lucille was reading in the room where M. " In God's name , christ . " The Genie du Christiansme : by Chateaubriand . " " Bah ! Idister !-imbecility ! " And the old man an- re , I will answer you , monsieur - for the --- Page 14 --- emerges strong to-day . full of hope and of love , with new foreigner here . It has refused to yield even to defeat and the hopes which he expresses at the close of his long chapter arragance . " " The Gaelic revival has given to some of us sciousness by the Gaelic Renaissance . ' But just as high are self-consciousness of the age , in spite of world influences felt new bottles . " The language that had been brought to per- had the fixing of the printing press and had set the printer's little way on the English side of the crossways , remembering on Irish literature , for the future of a literature in the native ancient language still calling from age to age . ... . Of a youth , flexibility and strength and power . " In spite of the pride in that . My race has survived the miles of the people . ' The new spirit needed a new speech , the new wine anguage was stirred to expression on the lips of the native people . little affected by book-lore , a people standing but a the voice of a people new to such a way of speech , the literature ( those that are truly Anglo-Irish ) are beginning it " all " over again in the alien tongue that they know now as a mother something of the syntax or the metaphor of Gaelic , much of there is no ebb . This will have a voice a literature to-morrow . on its lips and the word of the new language , which is the word above the spoken : that language , in order to serve the forge of the living speech . " And therein it found a new Parliament , and its subsequent development . . Falling the or delay the progress of Gaelic literature , which must be the language . For it already has in Arnold's phrase " the note of the new literature - a note of pride , self-reliance , almost of here , in spite of all our criticism , the Irish poets and writers strength in its arms to work its new destiny , with a new song lish literary succession , but in the rich living language of a fection for English use , and then worn by that use , that had the new birth of nationalism in the brief life of the independent dearer apprehension of the peculiar qualities which entitle it to that distinction . literature , but at the same time to leave with the reader a work of other writers . ... . Whether our people go forward a new arrogance . I am a Gael and I know no cause but of of the next generation will certainly continue the production literature in English , a foreign tongue . This will not injure characteristically Irish as to fall into the class of Anglo-Irish in Anglo-Irish literature or not , some of our poets and writers tongue . They delight not in the ink-born terms of the Eng- as high hopes from the new stirring of the national con- of a fresh people . ... ... We have begun to produce a tide of thought , drawn by the inspiration of an ancient cause the rhythm , inventive mostly for itself its metaphor from the things of life , things known at first hand . ' different purpose of the new people , had to go back to the Of this new literature still in its infancy Mr. MacDonagh native Gaelic , for a time fallen into decadence . " the Talien The growth of the new literary medium may be traced to of a new literature in Irish . We are the children of a scientific language still calling from age to age . --- Page 15 --- commercial at Kilmainham-deserves such a title . " Yes , a Proinsias , have fought and bled and died for Ireland . " Let us hope , " she says , " were saints . One , at least the boy-captain who was shot by sentence of jdmitted at home and abroad that their lives were pure and unsultled . and of affliction . " I only wish I could print some of their letters in full . " Here effect on future generations of our countrymen . The good we do is not their motives noble and unselfish , and now that these facts have been brought of them , as their letters show , very deeply , in our country's recent dark hour may differ from these men " in the opinions which they held , it is freely that is thank God . one thing of which we may justly feel proud . Whoever Sir Boysg Girls ) is a short extract from Lillian M. Nally's : " Poor Ireland has passed through Rules of the Guild . very sad days and I find it very hard to write when I think of those that in all the world , whose only crime was to love their country well : rebellions , ' it was gloriously sad-like the smile of a dying man . ' True to themselves , O Ireland , and to thee . ' will be held . always " interred with our bones . " ' Chrissie Burke also writes on " the For this they died . for this they noble fell ; conducted by Francis . have gone the fairest blossoms of our nation , the nobles and bravest hearts " To wish it Union and to wish it free : all-absorbing topic - the fate of our poor country and her brave sons who A literary The Cross . ' Our Lady of Sorrows , by practising the virtues of purity , charity and truth ; Blessed Gabriel Prainsias Mac Tighearnain admits that he forgot to write last month , but and by living lives worths of him who is to be their model and guide . the Guild of Blessed Gabriel . Nobly has the call for letters been responded to , and never were into prominence . The influence of those lives cannot fail to have an ennobling s more welcome . I find that my children , too , have sorrowed , some rightly supposes that " the sad series of events . " would be " sufficient confession last month that my correspondence was a diminished policyy . " He says in another part of his letter : " Like all Irish i . The Guild of Blessed Gabriel is a literary circle open to boys and girls quantity seems to have touched the hearts of old friends and new . IV . They will endeavour to bring as many new members as they can into III . They will at all times observe the conditions under which the competi under 18 years of age . spiritual so clean . All who took part in it were true men ' - may , they Circle for Doing Readers of the Guild of IL . The members will be expected to spread devotion to Blessed Gabriel of Circle for Young . rightly supposes that " the sad series of events . " M. --- Page 16 --- And now , for a humiliating confession . Whether the postman , or the printer , Dumme writes to introduce her sister Jacqueline , and the latter writes analyzing Hardy , who has been longing to join , and a number of cailini from D devotion to our dear' patron , Blessed Gabriel , is steadily Wehill O'Conchobhair , Winnie Brophy , ' and Violet Cunningham . ' in fact in Irish-all in good time , of course . Kathleen Mclmerney and Violet THE CROSS . we could . ' Molarn' the , a chatlin : that's the spirit of a Eily is like a smile of God ; she brings happiness and sunshine into our Guild . reavily tried , but " whom God loveth He chasteneth , " and tell Elly Barrett how happy her message has made me and what a joy it is he day we have all longed and prayed for will have come the day when there progressing at her school , ' and she hopes to bring us members . But it does not look as if we had lost them , does it now , Margaret ? their death . We seem to be on the threshold of a new and brighter era in fear to come . Billy Barrett parents that Lilian M. Nally did not hearled to name will be realised . Chrissie . I must ask all members of Blessed Ashriallo hanks to all my dear children for their very kindly letters . Mary Rennie's Lizzie Malone , who hails from Houth . has been overlooked in our last two Erin's sad history . Out of the graves of her dead , hope , long foreign to our or admission . Welcome , Iosephine : we hope to hear from you often . We And set her , a thing of ' mocking , the sight of all men before . ' Mar Allen . Mary E. Doyle . Bridie Redmond , and Eileen Macinerney , made the resolution not to send in her name in English again , and we are had she is a dear little soul who will not be hard on us . and that I shall numbers . What can I say in extenuation ? But I think from I itria's God bless run a chara . God bless you , could ask all my children to join me in praying for their intentions . Margaret the chains of captivity which long have bound her . " Yet it is said to think of have the pleasure of hearing from her regularly from this on . ' Marie Antoinette But I hope you will aim at writing more than your name - a whole long letter May never a cloud hang o'er you . And keep you from grief and pain : Let me say to her in the words of a dear and much-loved poet : May the road that is out before you And the sun and the kindly rain . re the Faith that most trace retaining of the Heaven whence first it came . requested to forget that the " Annie Rennolds " we knew ever existed " as if Such a number of new members as have come in this month . It is really of whom sent on their applications in time to be received last month . but Be pleasant and smooth and white ; herbie struggle has not been in vain that Ireland will seem to treat them . in grateful for your promise to remember me in turn . Prayers are also Mar the breezes of heaven caress you acknowledged her introduction , namely , Kathleen and Eileen McInerner , delightful to welcome the crowd . Aime Nic Raghnaill introduced five , some And the stone from her tomb of darkness be rolled back for ever more . Is the prayer that I pray to-night . ' Hear country , springs up to play our sorrow . Should that hope be realised , was another which pleased me . ' She tells me that the Who had tasted the ' bitter ashes ' and drank of the cup of gall . ir hath . He robed in sorrow and crowned with a martyr cro Ryan writes an appreciative note and regrets the loss of three very clever have also to welcome a new friend from Belfast in the person of Kathleen or myself , or all of us were in fault . I fear that a very welcome new member , am relying on their friendship to cheer us with kindly messages for many g. ' I shall not fail to pray for your intention . ' Mary , and sked by Billy Barrett ( who is under examination in Junior Grade as I write ) , And the Hope that Despair outliveth , and the Love that forgive all . nd hers who had been the burden , and walked in the furnace fame will be a peaceful , happy and united Ireland . " Mau God grant that it MY POST BAG. devotion in our dear nation . Blessed Gabriel , is steadily what so sweet a little girl sometimes thinks of me in the said to draw very hard for that intention . Our country has indeed , hose that have gone beyond recall , though we cannot regret the manner of rat from her high cross of anguish she can be lifted down . ine . Wrong , for once . Billy ! Hearken , you , to Lilian : " members before long . ' I shall not fail to pray for your intention . ' Mary , and But I hope you will aim at writing more than your name - a whole long letter . know that so sweet a little girl sometimes thinks of me in the sunny South mingham have written this month and we are very pleased to enrol them . will be a peaceful happy and united Ireland . " May God grant that the reused to establish a variety in English again , and was Hear country , springs up to allay our sorrow . Should that hope be realised , would ask all my children to join me in praying for their intentions . Margaret --- Page 17 --- giving him a few minutes' homage . ' But what one of them would treat a but throughout the long day . ' There are many who'll easily pass the try was ? " My child , give me thy heart . " And even in parting from us THE CROSS . that will give members a pleasant task and bring me piles of entries . 11 . For Members under 12 years of age . their leisure time during holidays , and how many of bers of a family ) , and must be written on one side only of the paper . They visitor with such discourtesy ? ' Men's eyes are dazzled by the glare of depth " of that love . Some timid souls dare not throw themselves on His from the pursuit of literature , or reading and writing our next competition . Prisoner of Love on our altars is coldly neglected . not only through the night . Fould appeal to many , or the keeping of rabbits , or dogs , or poultry , or heels In the many tabernades . Jesus , our loving Father , is watching over us . their religion may be all-important , but in practice they neglect it because of must be sent so as to reach the office not later than July , 4th , All letters to O Sacred Heart ! on earth our only Treasure : Both . I have been trying to find a subject for an essay that will satisfy all on the Cross stoned a thousand-fold for our sins . solely to show us . The extent twelling-place of the Lord of all Glory , and never dream of having a visit and Numbers of boys . I know , are fascinated by the study of mechanics , while hard journey : inasmuch as they recall the fever-failine love of the Sacred Heart unaided work of the competitors . ' They must have attached to them the coupon mittance to their Father's House . Be Thou for us on earth our only Home . " looking for one to drive together with Mr. had had made it . The mercv. Like the prodigal son of old , they think themselves unworthy of ad- I find myself wondering how some of them spend He weekly bore the ridicule beaned on Him in his hour of scars and which will be found in this issue ( one coupon will be sufficient for all the mean- for pleasure and profit to themselves . I think there is scarcely anyone who has don't rise to the occasion and send me a big budget of entries next month . them have what is called a " hobby , " apart , that is , Argus , Dublin . not a hobby of some kind . An occupation such as gardening , for instance , I . For Members over 12 and under 18 years of age . a haven of rest in His Sacred Heart ? These tender words are the mainstay of the tail-worn traveller on life's The Love of the sacred heart . nd is ever in our midst . But alas ! the pathetic voice seems to say : " I am softening the hearts of the obdurate , and as the shepherd gathers the last sheen ompetition papers must be certified by some responsible person as being the prize essay . O Heart . Whose love no limit hath nor measure , loving Heart ? " Was not Our Saviour's mission on earth a Labour of love , All intending competitors will please remember the following rules : All Of Love Divine Thou art the human throne : their business . ( Concluded on page 92. ) . Favorite Hums and why I love it . ' This also ought to bring me a great bly , and why it appeals to me . " I shall be greatly disappointed if the boys of His love , and to kindle a kindred feeling in our rapid hearts . His lifelong he addressed :-FRANCIS , of O"THE CROSS . " St. Paul's number of letters . Sometimes thinking over the letters I receive from my little correspondents A handsome Book prize will be awarded for the best essay on " Mr. natters , and then worship at the shrine of the end of Mammon . In theory But why should any of us doubt the reception and tarry at the portals of the New into the fold , so did He freely forgive the wandering singer and guide him to eds must leave some proof of that mighty love . So He gave his Himself girls on the other hand , find a congenial subject in needlework or cookery , a competitions . A handsome Book prize will be awarded for the best letter on " My Our busy intellectuals cannotathom " the breadth and length , and height , an ind give boys and girls an equal chance , and now I hope I have found on Sometimes thinking . ittance to their Father's House's opposition and even at the moment of This also ought to bring me a great 1961 62m. learms among from the pursuit of literature , or reading and writing no . he addressed - FRANCIS , of O" THE CROSS . " St. raus Re