Cross bulletin October 1915

--- Page 1 --- Our Lady of the Rosary . The Ste . Emily contents . on to THE CROSS . Three Still The Ret Gabriel ications to the Editor at this was o be addressed to the Manager . I ionist ( Belgian A Kelly hall . girls . page . XII . By cross . October , 1915 . d the by Battlefield rev . Taste in Re 230 The Guir 221 . 222 The Owne rev. P. 231 . ri A 227 the October , # 236 ) in Thanksgiving IN. THANK 236 --- Page 2 --- matches and wrote the following : mentions were still a mystery . When he took out his adored Isn't he , Aunt Julia ? ' Won't the others be delighted ? ' fully for her services . Now and then she wrote a short story , saged in tennis tournaments , he had taken Miss Bee to the theatre , with Aunt Julia as chaperone . Aunt Iulia was an remaining members of the household were the young ladies' as we see . Do not blame him , reader ! After all there is a which she sandwiched between the latter occupation and the " The Pines " twice a weak exclusive of Sundays . But hern's with the greatest good humour : and Miss May . who played f Dolly's contralto fetched him . His mentioning the mother , a widow , and Miss Martin , their Aunt Juliet . paper in which he had been studying the tennis fixtures . lara in the part of the Gipsy Queen . Such an opportunity the backward children of agree who underpaid her disgrace - imit to what a man in a suburban groove may dare do . one it must have been under cover of at least two of her hands . ' Isn't he a perfect dear , manna ! Just a perfect ! it was Dolly he was after . He's so musical and fond of sing- old maid who tried to maintain her independence by teaching " I always knew , " she went on . lowering her voice , " that letight arose as each member of the family was made aware Miss Bee , her mother and Aunt Julia had already sat down When writing the letter he had first thought of saying some of the girls , ' but on second thoughts had worded it isters . Once or twice , it is true , when the others were en- Bohemian Girl . ' I am sure they would enjoy Lilla Can- and ask her alone . ' On a certain summer evening John Coyle laid down the the dress circle and I can pay at the door . ' As mentioned before , although he had taken to visiting dance music , gardened or kept accounts with equal skill . ' The of its contents . to breakfast when it was opened . " She may come , " said John to himself . There are no tournaments on , " he said to himself dis- Then with sudden resolve he sat down and wrote a letter , contralto proves it . ' may not occur again for years . " I shall call about 7.15 . " Dear Mrs. Martin , Oh ! " explained Bee , pumping up and clapping her ' May 29 . ' but with equal suddenness tore it up , burned the pieces with Horation of her own or her niece's clothes . ' Navy I have the pleasure of taking the girls to the opera pointedly . " I wonder ought I take the bull by the horns When the letter arrived in ' The Pines , ' explanations of morrow evening . ' There is a great revival of the Yours sincerely , John Coyle . ' ' Tibradden Road , We can go in ing . Bohemian Girl . ' to-morrow evening . ' ration of her own or her niece's clothes . 500 --- Page 3 --- for a cab and never coming back Aashed through his mind . but he dismissed them as base . Taxis were then uncommon even her little buckled shoes adorned Miss Reena's feet . veek's programme a certain person was going to hear alone roices and saw their forms . clad in only too attractive hues . of them . He was mentally deciding which operas on next on a salary knows what that signifies . ' The wretched man THIS IAINI INSTIONS AND LESS HINDY LANCANOUS . WHEN Aunt Julia . The latter's wardrobe was largely drawn upon women . Visions they literally were , for John but ' firmly real- well in " How I've music ! ' Don't you . Mr. Corle ? ' generous . Mr. Govle . Isn't he , manna ? " I dream that I sounded unusually . As he knocked at the door of " The ris beloved was among them or not . He vaguely heard their Heavens , " he now thought remorsefully , " why didn't Our lover was ushered into the drawingroom . their number . Five ! Wild thoughts of pretending to go and the Whelans coming to their windows to watch him . risky when three other visions sailed gracefully into the Jerry Tree Avenue had been trying . His footsteps had re- with him , and was wishing Miss Bee was not so loud and two days to the end of the month . Anyone who ever lived scort and disappointed that the one he wanted was not one With his bodily voice he greeted them all politely . Astonish- Bee entered , followed by Miss Reena . forehead . It was a still , sultry evening . ' The walk along up Cherry Tree Avenue must be on foot . Hope anyway there won't be more than two of them . Three " The girls are ready , " said Mrs. Martin , after she had her cherry-coloured ash , her gloves , her aimethyst pendant , ura ! " Bee shouted at him , gushingly . " Really you are too distinctly shouted : ing for chocolates for five and a taxi home . No , the journey He singled his money in his pockets through nervousness Pines " he had distinctly seen the McMullens , the Byrnes stairs . Was hers among them ? . The door opened and Miss John sank into a chair and wiped the perspiration from his vent and dismay possessed him . He hardly cared whether aying when their escort's knock resumed through the ind looked expectantly at the door . He heard voices on the The ladies were filing down the stairs now , John in their No , I'm did if I'll take five ! ' This is not fair ! ' is a harem . ' John was looking relieved that he had only two ladies to felt feverishly in his pockets . He could just cover it , allow- greated him . ' I will go and fetch them . house . sed their presence . ' His head swam and his wicked genius ' Shall I wear a fascinator or go in my hair ? " Imogen wa " Oh , how good of you to take us to hear Madame Can- I it would cause delay to go for one . Besides it wanted but lask her to come alone ? Why didn't I post that first let was bewildered at their shimmer and their chatter and --- Page 4 --- reader , if you had imagined her as plain . She had the pret- rustle ran along the street-not indeed from Zephyrus play- stairs . " We have been told that Aunt Julia was an old maid , cient sleep . This evening she wore a gown that matched her of window-curtains being drawn aside , of blinds being let up , sheltering branch overhung the whole road . It was a rustle of windows being thrown open , of heads bobbing against one walking down . Cherry Tree Avenue . As they proceeded a ing in the pine's or cool Boreas in the Oaks , for not a kindly shouting adieus to mamma in the window . Now they were tiest brown hair and sapphire-blue eyes and the whitest teeth . but not how old . She was thirty-two . You were mistaken , Miss. Bee's soprano and Miss Dolly's centralto united in Aunt Julieta trembled a little as she heard his voice on the rustle of whispers and giggles and beckoning hands , while eyes and contrasted with her brown hair . She looked lovely . another in their owners' endeavour to get a good view - a at the tennis match , ' said Mary as she let John into the ball . But she was thin and worn from over-work and want of suffi- What a pity the young ladies and the mistress is all out A week later John was knocking once more at " The Pines . " our hero heard as if it were shouted from end to end of the midst . They were at the door , they were on the garden path . night , darling , I will tell them that we are to be married in a oldly to the maid . " I will come to the drawingroom . ' be a laggard in love . young man ! I believe I have you alone this evening , " he said . " To- street : John kissed her gently as she came into the room . Emily Dowling . " Please tell Miss Martin I am here . " John answered rather There's only Miss Julia in . ' In a short time Aunt Tulia ran lightly down the stairs . month . ' There and then his resolve was taken . He would no longer There are the five Miss Martins going out with their --- Page 5 --- priest . who was the guiding spirit of the whole representing . The members have taken their places in a semi-circle , sitting at least one friend . Joseph of Arimathea , rich , powerful , of Annas still referenced by the people as the legitimate high- seem to have had no fixed place of meeting : and St. John's ontradicting each other . Already had Caiphas , descending from the dais and coming face to face with our Lord admini- lower town . Three years before our Saviour's Passion they looking on . Among the Ancients , or nobles , our Lord had excher of St. Paul . ' These three , and other upright and just shorter , tunic of white wool over the inner one , and their ees no friendly or pitying face . ' He and they know that they to have been sufficient to form a legal assembly . but for crimi- nal cases more were required . Their place of meeting had taken from three orders in the state , the families of the high- loaks of rich and divers coloured cloth are drawn close with and votes . A majority of one may acquit , but not condemn . Israel " : and the pious and learned Pharasee . Gamaticl Against the cold of early morning they are wearing a second . are urban-wise round their heads . In the centre on a raised our Lord raised His eyes , weary and heavy with pain . He a second time arranged before this supreme tribunal of Israel . show their high rank-folds of silk or insulin of varied hues . heads of the great families . Twenty-three members appear the time being . Next to him is the Saga or Vice-President . court , but on the deposition of the last ethnarch . Archelaus . Lord's condemnation was , like the first , at the high-priest's avourable evidence and votes , the other the adverse evidence the Messias , the Son of God , and had heard Him declare that he scribes , Nicodemus , rich and virtueous , and " a master in legalty . Already they had heard the witnesses unhappily sittings in the Gentiles Porches , and later on in a hall in the He was , and that hereafter they would see Him " seated at crowd of guards , servants and students-of-law are standing ( i.e. " , of hewn or square stones ) at the eastern end of the the right hand of the Majesty of God , and coming on the and any witnesses coming forward must be heard . A small 're met again only to condemn with some appearance of lais is the Nazi , or President , Joseph Caiphas , high-priest for rowded and awakening city , that our Lord found Himself for composed of seventy-one members , including the president . It is , then , just after the light of day had broken over the nen we may be sure , had not been summoned , so that when and the coming of the Roman Procurators , they held their palace . dend down to establish on their heels in oriental fashion , on rich carpets or cushions . high birth , and influential with the Roman Procurator ; among priests , the scribes or doctors of the law . and the ancients or he easy grace of life-long habit ; their girdles and sandal within the precincts of the Temple in a hall called Gasith stered the solemn oath adiuring Him to tell them if He went At each end of the semi-circle is a secretary , one to record Gospel seems to imply that the second assembly held for so . 228 220 . --- Page 6 --- http . The Babylonians and Persians regarded angels or named Hall-exclaimed that now he firmly saw of what ex- He told how these angels praised God with music , subdued round the belief in angels . An unprejudiced mind , brought While he yet spoke , ' one of his hearers - an Icelandic chief , but come to the conclusion of the Icelandic chief to a faith , women with ideas which polluted this earlier faith , and led into contact with the Christian view of the matter , and hear- Angels . conception all the more striking because of the stern mono- People were exiled in Babylonia and Persia they came into which everyone accepts are bound to suffer from accretions . and mutilations , according to the mental enlightenment and ever , wanting in the reverence insepar from any real war - all once pure and vivid in the Host of Heaven which sur- Holy Angels their superhuman power and beauty and skill . overwhelming fear of these spirits and a tendency to belittle beautiful conception of the angels attendant on ' Jehovah ; a deep-rooted to exist only in unprejudiced minds : and truths these the Unseen had to reckon . But when the Chosen ain , Thangbrand , on a mission to beaten Iceland . The Jews , as we know from the Old Testament , had a very fro upon His errands , ' shining with a light above the sun . And debly occupy the foreground of Christian thought , could those risings and settings their influence depended . Hence . power of angels a kind of angel-deification , which was : how- unciliation superstition and grotesque error that has gathered this story , though it may not be literally true , illustrates a their greatest heroes ( King Olaf of Norway , the re- Later Jewish tradition displays , at one and the same time , an Michaelinas ; and one of his first sermons had for subject the ounds the Throne , and fulfils the buildings of the King , received baptism . double warrior and Christian convert ) once sent his chap- to save . I'm I and the chief and many others soon after heaven with the planets they were supposed to rule , and on he curious Jewish saying that the angels only praised God at The Cabbalists practically identified angels with the stars of EADERS of the Prose Sagas will remember how one of But the belief in guardian spirits is too instinctive a but for the first time , those facts about angels which should them . much the obscuring of which is responsible for much of the will as spirits with independent power over the fate of men . tree of instruction of those who hold them . medium story must be the God Who had such noble creatures I'm into superfluous speculations and theories about the theism and dread of idolatory with which any attempt hangbrand arrived in the island about the time of degree of instruction of those who hold them . he evil spirits who opposed His Providence , and sped to and manybrand arrived in the island about the tin the minimum journey and the return was a 231 . --- Page 7 --- resistance . Thereto bear witness their talismonic jewels and mental infirmity when he reminded men that there were " twice rom this loose fashion of thinking : this indiscriminate accent- rap ; and followed , like many simpler folk , this line of least emblem of the planet he was thought to rule . is an independent Power , acting on his own authority , apart ticular kinds of stone , a magical power was ascribed ! spirits could only execute evil with God's permission , and Cabbalistic charms , scarawled on threshold and doorpost and ion forcibly suggests that the idea of propitiating demons was lar imagination , and rapidly obscured the sense that such the life-blood stain ' ; and as the water in which he has hose whose faith in God is not sufficiently strong : and who " Why does thou fear the beautiful angel , Death ? " is Long- is , and can be , but one reason - the trick of envisaging . Death scholarship and considerable philosophic skill-fell into this recious stones bears the impress of the wide-spread fancy that and archangels , " to which , especially when engraved on par- Jewish custom ( here and there lingering still ! ) to cast away It was also from this later Jewish tradition that Mahomet sense of unpardoned sin , which is the sting of Death , there are haunted by a mental picture of angels of light out- all the water in the house where a death has occurred , last a numbered , and defeated , by spirits of darkness . Slayer , whose personality stands out so distinctly in legend . I sword ; an uninvited relentless guest whose approach all the the Mahometan belief that God created the angels out of uvoked as minor deities : and their names employed in astro- an be absent ; since magical practices are the natural refuge of had no authority apart from it . the idea of whose power and continual presence obsessed pop- allow's reproachful question to humanity . Apart from the St. Thomas Aquinas brought the right corrective for this His victim slain , Azrael must wash his terrible weapon from arr gem-the particular precious stone which was the popular from the flats of Eternal Love . course , nominally angels of light : but the manner of invoca- ogical incantations . not absent . ' redhead , are powerless to check . Many of the early heresies about angel guardians sprung Azrael appears , in Oriental table , as a winged genius , with second death should follow ! teansed it at once takes on a fatal quality . It is an immemorial heir inferiority . Yet such planetary beings were naturally III Cross . Indeed , in what is commonly known as Magic . it very rarely be power of each guardian spirit was localised in the plane- unaments-bearing the names or mystic symbols of angels The angels whose protection was thus invoked were , of ight , when the chosen people slept - a distinct suggestion of ince of current superstition . The Gnostics - for all their Innumerable Eastern legends , too deal with evil angels - orrowed the cult of the terrible Angel of Death-Azrael th had no authority apart from it . heir inferiority . redhead , are powerless to check . 552 . 232 --- Page 8 --- by the grant of Edward the Confessor , and with the similar monastery on the Norman promontory of the same name , for both England and France claimed the patronage of the members of the household , each person's share being re- Parable of the Tares , and an association of ideas with the rest wheat , marked with a cross , and divided among the happened ; the pestilence from that hour began to abate . mountain-sanctuary that Gregory the Great , walking in the penitential procession which was traversing the plague- given him by St. Michael , and that continual celebration of suppers , wherein a great cake would be made from the har- asting and prayer , had a vision of St. Michael , and an standing beside it , as it were , the figure of the worded good heart , for their prayer was heard . And so , indeed , it ted in Christian Art holding a balance in his hand and vounded by an arrow , miraculously headed in a lonely cav- long represented on the coinage of " Merrie England " on Ireland are ascribed , by ancient Celtic tradition . to the aid reapers . . St. Michael too , as most of us know , is represen- archangel , in the act of putting back into its sheath the sword weighing souls , in allusion to his supposed office at the Day Benedictine Abbey on Mount St. Michael , Cornwall , founded Perhaps we may venture here to see an analogy from the those ten-shilling pieces that derived from him their name of ern . the arrow coming from the wound of its own accord and leaving no scar . It is interesting to note that the miracles of the Apostle of In an old English medical work-Lydgate's " Vertue of there , found one of the animals , which had straved and been the Mass " those who are setting out on a journey are Both these sanctuaries were favourite places of pilgrimage . Michael , " for sedayne haste and good prosperityte . " The It will be remembered that it was towards this same with which he had executed God's judgments on the city . He told the wonder to the Bishop of Siponto , who , after Gregory , turning to his fellow-penitents , made them be of of Judgment . Michael , until harvest came again . garded as an earnest of his share in the protection of St. this is given as the origin of the old communal Michaelmas advised after hearing Mass to recommend themselves to St. founded in A.D. 709 by Hubert , Bishop of Avranches , on the site of a beaten temple . stricken streets of Rome , lifted his sorrowful eyes , and saw , Apparitions of St. Michael are also associated with the bore also a Latin motto in honour of the Sign of Victory the Holy Cross , by 1961 1962 junction to build a church over the cavern . which even Angels must conquer . Michael , until harvest came again . # It may be remembered that , until Henry VIII's time , these gold angels Harvest at the world's end , wherein the Angels will be angel . great archangel , whose victory over the dragon was for s 1955 tion to build a church over the cavern . --- Page 9 --- well be astonished at the change . Mr. Belloc. who is an of her enemies to unroot her have moved powerless . We united with the Holy See . ' The age long distrust of Rome an admiring world . They forget that we are the followers good work , never were her clergy and lady alike more closely Church , so also is her strength , and that she never so her- the great towns , hardly any of the artisans . " ( " The French says : " The army has gone to the front , ' there to practise activity which she displays ; and certainly no Church can at the present day , and whose knowledge enables them to strongly on to the God of sacrifice . finding its inspiration , its compare it with what it was in the eighteenth century , may belise de France " in a higher and true sense than the great of the Church in any country is the missionary zeal and and Practice in France before the Revolution , there are five joyed , her roots are fixed firmly in the soil , and all the efforts large numbers of the clergy to privation and want , it was aware that it is not in one class or two classes of people that and devoted , never were her children more fruitful in every as much as the rest . Rich and poor , noblese , petit bourgeois , prestige , wealth , and temporal power which she formerly en- ago : " It is safe to say that where one adult of the educated wrote from France last May : " I was prepared to observe a France and Germany : A contrast , 287 to-day . " Then " few of the middle classes went to Mass in Instilities . The special correspondent of the Church Times material prosperity , and who think the Church is in a bad Those who are acquainted with the state of religion in France . way when she does not appear in external splendidour before into this movement that rises in sacrifice and flows ever more ineerfully accepted . One of the surest signs of the vigour not so long ago had they been seen among the derats-write When Pius the Tenth issued an ordinance which doomed to the commands of the Sovereign Pontiff has taken its place . change . I found a revolution . ... I became thoroughly la classe overriere-men and women alike have all been drawn of the Crucified , that the Cross , as it is the standard of the has passed away : and unhesitating unquestioning obedience into the shade by the change which began on the outbreak of are those who are impressed by the evidence of power and acknowledged authority on the subject , wrote some years can say of her in our own day " come else est belle , cette all centres . " The same correspondent , writing August 7 , which had been steadily going on before the war was thrown of France , however , lives and thrives , and though shown of the Bossued could in his . Never were her ministers more pure whose posts would not have been worth a week's purchase the sense that her official rulers is more religion . The Church dasses concerned himself seriously with the Catholic Faith Revolution , " p. 228 ) . " The revival of religion , however . this change shows itself . It has affected all : the official classes lectly resembles her Divine Founder as when she suffers . strength and stay in the Sacrifice ; for it is in the Mass that it stand this test so successfully as the Church of France . There 1961 62m.0005 in the 1960s per centrimeterative --- Page 10 --- body , the Germans of the Empire on the whole , especially the Christian faith . ' Two chief forces have been and are still at ably seconded by the professors of theology and philosophy and his writings , some of them within the comprehension of his lips , and attributes to His help every new victory . In his the truths of Christianity of which his writings show him to has really lost it : experience testifies to the contrary . If then slang of a past age , he " found the Lord . " and ever since he typical exponent of science completely divorced from God . If he presents altars to Catholic churches , he also sends a clude with certainly that it was there all the time , though it the allies not merely of the French Government , but also of Almighty for high enterprises . Such delusions , having no ministers to teach religion , while they appoint professors who decry it . The result is that , with the exception of the Catholic measure to the fact that the Kaiser has God continually on Criticism . Haeckel , professor at Jena , may be regarded as a orthodox believer of the Lutheran brand . " his shrewdness method in his madness : and while he himself remains " an foundation in reason , are unassailable by reason ; and they divine purpose if he despair of the land of St. Louis and leads him to curry favour with Catholics and Moslem alike . the French nation , for all France is united as one man in one has considered himself as the chosen instrument of the but it is stated that fifteen or sixteen years ago , in the religious their own ends . They pay Catholic priests and Lutheran of Blessed loan of Arc. of La Salette and Lourdes . We are ference on the German mind . He is a virulent opponent of very shady character , as a celebrated legal process revealed : under the stress of misfortune the faith appears , we may con- inidel , and one must strangely mistake the evidence of the Assyriologist Jensen of Marburg and Drews , professor of educated classes , are utter disbelievers in the articles of the be profoundly ignorant . Scientists of the Haeckel type are work to produce this effect , godless science and Biblical THE CROSS . earlier years the Kaiser had for intimate associates men of lamp to burn before the tomb of Saladin in the famous mosque The rulers of the German Empire . the Kaiser chief among a people to whom He has already given such marks of special that she is deeply religious . This notion is due in no small even the imperfectly educated , have exercised an immense in- lay dormant . It is calumnious , then , to speak of France as On the other hand , many Catholics entertain a strong pre- often persist in minds otherwise sane . ' There is , however , not believe that any calamity can revive the faith once a man judice in favour of Germany arising from the mistaken notion them . know how to exploit men of all shades of thought for at Damascus . religion , as no army in the field has ever done before . " I will and the allied sciences . Some of these , for example the sacred cause ; and we need not fear that God will fail to defend love . Some of these , for example the -00 . --- Page 11 --- ing limbs and chattering teeth , simply marking time . It was still and saw no prospect of advancing . The night was bitter night to be of service to the soldiers . I was about again early ing the night there when we received a reminder of the vener- our engineers . We felt a new sense of security when we conclusion that it had been fired more or less at random and ing . The little town was full of soldiers of all colours and of mount guard , and , if need were , to cover the retreat of the army . " Forward " again ! We crossed the river During , only every quarter of an hour or so that we were able to in finding a bullet at a shopkeeper's who had worked hard all already stretched on straw in a barn . Sleep did not need mid-day , without the slightest warning , a shell exploded close coaxing , but our slumbers were not long " indisturbed . We he replied . " if I can get hold of a bundle of straw I shall to a good rest that night , and at eight o'clock some of us were fog soaked into our clothing and there we stood with shiver- would be assigned to us in the usual war . " Mr. dear friend . " Lokeren , where we arrived at last at half-past two in the mom- We fancied we had left the enemy far behind . but towards crossed the Escaut by a bridge constructed in hot haste by nately for me it was just on the point of marching out to en- order despatched our battalion to Hamme , with instructions to ready to make their presence felt if occasion demanded . battalion might be ordered to leave at any moment . Fortu- the rest concealed themselves in neighbouring farmhouses camp at a little distance from the town , near the railway line to at ten o'clock and had already made our preparations for pass - doubt : our position had been discovered ! As the ground As the first shot was not followed by others we came to the advance a few faces : and day was already breaking as we understood that I must look out for myself , and I've revealed pleted ? Whatever the matter was , our column had to stand visited us in quick succession . ' There was no longer room for as the soup was being handed round , several shrapnel shells throw myself down on it and ask no questions of anyone . " longer so readily cut off our retreat with this broad river lying awoke to still another order : we must proceed at once to without any definite aim . Half an hour afterwards , however , between . had the bridge by which we were to cross not yet been com- Were there too many troops for the passage of the river ? Or We marched through Rupelmonde and on to Riverside . and some of our men took their place in the trenches , whilst Ghent . Battlefield sketches . As we were fatigue to death we looked forward naturally where we were to be quarterred . We reached the latter place ld , the more so in that country of waterways : a thick , heavy able adage . " Man proposes but God disposes . " A fresh to the railway line . What could be the meaning of it ? " the morning , for no one knew where I was staying and my Tarms of the service . Tasked the doctor whether our quarters afely reached the further bank : the Germans could no at e railway line . What could be the meaning of --- Page 12 --- rows , now in the direction of Ghent . Near Oostacker , where mounted his horse , the soldiers seized their arms and acquire- journey was resumed for another stage along " this way of sor- ourselves a good rest , but met with disappointment again : for on which we were did not favour defensive fighting , the major from the Dutch frontier . We arrived there towards evening . ran driving their wheelbarrows , carts and cattle helter-skelter among the ranks of the soldiers . But in time of war every- soldier , but on my arrival he was apparently dead . He had conditionally and hastened to rejoin my battalion . When I regained the road the scene that met my eyes was a very scattered units of the battalion were once more formed into rad never been given or had been misunderstood . But that reply . " I cannot be expected to expose my men in the cir- have some effect upon the Germans : for they hesitated a he affair should not succeed , it would be said that the order poor people were ordered peremptorily to stand aside and not the safest cover . Our gunners meanwhile kept up a spirited fire until their ammunition was exhausted . ' This seemed to throw the files of soldiery into disorder . In a little while the would not give back life to fallen soldiers . " And we fully succeeded in finding quarters in a hay-soft . We promised at eleven o'clock came once more the order to advance . streaming from his wounds . I administered Extreme Union barded and the inhabitants were fleeing in all directions . " They fellows , wrapped in white coverings , that showed like ments , and all fled towards the place which seemed to offer one was stopped at every moment and overwhelmed with ques- During this skirmish I had been called to attend a wounded to lead his men back and put them in line of battle . advance towards Saffelaere , distant about two hours ' march their respective regiments or battalions . As one went along , diers were to be seen taking their night's rest . All these brave appreciated his point of view . our own battalion was at last got together . And so our put a broad stream between ourselves and the enemy . Meanwhile the colonel gave us his reasons for his laconic narching order . The courier did not return . We waited for some time , and finally received orders to Suddenly a courier brought a verbal order to our colonel Bring me this order in writing , " was the colonel's answer , tions , for most of which one had no reply . while , and we taking advantage of the momentary respite The midnight hour was striking from the church clock when and I will obey it : otherwise , no ! cumstances simply in response to a verbal communication . If been laid on two little tables in an inn and the life blood was triumph of chaotic disorder . ' Lokeren had just been born- he road runs through a great wood , several regiments of sol- and although the locality was full of troops , the doctor and thing must yield to the necessities of the army , and so the oldiers ran higher and thither in the darkness . looking for --- Page 13 --- have talked to you like this , cousin : but I feel better for and there be an end of me , and then the everlasting nothing - but that ! Here we two are , John , you and I , and in a few replied Temima , growing calmer " under the influence of his it a morbid fancy that one day we , and all now full of life have their origin in man's dread of death and desire for life . ' reston . " It is easy to understand your dread of it for those less ! ' It is maddening-just maddening ! I am sorry to you love : but why for yourself , since according to such years we and the people whom we love , will be nothing comes to everybody . but one only knew it as one knows that so uncertain that my horse might stumble at this very minute , wo and two make four . Just a statement ; nothing more . ' around us will be objects so loathsome that we must be shut little wistful attempt at a smile - " I have worried you . ' I have wondered that people should ever think of anything self in the glass but I see a grinning skull ! Not think of laving done so . I can't worry Leo just now , so " - with a Morbid fancies ! " interrupted the girl passionately . " Is the feeleness of the advice all too apparent to himself as well ancies ; just unhealthy , unwholesome sentiment , and composure . " He is a very learned man , and has studied the nothing ! Why , since I have realised it , I never look at my- John met her eyes , full of a helpless misery . " Mr" father has always taught me that all such beliefs away out of sight , put into the cold , horrible grave ? ' Is that believe in another life ? " matter for years . ' He has always taught us that death is inevitable , and to he faced when it comes with philosophical composure , " went the thought of death for yourself , then ? " asked John Gor- hension of her meaning was his . She struggled with her- ohn gravely : his tone purposely chill and unresponsive as he saw her excitement . on Jemima . Not think about it ! Since I have realised what it means ' But Jemima - this is nothing but an indulgence in morbid Try not to think about it , Jemima dear , ' he said gently . On that side ? ' There is no other side to dwell upon . ' as to his heater . " Christians would sneak to run of a life beyond this Yes , I do most certainly believe in it . ' ' It is folly to dwell upon that side of the subject , " said self for a minute or two , then went on : " Well , you are a Christian , cousin , are you not ? Do you John Gorreston made no reply . " It is dreadful-dreadful ! Of course one knew that death existence of ours , " he went on quietly . That is the horror of it ! " cried the girl . " Just this life Why-if you accept that teaching-do you shudder at a fancy ? ' teaching you are not conscious of anything ? " his 1 IANS OVERMAN WALWED it ! ' elf for a minute or two , then went on : --- Page 14 --- you , cousin John , and you have been most kind to me - I could " Or white-robed nuns , " said John Gorreston musingly - Hall . If you do not take me - well - I shall die a bachelor . " an insufferable animal as to be capable of putting such a question to you without meaning it , I can only say that I am ought to care for men whom they marry . I'm very fond of come to you in any difficulty or trouble . and feel sure you the way men care for girls they wish to marry . ' Gorreston's face as he replied : Should you very much mind dying a bachelor , cousin ? " she replied . " But I cannot marry you , John . ' and mine . John : about our marrying , you know . ' Is that that time , Jemima . And the other thing ? ' tionship , eh ? ' Cousin John ! " she gasped . " My dear Femima , " very gravely . " if you think me such You doubt the possibility of liking me in a nearer rela- ' But- I know about that agreement between your father " Yes . I think I will have the chapel . What do you think would always help . " and never misunderstand me . ' Will you honour it by becoming its mistress , Jemima , the He stopped as he asked the question , his eyes upon her his hands behind his back . of the Hall , Jemima ? ' ' I do not think-tor one thing - that you care for me in woman whom I should care to see inistress of Gorreston ' O. cousin John , you didn't mean it , did you ? ' orry to have given you such a poor opinion of me . ' clasp , as they paused under the trees . a picture of myself as your wife , cousin . " Not my wildest fight of fancy would be able to produce ' Shall we now eternal friendship , why you have asked me to marry you ? " wife of its master ? " jemima stared at him blankly . unflattering " expression of horror on your speaking coun- emima regarded him with perplexity . " I am quite sure that I do not care for you in the war girls There was an expression of whimsical amusement on John They resumed their walk , John strolling along easily with He took her hands in his , and held them in a warm friendly " It is not . I ask you , Jemima , because you are the only I might possibly have become used to the condition by I think it the most beautiful old house I have ever seen , ' I really like you very much , cousin John , as a cousin , " Why not ? ' " That is high praise . little cousin . I thank you for it . " tenance ? ' Cousin Jemima ! " he said laughingly ; " why this most face . little cousin , as I am but- " That is high praise , little cousin . --- Page 15 --- morning's letters : and Mrs. Trevvck was interspersing the Gorreston's small , clear writing . " She says : " Tell Temima to go about as other people do . ' Where should I be if I gave rooms . If only he would make an effort and house himself - I do not think father is well enough to reuse himself in your father monopolises him , and keeps him talking in his presently , looking up from a sheet covered with Lady windows with considerable distance . " If a visitor comes , looked out upon the smiling landscape below her boundary What does your grandmama mean by this ? " she asked hat night . She continued a childish habit she had formed the chapel furniture is needed ? me in that irritatingly questioning way ? he would be able entrance is opened there will be an entrance from the grounds . Femima sat in silence . She had brought her mother the her cousin with a smile ; " who knows what may happen before John , " said Femima . " what would you like ? " Jemima regarded herself in the glass with grave scrutiny is every probability of your ending your existence as an old your father , of course , I mean , Temima ; why do you look at Wait until the plan is less in the air , Jemima , " returned What can you know about it . Temima ? Do not make such ing them in their walk towards the house ; " when the secret approves . ' the way you mean , ' mother , ' said Temima soberly . Peter Bretton . " " I should like to give you something for the chapel , cousin addressing that unresponsive shade . " and that is that there One thing I can tell you . Temima Trevvck . " she said . remember . " Mrs. Trevyck tanned herself languidly and not to ask for a closer tie ? Did that story about the command ' She will be in royal robes bordered with ermine . ' A little , at first , but that was before I knew you , John . of talking occasionally to that reflection . lecided statements . It is not becoming in a young girl I have never thought about it since . ' What will she be like ? ' This is really about the fullest summer that I can THE CROSS . chapter XII . man has had a finger in the pie . am painting Queen Margaret , Miss Trevyck . ' entered into by our fathers long ago set you against me ? " So , " said Jemima to herself , " as usual , that Bretton A figure appeared among the shadows of the trees ; it was Come along , Bretton , " said John ; " I have been telling maid ! ' " It will make a delightful chapel . " asserted Bretton join- cousin about our plan for the chapel . She quite reading thereof with a slow trickle of fault-findins way ? " Come along , Bretton , " said John : " of talking occasionally to that reflection . ne thereof with a slow trickle of fault-finding . n , " said Femima , " what would you like ? " " What will she be like ? " So , " said Jemima to herself , --- Page 16 --- THE OVER OF CORRESTON HALL. 251 . They said little to each other during those first few days . Mr. Bretton's smiles had in Temima's experience-been rather rare : she decided that he must have heard good news ; Trevvick losing much of his languor under the influence of him to see the work in progress . ' There was an appeal in the blue eyes that met I emima's . helped her . however , in her efforts to appear her usual light- resented that also . Her manner was arctic as she replied : Leo had confided to him the state of her father's health ! " She ever . Femima wondered at the young man's self-control ; it vishes to have a portrait of me , though I am a little sorry background . " So on the morrow the sitting began ; Mr. he room adjoining this for a studio . He thinks it will amuse the little pleasurable excitement . cism , " laughed the girl . many by the artist , raised no objections ; and even con- begin to-morrow ? Mr. Trevyck is good enough to give me of apprehension . means ill-looking . The smile , too , with which he responded but as his increasing weakness made his visits to the studio She resorted it a little . Was this stranger to suggest that few extremely idiotic suggestions in the matter of nose and Mrs. Trevyck , being approached with considerable diplo- for you , Mr. Bretton . I fear I may not make a very good that had been its usual expression . shorter and shorter . ' the artist saw an anxious look replace to some remark of Mr. Trevyck's was as sunishing as Leo's . descended to show sufficient interest in the work to make a The sitting's shall be made as short as possible . Shall we his face . as he greeted her , had , lost a certain settled gravity " Tomorrow will do very well . What time do you wish When her father was present . Femima was her old gay self : about it before deciding . Temima . ' So . I hear you are to be ceremonious as usual , but his tone was certainly less formal . " fixed for the sitting ? ' the ninth in the soft dark eyes : a look that held in it a touch she ought to humour her sick father's whims ? Evidently and greeted the two men . Mr. Bretton had better have a chat with your mother And criticise her . though she will not care for the criti- daughter of Francis Trevyck , was like . ' granny's . ' garbed in white velvet ! ' Quite a regal affair , eh ? " Don't make fun of me , father . ' It is just a fancy of the " Certainly , " Jemima replied sedately , " as grandmama hearted self . So Mr. Bretton is going to make a picture of you , eh , little Femima ? " said Mr. Trevvck , as she came into the room can heirloom . Future generations will see what I emima , Then Leo came into the room , gay and irresponsible as " If Miss Trevick will permit . " Bretton's bow was as sitter . ' I'm not ' making fun , ' not in the least . The portrait will ed in white velvet ! ' Quite a regal affair , eh ? I'm not ' making fun , ' not in the least . If Miss Trevyck will permit . " be an heirloom . Future generations will see 1 his face , as he greeted her . had lost a certain The portrait will --- Page 17 --- saw Rosalie pass to the row of chairs at the other end of the back . " The streets were crowded with country-folk who had railing . As they approached I emima saw one or two persons to send the pony-carriage home with the groom , and to walk building , and sink upon her knees . " She wondered a little driven in for the market . To escape them , Jemima turned with the word " SCHOOL " over the doorway . Beside it , the door , which stood open , as did also a gate in the iron it . But Iemima's fits of anger were never of long duration ; down a side street . ' At the , end stood a bare little building procession came from the sacristy , and the Benediction service from the altar . Femima , from her seat close beside the door , her , and as they came out , the organist came down the gallery O Salutaris " began . another equally plain building , but with a stone cross over Sacred Host appeared above the altar , and the glad The organ was in a little gallery over Temima's head . the last item had been crossed from her list , the girl decided about what it must feel like to believe " all this , " as the As the two girls went in , the organ peaked out ; a little longingly upon the place . and was additionally gracious to her handmaid to stone for her would ? Very well . I will sit down near the door and when with some displeasure in the tone . The owner of Gorreston Hall . 253 this opportunity , and had no intention of letting it pass . the angry speech . Jemima drove on in silence . She looked up deprecatingly into the beautiful stormy face of " Yes , signorina . " When the service was over , she waited for Rosalie to reinin irritation : exceedingly angry with Rosalie for having caused " Is that a Catholic chapel , Rosalie ? " she asked . her mistress , and said softly : Pardon , signorina ! " murmured the girl tremulously , and She was exceedingly angry with herself for that display of luring the interval , understood the pain that had inspired that additional graciousness much in evidence . It was one of Summerton's market-days , and Jemima had harshness . " Would you like to go in ? " inquired Miss Trevyck , with a host of commissions to execute for Mrs. " Trevvck . When You do not know what you are saying . ' Rosalie felt the displeasure ; but she had been waiting for " My father does not like priests , " replied Jemima shortly , jemima turned upon her angrily . I have seen all you want , you can come to me . And Rosalie , who had been saying her beads fervently she had recovered herself before they reached Summerton . " Be silent ! " she said harshly ; " you do not understand ! But when one is dying- go in , and glancing at her attendant saw the girl's eyes fixed gran . The chapel was so small that no one was very far living back a little from the road behind an iron railing via " Mr father does not like priests , ' " You . --- Page 18 --- said Femima presently : " there is nothing that you would like me to wear for my picture . I think . but " with a momen- I might wear that crucifix that my cousin Gorreston gave me ? full of a question ; the man's holding an answer that dis- tary hesitation - " I should like that is do not you think are quite right again . ' suppose those things do affect one , though I do not under- " I have been looking through my jewellery - I have very said Bretton . There was something in the tone of the reply that made has a tranquillizing effect on one's nerves . Mine had been Her companion made no answer . Temima look up at the speaker . Their eyes met : the girl's her along the road , her head very erect . stand why they should . " I only went in , of course , just to " I wonder . " said Temima musingly . " why music always pleasant under the old trees that lined the road when once the Youdo not think me good enough to wear it . I suppose ? " pleased her . She flushed a little , and looked straight before No , it is not too large . ' THE CROSS . " I did not know that organ-playing was included in your recognised Peter Bretton . Irishwoman , " Miss Trevyck was a devout Catholic , and with a not very successful attempt at a little laugh . her along the road , her head very ' erect . stipulated that I should be brought up in her faith . ' The shadows were lengthening : the warm , shift wind was laden with the perfume of a thousand blossoms . It was Is it too large ? ' please my maid . She is a Catholic . ' Treyyck's mental comment on this confidence . suggested her companion quietly . noisy little town was left behind . so doing . chapel . His greeting had an element of cordiality in it that was new " No. Mr father was a Protestant : but my mother-an Are you driving ? No ? Then may I stairs and faced them ; and , to her extreme surprise , Jemima ' Is that " the reason , Mr. Bretton ? ' following . You mean the devotional atmosphere of the place ? Yes , And they turned in the direction of Trevyck , Rosalie walk home with you ? ' a little embarrassed , without being quite able to account for " Why should you ask such a question ? " " Was General Bretton a Catholic ? ' all on edge before I went into that little chapel ; now they " There may have been other influences at work , " Bretton with a smile . " So that is the reason for those Irish-blue eyes , " w little , and that little is painfully modern and commonplace . ' list of accomplishments , Mr. Bretton , ' said Jemima , feeling to Jemima's experience , when they shook hands outside the " The priest allows me that privilege sometimes . " replied Yes . ' I often see her there . ' I , too , am a Catholic , " " There may have been other noisy little town was left behind . Her companion made no answer . The priest allows Yes . " I often see her there . out : s me that privilege sometimes , " replied please my maid . She is a Catholic . --- Page 19 --- able to a species of semi-respect for the magic glamour of is little excuse nowadays for neglect in supplying youth with constant application which ensures solidity of achievement . press , we have the habit of reading just to pass the time . ' The taste in reading . will peruse nothing which is not worthy of having a reader intelligent reader have to waste his time in thinking . A view of and they are , that not only must the authors be educated so as well as an author . In many cases bibliophobia is prefer- more thanks for " support than " they do at present . American writer's suggestions for improvement may be noted , for though we have not that voracious taste for the snippet and take for granted . nor to find talk and discourse . but to without reading a really good hit of English " would pro- home with the fuller bag . but all of us prefer to accompany hought-producing works of a writer whose appeal " is through matics subtle : natural philosophy deep : moral philosophy veigh and consider . " And it may be well to note the same thing to read . " On a minor scale that is true of this country . As for the spirit of our reading , let us not forget the Baconian as well as writing , but readers need to be taught so that they the printed page . ' Your nasty sportsman may usually come early seedling always produces the sturdiest plant . ' There sions of the horde of " live " novelties ' alternately with the counsel : " Read not to contradict and confute , nor to believe duce excellent results if followed , for here as elsewhere it is from Ruskin to the " Smart Summer Annual " of the Hall recipients and probably with much future benefit for the As the palate to which beer is as nectar cannot appreciate not too serious , last the unintelligent reader be confused . Just this taste will swallow anything rather than be left without some article on current literature in the States , says : philosopher's remarks on the effects of the different types of whom" Catholic printers and publishers would wish to owe the subtleties of chartreuse . neither can one relish the effluent books : " Histories make men wise ; poets witty : the " mother finally lost , for of substitutes there are none . You may go grave : logic and rhetoric able to contend . " But to read with Mr. Birrell's advice that one should " never let a day pass healthy Catholic literature , though there are very many to Professor of English at Yale University , in a well-reasoned some reading-matter , with certainly no immediate loss to the tion seems about the least worthy motive of all . million Press , but you will hardly reverse the order . such indiscriminate perusing and a man of good natural the object of constituting oneself a sort of turnstile of laterman that they may not write anything that is not worth reading I vein of artistry . And good taste in reading once lost is and the latter is safer so far as he himself , as well as others . in a food of writing that is . " not too good In a recent number of an American magazine , the assistant the man who is known to take careful aim before he fires - is concerned ! . " This hunger and thirst for the printed page has resulted 20 . 1961 German businessman was 256 --- Page 20 --- have achieved fame merely on account of what they have taste for scrapiness . Drink first from the fountain source . In the same way many books which purport to deal with a innate , but most of us have to prepare the way for its coming plied by the original critic , and inserting here and there a hand , and in any case your literary middleman has generally ultimately propagates course and non-selective appetites . No of an author is worth knowing , it is worth knowing at first- tion , and his talk seemingly given merely to show whether he agreed or not with the theories and views of the journalist . cular writer's opinions on the themes dealt with the original B. writes a treatise dealing with the productions of Mr. A. . what a certain writer did and did not mean when he wrote delicate subject-adding of course some information not sup- of that of which he is ignorant can a reader assimilate or legacy of weeds ranking among their corn , and in their case sessed by his " subject . " " The reading of some one else's With the few the taste for what is good in literature is some to read an author for themselves that scores of writers he continuance of its existence on the nature of that on which and afterwards listen to what others have to say as to how of the masterly manner in which Mr. B. has handled his in a state fit for its retention . Taste so largely depends for it is nurtured that with the mind as with the body course food such and such a work . So many people find it too trouble- interviewed " was thrown more or less into a secondary posi- off the commentator's knowledge or wisdom . If the work say on this species of literary wave : " If we wish to know the one to read the original , and occasionally helps to foster the which . however , the journalistic interviewer accounted for certain author are in reality an exposition of their own parti- pose , as a rule , of displaying some trait or tendency pos- written regarding the work of some brother of the pen . Mr. force of human genius we should read Shakespeare . ' If we ranged in front of many authors . The mirrors to which I the pruning knife of the capable editor makes safe a field of established repute of course , for some writers have left a wish to see the insignificance of human learning we may study his commentators . ' opinions of a writer does not often , somehow , tend to induce more than an author can write with a shadow of conviction Recently I read an interview with a well-known scientist in hitherto dangerous to all but the most expert and warv. torting patterns and at all manner of angles are to be found laboured with one particular object in view , with the pur- volume being drawn from now and again the better to show THE CROSS . and Mr. C. next comes along with another volume in praise It is surprising what an array of mirrors of all sorts of dis- the draught tasted in their months . This refers to authors refer take the form of works commenting on and explaining few sly corrections and comments . ' Hazlitt has something to fully two-thirds of the conversation . The great man being and remain perpetually on the alert to retain the mental soil --- Page 21 --- The Cross from her book-shelf and finds great pleasure in looked down at the ferns , the moss and the sorrel , many letter in full . Here is how she deplores the cutting down of Well may Lilian lament the cutting away of our beautiful hope Lilian Nally will not be attended it , taking the privilege a noble old wood-surely an act of vandalism ! : " As I versary of Our Lady's opposition there she prayed for me return for it' Proinsias Mac Thighearnain writes thus of view of the interior of knock Chapel ( where on the anni- sends the names of three new members . but she will need to and all the members of the Guild ) , and the name of a new summer , or she'll have no end of visitors . Charlotte J. Byrne pleasant letters she sends you every month . Indeed . I think shelter of the cool green leaves , for the company of the birds communique " from her holiday home in the West , accom- And Lillian Nally herself sends me a long and welcome rained by a sweet-scented spray of white heather , a postcard set foot in Cork I surely can't miss seeing the house with the lowing generous tribute to the winner of the first prize : " I their hearts the whole day long and caress them with his fill my heart with gladness and delight from month to month . all . Mollie Joyce pays a tribute to Lilian Nallv. and in recruit , Sheila O'Donnell , of Kiltimach , aged 6 years , who rolled . She says she often takes down back numbers of thoughts arose in my mind . What will they do , for the brilliant composition in the September Guild , and on the Mollie's own composition : " The letter that won second of an old member of the Guild . I congratulate her on her song , nothing but the scorching sun in summer to burn let me have their addresses and age before they can be en- prize in last month's Guild was very interesting . ' If ever I Mollie Joyce , in writing at the icy which came to her when is heartily welcome . I wish I could give Lilian's delightful cruel kisses ! Their companions and protectors will be gone , Mollie ought to paint the door another colour before next green hall door standing beside the singing river . " radeship that are so characteristic of our Guild , and that she saw her prize letter in last month's Guild , pays the fol- of the countries of Europe : to-day she is the barest of them And the little finnet piped its song that knows no theme but love , I may say that she is almost the foremost writer in the Guild . and the squirrels ? No songster to sing them a crooning all breathing the kindliness and com- Irish woods . Long ago Ireland was the most thickly wooded my post-bag this month , some from old My Post Bag . members , some from new recruits , but be heard . lives . If we ask in the right spirit - the spirit that animated And the blackbird enrolled after in a silver rain of laughter , Blessed Gabriel - we may rest assured that our prayers will A goodly pile of letters have found their war into Where on a dew-wet swinging bought brown thanstles trilled above , THE GUILD OF BLESSED GABRIEL . 261 1907 all breathing the kindliness and com- members , some from new recruits , but My Post Bag . members , some from new recruits , but 261 . --- Page 22 --- ' alcoholic religion was at the end of the third century spread over the nembers of a family ) , and must be written on one side only They must have attached to them the coupon which will be ound in this issue ( one coupon will be sufficient for all the ben known world . When the world became Christian and Catholics grew were sent by Maureen O'Brien , John Joseph Kennedy , ind temples dedicated to innumerable false gods . pleasure houses and theatres . with their denying the most simple articles of faith , travelled the other ears he constantly prayed , and preached the doctrine of Jesus Christ . and which would spread abroad the truth of the Catholic religion and preach statives and monuments raised to the memory of the basest tvrants . He passed his mission , to infuse new life and light . to lay the foundation of a new Rome provinces in great troops , ravaged the countries , massacred the priests . Having Virgin to intercede with her Divine Son , that she appeared to him . Holding ' open and their successors , the bishops and priests that the light of the the old Abbey of Fore . Lovely cards and cheerv messages of the paper . They must be sent to the Office of THE CROSS lame of faith quickly spread over the whole world . It was through the consequences-impiety and infidelity-followed . In the twelfth and thir rich and forgot the poverty of Christ , heresy and ignorance and their Westmeath , for a very nice postcard view of oon succeeded in establishing in Rome a conversation of Christians whose sible person as being the unaided work of the competitors . courage to change them , but with little avail . ' It was in the forest of our next competition . i Rosary in her hands she came to him in dazzling brightness and addressed ill classes , ranks and conditions of men . Everywhere he went he saw the pictorial postcards they selected for the " The Coming of Winter . ' Rome . ' As he passed along unnoticed he behind the splendid palares , gardens up the sacred vessels and altar ornaments . God , beholding those evils , sent Maisie Burke , Mary Kate Heavey . May Allen . Mary goes to Maura Kennedy , Castlepollard , Co. people wished for nothing but pleasures , luxuries and the villest of crimes . not later than October 14th . ' . All letters to be addressed : Bouconne , as St. Dominic , praying with unusual fervour , asked the Blessed enturies the Albigenses , a set of heretics in the south of France , not content St. Dominic to convert these people . For ten years he laboured with all Christ Crucified to the furthermost ends of the earth . For twenty-five I . For Members over 12 and under 18 years of age . II . For Members under 12 years of age . sending of their messages to me . The prize dad fisherman from Galileo entered the great , wealthy , magnificent view of A handsome hook prize is offered for the best letter on This poor wanderer was St. Peter . Into this foul place he was come to work Members . taste was shown by the little people in the A handsome book prize is offered for the best essay on prize Paper . " The Cry of the Suffering Souls . " Josephine Cullen , Peggy Nolan , Maggie Caulfield , and Mollie Francis , c ) o THE Cross , St. Paul's Retreat , Mount Argus , me alive and scourging others to death . They broke into churches , smashed About one thousand eight hundred and thirty years ago a poor . meanly- Dublin . THE Rosary . Ryan . All competition papers must be certified by some resnon- Under 12 . THE GUILD OF BLESSED GABRIEL . 268 Most excellent # newspapers the performances of the Catholic religion and 1961 62m. 263 262 . --- Page 23 --- their own accord . The people became greatly alarmed and hastened to the practice of plenty most dear to herself and her Son , as a very powerful means of dissipating heresy , spreading virtue and obtaining her protection . Greatly of such things , and reflect great credit on the " Irish Fun " artist . From church , which was soon filled with heretics as well as Catholics . St. Dominic of Toulouse . 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