Cross Bulletin June 1916

--- Page 1 --- June , 1916 . No. 2 . ( Rembrandt . --- Page 2 --- but it will no longer call forth the same feelings of astonish- express your awe at its immersion , but if you visit it in its panse of the Lineburg Heath , and you will find no words to as his own peculiar sphere . All nature , from the orbs of sonages whom he found ready to hand to appear as characters . gassions , joy and sorrow . love and hate , hope and fear , find had but an imperfect sense of his own greatness , or as if the of them an individuality as distinct as those real per- man was greater than his works . Not one of his plays was denied him , but the whole field of the actual and the possible , he had immediately practical ends alone in view , and he saw as far as it can be known by human reason . he might well claim would go far to prove that Englishmen must be by nature and treated it with more or less fidelity and success : while the of fairy , which seem to pulse with life and to possess each one neighbouring mountains , it will still indeed appear a giant , that the greatest glory of England is her poetry . Among reiled before him , and all the moods of men , and all their native home , it you approach it by crossing over the lofty tains of Switzerland . Transport Mont Blanc to the level ex- The Genius of Shakespeare . may be explained at least in part by the greatness of the age taken for their domain some particular aspect of life or nature , contemporaries : he trad " on earth unguessed at . " This essentially prosaic . Yet it has been said with perfect truth " crimson drops " that stain the petals of the cowship , was un- genius of Shakespeare , like the eye of his own poet , glanced English poets Shakespeare is supreme . Other poets have published with his sanction and co-operation . As he wrote , ' It is with Shakespeare , " says Goethe , " as with the moun- fit expression in his matchless speech . That man must have The light that never was on sea or land , ment and wonder . " It would seem as if Shakespeare himself but an imperfect acquaintance with his achievements who of shopkeepers . Were the truth of this view admitted , it in which he lived , the heroic figures with which it was peopleed . W Continental neighbours look upon England as a nation The real greatness of Shakespeare was unknown to his " from heaven to earth . from earth to heaven , " and not only heaven which more with the rhythmic music down to the would not hesitate to address to him the words of Hamlet to gave back what it be held suffused with The consecration , and the poet's dream , but also created the airv forms of the spirit realm and the land in his historical dramas . Supernatural inspiration alone was Then are dream of in your philosophy . Horatio : VE are all familiar with the popular idea that our There are more things in heaven and earth 35 . --- Page 3 --- Shakespeare spoke " it is a priceless advantage that we possess no direct personal acquaintance with them . The character of Amid the disturbances caused by political religious , and social perhaps it is in the domain of pure poetry that his supremacy night , of Moonlight and sunlight , of the ordered progression human , and although we find in his works that divine pity and ever-varying phenomena of dawn and twilight , of day and which help to explain the weaknesses and to extenuate the guilt lessons which he teaches , lessons of sincerity and courage and and homage . Some of the most exquisite passages , in all his in the months of all . And for us " who speak the tongue that ferences to nature leave us cold and unmoved ; they seem more various moods and feelings of men find perfect expression are however , are merely on the surface , and do not touch the sun- We mark in him an absence of that tone of bitterness which so is most apparent . His genius was essentially masculine , and fidelity to nature and power of imaginative idealization the tragedy or in comedy : Shakespeare alone has cultivated the appreciated by the choice spirits gradually extends in ever sock alike become him ; he is equally at home in both . But a nation is thus largely moulded by the writings of those who . whole field of the drama with equal success . He is alike great often jars upon us in the writings of authors less intensely minds of those who yield themselves up to his habitual way . widening circles until it reaches even those who have little a sayings of theirs in which wisdom is embodied or in which the and criticized at leisure . This fact will account for those blemishes and defects which one finds in his works . but which . deep knowledge of human nature in its infinite complexity yet no form of beauty in visible nature escaped his observation honour and love and pity , have all a tendency to enable the of the seasons . In the case of some other great poets , the re- as by its manysidedness . Other authors have excelled in of flowers , and no poet has ever painted with at once so much not as finished productions to be read in the study and analysed in him a native teacher at once genital and authoritative . The classics hold a foremost place . Their influence first felt and works show how much alive his gentle soul was to the beauty the stage should make their living appeal to the spectators . in his tragic and in his humorous creations ; the buskin and the changes , maintain their place as its accredited teachers . Many feeding with Goethe that he was no mere poet of the theatre , Among the educative influences of a people , the national tion ; but the perfect accuracy of Shakespeare's language shows that what he describes he saw for himself and intimately be' accounted for not so much by the sublimity of his genius and that the stage , may , the whole visible universe itself , was too narrow for his mighty soul . stance or core of what he wrote . And yet we cannot help or less conventional and not chiefly due to personal observa- The universal admiration in which Shakespeare is held may his dramas as creations full of life and movement which from IIIs CROSS . felt . 37 . --- Page 4 --- given special commissions - a wedding-veil . or a train-preux , mother . Clearly Martin did not intend to take her with them . openly , and if necessary to break with him altogether : but slightly as she threw the gauzy things round her shoulder . lace . Her figure was tall and straight . " Grace , ' swiftness and been reared , who had patiently trained her own little fingers buver , and a great man of business , young , handsome , with somewhat pale , her glowing , tender eyes lighted up her a flattering tongue . It was no wonder he won the simple dignity were in all her movements . Withal she was simple and modest . Sometimes she had to show off lace-pieces to heart of Anna with ease . When they were married , Martin It was on such an occasion that her lover had first seen her . had decided . he was going to set up a lace-shop for himself . wife , well-dressed . ' her manners improved by himself , selling so that she was now able to make a living with ease . In her and promises there was never any mention of Catherine , her It was with pride and satisfaction he imagined Anna as his or a christening-robe for the child of some grand lady . the buyers . It was then she looked most lovely , blushing toil of whose fingers and the sight of whose eyes she had Herr beauty had struck him . Martin Graham was a lace- lappy . . Sometimes she would determine to speak to Martin All through the winter Catherine served , making clothes imagination she saw the old woman on her wedding-day standing wistfully in the house-door watching her as she This daughter of the poor widow was beautiful . ' Her black ' lace in his shop . She would be a treasure of a wife . For she bold , admitting eyes . and carried a secret sorrow in her heart . For in all his plans enny you . " he would say often , looking at Anna with his air waved round her shapely head , and while her cheek was in his presence her resolution vanished . ' She loved him : " I would die now without him . " she thought within her- more than love , she thought . her , answering half-jokingly : departed from her for ever . Marrying meant a great deal She and her mother would have to part . that mother by the was a beauty , and Martin was a great man of business . self . " God pity me . " As it was , she grew pale and silent . " You'll show off the lace , and how the grand ladies will a time trembled on her lips . for her girl . She was secretly engaged on something else Well , I don't know that we will do that . that was all . " So you would like me to marry the family , little girl . But she only blushed and trembled at his beautiful speeches , So she lived on . torn between two loves . fretted and un- But he laughed his light laugh , and threw his arm round Martin ? " Won't the mother come with us when we are married , Once she had timidly asked Martin the question that many 38 . ANNA . --- Page 5 --- her sometimes eroding for things even in daylight . but she might do what he suggested . Other girls left their parents cheer , what a strong heart was hers . ' How hard she had sight was certainly failing too rapidly . She had observed a needle with the skill they did . Now she was old and her loss . The neighbours would be kind to her . She her- when she was strong and active . What courage , what and tender care of herself . She remembered Catherine feeble and the girl almost stopped in her walk as a dreadful veld it , was icy cold . As he turned round at the bend of so that it was a wonder such roughened hands could guide self would come to see her sometimes . She would send her thought struck her . Was Catherine getting blind ? Her had been so much occupied with her own affairs that she worked from dawn't ill dark , scrubbing and even digging , She nodded her head in acquiescence , but her hand , as he had scarcely thought about it . Oh , how selfish and ungate- All her thoughts were of her mother and of the latter's love to appeal to his mercy and ask him to take Catherine too . I must be going , Anna , " he urged . " Promise me you to make up her mind to it one day . I tell you . ' Come , Anna , the road he saw her walking quickly towards home . But veiled impatience . " and let me know what you will do . ' The girl looked at him helplessly . She saw it was useless nothing . She heard Martin's oft-repeated promises in her ears . Her brain whirled . Indeed at the moment he was money and write her letters . Her mother would want for ful she had been ! She hastened her footsteps almost to a run , fearing she knew not what . But she was silent . tortured with doubts . Perhaps she As she walked along the girl's better feelings returned . would never think I could do a hard thing like this on her ell her to-night and be ready to come away with me . she did not look back . and married . Why not she ? Catherine would get over She glanced at him for a moment and it suddenly struck Anna clasped her hands tightly . He saw it was useless to urge her further . Can you not decide ? " he was saying in persuasive tones . er that his voice was hard and his eyes cruel . " I can wait no longer , ' Anna . ' " Nonsense ! " said Martin . " Meet me here then to-morrow , " he said with hardly will do this . You wouldn't let an old woman come between me think . ' " Nounn . Let me think . " she answered quickly . " Let But she trusted me always , she said earnestly . " She You don't know how she loves me , Martin . speaking . would have to part some time . This is no hard thing , " he replied . " Sh It is over quickly in this way , without her seeing you married at all : ' " It won't kill her . You This is no hard thing , " he replied . " She would have It will be easier for her that us ? " She would have --- Page 6 --- asleep , worn out , holding in her lap a large square of the A lighted lamp stood on the kitchen table , for in the badly- rimmed spectacles were pushed back on the white hair . on the table , while in the wooden armchair lay Catherine other had fallen down loosely by her side . A pair of iron- stars began to shine out . She entered the house softly . this was the being she was to desert so cruellv . these were finest lace . One toil-worn hand still held the needle , the low . A heap of garments , dainty as a lady's , were folded But Anna did not stand aside . " Yes , yes , asthore , " said Catherine , sitting up bewildered . The girl looked at the lace . which she at once divined not wear it , but it would be a keepsake and a life-long taken the cross . what you wanted me to do . ' I'll never do it , " she cried aloud , ' clinging herself down a wedding-veil , a surprise for Anna . ' Of course she would beside the chair , a flood of shame and sorrow surging up in waken and look at me . " She took the old hand gently was intended for herself , and then at her mother's face . So at the dresser where the delf lay . to it , something like fear on her face . In the dark she recognised Martin . Catherine begged her to tell her what troubled her . was to leave bowed in sorrow . Never , Never ! wicked girl and a bad daughter , to you to think of it . I was of her love . needn't say anything to my mother . I'm not going to do the twilight a robin sang in plaintive snatches and the first I fell asleep . Why , what is the matter with you , alanna , No , Martin Graham , " she said in a quiet voice . " You her heart . Mother , mother . " she went on in low tones , " waken , She stood up and Anna saw her groping in a dim fashion , " His me , mother , ' his Anna back , my own mother- just wanted to make sure your mother would understand . It was nearing dusk when she reached the cottage . In " I'm never bringing Martin' back again . " cried Anna . Martin ? I thought you were bringing Martin back this She stepped outside the door last their voices should alarm Suddenly there was a knock at the door . ' Anna sprang She did not finish , but hid her face in her hands , while at all , at all ? " I'll tell her myself how it is . " He made as if to come in . I came back , after all . Anna . " he said off-handedly " I Catherine , ' who had gone to the inner room . She put her arms lovely round the girl . " And where's he eyes she was to make run tears , this was the form she evening . ' blind with with - " droom darkness had long fallen . ' The fire had hurried I'll never leave you , mother , for the stranger . I'm a the poor tired eyes had failed at last . The lace was etween her hands and stroked the furrowed cheeks . Anna sprung " I'll never leave you , mother , for the stranger . --- Page 7 --- have written verses which critics praise and which ( more re- as 1867 . He was only nineteen when he died ; but already he Digby MacKworth Dolben . and quixotic in his fervour , singularly pure in heart . More the rear of the cannon , the voices of the Arts are heard once vet , perhaps , it is not altogether surprising . For the preva- these that I would speak to-day , but of one who , young like think he who once said , with his religious difficulties in mind , them , high-souled and pure , met with a sudden end so far ago prosperity and health and material comfort . And so , amid rad forgotten it . " Some of the very soldiers are poets , and emerges : a tall , refined , delicate youth , devoted to his mother . dutiful in his home , deeply religious though a little fantastic especially is it interesting to Catholics to note the trend of this more , speaking of things eternal : and in the words of a French young mind towards full religious truth . Had he lived , he strates beyond dispute the transitory and precarious nature of writer , the soul cries out : " Yes , my God ! I am great , and I narkable still ! the public buys and reads . Yet it is not of would almost seem like the sexual to his little poem . " Homo with a great wonder , a great gratitude , in the next world . I Factus est , " which he wrote as a schoolboy of sixteen , and ence of death and of suffering on so appalling a scale demon- poetry seems to be coming once more to its own . And sometimes I feel so tired of it all , which is wrong . " It had written verses which Robert Bridges , the Poet Laureate , night have been a great Catholic poet . But it was not to be . Suddenly God took him . ' which is one of the best known of all his poems . Here are Of Thy Human Heart . has collected and published in a little volume with words of Show me not thy Glory high and generous praise . " Memoir , and , as we turn the bases . gradually a portrait And Thy Diadem . of Thy jewelled Crown . Lav aside Thv Sceptre Round about Thy Throne ; From my soul depart , Bid all fear and doubling Show me not the flashes . We must not wish it otherwise . He would open his eyes some of the verses : ONE of the unexpected results of the war among us is that As I feel the beating Come to me . Beloved . Babe of Bethlehem ; Verv nearly half the volume consists of Mr. Bridges' # The Poems of Misho Mackworth Dolben . Edited , with a Memoir , by Robert Bridges . " Oxford University Press , 1915 . "6 net. --- Page 8 --- latest years , or whether , as some did , they knew him delightful privilege . He was of gentle and perfect manners innocence of Fra Angelico's angels ; and to have fallen into combined grace , aniability and beauty of person and charac - been of inestimable value to the younger boy . Not always . taller than Digby , but practically his contemporary , with balance and judgment and sound taste in poetry must have other boys to fast by stealing their breakfast rolls , who annoyed whether as he then was at school . or in manhand or in his throughout his life , all without exception spoke of him only a person whom it was difficult not to idolize , if one had any manifested those strong High ' Church tendencies which led read the Memoir without feeling that the future Laureate's in terms of love and admiration : nor have I ever met with tendency that way . Every one who knew Manning , domination for Manning , afterwards Cardinal Manning . Al- the company of one of those supersensuous beings was a ter he had an equal . ... He was a little older and though Mr. Bridges does not so much as hint at it , no one can Anglicanism was not so widespread in those days as it is now : was of a decidedly Protestant type , but already at Eton Digby anyone who knew him well , who would admit that for with Robert Bridges , who was some years his senior , and his Warning certainly never so much as suspected . Mr. Bridges , and a lad who crossed himself and fasted who even assisted It was a deep and sincere attachment , or rather hero-work- tions . " who finally slipped off secretly to visit the results at indeed , would Digby show his verses to his friend-more par- ticularly any which betrayed his intense affection for Manning , Old Windsor-could not but be an element of disturbance at To understand this ideal affection . one must fully Two things stand out in Digby's school life : his friendship features of the uncharactered type of beauty . The immanent the " Archie " of the poems . Eton fifty years ago . With his flaming sword : O my Human Lord ! Of the Seraphim , - THE CROSS . Hide me from S. Michael They , so pure and spotless , connected Northamptonshire family . His father's religion Though can't understand me , writing of his friend's devotion , says : I , so stained with sir . ecognise that its object was not only altogether worthy , but Hide me from the glances . Digby Mackworth Dolben was born in 1848 of a well- him on step by step towards the Catholic Church . Higir his master on Sunday by what he termed " Catholic ones . ship , quite independent of personal intercourse , and which 10 . --- Page 9 --- visest and most sympathetic of his tutors . to read with him Lady Sing , " which is after the manner of the " Blessed appreciative criticism of the genius of a brother poet . In of view he was far from sharing , yet respects because it is a seemed to me a passion , and I was much affected at times by with the " sacramental " side of his friend's life and poetry he went back for a second time to Mr. Prichard , the kindest . in favour of the exquisite little poem . " He would have His for the candour and fairness with which he deals with a point his room with crucifix and candles and vases of flowers , and could not sympathise . All the more honour to him , therefore , or a few months before proceeding to Oxford ; a fortnight later , he was drowned one afternoon while bathing in a stream He had arranged the upper part of a bureau in an Anglican ' Third Order of St. Benedict ' ) . His religion With dying eyes have seen his fervour . " ... I always preserve an affectionate must have fainted in the water . without pain , in one of his friendship of his youth , and at the same time a generous and He had good features . and fine dark melancholy eyes . him as a young saint so soon called to his rest . ' rare moments of bodily enjoyment . ' mental perplexity , he should die unconsciously , for he THE CROSS . The English Laureate maintains that his friend's Greek The sea of jasper , last Mary walks in silver Lily stalks . " Finally , it concludes : - For the poet was never to come to maturity . In June , 1867 . Mr. Bridges' Memoir is a touching tribute to the long-ago The big white bars between About with crystal sheen . friend's view - a friend of whom he writes , his love leaping Damozel , ' yet glowing with the conviction that Rossetti was tall and slight , with a complexion of transparent sailor . yrics surpass his Christian ones , but he makes an exception Then it goes on to sing of " the town they saw withouten deck or flaw , " the town where " Knights and Dames go singing lacked . It opens as follows : Who to the gate that is Sing me the men are this lown the street one great Laudate basalm . " and where " Mother A cloven pearl uprapt , imacinations . all intercourse with him was delightful , and back over the years : " It was beautiful and strange that , after all his unceasing used to pray there after donning his monastic habit ( that of religious matters he came to differ widely from Dolben , and all my remembrance of him is happy . " remembrance of his gentle and kindly nature . I think of As he went his way enthusiastically pursuing his near the house . Says Mr. Bridges : 18 . --- Page 10 --- nexus of ideas is produced and then upheld . And when , as opinions , and ( where one's sanctity would not permit an inroad possessed an intellect " high , fine , discursive " was a mathema pusillanimous and is full of delusions but unselfishness , the Navalis , that mystic , whom Carlyle , in his able essay says , most , and through this Divine Witness of all that emanates a surrounding food of grace . Then the perfection of soul pathos of which smites me whenever I see it . And it has been the power of the character is shown in its keeping to these takes its outlook on life and so opinions are formed and a the precious treasure of that tower of strength she has built groundwork , as the heat from the sun , and as each soil brings my privilege to see it in its perfection . ' Where ? ' In one of across the path of my life . I shall never forget her , for her ciples of her character , like the very waves of strength , persist unselfishness , not self-lessness - a trait which may be merely God's beautiful women . She stands out like a vivid light that introspective blindness to others . The strong , firm prin- beeling about the latter savours of six gun , and the other is forth different flowers and varying fruits , so does character with eyes ever out across to others , not ever peering in , with character . It is the attainment of perfection by the normal . tician and naturalist , who gave to the world his " Thoughts , ' from that person one gets that inexpressibly beautiful sense of offered , our sentry duty is firm and honourable in their character as " a perfectly educated will . " This definition , life goes on , time seems to strengthen these ideas and opinions , though expressing much , by no means includes the full matter what allurement may come or what advantage be Her character is the stronghold of her soul . " ... her soul Be that as it may , certain it is that the horror at tidings of purport of that superfluous power in the world-character- an abortion of what should be . CHARAOINS . ideal character : ... the flowers , the fruitage , the leaves , the leaves , the lights . ' These come from the soil of the differ in its traits . like comes but once to one so unworthy as myself . evil far exceeds the welcome of news of good deeds . The It is obvious I am now speaking of the groundwork , the the stamp , the human impress . like Pascal , to whom he compares him . ' Novelis defines perpetually in the presence of God . This is first and fore- Willingness to overcome any obstacle necessitates firm This being so , one can understand the veneration given to defence . conviction . One of the most beautiful , and one of the very rarest . is act on each other . the strongest inroad . ... and with the strength , the sweet- of sin , the merest pin-point's encroachment . . ) so , no Like health and holiness , moral and mental character re- What is the strength of character ? ' The What is the strength of character ? The state of being " ... the flowers , the fruitage , the leaves The state of being the --- Page 11 --- set on the final triumph over the evil . ' is a character more thrown up in Pharisaical horror . ' I say this latter is to be worthy of admiration " and reverence than a person of that the one was ever working . ever slaving himself for the sake of and his position be unassailable , no matter how correct his divulging what he has heard , whose hands are metaphorically vituperation for the self-satisfied . arm-chair saint . Indeed . outer life may be . Do you remember Dorothea Brooke in nothing of good can be formed unless a strong foundation is sees succeeding here . failing there , and yet ever with his will temptation , and yet cards at the man who has , who for ever is nheritance , opportunities , heredity-endless they are , but health , the health of others , pursuits , religion , education . beauty of her soul . White better is there they do not touch the character . first laid . " You may forgive sins unnumbered if the will be thusiasm for the struggling character and his voice shook with Middlemarch , " says " Failure after long perseverance is indeavouring to overcome his struggle against it , whom one despised even if he have the credit of the Bank of England . A man with a great temptation ever bearing on him , ever an ideal . " perhaps never attaining it , suffering a tension much grander than never to have had a striving good enough arms , which she stretches out to those she knows love her Maturin on this subject , and how his eyes burned with en- stripping for the sake of others . Silent , but bright , with the There are so many complexities in the making of a character others prostrate in gratitude for a victory " in the highest untold , sometimes beaten with humiliation of defeat ... ... at and draws them to her heart . tears come to my eyes with " the thought of her silent , self- shall never forget the late , much-mourned Father She walks , the lady of my delight , of the thought of ego . to be called a failure . ' loathsome type who has never had the desire . or felt the environment , cross-currents , work , recreation , atmosphere , regions of the soul . ' of herself , as though she had given us all , save her loving The chastest stars may keep . In " Self Knowledge and Self Discipline " there is a won- ness in which Evelyn Underhill so beautifully says " The little derful passage on the words , " I cannot do the things that I Into that tender heart at night To express the pathos of her character , she walks denuded Yearly , daily , hourly do we see this unselfishness , and the with success . This unselfishness . would " ... " read it . the Lord . ' charm of personality , which emanates from the very absence There both my Godhead rest " ness is sometimes accompanied by great things " ... " There doth my Godhead rest " ... " said personality , which emanates from the very absence charm of personality . great it . This unselfishness is sometimes accompanied by great --- Page 12 --- listening to the same birds in the morning , not only kneeling shivering , soiled thing Seneca was thinking of when he said : vorries , its interest in everything outside the humdrum of life . tude , high honour , infinite prudence , these want tenderness , saints of other days , with the character ( the Divine stamp ) advantage to weaken that individuality which is God-given . strength of mind : in the cross is perfection of sanctity . " stands with the real character mark like a star on the temple . the pure , the strong , the inflexible , and binding all these think rather of those things which belong to thy peace . the cross is infusion of sweetness from above ; in the cross is and this is knit to his well-known " Character " where he says : Thomas A Kempis also says , in his own pleading way , and before the little red lamp , but away on the field of battle , one irm persistence the cross , and the beauty of suffering . " In mind , that Garden of refreshment , that purifying , peritential Emerson's treatment , " Trust in Yourself , " never excelled , pronounced in Rome , but they are touching our skirts in the (edged with golden charity ) shall be that of religion , shall be the firm , unswerving , faithful stand to fight for your own ideas and principles , to withstand any breath against them , for no character . streets , looking over our shoulders in the tubes and trains . Not alone packed away in the " Acta Sanctorum " dwell the They seem to have the inspiration of their own fresh nature . " Some men , like pictures , are bitter for a corner than a full Like little . lovely children go the cure of heart in this world . or overset . A man , should give us a sense of mass . " " Recri- love of other people , fear for their feelings , respect for their I always think " Self-reliance " so grandly simple in light . " Let our last glance be at the man or woman who is their salvation . slot , without a spark of individuality . Character is centrality , the impossibility of being displaced It means a very world to some characters - some whose peace I think that this should never cease echoing in a man's ears . Aurelius will have : " Live as on a mountain " ; and the poor , let us realise that note of modernity : What is more refreshing than the Celtic character , with Many things also must thou pass by with a deaf ear and Some shun a person who thinks differently , who acts dif- The " Imitation of Christ , " that cynosure of every spiritual herently to the level . " live by rule . " automatic penny-in-the- search of the contemplative life , insists on two aims with even Passing over the two extremes of character , the one Marcus Edith Pearson . intellect we have ourselves , the more originality do we discover ts fund of humour and wit , its total disregard for small These are all different to the ordinary , normal character and an ordinary person would see no difference . over buying them up to live above the flat level of life . greatness . ' can hear the dying martyrs passing to their Crown : in others . ' The more cross . --- Page 13 --- guilty man , and she prayed with all the fervour of her soul out that the devils were surrounding his bed . trying to carry Felix Legrange had laid in wild delirium . Dr. Merriman and in its cavernous depths . A full came in the fierce strife , as if of his guilt . She now concluded that Legrange was the care , but nothing served to allow the burning fever which shippers to six o'clock Mass . The hollow booming of the Legrange's parosysms of frenzy became terrific . He cried soul , and in time to rescue the innocent man whom his wicked Meantime how fared it with the real criminal ? breakfast . Victor , when he saw the large supply of provisions During the three weeks which had elapsed since the trial . ' to send Beauchamp . The wretched man would shrink out : woman is so afraid with the noise of these underground the man brought , said smilingly : " Why , my friend , one the mighty giant were collecting forces for the supreme up- To tell you the truth , sir . replied the man . " my old incoherently about Beauchamp . Save me ! save me ! They are grasping me ; they are burn- earing the turnkey might not be kind to you , I bring you a sim off to prevent his writing some letter which he wanted machinations had doomed to an unjust and disgraceful death . Beauchamp was innocent , in spite of the overwhelming proofs Nurse Williams had tended him with the utmost skill and tormented him night and day . He saved incessantly and twenty miles away , and I may not be back until evening ; so , fving fervour . About an hour later the jailer came with explosions that I have to bring her to-day to a friend's house that God would restore him to his senses in order to save his ing me . I never meant to kill Beauchamp - I never meant subterranean artillery accompanied the sacred chimes : these communion to Victor Beauchamp . who received it with edi- The solemn tones of the cathedral bell summoned the war- What a change in that faint voice from the agonising cries it . Look ! he is there . Write quickly that he is innocent . reased , but the former increased , gaining every moment in Next morning at five o'clock . the cure brought Holy tions that the priests were kept up all night hearing confess- good supply . ' Oh I save me , save me . ' Then he would shrink and clutch Mont Pelte . No sign was as yet visible of the dire struggle could think you wished to bring me food for a week ! the nurse in his agony . volume and intensity . A faint voice called from the bed " Nurse ! " St heaval . The very air seemed to stand still . She was horror-stricken . She had always believed that RETRIBUTION . During the night preceding Ascension Thursday . sions . Nurse Williams went to a window in the sick-room facing ral . The very air seemed to stand still . She started --- Page 14 --- city and on the harbour , which was filled with vessels from ground heaved and yawned , steeples toppled , buildings the narration would proceed . hold of the wheel and steering his vessel safety to Saint Lucy , struction , its heroic commander , Captain Freeman , taking a torrent of burning lava and ashes that descended on the did the destruction of the devoted city follow that terrible in its path . On. on. to the ocean it rushed-burning . char- passed . A whirlwind of flaming gas was swiftly followed by terrific were the reports that the people in distant Trinidad every clime . Of these , only one , the Roddam , escaped de- Then pausing from time to time for breath , he dictated the it descended on the wings of the whirlwind a cloud filled On. on , past the city it sped . leaving death and destruction The nurse had just returned to the bedside and put the crucifix to the lips of the dying man , when , with a roar-as tias " she brought writing materials from the escritoire . details of how he had accomplished both the robbery and the with which it came in contact . The dying man gasped : " Write quickly - I alone am On the gaping summit a perfect wall of fire arose . and from with incandescent particles which burned and scorched all fireproof safe . She did so and fastened the safe carefully . Hames and lava . guilty of all the crimes charged to Victor Beauchamp . ' She guessed what it was , and with a fervent " Deo Gra- During the pauses she spoke to him of the mercy of God , a cooling drink . ' coniuring him to confide in it and to ask God's pardon . Then It seemed as if cause and effect were concomitant , so swiftly trembling hand he succeeded in affixing his signature , to THE CROSS . Again and again the awful explosions were heard . So monster . Three minutes later she and her charge were in thought that a sham fight at sea was taking place . The One horrified glance Nurse Williams gave at the famous she found him perfectly lucid . She moistened his lips with hough he himself was frightfully burned . " He whispered : " I want you to write something for me Strange to say , this vessel , which escaped such imminent danger from chapter XVI . It was near 8 o clock when it was finished . With a Something urged her to put this important paper into a of the previous night ! Hastening to the side of the invalid , which she appended hers as witness . murder . at once-at once-and I will sign it . ' nemesis . eternity . explosion , which completely lifted the cap of the mountain . of a thousand cannon - the volcano burst and belched forth ring . fusing . No life could exist where that blast of death at once at once-and I will sign it . ' fire , was lost on the ice in the Yenisei River in 1905 . which she appended here as witness . --- Page 15 --- sare of his afflicted child , rightly regarding his own ambition Herrers and some of his men . They found Victor Beauchamn He found that his affairs had prospered so well under the able levoted himself entirely to the care of his beloved daughter . is the primary cause of all her sufferings . Such a weighty shouted again to encourage the poor victim buried beneath joy so overwhelmed him that he lost consciousness . Restora- own life depended on his efforts . From time to time the men to Ivraie , where he found Lucille much improved . though her sufficient opening was made to allow of the descent of Captain on his knees , the light of faith illumining his soul . artial clearance of the debris had been made the men should , tives were applied , and as soon as possible he was placed on and careful consideration . Meantime M. Delormes returned the management of his business to his head clerk and had etiring from business and devoting the rest of his life to the at each other . Then , without a word , each worked as if his had been burned off his feet . On seeing the rescue party his Accordingly pick and shovel were quickly used . When a the ruins . ' His replies became more audible until at last a ion which had wiped out St. Pierre , but he had taken little come to awake it from its lethargry ! matter as transfer of business required , however , both time the cross . No other victim of the awful visitation could be rescued . in their pleasant Breton home M. Delormes returned to Paris . paper . One morning he was seated in a shady hook of the " If fear it is useless to search here , " said Captain Herrers . The city prison was next approached . priest . " Some dying persons may be found to whom I could " All must have been killed . " not even read the daily papers . ' He knew of the awful visita- N. Delormes resumed his custom of reading the daily During Lucille's dangerous illness M. Delormes had left Captain Herrera recognised his God , whom he adopted falling interest in the details . Like the centurion in the gospel at the foot of the Cross . Let us , however , try if such be the case . " interposed a All had been hurled into eternity on that fateful 12th of April , mind still remained clouded . If only some sudden joy would When Mme . Bunsen and Lucille were comfortably settled a rift in the clouds . cottage with letters . administer the consolations of religion . ' chapter xvii . administer the consolations of religion . " 1902 . management of his head clerk that he seriously thought of come to awake it from its letharrow ! improvised lift and brought to the open air . garden facing the sea when he saw the postman going to the HERE , garden , " he called ; " deliver to me . " so absorbed had he been in that labour of love that he had invoke here ? " A faint cry was heard . The men looked weak as to be completely unable to move . ' The very flesh --- Page 16 --- affliction good may come . and that from the dark hour of sorrow she is now a hearty welcome . The intention mentioned in Bridie's letter I shall not fail who writes acknowledging the beautiful book which she received as prize . letter , she is going to repay me threefold . And Mehil O Chonchobhair lope , to hear regularly in future . ' Little Simnott brings two other new other section . Gretta gives such a nice description of a cycle run round continue to pray for me and also for all those to whom the recent disturbances cards and greetings for Easter have reached me late : Josie O'Brien ( all the month . This has happened ( among others ) in the case of Gretta O'Kennedy Guild of Blessed Gabriel , have at present she will have no chance at all of winning a prize in the members , namely , James Symnott and Bridie Common , to whom I also extend could not fall in with Katie's other request , but she will understand . Mairin God , she is right in thinking that her prayers and the prayers of all my sends a very kind wait : she feared my office would be destroyed , but , thank Ni Chonchobhair returns thanks for her pretty badge , and , judging by her members of the Guild that letters and contributions should be in good time brought sorrow or trouble . God grant that out of the suffering and in the Competitions set , and been unable to finish in time , so I have decided to be outdone , intends to become a promising member . There is also a or past each month , or they will not reach me at all until the following thanks : some have touched me beyond measure . My little friend , Eily Barrett , sale , but it has been a sad and lonely time , and I would ask my children to Moran that she is not forgetting THE CROSS by any means , and hopes to write us next month . She also expresses the generous hope that her friend , to repeat the Competition set in May and to have no new one this month . to pray for . Katie Kavanagh , also , has asked for prayers for an intention Joyce did not forget me either . ' ' Mollie is studying hard for an examination Mary , will soon win a prize . I have heard nothing from Mary this month , Gretta is going to try and get as many prizes as she can , but after the " The papers already set I have , therefore , laid aside to be adjudicated on with but I , too , am hoping for something of that kind . Patience and perseverance , Competition she will be twelve and will not be able to enter for the junior My own thanks and warmest wishes to her and the other dear friends whose the office of THE CROSS , and I and all my fellow-workers there are quite hold her own with any of our competitors . Julia M. Kennedy writes on a Competitions any more , and she fears that with such beautiful writers as we way from France ) . Maureen O'Brien , and May Allen . ' Mr old friend and I hope my children will supplement mine in both cases . I am sorry I a new member to welcome in the person of Eileen Nclierney , from whom I in the Guild may have commenced their essays and drawings to take part the new ones are as good as their word , our new editor will be hardly able children have kept me sale . ' The trouble did not come near my office . nor Thinking of the manner in which my own business became ' upset in the For the letter's of enquiry which have reached me I return my warmest pretty Easter postcard to thank me for her badge , with which she is delighted . to afford us space for all their efforts . But the more the merrier ; we have promise from Peter Burke , of Castlepollard , to do all he can to get new Dunsink that I haven't the slightest doubt she will before long be able to experiencing the dawn of a better day may arise to our dear country . I have est couple of weeks of May . it occurred to me that many of my little friends . a welcome for all . my dear friends ! letters' which should have been with me by 14th April . I must again remind every new member must be given . their competition papers . asking to be admitted to member- Part , too , of the correspondence which reached me this month consisted of ( AIL newcomers will release write a personal note to Francis , apart from the others , which I hope will come in to me in sheets before the 14th instant . its for the Guild . So my old friends had better look to their laurels . " If this month , and we must all pray for her success . " She asks me to tell Mary important . ship of the Guild . ( 2 ) The age , full name and address of --- Page 17 --- In Thanksgiving , etc. members of the Congregation of the Passion . acknowledged in these pages . forwarded to the Postulator at Rome . pecially offered every year for benefactors by the Fathers of this Province , as Sister M. Philomena ( Roscommon ) forwards five shillings from a lady Sister M. Malacky ( Cahir ) sends two shillings and sequence towards the Contributions towards the expenses of the Causes of Blessed Gabriel and Cause of Gemma Galgani , in thanksgiving for favours received and promoters participate in the benefit of four hundred and thirty-four Masses , The above donations , for which we are sincerely grateful , will be duly well as in the prayers , penances and good works performed daily by all the Gemma Galgani and favours received through their intercession will be gladly TO OUR PROMOTERS . In answer to inquiries made from time to time e think it well to let supporters of this magazine know that all our supporters think it well to let supporters of this magazine know that all our supporter is the Canonisation of Blessed Gabriel , for a special intenti the cross . Cross , " St. Paul's Retreat , Mount Argus , Dublin . II . For Members under 12 years of age . of the Sacred Heart . ' as being the unaided work of the competitors . They must have attached to I-For Members over 12 and under 18 years of age . for all the members , of a family ) , and essays must be written on one side only not later than June 14th . All letters to be addressed : Francis , c/0 " The them the coupon which will be found in this issue ( one coupon will be sufficient the next competition . All compositions and drawings must be certified by some responsible person A handsome book prize is offered for the best short essay on " The Love of the paper . They must be sent so as to reach the Office of " The Cross " 64 . A handsome book prize is offered for the best drawing of a flower . A handsome book prize is offered for the best short Pilgrimage to laugh DERG . street , from whom all particulars may be obtained . of tickets have been issued , applications for some should be made before in Tuesday , with July , returning Saturday , 15th . As only a limited number The party from Belfast will leave Great Victoria street for Lough Derg June 30th to A. J. McPhillips , G. Rosevale street ; or M Passionist missions and Cushendall ; St. Joseph's , Bradford ; High Park , I Convent : Madden , Co. Armagh ; Derrynook ; more ; Crossmaglen ; Ballintubber ; Boyle ; Ardg Passionist Fathers during May , and June : - Mell , Islington ; Franciscans , Canning Town ; St. Mu The following is the list of Missions and Dublin , and Pilkington street , Bolton . gheda ; Collinstown , Westmeath ; Beneday A