Cross Bulletin May 1916

--- Page 1 --- May 1916 . No. I . Val. VII . Bancroff-Hughes . By Louise N. Staepoole By Gregory Barr Annual Subscription to THE CROSS . Three Shillines , most tree . Passionist Missions . The Celestial of Crannhara . for Boys and Girls . Unsuitable MSS , will not be returned unless accompanied by stamped , addressed envelope . Miscellaneous . In Thanksgiving , Eric . The Highway of the Cross . Literary Communications to the Editor , at the same address well-known Catholic periodical , America , cast a lucid in common with other religious orders , the Passionists fell XII . THE SEPULCHRE. By A Protestant Tribute to press of this country , sufficient evidence comes from other vocation . ( Poem ) . By E. their persecution . Not long ago a series of articles in the light upon the situation . The numerous and appalling ex- Miscellaneous . sources to show that the Carranzists are still unrelenting in in this brief notice . It will , however , be remembered , that Dreams and Dreamers . By Business Letters to be addressed to the Manager , Mt. Argus , ' Dublin Kenny Although this subject is conspicuously ignored by the daily Dublin . By Alice Dease ... to the violent anti-clerical campaign in Mexico . Our Lady . By M.A. ... Guild of Blessed Gabriel cesses committed by the Revolutionists could not be detailed RETRIBUSTON . ( SERIAL STORY ) . The Angelus at Dawn . CCASIONAL reference has been made in these pages pagles . Rev. P. Wareing , O.P. pages . A London . 32 . ( POEN ) . By M. St. Jerome 00 18 . A London Lad-And a 29 . 22 Literary contributions to the Editor . At the same address in Thomas Kelly 28 " 22 . ( Poem ) . By Mr. St. Jerome 00 29 . --- Page 2 --- paper , but not one of them has displayed the slightest parti- might well have supplied Mr. Asquith with curious informa- Penal Laws . The Government undertook to put through this Passionist property was not a formidable accomplishment , United States for its high-handed action . This matter , we matter of common knowledge that Pius X did all in his power Mexican Government , therefore will be accountable to the dead . ' On April 5th Mr. Birrell introduced a Bill to repeal it is pro-Loyal Orange Lodge of England . For the simple Vatican , " the writer informs Mr. Asquith . " was the chief under the ban of the Government . Not only were our letter of the English Orangemen would not be worth noticing . publication of decrees and documents relating to the govern- sanship towards any of the belligerent nations . For the regardless of truth as it is insulting to Catholics . " The England " had for Mr. Asquith's visit to the Pope . " The Besides visiting Cardinals Gibbons , O'Connell and Farley , ment of the Church , the Vatican has no official press . State- its future retention is likely to prove more hazardous . The Vatican , Mr. Louis A. Ewart notwithstanding . It is a opinions expressed by writers in this paper the Vatican has and newspaper articles written on the war and its cause ments of an official nature are published in a Roman news- certain disabilities imposed upon Religious Orders by the German . " The Vatican Press is no more pro-German than as much responsibility as " the Loyal Orange Lodge of except that , taken in conjunction with a more important Louis A. Ewart , has addressed a letter to Mr. Asquith , pro- he had a long audience with Mr. Lansing , Secretary of State . testing against his visit to the Pope . This production is as forced to flee to Cuba in order to save their lives . The an tagonistic attitude of the Government leaves them still exiles Loyal Orange Lodge of England . " through its secretary . Mr. the Catholic Church would scarcely fare better . " The Without Mr. Evart's letter , the mass of books , pamphlets death . . Again the letter states " The Vatican Press is pro- from their homes and their people . ' Though the seizure of monasteries confiscated by the State . but our Fathers were matter . it shows that Protestant bigotry is far from being cause of the war , and the Pope did nothing to prevent it . " many years in the name of an American Passionist . The was the cause of the war . it is certain that it was not the the Mexican Provincial from Cuba to the United States . under whom , if we may judge from their recent performances . compatible with the present condition of Mexico . Nearer home , however , there is a precious broad of bigots , reason that excepting the Acta Sedis Apostolicae , a periodical learn from the Boston Sunday Globe of March 12th , brought houses of the Congregation in Mexico have been held for tion , even if his official position did not give it . Whenever to avert it , and his failure hastened the revered Pointiff's As a result , a satisfactory settlement is expected as soon as is --- Page 3 --- Englishman's strength had again given out , and realising another blizzard began , cutting them off so completely from managed holding together . to make some headway in the rade cheerful enough to make the necessary effort , they found it had to struggle on and harder still to keep his com- was begun . Michael Dooley's cherry ways had made him a earth that eternity seemed nearing , at least to one of them . now that in waiting for him his comrade was losing his own similar surroundings in a London alley . It was only when the blizzard had for the moment expended its fury , but the favourite amongst the men of his company , but it was not one chance of safety , he urged him to go whilst it was yet friendship , that prompted him to drop out and see if he could state of mind and body when even the prospect of probable mother try for , and though , with his double burden . Michael of his own regiment whom he noticed in distress during one help the stumbling , staggering figure , whose blurred outline tions of blinding snow and driving rain the weary march in the slums of Dublin ; the other replied with talk of not dis- death seems preferable to the torture of dragging along to when Michael found him he was rapidly approaching that was for his trust good . upon to face , but the less talked-of enemy on the Gallipoli direction in which the remainder of their band had disap- whose prayers that the blessing of God be about him ever and be so far off camp now , for we'd about done the day before always were heard and answered in the way that no doubt Englishman began to think that after all life was worth testing they began to talk . ' Michael told of his home away One afternoon they got orders for a retreat , and in alterna- probable safety . of the fiercest blizzards , and it was only humanity , and not see to rest the feet . ' By the time they had reached the shelter of a great builder It was not the Germans that Michael Dooley was called Yer feet , is it , that's gone on you ? Hold on , old buck . So when the parting moment came . Private Dooley , his had attracted his attention . take a breathe here and then worry along together ; we can't Freed from the weight of what he had had to carry the retreatings , the days and weeks went by . ever you fell out . ' transgressions all forgiven . Left behind him a weeping mother . for a few yards more , ' till we get a bit of shelter , an ' then we'll possible to overtake the others . Peninsula , and there , in tedious waitings , in marchings and that the absolute radical unlikeness of the two homes became And so , huddled together , they rested in the shelter , and Like himself , the English soldier was only a boy , and apparent . peared . worse . tainty as to how soon his frolics would turn to something ' And leave you here ? No. thank you , chummv. we'll the other other standards --- Page 4 --- given of two upright figures discernible through the glasses . he was hungry , and Michael , searching in his pockets . found semblance of comfort in the camp of the retreating army . On dawn-the air for the moment was clear of rain-notice was two figures least , upright and stiff . Dismounting , he laid warmth , kept drifting away towards sleep , or unconscious- their clothes were wringing wet , and help seemed far away . ently felt so soon as anything , even a biscuit , came in sight . all sides a strict look-out was held , and with the first rays of far off , under a great brown rock . ' Hastily the officer called for stretcher bearers , and leaving orders for warm blankets ing the clamour of his own hunger , which made itself insist - Despite the discomfort , the two boys clinging together for ness , but after a time the younger murmured feetfully that and whatever comfort the camp allowed to be prepared , he an end of ration biscuit that he handed to his comrade , still- London Fusiliar , and put his hand first to one heart , then to Now and again Michael , half aloud , continued his prayers , zard was less thick . the cold was intense , especially now that mode in the direction indicated , the stretcher following in his but at length they just kept still-and waited . the other . Then with a gesture he made the bearers throw the the Fusiliar badges , one English , one Irish , upon the wounded brushed away a crumb of biscuit that lay on the cheek of the his hand on the nearer shoulder . noting with practised eye the cross . Nearly a mile away there was warmth and food and some blankets they had brought aside ; they were needed not for wrapping , merely for covering now , for both the boys were given to his company only that morning , for though the bliz- It only took a few moments to reach the rock , where the soldiers . wounded ? dead ! rear . Nav. there was no wound to be seen . Mechanically he Alice Dease . --- Page 5 --- The Angels wayte , the World stand wondering by unconscious echo of Dante's famous hymn in the PARA- perhaps a unique testimony from a Protestant pen in that traditions that have held ground in the Church concerning important of her Sublimity . He who does not , knows not her have been provocative of much excitement amongst the he asserts , " the expression of these her internal gifts , is the prose portions that we have to do embodying , as it does . language of her own children . Indeed , the author gives an of God . And it is noticeable that the chapter devoted to the who not only preached against Stafford's book , but pub- sea . Speaking of the Life of the Blessed Virgin , and the of dogmatic theology , as might be expected , is somewhat at Puritan age to her whose transcendent gifts exported even that by some of the " fathers " of the " reformed church " it his treatise . they are theologically speaking . Quite unlike the Assumption of Our Lady , wherein many quotations are cited longing on his own part to have and hold it as an article of was " held for an undoubted truth . " with a rather mistful Humanity , her Sweetnesse . As no style can ascend so high of his Puritan detractors , garnished as his language is with faith , as consonant to the dignity of her who is the Mother Stafford makes his " Just Apology " for his work in the teeth the plentiful conceits of seventeenth century language , there from the heretic a tribute that seems borrowed from the However , as the critic was censured by the Star Chamber for her latter years on earth , he dates not accept the Church's any bounds , the writer , when he finds himself on the ground Burton , the minister of St. Matthew's Church , Friday Street , Puritans . It was fiercely denounced by a certain Mr. Henry accepted traditions of Protestantism . But it is rather with listed the " summe . " as The calls it , of his two sermons . in support of the fact from the fathers of the Church , is DISO , in his chapter on what he calls , the " Internal EMALL GLORY , that the author has collected to adorn Beauty " of the Blessed Virgin . " He that'dares attempt , ' Amid all the " long provision and display " with which is no mistaken the ring of genuine sincerity in his defence his violence , the champion of Our Lady appears to have had of Our Lady's glories . so low as her Humility . ' Although his love and reverence for Our Lady know hardly More than be taken up to heaven high , And there have GOD for Father , spouse and Sonne , as her exalted Worth : so on the other side , none can descend teaching as to Our Lady's Assumption , although he admits Fanciful , too , as are the political rhapsodies in the adorned with a very quaint wood-cut , with the following verse the best of it . What honour could to this great Queene be done beneath it : A PROTESTAN . --- Page 6 --- religionists in the Establishment of their shortcomings . It impossibility of trying to craft Catholic teaching on Pro- thy Glory to the height . Thou desert's a Quire of Queenes is significant of the trend of opinion in this great matter here , and another of Angels in Heaven to sing the Praises . testant " branches " in a community where the right of pri- of the Blessed Virgin Mary , ' by an ' Anglican priest , of Heaven . Nothing that is not itself glorified can expresse believers in that church whose children know so little of the Grations Princess , " he says , " my wake endeavours to sum the Anglican case , in powerlessness of the writer to see the Stafford himself , his eyes opened to the glories of Mary , as emphasised than by the Introductory Essay ' On the Cultus to Our Lady , buried amid the diary times of Protestant self still outside the True Hold , sought to remind his co- ideal in this , as in all else , refused to honour Our Lady , and from the Battle of Naupactun ( Lepanto ) gained by John pion adds : " Of one thing I will assure them , till they are he could consistently express that devotion . Sea , and the Starres of Heaven tongued , they could not all hope that ' Anglicans will see the necessity , as well as the the Puritans of his day who , conformable to the heretical knowledge of Protestants of a devotion from which one would Indeed , if we needed a commentary on the whole Anglican polemics , and regarded but little by those of his own fellow- Well , space forbids our lingering on this forgotten tribute these facts do not retract from the pathos of this sixteenth of Austria and the Christians " a curious testimony to the ing on Our Blessed Mother's prerogatives . Yet her cham- century champion of Our Lady , crying in a wilderness where up thy Value , which come as short of thee , as my head does The book is concluded by a quaint " A postronhe . ' good Marians , they shall never be good Christians : while have thought they stood so completely aloof . all that . to remain an alien from the one Church where alone whereby Mr. Orbv Shipley , at the date of the reprint , him- Otherwise the Introduction reveals the radical weakness of But one cannot but deplore the position of Anthony they demonstrate from the dignity of the Mother , they cannot none paid heed . in which the author thus sums up his envoi : " O pardon , rate indement is the only right logically recognised . Yet truly honour the Sonne . ' propriety , of the Cultus of Our Lady . ' Incidentally . The writer rebukes the depraved obstinacy of Allusion is likewise made to the " Sodality of the Rosary few of his co-religionists can have been , yet still content , for expresse there so well , as a silent Extasie . ' title areas . apparently rejected all the passages in Holy Scripture bear- Were all the Earth's brood , the Droppes , the Sands of the among our separated brethren , that the writer expresses the position on devotion to Our Lady , we could not have it better of this our Blessed Lady . the Original of which is derived are thought they stood so completely alsoof . --- Page 7 --- rassed they grew more and more frightened ; the men went fifteen , with merry blue eyes , yellow hair and rosy cheeks . it . Daisy : won't it be jolly ? ' How do I look ? ' Is that and Alice and Rose will faint gracefully in their partner's like a good little girl . and get a good place to see the show . theories : and the guests , they will fix like sheep . ' Think of enough : " opening wide his blue eyes , and setting his mouth That unearthly scream rang through the house , startling his heart stood still , and with a wild shrick he fell heavily to His costume was decidedly incongruous with his lavish The servants were chiefly to be pitted ; as the minutes the dancers . Mr. O'Mara heard it and was the first to rush him to dress ; " just think how horrified the matter will look , features : he wore the conventional garb of a Chinaman , ' and the rest huddled together , shivering , shaking , and talking in Nothing both , Daisy departed . Left alone , Dermot touches to his toilette . " He was a bright , mischievous boy of in the village ; at the same moment the blood froze in his veins , quarters : a sudden fancy came over him to try his ' practice treading their terror might prove infectious , ordered them off low . subdued tones . ' pazing anxiously towards the door , fear - surprise when he sees a real live ghost upsetting all his better time my appearance by them . ' Off with you . ' was just fastening on the pigtail . ghastly face , and terrified eyes . the Celestial of Ceannmara . arms . But the Governor ! Great Scott ! just picture his hand on the domestics . round with white faces and anxious eyes until the Squire . fore the prostrate form of a little Mandarin ; but Mrs. Governor confided to me he had changed the clocks . I had that the danger was already past . fine disdain . " Now , don't be a duffer , Daisy ; run away ing to see some awful apparition . and driven away the shadowy idea of the ghostly vision . Upstairs the only son and heir was putting the finishing to the servants' hall to drink his health and rest for half an Most of the guests knew the story , but were uncertain of into what he considered the proper ghostly expression . ' What a lark it will be , Daisy , ' he was saying to his Oh , Dermot dear . I don't half like it , " Daisy said her- Why , it is three minutes to twelve , right time : lucky the we precise date , and besides the pleasant reality of the ball roungest sister , a pretty maiden of twelve , who was helping were he had only to show them his watch and to prove to them , he distance the midnight chimes toiling from the old church The Master of Ceannara stood dumb and spellbound be- towards the spot , followed by his wife and a few of the guests : the door . For he had seen coming towards him , with white " Suppose what , you little goose ? " her brother asked , with hour . vously . " Suppose , oh suppose listed softly , then proceeded towards the servants' As he turned the corner of a dimly-lit passage , he heard in ing to see some awful apparition . vously . " Suppose , oh suppose - " THE CHRISTOR OLY --- Page 8 --- XIII - THE SEPULCHRE . breathed His last two marvels occurred , one for the the lie of the vein . defiled : and the day now at hand was the " great Sabbath . ' graves opened , the deep rents running not with but at least gibbet , but must be " buried the same day . " last the land be On the little hill itself three groups , silent and expectant , immediate death by breaking the legs , and sometimes the high-priest might enter , and he but once a year , exposed to rejected their Messias . The silken veil , purple and scarlet asking for a speedy in place of the usual lingering death . rmed , with clubs for what was known as the " Crurifragium . " His friends . And the Centurion with the guard , obliged to And at Golgotha and its neighbourhood rocks were rent and keep watch while life remained to any of the crucified . sunset all traces of the crucifixions must be removed . By the the view of the priest who , in his turn , spread the incense to draw close . St. John , with a few faithful disciples on one in a group by themselves were His mother , and Magdalen , Holies , " was rent in two from the top even to the bottom . " HE Gospels tell us that immediately after our Lord had and wrought with cherubims that hung before the Holy of leaving that innermost sanctuary of Israel , which only the Silent and expectant , for before the first stars appeared after law of Moses no condemned person might be left upon a and Mary of Cleophas and Salome , and other holy women , Soon there appeared on Calvary another band of sold side . Somewhat farther and , according to eastern custom , riesthood that had ceased , the other for the people who had upon the golden altar at time of morning and evening prayers . 1 by the crosses . The friends of our Lord were allow he Jews had therefore made earnest representations to Pi ghway of the Cross . 15 . --- Page 9 --- who reverently straightened and composed the lifeless limbs , and received by those standing beneath . " Whose hands then gone boldly to the governor and asked that the body of Jesus over His feet , stained with the dust of the road ; now that drawn away ( they were afterwards found by St. Helen apart bound , then the sacred body , thus released , reverently lowered these are wounded by the nails she can at least wash them lews . The former , noble of birth , rich and influential , had deeper sleep of death , may lay again the dear head upon her to Him to the end . Magdalen has poured her rich ointment ing poured over Him the sweetest perfume of their love . They the holy women with her drew near , and before His embalm- him , his servants carrying a hundredweight of a rich unguent Vicodemus , disciples of Jesus , but in secret , for fear of the and now that these are sadly finished . They will be faithful side and through the heart : long and deep enough for St. of the blood-stains the thin white face and the deep wounds . they were that carefully and pitifully sponged and cleaned instrument , sharply pointed . The wound was from the right it was the custom of the Romans to grant this consolation to we know not . But'surely it was now that His Mother and evening must soon come . when there appeared two well- had ascertained from the Centurion that death had come . for composed of aloes and myrrh. ground and mixed together , Then one of the guard-St. John tells us-stepped forward , with a lace , a light spear terminating in an iron , oval-shaped Thomas afterwards to put in his hand : ' and St. John , who was be delivered to him . a request at once granted , when Pilate proceeded with their pious task . The four nails were first clean winding-sheet and grave-bands ; Nicodemus had joined from the cross and near the sepulchre ) , and the ropes un- with her tears . And the mother , now that it rests in the ind cried , " Indeed this man was the Son of God . ' His sorrowing friends . The afternoon was wearing away and they came to our Lord , seeing that He was already dead . such as the Jews used for embalming . had lingered to the end returned to the city " striking their These , with the aid of St. John and the disciples , at once water flow from it . standing at the foot of the cross , saw a stream of blood and the friends of the condemned . Joseph had then bought a was the Son of God . ' breasts . ' and standing beneath the cross and in front , opened His side shown members of the Sanhedrin . Joseph of Arimathea and against him , " watching and noting all , was struck with awe , Then there were left by His cross only the two groups of ribs . This they did to the two thieves , but desisted when And many of the crowd who had gathered to look on and have ministers to Him during three years of iournevines . THE CROSS . gently disentangled and removed the crown of thorns , who The soldiers also " were sore afraid , " saying , " Indeed this The Centurion , who , in sense of duty , had stood " over 17 --- Page 10 --- average energy he should easily outstrip his rivals for the almost laugh themselves to sleep at their own quips and Dreams and Dreamers . Medici " ? " In one dream . " he wrote . " I can compose a ownership , and eventually settles down in suburbia , would hardly have had the courage to start on an upward career been as a torch to one of lowly birth-acting through life as philosophical acceptance of the obstacles which a seemingly to dream-night or day-like the author of the " Religio must of necessity be a failure when he comes into contact douds to deeds . He sees his goal afar off , and has he but use of one whose chief virtue is his " practicalness " there is little beyond the solid perseverance of the plotder who trifles which seem as mountains to him whose eyes are glued with the world of action . The hard-headed man of the world to earth . " Blind striving becomes an irksome thing after a unkind Fate ever and an unstretched across his road . Setting were he not now and again indulging in a little day-dreaming whole comedy , behold the action , apprehend the pests , and The bread-van driver who rises to the dignity of bakery laugh myself awake at the conceits thereof . " Of course , we visionary to the presence of the hillocks on the journey . those while ringing the bell at the " Tradesmen's Entrance . ' know that some playwrights in their most wakeful hours can traps to catch your day-dreams is usually an unprofitable Many have been the instances in which a childish dream has an incentive to the putting forth of his best energies , to the great deal more successful when he comes down from the may be quite all right in his own place , but very often in the time , but to the dreamer of dreams that inspire , the aimed-at light on the far horizon has the magnetism which blinds the individual as his more prosaic brother , but he should be a much of the current notion that a vivid or fanciful thinker counts himself happy so long as he can keep in his own rut . occupation , though - if your visions are " so elusive , better who hitch their waggons to something more attainable than weary by the wayside , that they tire of Possibly the craze for specialisation has been to blame for a star . Even amongst dreamers there are reasonably as well witticisms , but then their audiences have a different story to goal is as plain as are the two posts of a football ground to the fashion . What would one of our dramatists give to be able devote your time to leprechaun hunting ! To my mind not only should the visionary be as able an And growing old in drawing nothing up ! But we are not so much concerned with them as with the folk It is not to be wondered at that many visionaries grow players . Of dropping buckets into empty wells , Referies so airv. and the toil The worst of it is that so few of us can dream in a practical tell . in --- Page 11 --- hall-mark of genius . Find a carpenter whose thoughts run in ideal the better is the actual accomplishment likely to be . such a work has come to light that it was never placed in the at the altar' live of the ' altar : I lack ' nothing but have nothing he sees himself the leading figure . the other views in fancy minds of those whose achievements are stamped with the There is no room in my life for avarice or anxiety : I who serve more of the philosophy of " Michael Fairless " in our nature . the crossing of the Great Barrier . tends towards a calm life by reason of its realisation that letter from the editor of a little Service journal in which he duced a work of literature or art that satisfied himself , or if winding white road and serve the footsteps of my fellows . has been said over and over again that nobody has ever pro- very ambitious visionary , perhaps , but one whose outlook artist . " One dreams of the noble structures in whose building rank . Even the poorest performers amongst us have such we may know it not , most of us would be better had we a little to better action than we are aware of at the time . Though Even editors are idealists now and again . I once received a but there is much calm in the knowledge that the higher the but it is a pleasant antidote against the grim facts of the house wall and wait for the tender mercies of God . " Not a of reality falling so far short of the ideal set up at the start should like to turn out , and you will discover that his wheel- pany of weary old men who sit on the sunny side of the work- the face of God ? All these gifts are mine as I sit by the a guess as to the splendid visions which must occupy the anything his brush has yet achieved . It is the old , old story presumably , the numbers which he saw in fancy before the and with ourselves ; and from the lap of earth to look up into barrows are better made than those of his brother , whose nothing matters so much as the way in which we prepare for the cross . front rank or anywhere within measurable distance of that but leave to serve , to live , to commune with our fellow-men is no place like the clouds wherein to keep your head ! . It ligible minority . One needs to be careful in dogmatising as never yet turned out a number which satisfied me . " So . fanciful notions as to what we expect to do that we can make with him through life . It may be unrealised in its entirety . existence of most , and unconsciously it acts as an incentive The principle is the same in the case of the mason and the waste their time in yearning for the impossible are but a neg- highest ambition is to produce serviceable donkey-carts . concluded : " Although this is my fifth year as editor . I have Happy is he who carries the dream of a lavish imagination the direction of the beautifully designed cabinets which he as unreasonable beings , and after all the impractical ones who regards the limits of human attainments . " After all , what do we ask of life , here or indeed hereafter . the gorgeous canvases that are so much more splendid than over ; and when the winter of life comes I shall join the com- Provided only you can keep your feet on solid earth there Happy is he who carries the dream of a bo- --- Page 12 --- wouncing the approaching trial of the prisoner , Victor Beau- other impeccile devotion to exploded religious fallacies . As hamp . This was accompanied by a long pointed comment The cablegram was brief , merely stating the facts and an- Lucille read , she smiled bitterly . Yes ; this was the penalty grave when she read the paper : she could not believe that cissy and superstition , and declaring that no other result gloomy and silent , her hands in her lap and utterly indifferent Victor was guilty - yet she foresaw that he would find it very both the robbery and the murder ! " Aashed Lucille indie- weakened by this terrible fever , the eminent physician only by the editor of the paper , a Freemason , denouncing hypo- self : not only was the fair young frame worn and attenuated , who had been known at school : now she sat hour after hour , believe that he himself , and no one else , has committed Victor . Her father continued to sneak . but she heard noth- In her ears , and through them she could distinguish one voice loving mind . " The Sunbeam " was the pet name by which she , by a look , asked her father for the paper . the wild delirium of brain fever . The doctor gave only a Nor fear that if Lucille recovered , her brain might be left would be expected when the men were employed abroad who this conclusion , to which she had come with true feminine read the result of the trial , when she fell to the ground uncon- seeing each day's cablegram . ' She kept up ' bravely until she antly . Nothing her father could say would disabuse her of wick bed . She was , however , only the ghost of her former such was the heading of the article which met her view . replied : " Let us hope for the best . ' For many weeks she lay between life and death , saving in The days dragged on warily for Lucille , who insisted on which she knew - oh ! so well-and it said : " You at least , procure the situation of manager in St. Pierre for his victim : had to be dismissed from their situations in France on account ' The accusation may perhaps be false , ' suggested her but a settled melancholy had taken possession of the bright , Lucille , you will believe in me ? " " Yes , until death ! " she cried , starting up . Ing. A confused sound as of many voices seemed to vibrate knew nothing of the actual accusations against her loved one , intuition . morning , as she had a touch of influenza . She looked very of Felix Legrange's . I now know why he was so anxious to quaring Bank robbery and murder in the West Indies . " This relieved the tension . Then remembering that she " Of course , it is false , father . It is all a base connection At length youth won the victory and Lucille rose from her faint hope of her recovery , and when Mme : Bunsen voiced father . of upright consciousness in whom Catholic France . scious . just then Mme . Bunsen entered . She had risen late that illicult , if not impossible , to prove his innocence . --- Page 13 --- expense of water dotted over near the land with tiny islets . news every rock and crevice round the little fishing village : work , a few miles from St. Malo , overlooking the English the body of the negro , Simon Flinch , lying dead on the road , at 5 o'clock a.m. , with their fruit and vegetables . they found De Norval . " That poor dear M. Felix Legrange was quite have fallen from his pedestal and turned out to be a common coming to the place where the deceased negro lay he had past the deeply-indented coast . the simple fisher folk , young and old , worship her . The She spoke little , but the grand music of the waves sang its Channel . The boom of the breakers could be heard night and taken in by this so-called paragon , whose part he still takes retribution . and for whose acquittal he still hopes . Of course , you do everybody who was anybody . " And she looked round to robber and murderer passed their comprehension . And so the party of three , with one servant to attend them , people still have faith in him : but my husband , with everyone of the shock her mind has received . ' work up their abode in a pretty little cottage built on a high when they were alone . else , knows that he must be guilty , ' concluded Mrs. Bridge- It seems to me to be her only chance of recovery . She house of environment may gradually obliterate the effects soothing lullaby to her poor , weary mind . one who had posed as the auntessence of perfection should believe him guilty . ' Constable Mountcalf was next called . ' He proved that on sniffed Miss Hedwigs de Lisle : " putting himself above not agree with me turning to Mrs. Merriman , who signed Someone had the territory to moot the possibility of his Lucille liked to sit in the little porch and to watch the wide The court was crowded . The gallery was filled with ladies innocence-she was promptly snubbed and silenced . " Of and replied : they were coming to market on Saturday . the 5th of April . ho discussed the coming trial with acrimonious zest . That course he was guilty . " Exactly so ; just what I always maintained , " agreed Mrs. " In it wise to bring her to Ivraie ? " she asked her brother , see if that dictum was not conclusive . chapter XIV . mitted the crimes laid to his charge ; neither does my husband ind that they at once gave notice at the police barracks . " I never did hold with his esoteric professions of piety . " I am told that Nurse Williams and some of the poor man . THE TRI . day with the lugubrious chant so peculiar to the waves rolling The trial commenced . Some countrymen deposed that as ' No ! I cannot believe that M. Beauchamp ever com- see if that dictum was not conclusive . the --- Page 14 --- would stain his hands in the blood of a poor negro servant . an educated criminal go unscathed ? A poor man is sent to such a position for a paltry few hundred pounds , and If we punish crime in a poor , ignorant man , shall we let Much learning and eloquence were brought to bear on the poor , ignorant negro into crime , and then cutting him off in redents , and of his recitude and honour , which had caused counsel asked was it probable that such a man would forfeit prison for stealing , even though the theft may have been chief be set free simply because he did not need that which retribution . committed in a moment of urgent necessity . Shall the rich impression could be made in favour of the prisoner . pronounced upon him . defence drew near without his appearing Victor's counsel court to see whether there was one kind , one pitying face matter , but where there was no visible evidence of guilt no doubt that Legrange was the originator of the whole diabolical proceeded to speak of Victor's high character , spotless ante- him . The messenger returned alone and whispered a few prisoner . Having summoned up the evidence his fordship said : into his eyes - he was so absolutely innocent , and the awful to incriminate himself still further , for Victor had now no like a drunken man . He gave one despairing look round the The judge dwell strongly on the baseness of inveighing a unanimously found the prisoner at the bar guilty on both While he had given Beauchamp to drink , he might be brought there . Not one . The look of a hunted animal at bay came words to the counsel , who rose and said amid profound The jury did not need to retire for consultation . After a few whispered words the foreman announced that the jury be a fortiori-all the more severe ? " Mr Lord , I have been just informed that M. Legrange , before announcing sentence the judge asked the prisoner had he any reason to advice why sentence should not be web of guilt had been so skilfully woven around him . called for silence , and the judge said : The unfortunate prisoner felt his head swimming : he replied he stole ? Should not the punishment of the latter criminal him to be placed in a position of such trust . ' The learned ledize that the cocktail found in the tumbler was different from silence : the only witness for the defence , has suddenly been taken ill mence . ' If the prisoner pleads not guilty let the defence com- the is " unconscious . " He pleads ' not guilty . ' my lord . ' And the barrister The index's charge to the jury told " heavily against the prime of life in order to secure his silence . plot . be a fortiori-all the more " severe ? ' counts . becume anxious , and a messenger was sent to the bank for Exclamations of surprise were heard . Legrange had been subpoenaed . The court chair . wegrange had been subpoenaed . ' As the time for the As the time for the 26 --- Page 15 --- In Thanksgiving , etc. sends ten shillings towards the Cause of Gemma Galgani . thanksgiving for favours received through her intercession . Blessed Gabriel in thanksgiving for favours " received . for favours received through their intercession . forwarded to the Postulator at Rome . special favours . members of the Congregation of the Passion . acknowledged in these pages . and Gemma Galgani asking their intercession and prayers of their clients for The above donations , for which we are sincerely grateful , will be duly b Blessed Gabriel's Cause which have prompted these generous donations . Contributions towards the expenses of the Causes of Blessed Gabriel and Florentia ( per Verv Rev. Fr. Alban , C.P. , R Mary ( Rathkeale ) sends two shillings towards the Causes of Blessed Gabriel rf - ; for the success of a medical student , 2/6 : for a special intention from Mrs. Moss ( Limerick ) sends ten shillings towards the Canoniz . W. D. ( Roscommon ) sends two shillings towards the Cause of Blessed . girl for a special intention , 5/ - from a young girl in thanksgiving for a young lady , 2/6 : for success of students at their examinations , S ) - for other we think it well to let supporters of this magazine know that all our supporters of the Cause of Gemma Galgani in fulfilment of a promise made and in favour , 2/ - From a lady for a particular intention , 2/ for a special intention well as in the prayers , penances and good works performed daily W. for similar intention and asking complete recovery , 51 - ; from " brief and two shillings towards that of Gemma Galgani in Thanksgiving recovery from illness and asking complete restoration to health , 7 the expenses of his Canonization , in thanksgiving for favours received through inting to fit 15s. od. , from various clients of Blessed Gabriel to and promoters participate in the benefit of four hundred and thirty-fo social intentions , 2/6 . We are extremely grateful for the zeal and intercession , and asking further favours from J. W. H. , in that nds ten shillings towards the Cause of Gemma Galgani . specially offered every year for benefactors by the Fathers of . D. ( Monaghan ) sends two shillings and suspense towards the ex ister M. Philomena ( Roscommon ) has forwarded us a number of donations , 0 OUR PROMOTERS . In answer to inquiries made from time to ma Galgani and favours received through their intercession will be every year for benefactors by the Fathers of this Province , as specially offered every year for benefactors by the Fathers of this Province , as ravours received through their impression . well as in the prayers , penances and good v to my God for justice ! of his execution . others were indignant at what they considered his audacity . THE CROSS . A surging wave of sound was heard through the court . money was stolen : I only know that I did not take it . As to earth . I swear that I know no more of the crimes with which its having been found in my room . I firmly believe that I was of guilt were introduced amongst my belongings . I also has convicted me of these crimes on evidence trumped up by Beauchamp , naming Thursday , the 19th proximo , as the date ( To be continued . ' Grasping the rail he said : " My lord , before heaven and believe that my pistol was stolen and the murdered man shot Some felt pity for the prisoner-so young , so handsome : with it whilst I was under the influence of the narcotic . " Man an enemy , but I am innocent - I am innocent - and I appeal ged , and that whilst I was unconscious those evidences charged than you do yourself . I do not know how the judge pronounced sentence of death on Victor ricted me of these crimes on evidence trumped up by --- Page 16 --- ill anxious to be active members . They are Nellie Burke , Michael Burke , Julia M. Kennedy , Maisie Burke , and Maureen O'Brien sent me says : " Oh , Francis , I hope very much that dear Lillian Nally is not has a word of praise for Bridie Redmond's work . " The prize essay of last of our most active members , brings five recruits into the Guild this month , and May Sayers . They are welcome as the flowers of May . ' Emily O' Farrell signs and tokens we can see . Mary Ellen Doyle will give a good account of requests the prayers of the members for a very special intention , and I am by her last month , and with which she is delighted , ' Bridie " Redmond brings to see that the Guild can " go on " without the help of the old review bear . From Glasgow a new comrade comes to us . Her name is Margaret overwhelmed with icy and surprise when her prize volume came to " hand would simply fall to pieces , and Francis would become as dumb as a rare- Gavanagh to last month's Guild . I mean to keep her concluding request sort who considers her own land better than any other on earth . Bridle and I trust she will read Lily's appeal and hearten to it . Too . Eily has a deased with their trophies and mean to cherish them always I wonder will onging for her letters , and if they do not appear , well the Guild will not be Spooner , Beatrice O'Rourke , Joseph Spooner , and Agnes Caul vin for him a prayer when memory brings back the days of Blessed Gabriel's She had no expectation of anything so splendid . She means to make the is no greater gift . May. Callanan is a new and welcome member from comrade from Cork . ' Elly Barrett , is very much troubled . Here is what she requires . " Her best plan would be to inquire of her confessor . Our little has been anxious to join us . ' ' ' Nar she find plenty of enjoyment in our Guild constitutes the reserve force that has made him a foremost writer for var-worn veterans will forsake the side of Francis . ' Mary Rennie writes one of her nice , kind letters and renews her promise to ever hold the interests of Retribution . " now running in " The Cross . " " Now is a patriot of the true umes Nairin N. Chonchubhair , and with her five other new members which month , " he writes , " was very beautiful , I thought . It shows that the old Mary E. Wall wrote specially to tell me that she would remember me and thenry . She loves the ' Guild and is deeply interested in the serial story . We are gathering in recruits in large numbers these times . From Ranelagh training our best boy member got in writing essays for Blessed Gabriel's month . Any message which is not delivered by the 14th of the month at all the members in her travers to Our Risen Lord at Easter . She could give to leave us ' so soon . ' O Francis , ' won't you please tell her to send all of whom are heartily welcome . They are Elizabeth Watson , Bridget Mount Argus will not reach me for a whole month . Freda Bottomley was magazine that I shall find a familiar name and realize that the splendid midst ! Chrissie McCarthy , of Fermov , introduces a new member - Kitty W over ) leading in another new recruit , whose name is Kelly Mannion . Close herself before she ceases to be an active member . Philip J. Caudwell , one post . There is no fear , however , that the loyal and gifted Old Brigade of " feel when in some future time " I search the pages of our much-loved n mind and may be able to comply with it before many months are past . over the daisies and soundrons and widely there . But to me thinking the Build ! Thanks to Proinsias Mac Thighearmain for his enjoyable letter . He ill those books remind the members of Francis in the years to come , and message every month to us from her mountain home ! We are all simply of generous praise for the contributions of Bridie Redmond and Katie or the blessing descending so swiftly upon her . ' We Maria ! help our Navy ! But it can't . Proinsias . If the Old Brigade were to desert the child in Interest Power of all just now is one little Mau blossom looking heavenward s a new member who has long envied as our pleasant time in the Guild , and Guild known everywhere she goes . ' That's what the new Editor will like to another new recruit from Arklow into the Guild , and according to all the to whom I extend a warm welcome . Then comes Eiblis . Sevighe ( Alice cards for St. Patrick's Day , but they arrived too late to be acknowledged last the Guild close to her heart . As a thanks-offering for the prize volume won the imperishable ' Cross . ' Proinsias Mac Thighearnain , we await your spirit of the Guild is still on the forward move . It makes me almost jealous sure they will be readily given . I am unable to give the information she twind . and I have great pleasure in hiding her a hearty Irish welcome behind them" marches Peter Burke at , the head of five Castlepollard recryi ames are May O'Connell , Cissie Halpin , Little Synnott , Annie Re same at all . " If I were speaking to Italian I should surely tell her , but issie Sweeney send thanks for their prize volumes . Both are highly third them marches Peter Burke at the head of five Castlepalt . Its overwhelmed with in and surprise when her prize will be come to hand years us so soon . O Brands , won't you please tell her to send a cherry # ne at all . " If I were speaking to Lilian I should sure She had no expectation of anything so splendid . She means to make the --- Page 17 --- memories of May are tinged with regret he were not mortal were it other- disease ? ' Is it not ironic to imagine that May could have' sought but bitter sorrow is unknown and dull care never enters : it means experiencing the he awakening of the sluggish blood into new warmth and vigour , and the of his neighbour , so the message which Martime brings is in no case similar . while the nostrils feel with every intake of breath the delicious odours when he sported with his companions when the silver-shining bloom of fra- To the tired city worker , who , through a miraculous piece of luck , gets ird-music as " the larks call to their young and shake out the captures of and the Vista , instead of being bleak and wind-swept , is now gay with spring work , with all its monotony and its cares , and gliding with crest erect and body : it means seeing the beauties with which Mar adorns the landscape , tends to cheer and enliven the drooping spirits of him on whom health refused rant May was predominant ? ' Yet , strange as it may seem , to some such rouse a different feeling in every human heart . As no two persons have inter wind , or the rattling of the raindrons against his window he hears joy that is almost pain . " In his chamber , instead of the morning of the These , to childish ever , form a ' bouquet which will deserve the knightly What is the message of the May to the poor bed-ridden invalid , written . Kevin's , Dublin : Mount Argus , Dublin : St. Bede's , Clapham seems a foretaste of heaven's sweetness . It means casting off the clothing of he rich brown soil , and he ( the rook ) follows each furrow for food Lancaster Road , Notting Hill , London ; St. Mary's , Manchester ; knock , nagic disarmment , and power of reading character , to sketch the thoughts he other wild flowers which Mar scatters everywhere with a lavish hand . Filled even its tears with light . ' perhaps , the most pathetic and most loving message of all is brought to that the joy of Maytime , and he sings in his heart : their full bearts , and the causing notes of the rook as the coulter turns over to smile . uld take a Shakespeare to define this phrase . ' It would take all the poet's That , shining o'er life's early track , Sweet air , how every note brings back Although May carries a host of messages to such a number of souls . yet . diases : St. Eadburgh's . Pershire : Grangetown , Yorks passionist missions . Mary E. Doyle . Missions were given during Lent by the Passionist Fathers at the following I gem called from Shakespeare's store , for it brings to the mind as many houghts as any of his celebrated maxims . Some sunny hope , some day-dream bright , " Maytime's message . " Yes ; though Shakespeare did not say it , yet it belfast . To the child the message comes in the shape of daisies and buttercups and sick boy . His soul is made free , his spirit awakens , and he , too , the soft sought of the gentle May breeze , and the sweet songs of the guerdon of grateful love which shines in mother's eyes . wafted by the air redolent with the perfume of flowers and shrubs : it in vet in the Power of youth , with some languishing yet not mortal emories for such as he , who must look back with sorrow on happier days habiliments under leafy trees and by the borders of shining seas where while speckled clouds reflect the glory of the sun , and everything hese words suggest . For these few words convert a different m poor sufferer Martime's message brings but happy thoughts . Of co ve in the country when the queen of Mar is rejoining the messara ise-but it is a " sweet bitterness , " that purifies rather than adulterates his he same features and the mind of each individual is different to that Cross . Belfast : Dalkey , Co. Dublin : Glasthule : Box atmosphere of spring in every pore and with every sense of " one's leness . " The message of the Martime " might well be taken as the rich brown soil , and he ( the rook ) follows each furrow for food refmusic hearts , and the call to the ring of the rock shake out the ruptures over xactly the same features and the mind of each individual is was