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Silver jubilee of King George V. GLOWING TRIBUTE TO CATHOLIC ACTION.TRANSCRIPT
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Silver jubilee of 1Rtn$ Qcovqc
THE SILVER JUBILEE of the accession of King George V will be celebrated on Monday, 6th inst. The public mind throughout the Empire and the world will recall with renewed interest the part which the King has taken in the events of that quarter of the century. The photograph shows:—
Their Majesties in the stately procession of the Order of the Garter, at Windsor, 1913. (See page 5).
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Catechists Catechumens and Catechumenates. By Rev. Thomas V. Kiernan, M. M,
(CONCLUDED FROM PREVIOUS ISSUE) ans i f the priest is not available,
prayers are learned first, then the winning pagans at the very thres-reguiar set of prayers for use in hold oi eternity to baptism, re-tne family, the commandments, porting severe illness so that the the Rosary and so on. Af te r suf- missioner may administer the fieient proficiency is attained by L a s l Sacraments in due season, most, the study of the various a c i V i s i n g of proposed marriages,
RESPECT FOR WOMEN.
F R O M T H E C A T H O L I C C L U B C H R O N I C L E , A U S T R A L I A .
C A T E C H U M E N A T E S . The catechumenates are simply
the gathering together of a group of converts for instruction. There are generally two kinds, one conducted at the central mission sta-tion, where the men and ^ women catechisms is undertaken, first the settling5 disputes* and in general catecmsm o i essential doctrine, s u b s t i t u t i » g for the missioner
then those o i baptism, contession h i m s e l f . R e g i o n , like many 1 £ 0 m ™ n i ° * " h 3 f b t e \ t h e that are good, is often best
pract.ce, the efficacy of which is S e a t e d bv a habit and the pre-Y l X ^ n T e ' . l h a t a " * e « < * ^ the catechist makes for
usual catechumenate takes place i n J S C S Z e l ^ ^ ^ S i ^ ^ "T the village, where a minimum of C w L L ^ S w S S & ^ i m i g h t b y t h e w a y s l d e ' twenty or th i r ty catechumens ^ t ^ M ZZSttTSHZZ^
live apart, nourished by the mission, and instructed by catechists and missioners the live-long day. This is the ideal type, where it is possible, but in South China i t is the exception to the rule. The
obtain instruction. They gather for morning prayers in common in a large room and then go to their work. We strive to have the younger children study for several hours during the day, to leave the evenings free for the older people. Short ly after dusk they gather again for the study of the prayers, catechism and to hear the daily instruction delivered by the head catechist. In al l , this consumes two to"* three hours. A woman catechist can instruct about 15 women, a man catechist nearly twice that number. Individual at-
another month or more is spent in preparation for the first confession and Holy Communions, on the catechisms which deal at length wi th these two Sacraments.
There is a regular outline of sermons which must be followed daily by the catechists. These first deal wi th the absurdity of
the faith to the people, who for the best part are too illiterate or hardworked to study them alone.
N o r is the spiritual life of the catechist neglected when he is conducting the catechumenate. Once a month on scheduled days the entire body of catechists must return to the central mission station
; : i viccrn * ~ — v - wv.^.*-. ~ ~ . • -i
superstitions, worship of idols and for a day's retreat, during wnicn ancestors. They examine in detail they make their reports to the the local superstitious practices and point out their harm and senselessness, offsetting these with the correct worship of the One True God. Instructions on the
missioner, receive the Sacraments, listen to his counsel and instructions. A symposium is held for an hour or two in which the cate-
.. . . . . . . . . _ chists take turns in preaching and tention and constant repetition, meaning of the Church, the reason instructing their efforts at the end coupled with the patience of Job why foreign priests corne to China *nrructlI??> +1 at trie end must ™ a b l y be given to each S i S ^ f f i o ^ ^ ^ S 5 ^ e S ^ ^ < S S person. Where drcumstances war- nghteousnesh and the errors of 2 o ^ ^ S ^ h ^
the old Chinese philosophers, doctrine are assigned for study by~ Tften the catechumens are intro- • "
rant it , the more intelligent converts help in the instruction of their less favoured kin , thus rel ieving the catechists from the burden of close supervision of the entire number, freeing them for attention to those who learn less readily.
When the :catechumenate first opens, the catechists search high and low for all signs of concealed superstitions, soul tablets, idols, scrolls and the kind. These are destroyed and a picture of the Sacred Heart, our Mother or the Holy Family hung in the principal room of each family. The catechist, during the course of the catechumenate must investigate the regularity of all marriages, lest men with concubines or women having several successive husbands slip through to baptism. The people of our section are so poor that concubinage and opium smoking are beyond the limits of their finances. Opium smokers when found among the catechumens must be dealt wi th separately and they must show evidence of solid reformation or complete abandonment of the drug before being permitted to receive baptism.
One is not apt to be favorably impressed on his first view of a country catechumenate in action. Bedlam and Babel are the best words for description. Groups of six or seven are crowded around the common square eating-tables, a small flickering oil lamp in the center, each lustily shouting the character or phrase under study for the moment. One is shouting " W h y did you enter the Church ?", and its answer. The next one is demanding to know " How many Gods there a r e ? " While a th i rd may be repeating the Lord 's Prayer or the Angelus. Some elderly chap with a squeaky voice is t r y ing to memorize the Ten Commandments, while perhaps a precocious child nearby is rat t l ing off the entire set of morning prayers without a n " error. This goes on night after night, for at least four months. The essential
duced'to the meaning of each of the prayers they are required to memorize, the meaning of each question and answer of the catechisms, and finally a systematic course of instructions on the creed, the Commandments of God and the Church, the Sacraments, Sa-cramentals and ceremonies is given.
If a catechist is conscientious there is l i t t le time for h im to idle. He must prepare his discourses and the answers to objections that arise i n the general conversation of the catechumenate. When neighbours and relatives visi t the catechumenate he attempts to insert the wedge of fai th in the minds of his chance acquaintances. This frequently results in the enrollment and final conversion of these people.
When the newly baptised have been admitted to confession and Communion, i t is desirable to leave at least one man and one woman catechist i n their midst to direct them in the ways of the Christ ian life. La te r on, depending upon circumstances a catechumenate for the reception of Confirmation is held in the same manner, during which the catechisms of the other Sacraments are studied, especially Confirmation, Matrimony, and E x treme Unction. A review of the first three catechisms and prayers is always made first before proceeding further.
Af ter the reception of Confirmation, the new Christians cannot be safely left to themselves, for the priest can visit them only about three times a year to administer the Sacraments. A yearly mission of two or three weeks by a priest or catechist is the best way of following up. Again , the catechist is called into action. Dur ing the day he may be a teacher in a little primary school in the village, but at any rate he resides there and acts as their spiritual leader in the law of fast and abstinence, baptising the children of Christ i -
thc catechists in their leisure hours, and on these monthly recollection days they are examined i n these subjects. This policy makes for a gradual increase in the store of knowledge of all concerned. Added to this, texts of-the Scriptures are to be memorized wrhich are useful in preaching and i n the refutation of objections, especially those which apply to Pro-testanstism. So during the catechumenate the catechists have little occasion to be entirely idle although their teaching activities may be confined to a few hours daily.
The catechumenate very frequently makes for considerable inconvenienc to the new catechumens, for space is at a premium in the ordinary Chinese household. It is common to have inner doors removed from their hinges to serve as bed boards, the use of the family hearth by the catechists incommodes the people not a little, for the catechists must " eat themselves " as the expression goes for getting one's, own meals and supply ing one's own victuals. The catechist must furnish his own bedding, firewood and water, and do his own laundry. So a mult itude of little sacrifices on the part of both the catechumens and catechists makes for harmonv in the catechumenate. The result of the whole—catechists, catechumens and catechumenates—being the increase of the harvest of souls.—March 18. 1935.
by every woman who disgraces herself and by every man who disgraces a woman. Respect women for the sake of our own mothers. Respect women for the sake of future mothers, future nuns, future wives. Respect women for the sake of the frail, who wi l l fall i f between them and their own weakness is not the steadying influence of noble men and pure women.
P E R H A P S it is because womsn compete wi th men in so many fields where cut-throat methods have destroyed all courtesy and much honour.
P E R H A P S it is because the stage so often treats women as bait for the unpleasant-minded.
P E R H A P S it is because some silly women wil l do anything, wear anything, say anything to win a date or a dance or a none-too-complimantary smile.
B U T W H A T E V E R IT IS, OUR A G E IS R A P I D L Y L O S I N G ITS R E S P E C T F O R W O M E N .
M E N A R E L O S I N G IT. The fact that men let women
stand in a crowded street car and elbow them savagely i n crowds is relatively unimportant. B U T IT IS I M P O R T A N T that girls are laughed at by college comic papers; that women are exposed shamelessly on stage and magazine covers; that they are expected to pay with precious privileges for the parties they attend, the dinners given them, the dates which some man casually gives them; that pure women are sneered at and that feminine virtue is frankly doubted.
TOO M A N Y B O Y S A N D M E N A R E C O M I N G T O T A K E IT F O R G R A N T E D that girls and women wi l l allow promiscuous liberties, and they class the girl who indignantly refuses as an old fogey, and the woman who declines as a foolish prude.
W O M E N A R E L O S I N G IT. - ~ The harsh and bitter struggle
into which modern C O M M E R C I A L I S M has thrown them is t rying enough, but it is frightening when women begin to accept C O A R S E M E N ' S S T A N D A R D S of dress and manner.
If the women take i t for granted, when P R I V I L E G E S are demanded, that is the price they must pay for populari ty; i f they laugh at an unclean P L A Y for fear that they wi l l be frowned on by their 'escort; i f during the R E V U E OR T H E M O V I E they sit calmly while their sisters are required to sing filthy songs and disport themselves shamelessly, they have lost respect for their own womanhood.
L ike it or not, our age, which uses woman's F I G U R E A N D F R A I L T Y to advertise its wares, run up its magazine circulations, jam its theatres, popularise sin on our city streets, is losing, i f it has not already lost, i ts respect for won'en.
A N D T H E R E S P E C T W I T H W H I C H T H E C H U R C H F O R C E N T U R I E S H A S S U R R O U N D E D W O M E N IS T H E O N E T H I N G T H A T H A S K E P T T H E M F R O M B E I N G T H E P R E Y OF T H E B E A S T I N M E N A N D T H E B E A S T I N T H E M S E L V E S .
H E R E IS A C R U S A D E R E A D Y F O R U S T O T A K E U P .
Followers of the spotless Mary, children of the V i r g i n Mother, respect women!
If one is a man, he wi l l respect every woman, even women who do not respect themselves.
If one is a woman, she wi l l respect 'every woman, and most of all she wi l l respect herself.
Respect women because of the fairest of women, who is disgraced
(Contd: at foot of Col. ,3.)
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On. Wngs from .Albion (FROM OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT)
H O L Y W E E K .
Holy Week is a time when, in relation to Catholic activities, there is in one sense "nothing doing;" but in another and much more important sense, everything is doing. The devotional duties and solemn functions of the period fill the days • to the exclusion of mundane matters such as demonstrations and social events. In England, as in other lands, there is thus little to record of these lesser happenings.
But the functions of Holy Week itself: these must have filled many non-Catholics wi th amazement. To take London alone as an example—and these words are being penned from London—the Holy Week attendances at Westminster Cathedral have been such that not only has that great building been crowded to the doors, but at times it has seemed as though not many more persons could find even standing room. Protestant v is i tors, with their knowledge of half-empty churches except in the cases of a few fashionable centres, have marvelled that so much religious responsiveness is s t i l l to be found in the capital. A n d what is true of Westminster Cathedral is true also of most of the other Catholic churches in the metropolis.
A pathetic feature of the spectacle in the Cathedral this year was the empty throne in the sanctuary. In previous years the beloved figure of the late Cardinal Archbishop presided, until illness laid His Eminence low; and the vacant place this week has been a melancholy reminder of the loss so recently sustained. Before the close of this month another distinguished prelate wi l l occupy the Westminster throne, as the fifth Archbishop of the See.
B I S H O P O ' G O R M A N .
Death has claimed one of the Empire's notable missionary workers, the Rt . Rev. Bishop John O'Gorman, C.S.Sp., who until tv/o years ago was Vicar-Apostolic of Sierra Leone. In that West A f r i can colony Dr . O'Gorman laboured with conspicuous success. When his health broke down he set out on the long journey homeward to his native country, Ireland. He was so i l l that he had to be taken from the liner at Marseilles, for a long period of nursing. A t the time of his death the Bishop was l iving in Switzerland, in the hope of there regaining, i f God so willed, his lost strength. Before going to Sierra Leone, his lordship was for some time teaching in the U.S .A. at the Holy Ghost Father 's novitiate near Philadelphia.
A N E W A R M Y BISHOP.
Another name is added to the episcopate in Great Bri tain. It is announced that Monsignor James Dey, D.S.O.. rector of Oscott, is to be consecrated as Bishop of Sebas-topolis on his appointment to be Catholic A r m y Bishop in succession to the late Bishop Keatinge. Monsignor Dey is a distinguished retired Chaplain who served with gallantry during the European War ; he was mentioned in despatches and was honoured with the D.S:0. For a time he was Vicar -
General to Bishop Keatinge. He served in German East Afr ica as senior Catholic chaplain to the Forces and later became principal Catholic chaplain in the Royal A i r Force. On his retirement from the Army, in 1929, Mgr . Dey took up work at Oscott and has since ruled that famous college with great success.
A G R E A T P R I E S T - L I N G U I S T .
On Good Friday the death took place of Father Wil l iam Henry Kent, D.D., O.S.C., a venerable priest whose name wi l l be long remembered among the country's greatest linguists. Exact ly how many languages he understood is perhaps a debateable question; i t has been remarked that he did not know their number himself! But it was said that he admitted a working knowledge of about thirty different tongues. He understood many Eastern languages, as well as st i l l more of those of the West, including Gaelic. Moreover, the knowledge was not merely superficial. He had made many translations of hymns from Armenian, Coptic, and Syriac. Father Kent was a profound scholar and critic. U p t i l l a few years ago he wrote copiously on l i terary subjects. Deafness was a handicap which threw him largely into the work of study and authorship, and he would spend many hours at a time at his desk.
Between F r . Kent and the Pacific there was an anscestral link. His great-grand father was the Captain Wil l iam Kent who discovered and named Port St. V i n cent, New Caledonia. His father, Charles Kent, was a man widely known and a great friend of Charles Dickens. F r . Kent himself may be said to have known the English classics from A to Z. The range of his learning was immense. Although he produced no published book, the aggregate of his writings in the principal Catholic reviews in Great Br i ta in , Ireland, and America, during nearly half a century, was immense.
F r . Kent has died in his seventy-eighth year. Had he lived until next year he would then have reached his diamond jubilee as an Oblate of St. Charles, the Congregation introduced into England by
.Cardinal Manning, who ordained him in 1881.
F A T H E R D A M I E N A
P R O T E S T A N T !
Yes, it has come to that. The great Apostle of the Lepers is claimed as a member of the Church of England! In more than one Engl ish newspaper a letter has appeared from a non-Catholic clergyman, the Rev J . Bacon Phillips, referring sympathetically to the coming canonization of B B . John Fisher and Thomas .More. But the Rev. gentleman then goes on to say "The day, I believe, is not far distant wThen I hope the Church of England wi l l honour her sons and d a u g h t e r s wi th canonization. Among them would be Father Da-mien, General Gordon, Sister Dora, and Bishop Bannington." Pro-
U L C A I H
T H E K I N G ' S J U B I L E E .
Service of Thanksgiving to be held in al l the Churches of the Diocese.
On the occasion of the Silver Jubilee of His Majesty K i n g George V , on Monday, May 6th, there wi l l be in all the churches of the diocese a solemn Benedict on of the Blessed Sacrament with a " Te Deum " of Thanksgiving.
A s arrangements for the ce!ebration~are~ not uniform and vary in each place, i t is left to the Parish Priest to fix the time for the service in accord with the local authorities and to inform the faithful in due course.
The faithful are reminded of their duty to attend this service as a token of gratitude for the friendly and impartial attitude of the K i n g towards His Catholic subjects and to beseech God's blessings upon the Royal Fami ly and the Whole Bri t ish Empire.
t A . D E V A L S , Bishop of Malacca.
W H A T IT I N D I C A T E S I F Y O U DO A C A T H O L I C P A P E R .
N O T T A K E
L That you have not been asked to do so. 2. That you have little i f any interest in Catholic affairs. 3. That you prefer not to be bothered with religious reading 4. That it is merely neglect. Ycu haven't thought of it . 5. That you "take so manv papers" you must economize by
cutting off the best and most necessary of them. 6. That you wi l l let the other fellow defend your religion. 7. That you differed once with an editor and can't forgive
him, although you agreed with him in ninety-nine other instances. 8. That such money as y o i pay for papers, you give to
dailies which occasionally insult your religion, refer to your Church 2S "the Romish Church" and brin • ye-Iow immorality and scandal into your family.
Now, reader, i f you are not a subscriber to a Catholic paper and belong to the first, fourth, fi'th, seventh or eighth class, you will subscribe at once. But i f yo i belong to the second, third or sixth, we can do nothing for you
T H E It KMT W A T C H
It's not only a matter of taste
To be a perfect timepiece, a watch has to be beautiful and accurate. Now, everyone can say whether a watch is to one's liking or not, but it is difficult to estimate the quality. Only experts can judge, the finish and precision of a mechanism as delicate as that of a watch. There remains for those who love accuracy a means of eliminating disappointment-choose a VULCAIN watch, acknowledged the best by thousands of people all over the world. With a VULCAIN you have the satisfaction of knowing that you possess a timepiece of unequalled accuracy and refined beauty.
bably by this time thousands of newspaper readers, knowing no better, wil l have got it into their heads that the great priest who" lived and died for the lepers on Molokai belonged to the Protestant Establishment.
The interest being taken by many Anglicans in the approaching canonizations is very great. A note in the Glocester Citizen, for instance, has the following: "It is indicative of the widespread interest aroused by the forthcoming canonization of Bishop Fisher and Sir Thomas More that a number of prominent people of the Anglican faith are, I understand, to go to Rome to witness the
. ceremnoy." * * * *
T H E K I N G ' S S I L V E R J U B I L E E . The Catholic Cathedrals arid
other churches througout England and Wales wil l mark the silver jubilee of His Majesty's reign by a Mass of thanksgiving followed by^a solemn Te Deum, throughout the country. In most places the Mass wi l l be offered on the jubilee day, May 6.
A t the thanksgiving service which the K i n g and Queen wi l l attend in St. Paul's Cathedral, the Lord Mayor of London, S i r Stephen Ki l l i k , who is a Catholic wi l l be present. There is no religious inconsistency in this. While Catholic Mayors and Councillors generally are not permitted by the Bishops to attend non-Catholic services, the Bishop of Southwark has made it clear that "a Catholic who is a servant of the State may attend an Anglican church when he is attending upon a Sovereign. Accordingly, no question arises as to the presence of the Lord Mayor at the Royal Jubilee service.
While the K i n g is in St. Paul's, a c.rreat Catholic Cathedral service wil l be in progress in the north of England on a spot where as yet there is very little Cathedral; the site of the great building lately begun at Liverpool. His Grace the Archbishop of Liverpool has decided that the thanksgiving Mass shall be celebrated in the open, on Brownlow H i l l ; thus there wil l be opportunity for thousands to assist who could not hope to find accommodation in the Pro-Cathedral.
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Catechists Catechumens and Catechumenates. By Rev. Thomas V. Kiernan, M. M,
(CONCLUDED FROM PREVIOUS ISSUE) ans i f the priest is not available,
prayers are learned first, then the winning pagans at the very thres-reguiar set of prayers for use in hold oi eternity to baptism, re-tne family, the commandments, porting severe illness so that the the Rosary and so on. Af te r suf- missioner may administer the fieient proficiency is attained by L a s l Sacraments in due season, most, the study of the various a c i V i s i n g of proposed marriages,
RESPECT FOR WOMEN.
F R O M T H E C A T H O L I C C L U B C H R O N I C L E , A U S T R A L I A .
C A T E C H U M E N A T E S . The catechumenates are simply
the gathering together of a group of converts for instruction. There are generally two kinds, one conducted at the central mission sta-tion, where the men and ^ women catechisms is undertaken, first the settling5 disputes* and in general catecmsm o i essential doctrine, s u b s t i t u t i » g for the missioner
then those o i baptism, contession h i m s e l f . R e g i o n , like many 1 £ 0 m ™ n i ° * " h 3 f b t e \ t h e that are good, is often best
pract.ce, the efficacy of which is S e a t e d bv a habit and the pre-Y l X ^ n T e ' . l h a t a " * e « < * ^ the catechist makes for
usual catechumenate takes place i n J S C S Z e l ^ ^ ^ S i ^ ^ "T the village, where a minimum of C w L L ^ S w S S & ^ i m i g h t b y t h e w a y s l d e ' twenty or th i r ty catechumens ^ t ^ M ZZSttTSHZZ^
live apart, nourished by the mission, and instructed by catechists and missioners the live-long day. This is the ideal type, where it is possible, but in South China i t is the exception to the rule. The
obtain instruction. They gather for morning prayers in common in a large room and then go to their work. We strive to have the younger children study for several hours during the day, to leave the evenings free for the older people. Short ly after dusk they gather again for the study of the prayers, catechism and to hear the daily instruction delivered by the head catechist. In al l , this consumes two to"* three hours. A woman catechist can instruct about 15 women, a man catechist nearly twice that number. Individual at-
another month or more is spent in preparation for the first confession and Holy Communions, on the catechisms which deal at length wi th these two Sacraments.
There is a regular outline of sermons which must be followed daily by the catechists. These first deal wi th the absurdity of
the faith to the people, who for the best part are too illiterate or hardworked to study them alone.
N o r is the spiritual life of the catechist neglected when he is conducting the catechumenate. Once a month on scheduled days the entire body of catechists must return to the central mission station
; : i viccrn * ~ — v - wv.^.*-. ~ ~ . • -i
superstitions, worship of idols and for a day's retreat, during wnicn ancestors. They examine in detail they make their reports to the the local superstitious practices and point out their harm and senselessness, offsetting these with the correct worship of the One True God. Instructions on the
missioner, receive the Sacraments, listen to his counsel and instructions. A symposium is held for an hour or two in which the cate-
.. . . . . . . . . _ chists take turns in preaching and tention and constant repetition, meaning of the Church, the reason instructing their efforts at the end coupled with the patience of Job why foreign priests corne to China *nrructlI??> +1 at trie end must ™ a b l y be given to each S i S ^ f f i o ^ ^ ^ S 5 ^ e S ^ ^ < S S person. Where drcumstances war- nghteousnesh and the errors of 2 o ^ ^ S ^ h ^
the old Chinese philosophers, doctrine are assigned for study by~ Tften the catechumens are intro- • "
rant it , the more intelligent converts help in the instruction of their less favoured kin , thus rel ieving the catechists from the burden of close supervision of the entire number, freeing them for attention to those who learn less readily.
When the :catechumenate first opens, the catechists search high and low for all signs of concealed superstitions, soul tablets, idols, scrolls and the kind. These are destroyed and a picture of the Sacred Heart, our Mother or the Holy Family hung in the principal room of each family. The catechist, during the course of the catechumenate must investigate the regularity of all marriages, lest men with concubines or women having several successive husbands slip through to baptism. The people of our section are so poor that concubinage and opium smoking are beyond the limits of their finances. Opium smokers when found among the catechumens must be dealt wi th separately and they must show evidence of solid reformation or complete abandonment of the drug before being permitted to receive baptism.
One is not apt to be favorably impressed on his first view of a country catechumenate in action. Bedlam and Babel are the best words for description. Groups of six or seven are crowded around the common square eating-tables, a small flickering oil lamp in the center, each lustily shouting the character or phrase under study for the moment. One is shouting " W h y did you enter the Church ?", and its answer. The next one is demanding to know " How many Gods there a r e ? " While a th i rd may be repeating the Lord 's Prayer or the Angelus. Some elderly chap with a squeaky voice is t r y ing to memorize the Ten Commandments, while perhaps a precocious child nearby is rat t l ing off the entire set of morning prayers without a n " error. This goes on night after night, for at least four months. The essential
duced'to the meaning of each of the prayers they are required to memorize, the meaning of each question and answer of the catechisms, and finally a systematic course of instructions on the creed, the Commandments of God and the Church, the Sacraments, Sa-cramentals and ceremonies is given.
If a catechist is conscientious there is l i t t le time for h im to idle. He must prepare his discourses and the answers to objections that arise i n the general conversation of the catechumenate. When neighbours and relatives visi t the catechumenate he attempts to insert the wedge of fai th in the minds of his chance acquaintances. This frequently results in the enrollment and final conversion of these people.
When the newly baptised have been admitted to confession and Communion, i t is desirable to leave at least one man and one woman catechist i n their midst to direct them in the ways of the Christ ian life. La te r on, depending upon circumstances a catechumenate for the reception of Confirmation is held in the same manner, during which the catechisms of the other Sacraments are studied, especially Confirmation, Matrimony, and E x treme Unction. A review of the first three catechisms and prayers is always made first before proceeding further.
Af ter the reception of Confirmation, the new Christians cannot be safely left to themselves, for the priest can visit them only about three times a year to administer the Sacraments. A yearly mission of two or three weeks by a priest or catechist is the best way of following up. Again , the catechist is called into action. Dur ing the day he may be a teacher in a little primary school in the village, but at any rate he resides there and acts as their spiritual leader in the law of fast and abstinence, baptising the children of Christ i -
thc catechists in their leisure hours, and on these monthly recollection days they are examined i n these subjects. This policy makes for a gradual increase in the store of knowledge of all concerned. Added to this, texts of-the Scriptures are to be memorized wrhich are useful in preaching and i n the refutation of objections, especially those which apply to Pro-testanstism. So during the catechumenate the catechists have little occasion to be entirely idle although their teaching activities may be confined to a few hours daily.
The catechumenate very frequently makes for considerable inconvenienc to the new catechumens, for space is at a premium in the ordinary Chinese household. It is common to have inner doors removed from their hinges to serve as bed boards, the use of the family hearth by the catechists incommodes the people not a little, for the catechists must " eat themselves " as the expression goes for getting one's, own meals and supply ing one's own victuals. The catechist must furnish his own bedding, firewood and water, and do his own laundry. So a mult itude of little sacrifices on the part of both the catechumens and catechists makes for harmonv in the catechumenate. The result of the whole—catechists, catechumens and catechumenates—being the increase of the harvest of souls.—March 18. 1935.
by every woman who disgraces herself and by every man who disgraces a woman. Respect women for the sake of our own mothers. Respect women for the sake of future mothers, future nuns, future wives. Respect women for the sake of the frail, who wi l l fall i f between them and their own weakness is not the steadying influence of noble men and pure women.
P E R H A P S it is because womsn compete wi th men in so many fields where cut-throat methods have destroyed all courtesy and much honour.
P E R H A P S it is because the stage so often treats women as bait for the unpleasant-minded.
P E R H A P S it is because some silly women wil l do anything, wear anything, say anything to win a date or a dance or a none-too-complimantary smile.
B U T W H A T E V E R IT IS, OUR A G E IS R A P I D L Y L O S I N G ITS R E S P E C T F O R W O M E N .
M E N A R E L O S I N G IT. The fact that men let women
stand in a crowded street car and elbow them savagely i n crowds is relatively unimportant. B U T IT IS I M P O R T A N T that girls are laughed at by college comic papers; that women are exposed shamelessly on stage and magazine covers; that they are expected to pay with precious privileges for the parties they attend, the dinners given them, the dates which some man casually gives them; that pure women are sneered at and that feminine virtue is frankly doubted.
TOO M A N Y B O Y S A N D M E N A R E C O M I N G T O T A K E IT F O R G R A N T E D that girls and women wi l l allow promiscuous liberties, and they class the girl who indignantly refuses as an old fogey, and the woman who declines as a foolish prude.
W O M E N A R E L O S I N G IT. - ~ The harsh and bitter struggle
into which modern C O M M E R C I A L I S M has thrown them is t rying enough, but it is frightening when women begin to accept C O A R S E M E N ' S S T A N D A R D S of dress and manner.
If the women take i t for granted, when P R I V I L E G E S are demanded, that is the price they must pay for populari ty; i f they laugh at an unclean P L A Y for fear that they wi l l be frowned on by their 'escort; i f during the R E V U E OR T H E M O V I E they sit calmly while their sisters are required to sing filthy songs and disport themselves shamelessly, they have lost respect for their own womanhood.
L ike it or not, our age, which uses woman's F I G U R E A N D F R A I L T Y to advertise its wares, run up its magazine circulations, jam its theatres, popularise sin on our city streets, is losing, i f it has not already lost, i ts respect for won'en.
A N D T H E R E S P E C T W I T H W H I C H T H E C H U R C H F O R C E N T U R I E S H A S S U R R O U N D E D W O M E N IS T H E O N E T H I N G T H A T H A S K E P T T H E M F R O M B E I N G T H E P R E Y OF T H E B E A S T I N M E N A N D T H E B E A S T I N T H E M S E L V E S .
H E R E IS A C R U S A D E R E A D Y F O R U S T O T A K E U P .
Followers of the spotless Mary, children of the V i r g i n Mother, respect women!
If one is a man, he wi l l respect every woman, even women who do not respect themselves.
If one is a woman, she wi l l respect 'every woman, and most of all she wi l l respect herself.
Respect women because of the fairest of women, who is disgraced
(Contd: at foot of Col. ,3.)
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On. Wngs from .Albion (FROM OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT)
H O L Y W E E K .
Holy Week is a time when, in relation to Catholic activities, there is in one sense "nothing doing;" but in another and much more important sense, everything is doing. The devotional duties and solemn functions of the period fill the days • to the exclusion of mundane matters such as demonstrations and social events. In England, as in other lands, there is thus little to record of these lesser happenings.
But the functions of Holy Week itself: these must have filled many non-Catholics wi th amazement. To take London alone as an example—and these words are being penned from London—the Holy Week attendances at Westminster Cathedral have been such that not only has that great building been crowded to the doors, but at times it has seemed as though not many more persons could find even standing room. Protestant v is i tors, with their knowledge of half-empty churches except in the cases of a few fashionable centres, have marvelled that so much religious responsiveness is s t i l l to be found in the capital. A n d what is true of Westminster Cathedral is true also of most of the other Catholic churches in the metropolis.
A pathetic feature of the spectacle in the Cathedral this year was the empty throne in the sanctuary. In previous years the beloved figure of the late Cardinal Archbishop presided, until illness laid His Eminence low; and the vacant place this week has been a melancholy reminder of the loss so recently sustained. Before the close of this month another distinguished prelate wi l l occupy the Westminster throne, as the fifth Archbishop of the See.
B I S H O P O ' G O R M A N .
Death has claimed one of the Empire's notable missionary workers, the Rt . Rev. Bishop John O'Gorman, C.S.Sp., who until tv/o years ago was Vicar-Apostolic of Sierra Leone. In that West A f r i can colony Dr . O'Gorman laboured with conspicuous success. When his health broke down he set out on the long journey homeward to his native country, Ireland. He was so i l l that he had to be taken from the liner at Marseilles, for a long period of nursing. A t the time of his death the Bishop was l iving in Switzerland, in the hope of there regaining, i f God so willed, his lost strength. Before going to Sierra Leone, his lordship was for some time teaching in the U.S .A. at the Holy Ghost Father 's novitiate near Philadelphia.
A N E W A R M Y BISHOP.
Another name is added to the episcopate in Great Bri tain. It is announced that Monsignor James Dey, D.S.O.. rector of Oscott, is to be consecrated as Bishop of Sebas-topolis on his appointment to be Catholic A r m y Bishop in succession to the late Bishop Keatinge. Monsignor Dey is a distinguished retired Chaplain who served with gallantry during the European War ; he was mentioned in despatches and was honoured with the D.S:0. For a time he was Vicar -
General to Bishop Keatinge. He served in German East Afr ica as senior Catholic chaplain to the Forces and later became principal Catholic chaplain in the Royal A i r Force. On his retirement from the Army, in 1929, Mgr . Dey took up work at Oscott and has since ruled that famous college with great success.
A G R E A T P R I E S T - L I N G U I S T .
On Good Friday the death took place of Father Wil l iam Henry Kent, D.D., O.S.C., a venerable priest whose name wi l l be long remembered among the country's greatest linguists. Exact ly how many languages he understood is perhaps a debateable question; i t has been remarked that he did not know their number himself! But it was said that he admitted a working knowledge of about thirty different tongues. He understood many Eastern languages, as well as st i l l more of those of the West, including Gaelic. Moreover, the knowledge was not merely superficial. He had made many translations of hymns from Armenian, Coptic, and Syriac. Father Kent was a profound scholar and critic. U p t i l l a few years ago he wrote copiously on l i terary subjects. Deafness was a handicap which threw him largely into the work of study and authorship, and he would spend many hours at a time at his desk.
Between F r . Kent and the Pacific there was an anscestral link. His great-grand father was the Captain Wil l iam Kent who discovered and named Port St. V i n cent, New Caledonia. His father, Charles Kent, was a man widely known and a great friend of Charles Dickens. F r . Kent himself may be said to have known the English classics from A to Z. The range of his learning was immense. Although he produced no published book, the aggregate of his writings in the principal Catholic reviews in Great Br i ta in , Ireland, and America, during nearly half a century, was immense.
F r . Kent has died in his seventy-eighth year. Had he lived until next year he would then have reached his diamond jubilee as an Oblate of St. Charles, the Congregation introduced into England by
.Cardinal Manning, who ordained him in 1881.
F A T H E R D A M I E N A
P R O T E S T A N T !
Yes, it has come to that. The great Apostle of the Lepers is claimed as a member of the Church of England! In more than one Engl ish newspaper a letter has appeared from a non-Catholic clergyman, the Rev J . Bacon Phillips, referring sympathetically to the coming canonization of B B . John Fisher and Thomas .More. But the Rev. gentleman then goes on to say "The day, I believe, is not far distant wThen I hope the Church of England wi l l honour her sons and d a u g h t e r s wi th canonization. Among them would be Father Da-mien, General Gordon, Sister Dora, and Bishop Bannington." Pro-
U L C A I H
T H E K I N G ' S J U B I L E E .
Service of Thanksgiving to be held in al l the Churches of the Diocese.
On the occasion of the Silver Jubilee of His Majesty K i n g George V , on Monday, May 6th, there wi l l be in all the churches of the diocese a solemn Benedict on of the Blessed Sacrament with a " Te Deum " of Thanksgiving.
A s arrangements for the ce!ebration~are~ not uniform and vary in each place, i t is left to the Parish Priest to fix the time for the service in accord with the local authorities and to inform the faithful in due course.
The faithful are reminded of their duty to attend this service as a token of gratitude for the friendly and impartial attitude of the K i n g towards His Catholic subjects and to beseech God's blessings upon the Royal Fami ly and the Whole Bri t ish Empire.
t A . D E V A L S , Bishop of Malacca.
W H A T IT I N D I C A T E S I F Y O U DO A C A T H O L I C P A P E R .
N O T T A K E
L That you have not been asked to do so. 2. That you have little i f any interest in Catholic affairs. 3. That you prefer not to be bothered with religious reading 4. That it is merely neglect. Ycu haven't thought of it . 5. That you "take so manv papers" you must economize by
cutting off the best and most necessary of them. 6. That you wi l l let the other fellow defend your religion. 7. That you differed once with an editor and can't forgive
him, although you agreed with him in ninety-nine other instances. 8. That such money as y o i pay for papers, you give to
dailies which occasionally insult your religion, refer to your Church 2S "the Romish Church" and brin • ye-Iow immorality and scandal into your family.
Now, reader, i f you are not a subscriber to a Catholic paper and belong to the first, fourth, fi'th, seventh or eighth class, you will subscribe at once. But i f yo i belong to the second, third or sixth, we can do nothing for you
T H E It KMT W A T C H
It's not only a matter of taste
To be a perfect timepiece, a watch has to be beautiful and accurate. Now, everyone can say whether a watch is to one's liking or not, but it is difficult to estimate the quality. Only experts can judge, the finish and precision of a mechanism as delicate as that of a watch. There remains for those who love accuracy a means of eliminating disappointment-choose a VULCAIN watch, acknowledged the best by thousands of people all over the world. With a VULCAIN you have the satisfaction of knowing that you possess a timepiece of unequalled accuracy and refined beauty.
bably by this time thousands of newspaper readers, knowing no better, wil l have got it into their heads that the great priest who" lived and died for the lepers on Molokai belonged to the Protestant Establishment.
The interest being taken by many Anglicans in the approaching canonizations is very great. A note in the Glocester Citizen, for instance, has the following: "It is indicative of the widespread interest aroused by the forthcoming canonization of Bishop Fisher and Sir Thomas More that a number of prominent people of the Anglican faith are, I understand, to go to Rome to witness the
. ceremnoy." * * * *
T H E K I N G ' S S I L V E R J U B I L E E . The Catholic Cathedrals arid
other churches througout England and Wales wil l mark the silver jubilee of His Majesty's reign by a Mass of thanksgiving followed by^a solemn Te Deum, throughout the country. In most places the Mass wi l l be offered on the jubilee day, May 6.
A t the thanksgiving service which the K i n g and Queen wi l l attend in St. Paul's Cathedral, the Lord Mayor of London, S i r Stephen Ki l l i k , who is a Catholic wi l l be present. There is no religious inconsistency in this. While Catholic Mayors and Councillors generally are not permitted by the Bishops to attend non-Catholic services, the Bishop of Southwark has made it clear that "a Catholic who is a servant of the State may attend an Anglican church when he is attending upon a Sovereign. Accordingly, no question arises as to the presence of the Lord Mayor at the Royal Jubilee service.
While the K i n g is in St. Paul's, a c.rreat Catholic Cathedral service wil l be in progress in the north of England on a spot where as yet there is very little Cathedral; the site of the great building lately begun at Liverpool. His Grace the Archbishop of Liverpool has decided that the thanksgiving Mass shall be celebrated in the open, on Brownlow H i l l ; thus there wil l be opportunity for thousands to assist who could not hope to find accommodation in the Pro-Cathedral.
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Y o u n g P e o p l e ' s P a g e
T H E RICH MAN. T H E 0 F F I C E B 0 Y , S A N S W E R S -In times past there lived in a
certain parish a great and wealthy l o r d ; and he was the richest in possession of houses and lands, of gold and silver, and of every worldly property, as well as wi th regard to office and honour, of any in his district. A n d one morning, at the break of dawn, after the th i rd crowing of the cock, there was a voice heard distinctly proclaiming three times i n this manner: "To-night, this very night, shall the greatest and richest man i n this parish d i e / ' A n d i t was told the nobleman how such a spir i tual voice was heard, as it were, from heaven; and when he heard of i t he was exceedingly troubled, and sent for the best of physicians far and near, who watched by his bed unceasingly, ministering to h i m every medicine they could br ing to their mind and knowledge, and every support of life that they could discover by learning and deep study. A n d the night wore away, although i t appeared to the nobleman as long as a man's life, and the dawn broke, and the nobleman and his friends rejoiced exceedingly that he was alive.
A t sunrise, l o ! the church bell was tolling the knell of someone dead, and they sent i n great haste to enquire who i t was. A n d the answer came that i t was a poor old blind beggar-man, who had been often seen,more than half naked at the roadside, asking a lms; and who, although he received something from others, yet never received anything from the r ich nobleman, his neighbour. A n d when the nobleman heard of i t , he sa id : " I knew well that the wicked old fellow was a cheat and impostor, and, as he has left neither children nor relations, as I am the lord of the terri tory, to me belongs, by the law of the land, all the wealth of the old dog."
So they sent and minutely searched the house, and in i t they found nothing but a truss of straw and a bolster of rushes, and the old man dead upon them; and in the house there was neither food, nor drink, nor fire, nor clothes as a protection from cold; and i t was seen that i t was from hunger and cold that the old hermit had died. And , from seeing this, the wealthy old lord became exceedingly sorrowful, and took i t greatly to heart; and after sorrowing for a great many days, and praying to God, i t came to his recollection that "Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven." A n d thenceforward, he became a relgious man, giving alms, and practising charity, and performing every godly and moral act to the end of his l i fe ; endowing religious houses, and churches, and alms houses, and hospitals, and schools; and relieving from every poverty and want he saw or heard of; and he died a devout saint. A n d in his last hour his words were these: "I shall go to my betters; I shall go to the old hermit ; and blessed shall I be in that, though I be litter under his feet." A t the hour in which he died, there were heard the voices o f angels singing the welcome of happiness to him. A n d he was buried, according to his desire, in the old hermit's grave.
A triangle is a three-cornered square.
A pessimist is a man who is never happy unless he is miserable and even then he is not pleased.
A buttress is a female goat. A giraffe needs a long neck
because its head is so far away from its body.
The earth makes a resolution every twenty-four hours.
A circle is a line wi th no depth running round a dot for ever.
The plural of penny is twopence.
A contimetre is an insect with a hundred legs. .
Two straight lines cannot •enclose a space unless they are crooked.
The feminine of Czar is Sardine. Art if icial respiration is what
you make a person alive wi th after he is just dead.
A cat is a quadruped, the legs as usual being at the corners.
Lipton is the capital of Ceylon A singlet is a young swan. A n oboe is an American tramp. A polygon is a dead parrot. A magnet is a th ing you find
in bad apples. Quadruped has no singular.
Y o u cannot have a horse wi th only one leg.
A quotation is an answer to a division sum.
A conjunction is where two railway lines meet.
Aladdin was a man who had a magic lamp, and evey time he rubbed it a guinness sprang out of the ground.
A Soviet is a cloth used by waiters in hotels.
A metaphor is a thing you shout through.
Two crochets make a Quaker. Mandolines are high officials i n
China. A n optimist is a man, who, of
two evils, chooses neither! The inhabitants of Moscow are
caJfed Mosquitoes.
A B A D SHOT.
A t last the young actor had received a speaking part. It consisted of four words: "Hark, a pistol shot!"
However, at the last moment stage fright got the upper hand, and rushing on to the stage he yelled: "Hark, a shistol pot! Non-no, a postol shoot." Then, desperately, he shouted: "Hang it a l l , did you hear that bang?"
N O T H I N G TO DO.
Poor little, bored little Dorothy True!
A sad little maiden with nothing to do.
There's a room to be dusted, a bed to be made,
Some eggs to be poached, and a table to be laid,
There's a wee little boy in the nursery near,
Who's sobbing and crying with no one to hear.
But poor little, bored little Dorothy True
Sti l l sits and laments that she's nothing to do.
A PRAYER.
Not long ago a little gir l asked her mother: " W h e n you kneel down at the altar rails, mother, before the Blessed Sacrament, what do you say to God ? "
Her mother thought for a moment, and then smilingly replied, " Well , dear, perhaps I can explain better by telling you a story of the Blessed Cure of A r s .
"Sa in t Jean Vianney, you must know, was, as a young priest, appointed Cure of the little French village of A r s , where the people were mostly very poor and ignorant, and, of course, he much wanted to awaken their souls; and his constant charity to them, his preaching and his prayers, soon made them feel that here was one who loved them, sc they began to think more about God.
" Now, the Cure's great wish was to have in his church the perpetual adoration of the Blessed Sacrament, and gradually he gathered together some of his parishioners to join h im in this.
" One of these was a poor old%
peasant, who never failed to go into the church to adore Our Lord every day, both on his way to work and coming home from it .
" The Cure often noticed the old man kneeling before the Tabernacle, and wondered much what he said to Our Lord as he knelt.
" So one day, as the aged peasant came out, the Cure asked him what were the prayers he usually said while on his knees at the altar ra i l .
" ' W h a t prayers, F a t h e r ? ' asked the old man, in a puzzled voice.
" ' Y e s , ' smiled the Cure, ' forgive me, but I wondered what prayers you said, that is a l l . '
" B u t I don't say anything, Father, ' said the old man gently. ' O h , no! I say nothing. But I look at H i m , and He looks at me. ' "
A R E M A R K A B L E B I R D . Among the most remarkable of
the members of the feathered family is the adjutant or marabout, a tal l Indian bird of the stork species, which when feeding swallows the whole carcase of a hare or cat. It stands five feet high, and the expanse of wings is nearly fifteen feet.
— : "This is a wonderful suit I 'm wearing."
— : " It looks very ordinary." — : " But the wool came from
Austral ia , Engl ish merchants sold ic to an Irish factory, i t was woven in Cork, made into a suit in Dublin — "
— : " N o t h i n g wonderful about that."
— : "No, the wonder is that so many people can get a l iv ing out of something I've never paid for."
A small boy was sent to town with his father's donkey and cart, but got into difficulties in the main street when the ass refused to move. A crowd collected and made wit ty remarks. A t last a dandy cried out: "I say, boy, wil l you sell the donkey?" The boy was vexed: "Better ask your mother first," he retorted, " i f she can afford to keep two."
All young people need milk every
day:
for preference
"MILKMAID
MILK.
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L E E B I / C U I T / LI?
"We had a lovely time at the party," said Tommy when he and his younger brother were telling mother all about i t . "We kept on saying ' N o , thank you,' all the time just as you told us." "You mustn't have eaten much, then!" " 0 , yes, we did, mammy; we said 'No, thank you,' every time they asked us i f we had enough."
A little boy was saying his night prayers for his mother. He began to whisper them. "I can't hear you, Danny," said his mother. The reply was unexpected: "I wasn't speaking to you, Mammy."
* * * * * Wife : "John, the clock fell off
the wall, and i f it had been a minute sooner i t would have hit poor mother."
Hubby: "There , I always said that tire ctock^was-islowT^
"She's a wonder, that quiet little woman over there."
" W h y , what has she done?" " I told you ; she is Quiet."
It is a vain and unprofitable thing, to conceive either joy or grief for future things which perhaps may never happen.
M A L A Y A C A T H O L I C L E A D E R , S A T U R D A Y , M A Y 4th, 1935.
SILVER JUBILEE OF THE REIGN OF H. M. KING GEORGE V.
A G l o r i o u s R u l e o f
A SIGNIFICANT EPOCH IN MODERN HISTORY.
George Frederick Earnest A l bert, second son of K i n g Edward VII , K i n g of Great Br i t a in and Ireland and of the Br i t i sh Dominions beyond the Seas, Emperor of India, was born on June 3, 1865 at Marlborough House London.
E A R L Y C A R E E R .
view of the fact that K i n g George's eldest son Prince Edward was then not (16) his consort, Queen Mary was at once nominated regent in the event of a demise of the Crown while the heir to the throne was yet a minor. A new civil list fixed at £470,000 a year, was approved by parliament in 1910. The King's declaration of accession was in the following, modified form by act of parliament :—
" I do solemnly and sincerely in the presence of God profess, testify and declare, that I am a faithful Protestant and that I wil l , according to the true intent of the enactments which secure the Protestant succession to the
HOJHIII!IUO!IHIH!lliHHI!HII!IIOM
TROOPING THE COLOUR.
Albert, was born at White Lodge, Richmond, on June 23, 1894. Prince Albert Frederick George was born at Sandringham on December 14, 1895; Princess V i c toria Alexandra Alice Mary on A p r i l 25, 1897. Prince Henry Will iam Frederick Albert on March 31, 1900; Prince George Edward Alexander Edmund on December 20, 1902; and Prince John Charles Francis on July 12, 1905 (died January 18, 1919). The Duke and
When hardly 7 years old he and his eldest brother, Prince Alber t Victor, two years his senior, were placed under the tutorship of John Neale Dalton, then curate of Sandringham. In 1877 the two princes became naval cadets on the " B r i t a n n i a " at Spithead where tkey passed through the ordinary curriculum, and in 1879 they joined H.M.S . " Bacchante " under the command of Capt. L o r d Charles Scott, making a voyage to the West Indies, in the course of which they were rated midshipmen. In 1880 they made a second and more circuitous cruise in the same vessel, v is i t ing South America , South Af r i ca , Austral ia , Japan, Ceylon, Egypt and Palestine. Prince George who remained longer than his brother in the Navy was appointed to H . M . S . " Canada " under the command of Captain Durant. While serving in this ship at the West Indian station, he was promoted sublieutenant. On leaving this ship, he entered the Royal Naval College at Greenwich, where he creditably completed the gunnery and torpedo courses and was promoted lieutenant in 1885. A year later he was appointed to H.M.S. " Thunderer " His Majesty of the Mediterranean Squadron, and was later transferred to H.M.S. "Dreadnought" and H . M . S .
Alexandra." In 1889 he joined ijnHmHmsouuwifHBniimuinntiim̂ the flagship of the Channel Squad-
THE KING photographed with the PRINCE OF WALES on their way
to the Horse Guards Parade for the Trooping the Colour
ron, H . M . S . " Northumberland," and in that year was i n command « of torpedo boat No. 79 for the Naval Manoeuvres. In 1890 hei was put in command of the gunboat H .M.S . " Thrush " for service on the Nor th American and WTest Indian Station. On the death of his brother Albert Victor , the duke of Clarence, in January 1892, ho relinquished his naval command, to devote himself to such duties as he was called upon to perform as eventual heir to the throne. He was however promoted captain in 1893, rear-Admiral in 1901, and vice-admiral in 1903.
M A R R I A G E . He was created Duke of York ,
Ear l of Inverness and Baron K i l -larney in 1892, and on July 6, 1893 he married Princess Victor ia Mary (born May 26, 1867) daughter of Francis, Duke of Teck, and Princess M a r y Adelaide, Duchess of Teck. daughter of Adolphus Frederick, Duke of Cambridge. Their eldest son, Prince Edward
Duchess of York visited Ireland in 1899, and it had been arranged before the death of Queen Victoria that they should make a tour in the Colonies. On the accession of K i n g Edward V I I (1901) this plan was confirmed. They sailed in the " O p h i r " on March 16, 1901 travelling by the ordinary route, and landed af Melbourne in May, where they opened the first parliament of the Commonwealth. They then proceeded to New Zealand, returning by way of South Af r i ca and Canada. A n official account of the tour was published by Sir Donald Mackenzie Wallace as ' The Web of E m p i r e ' (1902). In November 1901 the Duke was created Prince of Wales.
S U C C E S S I O N TO T H R O N E .
He succeeded to the throne on the death of his father K i n g Edward VI I , on M a y 6, 1910. B y the Regency Act, 1910 (a temporary constitutional expedient in
throne of my Realm, uphold and maintain the said enactments to the best of my power according to law."
C O R O N A T I O N .
The coronation at Westminster Abbey, on June 22, 1911, was attended by representatives from all parts of . the Empire and other countries and, in order to complete the public assumption of royal authority throughout the United Kingdom, the King and Queen, with the Prince of Wales and Princess Mary, made State visits t o . Ireland, Wales and Scotland during July. Later in the year Their Majesties visited India, and Coronation ceremonies took place at the ancient capital of Delhi (December 12, 1911). From the very first K i n g George and Queen Mary endeared themselves by their kind and solicitous actions to all their subjects. The path for smooth and orderly government
had fortunately been paved by Queen Victor ia and K i n g Edward VII . Thus the Throne became the central and unifying national and imperial force above all party i n to ests. B y coming into personal contact wi th different classes of society Their Majesties readily
jmn_Ah_e ^sympathies of all alike and evinced their keeness in ' taking upon themselves new opportunities of service.
T H E W A R Y E A R S .
From the start of the Wor ld War in August 1914 the K i n g and Queen jointly and severally set themselves to make the royal i n fluence an encouragement to every form of national activity in aid of the fighting forces. The K i n g and Queen regularly went in state to prorogue and open parliament in successive sessions and on frequent occasions during the war royal visits were made to important factories, workshops and other institutions engaged in war work of one kind or another. The king made personal visits to shipbuilding yards, munition factories and victualling centres. Periodical visits were also made by h im to the Grand Fleet. In 1917 Queen Mary accompanied the K i n g to France. The K i n g visited frequently the French and Belgian fronts. Af ter the Armistice, the king's final visi t to Paris and to the battlefields, November 27— December 10. 1918 met with an enthusiastic reception in the French Capital. Even in other respects the K i n g and Royal Family were models in setting the example of self-denial during the stressful years of war. The K i n g attended in person at the following notable ceremonies:—The funeral services at St. Paul's for L o r d Roberts (Nov. 19, 1914) and for Lord Kitchener (June 13, 1916); the commemoration service on the entry of the U . S . A . into the war (Apri l 20, 1917); the thanksgiving at St. Paul's on Their Majesties' silver wedding (July 6, 1918) the presentation to the K i n g at Buckingham Palace by the special Japanese mission of the sword and badge of a Japanese field-Marshal (Oct. 29, 1918); and other events. It is of interest to record that on the occasion of Their Majesties' silver wedding, the K i n g and Queen were received at the Gui ldhall (July 6, 1918) and were presented with a cheque for £53,000, subscribed by the citizens of London to be devoted to charities after Their Majesties' wish. On the same occasion the K i n g and Oueen were also presented with a silver tankard once owned by Charles II.
On July 17, 1917 i t was announced that K i n g George V had abandoned all German titles for himself and his family. A proclamation was issued to the effect that henceforth The Royal House of Great Br i t a in and Ireland would be known, not as the House of Saxe—Coburg—Gotha, but as the House of Windsor.
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Y o u n g P e o p l e ' s P a g e
T H E RICH MAN. T H E 0 F F I C E B 0 Y , S A N S W E R S -In times past there lived in a
certain parish a great and wealthy l o r d ; and he was the richest in possession of houses and lands, of gold and silver, and of every worldly property, as well as wi th regard to office and honour, of any in his district. A n d one morning, at the break of dawn, after the th i rd crowing of the cock, there was a voice heard distinctly proclaiming three times i n this manner: "To-night, this very night, shall the greatest and richest man i n this parish d i e / ' A n d i t was told the nobleman how such a spir i tual voice was heard, as it were, from heaven; and when he heard of i t he was exceedingly troubled, and sent for the best of physicians far and near, who watched by his bed unceasingly, ministering to h i m every medicine they could br ing to their mind and knowledge, and every support of life that they could discover by learning and deep study. A n d the night wore away, although i t appeared to the nobleman as long as a man's life, and the dawn broke, and the nobleman and his friends rejoiced exceedingly that he was alive.
A t sunrise, l o ! the church bell was tolling the knell of someone dead, and they sent i n great haste to enquire who i t was. A n d the answer came that i t was a poor old blind beggar-man, who had been often seen,more than half naked at the roadside, asking a lms; and who, although he received something from others, yet never received anything from the r ich nobleman, his neighbour. A n d when the nobleman heard of i t , he sa id : " I knew well that the wicked old fellow was a cheat and impostor, and, as he has left neither children nor relations, as I am the lord of the terri tory, to me belongs, by the law of the land, all the wealth of the old dog."
So they sent and minutely searched the house, and in i t they found nothing but a truss of straw and a bolster of rushes, and the old man dead upon them; and in the house there was neither food, nor drink, nor fire, nor clothes as a protection from cold; and i t was seen that i t was from hunger and cold that the old hermit had died. And , from seeing this, the wealthy old lord became exceedingly sorrowful, and took i t greatly to heart; and after sorrowing for a great many days, and praying to God, i t came to his recollection that "Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven." A n d thenceforward, he became a relgious man, giving alms, and practising charity, and performing every godly and moral act to the end of his l i fe ; endowing religious houses, and churches, and alms houses, and hospitals, and schools; and relieving from every poverty and want he saw or heard of; and he died a devout saint. A n d in his last hour his words were these: "I shall go to my betters; I shall go to the old hermit ; and blessed shall I be in that, though I be litter under his feet." A t the hour in which he died, there were heard the voices o f angels singing the welcome of happiness to him. A n d he was buried, according to his desire, in the old hermit's grave.
A triangle is a three-cornered square.
A pessimist is a man who is never happy unless he is miserable and even then he is not pleased.
A buttress is a female goat. A giraffe needs a long neck
because its head is so far away from its body.
The earth makes a resolution every twenty-four hours.
A circle is a line wi th no depth running round a dot for ever.
The plural of penny is twopence.
A contimetre is an insect with a hundred legs. .
Two straight lines cannot •enclose a space unless they are crooked.
The feminine of Czar is Sardine. Art if icial respiration is what
you make a person alive wi th after he is just dead.
A cat is a quadruped, the legs as usual being at the corners.
Lipton is the capital of Ceylon A singlet is a young swan. A n oboe is an American tramp. A polygon is a dead parrot. A magnet is a th ing you find
in bad apples. Quadruped has no singular.
Y o u cannot have a horse wi th only one leg.
A quotation is an answer to a division sum.
A conjunction is where two railway lines meet.
Aladdin was a man who had a magic lamp, and evey time he rubbed it a guinness sprang out of the ground.
A Soviet is a cloth used by waiters in hotels.
A metaphor is a thing you shout through.
Two crochets make a Quaker. Mandolines are high officials i n
China. A n optimist is a man, who, of
two evils, chooses neither! The inhabitants of Moscow are
caJfed Mosquitoes.
A B A D SHOT.
A t last the young actor had received a speaking part. It consisted of four words: "Hark, a pistol shot!"
However, at the last moment stage fright got the upper hand, and rushing on to the stage he yelled: "Hark, a shistol pot! Non-no, a postol shoot." Then, desperately, he shouted: "Hang it a l l , did you hear that bang?"
N O T H I N G TO DO.
Poor little, bored little Dorothy True!
A sad little maiden with nothing to do.
There's a room to be dusted, a bed to be made,
Some eggs to be poached, and a table to be laid,
There's a wee little boy in the nursery near,
Who's sobbing and crying with no one to hear.
But poor little, bored little Dorothy True
Sti l l sits and laments that she's nothing to do.
A PRAYER.
Not long ago a little gir l asked her mother: " W h e n you kneel down at the altar rails, mother, before the Blessed Sacrament, what do you say to God ? "
Her mother thought for a moment, and then smilingly replied, " Well , dear, perhaps I can explain better by telling you a story of the Blessed Cure of A r s .
"Sa in t Jean Vianney, you must know, was, as a young priest, appointed Cure of the little French village of A r s , where the people were mostly very poor and ignorant, and, of course, he much wanted to awaken their souls; and his constant charity to them, his preaching and his prayers, soon made them feel that here was one who loved them, sc they began to think more about God.
" Now, the Cure's great wish was to have in his church the perpetual adoration of the Blessed Sacrament, and gradually he gathered together some of his parishioners to join h im in this.
" One of these was a poor old%
peasant, who never failed to go into the church to adore Our Lord every day, both on his way to work and coming home from it .
" The Cure often noticed the old man kneeling before the Tabernacle, and wondered much what he said to Our Lord as he knelt.
" So one day, as the aged peasant came out, the Cure asked him what were the prayers he usually said while on his knees at the altar ra i l .
" ' W h a t prayers, F a t h e r ? ' asked the old man, in a puzzled voice.
" ' Y e s , ' smiled the Cure, ' forgive me, but I wondered what prayers you said, that is a l l . '
" B u t I don't say anything, Father, ' said the old man gently. ' O h , no! I say nothing. But I look at H i m , and He looks at me. ' "
A R E M A R K A B L E B I R D . Among the most remarkable of
the members of the feathered family is the adjutant or marabout, a tal l Indian bird of the stork species, which when feeding swallows the whole carcase of a hare or cat. It stands five feet high, and the expanse of wings is nearly fifteen feet.
— : "This is a wonderful suit I 'm wearing."
— : " It looks very ordinary." — : " But the wool came from
Austral ia , Engl ish merchants sold ic to an Irish factory, i t was woven in Cork, made into a suit in Dublin — "
— : " N o t h i n g wonderful about that."
— : "No, the wonder is that so many people can get a l iv ing out of something I've never paid for."
A small boy was sent to town with his father's donkey and cart, but got into difficulties in the main street when the ass refused to move. A crowd collected and made wit ty remarks. A t last a dandy cried out: "I say, boy, wil l you sell the donkey?" The boy was vexed: "Better ask your mother first," he retorted, " i f she can afford to keep two."
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"We had a lovely time at the party," said Tommy when he and his younger brother were telling mother all about i t . "We kept on saying ' N o , thank you,' all the time just as you told us." "You mustn't have eaten much, then!" " 0 , yes, we did, mammy; we said 'No, thank you,' every time they asked us i f we had enough."
A little boy was saying his night prayers for his mother. He began to whisper them. "I can't hear you, Danny," said his mother. The reply was unexpected: "I wasn't speaking to you, Mammy."
* * * * * Wife : "John, the clock fell off
the wall, and i f it had been a minute sooner i t would have hit poor mother."
Hubby: "There , I always said that tire ctock^was-islowT^
"She's a wonder, that quiet little woman over there."
" W h y , what has she done?" " I told you ; she is Quiet."
It is a vain and unprofitable thing, to conceive either joy or grief for future things which perhaps may never happen.
M A L A Y A C A T H O L I C L E A D E R , S A T U R D A Y , M A Y 4th, 1935.
SILVER JUBILEE OF THE REIGN OF H. M. KING GEORGE V.
A G l o r i o u s R u l e o f
A SIGNIFICANT EPOCH IN MODERN HISTORY.
George Frederick Earnest A l bert, second son of K i n g Edward VII , K i n g of Great Br i t a in and Ireland and of the Br i t i sh Dominions beyond the Seas, Emperor of India, was born on June 3, 1865 at Marlborough House London.
E A R L Y C A R E E R .
view of the fact that K i n g George's eldest son Prince Edward was then not (16) his consort, Queen Mary was at once nominated regent in the event of a demise of the Crown while the heir to the throne was yet a minor. A new civil list fixed at £470,000 a year, was approved by parliament in 1910. The King's declaration of accession was in the following, modified form by act of parliament :—
" I do solemnly and sincerely in the presence of God profess, testify and declare, that I am a faithful Protestant and that I wil l , according to the true intent of the enactments which secure the Protestant succession to the
HOJHIII!IUO!IHIH!lliHHI!HII!IIOM
TROOPING THE COLOUR.
Albert, was born at White Lodge, Richmond, on June 23, 1894. Prince Albert Frederick George was born at Sandringham on December 14, 1895; Princess V i c toria Alexandra Alice Mary on A p r i l 25, 1897. Prince Henry Will iam Frederick Albert on March 31, 1900; Prince George Edward Alexander Edmund on December 20, 1902; and Prince John Charles Francis on July 12, 1905 (died January 18, 1919). The Duke and
When hardly 7 years old he and his eldest brother, Prince Alber t Victor, two years his senior, were placed under the tutorship of John Neale Dalton, then curate of Sandringham. In 1877 the two princes became naval cadets on the " B r i t a n n i a " at Spithead where tkey passed through the ordinary curriculum, and in 1879 they joined H.M.S . " Bacchante " under the command of Capt. L o r d Charles Scott, making a voyage to the West Indies, in the course of which they were rated midshipmen. In 1880 they made a second and more circuitous cruise in the same vessel, v is i t ing South America , South Af r i ca , Austral ia , Japan, Ceylon, Egypt and Palestine. Prince George who remained longer than his brother in the Navy was appointed to H . M . S . " Canada " under the command of Captain Durant. While serving in this ship at the West Indian station, he was promoted sublieutenant. On leaving this ship, he entered the Royal Naval College at Greenwich, where he creditably completed the gunnery and torpedo courses and was promoted lieutenant in 1885. A year later he was appointed to H.M.S. " Thunderer " His Majesty of the Mediterranean Squadron, and was later transferred to H.M.S. "Dreadnought" and H . M . S .
Alexandra." In 1889 he joined ijnHmHmsouuwifHBniimuinntiim̂ the flagship of the Channel Squad-
THE KING photographed with the PRINCE OF WALES on their way
to the Horse Guards Parade for the Trooping the Colour
ron, H . M . S . " Northumberland," and in that year was i n command « of torpedo boat No. 79 for the Naval Manoeuvres. In 1890 hei was put in command of the gunboat H .M.S . " Thrush " for service on the Nor th American and WTest Indian Station. On the death of his brother Albert Victor , the duke of Clarence, in January 1892, ho relinquished his naval command, to devote himself to such duties as he was called upon to perform as eventual heir to the throne. He was however promoted captain in 1893, rear-Admiral in 1901, and vice-admiral in 1903.
M A R R I A G E . He was created Duke of York ,
Ear l of Inverness and Baron K i l -larney in 1892, and on July 6, 1893 he married Princess Victor ia Mary (born May 26, 1867) daughter of Francis, Duke of Teck, and Princess M a r y Adelaide, Duchess of Teck. daughter of Adolphus Frederick, Duke of Cambridge. Their eldest son, Prince Edward
Duchess of York visited Ireland in 1899, and it had been arranged before the death of Queen Victoria that they should make a tour in the Colonies. On the accession of K i n g Edward V I I (1901) this plan was confirmed. They sailed in the " O p h i r " on March 16, 1901 travelling by the ordinary route, and landed af Melbourne in May, where they opened the first parliament of the Commonwealth. They then proceeded to New Zealand, returning by way of South Af r i ca and Canada. A n official account of the tour was published by Sir Donald Mackenzie Wallace as ' The Web of E m p i r e ' (1902). In November 1901 the Duke was created Prince of Wales.
S U C C E S S I O N TO T H R O N E .
He succeeded to the throne on the death of his father K i n g Edward VI I , on M a y 6, 1910. B y the Regency Act, 1910 (a temporary constitutional expedient in
throne of my Realm, uphold and maintain the said enactments to the best of my power according to law."
C O R O N A T I O N .
The coronation at Westminster Abbey, on June 22, 1911, was attended by representatives from all parts of . the Empire and other countries and, in order to complete the public assumption of royal authority throughout the United Kingdom, the King and Queen, with the Prince of Wales and Princess Mary, made State visits t o . Ireland, Wales and Scotland during July. Later in the year Their Majesties visited India, and Coronation ceremonies took place at the ancient capital of Delhi (December 12, 1911). From the very first K i n g George and Queen Mary endeared themselves by their kind and solicitous actions to all their subjects. The path for smooth and orderly government
had fortunately been paved by Queen Victor ia and K i n g Edward VII . Thus the Throne became the central and unifying national and imperial force above all party i n to ests. B y coming into personal contact wi th different classes of society Their Majesties readily
jmn_Ah_e ^sympathies of all alike and evinced their keeness in ' taking upon themselves new opportunities of service.
T H E W A R Y E A R S .
From the start of the Wor ld War in August 1914 the K i n g and Queen jointly and severally set themselves to make the royal i n fluence an encouragement to every form of national activity in aid of the fighting forces. The K i n g and Queen regularly went in state to prorogue and open parliament in successive sessions and on frequent occasions during the war royal visits were made to important factories, workshops and other institutions engaged in war work of one kind or another. The king made personal visits to shipbuilding yards, munition factories and victualling centres. Periodical visits were also made by h im to the Grand Fleet. In 1917 Queen Mary accompanied the K i n g to France. The K i n g visited frequently the French and Belgian fronts. Af ter the Armistice, the king's final visi t to Paris and to the battlefields, November 27— December 10. 1918 met with an enthusiastic reception in the French Capital. Even in other respects the K i n g and Royal Family were models in setting the example of self-denial during the stressful years of war. The K i n g attended in person at the following notable ceremonies:—The funeral services at St. Paul's for L o r d Roberts (Nov. 19, 1914) and for Lord Kitchener (June 13, 1916); the commemoration service on the entry of the U . S . A . into the war (Apri l 20, 1917); the thanksgiving at St. Paul's on Their Majesties' silver wedding (July 6, 1918) the presentation to the K i n g at Buckingham Palace by the special Japanese mission of the sword and badge of a Japanese field-Marshal (Oct. 29, 1918); and other events. It is of interest to record that on the occasion of Their Majesties' silver wedding, the K i n g and Queen were received at the Gui ldhall (July 6, 1918) and were presented with a cheque for £53,000, subscribed by the citizens of London to be devoted to charities after Their Majesties' wish. On the same occasion the K i n g and Oueen were also presented with a silver tankard once owned by Charles II.
On July 17, 1917 i t was announced that K i n g George V had abandoned all German titles for himself and his family. A proclamation was issued to the effect that henceforth The Royal House of Great Br i t a in and Ireland would be known, not as the House of Saxe—Coburg—Gotha, but as the House of Windsor.
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E d u c a t i o n N o t e s
The Child in School and at Home ( B y a Teacher).
C O N C L U D E D .
T H E A B S T R A C T .
The power of abstract reasoning rarely matures before the age of thirteen or so although from his earliest years the child makes simple abstractions. Thus when he recognizes that the purr ing softness on the mat, the picture of "puss" in his book, and the yellow marauder on the garden wal l are al l cats, he has formed an "idea" of what a cat is, and an "idea" is an abstraction—that is the recognition of the essential elements of similar objects. Bu t the child prefers the concrete to the abstract, and t i l l he is fair ly well advanced his teachers and parents should see that no time is wasted using abstract phrases where the concrete object would serve better. Thus instead of tell ing h i m that there are eight pints in a gallon give h im a pint measure and make h i m fill a gallon can wi th water. Y o u wi l l then have used not an abstract meaningless phrase, but something the child can see and handle. Y o u have let h i m "learn by doing." The concrete attracts the ch i ld : the abstract repels h im and should not be used t i l l his powers of reasoning are more developed.
T H E C H I L D A T P L A Y .
Play is an important factor in education, and modern educational methods make much use of i t . In play the child is learning the use o f his limbs and voice, the extent and the limitations of his strength and power. Proper play exercises the r ight muscles in the r ight way. A child plays instinctively—all young animals do. The chi ld who makes no attempt to play is decidedly abnormal.
Toys are useful but not essent ia l . They should be b ig and coarse rather than fine and delicate, and their numbers should be strictly limited. A profusion of toys leaves nothing to the child's imagination, and proper p l a y should give full scope to that i m portant faculty. Children delight i n make-believe and are notoriousl y inclined to mud-pies. They may grow tired of a clockwork t rain, but never of a complete ra i l way system with wall or footpath for station, and puffing two-legged engines. They are especially fond of anything on wheels, and w i l l soon contrast a vehicle of sorts from a soap-box and an old perambulator.
Parents sometimes force their children to play alone. Th i s is a mistake. Play should be a social activity, and for normal development the child needs companions. H a y wi th other boys teaches the child unselfishness, and introduces h im to the social obligations. Our relations with other people affect our whole lives and we cannot become used to them too early.
T H E G A N G I N S T I N C T .
The man has his club or his set of companions, the boy has his "gang." Psychologists call this "the herd instinct." A l l those concerned wi th the bringing-up of children should recognize that this instinct has many possibilities. It may easily cause bul ly ing or hooli
ganism, but properly handled it should encourage loyalty and the team spirit. The child who forgets himself in playing for his team, who cheerfully stands down in favour of a better player, who can bear up when he loses and refrain from " I told you so " when he wins—such a child is learning the big lesson of self-control.
T H E D A Y D R E A M . The child is peculiarly liable to
day dreams because for the child the line between fancy and reality is not too clearly drawn. Every child sits down occasionally to hug his knees and gain fame by scoring the winning goal, or saving the detective just as the desperado was about to shop his head off. The day dream in moderation is perfectly normal. The child must practise his power of imagination just as he practises his other powers. The day dream also acts as a spur to ambition. There is a famous picture called the " B o y hood of Raleigh." It shows the future as a small blue-eyed boy listening to the wonderful stories of an old sailor and looking wistful ly out to sea. This is one view of the day dream—the seed that grows into action.
Sometimes, however, the day dream is neither healthy nor normal. Persistent day-dreaming or "wool gather ing" may mean that the child's resources cannot keep pace with his tremendous mental and physical development, and that he needs a tonic or a holiday—or both. Sometimes i t means just pure laziness, and sometimes someth ing more subtle.
T H E E S C A P E F R O M R E A L I T Y . Everyone dreams of success. To
do so is an incentive to work and, i n small doses, a solace in disappointment. Bu t the person who continually flies to the day-dream as an escape from the realities of life is forming very bad habit. The habit seldom makes much headway in school because the watchful teacher soon detects it , but it can easily grow, unperceived, in the home. Dreams have their place in life, but they don't build character. The parent who sees that his child (I have already apologised for using 'his ' so often—it stands for 'his or her') becoming a habitual day-dreamer should make sure that the child does not dodge the unpleasant little tasks that should fal l to all c h i l d r e n -going distasteful errands, washing his hands before tea, doing his exercises, and performing various little routine jobs.
The desire to escape from reality is just another phase of the conflict over the realization of the Self-Ideal mentioned by the American psychologist from whom I have already quoted. The boy who cannot reconcile himself to the facts of life, and who tries to live in a dream world of his own making, needs now and again "to be brought back to e a r t h " and
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way; others are all for the time-honoured grinding of La t in and Greek; and the cheery Spartan laments the passing of the good old days 'when every boy could take his flogging. Many whose sole qualification is the time to write or speak think themselves quite capable of advising on Education.
This is why I have avoided the sensational, and have advanced no views that have not been endorsed by competent educationalists. Competency or ability are however not the only qualities to be looked for in an educationalist. The field is so wide that the cleverest can go astray, and the Catholic following in the footsteps of the clever theorist must be careful. Even such a .wise old pagan as Plato was guilty of saying that the only thing necessary in order to do the r ight thing is to know the r ight th ing to do. Education is more than mere information and to know the Catechism well is no passport to Heaven.
I have avoided also some things which fal l only indirectly within the province of the teacher—such things, for instance as Health. Cleanliness, land Diet. On these subjects I could not be dogmatic, and we have already only too many amateurs giving advice on medical matters. I wi l l content myself wi th saying that the health of the child lhas a tremendous bearing on his learning capacity, and that a nourishing breakfast is essential for a good day's work.
The limited space at my disposal has been responsible for the very brief treatment of many points which might otherwise have been expanded, and the nature of my
subject may have made this short paper seem unfinished. But every article, pamphlet, book, or series of books on the subject of Education must necessarily seem unfinished, for Education—in the true sense of the word—fiinishes only when life finishes.
Even in the narrow meaning of the term—the organized instruction given to the young—Education is not an exact science. Its rules and laws are constantly being upset by the elusive human equation. You may generalize about acids or metals or moving bodies, but you must go carefully where the human personality is concerned.
So while the psychologist and the teacher may give helpful information to the parent, i n some ways the parent knows more than either of them. To the mother her child is a precious charge. She knows his habits and history his faults and his good points. To her he is not—as he is to the psychologist—a mere unit i n school or nation .
Nevertheless the knowledge of the psychologist or the teacher is the knowledge of the specialist with the time andv the training necessary for careful observation. The psychologist can advice the parent, just as the young chemist working in an agricultural laboratory can instruct the man who has been farming all his life.
W i t h this brief apology, I offer this booklet to parents, hoping that i t may solve some of their difficulties, and encourage them to regard the teacher not as an enemy, or as a necessary evil , but as a colleague in a very noble work. (C. T. S. Dublin)
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P O S T L U D E . The science of Education pro
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My informant, an elderly engineer, had spent three years, in Soviet Russia. Most of this time he resided i n one of the larger cities, where he was employed as a specialist. H i s knowledge of Russian enabled h im to speak with the people and to make valuable observations upon their life. Much of what he told me I.dare not repeat, for it would sound too incredible to Engl i sh ears. Moreover, he was anxious to keep his identity anonymous, lest his narrative should br ing his Russian friends into trouble. Therefore, only part of what he said can be given here.
The life of the average working man in the U.S.S.R. is a hard one. The usual salary of a factory-worker ranges from 250 to 300 roubles per month. Out of this, various compulsory loans, subscriptions, taxes and insurances are paid; these amount to about one-third of the salary, so that some 170 to 200 roubles remain for rent, clothing, food and other expenses. It is true that lodgings are cheap: they are rated on the salary. Generally speaking they cost from live to six roubles for each person, but there is no pr i vacy whatever, for each person is allotted so many square feet, and i f the room is larger, another person may be billeted in it, besides the members of one family, or else extra money is charged at a higher rate. In many factories there exist common kitchens where workers, may obtain dinners at reasonable prices. The life o:T~ those who cannot obtain dinners at these kitchens is much harder, as food is very expensive. To illustrate the prices, it wi l l be sufficient to say that butter in the .so-called "commercial" (Government) shops in which no ration-cards are required, cost last autumn from 35 to 45 roubles per kilo (2\A> lb.) It is obvious that a man who has to live on 170 to 200 roubles per month cannot purchase butter at such prices, and the absence of fats in general tells badly on the whole population.
The eight-hours working day is fixed by law. Ye t a worker cannot dispose of his free time. He
is compelled to be present at all the meetings and demonstrations of his Party. To miss any of these is dangerous, as he might be suspected of counter-revolutionary leanings or slackness. The rulers of Russia know that idle ness breeds discontent, so every moment of the people is occupied. There are meetings for the old. sport for the young: however t ired the workman may be after his work, he has to go to his meeting or lecture, or march in procession, after which he is so exhausted that sleep is all he wants.
If such is the position of the "pr iv i leged" class, that of other classes is naturally much worse, particularly that of professional and office workers. A hospital nurse, for instance, receives only 90 roubles per month which, owing to the high cost of l iving, is quite insufficient. In order to earn enough to make both ends meet, the professional classes have to take two jobs, working sixteen hours per day. This tells upon the quality of their work, which becomes very inferior. There are even people who receive only 12 roubles a month—invalids, old-age pensioners, etc. How they live is beyond understanding, their food consisting of any remnant they pick up in the streets.
Of course there are the "Torg-s i n ' shops: these are for foreigners possessing foreign currency, or for those Russians who receive cheques from friends and relatives abroad. In these shops, prices are much lower than in the "commerc ia l " shops, but they are actually gold prices. Moreover, for a Russian citizen i t is even dangerous to purchase anything in such shops, unless he can present a cheque from abroad. If he produces a foreign note or a gold coin, or even a gold object, his name is immediately taken down b y the manager, and reported to the G.P. U . (secret police). No citizen of the U.S.S.R. is allowed to possess either of these valuables, and i f he is seen to handle one gold coin, he is suspected of having more. So the G .P .U . (secret police) puts him to torture in order to extract from him (women are not spared
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either) a confession as to where his other valuables are hidden. This torture mostly consists in placing the victim in the "standing" room, which is so t ightly packed with people that they cannot even sit down, but are compelled to stand for days. M y informant knew an old man of 85 who was forced to stand for three days. He died shortly after his release. A woman was kept standing sixteen days: her feet were swollen that the skin burst.
Worst of all, perhaps, is the fate of the unfortunate who have been deprived of the right of residence in the capital and larger cities. When the passport system was again introduced, thousands of people were refused passports and summarily packed into trains for deportation. Penniless, they were transferred to minor towns of the Union, in many cases into rural districts, but, as the local authorities refused to care for them, the majority were entrained again, and transported to some other destination, and so on, until most of them perished from hunger and exhaustion.
L ike no other towns in the world, Leningrad and Moscow have two distinct aspects. One— the smart and beautiful—is seen by foreigners, shepherded by guides supplied by the "Intourist" Government agency. The tourists are shown the fine palaces of old Russia, some impressive new factories, a model school or two, a creche, even a model prison; and they are driven in motor-coaches through streets where houses are kept in good order. Bu t were they to glimpse the back of these same streets, they would see misery unparalleled in any other modern city. Were they to walk the streets at night, they would see them swarming with homeless children who live like rats in sewers or dugouts on the outskirts of the towns where refuse is dumped. ^Fhere they live unmolested in the day time, for even the mil i t ia (police) dreads them. Many times the Government has attempted to remove them from the larger cities, but. always driven by the hunger in their villages and by a spirit of adventure, other children
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When we broached the subject of religion, my informant asserted that the churches were ful l , though, he added, this may be due to the fact that such a great number have been destroyed. In Leningrad, even the little t imber church on the Neva, religiously preserved as the first church buil t i n St. Petersburg, has not been spared; nor has the lovely modern gem built in commemoration of the disaster of Tsushima, whilst the two impressive cathedrals of St. Issac's and Our Lady of Kazan have been converted into anti-religious museums. In Moscow, besides the impressive cathedral of Christ the Saviour and Donskoy monastery with its church, many parish churches have been pulled down, including the chapel of Our Lady of Iberia near the Kremlin .
. M y informant had not visited the South during 1933-34, b u t t e r corroborated the reports upon the awful famine which had devastated the richest agricultural regions of the Ukraine. I spare the reader some of the data he gave me. It is too terrible for print. Suffice it to say that he has first-hand information as to actual cases of cannibalism.
Before taking leave of him I asked whether he would return to Russia. " N o ; I have had quite enough of i t ," he replied.
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E d u c a t i o n N o t e s
The Child in School and at Home ( B y a Teacher).
C O N C L U D E D .
T H E A B S T R A C T .
The power of abstract reasoning rarely matures before the age of thirteen or so although from his earliest years the child makes simple abstractions. Thus when he recognizes that the purr ing softness on the mat, the picture of "puss" in his book, and the yellow marauder on the garden wal l are al l cats, he has formed an "idea" of what a cat is, and an "idea" is an abstraction—that is the recognition of the essential elements of similar objects. Bu t the child prefers the concrete to the abstract, and t i l l he is fair ly well advanced his teachers and parents should see that no time is wasted using abstract phrases where the concrete object would serve better. Thus instead of tell ing h i m that there are eight pints in a gallon give h im a pint measure and make h i m fill a gallon can wi th water. Y o u wi l l then have used not an abstract meaningless phrase, but something the child can see and handle. Y o u have let h i m "learn by doing." The concrete attracts the ch i ld : the abstract repels h im and should not be used t i l l his powers of reasoning are more developed.
T H E C H I L D A T P L A Y .
Play is an important factor in education, and modern educational methods make much use of i t . In play the child is learning the use o f his limbs and voice, the extent and the limitations of his strength and power. Proper play exercises the r ight muscles in the r ight way. A child plays instinctively—all young animals do. The chi ld who makes no attempt to play is decidedly abnormal.
Toys are useful but not essent ia l . They should be b ig and coarse rather than fine and delicate, and their numbers should be strictly limited. A profusion of toys leaves nothing to the child's imagination, and proper p l a y should give full scope to that i m portant faculty. Children delight i n make-believe and are notoriousl y inclined to mud-pies. They may grow tired of a clockwork t rain, but never of a complete ra i l way system with wall or footpath for station, and puffing two-legged engines. They are especially fond of anything on wheels, and w i l l soon contrast a vehicle of sorts from a soap-box and an old perambulator.
Parents sometimes force their children to play alone. Th i s is a mistake. Play should be a social activity, and for normal development the child needs companions. H a y wi th other boys teaches the child unselfishness, and introduces h im to the social obligations. Our relations with other people affect our whole lives and we cannot become used to them too early.
T H E G A N G I N S T I N C T .
The man has his club or his set of companions, the boy has his "gang." Psychologists call this "the herd instinct." A l l those concerned wi th the bringing-up of children should recognize that this instinct has many possibilities. It may easily cause bul ly ing or hooli
ganism, but properly handled it should encourage loyalty and the team spirit. The child who forgets himself in playing for his team, who cheerfully stands down in favour of a better player, who can bear up when he loses and refrain from " I told you so " when he wins—such a child is learning the big lesson of self-control.
T H E D A Y D R E A M . The child is peculiarly liable to
day dreams because for the child the line between fancy and reality is not too clearly drawn. Every child sits down occasionally to hug his knees and gain fame by scoring the winning goal, or saving the detective just as the desperado was about to shop his head off. The day dream in moderation is perfectly normal. The child must practise his power of imagination just as he practises his other powers. The day dream also acts as a spur to ambition. There is a famous picture called the " B o y hood of Raleigh." It shows the future as a small blue-eyed boy listening to the wonderful stories of an old sailor and looking wistful ly out to sea. This is one view of the day dream—the seed that grows into action.
Sometimes, however, the day dream is neither healthy nor normal. Persistent day-dreaming or "wool gather ing" may mean that the child's resources cannot keep pace with his tremendous mental and physical development, and that he needs a tonic or a holiday—or both. Sometimes i t means just pure laziness, and sometimes someth ing more subtle.
T H E E S C A P E F R O M R E A L I T Y . Everyone dreams of success. To
do so is an incentive to work and, i n small doses, a solace in disappointment. Bu t the person who continually flies to the day-dream as an escape from the realities of life is forming very bad habit. The habit seldom makes much headway in school because the watchful teacher soon detects it , but it can easily grow, unperceived, in the home. Dreams have their place in life, but they don't build character. The parent who sees that his child (I have already apologised for using 'his ' so often—it stands for 'his or her') becoming a habitual day-dreamer should make sure that the child does not dodge the unpleasant little tasks that should fal l to all c h i l d r e n -going distasteful errands, washing his hands before tea, doing his exercises, and performing various little routine jobs.
The desire to escape from reality is just another phase of the conflict over the realization of the Self-Ideal mentioned by the American psychologist from whom I have already quoted. The boy who cannot reconcile himself to the facts of life, and who tries to live in a dream world of his own making, needs now and again "to be brought back to e a r t h " and
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way; others are all for the time-honoured grinding of La t in and Greek; and the cheery Spartan laments the passing of the good old days 'when every boy could take his flogging. Many whose sole qualification is the time to write or speak think themselves quite capable of advising on Education.
This is why I have avoided the sensational, and have advanced no views that have not been endorsed by competent educationalists. Competency or ability are however not the only qualities to be looked for in an educationalist. The field is so wide that the cleverest can go astray, and the Catholic following in the footsteps of the clever theorist must be careful. Even such a .wise old pagan as Plato was guilty of saying that the only thing necessary in order to do the r ight thing is to know the r ight th ing to do. Education is more than mere information and to know the Catechism well is no passport to Heaven.
I have avoided also some things which fal l only indirectly within the province of the teacher—such things, for instance as Health. Cleanliness, land Diet. On these subjects I could not be dogmatic, and we have already only too many amateurs giving advice on medical matters. I wi l l content myself wi th saying that the health of the child lhas a tremendous bearing on his learning capacity, and that a nourishing breakfast is essential for a good day's work.
The limited space at my disposal has been responsible for the very brief treatment of many points which might otherwise have been expanded, and the nature of my
subject may have made this short paper seem unfinished. But every article, pamphlet, book, or series of books on the subject of Education must necessarily seem unfinished, for Education—in the true sense of the word—fiinishes only when life finishes.
Even in the narrow meaning of the term—the organized instruction given to the young—Education is not an exact science. Its rules and laws are constantly being upset by the elusive human equation. You may generalize about acids or metals or moving bodies, but you must go carefully where the human personality is concerned.
So while the psychologist and the teacher may give helpful information to the parent, i n some ways the parent knows more than either of them. To the mother her child is a precious charge. She knows his habits and history his faults and his good points. To her he is not—as he is to the psychologist—a mere unit i n school or nation .
Nevertheless the knowledge of the psychologist or the teacher is the knowledge of the specialist with the time andv the training necessary for careful observation. The psychologist can advice the parent, just as the young chemist working in an agricultural laboratory can instruct the man who has been farming all his life.
W i t h this brief apology, I offer this booklet to parents, hoping that i t may solve some of their difficulties, and encourage them to regard the teacher not as an enemy, or as a necessary evil , but as a colleague in a very noble work. (C. T. S. Dublin)
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— L I F E I N S O V I E T R U S S I A Authentic Account by a British Engineer long Resident There
(From the Tablet.)
My informant, an elderly engineer, had spent three years, in Soviet Russia. Most of this time he resided i n one of the larger cities, where he was employed as a specialist. H i s knowledge of Russian enabled h im to speak with the people and to make valuable observations upon their life. Much of what he told me I.dare not repeat, for it would sound too incredible to Engl i sh ears. Moreover, he was anxious to keep his identity anonymous, lest his narrative should br ing his Russian friends into trouble. Therefore, only part of what he said can be given here.
The life of the average working man in the U.S.S.R. is a hard one. The usual salary of a factory-worker ranges from 250 to 300 roubles per month. Out of this, various compulsory loans, subscriptions, taxes and insurances are paid; these amount to about one-third of the salary, so that some 170 to 200 roubles remain for rent, clothing, food and other expenses. It is true that lodgings are cheap: they are rated on the salary. Generally speaking they cost from live to six roubles for each person, but there is no pr i vacy whatever, for each person is allotted so many square feet, and i f the room is larger, another person may be billeted in it, besides the members of one family, or else extra money is charged at a higher rate. In many factories there exist common kitchens where workers, may obtain dinners at reasonable prices. The life o:T~ those who cannot obtain dinners at these kitchens is much harder, as food is very expensive. To illustrate the prices, it wi l l be sufficient to say that butter in the .so-called "commercial" (Government) shops in which no ration-cards are required, cost last autumn from 35 to 45 roubles per kilo (2\A> lb.) It is obvious that a man who has to live on 170 to 200 roubles per month cannot purchase butter at such prices, and the absence of fats in general tells badly on the whole population.
The eight-hours working day is fixed by law. Ye t a worker cannot dispose of his free time. He
is compelled to be present at all the meetings and demonstrations of his Party. To miss any of these is dangerous, as he might be suspected of counter-revolutionary leanings or slackness. The rulers of Russia know that idle ness breeds discontent, so every moment of the people is occupied. There are meetings for the old. sport for the young: however t ired the workman may be after his work, he has to go to his meeting or lecture, or march in procession, after which he is so exhausted that sleep is all he wants.
If such is the position of the "pr iv i leged" class, that of other classes is naturally much worse, particularly that of professional and office workers. A hospital nurse, for instance, receives only 90 roubles per month which, owing to the high cost of l iving, is quite insufficient. In order to earn enough to make both ends meet, the professional classes have to take two jobs, working sixteen hours per day. This tells upon the quality of their work, which becomes very inferior. There are even people who receive only 12 roubles a month—invalids, old-age pensioners, etc. How they live is beyond understanding, their food consisting of any remnant they pick up in the streets.
Of course there are the "Torg-s i n ' shops: these are for foreigners possessing foreign currency, or for those Russians who receive cheques from friends and relatives abroad. In these shops, prices are much lower than in the "commerc ia l " shops, but they are actually gold prices. Moreover, for a Russian citizen i t is even dangerous to purchase anything in such shops, unless he can present a cheque from abroad. If he produces a foreign note or a gold coin, or even a gold object, his name is immediately taken down b y the manager, and reported to the G.P. U . (secret police). No citizen of the U.S.S.R. is allowed to possess either of these valuables, and i f he is seen to handle one gold coin, he is suspected of having more. So the G .P .U . (secret police) puts him to torture in order to extract from him (women are not spared
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either) a confession as to where his other valuables are hidden. This torture mostly consists in placing the victim in the "standing" room, which is so t ightly packed with people that they cannot even sit down, but are compelled to stand for days. M y informant knew an old man of 85 who was forced to stand for three days. He died shortly after his release. A woman was kept standing sixteen days: her feet were swollen that the skin burst.
Worst of all, perhaps, is the fate of the unfortunate who have been deprived of the right of residence in the capital and larger cities. When the passport system was again introduced, thousands of people were refused passports and summarily packed into trains for deportation. Penniless, they were transferred to minor towns of the Union, in many cases into rural districts, but, as the local authorities refused to care for them, the majority were entrained again, and transported to some other destination, and so on, until most of them perished from hunger and exhaustion.
L ike no other towns in the world, Leningrad and Moscow have two distinct aspects. One— the smart and beautiful—is seen by foreigners, shepherded by guides supplied by the "Intourist" Government agency. The tourists are shown the fine palaces of old Russia, some impressive new factories, a model school or two, a creche, even a model prison; and they are driven in motor-coaches through streets where houses are kept in good order. Bu t were they to glimpse the back of these same streets, they would see misery unparalleled in any other modern city. Were they to walk the streets at night, they would see them swarming with homeless children who live like rats in sewers or dugouts on the outskirts of the towns where refuse is dumped. ^Fhere they live unmolested in the day time, for even the mil i t ia (police) dreads them. Many times the Government has attempted to remove them from the larger cities, but. always driven by the hunger in their villages and by a spirit of adventure, other children
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arrive to replace those who have been deported. B y night, they constitute a real danger to passers-by, whom they attack and rob. Many are armed with razor-blades fixed on to handles, and as they attack in bands, the mil i t ia dare not take any action against them. The morals of these young hooligans are bestial, and i t is by no means rare to find boys of twelve l iving with "wives" aged nine! But even generally speaking the moral standard in the Soviet Union is very low. This can be gauged by the enormous number of abortions, the hospitals being crammed with such cases.
When we broached the subject of religion, my informant asserted that the churches were ful l , though, he added, this may be due to the fact that such a great number have been destroyed. In Leningrad, even the little t imber church on the Neva, religiously preserved as the first church buil t i n St. Petersburg, has not been spared; nor has the lovely modern gem built in commemoration of the disaster of Tsushima, whilst the two impressive cathedrals of St. Issac's and Our Lady of Kazan have been converted into anti-religious museums. In Moscow, besides the impressive cathedral of Christ the Saviour and Donskoy monastery with its church, many parish churches have been pulled down, including the chapel of Our Lady of Iberia near the Kremlin .
. M y informant had not visited the South during 1933-34, b u t t e r corroborated the reports upon the awful famine which had devastated the richest agricultural regions of the Ukraine. I spare the reader some of the data he gave me. It is too terrible for print. Suffice it to say that he has first-hand information as to actual cases of cannibalism.
Before taking leave of him I asked whether he would return to Russia. " N o ; I have had quite enough of i t ," he replied.
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Woman's Page M O T H E R
We must not try—it would be vain for us to try—to sound the depths of meaning in that word— the eloquence, the pathos, the poetry of a mother's love. We must not t ry , and we need not; for do we not a l l —
" feel that in the heavens above.
The Angels, whispering to one another,
Know not among their burning words of love .
A more endearing name than that of M o t h e r " ?
Is not a mother's love our very synonym for true and unselfish tenderness, for a love that can survive toils and pains and wrongs and absence and neglect and for-getfulness and a broken heart?
Bu t love demands love. I f a mother's love be such, what ought to be a son's and daughter's return of love?
I f a mother plays a mother's part in the life of her children, wi th God as her guide • and M a r y as her beacon light,
Angels w i l l whisper to one another
A n d point her out as a model Mother.
Children wi th their sensitive loving natures are easily pleased, and easily made unhappy too. B y gentle discipline in loving words and acts, mothers may bind their children to their hearts.
Young children love companionship, and can seldom enjoy themselves alone.^_TheyL_yeariL for sympathy and tenderness. That which they enjoy, they think w i l l please their mother also; and i t is natural for them to go to her wi th all their l i t t le joys and sorrows. The mother should not wound their sensitive little hearts by treating wi th indifference, matters that, though very trifling, are of great importance to them.
Sympathy and approval are precious for all , but a Mother's approving glance, or word of encouragement wi l l be like sunshine in children's hearts, often making the whole day happy.
Instead of sending her children from her, that she may not be annoyed by their noise or troubled by their l i t t le wants, let the mother plan amusement or light work to employ the active hands and minds.
B y entering into their feelings and directing their amusements and employments, the mother wi l l gain the confidence of her children, and she can more effectually correct wrong doings, or check the manifestations of selfishness or passion. A word of caution or reproof spoken at the right time wi l l be of great value. B y patient watchful love, she can turn the minds of the children in the right direction, cultivating in them beautiful and attractive traits of character.
Mothers should guard against t ra in ing their children to be dependent and self-absorbed. Never lead them to think that they are T H E O N E and that everything must revolve around them. Some mothers give much time and attent ion to amusing their children, but children should be trained to amuse themselves, to exercise thei r own ingenuity and ski l l . Thus they wi l l learn to be content wi th very simple pleasures. They fchouTd be taught to bear bravely their l i t t le disappointments and tr ials . Instead of calling attention
to every trifling pain or hurt their minds should be diverted and thus they wil l ,learn to pass lightly over little annoyances or discomforts.
Above all, let not the children be neglected. Burdened with many cares, mothers sometimes feel that they cannot take time patiently to instruct their little ones, and give them love and sympathy. If the children do not find in their parents and in their home that which wi l l satisfy their desire for sympathy and companionship, they wi l l look to other sources where both body and soul may be endangered.
The soul of a child is like a melodious instrument and the mother is the musician. Her voice is the song that accompanies her playing; it must be attuned to the sweetness of the instrument. How much the product of the instrument depends upon the player! The mother's rule must be ever to bring out the traits in her child. To do this she must have confidence in her children and give them the benefit of the doubt; she must attribute good motives to them and above all never shame them; she should be for them not only a Mother, but a tried and trusty Friend. Such a Mother wi l l enjoy harmony in her home, she wil l be truly the " V a l i a n t Woman who speaks of Victories," and she wil l continually reflect God's love and tenderness, and become a fitt ing musician to instruments of Divine Love. She wi l l be worthy to lead her little ones to Our Divine Lord and listen to the
- Angels whispering to one another
There goes the virtuous Godlike Mother. '
" T h e true home spi r i t ; the love and reverence of children for their parents, the perfect love that casts out fear, and which can never be enjoyed by fathers and mothers who have been harsh and hasty or selfish; the friendship between brothers and sisters which makes each happy in the other's company; the pleasant free-and-easy intercourse in which every one can speak his or her own mind without giving offence—these are the things which go to make all feel that," "be it ever so humble, there's no place like home."
FOOD V A L U E OF B A N A N A S .
Al though the banana, when eaten unripe often causes digestive troubles, yet in the ripe state it is a fruit easy to digest and remarkable for its high food value. Wr i t i ng of the banana, Prof. S. C. Prescott of Massachusetts says:" The ripe banana contains all the classes of food materials required for the human body. Although the amounts of protein and fat are slightly too low to constitute a perfectly balanced ration, the combination of bananas with milk, or its utilisation to supplement a diet containing a small amount of meat wi l l produce a ration which is ample to take care of the body needs."
to bed with hot bottles, hot fomentations, or bran poultices or turpentine to the abdomen. He should have a spare diet and some brandy. If in the course of a few sary.
Mothers should remember that
growing children need milk-every
day:
for preference
MILKMAID" MILK
Simple First A i d .
Diarrhoea has many causes. These belong to one or other of the following groups; (1) i r r i tation of the bowel by its contents being abnormal; 2. i rr i tation of the nervous system; 3. irri tation of the skin by a chil l . Group 1. includes the causes of most importance to us; they are errors in diet, intestinal worms, hard faecal lumps due to previous constipation, and certain poisons. Group 2. includes fright or other painful emotion. Group 3. explains itself. In addition, to these, diarrhoea may result from disease of the bowel—e.g. cancer or tuberculosis in it—or from some general disease, such as typhoid fever or blood poisoning.
Recipes.
The first th ing to do i n the treatment of diarrhoea is to take the temperature, and i f this is either above or below normal whatever the age of the sufferer, a doctor is required at once. Or i f blood be present i n the motions, a doctor is required also. In cases of diarrhoea wi th a normal temperature, treatment for a few hours can be safely attempted. F i rs t consider the cause. Is there 1. an irritant to cause it, such as those given above; or 2. has there been a f r igh t ; or 3. a chil l very recently? I f the answer is 1. the removal of the irri tant is to be attempted; nature is already doing so by diarrhoea; we must aid nature by a suitable purge. This must not be of an irr i tat ing character, as there is some irr i tation already. The safest is castor oil. If vomitt ing is present, the best is grey powder for a child, or half-grain doses of calomel given hourly for four to six hours for an adult. I f there is much griping, in the case of adults, it wil l be safe to add to the castor oil ten minims of laudanum. The application of fomentations to the abdomen wi l l also be grateful. A n enema of half a pint of warm olive oil may be tried. Collis Brown's Chlorodyne is also very good for simple diarrhoea.
In later life the diet should be spare—e.g. sodawater, toast arrowroot and jelly. It is wise to put the patient to bed. If diarrhoea is thought due to cause 2, i f the patient be put to bed it wil l soon be well. If, on the other hand, cause 3 is regarded as responsible, the sufferer should go
(Contd: at foot of col. 2.)
G O L D E N P U D D I N G . 2 ozs. Flour. 2 ozs. Breadcrumbs. 2 ozs. Suet. 1 oz. Sugar. 1 tablespoon Golden Syrup. 1 pinch Nutmeg. Y<> tablespoonful Ginger or Cin
namon or Spice. 1 level teaspoonful Baking
Powder. 1 Egg .
Method.—Mix all dry ingredients. Add egg and syrup and mix well. Pour into greased mould and cover wi th greased paper. Steam for two to three hours.
M A N G O C H U T N E Y .
12 Large Green Mangoes. IV2 lbs. Brown Sugar. 5 or 6 Pods of Garlic. 30 Dry Chillies. 1 B i g Piece of Ginger. 1 Teaspoonful Salt. 1 Bottle Vinegar.
Method.—Slice the mangoes and boil in vinegar t i l l quite soft. Add grounded chillies, garlic, ginger, salt and sugar. Cook slowly for a few minutes and then pour into jars.
* * * * *
P A P A Y A C H U T N E Y .
2 lbs. Papayas. 2 Apples. 1 small garlic. }/± oz. Black pepper. */±_oz. White pepper. 1 lb. Brown Sugar. 1 lb. Sultanas. 2 ozs. Grounded ginger. 3 Large onions. A bag of mixed nutmeg and
spice. 1 Teaspoonful Salt. 1 Bottle Vinegar.
Method.—Boil the papayas (cut into rather big pieces), apples and sugar to the consistency of jam. Chop and add other ingredients and boil for ten minutes. Add vinegar and salt and pottV into
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There' l l Be Room In Heaven She was a little old woman,
very plainly dressed in black bombazine that had seen much careful wear; her bonnet was very old-fashioned, and people stared at her tottering up the aisle of the church, evidently bent on securing one of the best seats, for a great man preached that day. The house was filled with splendidly dressed people who had heard of the fame of the preacher, of his learning his intellect and goodness, and they wondered at the presumption of the poor old woman. She must have been in her dotage, for she picked out the pew of the richest and proudest member of the church and took a seat. The three ladies who were seated there beckoned to the sexton, who bent over the intruder and whispered something, but she was hard of hearing, and smiled a little withered smile, as she said, gently: "Oh, I 'm quite comfortable here, quite comfortable."
"But you are not wanted here," said the sexton, pompously; "there is not room. Come with me, my good woman; I wil l see that you have a seat."
"Not room," said the old woman, looking at her shrunken proportions, and then at the fine ladies. "Why , I'm not crowded a bit. I rode ten miles to hear the sermon to-day because—"
But here the sexton took her by the arm, shook her roughly in a polite underhand way, and then she took the hint. Her faded old eyes filled with tears, her chin quivered; but she rose meekly and left the pew. Turning quietly to the ladies, who were spreading their r ich dresses over the space sfte left vacant, she said gently: "I hope, my dears, there'll be room in heaven for us a l l . " Then she followed the pompous sexton to the rear of the church where, in the last pew% she was seated between a threadbare gir l and a shabby old man.
"She must be crazy," said one of the ladies in the pew which she had first occupied. "What can an ignorant old woman like her want to hear Dr.—preach for? She would not be able to understand a word he said."
"Those people are so persistent! The idea of her forcing herself in to our pew. Isn't that voluntarily lovely! There's Dr . —coming out of the vestry. Is he not grand?"
"Splendid! Wlia t a stately man! You know he has promised to dine with us while he is here."
He was a commanding looking man, and as the organ voluntarily stopped, and he looked over the great crowd of worshippers g a t h ered in the vast church, he seemed to scan every face. H i s hand was on the Bible when suddenly he leaned over the reading desk and beckoned to the sexton, who obsequiously mounted the steps to receive a mysterious message. And then the three ladies in the grand pew were electrified to see him take his way the whole length of the church to return with the old woman, when he placed her in the front pew of all , its other occupants making will ing room for her. The great preacher looked at her wi th a smile of recognition, and then the services proceeded, and he preached a sermon that struck fire from every heart.
"Who was she?" asked the ladies who could not make room for her. as they passed the sexton at the door.
"The preacher's mother," was the reply.
BROWSING AMONG BOOKS.
The Emerald Pawn, by O. Macnamara (Gi l l , 7s. 6d.) is an inspiring story of Ireland in the days of Elizabeth. The central figure is James Fitzmaurice, known in the English State papers as the " Arch-traitor," but to history as a selfless patriot for his country and his faith. The author gives us many a vivid sketch of the horrors of life in Ireland, when the land was torn be'ween two religions, two—if But three—races, and the constant intrigues and jealousies of almost all involved in the conflicts. We are taken to the Continent as well to meet Phil ip of Spain and Catherine de Medicis, not to mention many another real figure of time. Above all a masterly sketch is given of Thomas Stucley, whose tortuous intrigues and cunning not only form an essential part of the story but actually did much to prevent foreign aid ever reaching the land.
This is a book to have and to hold, for it has the grip of a novel and ihe truth of history. The phrase " Reformation Martyrs ," for the Catholics that suffered, is not common on this side of the water, and surely the author does less than justice tc the torture of the rack by saying that every muscle ached after the racking. (C.T.S. ) .
The Origin and Development of Roman Li turgica l Vestments, by_ Raymund James (Catholic Records Press, 2s. 6d.), is a reprint " r e vised and augmented" of the articles which appeared in Pax some eight years ago, before the author had joined the Prinknash community. The little work is a careful, scholarly treatise on a subject about which i t is not easy to obtain accurate information in a handy form, and it puts the case for a return to the ancient, full pattern for l i turgical vestments very well.
It is a pity, however, that the author has not managed wholly to avoid the rather shri l l note which is so frequent i n matters of ecclesiastical controversy, even when, as in this case, i t is unlikely to aid the cause which the publication is meant to urge. The statement (on p. 24) " that the mutilation of the chasuble" and other vestments "was carried out almost entirely by those professional vestment makers w h o . . . . were desirous only
-of- making the largest possible profit and therefore . . . .of cutting down the amount of material to the minimum," while no doubt it contains a considerable element of truth, seems to need qualification. Another reason for this curtailment may be found in the influence of climate. Thus the monks who were sent out to Braz i l some forty years ago, to revive the Benedictine Congregation of that country, found the full Gothic vestments they took out wi th them intolerable in the heat of the tropics, and so discontinued their use. It is likely that, in southern Europe and elsew*here a similar influence played its part in producing the modification of form which Dom James condemns so heartily, but for which, on the practical side, there is something to be said after al l . ~(C.T.S.).
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Woman's Page M O T H E R
We must not try—it would be vain for us to try—to sound the depths of meaning in that word— the eloquence, the pathos, the poetry of a mother's love. We must not t ry , and we need not; for do we not a l l —
" feel that in the heavens above.
The Angels, whispering to one another,
Know not among their burning words of love .
A more endearing name than that of M o t h e r " ?
Is not a mother's love our very synonym for true and unselfish tenderness, for a love that can survive toils and pains and wrongs and absence and neglect and for-getfulness and a broken heart?
Bu t love demands love. I f a mother's love be such, what ought to be a son's and daughter's return of love?
I f a mother plays a mother's part in the life of her children, wi th God as her guide • and M a r y as her beacon light,
Angels w i l l whisper to one another
A n d point her out as a model Mother.
Children wi th their sensitive loving natures are easily pleased, and easily made unhappy too. B y gentle discipline in loving words and acts, mothers may bind their children to their hearts.
Young children love companionship, and can seldom enjoy themselves alone.^_TheyL_yeariL for sympathy and tenderness. That which they enjoy, they think w i l l please their mother also; and i t is natural for them to go to her wi th all their l i t t le joys and sorrows. The mother should not wound their sensitive little hearts by treating wi th indifference, matters that, though very trifling, are of great importance to them.
Sympathy and approval are precious for all , but a Mother's approving glance, or word of encouragement wi l l be like sunshine in children's hearts, often making the whole day happy.
Instead of sending her children from her, that she may not be annoyed by their noise or troubled by their l i t t le wants, let the mother plan amusement or light work to employ the active hands and minds.
B y entering into their feelings and directing their amusements and employments, the mother wi l l gain the confidence of her children, and she can more effectually correct wrong doings, or check the manifestations of selfishness or passion. A word of caution or reproof spoken at the right time wi l l be of great value. B y patient watchful love, she can turn the minds of the children in the right direction, cultivating in them beautiful and attractive traits of character.
Mothers should guard against t ra in ing their children to be dependent and self-absorbed. Never lead them to think that they are T H E O N E and that everything must revolve around them. Some mothers give much time and attent ion to amusing their children, but children should be trained to amuse themselves, to exercise thei r own ingenuity and ski l l . Thus they wi l l learn to be content wi th very simple pleasures. They fchouTd be taught to bear bravely their l i t t le disappointments and tr ials . Instead of calling attention
to every trifling pain or hurt their minds should be diverted and thus they wil l ,learn to pass lightly over little annoyances or discomforts.
Above all, let not the children be neglected. Burdened with many cares, mothers sometimes feel that they cannot take time patiently to instruct their little ones, and give them love and sympathy. If the children do not find in their parents and in their home that which wi l l satisfy their desire for sympathy and companionship, they wi l l look to other sources where both body and soul may be endangered.
The soul of a child is like a melodious instrument and the mother is the musician. Her voice is the song that accompanies her playing; it must be attuned to the sweetness of the instrument. How much the product of the instrument depends upon the player! The mother's rule must be ever to bring out the traits in her child. To do this she must have confidence in her children and give them the benefit of the doubt; she must attribute good motives to them and above all never shame them; she should be for them not only a Mother, but a tried and trusty Friend. Such a Mother wi l l enjoy harmony in her home, she wil l be truly the " V a l i a n t Woman who speaks of Victories," and she wil l continually reflect God's love and tenderness, and become a fitt ing musician to instruments of Divine Love. She wi l l be worthy to lead her little ones to Our Divine Lord and listen to the
- Angels whispering to one another
There goes the virtuous Godlike Mother. '
" T h e true home spi r i t ; the love and reverence of children for their parents, the perfect love that casts out fear, and which can never be enjoyed by fathers and mothers who have been harsh and hasty or selfish; the friendship between brothers and sisters which makes each happy in the other's company; the pleasant free-and-easy intercourse in which every one can speak his or her own mind without giving offence—these are the things which go to make all feel that," "be it ever so humble, there's no place like home."
FOOD V A L U E OF B A N A N A S .
Al though the banana, when eaten unripe often causes digestive troubles, yet in the ripe state it is a fruit easy to digest and remarkable for its high food value. Wr i t i ng of the banana, Prof. S. C. Prescott of Massachusetts says:" The ripe banana contains all the classes of food materials required for the human body. Although the amounts of protein and fat are slightly too low to constitute a perfectly balanced ration, the combination of bananas with milk, or its utilisation to supplement a diet containing a small amount of meat wi l l produce a ration which is ample to take care of the body needs."
to bed with hot bottles, hot fomentations, or bran poultices or turpentine to the abdomen. He should have a spare diet and some brandy. If in the course of a few sary.
Mothers should remember that
growing children need milk-every
day:
for preference
MILKMAID" MILK
Simple First A i d .
Diarrhoea has many causes. These belong to one or other of the following groups; (1) i r r i tation of the bowel by its contents being abnormal; 2. i rr i tation of the nervous system; 3. irri tation of the skin by a chil l . Group 1. includes the causes of most importance to us; they are errors in diet, intestinal worms, hard faecal lumps due to previous constipation, and certain poisons. Group 2. includes fright or other painful emotion. Group 3. explains itself. In addition, to these, diarrhoea may result from disease of the bowel—e.g. cancer or tuberculosis in it—or from some general disease, such as typhoid fever or blood poisoning.
Recipes.
The first th ing to do i n the treatment of diarrhoea is to take the temperature, and i f this is either above or below normal whatever the age of the sufferer, a doctor is required at once. Or i f blood be present i n the motions, a doctor is required also. In cases of diarrhoea wi th a normal temperature, treatment for a few hours can be safely attempted. F i rs t consider the cause. Is there 1. an irritant to cause it, such as those given above; or 2. has there been a f r igh t ; or 3. a chil l very recently? I f the answer is 1. the removal of the irri tant is to be attempted; nature is already doing so by diarrhoea; we must aid nature by a suitable purge. This must not be of an irr i tat ing character, as there is some irr i tation already. The safest is castor oil. If vomitt ing is present, the best is grey powder for a child, or half-grain doses of calomel given hourly for four to six hours for an adult. I f there is much griping, in the case of adults, it wil l be safe to add to the castor oil ten minims of laudanum. The application of fomentations to the abdomen wi l l also be grateful. A n enema of half a pint of warm olive oil may be tried. Collis Brown's Chlorodyne is also very good for simple diarrhoea.
In later life the diet should be spare—e.g. sodawater, toast arrowroot and jelly. It is wise to put the patient to bed. If diarrhoea is thought due to cause 2, i f the patient be put to bed it wil l soon be well. If, on the other hand, cause 3 is regarded as responsible, the sufferer should go
(Contd: at foot of col. 2.)
G O L D E N P U D D I N G . 2 ozs. Flour. 2 ozs. Breadcrumbs. 2 ozs. Suet. 1 oz. Sugar. 1 tablespoon Golden Syrup. 1 pinch Nutmeg. Y<> tablespoonful Ginger or Cin
namon or Spice. 1 level teaspoonful Baking
Powder. 1 Egg .
Method.—Mix all dry ingredients. Add egg and syrup and mix well. Pour into greased mould and cover wi th greased paper. Steam for two to three hours.
M A N G O C H U T N E Y .
12 Large Green Mangoes. IV2 lbs. Brown Sugar. 5 or 6 Pods of Garlic. 30 Dry Chillies. 1 B i g Piece of Ginger. 1 Teaspoonful Salt. 1 Bottle Vinegar.
Method.—Slice the mangoes and boil in vinegar t i l l quite soft. Add grounded chillies, garlic, ginger, salt and sugar. Cook slowly for a few minutes and then pour into jars.
* * * * *
P A P A Y A C H U T N E Y .
2 lbs. Papayas. 2 Apples. 1 small garlic. }/± oz. Black pepper. */±_oz. White pepper. 1 lb. Brown Sugar. 1 lb. Sultanas. 2 ozs. Grounded ginger. 3 Large onions. A bag of mixed nutmeg and
spice. 1 Teaspoonful Salt. 1 Bottle Vinegar.
Method.—Boil the papayas (cut into rather big pieces), apples and sugar to the consistency of jam. Chop and add other ingredients and boil for ten minutes. Add vinegar and salt and pottV into
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There' l l Be Room In Heaven She was a little old woman,
very plainly dressed in black bombazine that had seen much careful wear; her bonnet was very old-fashioned, and people stared at her tottering up the aisle of the church, evidently bent on securing one of the best seats, for a great man preached that day. The house was filled with splendidly dressed people who had heard of the fame of the preacher, of his learning his intellect and goodness, and they wondered at the presumption of the poor old woman. She must have been in her dotage, for she picked out the pew of the richest and proudest member of the church and took a seat. The three ladies who were seated there beckoned to the sexton, who bent over the intruder and whispered something, but she was hard of hearing, and smiled a little withered smile, as she said, gently: "Oh, I 'm quite comfortable here, quite comfortable."
"But you are not wanted here," said the sexton, pompously; "there is not room. Come with me, my good woman; I wil l see that you have a seat."
"Not room," said the old woman, looking at her shrunken proportions, and then at the fine ladies. "Why , I'm not crowded a bit. I rode ten miles to hear the sermon to-day because—"
But here the sexton took her by the arm, shook her roughly in a polite underhand way, and then she took the hint. Her faded old eyes filled with tears, her chin quivered; but she rose meekly and left the pew. Turning quietly to the ladies, who were spreading their r ich dresses over the space sfte left vacant, she said gently: "I hope, my dears, there'll be room in heaven for us a l l . " Then she followed the pompous sexton to the rear of the church where, in the last pew% she was seated between a threadbare gir l and a shabby old man.
"She must be crazy," said one of the ladies in the pew which she had first occupied. "What can an ignorant old woman like her want to hear Dr.—preach for? She would not be able to understand a word he said."
"Those people are so persistent! The idea of her forcing herself in to our pew. Isn't that voluntarily lovely! There's Dr . —coming out of the vestry. Is he not grand?"
"Splendid! Wlia t a stately man! You know he has promised to dine with us while he is here."
He was a commanding looking man, and as the organ voluntarily stopped, and he looked over the great crowd of worshippers g a t h ered in the vast church, he seemed to scan every face. H i s hand was on the Bible when suddenly he leaned over the reading desk and beckoned to the sexton, who obsequiously mounted the steps to receive a mysterious message. And then the three ladies in the grand pew were electrified to see him take his way the whole length of the church to return with the old woman, when he placed her in the front pew of all , its other occupants making will ing room for her. The great preacher looked at her wi th a smile of recognition, and then the services proceeded, and he preached a sermon that struck fire from every heart.
"Who was she?" asked the ladies who could not make room for her. as they passed the sexton at the door.
"The preacher's mother," was the reply.
BROWSING AMONG BOOKS.
The Emerald Pawn, by O. Macnamara (Gi l l , 7s. 6d.) is an inspiring story of Ireland in the days of Elizabeth. The central figure is James Fitzmaurice, known in the English State papers as the " Arch-traitor," but to history as a selfless patriot for his country and his faith. The author gives us many a vivid sketch of the horrors of life in Ireland, when the land was torn be'ween two religions, two—if But three—races, and the constant intrigues and jealousies of almost all involved in the conflicts. We are taken to the Continent as well to meet Phil ip of Spain and Catherine de Medicis, not to mention many another real figure of time. Above all a masterly sketch is given of Thomas Stucley, whose tortuous intrigues and cunning not only form an essential part of the story but actually did much to prevent foreign aid ever reaching the land.
This is a book to have and to hold, for it has the grip of a novel and ihe truth of history. The phrase " Reformation Martyrs ," for the Catholics that suffered, is not common on this side of the water, and surely the author does less than justice tc the torture of the rack by saying that every muscle ached after the racking. (C.T.S. ) .
The Origin and Development of Roman Li turgica l Vestments, by_ Raymund James (Catholic Records Press, 2s. 6d.), is a reprint " r e vised and augmented" of the articles which appeared in Pax some eight years ago, before the author had joined the Prinknash community. The little work is a careful, scholarly treatise on a subject about which i t is not easy to obtain accurate information in a handy form, and it puts the case for a return to the ancient, full pattern for l i turgical vestments very well.
It is a pity, however, that the author has not managed wholly to avoid the rather shri l l note which is so frequent i n matters of ecclesiastical controversy, even when, as in this case, i t is unlikely to aid the cause which the publication is meant to urge. The statement (on p. 24) " that the mutilation of the chasuble" and other vestments "was carried out almost entirely by those professional vestment makers w h o . . . . were desirous only
-of- making the largest possible profit and therefore . . . .of cutting down the amount of material to the minimum," while no doubt it contains a considerable element of truth, seems to need qualification. Another reason for this curtailment may be found in the influence of climate. Thus the monks who were sent out to Braz i l some forty years ago, to revive the Benedictine Congregation of that country, found the full Gothic vestments they took out wi th them intolerable in the heat of the tropics, and so discontinued their use. It is likely that, in southern Europe and elsew*here a similar influence played its part in producing the modification of form which Dom James condemns so heartily, but for which, on the practical side, there is something to be said after al l . ~(C.T.S.).
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R A T E S OF S U B S C R I P T I O N Resurrection was the final much unpleasant delving into a act of Christ on earth." This sentence is decidedly hideous to a discriminating Christ ian ear. Does the uninitiated wri ter attempt to depict O u r L o r d as an
All correspondence and litcrap sactor or a performer of feats and H i s mission as a M a y fair melo-
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C H R I S T I A N I T Y .
O u r Malacca contemporary while expatiating editorially on M Easter Thoughts 9 9 i n the issue of 22nd A p r i l , displays rare stretch of imagination. We propose to analyse the views of this article piecemeal as the writer appears to blow hot or cold i n places according as his imaginat ion freshens up or fades away. In order to drive home our contention against the views expressed in the editorial under review, we must perforce quote excerpts here and there for wh ich we make no apology.
The learned disquisition comes off the reel w i t h the fol lowing in t roduc t ion :—
" Yesterday was Easter, a day of great significance to Chr is t endom. Most Christians regard the resurrection day as of more importance than X'mas. I t is, o f course, a matter of opinion Easter denotes the consummation of that gospel and rel igion."
The above excerpt suggests that Christians may p l u m p for either X 'mas or Easter according to the dictates of their personal fad or fancy. I f Jack were given the choice he would certainly have both the Christmas pudding and the Easter egg. W e may rem i n d our learned wri ter 8that the fove o f choosing certain dogmas or mysteries of Christ 's life and interpreting them after ones private judgment are typical of the sectarian by-products of original Christianity.---it—is obvious that the Guardian is un guardedly holding them up as paragons of the Chris t ian Faith. A nodding acquaintance wi th the elementary tenets of Chris t iani ty w i l l show that the N a t i v i t y of O u r L o r d , H i s crucif ixion, death and resurrection are essential phenomena to the fulfilment of H i s mundane mission as G o d — M a n . A g a i n , to say that Easter denotes r the consummation of that gospel and religion ' is quite wide of the mark. Easter signifies the fu l f i l ment o f Christ 's promise to redeem mank ind at the price of H i s o w n precious blood, whereby man was assured o f an everlasting spir i tual l i fe .
drama? W e readily grant that the bellicose mentality of Chr i s tian Europe to-day is far from keeping wi th the essential ingredients of Chris t iani ty namely love, humil i ty , peace and sacrifice. In the face of these disconcerting facts, we need have no cause to despair of the infinite mercy of H i m who was not shocked at the perfidy of Judas, the denial of Peter and the increduli ty of Thomas. The tone and attitude of our contemporary i n discussing c Chris t iani ty ' are decidedly confusing. H e has apparently the Protestant sects in view and the * Chris t iani ty ' as they conceive it. H e has designedly or unwi t t i ng ly left the Cathol ic C h u r c h out f e r r im
disreputable phase of history. It is inconceivable how the man who found rigid, religious discipline irksome, and yielded to his prurient desires, could be identified with an} thing ' spiritual. '
T o say that 1 Christendom is bereft of true spiritual leaders and that it is floundering in a mire of suspicion and fear' is too coloured and bold an assertion. It is certainly true that Christ ian nations are not living up to the ideals of the religion they profess. If we find strife and social disorder rampant in,the civilised countries, it is no reason for true Christians to fear that Christ iani ty is on its last legs, when we have the unfailing promise of O u r L o r d to guide and be wi th us in spirit u n t i l the end of time. Furthermore, every Christian knows ful l well that the promise of peace sung by the herald angels, on Bethlehem's slopes was meant essentially for
organised efforts for relieving the needy have not quite got into their stride. The poor and needy are always with us, and thev have a moral claim to our help in their distress, if we would only pause to view the matter in a true Christ ian light. Let us nave before our mind's eye the self-imposed mendicity of Our Lord and ponder a while on the spirit of' Christian charity. Prayer alone wi l l not save us without charity and good works and the age old adage 'charity covers a multitude of sins' is no idle saying.
Importunate though our plea may be for intensifying tins; feature of Catholic Act ion the urgency of proffering aid to the poor and unemployed emboldens us to make this appeal. We feel confident that Catholics in possession of billets wi l l certainly contribute something monthly, according to their means i f they are approached by authorised Catholic 'Actionists. There are some who are loth to undertake work of this nature. Perhaps they feel that it
men o f goodwill . ' These trials is a form of 'mendicity' i a
reckoning i n re-to r Chris t iani ty ' and
and tribulations, wars and famines are all blessings in disguise to
P E A C E T R I D U U M A T L O U R D E S
TERMINATES WITH IMPOSING PROCESSION
C A R D I N A L P A C E L L F S S T I R R I N G S E R M O N .
Lourdes A p r i l 28.—The three days of continuous Masses for peace were attended by thousands of pilgrims from all over the world and culminated in an imposing procession to the miraculous Grotto headed by Cardinal Pacelli, the Papal Legate, wi th boys and girls carrying a vine, wheatsheaf and olive tree, the latter sent by the Pope as a symbol of peace.
Cardinal Pacelli in his closing sermon denounced those who rejected the idea of redemption "Whether they disguise this rejection under some form of social revolution or whether they are inspired by a false conception of life being possessed by superstitution of race or blood, their philosophy rests on principles fundamentally opposed to the Christ ian faith and over which the Church refuses to bargain with them at any price."—Reuter.
'Chr is tendom. ' H a d he k n o w n the rudiments of history, he w o u l d certainly have tumbled to the fact that the Cathol ic C h u r c h stands out pre-eminently as the only appointed C h u r c h of Chris t on earth which enjoys that divine charter given to St. Peter, and handed down through an un broken succession in the See of Rome.
Here is another misleading extract that is replete w i t h painful ignorance:—
w Christendom is sorely in need of a new teacher, one who could drive home the truths of a great religion, a Luther or a Wesley or some such spiritual giant ." This sounds very much like the
impression gained by the 'b l ind men of Hindus tan ' who went to see an elephant, or runs i close parallel to D o n Quixote's laudable efforts at social justice. Even to use the mi ld language of the meek-mannered, little man schooled under the chastening influence of a ro l l ing-pin , it would be the height of fol ly to describe Luther as a spiritual giant or a pur i fy ing force of religion* W e may refrain f rom refuting such ' s tupen
dous stupidity ' as it would entail enable man to tu rn anew to his creator for mercy and guidance. A s the rust-covered steel becomes burnished when passed through fire, so shall the C h u r c h of Christ emerge glorious and resplendent through the persecutions to which she is subjected.
W e would normally have allowed 'pet viewrs' on any other subject to pass for what they are worth but, a subject such as this, comes wi th in our natural purview as a Catholic organ; and as such, it is incumbent on us to point out any mistatement of facts which may be accepted by the less discerning readers as reliable. There is however one consolation in the fact that this misleading article appears in a paper that excercises merely a parochial influence by reason of its limited circulation.
N O T E S A N D C O M M E N T S . Relief for the Needy:—There
seems to be a slight flagging down of interest in the Catholic Action Movement in our parishes from a practical view-point. While admitting that the Catholic Action Societies of certain parishes are engaged in corporal works of mercy, yet it may be observed that
and.fear that their own perstige may come down. To beg for the needy is certainly an ennobling service and wil l not impair the "social value of a right-thinking person. H i s Holiness the Pope in a Recent interview he gave to a class of 'menial workers,' proudly mentioned that one of his titles was 'servus servorum' (servant of serva nts) t h ereby e m ph asis \ n % the dignity attached 'to the service of the lowly.
* * * * Britain and Soviet Russ ia :—All
eyes are turned to Moscow now in connection with the visit of the L o r d P r ivy Seal. Entertainments on a lavish scale have been given in honour of the Br i t i sh diplomat and probably he has been wisked around in a swell car and shown those special attractive sections of the city, that are partieuteHv maintained to serve as an 'eyewash' for distinguished foreign visitors. In all probability, i f the astute diplomat insisted on doing a tour of the city on his own without having to be piloted about, he would assuredly be in a better position to assess the political, social, economic and moral status of a Socialist Government. A city is but viewed imperfectly unless you have seen both its 'glamour' and 'squalor.'
* * * * The official statement issued
after the visit says that ' there is at present no conflict of interest between the two Governments on any of the main issues of international policy," and that "this fact provides a firm foundation for the development of fruitful collaboration between them in the cause of peace." This statement apparently applies to the political side of the relations between Bri ta in and the U.S .S .R. ; but we do not think it implies any condonation of religious persecution or other social malpractices "hat have been officially sponsored in Russia. The 'Godless Regime' prevailing in Russia and Mexico to-day will not conduce in any reasonable measure for anv self-respecting State to effect a genuinely friendly rapprochement with countries professing socialistic doctrines that are decidedly a standing menace to Christian civilisation. The padding is yet in the making and the proof of it lies of course in the eating.
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D I O C E S E OF M A L A C C A .
C A T H E D R A L O F T H E GOOD S H E P H E R D , S I N G A P O R E . *
Calendar for the Week.
May 5- Sunday—2nd Sunday after Easter. Semid. — Solemnity of the Good Shepherd. Double of :he 1st CI.—Every Mass and Vespers of the Most Holy Redeemer.
May (>. Monday—St. John before the Lat in Gate. Greater Double.
May 7. Tuesday—St. Stanislas, B . and M . Double.
May 8. Wednesday—Solemnity of St. Joseph, Spouse of the B . V . Mary, and Patron of the universal Church. Double of the 1st Class with Octave.—III.
May 9. Thursday — St. Gregory. Xazhnzen, B . & D. Double.
Mav 10. Friday — St. Antoninus, B. and C. Double.
May I I . Saturday— Octave Day of the Good Shepherd.
G O S P E L f o r
S E C O N D S U N D A Y A F T E R E A S T E R (St. John. X , 11—16).
At that time. Jesus said to the Pharisees, I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd giveth his life for the sheep. But the hireling, and he that is not the shepherd, whose o\vn the sheep are net, seeth the wolf coming, and leaveth the sheep, and fiieth; and the wolf catcheth and scattereth the sheep: and the hireling fiieth. because he is a hireling and he hath no care for the sheen. I am the good shepherd; and I know mine, and mine know me. As the Father knoweth me, and I know the Father; and I lay down my life for my sheep. And other sheep I have, that are not cf this fold: them also 1 must bring, and they shall hear my voice and there shall be one fold and one shepherd.
C O M M E N T A R Y .
K I N G G E O R G E V ' S V I S I T
T O T H E V A T I C A N
R E C A L L E D .
Loyal to the Crown & Loyal to God.
(Words pronounced by the Holy Father in His address at the reading of the Decree " Tuto " for the Canonization of B B . More and Fisher.)
* In every part of the Br i t i sh Empire there are Catholics, children of the Common Father; and what a consolation was it not for Us to hear from the lips of their beloved Sovereign when he came to visit Us here in Rome (in 1923) that these Catholics were ever among his most faithful subjects.
A t present the whole Br i t i sh world is preparing to celebrate the auspicious event of the 25th anniversary of the accession to the throne of its revered Sovereign. Here again we see the working of Divine Providence and the light of the martyrs. We have a quarter century of a kingship and the 4th centenary of a martyrdom.
Nothing in this was arranged by human minds. These two events fell in together by the disposition of Providence and these two great and glorious martyrs (Blessed Fisher , and More) have invited themselves to this celebration in order to reaffirm the old Catholic Fai th of England in order to repeat their words from the scaffold that they died loyal to the Crown and loyal to God.
In the life of the Church great heroes have never at any time been wanting, and they are raised
by God not only for our admiration but also for our imitation.
It might even seem at first <%ht that their very greatness would exclude the possibility of imitation; but it is not so. Here we may recall the thought of St. Augustine who speaks of martyrdom not of the classic martyrdom alone—and says that every martyrdom is an exhortation to martyrdom. Not by the martyrdom of blood alone, but by many other ways we may arrive a ^ the palm. There is the
This Gospel has been known for ages as the " Gospel of the Good Shepherd." Jesus calls himself " the pood shepherd." And He liked the comparison, because he repeats: " I am the good shepherd."
We know indeed that Jesus is | the good shepherd. But we do
not know i f we are good sheep. Good Shepherd versus Bad Sheep.
Our life is a continuous struggle between ourselves — bad sheep — and the good shepherd. Three kinds of sheep may be considered in any Sock:—(a) sheep whose pleasure lie in running about and round the shepherd; (b) sheep who do not mind the shepherd and who content themselves to be in the midst of the flock, without too
| much familiari ty with the shep-i h e r d ; (c) sheep who long for
liberty out of the flock, and whose ambition is to walk and run through the most dangerous paths and ways, lulled, as it would appear, by a certain feeling of rest-iesness.
The good shepherd loves them all. NaturarJry he pets those who cling to him and calls them by I heir sweet names. Now and then the shepherd may even carry one of them, in turns, on his shoulders. This mutual " affection grows stronger and stronger with every day past, with every circumstance over, with every pasture served. They sense the shepherd every morning when he opens for them the day's freedom, and their tender bleats are the first sound to reach the shepherd's ears. He greets them good-morning and late- in the evening it is with a gentle pat on their woolly backs that he wishes them good-night.
The indifferent sheep (we may be allowed to call them such) are glad to see the shepherd every morning. They obey him in all b"g issues of their lives.
• They have their friends. They have material thoughts about pastures and flowers. They get
busy every day in satisfying themselves and they do not feel much inclination to spend their time around the shepherds—They love him from far. They fear him.
The bad sheep, on the other hand,* are always on the look out to evade the shepherd's attention. They run after anything that mav attract their sight. They do not think of dangers, of steep precipices, of w7olves or of other wild animals. They would like to see them rather. A morbid curiosity leads them always far away from the flock, and the shepherd knows that he must be very attentive on account of them. Some of them are lost occasionally by sauntering on the brink of certain places. Some of them are eaten up by wolves, in spite of the shepherd's courage and resolution. The shepherd is always on the watch and ready to sacrifice everything for these^sheep.
Providential Suffering for bad sheep.
Sometimes the shepherd may get tired of his attempts to keep such sheep within the fold. When they try to run away from the flock he might throw at them a stone or two. A n d the stones which shepherds throw always reach their .marks. And the sheep thus shot at come back to the flock, bleating for pain, running l impirely. They are bound to be with the others. They search for the shepherd then, and their tender bleats soften his heart at once. He carries them on his shoulders and is glad to have them with him.
Jesus. The Good Shepherd. Jesus is indeed the Good She
pherd. He does everything that a good shepherd does towards his sheep. He caresses them, he punishes them, when necessary. Is not our lite a proof of this assertion? Do we not feel that our present suffering is but a stone thrown at us by Jesus, in order to have us closer to His Divine Heart?
D I O C E S E O F M A C A C .
C H U R C H OF ST. J O S E P H .
Calendar for the week.
M a y
M a v
.Mav
M a v
31aj
5. Sunday—Second Sunday after Easter. White vestments. Semi-double. Proper of the Mass in the " Small .Missal " p. 165. Second collect of St. Pius the F i f th . Evening at 7,. In Malacca: Feast of " Santa Cruz." 6. Monday—St. John before
the Lat in Gate. Thanksgiving Service for the Jubilee of His Majesty the K i n g at 11 a.m.
7. Tuesday—St. Stanislaus. Double. 8. W'day—The Solemnity of
St. Joseph. Double of the 1st class with octave.
9. Thursday—St. Gregory Nazianzen, B . C. D. Double.
10. Friday—St Arthnny, Abbot. Abstinence.
May 11. Saturday—Of the octave. Semi-double.
C A R D I N A L H I N S L E Y E N T H R O N E D A R C H B I S H O P
OF W E S T M I N S T E R .
Brings Messages of Moment from the Pope.
martyrdom of our sufferings in the ways of God: the martyrdom of the difficulty of doing our duty; the martyrdom of persevering fidelity in little things of everyday life, the daily cross which Jesus tells us we must take up if we are to be His followers: the martyrdom of l iving as good Christians in the midst of adverse circumstances at a time when the world seems to have lost all sense of what is really good—of all that is pure and of all that is immaculate. ~~ ^
Yet another martyrdom is the hard struggle for existence in the difficult conditions of the world a* the present moment. Behold the
many forms of martyrdom; behold the Wessons that these two martyrs of fidelity to the Faith of Rome teach us.
L A W OF C O N T R A S T . Do not be too sad nor too glad;
the Night sta opposite Day, Joy stands opposite Sorrow, the sun does not always shine, neither can the vain go on for ever. Preserve, if possible, the happy mean, that calmly accepting all those joys or sorrows which come to you knowing that by the law of contrast, each must make way for the other, as life for death in the end.—Lady Townshend,
London, May 1.—With ancient sacred rights, the Right Reverend Ar thu r Hinsley was enthroned Archbishop of Westminster in succession to the late Cardinal Bourne in Westminster Cathedral.
The nave, galleries and side chapels were crowded.
The new Archbishop, in the course of his allocution, said the message he brought from Rome was an impassioned appeal for peace in a world torn by international jealousies.
W7ith regard to the King's Jubilee the Archbishop referred with jcy to the attachment of Engl ish Catholics to the Throne.— : (Reuter)
T H E T R U E P R I E S T .
It behoves us all to keep ever before the mind what it means to be a true priest of Almighty God. It is of the highest importance for the priest himself never to lose sight of his sublime dignity that he may never do anything unworthy of it. It is of the highest importance that the people have a right idea of what a true priest ought to be that they may respect his sacred character. On this point a Catholic writer says:
" The Christian priest, true to the trust that Heaven has given him and faithful in its discharge to poor, weak, fallen man, is the noblest specimen of humanity that walks the earth. Praise does not lender him haughty, nor blame make him dejected. The greater the confidence placed in him the weightier he feels his obligations. The more heart-rending the sorrow he meets the greater the sympathy he extend-. The more dangerous" and contagious the disease, the sooner and the more constantly is he by the bedside, the more degraded the criminal the greater is his mercy, and by that inner light of Divine grace, as he sees in every man a soul for whom Christ died, he becomes a brother for whom Christ 's Vicar must make sacrifice."
M A L A Y A C A T H O L I C L E A D E R , S A T U R D A Y , 5IAY 4th. 1935.
R A T E S OF S U B S C R I P T I O N Resurrection was the final much unpleasant delving into a act of Christ on earth." This sentence is decidedly hideous to a discriminating Christ ian ear. Does the uninitiated wri ter attempt to depict O u r L o r d as an
All correspondence and litcrap sactor or a performer of feats and H i s mission as a M a y fair melo-
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C H R I S T I A N I T Y .
O u r Malacca contemporary while expatiating editorially on M Easter Thoughts 9 9 i n the issue of 22nd A p r i l , displays rare stretch of imagination. We propose to analyse the views of this article piecemeal as the writer appears to blow hot or cold i n places according as his imaginat ion freshens up or fades away. In order to drive home our contention against the views expressed in the editorial under review, we must perforce quote excerpts here and there for wh ich we make no apology.
The learned disquisition comes off the reel w i t h the fol lowing in t roduc t ion :—
" Yesterday was Easter, a day of great significance to Chr is t endom. Most Christians regard the resurrection day as of more importance than X'mas. I t is, o f course, a matter of opinion Easter denotes the consummation of that gospel and rel igion."
The above excerpt suggests that Christians may p l u m p for either X 'mas or Easter according to the dictates of their personal fad or fancy. I f Jack were given the choice he would certainly have both the Christmas pudding and the Easter egg. W e may rem i n d our learned wri ter 8that the fove o f choosing certain dogmas or mysteries of Christ 's life and interpreting them after ones private judgment are typical of the sectarian by-products of original Christianity.---it—is obvious that the Guardian is un guardedly holding them up as paragons of the Chris t ian Faith. A nodding acquaintance wi th the elementary tenets of Chris t iani ty w i l l show that the N a t i v i t y of O u r L o r d , H i s crucif ixion, death and resurrection are essential phenomena to the fulfilment of H i s mundane mission as G o d — M a n . A g a i n , to say that Easter denotes r the consummation of that gospel and religion ' is quite wide of the mark. Easter signifies the fu l f i l ment o f Christ 's promise to redeem mank ind at the price of H i s o w n precious blood, whereby man was assured o f an everlasting spir i tual l i fe .
drama? W e readily grant that the bellicose mentality of Chr i s tian Europe to-day is far from keeping wi th the essential ingredients of Chris t iani ty namely love, humil i ty , peace and sacrifice. In the face of these disconcerting facts, we need have no cause to despair of the infinite mercy of H i m who was not shocked at the perfidy of Judas, the denial of Peter and the increduli ty of Thomas. The tone and attitude of our contemporary i n discussing c Chris t iani ty ' are decidedly confusing. H e has apparently the Protestant sects in view and the * Chris t iani ty ' as they conceive it. H e has designedly or unwi t t i ng ly left the Cathol ic C h u r c h out f e r r im
disreputable phase of history. It is inconceivable how the man who found rigid, religious discipline irksome, and yielded to his prurient desires, could be identified with an} thing ' spiritual. '
T o say that 1 Christendom is bereft of true spiritual leaders and that it is floundering in a mire of suspicion and fear' is too coloured and bold an assertion. It is certainly true that Christ ian nations are not living up to the ideals of the religion they profess. If we find strife and social disorder rampant in,the civilised countries, it is no reason for true Christians to fear that Christ iani ty is on its last legs, when we have the unfailing promise of O u r L o r d to guide and be wi th us in spirit u n t i l the end of time. Furthermore, every Christian knows ful l well that the promise of peace sung by the herald angels, on Bethlehem's slopes was meant essentially for
organised efforts for relieving the needy have not quite got into their stride. The poor and needy are always with us, and thev have a moral claim to our help in their distress, if we would only pause to view the matter in a true Christ ian light. Let us nave before our mind's eye the self-imposed mendicity of Our Lord and ponder a while on the spirit of' Christian charity. Prayer alone wi l l not save us without charity and good works and the age old adage 'charity covers a multitude of sins' is no idle saying.
Importunate though our plea may be for intensifying tins; feature of Catholic Act ion the urgency of proffering aid to the poor and unemployed emboldens us to make this appeal. We feel confident that Catholics in possession of billets wi l l certainly contribute something monthly, according to their means i f they are approached by authorised Catholic 'Actionists. There are some who are loth to undertake work of this nature. Perhaps they feel that it
men o f goodwill . ' These trials is a form of 'mendicity' i a
reckoning i n re-to r Chris t iani ty ' and
and tribulations, wars and famines are all blessings in disguise to
P E A C E T R I D U U M A T L O U R D E S
TERMINATES WITH IMPOSING PROCESSION
C A R D I N A L P A C E L L F S S T I R R I N G S E R M O N .
Lourdes A p r i l 28.—The three days of continuous Masses for peace were attended by thousands of pilgrims from all over the world and culminated in an imposing procession to the miraculous Grotto headed by Cardinal Pacelli, the Papal Legate, wi th boys and girls carrying a vine, wheatsheaf and olive tree, the latter sent by the Pope as a symbol of peace.
Cardinal Pacelli in his closing sermon denounced those who rejected the idea of redemption "Whether they disguise this rejection under some form of social revolution or whether they are inspired by a false conception of life being possessed by superstitution of race or blood, their philosophy rests on principles fundamentally opposed to the Christ ian faith and over which the Church refuses to bargain with them at any price."—Reuter.
'Chr is tendom. ' H a d he k n o w n the rudiments of history, he w o u l d certainly have tumbled to the fact that the Cathol ic C h u r c h stands out pre-eminently as the only appointed C h u r c h of Chris t on earth which enjoys that divine charter given to St. Peter, and handed down through an un broken succession in the See of Rome.
Here is another misleading extract that is replete w i t h painful ignorance:—
w Christendom is sorely in need of a new teacher, one who could drive home the truths of a great religion, a Luther or a Wesley or some such spiritual giant ." This sounds very much like the
impression gained by the 'b l ind men of Hindus tan ' who went to see an elephant, or runs i close parallel to D o n Quixote's laudable efforts at social justice. Even to use the mi ld language of the meek-mannered, little man schooled under the chastening influence of a ro l l ing-pin , it would be the height of fol ly to describe Luther as a spiritual giant or a pur i fy ing force of religion* W e may refrain f rom refuting such ' s tupen
dous stupidity ' as it would entail enable man to tu rn anew to his creator for mercy and guidance. A s the rust-covered steel becomes burnished when passed through fire, so shall the C h u r c h of Christ emerge glorious and resplendent through the persecutions to which she is subjected.
W e would normally have allowed 'pet viewrs' on any other subject to pass for what they are worth but, a subject such as this, comes wi th in our natural purview as a Catholic organ; and as such, it is incumbent on us to point out any mistatement of facts which may be accepted by the less discerning readers as reliable. There is however one consolation in the fact that this misleading article appears in a paper that excercises merely a parochial influence by reason of its limited circulation.
N O T E S A N D C O M M E N T S . Relief for the Needy:—There
seems to be a slight flagging down of interest in the Catholic Action Movement in our parishes from a practical view-point. While admitting that the Catholic Action Societies of certain parishes are engaged in corporal works of mercy, yet it may be observed that
and.fear that their own perstige may come down. To beg for the needy is certainly an ennobling service and wil l not impair the "social value of a right-thinking person. H i s Holiness the Pope in a Recent interview he gave to a class of 'menial workers,' proudly mentioned that one of his titles was 'servus servorum' (servant of serva nts) t h ereby e m ph asis \ n % the dignity attached 'to the service of the lowly.
* * * * Britain and Soviet Russ ia :—All
eyes are turned to Moscow now in connection with the visit of the L o r d P r ivy Seal. Entertainments on a lavish scale have been given in honour of the Br i t i sh diplomat and probably he has been wisked around in a swell car and shown those special attractive sections of the city, that are partieuteHv maintained to serve as an 'eyewash' for distinguished foreign visitors. In all probability, i f the astute diplomat insisted on doing a tour of the city on his own without having to be piloted about, he would assuredly be in a better position to assess the political, social, economic and moral status of a Socialist Government. A city is but viewed imperfectly unless you have seen both its 'glamour' and 'squalor.'
* * * * The official statement issued
after the visit says that ' there is at present no conflict of interest between the two Governments on any of the main issues of international policy," and that "this fact provides a firm foundation for the development of fruitful collaboration between them in the cause of peace." This statement apparently applies to the political side of the relations between Bri ta in and the U.S .S .R. ; but we do not think it implies any condonation of religious persecution or other social malpractices "hat have been officially sponsored in Russia. The 'Godless Regime' prevailing in Russia and Mexico to-day will not conduce in any reasonable measure for anv self-respecting State to effect a genuinely friendly rapprochement with countries professing socialistic doctrines that are decidedly a standing menace to Christian civilisation. The padding is yet in the making and the proof of it lies of course in the eating.
11
D I O C E S E OF M A L A C C A .
C A T H E D R A L O F T H E GOOD S H E P H E R D , S I N G A P O R E . *
Calendar for the Week.
May 5- Sunday—2nd Sunday after Easter. Semid. — Solemnity of the Good Shepherd. Double of :he 1st CI.—Every Mass and Vespers of the Most Holy Redeemer.
May (>. Monday—St. John before the Lat in Gate. Greater Double.
May 7. Tuesday—St. Stanislas, B . and M . Double.
May 8. Wednesday—Solemnity of St. Joseph, Spouse of the B . V . Mary, and Patron of the universal Church. Double of the 1st Class with Octave.—III.
May 9. Thursday — St. Gregory. Xazhnzen, B . & D. Double.
Mav 10. Friday — St. Antoninus, B. and C. Double.
May I I . Saturday— Octave Day of the Good Shepherd.
G O S P E L f o r
S E C O N D S U N D A Y A F T E R E A S T E R (St. John. X , 11—16).
At that time. Jesus said to the Pharisees, I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd giveth his life for the sheep. But the hireling, and he that is not the shepherd, whose o\vn the sheep are net, seeth the wolf coming, and leaveth the sheep, and fiieth; and the wolf catcheth and scattereth the sheep: and the hireling fiieth. because he is a hireling and he hath no care for the sheen. I am the good shepherd; and I know mine, and mine know me. As the Father knoweth me, and I know the Father; and I lay down my life for my sheep. And other sheep I have, that are not cf this fold: them also 1 must bring, and they shall hear my voice and there shall be one fold and one shepherd.
C O M M E N T A R Y .
K I N G G E O R G E V ' S V I S I T
T O T H E V A T I C A N
R E C A L L E D .
Loyal to the Crown & Loyal to God.
(Words pronounced by the Holy Father in His address at the reading of the Decree " Tuto " for the Canonization of B B . More and Fisher.)
* In every part of the Br i t i sh Empire there are Catholics, children of the Common Father; and what a consolation was it not for Us to hear from the lips of their beloved Sovereign when he came to visit Us here in Rome (in 1923) that these Catholics were ever among his most faithful subjects.
A t present the whole Br i t i sh world is preparing to celebrate the auspicious event of the 25th anniversary of the accession to the throne of its revered Sovereign. Here again we see the working of Divine Providence and the light of the martyrs. We have a quarter century of a kingship and the 4th centenary of a martyrdom.
Nothing in this was arranged by human minds. These two events fell in together by the disposition of Providence and these two great and glorious martyrs (Blessed Fisher , and More) have invited themselves to this celebration in order to reaffirm the old Catholic Fai th of England in order to repeat their words from the scaffold that they died loyal to the Crown and loyal to God.
In the life of the Church great heroes have never at any time been wanting, and they are raised
by God not only for our admiration but also for our imitation.
It might even seem at first <%ht that their very greatness would exclude the possibility of imitation; but it is not so. Here we may recall the thought of St. Augustine who speaks of martyrdom not of the classic martyrdom alone—and says that every martyrdom is an exhortation to martyrdom. Not by the martyrdom of blood alone, but by many other ways we may arrive a ^ the palm. There is the
This Gospel has been known for ages as the " Gospel of the Good Shepherd." Jesus calls himself " the pood shepherd." And He liked the comparison, because he repeats: " I am the good shepherd."
We know indeed that Jesus is | the good shepherd. But we do
not know i f we are good sheep. Good Shepherd versus Bad Sheep.
Our life is a continuous struggle between ourselves — bad sheep — and the good shepherd. Three kinds of sheep may be considered in any Sock:—(a) sheep whose pleasure lie in running about and round the shepherd; (b) sheep who do not mind the shepherd and who content themselves to be in the midst of the flock, without too
| much familiari ty with the shep-i h e r d ; (c) sheep who long for
liberty out of the flock, and whose ambition is to walk and run through the most dangerous paths and ways, lulled, as it would appear, by a certain feeling of rest-iesness.
The good shepherd loves them all. NaturarJry he pets those who cling to him and calls them by I heir sweet names. Now and then the shepherd may even carry one of them, in turns, on his shoulders. This mutual " affection grows stronger and stronger with every day past, with every circumstance over, with every pasture served. They sense the shepherd every morning when he opens for them the day's freedom, and their tender bleats are the first sound to reach the shepherd's ears. He greets them good-morning and late- in the evening it is with a gentle pat on their woolly backs that he wishes them good-night.
The indifferent sheep (we may be allowed to call them such) are glad to see the shepherd every morning. They obey him in all b"g issues of their lives.
• They have their friends. They have material thoughts about pastures and flowers. They get
busy every day in satisfying themselves and they do not feel much inclination to spend their time around the shepherds—They love him from far. They fear him.
The bad sheep, on the other hand,* are always on the look out to evade the shepherd's attention. They run after anything that mav attract their sight. They do not think of dangers, of steep precipices, of w7olves or of other wild animals. They would like to see them rather. A morbid curiosity leads them always far away from the flock, and the shepherd knows that he must be very attentive on account of them. Some of them are lost occasionally by sauntering on the brink of certain places. Some of them are eaten up by wolves, in spite of the shepherd's courage and resolution. The shepherd is always on the watch and ready to sacrifice everything for these^sheep.
Providential Suffering for bad sheep.
Sometimes the shepherd may get tired of his attempts to keep such sheep within the fold. When they try to run away from the flock he might throw at them a stone or two. A n d the stones which shepherds throw always reach their .marks. And the sheep thus shot at come back to the flock, bleating for pain, running l impirely. They are bound to be with the others. They search for the shepherd then, and their tender bleats soften his heart at once. He carries them on his shoulders and is glad to have them with him.
Jesus. The Good Shepherd. Jesus is indeed the Good She
pherd. He does everything that a good shepherd does towards his sheep. He caresses them, he punishes them, when necessary. Is not our lite a proof of this assertion? Do we not feel that our present suffering is but a stone thrown at us by Jesus, in order to have us closer to His Divine Heart?
D I O C E S E O F M A C A C .
C H U R C H OF ST. J O S E P H .
Calendar for the week.
M a y
M a v
.Mav
M a v
31aj
5. Sunday—Second Sunday after Easter. White vestments. Semi-double. Proper of the Mass in the " Small .Missal " p. 165. Second collect of St. Pius the F i f th . Evening at 7,. In Malacca: Feast of " Santa Cruz." 6. Monday—St. John before
the Lat in Gate. Thanksgiving Service for the Jubilee of His Majesty the K i n g at 11 a.m.
7. Tuesday—St. Stanislaus. Double. 8. W'day—The Solemnity of
St. Joseph. Double of the 1st class with octave.
9. Thursday—St. Gregory Nazianzen, B . C. D. Double.
10. Friday—St Arthnny, Abbot. Abstinence.
May 11. Saturday—Of the octave. Semi-double.
C A R D I N A L H I N S L E Y E N T H R O N E D A R C H B I S H O P
OF W E S T M I N S T E R .
Brings Messages of Moment from the Pope.
martyrdom of our sufferings in the ways of God: the martyrdom of the difficulty of doing our duty; the martyrdom of persevering fidelity in little things of everyday life, the daily cross which Jesus tells us we must take up if we are to be His followers: the martyrdom of l iving as good Christians in the midst of adverse circumstances at a time when the world seems to have lost all sense of what is really good—of all that is pure and of all that is immaculate. ~~ ^
Yet another martyrdom is the hard struggle for existence in the difficult conditions of the world a* the present moment. Behold the
many forms of martyrdom; behold the Wessons that these two martyrs of fidelity to the Faith of Rome teach us.
L A W OF C O N T R A S T . Do not be too sad nor too glad;
the Night sta opposite Day, Joy stands opposite Sorrow, the sun does not always shine, neither can the vain go on for ever. Preserve, if possible, the happy mean, that calmly accepting all those joys or sorrows which come to you knowing that by the law of contrast, each must make way for the other, as life for death in the end.—Lady Townshend,
London, May 1.—With ancient sacred rights, the Right Reverend Ar thu r Hinsley was enthroned Archbishop of Westminster in succession to the late Cardinal Bourne in Westminster Cathedral.
The nave, galleries and side chapels were crowded.
The new Archbishop, in the course of his allocution, said the message he brought from Rome was an impassioned appeal for peace in a world torn by international jealousies.
W7ith regard to the King's Jubilee the Archbishop referred with jcy to the attachment of Engl ish Catholics to the Throne.— : (Reuter)
T H E T R U E P R I E S T .
It behoves us all to keep ever before the mind what it means to be a true priest of Almighty God. It is of the highest importance for the priest himself never to lose sight of his sublime dignity that he may never do anything unworthy of it. It is of the highest importance that the people have a right idea of what a true priest ought to be that they may respect his sacred character. On this point a Catholic writer says:
" The Christian priest, true to the trust that Heaven has given him and faithful in its discharge to poor, weak, fallen man, is the noblest specimen of humanity that walks the earth. Praise does not lender him haughty, nor blame make him dejected. The greater the confidence placed in him the weightier he feels his obligations. The more heart-rending the sorrow he meets the greater the sympathy he extend-. The more dangerous" and contagious the disease, the sooner and the more constantly is he by the bedside, the more degraded the criminal the greater is his mercy, and by that inner light of Divine grace, as he sees in every man a soul for whom Christ died, he becomes a brother for whom Christ 's Vicar must make sacrifice."
12 M A L A Y A C A T H O L I C L E A D E R , S A T U R D A Y , M A Y 4th. 1935.
A S O L E M N T H O U G H T There is something solemn and
awful in the thought that there is not an act done or a word uttered by a human being but carries with it a train of consequences, the end of which we may never trace. No one but, to a certain extent, gives a colour to our life, and insensibly influences the lives of those about us. The good deed or word wi l l l ive, even though we may not see it fructify, but so wil l the bad; and no person* is so insignificant as to be sure that his example wi l l not do good on the one hand or evil on the other. The spirits of men do not die. . . It was a fine and a true thought uttered by M r . Disraeli in the House of Commons on the death of Richard Cobden, that "he was one of those men who, though not present, were st i l l members of that House, who were independent^f-dissolutions, of the caprices of constituencies, and even of the course of time." There is, indeed, an essence of immortali ty in the life of man even in this world. No individual in the universe stands alone; he is a com
ponent part of a system of mutual dependencies, and by his several acts he either increases or diminishes the sum of human good now and for ever. A s the present is rooted in the past, and the lives and examples of our forefathers still to a great extent influence us: so are we by our daily acts contributing to form the condition and character of the future. Man is a fruit . . ripened by the culture of all the foregoing centuries: and the l iving generation continues the magnetic current of action and example destined to bind the remotest past with the most distant future. No man's acts die utterly; and though his body may resolve into dust and air, his good or his bad deeds wi l l s t i l l be bringing forth fruit after their kind, and influencing future generations for all time to come.—Samuel Smiles.
If we had an ardent faith in the Real Presence of Our Lord in the Eucharist, is there anything on earth that could keep us away from daily Communion?
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L E G I O N O F D E C E N C Y . To the Editor,
Malaya Catholic Leader. Sir,
In the issue of 20th A p r i l some comments were made *on Don Carle Gillette's article which appeared on the above sutyiect i n the "Straits Times" of 8th inst. But not the least surprising part of the article is that Signor Don Carle Gillette does not hesitate to call the leaders of various other religious bodies also insincere and dishonest men for espousing the decency movement started by the Catholcs; for, according to him, "Protestants, Episcopalians, L u t h erans and Jews (note the wrong use of the word Protestant) all joined hands with the Roman Catholics in the 'war on the movies • 9 9 not because of convictions in regard to the necessity of any reforms in the moral standard of the films, but because cf the ambition of these leaders to
share with the Catholics " in the front page of publicity!" This is a very good instance of how the "spineless" critics "ballyhoo" when 'saner elements of the publ i c " get up in a body and make a "v i r i le" move to get r id of the films that give "insults to the intelligence" and degrade the moral standard of the public.
Yours etc., F R U T E X .
A C O N T E M P O R A R Y ' S P R A I S E -Some very nice things were said
in the Singapore Free Press of the 29th instant about Cardinal Bourne's successor, Mgr . Ar thur Hinsley. He is mentioned as 'a ripe scholar, a fine preacher and a splendid organiser,' besides being 'a man of great social charm' with 'the grit of a born Yorkshireman/ He will Convey the Pope's message of goodwill for the King's Silver Jubilee.
Adversity is a revealer-fainters as well as fighters. A d versity leads some men to God. Happy are they whose defeat teaches them the lesson St. Augustine learned—" 0 God, Thou hast made us for Thyself, and restless are our hearts until they find rest in Thee! ' Happy are they who are broken and bruised in the battle, i f the pain and anguish but lead them to God!
M A L A Y A CATHOLIC L E A D E R , SATURDAY, M A Y 4th, 1935. 13
T h e E c o n o m i c Po l i cy o f the C o l o n i a l E m p i r e BY THE RT. HON. SIR PHILIP CUNLIFFE-LISTER, G.B.E., M.C., MP., Secretary of State for the Colonies.
-I think it is impossible to exaggerate the importance of our economic policy. It is not only that the trade which every Colony is able to do depends on having a sound economic policy: the trade they do with us, the trade we are able to do wi th them, the whole financial position of a Colony depends very largely upon the extent to which it can market its products, and as its financial position depends on that, so does every social service in the Colony. I have some time been told I take too much interest in the economic policy of the Colonies, and not enough in their social services. I take, I hope, an equally keen interest in their social services which I have seen in many places for myself. But i f we cannot trade our way bur whole financial position deteriorates and our social services cannot be maintained. Therefore, i t is because everything depends on a sound economic policy that I think it is so enormously important; the problems are those of production and markets and prices.
Those are questions which have become increasingly urgent and increasingly difficult with the glut of world production, wi th the slump i n prices, land wi th the policy of economic nationalism, or economic self-sufficiency, which so many countries are pursuing, and with the restriction in trade which for one reason or another—are being put on more and more all over the world.
If you are to have an economic policy—and without it all your planning is pure " hit or m i s s " —it has to be, as your policy is today, four fold: first to secure a preferential market for the Colonies in the Empire, and for the Empire in the Colonies; secondly to attempt by international agreements to get a balance between production and consumption and so to raise the price level of the primary products; thirdly, to get efficient production and efficient marketing and to make the best use of the research going on all the time, and, lastly, to have what I may call an adequate intelligent system, so that the experience which you get in one Colony may be put at the disposal of the others and so that every Colony may have a proper appreciation of the trend of prices of production and the possibility of markets, data which no Colony can get for itself, which can only be got by close and constant contact at the centre with those who are best qualified to judge not only of the present posi-. tion but of future demands.
We have tried in these last two and a half years to make that Policy, in its fourfold aspect, as complete as we can.
Firs t of al l , Preference. Unt i l this Parliament, Preference was only given over a very limited range of products. The United Kingdom to certain extent had followed suit in the adoption of a policy which I think we in this country ought never to forget, had been introduced in the past by the Colonies of their own free-will for the benefit of Br i t i sh goods. Fortunately we found ourselves in the
position of being given a free hand to deal with any matter here. I found no difficulty in persuading my colleagues that, not only in the interests of the Colonies, but also in the interests of this country to whom their trade is so valuable, and which in the last resort has got to foot the bi l l i f there is a deficit, it is not only good sentiment but good common sense and good business to extend the policy of Preference, as was done by the first Finance Act which M r . Neville Chamberlain introduced.
The first Finance A c t gave us in the Colonies a wide range of preference for the great majority of our products, and that was the first step. But at that time hardly any part of the rest of the E m pire was giving a general preference to the Colonies. Canada had a Canadian-West Indian Agreement; New Zealand, I think, gave some preferences; Austra l ian had, I think, one very l imited transaction wi th F i j i , but that was all and there was no idea of the principle: indeed I do not think it had ever been proposed that you should make your preference to and from the Calories Empire-wide. That was the job I had to do at Ottawa. The result of the Ottawa Conference has been that—apart from a number of special Agreements which I was able to negotiate and which are of considerable value, L hope, to particular Colonies and Dominions—we established for al l the Dominions and for India the Principle that Colonial preferences should be given by the whole of the Dominions and India given, not only to those Colonies which could reciprocate, but equally to Colonies which were debarred by treaty from giving a preference and to the mandated Territories as well. I think that really was great advance, and we could never have got that done except at an Imperial Economic Conference; and we could never have got i t done unless someone—obviously the Secretary of State was in a position to negotiate for the Colonial Empire as a whole. In the helpful atmosphere of an Imperial Conference of that kind you can sweep in a certain amount which you could not get by direct negotiation. More than one of the advantages which I was able to negotiate was got for particular Colonies, not because that Colony had anything to give to the particular Dominion, but because one was often able to say, "You have negotiated wi th the United Kingdom: let us for this purpose bring the Colony into it . They are not able to give you a quid pro quo; don't let us weigh that but let us make it as complete as we can."
We are therefore now in the position that we have got for the Colonies Empire-wide preference: equally we give to the Empire a Colony-wide preference.
What has preference done? Firs t and foremost it has given a sense of security at a time when security of market is everything. It has given security of Market for our principle crops, sugar, tea, cocoa, coffee, tobacco, ground nuts, oil-seeds, timber, fruits and so on. You have got this security of market, and though prices may be bad
for many of these articles, this security helps when you consider the amount of trade involved. Even in those cases—perhaps most of those cases—where competition is keen, we have a market for the Colonies here. We have worked it out with great care. One interesting development was the sugar preference. I do not think it is too much to say that but for the extra" preference which the Chancellor agreed to propose for the Colonies, Colonial sugar, would be in a very bad way to-day.
Originally, when I was introducing that preference I wanted to get an extra 2s. a cwt. I thought that i f one added Is. to the flat rate that would make it approximately equal to the Canadian preference— rather less than Canadian preference with Canadian exchange at par at a premium—and we would get no diversion of trade. We deliberately adopted the certificate system for the other shilling in order that extra advantage should not result in any diversion of trade. It was rather a leap in the dark. The certificate system has, however, worked perfectly. Any Colony which wishes can sell sugar married to a certificate or it sells a certificate to a colony which wants to sell to this country. The certificate preference worked, but the flat rate for the Colonies did not work so well for various reasons, including, among others, the fact that the Canadian refiners did not pass on the whole of the benefit to the sugar seller, as the refiner in England does. Owing to that, among other reasons, the price became more favourable in the United Kingdom, and we found there was a growing diversion of trade. Sugar which would ordinarily have gone to Canada was now coming here. We have now corrected that: the Chancellor has dealt generously wi th it. We have converted the whole of that sugar preference on to the certificate basis, and the sugar Colonies benefit to the extent of £1,080,000 a year, which is not bad. You got security for your principal crop, but you got something more than that, you got an encouragement to establish alternative crops, or to develop them. It is something of a nightmare in a Colony to be dependent almost entirely on a single crop. You may have a hurricane, or the crop may almost fail, or there may be a great slump in price, or there may be overproduction, as in the case of ground-nuts. Therefore, i t is so important to be able to develop an alternative export crop. This preference has given us that facility and we are taking advantage of it.
Of course you find, very often, that what is a principal crop in one Colony is a very useful subsidiary in another. Take for instance, bananas—the great staple in Jamaica. One of the things done in Ottawa was to convert a ten per cent, ad valorem duty into a firm preference of 2s. 6d. a cwt. If the price drops the preference becomes more valuable. It is a business proposition and one tries to handle it in a businesslike way. It is giving Jamaica an effective preference here for a great crop. We are pretty good at eating bananas in this country and there is room for mo*e-than the Jamaica crop. There is now an incentive to Trinidad and other West Indian Colonies to develop a new crop for
which there is a steady export market. Or take oranges which are the principal crop of Palestine. The existence of a preference has now made it profitable to grow this crop in Cyprus. I could go on wi th other examples. You get not only the chance of developing as a second string some well-known crop, you get wholly new opening which, but for preference, no one would have looked for, or indeed thought of. When a manufacturer or merchant in this country knows that i f he is importing a foreign product, he has to pay a substantial duty, he goes out on the hunt of an Empire source of supply. We find that as regards timber in Nigeria. A ten per cent, c.i.f. duty was put on timber. It was a substantial duty and immediately it was put on the timber merchants became very much i n terested in seeing whether they could get what they wanted from Colonial sources, and the result is that we are developing a very good timber trade.
Tannin used to be entirely extracted from foreign bark. A duty free import was wanted here and it was found that wattle was a perfectly good substitute. The result is that the native in Kenya is making about £70,000 a year out of selling wattle. It was merely a scrub bush but has now become a valuable and very useful addition to his income. Pyrethrum from Japan and Albania, fcavender from various places including Germany^ other essential oils from various places, were free from serious competition from Colonial producers. *Now a very useful industry has developed i n essential oils in East Africa, because one of the great Engl ish houses has thought "this is good business." You have a partnership growing up between the farmer and the manufacturing and dealing houses here to get duty free material of a good quality.
These are good examples which show you we have got security for the great basic crops and the smaller subsidiaries. It is plain, I think, that to-day and i n the future the United Kingdom and the Colonies are going to be increasingly important to one another. That is fully realised in the Colonies. They have always given preference, but it has been greatly increased recently, and the last step has been to meet, throughout the Colonial Empire, Japanese competition in textiles by an effective quota system. The readiness wi th which that policy has been accepted in the Colonies shows how much they appreciate the value of the preferences which they are be- • ing given here.
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A S O L E M N T H O U G H T There is something solemn and
awful in the thought that there is not an act done or a word uttered by a human being but carries with it a train of consequences, the end of which we may never trace. No one but, to a certain extent, gives a colour to our life, and insensibly influences the lives of those about us. The good deed or word wi l l l ive, even though we may not see it fructify, but so wil l the bad; and no person* is so insignificant as to be sure that his example wi l l not do good on the one hand or evil on the other. The spirits of men do not die. . . It was a fine and a true thought uttered by M r . Disraeli in the House of Commons on the death of Richard Cobden, that "he was one of those men who, though not present, were st i l l members of that House, who were independent^f-dissolutions, of the caprices of constituencies, and even of the course of time." There is, indeed, an essence of immortali ty in the life of man even in this world. No individual in the universe stands alone; he is a com
ponent part of a system of mutual dependencies, and by his several acts he either increases or diminishes the sum of human good now and for ever. A s the present is rooted in the past, and the lives and examples of our forefathers still to a great extent influence us: so are we by our daily acts contributing to form the condition and character of the future. Man is a fruit . . ripened by the culture of all the foregoing centuries: and the l iving generation continues the magnetic current of action and example destined to bind the remotest past with the most distant future. No man's acts die utterly; and though his body may resolve into dust and air, his good or his bad deeds wi l l s t i l l be bringing forth fruit after their kind, and influencing future generations for all time to come.—Samuel Smiles.
If we had an ardent faith in the Real Presence of Our Lord in the Eucharist, is there anything on earth that could keep us away from daily Communion?
C H U R C H OF ST. A N T H O N Y , T E L U K A N S O N .
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L E G I O N O F D E C E N C Y . To the Editor,
Malaya Catholic Leader. Sir,
In the issue of 20th A p r i l some comments were made *on Don Carle Gillette's article which appeared on the above sutyiect i n the "Straits Times" of 8th inst. But not the least surprising part of the article is that Signor Don Carle Gillette does not hesitate to call the leaders of various other religious bodies also insincere and dishonest men for espousing the decency movement started by the Catholcs; for, according to him, "Protestants, Episcopalians, L u t h erans and Jews (note the wrong use of the word Protestant) all joined hands with the Roman Catholics in the 'war on the movies • 9 9 not because of convictions in regard to the necessity of any reforms in the moral standard of the films, but because cf the ambition of these leaders to
share with the Catholics " in the front page of publicity!" This is a very good instance of how the "spineless" critics "ballyhoo" when 'saner elements of the publ i c " get up in a body and make a "v i r i le" move to get r id of the films that give "insults to the intelligence" and degrade the moral standard of the public.
Yours etc., F R U T E X .
A C O N T E M P O R A R Y ' S P R A I S E -Some very nice things were said
in the Singapore Free Press of the 29th instant about Cardinal Bourne's successor, Mgr . Ar thur Hinsley. He is mentioned as 'a ripe scholar, a fine preacher and a splendid organiser,' besides being 'a man of great social charm' with 'the grit of a born Yorkshireman/ He will Convey the Pope's message of goodwill for the King's Silver Jubilee.
Adversity is a revealer-fainters as well as fighters. A d versity leads some men to God. Happy are they whose defeat teaches them the lesson St. Augustine learned—" 0 God, Thou hast made us for Thyself, and restless are our hearts until they find rest in Thee! ' Happy are they who are broken and bruised in the battle, i f the pain and anguish but lead them to God!
M A L A Y A CATHOLIC L E A D E R , SATURDAY, M A Y 4th, 1935. 13
T h e E c o n o m i c Po l i cy o f the C o l o n i a l E m p i r e BY THE RT. HON. SIR PHILIP CUNLIFFE-LISTER, G.B.E., M.C., MP., Secretary of State for the Colonies.
-I think it is impossible to exaggerate the importance of our economic policy. It is not only that the trade which every Colony is able to do depends on having a sound economic policy: the trade they do with us, the trade we are able to do wi th them, the whole financial position of a Colony depends very largely upon the extent to which it can market its products, and as its financial position depends on that, so does every social service in the Colony. I have some time been told I take too much interest in the economic policy of the Colonies, and not enough in their social services. I take, I hope, an equally keen interest in their social services which I have seen in many places for myself. But i f we cannot trade our way bur whole financial position deteriorates and our social services cannot be maintained. Therefore, i t is because everything depends on a sound economic policy that I think it is so enormously important; the problems are those of production and markets and prices.
Those are questions which have become increasingly urgent and increasingly difficult with the glut of world production, wi th the slump i n prices, land wi th the policy of economic nationalism, or economic self-sufficiency, which so many countries are pursuing, and with the restriction in trade which for one reason or another—are being put on more and more all over the world.
If you are to have an economic policy—and without it all your planning is pure " hit or m i s s " —it has to be, as your policy is today, four fold: first to secure a preferential market for the Colonies in the Empire, and for the Empire in the Colonies; secondly to attempt by international agreements to get a balance between production and consumption and so to raise the price level of the primary products; thirdly, to get efficient production and efficient marketing and to make the best use of the research going on all the time, and, lastly, to have what I may call an adequate intelligent system, so that the experience which you get in one Colony may be put at the disposal of the others and so that every Colony may have a proper appreciation of the trend of prices of production and the possibility of markets, data which no Colony can get for itself, which can only be got by close and constant contact at the centre with those who are best qualified to judge not only of the present posi-. tion but of future demands.
We have tried in these last two and a half years to make that Policy, in its fourfold aspect, as complete as we can.
Firs t of al l , Preference. Unt i l this Parliament, Preference was only given over a very limited range of products. The United Kingdom to certain extent had followed suit in the adoption of a policy which I think we in this country ought never to forget, had been introduced in the past by the Colonies of their own free-will for the benefit of Br i t i sh goods. Fortunately we found ourselves in the
position of being given a free hand to deal with any matter here. I found no difficulty in persuading my colleagues that, not only in the interests of the Colonies, but also in the interests of this country to whom their trade is so valuable, and which in the last resort has got to foot the bi l l i f there is a deficit, it is not only good sentiment but good common sense and good business to extend the policy of Preference, as was done by the first Finance Act which M r . Neville Chamberlain introduced.
The first Finance A c t gave us in the Colonies a wide range of preference for the great majority of our products, and that was the first step. But at that time hardly any part of the rest of the E m pire was giving a general preference to the Colonies. Canada had a Canadian-West Indian Agreement; New Zealand, I think, gave some preferences; Austra l ian had, I think, one very l imited transaction wi th F i j i , but that was all and there was no idea of the principle: indeed I do not think it had ever been proposed that you should make your preference to and from the Calories Empire-wide. That was the job I had to do at Ottawa. The result of the Ottawa Conference has been that—apart from a number of special Agreements which I was able to negotiate and which are of considerable value, L hope, to particular Colonies and Dominions—we established for al l the Dominions and for India the Principle that Colonial preferences should be given by the whole of the Dominions and India given, not only to those Colonies which could reciprocate, but equally to Colonies which were debarred by treaty from giving a preference and to the mandated Territories as well. I think that really was great advance, and we could never have got that done except at an Imperial Economic Conference; and we could never have got i t done unless someone—obviously the Secretary of State was in a position to negotiate for the Colonial Empire as a whole. In the helpful atmosphere of an Imperial Conference of that kind you can sweep in a certain amount which you could not get by direct negotiation. More than one of the advantages which I was able to negotiate was got for particular Colonies, not because that Colony had anything to give to the particular Dominion, but because one was often able to say, "You have negotiated wi th the United Kingdom: let us for this purpose bring the Colony into it . They are not able to give you a quid pro quo; don't let us weigh that but let us make it as complete as we can."
We are therefore now in the position that we have got for the Colonies Empire-wide preference: equally we give to the Empire a Colony-wide preference.
What has preference done? Firs t and foremost it has given a sense of security at a time when security of market is everything. It has given security of Market for our principle crops, sugar, tea, cocoa, coffee, tobacco, ground nuts, oil-seeds, timber, fruits and so on. You have got this security of market, and though prices may be bad
for many of these articles, this security helps when you consider the amount of trade involved. Even in those cases—perhaps most of those cases—where competition is keen, we have a market for the Colonies here. We have worked it out with great care. One interesting development was the sugar preference. I do not think it is too much to say that but for the extra" preference which the Chancellor agreed to propose for the Colonies, Colonial sugar, would be in a very bad way to-day.
Originally, when I was introducing that preference I wanted to get an extra 2s. a cwt. I thought that i f one added Is. to the flat rate that would make it approximately equal to the Canadian preference— rather less than Canadian preference with Canadian exchange at par at a premium—and we would get no diversion of trade. We deliberately adopted the certificate system for the other shilling in order that extra advantage should not result in any diversion of trade. It was rather a leap in the dark. The certificate system has, however, worked perfectly. Any Colony which wishes can sell sugar married to a certificate or it sells a certificate to a colony which wants to sell to this country. The certificate preference worked, but the flat rate for the Colonies did not work so well for various reasons, including, among others, the fact that the Canadian refiners did not pass on the whole of the benefit to the sugar seller, as the refiner in England does. Owing to that, among other reasons, the price became more favourable in the United Kingdom, and we found there was a growing diversion of trade. Sugar which would ordinarily have gone to Canada was now coming here. We have now corrected that: the Chancellor has dealt generously wi th it. We have converted the whole of that sugar preference on to the certificate basis, and the sugar Colonies benefit to the extent of £1,080,000 a year, which is not bad. You got security for your principal crop, but you got something more than that, you got an encouragement to establish alternative crops, or to develop them. It is something of a nightmare in a Colony to be dependent almost entirely on a single crop. You may have a hurricane, or the crop may almost fail, or there may be a great slump in price, or there may be overproduction, as in the case of ground-nuts. Therefore, i t is so important to be able to develop an alternative export crop. This preference has given us that facility and we are taking advantage of it.
Of course you find, very often, that what is a principal crop in one Colony is a very useful subsidiary in another. Take for instance, bananas—the great staple in Jamaica. One of the things done in Ottawa was to convert a ten per cent, ad valorem duty into a firm preference of 2s. 6d. a cwt. If the price drops the preference becomes more valuable. It is a business proposition and one tries to handle it in a businesslike way. It is giving Jamaica an effective preference here for a great crop. We are pretty good at eating bananas in this country and there is room for mo*e-than the Jamaica crop. There is now an incentive to Trinidad and other West Indian Colonies to develop a new crop for
which there is a steady export market. Or take oranges which are the principal crop of Palestine. The existence of a preference has now made it profitable to grow this crop in Cyprus. I could go on wi th other examples. You get not only the chance of developing as a second string some well-known crop, you get wholly new opening which, but for preference, no one would have looked for, or indeed thought of. When a manufacturer or merchant in this country knows that i f he is importing a foreign product, he has to pay a substantial duty, he goes out on the hunt of an Empire source of supply. We find that as regards timber in Nigeria. A ten per cent, c.i.f. duty was put on timber. It was a substantial duty and immediately it was put on the timber merchants became very much i n terested in seeing whether they could get what they wanted from Colonial sources, and the result is that we are developing a very good timber trade.
Tannin used to be entirely extracted from foreign bark. A duty free import was wanted here and it was found that wattle was a perfectly good substitute. The result is that the native in Kenya is making about £70,000 a year out of selling wattle. It was merely a scrub bush but has now become a valuable and very useful addition to his income. Pyrethrum from Japan and Albania, fcavender from various places including Germany^ other essential oils from various places, were free from serious competition from Colonial producers. *Now a very useful industry has developed i n essential oils in East Africa, because one of the great Engl ish houses has thought "this is good business." You have a partnership growing up between the farmer and the manufacturing and dealing houses here to get duty free material of a good quality.
These are good examples which show you we have got security for the great basic crops and the smaller subsidiaries. It is plain, I think, that to-day and i n the future the United Kingdom and the Colonies are going to be increasingly important to one another. That is fully realised in the Colonies. They have always given preference, but it has been greatly increased recently, and the last step has been to meet, throughout the Colonial Empire, Japanese competition in textiles by an effective quota system. The readiness wi th which that policy has been accepted in the Colonies shows how much they appreciate the value of the preferences which they are be- • ing given here.
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Catholic Affairs from Far and Near ASIA,
Madras (India).—The Bishops of Nellore and Vizagapatam have written articles, which have been published in the Catholic Leader of Madras, supporting the proposal to establish a fund of one million rupees to be devoted exclusively to missionary work in India. Both Bishops emphasize the importance of Indians taking more interest i n the conversion of their fellow countrymen.
In these diocese there is a mass movement towards the Church, but i t has been necessary to refuse many villages asking for instruction because there has been no means of paying teachers. During the last 15 years the Catholic population of Vizagapatam has increased from 6,000 to 20,000.
d u r i n g the last five years there have been almost 10,000 conversions in the Diocese of Nellore, and at present 5,000 persons are going through the period of instruction and probation before receiving baptism. Sixteen priests have been ordained for the Diocese of Vizagapatam since 1924. (Fides).
* * * * Patna (India).—The number of
non-Christians, Moslem and Hindu, attending the K h r i s t Raja H i g h School at Bett iah, Nor th India, conducted by Jesuit missionaries of the Chicago Province, has doubled during the past year in spite of the fact that the missionaries insist on Catholic instruction for a l l students. The non-Christians, now i n the majori ty, are very favourably disposed towards the Catholic Church. Several of them are known to have baptized dying members of their families after the required instruction, and there is reason to hope that some of them wi l l become Catholics and that all of them wi l l help the missionaries in the difficult task of making conversions in Moslem and Hindu village. (Fides).
* . * * * Patna (India).—A boarding
school for children of Christ ian aborigines maintained by the American Jesuit missionaries at Rajagon, Nor th India, has proved to be an important means for the consolidation of progress made among these people during the last few years. Similar schools w i l l be opened i n other parts of the district inhabited by the aborigines. Promising children wi l l be given a thorough Catholic education so that they may be the leaven for the jungle tribes and castes; some of these children wi l l be catechists of the future, and, very likely, others wi l l be priests and religious. (Fides).
Madras (India).—Sir John A n derson, Governor of Bengal, unveiled a tablet at Calcutta March 30 to the memory of the late M r . B . E . Burge, a Catholic, Distr ict Magistrate of Midnapore, who was shot by terrorists in September 1933. The Governor spoke of the sterling Christ ian character of the murdered magistrate. " I f the spiri t of M r . Burge could give utterance in the midst of this company to-day," he said, "I, who knew him, have little doubt that our ears would catch the echo of the words uttered 2,000 years ago, 'Father forgive them for they know not what they do. " (Fides)
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Hanoi (Indo-China). — Ten bridges and more than 200 miles
of roads have been constructed in the Yunnan Marches, China, near the Tibetan frontier, under the direction of Father George Andre, a priest of the Foreign Missions Society of Paris who has a little mission at Changputong. These highways have helped to bring material prosperity to the district.
On a recent visit to Hanoi, Indo-China, Father Andre brought with him three Tibetans who had never seen railways, aeroplanes, electrical appliances and other modern conveniences. Af ter eight days of sight-seeing which included, among other wonders, a flight over the city of Hanoi, they exclaimed, "Heaven must be like this !"
There is a flourishing Catholic life in many parts of Tonkin, which Father Andre took care to impress upon his companions hoping that they would try to persuade their friends and relatives of the advantages which such life would br ing to their own Tibet. Af te r a journey of three days by railway and 40 days on horseback they reached their home in the mountains of central As ia . (Fides).
* * * * Hanoi (Indo-China). — Eighty
Catholic prisoners and 14 new converts, who are preparing for bapt ism in the prison of Hanoi, made the visits prescribed for gaining the jubilee indulgence in the reception room of the prison recently. There is no chapel in the j a i l , but festoons and garlands of fresh flowers helped to transform the drab walls of the visitors' room into an attractive little chapel.
The prisoners went through the ceremonies under the direction of Father Dronet, a priest of the Foreign Missions Society of Paris, who has been making weekly visits to the prison for the past 35 years. (Fides).
* * * * ?Ibkyo.—A proposal for adopt
ing Kataor iku Shimbuh, a Catholic newspaper printed in Tokyo, as the official organ of Catholics throughout Japan, was-dis-cussed at a meeting of the Japanese Catholic Act ion Committee which was held at Tokyo March 14. This Committee was formed last year by His Exce l lency Archbishop Paul Marella, Apostolic Delegate, and consists of members of the Japanese secular clergy, priests of the Foreign Missions Society of Paris, Jesuit, Franciscan, Dominican and Sale-sian missionaries. The Committee's proposals wi l l be placed before the Bishops of Japan at their next meeting. (Fides).
Osaka (Japan).—A monastry of Trappistine nuns wil l be opened i n May near the city of Himeji , in the Diocese of Osaka, Japan. The Trappistines have been in the Diocese of Hakodate since 1898, and there are at present more than 100 members in the community, offering prayers and sacrifice for the spread of the Church in Japan. Th i r ty nuns wi l l go from Hakodate to the new foundation at Himej i . (Fides).
* P E I P I N G B E N E D I C T I N E N U N S
TO R E M A I N I N C H I N A . Peiping, March 31. — Some
months ago i t was decided for various reasons to turn over the direction of the Gir ls ' Middle School affiliated with the Catholic University of Peking to the Sister Servants of the Holy Ghost, a
congregation of S .V.D. nuns established in 1889 by the founder o f the Society, Father Arnold Jans-sen. Not long ago two Sister Servants from Yenchowfu, Shantung, visited Peiping in order to make preliminary* arrangements for the transfer, which is to take place at the end of the scholastic year in June.
It is now learned that the six American Benedictine Sisters from St. Joseph, Minnesota, who have been in charge of the Girls ' Middle School since its inception three years ago, are to remain in China. Knowing that they were to be recalled to America this summer, H . E . Bishop Tacconi, Vicar Apostolic of Kaifeng, Honan, expressed to their superiors in the U.S . the desire of securing their services for educational work in Kaifeng. A telegram received by the Benedictine Sisters on March 24 from their motherhouse in America announced that the petition had been granted and that the. Sisters were to repair to Kaifeng after the conclusion of the present semester.
This news wil l be received with general satisfaction in China, since, wi th the exception of some German nuns in K i r i n , the Benedictine Sisters of Peiping are the only daughters of the great and ancient family of St. Scholastica in the Celestial Republic. A l l of them have degrees from American universities, one of them an M . A . [Lumen].
Catholic Propaganda Corps Organized in Shantung
Mission.
W i t h the approval of the Mis sion Superior of Weihaiwei, the V e r y Rev. Prosper Durand, O . F . M . , a Chinese priest of Wenteng, Shantung, the Rev. Father Peter L i u , decided to organize an itinerant propaganda corps the better to bring Catholic teaching to the attention of the^people in his dis-trict. He opened a preparatory course for the training of volunteers in the fal l of 1934 and, during the ensuing winter, the group took definite form. Under the leadership of Father L i u himself, a band of 15 persons, comprising catechists and musicians, and taking along a phonograph as well, circulated among the villages of the Wenteng district. Their plan of action was as follows: The district was divided into seven sectors and three days were to be devoted to each sector. In each sector a principal village was chosen as a base, a suitable place to hold meetings was found, and this was decorated for the occasion wi th lanterns and streamers. Lectures on Catholic truths were given here at night. During the day the party, split t ing into smaller groups, visited various villages roundabout, giving talks on Catholic doctrine and distributing pamphlets and, on occasion, some simple remedies for children's ailments.
This unique propaganda group spent more than a month on tour prior to returning to Wenteng. 28 villages with their surrounding territory were covered during the itinerary and everywhere the corps was well received. A t times the number of their auditors came to six or seven hundred persons. [Lumen].
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For city dwellers who do not get their fair share of some of these essentials to good health, Dr. Williams' • Pink Pil ls are the very thing, since; they provide a perfect supplement to. nature's way of building up the blood.
Dr. Williams' Pink Pi l l s are the prescription of a British physician, an M.D. of Edinburgh University, and have helped to restore thousands of I anaemic people to health and strength i| during the past fifty years through their unique ability to increase and enrich the blood.
Activit ies of the Catholic Students at Tokio.—Recently some thir ty students held meetings in the Great Seminary of Tokio to attend a series of lectures on things of the day considered in the Catholic point of view. The Apostolic Delegate, H . E . Mgr. Marella honoured the last meeting by his presence.
Actually, the students of the Catholic Universi ty of Tokyo assist about 1,000 poor families in the slums of Mikawashima.
The members of the Catholic Universi ty Sophia and of the various Societies of St. Vincent de Paul and of St. Elizabeth pay regular visits to poor homes. (Lumen-A.U.C.) .
Shanghai Orphanage Teaches 850 Boys Useful Trades—Shanghai.— F i f ty tons of paper are used an n n A Y ) « ^ * i_ • J L. nually in the-prmting department of the T'ou-se-we Orphanage, Zikawei, near Shanghai. Sixty books in Chinese, yielding a yearly average of 300,000 copies, and 50 European works, approximating 50,000 volumes, are printed here each year. The orphanage is directed by the Jesuits.
The institution was founded in 1849 but closed i n 1860 during the Taiping Rebellion, after the Director, Father Massa, S.J. had been killed. It was opened again in 1864. A t present 650 boys are housed and trained in some useful craft. Besides the printing-shop there is an elementary school, a foundry, a goldsmith's shop, an electro-plating laboratory, a school of carving, a stained-glass factory, a carpentry-shop and a studio for sculptors. (Lumen-Fides).
Catholic Youth Association of fit Jen Universi ty Holds Meeting.
Peiping.—More than fifty members were present at a r>essio i of the Catholic Young Men's Association of the Catholic Universi ty of Peking held March 19. Dr . Joseph Murphy, the Rector of the University, and various clerical and lay professors assisted the meeting.
Among the business transacted was, the election of officers for the year. A President, Vice-President, Secretary, and 8 councillors were chosen. [Lumen] .
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ASIA. (Continued.)
Details of the Torture and Death of Father Stephen Fang of Shensi.
Details of the fate of Rev. Stephen Fang, Chinese priest k id napped by communist bandits last October and murdered in the mountains of northern Shensi, have been received at the F ranciscan mission headquarters at Yennanfu.
On October 15, a band of Communists attacked the priest's house at Chunbu and dragged h im off to their la i r in the mountains, abusing him on the way. He was confined wi th 20 other prisoners and a demand for a heavy ransom wras sent to his superiors. H i s captors meantime tortured h im daily, hanging h im by the arms from an overhead beam and beating h im with whips and cudgels. They in sulted h im and threatened h im with death.
On November 1, thirteen member sof the band, including the chief, were captured. The leader was sentenced to death and the others were imprisoned at Louch-wan. In retaliation the other br i gands shot Father F a n g three days later. H e was 33 years old and had been a priest 10 years. (Lumen-Fides).
Long-Felt Need of Haimen Vicariate Met Through
Char i ty of Fa i thfu l .
A long-cherished desire of Bishop Simon Tsu, V i c a r Apostolic of Haimen, Kiangsu, was recently fulfilled when the first Home for the Aged to be erected in the Vicar ia te was completed at Paochen in the Tsungming District.
The project was realized through the init iative of a prominent Catholic who undertook the solicitation of the necessaryfunds, which wi th the cooperation o f M r . Lo Pa-hong of Shanghai were promptly secured. The inauguration ceremony took place February 24. 40 aged~ women, 20 of them non-Christians, are now being cared for.
The Catholic gentleman in question, M r . Wang Tan-kwei, and M r . L q suggested the possibility of likewise providing a building for aged men. On the day of opening the Women's Home, promises for more than 5,000 dollars were secured, which far surpassed expectations. The Men's Home wi l l thus become a reality soon.
[Lumen].
visitation of the Franciscan Missions, reached Kichow, Hupeh, March 18. Af ter spending several days there, he was to proceed to the larger stations of the Prefecture where others of the Fathers were gathering to meet him. Before returning to Hankow, he wil l visit various missions along the Yangtze. [Lumen].
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Solemn Funeral Rites of Bishop Gendreau, V . Ap . of Hanoi .
Hanoi .—A Solemn Requiem Mass for Bishop Gendreau was celebrated in the Cathedral here on February 9, by Archbishop Col-umban Dreyer, Apostolic Delegate. H . E . M . Robin, Governor-General of French Indo-China assisted at the obsequies and all the bishops of Tonking were present.
In the throng which passed through the chapel where the Bishop lay in state was the leader of the Buddhist bonzes of Tonking. Following the example of the Christians, he sprinkled a few drops of Holy later on the body and lighted two candles which he himself had brought. He left a card for Bishop Chaize, Bishop Gendreau's successor, on which he wrote: " I pray."
Bishop Gendreau died February 6 at the age of 84. He had been a missionary in Indo-China 61 years and was a venerable figure that commanded wide respect and esteem. When he took over the direction of the Vicariate of Hanoi in 1892, he found only three churches in which the Blessed Sacrement could be kept. He left 160 churches to his succesor, not counting those in the daughte*-vicariates separated from Hanoi after his accession. When he was named Vicar Apostolic the Vica r i ate of Hanoi comprised 220,000 Catholics. The same terri tory at the present time counts more than 350,000. [Lumen-Fides].
Tonga.—The " Star of the Sea " is the name of the little homemade sailboat used by the Maris t Missionaries of the Friendly (or Tonga) Islands, i n the southern Pacific Ocean. The boat is an absolute necessity in this part of the Pacific where the priests must minister to little groups of natives scattered here and there on t iny islands which are sometimes at great distances from one another. (Fides.)
* * * * Delegate General of Franciscans in China on Canonical Visi tat ion.
The V e r y Rev. Alphonse Schn-usenberg, O .F .M. , Delegate General for China of the Franciscan Fr ia r s Minor, who has been making a
Rome.—The Very Rev. Adr ian Brocken, who was Superior-General of the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart of Issoudun from 1920 to 1932, died A p r i l 13 at Tilburg, Holland, at the age of 62. The Missionaries of the Sacred Heart were founded in 1855, and the society began missionary work among the islanders of the Pacific Ocean in 1882.- There are at present 2,000 members in the society stationed in Europe, South America, Austral ia. Afr ica , China, Oceania and Netherland East Indies. (Fides.)
A F R I C A .
Rome.—The Superior Councils of the Pontifical Association of the Propagation of the Fa i th and of St. Peter Apostte for the Nat ive Clergy wi l l begin their General Assembly at Rome A p r i l 30. The meetings wil l be held in the Palace of Propaganda and wi l l be opened by His Eminence Cardinal F u -masoni Biondi, Prefect of the Sacred Congregation of Propaganda Fide.
The National Directors of the Pontifical Association from abroad and the members of the Superior Council residing in Rome wi l l attend the sessions which wi l l consist of the reading and discussion of reports for the past year, distribution of subsidies for Catholic missions throughout the world and the formation of a programme for the coming year. (Fides.)
Holland Nun Observes Her Seventieth Year in Religious Order Amsterdam. — Sister Sylvine, of the Congregation of St. Joseph at Rosendaal, has just celebrated the 70th anniversary of her profession as a religious.
Sister Sylvine was born in 1841 and entered the novitiate at Rosendaal in 1863. A t the reception which followed the jubilee Sylvine was congratulated, among others, by the Burgomaster of Rosendaal. (Lumen-NCWCJ7~
Two S .V .D. Ethnologists Return f r o m Study of MamOuti Race in
Afr ica . Bunia (Lake Albert, Belgian
Congo).—The two Aust r ian scientists, Fathers Schebesta and Gusinde, editors of the review Anthropos, who went to the Bel gian Congo in May 1934 to study the pygmies of Ituri, have completed their task and are returning to Europe with a rich store of information about the social condition, native beliefs, language and physical characteristics of the Mam-buti race. The two priests, who are members of the Society of the Divine Word, lived in the forests between Beni and Stanleyville, the most interesting region of Afr ica for the ethnologist. They extended their researches to other races l iving in the vicinity, Bantus, semi-Bantus, Soudanese, and Nilotics.
Working with the priests was M . Jadin, a doctor sent by the Belgian Government to study the diseases peculiar to pygmies in the hope of preserving this race which at the moment tends to decrease.
Father Schebesta has had experience in this line of research, having studied the Semang pygmies in Malaysia. Father Gusinde has made similar studies among the aborigines of Tierra del Fuego.
(Fides).
Brussels.—This summer two congresses of interest to Catholics wi l l be held in this city within a few days of each other and simultaneously with the Brussels World Exhibit ion.
From July 28 to 31, the fifth Catholic International Conference of Social Service wi l l be convened under the auspices of the International Catholic Social Service Union. The Congress wi l l meet under the honorary presidency of H .Em. Joseph Cardinal V a n Roey, Archbishop of Malines and Primate of Belgium.
A s soon as the Social Service Conference closes, the International Congress on Family Education will begin and will continue until August 4. This Congress will be held under the patronage of the Belgian Government and representatives of outstanding Catholic institutions wi l l participate in the program. [Lumen N C W C ]
London.—Catholics of India wil l celebrate the King's Jubilee May 6 when in al l the Cathedrals of the Empire a Solemn High Mass wi l l be sung and special prayers wi l l be offered for the K i n g and the Royal Family. (Fides).
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The organizer of the pilgrimage, Abee Bergey, president of the League of Ex-service Priests, has just visited Lourdes to confer on arrangements for the new pi l grimage wi th the Most Rev. Pierre Gerlier, Bishop of Tarbes-et-Lourdes, who is also a veteran of the World War . (Lumen-NCWC).
^An Information Bureau for Gardening Missioners.
A n information bureau for missionaries wi th vegetable and flower gardens is announced by the Ca tholic Agricul tural School, Heeren-straas, 22, Wageningen, Holland.
Directions for the cultivation of European plants in the tropics, the manner of curing plant d i s eases, and the cultivation of indigenous products are a l l explained gratis. There is also a fund set aside to assist missionaries in buying seeds, fertilizer and remedies. Young missionaries are offered a short course on the elements of horticulture and the principles of cultivating native flora. [Lumen-C B ] .
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Catholic Affairs from Far and Near ASIA,
Madras (India).—The Bishops of Nellore and Vizagapatam have written articles, which have been published in the Catholic Leader of Madras, supporting the proposal to establish a fund of one million rupees to be devoted exclusively to missionary work in India. Both Bishops emphasize the importance of Indians taking more interest i n the conversion of their fellow countrymen.
In these diocese there is a mass movement towards the Church, but i t has been necessary to refuse many villages asking for instruction because there has been no means of paying teachers. During the last 15 years the Catholic population of Vizagapatam has increased from 6,000 to 20,000.
d u r i n g the last five years there have been almost 10,000 conversions in the Diocese of Nellore, and at present 5,000 persons are going through the period of instruction and probation before receiving baptism. Sixteen priests have been ordained for the Diocese of Vizagapatam since 1924. (Fides).
* * * * Patna (India).—The number of
non-Christians, Moslem and Hindu, attending the K h r i s t Raja H i g h School at Bett iah, Nor th India, conducted by Jesuit missionaries of the Chicago Province, has doubled during the past year in spite of the fact that the missionaries insist on Catholic instruction for a l l students. The non-Christians, now i n the majori ty, are very favourably disposed towards the Catholic Church. Several of them are known to have baptized dying members of their families after the required instruction, and there is reason to hope that some of them wi l l become Catholics and that all of them wi l l help the missionaries in the difficult task of making conversions in Moslem and Hindu village. (Fides).
* . * * * Patna (India).—A boarding
school for children of Christ ian aborigines maintained by the American Jesuit missionaries at Rajagon, Nor th India, has proved to be an important means for the consolidation of progress made among these people during the last few years. Similar schools w i l l be opened i n other parts of the district inhabited by the aborigines. Promising children wi l l be given a thorough Catholic education so that they may be the leaven for the jungle tribes and castes; some of these children wi l l be catechists of the future, and, very likely, others wi l l be priests and religious. (Fides).
Madras (India).—Sir John A n derson, Governor of Bengal, unveiled a tablet at Calcutta March 30 to the memory of the late M r . B . E . Burge, a Catholic, Distr ict Magistrate of Midnapore, who was shot by terrorists in September 1933. The Governor spoke of the sterling Christ ian character of the murdered magistrate. " I f the spiri t of M r . Burge could give utterance in the midst of this company to-day," he said, "I, who knew him, have little doubt that our ears would catch the echo of the words uttered 2,000 years ago, 'Father forgive them for they know not what they do. " (Fides)
* * •
Hanoi (Indo-China). — Ten bridges and more than 200 miles
of roads have been constructed in the Yunnan Marches, China, near the Tibetan frontier, under the direction of Father George Andre, a priest of the Foreign Missions Society of Paris who has a little mission at Changputong. These highways have helped to bring material prosperity to the district.
On a recent visit to Hanoi, Indo-China, Father Andre brought with him three Tibetans who had never seen railways, aeroplanes, electrical appliances and other modern conveniences. Af ter eight days of sight-seeing which included, among other wonders, a flight over the city of Hanoi, they exclaimed, "Heaven must be like this !"
There is a flourishing Catholic life in many parts of Tonkin, which Father Andre took care to impress upon his companions hoping that they would try to persuade their friends and relatives of the advantages which such life would br ing to their own Tibet. Af te r a journey of three days by railway and 40 days on horseback they reached their home in the mountains of central As ia . (Fides).
* * * * Hanoi (Indo-China). — Eighty
Catholic prisoners and 14 new converts, who are preparing for bapt ism in the prison of Hanoi, made the visits prescribed for gaining the jubilee indulgence in the reception room of the prison recently. There is no chapel in the j a i l , but festoons and garlands of fresh flowers helped to transform the drab walls of the visitors' room into an attractive little chapel.
The prisoners went through the ceremonies under the direction of Father Dronet, a priest of the Foreign Missions Society of Paris, who has been making weekly visits to the prison for the past 35 years. (Fides).
* * * * ?Ibkyo.—A proposal for adopt
ing Kataor iku Shimbuh, a Catholic newspaper printed in Tokyo, as the official organ of Catholics throughout Japan, was-dis-cussed at a meeting of the Japanese Catholic Act ion Committee which was held at Tokyo March 14. This Committee was formed last year by His Exce l lency Archbishop Paul Marella, Apostolic Delegate, and consists of members of the Japanese secular clergy, priests of the Foreign Missions Society of Paris, Jesuit, Franciscan, Dominican and Sale-sian missionaries. The Committee's proposals wi l l be placed before the Bishops of Japan at their next meeting. (Fides).
Osaka (Japan).—A monastry of Trappistine nuns wil l be opened i n May near the city of Himeji , in the Diocese of Osaka, Japan. The Trappistines have been in the Diocese of Hakodate since 1898, and there are at present more than 100 members in the community, offering prayers and sacrifice for the spread of the Church in Japan. Th i r ty nuns wi l l go from Hakodate to the new foundation at Himej i . (Fides).
* P E I P I N G B E N E D I C T I N E N U N S
TO R E M A I N I N C H I N A . Peiping, March 31. — Some
months ago i t was decided for various reasons to turn over the direction of the Gir ls ' Middle School affiliated with the Catholic University of Peking to the Sister Servants of the Holy Ghost, a
congregation of S .V.D. nuns established in 1889 by the founder o f the Society, Father Arnold Jans-sen. Not long ago two Sister Servants from Yenchowfu, Shantung, visited Peiping in order to make preliminary* arrangements for the transfer, which is to take place at the end of the scholastic year in June.
It is now learned that the six American Benedictine Sisters from St. Joseph, Minnesota, who have been in charge of the Girls ' Middle School since its inception three years ago, are to remain in China. Knowing that they were to be recalled to America this summer, H . E . Bishop Tacconi, Vicar Apostolic of Kaifeng, Honan, expressed to their superiors in the U.S . the desire of securing their services for educational work in Kaifeng. A telegram received by the Benedictine Sisters on March 24 from their motherhouse in America announced that the petition had been granted and that the. Sisters were to repair to Kaifeng after the conclusion of the present semester.
This news wil l be received with general satisfaction in China, since, wi th the exception of some German nuns in K i r i n , the Benedictine Sisters of Peiping are the only daughters of the great and ancient family of St. Scholastica in the Celestial Republic. A l l of them have degrees from American universities, one of them an M . A . [Lumen].
Catholic Propaganda Corps Organized in Shantung
Mission.
W i t h the approval of the Mis sion Superior of Weihaiwei, the V e r y Rev. Prosper Durand, O . F . M . , a Chinese priest of Wenteng, Shantung, the Rev. Father Peter L i u , decided to organize an itinerant propaganda corps the better to bring Catholic teaching to the attention of the^people in his dis-trict. He opened a preparatory course for the training of volunteers in the fal l of 1934 and, during the ensuing winter, the group took definite form. Under the leadership of Father L i u himself, a band of 15 persons, comprising catechists and musicians, and taking along a phonograph as well, circulated among the villages of the Wenteng district. Their plan of action was as follows: The district was divided into seven sectors and three days were to be devoted to each sector. In each sector a principal village was chosen as a base, a suitable place to hold meetings was found, and this was decorated for the occasion wi th lanterns and streamers. Lectures on Catholic truths were given here at night. During the day the party, split t ing into smaller groups, visited various villages roundabout, giving talks on Catholic doctrine and distributing pamphlets and, on occasion, some simple remedies for children's ailments.
This unique propaganda group spent more than a month on tour prior to returning to Wenteng. 28 villages with their surrounding territory were covered during the itinerary and everywhere the corps was well received. A t times the number of their auditors came to six or seven hundred persons. [Lumen].
Health For All Through
Dr . Wi l l iams ' P ink Pil ls .
Sound, robust health depends upon a pure plentiful supply of blood flowing through the veins. What makes blood? Good food, sunshine and fresh air, cleanliness, regular exercise, sufficient sleep; these are some of the more important factors.
For city dwellers who do not get their fair share of some of these essentials to good health, Dr. Williams' • Pink Pil ls are the very thing, since; they provide a perfect supplement to. nature's way of building up the blood.
Dr. Williams' Pink Pi l l s are the prescription of a British physician, an M.D. of Edinburgh University, and have helped to restore thousands of I anaemic people to health and strength i| during the past fifty years through their unique ability to increase and enrich the blood.
Activit ies of the Catholic Students at Tokio.—Recently some thir ty students held meetings in the Great Seminary of Tokio to attend a series of lectures on things of the day considered in the Catholic point of view. The Apostolic Delegate, H . E . Mgr. Marella honoured the last meeting by his presence.
Actually, the students of the Catholic Universi ty of Tokyo assist about 1,000 poor families in the slums of Mikawashima.
The members of the Catholic Universi ty Sophia and of the various Societies of St. Vincent de Paul and of St. Elizabeth pay regular visits to poor homes. (Lumen-A.U.C.) .
Shanghai Orphanage Teaches 850 Boys Useful Trades—Shanghai.— F i f ty tons of paper are used an n n A Y ) « ^ * i_ • J L. nually in the-prmting department of the T'ou-se-we Orphanage, Zikawei, near Shanghai. Sixty books in Chinese, yielding a yearly average of 300,000 copies, and 50 European works, approximating 50,000 volumes, are printed here each year. The orphanage is directed by the Jesuits.
The institution was founded in 1849 but closed i n 1860 during the Taiping Rebellion, after the Director, Father Massa, S.J. had been killed. It was opened again in 1864. A t present 650 boys are housed and trained in some useful craft. Besides the printing-shop there is an elementary school, a foundry, a goldsmith's shop, an electro-plating laboratory, a school of carving, a stained-glass factory, a carpentry-shop and a studio for sculptors. (Lumen-Fides).
Catholic Youth Association of fit Jen Universi ty Holds Meeting.
Peiping.—More than fifty members were present at a r>essio i of the Catholic Young Men's Association of the Catholic Universi ty of Peking held March 19. Dr . Joseph Murphy, the Rector of the University, and various clerical and lay professors assisted the meeting.
Among the business transacted was, the election of officers for the year. A President, Vice-President, Secretary, and 8 councillors were chosen. [Lumen] .
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C a t h o l i c A f f a i r s . E U R O P E .
ASIA. (Continued.)
Details of the Torture and Death of Father Stephen Fang of Shensi.
Details of the fate of Rev. Stephen Fang, Chinese priest k id napped by communist bandits last October and murdered in the mountains of northern Shensi, have been received at the F ranciscan mission headquarters at Yennanfu.
On October 15, a band of Communists attacked the priest's house at Chunbu and dragged h im off to their la i r in the mountains, abusing him on the way. He was confined wi th 20 other prisoners and a demand for a heavy ransom wras sent to his superiors. H i s captors meantime tortured h im daily, hanging h im by the arms from an overhead beam and beating h im with whips and cudgels. They in sulted h im and threatened h im with death.
On November 1, thirteen member sof the band, including the chief, were captured. The leader was sentenced to death and the others were imprisoned at Louch-wan. In retaliation the other br i gands shot Father F a n g three days later. H e was 33 years old and had been a priest 10 years. (Lumen-Fides).
Long-Felt Need of Haimen Vicariate Met Through
Char i ty of Fa i thfu l .
A long-cherished desire of Bishop Simon Tsu, V i c a r Apostolic of Haimen, Kiangsu, was recently fulfilled when the first Home for the Aged to be erected in the Vicar ia te was completed at Paochen in the Tsungming District.
The project was realized through the init iative of a prominent Catholic who undertook the solicitation of the necessaryfunds, which wi th the cooperation o f M r . Lo Pa-hong of Shanghai were promptly secured. The inauguration ceremony took place February 24. 40 aged~ women, 20 of them non-Christians, are now being cared for.
The Catholic gentleman in question, M r . Wang Tan-kwei, and M r . L q suggested the possibility of likewise providing a building for aged men. On the day of opening the Women's Home, promises for more than 5,000 dollars were secured, which far surpassed expectations. The Men's Home wi l l thus become a reality soon.
[Lumen].
visitation of the Franciscan Missions, reached Kichow, Hupeh, March 18. Af ter spending several days there, he was to proceed to the larger stations of the Prefecture where others of the Fathers were gathering to meet him. Before returning to Hankow, he wil l visit various missions along the Yangtze. [Lumen].
* * * *
Solemn Funeral Rites of Bishop Gendreau, V . Ap . of Hanoi .
Hanoi .—A Solemn Requiem Mass for Bishop Gendreau was celebrated in the Cathedral here on February 9, by Archbishop Col-umban Dreyer, Apostolic Delegate. H . E . M . Robin, Governor-General of French Indo-China assisted at the obsequies and all the bishops of Tonking were present.
In the throng which passed through the chapel where the Bishop lay in state was the leader of the Buddhist bonzes of Tonking. Following the example of the Christians, he sprinkled a few drops of Holy later on the body and lighted two candles which he himself had brought. He left a card for Bishop Chaize, Bishop Gendreau's successor, on which he wrote: " I pray."
Bishop Gendreau died February 6 at the age of 84. He had been a missionary in Indo-China 61 years and was a venerable figure that commanded wide respect and esteem. When he took over the direction of the Vicariate of Hanoi in 1892, he found only three churches in which the Blessed Sacrement could be kept. He left 160 churches to his succesor, not counting those in the daughte*-vicariates separated from Hanoi after his accession. When he was named Vicar Apostolic the Vica r i ate of Hanoi comprised 220,000 Catholics. The same terri tory at the present time counts more than 350,000. [Lumen-Fides].
Tonga.—The " Star of the Sea " is the name of the little homemade sailboat used by the Maris t Missionaries of the Friendly (or Tonga) Islands, i n the southern Pacific Ocean. The boat is an absolute necessity in this part of the Pacific where the priests must minister to little groups of natives scattered here and there on t iny islands which are sometimes at great distances from one another. (Fides.)
* * * * Delegate General of Franciscans in China on Canonical Visi tat ion.
The V e r y Rev. Alphonse Schn-usenberg, O .F .M. , Delegate General for China of the Franciscan Fr ia r s Minor, who has been making a
Rome.—The Very Rev. Adr ian Brocken, who was Superior-General of the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart of Issoudun from 1920 to 1932, died A p r i l 13 at Tilburg, Holland, at the age of 62. The Missionaries of the Sacred Heart were founded in 1855, and the society began missionary work among the islanders of the Pacific Ocean in 1882.- There are at present 2,000 members in the society stationed in Europe, South America, Austral ia. Afr ica , China, Oceania and Netherland East Indies. (Fides.)
A F R I C A .
Rome.—The Superior Councils of the Pontifical Association of the Propagation of the Fa i th and of St. Peter Apostte for the Nat ive Clergy wi l l begin their General Assembly at Rome A p r i l 30. The meetings wil l be held in the Palace of Propaganda and wi l l be opened by His Eminence Cardinal F u -masoni Biondi, Prefect of the Sacred Congregation of Propaganda Fide.
The National Directors of the Pontifical Association from abroad and the members of the Superior Council residing in Rome wi l l attend the sessions which wi l l consist of the reading and discussion of reports for the past year, distribution of subsidies for Catholic missions throughout the world and the formation of a programme for the coming year. (Fides.)
Holland Nun Observes Her Seventieth Year in Religious Order Amsterdam. — Sister Sylvine, of the Congregation of St. Joseph at Rosendaal, has just celebrated the 70th anniversary of her profession as a religious.
Sister Sylvine was born in 1841 and entered the novitiate at Rosendaal in 1863. A t the reception which followed the jubilee Sylvine was congratulated, among others, by the Burgomaster of Rosendaal. (Lumen-NCWCJ7~
Two S .V .D. Ethnologists Return f r o m Study of MamOuti Race in
Afr ica . Bunia (Lake Albert, Belgian
Congo).—The two Aust r ian scientists, Fathers Schebesta and Gusinde, editors of the review Anthropos, who went to the Bel gian Congo in May 1934 to study the pygmies of Ituri, have completed their task and are returning to Europe with a rich store of information about the social condition, native beliefs, language and physical characteristics of the Mam-buti race. The two priests, who are members of the Society of the Divine Word, lived in the forests between Beni and Stanleyville, the most interesting region of Afr ica for the ethnologist. They extended their researches to other races l iving in the vicinity, Bantus, semi-Bantus, Soudanese, and Nilotics.
Working with the priests was M . Jadin, a doctor sent by the Belgian Government to study the diseases peculiar to pygmies in the hope of preserving this race which at the moment tends to decrease.
Father Schebesta has had experience in this line of research, having studied the Semang pygmies in Malaysia. Father Gusinde has made similar studies among the aborigines of Tierra del Fuego.
(Fides).
Brussels.—This summer two congresses of interest to Catholics wi l l be held in this city within a few days of each other and simultaneously with the Brussels World Exhibit ion.
From July 28 to 31, the fifth Catholic International Conference of Social Service wi l l be convened under the auspices of the International Catholic Social Service Union. The Congress wi l l meet under the honorary presidency of H .Em. Joseph Cardinal V a n Roey, Archbishop of Malines and Primate of Belgium.
A s soon as the Social Service Conference closes, the International Congress on Family Education will begin and will continue until August 4. This Congress will be held under the patronage of the Belgian Government and representatives of outstanding Catholic institutions wi l l participate in the program. [Lumen N C W C ]
London.—Catholics of India wil l celebrate the King's Jubilee May 6 when in al l the Cathedrals of the Empire a Solemn High Mass wi l l be sung and special prayers wi l l be offered for the K i n g and the Royal Family. (Fides).
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Veterans Plan 1936 Pilgrimage to Lourdes—Paris.—The war veteran's pilgrimage to Lourdes, which last September assembled 60,000 soldiers of many countries at the famous shrine, is to be repeated in 1936. The object of the pilgrimage is to pray for peace.
The organizer of the pilgrimage, Abee Bergey, president of the League of Ex-service Priests, has just visited Lourdes to confer on arrangements for the new pi l grimage wi th the Most Rev. Pierre Gerlier, Bishop of Tarbes-et-Lourdes, who is also a veteran of the World War . (Lumen-NCWC).
^An Information Bureau for Gardening Missioners.
A n information bureau for missionaries wi th vegetable and flower gardens is announced by the Ca tholic Agricul tural School, Heeren-straas, 22, Wageningen, Holland.
Directions for the cultivation of European plants in the tropics, the manner of curing plant d i s eases, and the cultivation of indigenous products are a l l explained gratis. There is also a fund set aside to assist missionaries in buying seeds, fertilizer and remedies. Young missionaries are offered a short course on the elements of horticulture and the principles of cultivating native flora. [Lumen-C B ] .
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SPORTS NOTES C A T H O L I C S I N S P O R T ,
C R I C K E T .
F . Chopard, opening batsman and wicket keeper of the Nondescripts Cricket Club who is also the club's most consistent batsman performed well behind the stumps against the S.C.C. last Saturday. On Sunday against the Indians he made an unbeaten 42 rus. He is a wicket keeper—batsman who could be given a t r ia l .
* * * * Carlo Pereira, the nondescripts
cricket skipper took 7 wickets for 29 runs against the S.C.C. on Saturday and 7 for 40 against the Indians on Sunday.
* * * * Maurice Valberg, Cricket Captain
of Raffles Institution this season. G. Tessensohn, and R . Milne of the S.R.C. were the most successful batsmen against the S.C.C. on Saturday on the Padang.
* * • * Agains t the Johore Cricket
Club on Sunday D . D'Cot ta (27), H . N . Balhetchet (18), N . Sullivan (20), and G. Valberg (48) helped the S.R.C. to amass the huge total of 202 runs.
F o r Johore young Barthelot scored 44.
Sull ivan (2 for 20) and Balhetchet (2 for 15) were among the bowling successes.
* * * * S O C C E R .
When the S .C .F .A . met the Malays i n a League fixture at A n son Road on Saturday John Then and Ch ia K e n g Hock turned out for the former side who won by 6 goals to 2. Then has not fully recovered from his ankle trouble but played quite a sound game. Chia K e n g Hock, in spite of a bad cough and two head wounds, notched two very bri l l iant goals.
In this game one noticed the referee taking far too much advice from the line judges. The crowd
TrTthe pavilion nearer the sea did misbehave itself by shouting in abusive language at players and officials. There is certainly a more decent method of barracking.
BOXING.
In the Amateur Boxing Tournament held at the New World last Saturday night Det de Cruz defeated L . A . C. Lashbrook in the Bantam weight class. M . Bruyns registered a T. K . 0 . against A . Sanny.
It may interest Catholics to know that the great majority of the world's best boxers are Catholics ! In Singapore too Catholics are among the most successful pugilists.
Our Mistake. One of the experiences that is
probably common to most of us is to look back over a period of five or ten years and wonder how we could have been so foolish as to do things and say things on certain occasions which we too keenly remember. To-day, as we recall the circumstances, we bitterly reproach ourselves that we could have been so fatuous and shortsighted.
But probably five or ten years hence we shall look back upon these periods with much the same feeling. We are going to continue to do foolish things to the end of the chapter. B y divine grace one may largely overcome tendencies, but there seems to be no help for unwisdom and poor judgment and inability to adjust one's self to circumstances but the bitter discipline of experience.
There is one ray of light, however, upon this course of reflection, and that is the fact that our recognition of mistakes in the past is the best sort of reason for believing that we are improving. Yes, we have our eyes opened to some things, and though we shall probably make mistakes in the future just as in the past, they wi l l not be the same ones.
A n d then, too, we should not blame ourselves too severely for these errors. In the nature of the case there were times when we made these mistakes that we could not know as we know now. The man who is standing on the mountain top and sees the path winding up should be charitable to the man down in the valley who is losing his way in the thickets.
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A GOOD C O N S C I E N C E .
There is no happier condition in life than that which is blessed with a good conscience. It is much much better to be honest than knavish, to be clean and pure of heart than a lover of the obscene and vile, to practise sobriety and temperance in al l things than to be gluttonous and intemperate. In the calm and sweetness of a good conscience the trials of life become light, for the virtue of patience renders the burden easy.
The good Christ ian endures his labours, crosses, trials and sufferings because he sees and hears God, when his wi l l chastens him. There is joy and blessing in a good conscience, in obeying its dictates, which sanctifies our lot i n life, which keeps us ever i n communion with God, and gives us strength and courage in the end, when the hour of our great tr ial comes. The lesson of our daily lives should always be to be faithful to conscience in al l things, no matter how small and t r iv ia l they may be. Then peace and happiness wi l l make a boon which surpasses the possession of every other earthly good.
A R E A S O N A B L E D E V O T I O N . The devotion to the Mother of
God is just as strong, beautiful and attractive as it was in the old days. W h y should not this devotion increase in volume, in strength, as the years roll on? If you seek the origin of this devotion you must go back to the infant Church. The outside world ridicules i t more or less, but in these days its attitude towards the
-Mother of God is changing. Everywhere, even in Europe, -this devotion is attracting attention.
Can anything be more reasonable than devotion to the Mother of God ? Do away wi th the Mother of Christ and you do away with Christ . The love, respect and veneration down deep in our hearts for our mothers, time and place shall not eradicate. Hence, i f we truly love Christ , why should we not love H i s Mother? I f from her He assumed human nature, is i t not reasonable that we should love and honour her, whom He so loved and honoured? We love, respect and venerate the Mother of Christ. We love, worship and adore Christ. —Rev. Joseph F . Delaney.
Markss " T h a t new member seems pretty green for a man who claims to be a college graduate/' Pa rks : * Probably i t was an agricultural college."
M A L A Y A CATHOLIC L E A D E R , SATURDAY, MAY 4th, 1935. 17
Silver Jubilee Of The Reign Of
King George V . (Contd: from page 5.)
Post-War Events. The return o l peace brought
normal activities o i court lue. boon alter tne Armist ice m iy±8, tne K i n g and Queen on successive aays maae popular progress tniough cutterent quarters in London meeting wi th spiendid ovations wnerever tney went. On Nov. 12, li)l8 Their Majesties' attended a thanksgiving service at St. Paul's. On Dec. 27 a banquet was given i n honour of President Wilson at Buckingham Palace, where he and Mrs. Wilson were staying with the King and Queen.
On Jtfne 22, 1921, the K i n g and Queen visited Belfast, where his Majesty inaugurated the new parliament of Northern Ireland. The King in his speech on that occasion, made a touching appeal to all Irishmen to pause and stretch out the hand of forbearance, to forgive and forget and to make for the land they loved a new era of peace, contentment and good-will. The K i n g was greatly gratified when an agreement was at last reached with Irish Free State.
On February 28, 1922 the King 's only daughter Princess Mary , was married in Westminster Abbey to Viscount Lascelles, eldest son of the Ear l of Harewood. The K i n g and Queen paid a state visit to Belgium on May 8. Af ter the visit to Brussels the K i n g made a pilgrimage to the cemeteries in France and Belgium.
On A p r i l 26, 1923 the Duke of York was married to Lady E l i za beth Bowes-Lyon, fourth daughter of the E a r l of Strathmore and Kingrhorne. On M a y 5, Their Majesties made a state visit to the TCing and Queen of Italy, remaining in Rome for some days. They were received by the Pope at the Vatican on May 9. and on May 12 the K i n g visited MonteccMo to inspect the graves of Br i t i sh soldiers, who had fallen in Italy.
Recent Events and Prospect. The outstanding event of 1924
was the opening by the K i n g on Apr i l 23 of the Br i t i sh Empire Exhibition at Wembley. The King and Queen of Rumania and the K i n g and Queen of Italy made state visits to London in May jmd attended the Br i t i sh Empire E x hibition in company wi th Their Majesties.
The close of 1928 was darkened by the serious illness of the K i n g causing the gravest anxiety for more than two months. H i s Majesty had however reached a convalescent stage by the grace of G°d. A l l over the Empire his subjects manifested their love and concern by offering prayers and special services in Churches for the speedy recovery of the K i n g .
A cursory review of a reign that replete with multifarious achi
evements of unprecedented success cannot be crowded into a few columns. B y way of conclusion wo may add that the Royal acts and measures towards political franchise, social and religious emancipation of all classes, constitutional responsibility and the expansion of trade and commerce mil mark the twenty five year? of successful rule as a uniaue epoch not only in Engl ish History but in the Annals of the civilised world.
GOD ? A V F T H E K I N G !
T H E E C O N O M I C P O L I C Y O F T H E C O L O N I A L E M P I R E .
(Contd: from page 13.) The next aspect of our policy
has been to t ry and get agreements to balance production and to raise prices. I believe myself that the cause of the slump in world export trade is due more to the fa l l in the price level of primary products than to anything else. It is due to exchange restrictions and barriers; these things are consequences not causes. People put them on, not for fun, but because they find they have not got the purchasing jpower in their country, and that their exchange wil l be knocked to pieces i f they allow unrestricted buying. That blocks export trade: that is why ships are empty. I suppose fifty or sixty per cent, of the manufactured goods are in normal times taken by the primary producer. If he is making no money he cannot of course, buy, and our export trade contracts, and we get these restrictions. If we could only get the level of the primary commodities to a fa i r price it would do more than anything to restore export trade, and that is why I have consistently preached, this doctrine— at first to sceptical people, but now to very wi l l ing ears. Indeed, the one thing on which the World Economic Conference agreed was that in difficult times we have got to t ry and get this balanced production, and to my surprise and modest gratification, I found seven commandments, which I had tentatively laid down i n a speech opening the discussion, accepted by the Conference in a resolution as commandments which ought certainly to be carried out.
Of course, it is no use having a scheme which does not cover enough ground: you must cover all the areas of production. The Stevenson Rubber Scheme failed because it left out one of the greatest producers in the world whose production expanded exactly in proportion as ours contracted. You must have everybody i n ; everybody must be broadly agreeable to the proposal; and it must be administratively practicable and elastic, so that your restriction scheme, or control scheme, can respond rapidly to any increase in market demands. Final ly , you must make it fair to the consumer. I have discussed these agreements with great consuming countries. Provided they were satisfied they were not going to be exploited, they said, they would much rather have a stable price. We have made a certain amount of progress, and I think it wi l l lead to more. (The Br i t i sh Industries).
MO'OI C H I N RESTAURANT
For European and Chinese Foods, Day and Night , under experienced Management, ensuring excellent cuisine, prompt service and moderate charges, opened vrecentlv at No. 420, North Bridge Road. (Corner of Purvis Street) Singapore.
N O W is
Pifjjjjjj
11
is the time to lay the foundation of Baby's future health —on Cow & Gate he will grow to strong and healthy manhood !
Cow & Gate builds bone, flesh and tissue in correct and normal proportions.
It is a complete Food —rich in Vitamin 4
C O W & G A T E M I L K F O O D THE BEST MILK FOR BABIES WHEN NATURAL FEEDING FAILS
Agents for South Malaya, B.N. Borneo & Sarawak: J A C K S O N & CO., L T D . ,
55, Robinson Road, Singapore.
D r . a n d M r s , W i n s t e d t R e t u r n t o E n g l a n d o i > R e t i r e m e n t .
• A Great Loss to Malaya.
The Hon. Dr . R. O. Winstedt C .M.G. , M.C.S. , M . A . D. L i t t . (Oxon) General Adviser to the Government of Johore and erstwhile Director of Education S.S., and F .M.S . , accompanied by Dr . (Mrs.) Winstedt, Lady Medical Officer, Malayan Medical Service left by the Ranpura on Saturday 27th A p r i l on well merited retirement. The Malayan C iv i l Service is al l the poorer by the retirement of a scholar and administrator of rare parts and the public at large by losing a genial and affable gentleman. H . E . Dr . A . Devals, Bishop of Malacca, and Rev. F r . R. Cardon, one of the Councillors of the Royal Asiat ic Society (Malayan Branch) paid a farewell visi t to Dr . Winstedt (President of the Royal Asiat ic Society) and M r s . Winstedt wishing them a very pleasant voyage and 'Godspeed' in their well-earned retire-j y i ^ f in their homeland.
i , i t . K . O. W I N S T E D T , C . M . G . (Block by courtsey of the Straits Times)
His Works and Publications. His publications have won Dr .
Winstedt a prominent place among writers on Malay subjects. One has only to run through the the collection of the Journal of the Royal Asiat ic Society, Singapore, to realize the share taken by h im in furthering our knowledge on things Malay. There are no less than some eighty contributions from his learned and versatile pen relating to Prehistory, Folklore, written Literature, Ethnology, and History of the Malay Peninsula and neighbouring countries.
Nothing has been left untouched, as it were, by this inquisitive
and shrewd mind of al l that is connected wi th the customs, laws, beliefs, religion, arts and crafts and national life of the many coloured people who settled in the Golden Chersonese, and of their commercial and political activities as well.
A s a first contribution to the Journal of the R. A . S., in 1905, Dr . Winstedt gave a translation of "Some Mouse-deer Tales," collected from a Malacca Malay ; today, he closes the series of his works by publishing " A * History of Malaya," the first complete work of its kind.
Intentionally writ ten wi th conciseness, this masterly summary wi l l prove itself an unfailing guide to the historians who, until now, were more or less lost in the labyrinth of complicated episodes and nearly drowned in despair by the regular jumble of dates and names which had made the history of this country a veritable Corsican thicket.
For more documentation one may refer to the series of historical books which, at short intervals were lately published by Dr. Winstedt, the first in date (1932) being " A History of Johore," Arabic and Engl ish texts.
Among the other publications for which we are indebted to Dr . Winstedt, let us mention his well known book "Malaya ," his study on Malay superstitions " Shaman, Saiva and Sufi " and finally, in the Papers on Malay Subjects, his researches on " Literature of Malay Folklore," on " The Circumstances of Malay L i f e , " and on " Life and Customs and Ar t s and Crafts, together with his Engl ish-Malay Dictionary."
Dr. Winstedt leaves behind him, in Malaya, the repute of a highly gifted and hard working man whose name wil l long remain a familiar one to those interested in the Malay annals. His work stands on par with Raffles, " His
t o r y of J a v a " and Marsden's " History of Sumatra," only to quote these two of his most conspicuous precursors.
Those who have had the opportunity of approaching, Dr . Winstedt wi l l readily treasure up the memory of his geniality in their hearts; for this great scholar showed always but kindness in his dealings and readiness to satisfy any enquirer, who had recourse to his wide knowledge.
16 M A L A Y A CATHOLIC L E A D E R , SATURDAY, MAY 4th, 1935.
SPORTS NOTES C A T H O L I C S I N S P O R T ,
C R I C K E T .
F . Chopard, opening batsman and wicket keeper of the Nondescripts Cricket Club who is also the club's most consistent batsman performed well behind the stumps against the S.C.C. last Saturday. On Sunday against the Indians he made an unbeaten 42 rus. He is a wicket keeper—batsman who could be given a t r ia l .
* * * * Carlo Pereira, the nondescripts
cricket skipper took 7 wickets for 29 runs against the S.C.C. on Saturday and 7 for 40 against the Indians on Sunday.
* * * * Maurice Valberg, Cricket Captain
of Raffles Institution this season. G. Tessensohn, and R . Milne of the S.R.C. were the most successful batsmen against the S.C.C. on Saturday on the Padang.
* * • * Agains t the Johore Cricket
Club on Sunday D . D'Cot ta (27), H . N . Balhetchet (18), N . Sullivan (20), and G. Valberg (48) helped the S.R.C. to amass the huge total of 202 runs.
F o r Johore young Barthelot scored 44.
Sull ivan (2 for 20) and Balhetchet (2 for 15) were among the bowling successes.
* * * * S O C C E R .
When the S .C .F .A . met the Malays i n a League fixture at A n son Road on Saturday John Then and Ch ia K e n g Hock turned out for the former side who won by 6 goals to 2. Then has not fully recovered from his ankle trouble but played quite a sound game. Chia K e n g Hock, in spite of a bad cough and two head wounds, notched two very bri l l iant goals.
In this game one noticed the referee taking far too much advice from the line judges. The crowd
TrTthe pavilion nearer the sea did misbehave itself by shouting in abusive language at players and officials. There is certainly a more decent method of barracking.
BOXING.
In the Amateur Boxing Tournament held at the New World last Saturday night Det de Cruz defeated L . A . C. Lashbrook in the Bantam weight class. M . Bruyns registered a T. K . 0 . against A . Sanny.
It may interest Catholics to know that the great majority of the world's best boxers are Catholics ! In Singapore too Catholics are among the most successful pugilists.
Our Mistake. One of the experiences that is
probably common to most of us is to look back over a period of five or ten years and wonder how we could have been so foolish as to do things and say things on certain occasions which we too keenly remember. To-day, as we recall the circumstances, we bitterly reproach ourselves that we could have been so fatuous and shortsighted.
But probably five or ten years hence we shall look back upon these periods with much the same feeling. We are going to continue to do foolish things to the end of the chapter. B y divine grace one may largely overcome tendencies, but there seems to be no help for unwisdom and poor judgment and inability to adjust one's self to circumstances but the bitter discipline of experience.
There is one ray of light, however, upon this course of reflection, and that is the fact that our recognition of mistakes in the past is the best sort of reason for believing that we are improving. Yes, we have our eyes opened to some things, and though we shall probably make mistakes in the future just as in the past, they wi l l not be the same ones.
A n d then, too, we should not blame ourselves too severely for these errors. In the nature of the case there were times when we made these mistakes that we could not know as we know now. The man who is standing on the mountain top and sees the path winding up should be charitable to the man down in the valley who is losing his way in the thickets.
TIGERS SPORT
D I / T R I B U T O R / FOR
T I G E R E R
l l C A V f i UP
Mobiloil R E C O M M E N D E D F O R ALL M O T O R C Y C L E E N G I N E S
S T A N D A R D - V A C U U M O I L C O M P A N Y ( I M C O M P O M A T C O I N U . A . )
SINGAPORE. KOALA LUMPUR P E N A N G
A GOOD C O N S C I E N C E .
There is no happier condition in life than that which is blessed with a good conscience. It is much much better to be honest than knavish, to be clean and pure of heart than a lover of the obscene and vile, to practise sobriety and temperance in al l things than to be gluttonous and intemperate. In the calm and sweetness of a good conscience the trials of life become light, for the virtue of patience renders the burden easy.
The good Christ ian endures his labours, crosses, trials and sufferings because he sees and hears God, when his wi l l chastens him. There is joy and blessing in a good conscience, in obeying its dictates, which sanctifies our lot i n life, which keeps us ever i n communion with God, and gives us strength and courage in the end, when the hour of our great tr ial comes. The lesson of our daily lives should always be to be faithful to conscience in al l things, no matter how small and t r iv ia l they may be. Then peace and happiness wi l l make a boon which surpasses the possession of every other earthly good.
A R E A S O N A B L E D E V O T I O N . The devotion to the Mother of
God is just as strong, beautiful and attractive as it was in the old days. W h y should not this devotion increase in volume, in strength, as the years roll on? If you seek the origin of this devotion you must go back to the infant Church. The outside world ridicules i t more or less, but in these days its attitude towards the
-Mother of God is changing. Everywhere, even in Europe, -this devotion is attracting attention.
Can anything be more reasonable than devotion to the Mother of God ? Do away wi th the Mother of Christ and you do away with Christ . The love, respect and veneration down deep in our hearts for our mothers, time and place shall not eradicate. Hence, i f we truly love Christ , why should we not love H i s Mother? I f from her He assumed human nature, is i t not reasonable that we should love and honour her, whom He so loved and honoured? We love, respect and venerate the Mother of Christ. We love, worship and adore Christ. —Rev. Joseph F . Delaney.
Markss " T h a t new member seems pretty green for a man who claims to be a college graduate/' Pa rks : * Probably i t was an agricultural college."
M A L A Y A CATHOLIC L E A D E R , SATURDAY, MAY 4th, 1935. 17
Silver Jubilee Of The Reign Of
King George V . (Contd: from page 5.)
Post-War Events. The return o l peace brought
normal activities o i court lue. boon alter tne Armist ice m iy±8, tne K i n g and Queen on successive aays maae popular progress tniough cutterent quarters in London meeting wi th spiendid ovations wnerever tney went. On Nov. 12, li)l8 Their Majesties' attended a thanksgiving service at St. Paul's. On Dec. 27 a banquet was given i n honour of President Wilson at Buckingham Palace, where he and Mrs. Wilson were staying with the King and Queen.
On Jtfne 22, 1921, the K i n g and Queen visited Belfast, where his Majesty inaugurated the new parliament of Northern Ireland. The King in his speech on that occasion, made a touching appeal to all Irishmen to pause and stretch out the hand of forbearance, to forgive and forget and to make for the land they loved a new era of peace, contentment and good-will. The K i n g was greatly gratified when an agreement was at last reached with Irish Free State.
On February 28, 1922 the King 's only daughter Princess Mary , was married in Westminster Abbey to Viscount Lascelles, eldest son of the Ear l of Harewood. The K i n g and Queen paid a state visit to Belgium on May 8. Af ter the visit to Brussels the K i n g made a pilgrimage to the cemeteries in France and Belgium.
On A p r i l 26, 1923 the Duke of York was married to Lady E l i za beth Bowes-Lyon, fourth daughter of the E a r l of Strathmore and Kingrhorne. On M a y 5, Their Majesties made a state visit to the TCing and Queen of Italy, remaining in Rome for some days. They were received by the Pope at the Vatican on May 9. and on May 12 the K i n g visited MonteccMo to inspect the graves of Br i t i sh soldiers, who had fallen in Italy.
Recent Events and Prospect. The outstanding event of 1924
was the opening by the K i n g on Apr i l 23 of the Br i t i sh Empire Exhibition at Wembley. The King and Queen of Rumania and the K i n g and Queen of Italy made state visits to London in May jmd attended the Br i t i sh Empire E x hibition in company wi th Their Majesties.
The close of 1928 was darkened by the serious illness of the K i n g causing the gravest anxiety for more than two months. H i s Majesty had however reached a convalescent stage by the grace of G°d. A l l over the Empire his subjects manifested their love and concern by offering prayers and special services in Churches for the speedy recovery of the K i n g .
A cursory review of a reign that replete with multifarious achi
evements of unprecedented success cannot be crowded into a few columns. B y way of conclusion wo may add that the Royal acts and measures towards political franchise, social and religious emancipation of all classes, constitutional responsibility and the expansion of trade and commerce mil mark the twenty five year? of successful rule as a uniaue epoch not only in Engl ish History but in the Annals of the civilised world.
GOD ? A V F T H E K I N G !
T H E E C O N O M I C P O L I C Y O F T H E C O L O N I A L E M P I R E .
(Contd: from page 13.) The next aspect of our policy
has been to t ry and get agreements to balance production and to raise prices. I believe myself that the cause of the slump in world export trade is due more to the fa l l in the price level of primary products than to anything else. It is due to exchange restrictions and barriers; these things are consequences not causes. People put them on, not for fun, but because they find they have not got the purchasing jpower in their country, and that their exchange wil l be knocked to pieces i f they allow unrestricted buying. That blocks export trade: that is why ships are empty. I suppose fifty or sixty per cent, of the manufactured goods are in normal times taken by the primary producer. If he is making no money he cannot of course, buy, and our export trade contracts, and we get these restrictions. If we could only get the level of the primary commodities to a fa i r price it would do more than anything to restore export trade, and that is why I have consistently preached, this doctrine— at first to sceptical people, but now to very wi l l ing ears. Indeed, the one thing on which the World Economic Conference agreed was that in difficult times we have got to t ry and get this balanced production, and to my surprise and modest gratification, I found seven commandments, which I had tentatively laid down i n a speech opening the discussion, accepted by the Conference in a resolution as commandments which ought certainly to be carried out.
Of course, it is no use having a scheme which does not cover enough ground: you must cover all the areas of production. The Stevenson Rubber Scheme failed because it left out one of the greatest producers in the world whose production expanded exactly in proportion as ours contracted. You must have everybody i n ; everybody must be broadly agreeable to the proposal; and it must be administratively practicable and elastic, so that your restriction scheme, or control scheme, can respond rapidly to any increase in market demands. Final ly , you must make it fair to the consumer. I have discussed these agreements with great consuming countries. Provided they were satisfied they were not going to be exploited, they said, they would much rather have a stable price. We have made a certain amount of progress, and I think it wi l l lead to more. (The Br i t i sh Industries).
MO'OI C H I N RESTAURANT
For European and Chinese Foods, Day and Night , under experienced Management, ensuring excellent cuisine, prompt service and moderate charges, opened vrecentlv at No. 420, North Bridge Road. (Corner of Purvis Street) Singapore.
N O W is
Pifjjjjjj
11
is the time to lay the foundation of Baby's future health —on Cow & Gate he will grow to strong and healthy manhood !
Cow & Gate builds bone, flesh and tissue in correct and normal proportions.
It is a complete Food —rich in Vitamin 4
C O W & G A T E M I L K F O O D THE BEST MILK FOR BABIES WHEN NATURAL FEEDING FAILS
Agents for South Malaya, B.N. Borneo & Sarawak: J A C K S O N & CO., L T D . ,
55, Robinson Road, Singapore.
D r . a n d M r s , W i n s t e d t R e t u r n t o E n g l a n d o i > R e t i r e m e n t .
• A Great Loss to Malaya.
The Hon. Dr . R. O. Winstedt C .M.G. , M.C.S. , M . A . D. L i t t . (Oxon) General Adviser to the Government of Johore and erstwhile Director of Education S.S., and F .M.S . , accompanied by Dr . (Mrs.) Winstedt, Lady Medical Officer, Malayan Medical Service left by the Ranpura on Saturday 27th A p r i l on well merited retirement. The Malayan C iv i l Service is al l the poorer by the retirement of a scholar and administrator of rare parts and the public at large by losing a genial and affable gentleman. H . E . Dr . A . Devals, Bishop of Malacca, and Rev. F r . R. Cardon, one of the Councillors of the Royal Asiat ic Society (Malayan Branch) paid a farewell visi t to Dr . Winstedt (President of the Royal Asiat ic Society) and M r s . Winstedt wishing them a very pleasant voyage and 'Godspeed' in their well-earned retire-j y i ^ f in their homeland.
i , i t . K . O. W I N S T E D T , C . M . G . (Block by courtsey of the Straits Times)
His Works and Publications. His publications have won Dr .
Winstedt a prominent place among writers on Malay subjects. One has only to run through the the collection of the Journal of the Royal Asiat ic Society, Singapore, to realize the share taken by h im in furthering our knowledge on things Malay. There are no less than some eighty contributions from his learned and versatile pen relating to Prehistory, Folklore, written Literature, Ethnology, and History of the Malay Peninsula and neighbouring countries.
Nothing has been left untouched, as it were, by this inquisitive
and shrewd mind of al l that is connected wi th the customs, laws, beliefs, religion, arts and crafts and national life of the many coloured people who settled in the Golden Chersonese, and of their commercial and political activities as well.
A s a first contribution to the Journal of the R. A . S., in 1905, Dr . Winstedt gave a translation of "Some Mouse-deer Tales," collected from a Malacca Malay ; today, he closes the series of his works by publishing " A * History of Malaya," the first complete work of its kind.
Intentionally writ ten wi th conciseness, this masterly summary wi l l prove itself an unfailing guide to the historians who, until now, were more or less lost in the labyrinth of complicated episodes and nearly drowned in despair by the regular jumble of dates and names which had made the history of this country a veritable Corsican thicket.
For more documentation one may refer to the series of historical books which, at short intervals were lately published by Dr. Winstedt, the first in date (1932) being " A History of Johore," Arabic and Engl ish texts.
Among the other publications for which we are indebted to Dr . Winstedt, let us mention his well known book "Malaya ," his study on Malay superstitions " Shaman, Saiva and Sufi " and finally, in the Papers on Malay Subjects, his researches on " Literature of Malay Folklore," on " The Circumstances of Malay L i f e , " and on " Life and Customs and Ar t s and Crafts, together with his Engl ish-Malay Dictionary."
Dr. Winstedt leaves behind him, in Malaya, the repute of a highly gifted and hard working man whose name wil l long remain a familiar one to those interested in the Malay annals. His work stands on par with Raffles, " His
t o r y of J a v a " and Marsden's " History of Sumatra," only to quote these two of his most conspicuous precursors.
Those who have had the opportunity of approaching, Dr . Winstedt wi l l readily treasure up the memory of his geniality in their hearts; for this great scholar showed always but kindness in his dealings and readiness to satisfy any enquirer, who had recourse to his wide knowledge.
18 M A L A Y A CATHOLIC L E A D E R , SATURDAY, MAY 4th, 1935.
AROUND THE PARISHES S I N G A P O R E .
C H U R C H O F ST J O S E P H .
Baptisms.
A p r i l 27. George de Paiva, son of Samsofi de Paiva and of Huech Choon, born in Singapore on the 16th December, 1932. God-parents:—Jeronimo Lobo and Mar ia Sibelia.
A p r i l 27. Peter de Paiva, son of Samson de Pa iva and of Hueh Choon, born in Singapore on the 20th February, 1935. God-parents:—Francis Lucas Pinto and Henrietta Pinto.
A p r i l 28. Maurice Edward Roberts, son of John Roberts and of Nancy Rodrigues, born on the 13th A p r i l . God-parents: George Minjoot and Mrs . Irene de Silva.
Marriages. M a y 4. Robert Rodrigues, bache
lor, son of John Buxton Rodrigues and of Rosalina de Silva, to Eve lyn de Silva, Spinster, daughter of Valentine de Si lva and of Caroline Danker.
M a y 11. Charles Abescrombe Marsh, bachelor, son of George Wil l iam Marsh and of Jane Palmer, to Pat r ic ia Josephine Oliveiro, spinster, daughter of Charles Ferdinand Oliveiro and of Josephine Lousie Mon-teiro. Witnesses: Nelson de Silva and Nell ie de Silva.
F O R F R A N C E O N F U R L O U G H ,
The Rt . Rev. P . Ruaudel, Vicar -General, Cathedral of the Good Shepherd, Rev. F r . D . Perrisoud, Vica r , Church of St. John, Kua la Lumpur and Rev. F r . P. Piffaut, Director, College General, Pulo Tikus, Penang left for France on 30 A p r i l on a much needed furlough. We wish them cordially 'Bon Voyage' and 'Godspeed' and earnestly hope that they w i l l return to their respective fields of labour wi th renewed vigour and energy.
* * * * FAREWELL TEA PARTY. T o The R t . Revd. P . Ruaudel, V . G .
If the presence of the large gathering at the S.V.C. D r i l l Ha l l on Monday afternoon were any criterion of his popularity, then the Rt . Revd. Father P. Ruaudel proved himself t ruly popular among his parishioners. F o r on that occasion quite a good many of the parishioners of the Cathedral of the " G o o d Shepherd" attended a Tea Par ty given in his honour on the eve of his departure for Europe on a year's holiday.
Held under the auspices of the Singapore Catholic Club, the Tea Par ty , brought together the no insignificant number of nearly two hundred and fifty people, parishioners alb save for a sprinkling <rf the Catholic clergy. Besides the guest k of honour, there were present of the clergv the Righ t Revd. Dr . A . Devals, Bishop of Malacca, and the Revd. Fathers R . Cardon, D . Perrissoud, N . Dere-dec, J . Sy and R. Dubois. Those of the laitv included the wardens of the Cathedral, officials of the various Catholic organisations and others who come under the category of 'just parishioners.'
Fa ther Ruaudel has held office as parish priest of the Cathedral for no less than two decades, besides being V i c a r General of the See of Malacca for a number of years- N o small wonder then that
he has earned such popularity, for working for such a length of time among his parishioners could have meant only one thing, and that his endearment to them. That he wi l l be missed by therji goes without saying. Yet they can hardly begrudge him the rest he has well merited, especially in his none-too-healthy condition. It is patent to not a few of his parishioners that recently he has been as hard-worked as a priest can be. A t no time was this more evidenced than during the Christmas season, when he had to tackle single-handed on Christmas eve all the work in the confessional, the tediousness of which at such a time none but a priest can quite understand, besides officiating at the Midnight Mass, with His Lordship, the Bishop, indisposed at the time. Without doubt. H i s Lordship has been among the first to realise that Father Ruaudel needed rest and needed it badly, which the all-too-little respite he had had on the Cameron Highlands "barely sufficed to provide. }
To return to the tea party. M r . W. F . Mosbergen as Hon
orary Secretary of the Singapore Catholic Club, after the partaking of tea had been for some time in progress, addressed the gathering, in the course of which he said:
M y Lord, Right Reverend F a ther Ruaudel, Reverend Fathers, Ladies and Gentlemen.
A pleasant duty has fallen to me to say a few words on this occasion.
This Entertainment for Father Ruaudel has been arranged by the Singapore Catholic Club to be held in the Dr i l l Ha l l because the Ha l l affords better accommodation, a;s we were invi t ing all the parishioners.
I have no doubt Father Ruaudel is very pleased wi th the attendance, for a very large number of his parishioners have come to meet him.
ings, for no man could be said to be perfect, but i f in the performance of his duties any of his actions had been taken exception to by any, he remarked that he had not been actuated by any personal feelings but rather did what he thought it was his duty to do. A s parish priest he had an affection for his parishioners, by which he was led to do what he
. could for them and in their interests. Wi th regard to his intended visit to Lourdes, he certainly would pray for each and every one of his parishioners to our Lady when he had occasion to visit that sacred place. He thanked them all for coming that afternoon and hoped to be with them again after his short, yet long, holiday.
M r . Lambert De Souza then called for three cheers for Father Ruaudel which were heartily given.
Father Ruaudel afterwards made it a point of going round to each one present and shaking hands with them all. His Lordship likewise walked around and came into personal contact with those present.
Chinese Catholic Action Society.
Members of the above Society wi l l please note that the usual monthly meeting is to be held at the premises of the Act ion on Sunday 5th May after H i g h Mass.
The General Communion for members wi l l also be held during the Service. Agenda :—
1. To confirm the minutes of the previous meeting.
2. To consider the celebration of the Silver Jubilee of the Sacred Heart Church.
3. General. 4. Refreshment.
F A R E W E L L D I N N E R TO R T . R E V . P . R U A U D E L V . G.
Father Ruaudel has been our Par i sh Priest for 20 years and Vicar-General for many years. In both capacities he has rendered excellent service. He has Worked strenuously for the Church and has taken a lively interest in Catholic organizations of the parish.
I understand from Father Ruaudel that he is going to the Grotto at Lourdes. We would ask him, when he is there, to say a prayer for us, his parishioners.
Ladies and gentlemen, Father Ruaudel will leave us in a dav or two but don't you be sorry. He is going on a holiday and wil l return to us with renewed vigour to work again for us in our parish.
The Rt. Revd. Father Ruaudel then replied, thanking the Honorary Secretary of the Singapore Catholic Club for his remarks. He could not say that he had been taken by surprise for he had known of the affair of the T e a Par ty ' beforehand. It was a matter of much pleasure to him that His Lordship was present, as His Lordship had the welfare of the missionaries at heart and was doing much for them for whicjj they were grateful. WTith regard to what had been said about his rendering excellent service, it was his duty as parish priest to see to the welfare of his parishioners. He had, perhaps his short-ccm-
B y the Wardens and Committee Members of the Cathedral of the
Good Shepherd.
On last Saturday night the Rt . Rev. P . Ruaudel was the guest of honour at a dinner given by the Wardens and Committee Members of the "Good Shepherd" Cathedral. H . E . Bishop Devals and F r s . Deredec and Dubois were also present.
His Lordship in proposing F r . RuaudePs health said that F r . . Ruaudel fully deserved the long leave granted as this was only the second leave taken by him after 35 years hard work in the Missions and he hoped that F r . Ruaudel would return to the East fully refreshed.
M r . L . J . Shepherdson, the senior warden, said that he had been in constant touch with F r . Ruaudel since the Father's arrival in Singapore over 20 years ago in connection wi th the St. Vincent de Paul's Society. F r . Ruaudel took the greatest interest in the Society and evinced the most active svmpathy for the poor. He said that F r . Ruaudel wi l l be re-attach-as the Vicar-General of the Mission spoke for the great wisdom on the part of Bishop Devals as he (the speaker) thought that the mantle could not have fallen on more worthy shoulders. M r . R. Tessensohn spoke of F r . Ruaudel's good qualities and said that F r . Ruaudel was always approachable by all alike and to know him was to love him. M r . Tessensohn also said that the parishioners would be glad to welcome him back to their midst. In fact they pray that F r . Ruaudel wil l be reattached to the "Good Shepherd" on his return from leave.
F r . Ruaudel replied in very feeling terms and thanked all present for the very kind words expressed. K e remarked that he had heard it said that some people thought he was too old for this Parish. He hoped, however, that on his return from leave the ashes would have dispersed and the smouldering fire would burst into flame again.
I N M E M O R I A M . To-day, one month ago Rose
Agnes Reutens breathed her last at the General Hospital at 12.45 a.m. on A p r i l 5th. I love her, I need her; but Almigh ty God called and she had to go. Thy W i l l Be Done. Please pray for the repose of her soul, dear relations and friends.
K L A N G .
O U R L A D Y O F L O U R D E S C H U R C H .
Baptisms.
A p r i l , 28. Edmond, son of Henry A . Pereira and Mary Rose Pereira. God-Parents.—Mr. and Mrs . J . D. Pereira of Kapar Estate, Klang.
A p r i l , 28. Annacloetta, daugter of J . A . Gomez and Jassetha Gomez of Subang Estate, Batu Tiga, Klang. God-Parents.—Miss M a r y Gertrude Gomez, G. J . Gomez of Singapore.
* * * * Annual Picnic.
The dawn of Easter Monday saw the parish priest Rev: E . M . Belet, the members of choir and the altar boys of the Church of Our Lady of Lourdes, Klang, and prominent members of the Catholic Action Society enjoy themselves at the annual picnic at Morib, a seaside health resort.
W i t h the lovely weather that prevailed, the splendid housing accommodation placed at their disposal at His Highness the Sultan of Selangor's bungalow at the seaside—the good fare prepared by M r . Nonis the president of the K l a n g Catholic Act ion Society, and the cash prizes that were given away at the sports organised impromptu by the Rev: E . M . Belet, the picnic were a complete success.
The party returned to Klang at about 9 p.m. after spending an enjoyable day.
C Y M A W A T C H E S
and C H R O N O M E T E R S
acknowledged the B E S T
in al! the Countries.
Agent:
RENE ULLMANN,
S I N G A P O R E .
M A L A Y A CATHOLIC L E A D E R , SATURDAY, MAY 4th, 1935.
A R O U N D THE PARISHES. P E N A N G .
A S S U M P T I O N C H U R C H . Baptism.
Leonard Christopher Peterson, son of Mildred Rosaline and George Aloysius Peterson, of Prai River Dock. God-parents M r . A . L . Rodrigues and Mrs. E . M . Rodrigues. Rev. F r : J . B . Souhait officiated on 28th A p r i l , 1935.
M A R R I A G E S . Two fashionable weddings took
place at the Church of the A s sumption on Easter Monday morning, one at 8 a.m. and another at 9 a.m. Being well-known and popular members of the Eurasian community large gatherings were present at both weddings.
* * * * The first contracting parties
were M r . Frederic E . Peterson, of Kuala Lumpur, and Miss Marie A . Bruyns, elder daughter of the late Mr. Arnold A . and Mrs. G. Bruyns.
Rev. F r . Piffaut, of the College of the "Missions Etrangeres," officiated.
Mr . C. 0. Rodrigues, of Singapore, gave away the bride. M r . L . O. Rodrigues, of Penang, and Mrs. C. O. Rodrigues, of Singapore, were the sponsors.
Miss Doris Bruyns, sister of the bride, acted as bridesmaid. The pages were Master Ave Rodrigues and Miss Gloria Aer ia . The bridegroom was supported by M r . W. Myler as bestman. M r . A . A . de Cruz, the Assistant Choir Master, presided at the organ.
After the ceremony a reception was held at the Elysee Hotel where there was a large gathering of friends. A s the bride's mother is a teacher of the Penang Convent, a good number of Convent girls were present at the wedding.
* * * * The second contracting parties
were M r . Edward Augustus D'Souza, second son of the late M r . Matthew P. D'Souza and Mrs . D'Souza of Singapore, and Miss Dulcie E . de Cruz, second daughter of Dr. and M r s . Edwin de Cruz, of Penang and formerly of Singapore.
Rev. F r . Souhait, the parish Priest, celebrated the wedding ceremony. The bridegroom, who is attached to the Education Office, Singapore, was attended by M r . Stanley D'Souza as bestman. Dr . J . E . Smith and Mrs . Smith were the sponsors.
The bride, who was attended by eight bridesmaids, was given away by her father Dr . de Cruz. Misses Gloria Quintal, lisme and En id Smith and Myr t le de Cruz were the flower girls. M r . Ben de Cruz, the Choir Master, was at the organ.
Following the ceremony a reception was held at the residence of Dr. and Mrs . J . E . Smith, No. 9 Logan Road. Dr . Smith proposed the health of the bride and bridegroom and the latter suitably replied. The health of the bridesmaids was proposed by the bridegroom and M r . S. D'Souza, the bestman, responded.
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In the afternoon another marriage between Miss Adriene M . Reutens, sister-in-law of Dr . da Silva of the General Hospital, and Mr. E i g i l Orla Knudsen, an engineer in the workshop of Messrs. Borneo Motors Ltd . , was celebrated by Rev. F r . Souhait in the Assumption Church.
P E R S O N A L I A . Mr . E . Valberg, the President of
the Catholic Action Society, A s sumption Branch, left Penang with his wife by car for Singapore on Easter Sunday, 21st A p r i l , 1935. A s they are spending their vacation in Singapore for about a month, they wi l l have the opportunity of enjoying the celebrations of H . M . the King 's Silver Jubilee.
M r . H . A . Robless, the Treasurer of the Press Committee, Assumption Branch, left Penang by the P . & 0. mail s.s. "Ranpura" on the 25th A p r i l , 1935, accompanied by his wife. They are visi t ing Singapore to enjoy the celebrations of the Silver Jubilee of H . M . the K i n g and also to recuperate their health.
Obituary. We much regret to announce the
death of Mrs . L i m Teow Chong, a pious and respected lady. The deceased passed away, fortified by the rites of the Church, at her residence in Swettenham Road on Sunday, the 28th Apr i l , after a prolonged illness. She leaves behind her husband, 10 children, 20 grandchildren and a great grandson to mourn her loss.
The Rev. F r . R. Girard conducted the funeral services, which were choral, in the Church of the Holy Rosary and at the Birch Road cemetery.
Chief mourners were her children: Messrs. L i m Hock Hye, L i m Hock Soon, L i m Hock Siang, L i m Hock Guan, L i m Hock Kia t , Mrs . Foo Wha Cheng, Mrs. Loke Ya ik Yeow, Mrs. Lauw Yeo Wee, Mrs . Chin Swee Onn and Miss Rose Mary L i m .
and ended i t on Sunday evening the 14th A p r i l .
On Sunday evening before sermon a group photograph was taken with Father Bull iard as the central figure, immediately after a heavy shower. After sermon the parishioners retreated to the school hall where M r . Dorai Raj garlanded Father Bull iard after which Mr. A r u l on behalf of the parishioners spoke in eloquent Tamil expressing gratitude and thanks for having come all the way from India to preach the words of God to them and in conclusion wished him Bon Voyage. Ke was then presented a purse by M r . Dorai Raj in commemoration of his visit to this parish. Father Bull iard replied suitably and assured that he will always carry with him pleasant memories and after blessing all those who were
QUEEN A T THE CHELSEA. FLOWER S H O W
T H E I R M A J E S T I E S T H E K I N G A N D Q U E E N , photographed at the Chelsea
Flower Show in the Rock Garden Section.
K U A L A L U M P U R M A R R I A G E .
Fi tzpatr ick—Mart in . On Tuesday 23rd A p r i l 1935 at
the Church of St. John the Evangelist, Kuala Lumpur the marr iage was solemnised between Hariette Alexandra, daughter of M r . and Mrs . C. R . Mart in of Kuala Lumpur and Henry Walter Price, son of Mrs . L . Fitzpatrick and the late M r . Fitzpatrick. Rev. F r . D . Perrisoud officiated at the High Mass. Mrs . Fernando and M r . Herbert Daly were the Sponsors, A reception was held at the Masonic Hal l , Damansara Road where a large gathering of friends were present. In a wit ty speech Dr . L . S, Perera proposed the health of the bride and bridegroom to which the bridegroom suitably replied, at the same time proposing the health of the bridesmaid, Miss Mar t in , on whose behalf the bestman M r . J . R. Buxton responded. M r . and Mrs . C. R. Mar t in are very well known Eurasians of Kuala Lumpur, while M r . Fitzpatrick the Bridegroom is the Chairman of the Sports and Socials Committee of the Selangor Eurasian Association.
Among the very large attendance of friends and sympathisers were the Hon'ble M r . L a i Tet Loke, M.F .C . , M.S.C., M r . K o k F a i Y i n , M r . San A h Wing, J .P. , M r . L . Y . Swee, J.P., Dr . N g Bow Huah, Dr. J . S. Goonting, and the grave was covered by a profusion of floral tributes, marking the popularity and esteem in which the deceased was held.
A Requiem High Mass was said for the repose of her soul on Wednesday, 1st May, 1935.
T E L U K A N S O N . Visi t of Rev. F r . Bull iard, St.
Anthony's Church. For the first time since this
present church was built about 16 years ago, Mass was said here on Palm Sunday this year. Usually Mass was said at Tapah for the benefit of the parishioners there who will not be able to hear Mass on Easter Sunday. A s Rev. F a ther was here holding his mission these few davs, the opportunity was taken to say Mass with all the ceremonies of a Palm Sunday.
Rev. Father Bulliard opened his mission here the last place in M a laya for him to preach, on Wednesday (10th) .evening at 6 o'clock
assembled there, the gathering dispersed.
In spite of heavy rains all these days there were large crowds al l the days when the sermon was preached. A t midnight on that Sunday Father Bull iard accompanied by Father Aloysius left Teluk Anson by car for Sungkai where he caught the night mail for Kuala Lumpur.
R E V . F R . B O N A M Y VISITS F O R M E R P A R I S H .
Rev. Father Bonamy, the former parish priest of this place who is at present posted at Sungei Patani paid a visit to this place last Monday and returned on Wednesday. The people here were glad to see him as he was very popular wi th the parishioners and liked by one and all. The St. Anthony's School owes its existence to Father Bonamy's zeal and forethought.
R O Y A L J U B I L E E T H A N K S G I V I N G .
On the occasion of the Silver Jubilee of H i s Majesty K i n g George V , on Monday, M a y 6th, there will be a solemn Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament wi th "Te Deum" of Thanksgiving at 11.30 a.m. at St. Anthony's Church Teluk Anson.
18 M A L A Y A CATHOLIC L E A D E R , SATURDAY, MAY 4th, 1935.
AROUND THE PARISHES S I N G A P O R E .
C H U R C H O F ST J O S E P H .
Baptisms.
A p r i l 27. George de Paiva, son of Samsofi de Paiva and of Huech Choon, born in Singapore on the 16th December, 1932. God-parents:—Jeronimo Lobo and Mar ia Sibelia.
A p r i l 27. Peter de Paiva, son of Samson de Pa iva and of Hueh Choon, born in Singapore on the 20th February, 1935. God-parents:—Francis Lucas Pinto and Henrietta Pinto.
A p r i l 28. Maurice Edward Roberts, son of John Roberts and of Nancy Rodrigues, born on the 13th A p r i l . God-parents: George Minjoot and Mrs . Irene de Silva.
Marriages. M a y 4. Robert Rodrigues, bache
lor, son of John Buxton Rodrigues and of Rosalina de Silva, to Eve lyn de Silva, Spinster, daughter of Valentine de Si lva and of Caroline Danker.
M a y 11. Charles Abescrombe Marsh, bachelor, son of George Wil l iam Marsh and of Jane Palmer, to Pat r ic ia Josephine Oliveiro, spinster, daughter of Charles Ferdinand Oliveiro and of Josephine Lousie Mon-teiro. Witnesses: Nelson de Silva and Nell ie de Silva.
F O R F R A N C E O N F U R L O U G H ,
The Rt . Rev. P . Ruaudel, Vicar -General, Cathedral of the Good Shepherd, Rev. F r . D . Perrisoud, Vica r , Church of St. John, Kua la Lumpur and Rev. F r . P. Piffaut, Director, College General, Pulo Tikus, Penang left for France on 30 A p r i l on a much needed furlough. We wish them cordially 'Bon Voyage' and 'Godspeed' and earnestly hope that they w i l l return to their respective fields of labour wi th renewed vigour and energy.
* * * * FAREWELL TEA PARTY. T o The R t . Revd. P . Ruaudel, V . G .
If the presence of the large gathering at the S.V.C. D r i l l Ha l l on Monday afternoon were any criterion of his popularity, then the Rt . Revd. Father P. Ruaudel proved himself t ruly popular among his parishioners. F o r on that occasion quite a good many of the parishioners of the Cathedral of the " G o o d Shepherd" attended a Tea Par ty given in his honour on the eve of his departure for Europe on a year's holiday.
Held under the auspices of the Singapore Catholic Club, the Tea Par ty , brought together the no insignificant number of nearly two hundred and fifty people, parishioners alb save for a sprinkling <rf the Catholic clergy. Besides the guest k of honour, there were present of the clergv the Righ t Revd. Dr . A . Devals, Bishop of Malacca, and the Revd. Fathers R . Cardon, D . Perrissoud, N . Dere-dec, J . Sy and R. Dubois. Those of the laitv included the wardens of the Cathedral, officials of the various Catholic organisations and others who come under the category of 'just parishioners.'
Fa ther Ruaudel has held office as parish priest of the Cathedral for no less than two decades, besides being V i c a r General of the See of Malacca for a number of years- N o small wonder then that
he has earned such popularity, for working for such a length of time among his parishioners could have meant only one thing, and that his endearment to them. That he wi l l be missed by therji goes without saying. Yet they can hardly begrudge him the rest he has well merited, especially in his none-too-healthy condition. It is patent to not a few of his parishioners that recently he has been as hard-worked as a priest can be. A t no time was this more evidenced than during the Christmas season, when he had to tackle single-handed on Christmas eve all the work in the confessional, the tediousness of which at such a time none but a priest can quite understand, besides officiating at the Midnight Mass, with His Lordship, the Bishop, indisposed at the time. Without doubt. H i s Lordship has been among the first to realise that Father Ruaudel needed rest and needed it badly, which the all-too-little respite he had had on the Cameron Highlands "barely sufficed to provide. }
To return to the tea party. M r . W. F . Mosbergen as Hon
orary Secretary of the Singapore Catholic Club, after the partaking of tea had been for some time in progress, addressed the gathering, in the course of which he said:
M y Lord, Right Reverend F a ther Ruaudel, Reverend Fathers, Ladies and Gentlemen.
A pleasant duty has fallen to me to say a few words on this occasion.
This Entertainment for Father Ruaudel has been arranged by the Singapore Catholic Club to be held in the Dr i l l Ha l l because the Ha l l affords better accommodation, a;s we were invi t ing all the parishioners.
I have no doubt Father Ruaudel is very pleased wi th the attendance, for a very large number of his parishioners have come to meet him.
ings, for no man could be said to be perfect, but i f in the performance of his duties any of his actions had been taken exception to by any, he remarked that he had not been actuated by any personal feelings but rather did what he thought it was his duty to do. A s parish priest he had an affection for his parishioners, by which he was led to do what he
. could for them and in their interests. Wi th regard to his intended visit to Lourdes, he certainly would pray for each and every one of his parishioners to our Lady when he had occasion to visit that sacred place. He thanked them all for coming that afternoon and hoped to be with them again after his short, yet long, holiday.
M r . Lambert De Souza then called for three cheers for Father Ruaudel which were heartily given.
Father Ruaudel afterwards made it a point of going round to each one present and shaking hands with them all. His Lordship likewise walked around and came into personal contact with those present.
Chinese Catholic Action Society.
Members of the above Society wi l l please note that the usual monthly meeting is to be held at the premises of the Act ion on Sunday 5th May after H i g h Mass.
The General Communion for members wi l l also be held during the Service. Agenda :—
1. To confirm the minutes of the previous meeting.
2. To consider the celebration of the Silver Jubilee of the Sacred Heart Church.
3. General. 4. Refreshment.
F A R E W E L L D I N N E R TO R T . R E V . P . R U A U D E L V . G.
Father Ruaudel has been our Par i sh Priest for 20 years and Vicar-General for many years. In both capacities he has rendered excellent service. He has Worked strenuously for the Church and has taken a lively interest in Catholic organizations of the parish.
I understand from Father Ruaudel that he is going to the Grotto at Lourdes. We would ask him, when he is there, to say a prayer for us, his parishioners.
Ladies and gentlemen, Father Ruaudel will leave us in a dav or two but don't you be sorry. He is going on a holiday and wil l return to us with renewed vigour to work again for us in our parish.
The Rt. Revd. Father Ruaudel then replied, thanking the Honorary Secretary of the Singapore Catholic Club for his remarks. He could not say that he had been taken by surprise for he had known of the affair of the T e a Par ty ' beforehand. It was a matter of much pleasure to him that His Lordship was present, as His Lordship had the welfare of the missionaries at heart and was doing much for them for whicjj they were grateful. WTith regard to what had been said about his rendering excellent service, it was his duty as parish priest to see to the welfare of his parishioners. He had, perhaps his short-ccm-
B y the Wardens and Committee Members of the Cathedral of the
Good Shepherd.
On last Saturday night the Rt . Rev. P . Ruaudel was the guest of honour at a dinner given by the Wardens and Committee Members of the "Good Shepherd" Cathedral. H . E . Bishop Devals and F r s . Deredec and Dubois were also present.
His Lordship in proposing F r . RuaudePs health said that F r . . Ruaudel fully deserved the long leave granted as this was only the second leave taken by him after 35 years hard work in the Missions and he hoped that F r . Ruaudel would return to the East fully refreshed.
M r . L . J . Shepherdson, the senior warden, said that he had been in constant touch with F r . Ruaudel since the Father's arrival in Singapore over 20 years ago in connection wi th the St. Vincent de Paul's Society. F r . Ruaudel took the greatest interest in the Society and evinced the most active svmpathy for the poor. He said that F r . Ruaudel wi l l be re-attach-as the Vicar-General of the Mission spoke for the great wisdom on the part of Bishop Devals as he (the speaker) thought that the mantle could not have fallen on more worthy shoulders. M r . R. Tessensohn spoke of F r . Ruaudel's good qualities and said that F r . Ruaudel was always approachable by all alike and to know him was to love him. M r . Tessensohn also said that the parishioners would be glad to welcome him back to their midst. In fact they pray that F r . Ruaudel wil l be reattached to the "Good Shepherd" on his return from leave.
F r . Ruaudel replied in very feeling terms and thanked all present for the very kind words expressed. K e remarked that he had heard it said that some people thought he was too old for this Parish. He hoped, however, that on his return from leave the ashes would have dispersed and the smouldering fire would burst into flame again.
I N M E M O R I A M . To-day, one month ago Rose
Agnes Reutens breathed her last at the General Hospital at 12.45 a.m. on A p r i l 5th. I love her, I need her; but Almigh ty God called and she had to go. Thy W i l l Be Done. Please pray for the repose of her soul, dear relations and friends.
K L A N G .
O U R L A D Y O F L O U R D E S C H U R C H .
Baptisms.
A p r i l , 28. Edmond, son of Henry A . Pereira and Mary Rose Pereira. God-Parents.—Mr. and Mrs . J . D. Pereira of Kapar Estate, Klang.
A p r i l , 28. Annacloetta, daugter of J . A . Gomez and Jassetha Gomez of Subang Estate, Batu Tiga, Klang. God-Parents.—Miss M a r y Gertrude Gomez, G. J . Gomez of Singapore.
* * * * Annual Picnic.
The dawn of Easter Monday saw the parish priest Rev: E . M . Belet, the members of choir and the altar boys of the Church of Our Lady of Lourdes, Klang, and prominent members of the Catholic Action Society enjoy themselves at the annual picnic at Morib, a seaside health resort.
W i t h the lovely weather that prevailed, the splendid housing accommodation placed at their disposal at His Highness the Sultan of Selangor's bungalow at the seaside—the good fare prepared by M r . Nonis the president of the K l a n g Catholic Act ion Society, and the cash prizes that were given away at the sports organised impromptu by the Rev: E . M . Belet, the picnic were a complete success.
The party returned to Klang at about 9 p.m. after spending an enjoyable day.
C Y M A W A T C H E S
and C H R O N O M E T E R S
acknowledged the B E S T
in al! the Countries.
Agent:
RENE ULLMANN,
S I N G A P O R E .
M A L A Y A CATHOLIC L E A D E R , SATURDAY, MAY 4th, 1935.
A R O U N D THE PARISHES. P E N A N G .
A S S U M P T I O N C H U R C H . Baptism.
Leonard Christopher Peterson, son of Mildred Rosaline and George Aloysius Peterson, of Prai River Dock. God-parents M r . A . L . Rodrigues and Mrs. E . M . Rodrigues. Rev. F r : J . B . Souhait officiated on 28th A p r i l , 1935.
M A R R I A G E S . Two fashionable weddings took
place at the Church of the A s sumption on Easter Monday morning, one at 8 a.m. and another at 9 a.m. Being well-known and popular members of the Eurasian community large gatherings were present at both weddings.
* * * * The first contracting parties
were M r . Frederic E . Peterson, of Kuala Lumpur, and Miss Marie A . Bruyns, elder daughter of the late Mr. Arnold A . and Mrs. G. Bruyns.
Rev. F r . Piffaut, of the College of the "Missions Etrangeres," officiated.
Mr . C. 0. Rodrigues, of Singapore, gave away the bride. M r . L . O. Rodrigues, of Penang, and Mrs. C. O. Rodrigues, of Singapore, were the sponsors.
Miss Doris Bruyns, sister of the bride, acted as bridesmaid. The pages were Master Ave Rodrigues and Miss Gloria Aer ia . The bridegroom was supported by M r . W. Myler as bestman. M r . A . A . de Cruz, the Assistant Choir Master, presided at the organ.
After the ceremony a reception was held at the Elysee Hotel where there was a large gathering of friends. A s the bride's mother is a teacher of the Penang Convent, a good number of Convent girls were present at the wedding.
* * * * The second contracting parties
were M r . Edward Augustus D'Souza, second son of the late M r . Matthew P. D'Souza and Mrs . D'Souza of Singapore, and Miss Dulcie E . de Cruz, second daughter of Dr. and M r s . Edwin de Cruz, of Penang and formerly of Singapore.
Rev. F r . Souhait, the parish Priest, celebrated the wedding ceremony. The bridegroom, who is attached to the Education Office, Singapore, was attended by M r . Stanley D'Souza as bestman. Dr . J . E . Smith and Mrs . Smith were the sponsors.
The bride, who was attended by eight bridesmaids, was given away by her father Dr . de Cruz. Misses Gloria Quintal, lisme and En id Smith and Myr t le de Cruz were the flower girls. M r . Ben de Cruz, the Choir Master, was at the organ.
Following the ceremony a reception was held at the residence of Dr. and Mrs . J . E . Smith, No. 9 Logan Road. Dr . Smith proposed the health of the bride and bridegroom and the latter suitably replied. The health of the bridesmaids was proposed by the bridegroom and M r . S. D'Souza, the bestman, responded.
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In the afternoon another marriage between Miss Adriene M . Reutens, sister-in-law of Dr . da Silva of the General Hospital, and Mr. E i g i l Orla Knudsen, an engineer in the workshop of Messrs. Borneo Motors Ltd . , was celebrated by Rev. F r . Souhait in the Assumption Church.
P E R S O N A L I A . Mr . E . Valberg, the President of
the Catholic Action Society, A s sumption Branch, left Penang with his wife by car for Singapore on Easter Sunday, 21st A p r i l , 1935. A s they are spending their vacation in Singapore for about a month, they wi l l have the opportunity of enjoying the celebrations of H . M . the King 's Silver Jubilee.
M r . H . A . Robless, the Treasurer of the Press Committee, Assumption Branch, left Penang by the P . & 0. mail s.s. "Ranpura" on the 25th A p r i l , 1935, accompanied by his wife. They are visi t ing Singapore to enjoy the celebrations of the Silver Jubilee of H . M . the K i n g and also to recuperate their health.
Obituary. We much regret to announce the
death of Mrs . L i m Teow Chong, a pious and respected lady. The deceased passed away, fortified by the rites of the Church, at her residence in Swettenham Road on Sunday, the 28th Apr i l , after a prolonged illness. She leaves behind her husband, 10 children, 20 grandchildren and a great grandson to mourn her loss.
The Rev. F r . R. Girard conducted the funeral services, which were choral, in the Church of the Holy Rosary and at the Birch Road cemetery.
Chief mourners were her children: Messrs. L i m Hock Hye, L i m Hock Soon, L i m Hock Siang, L i m Hock Guan, L i m Hock Kia t , Mrs . Foo Wha Cheng, Mrs. Loke Ya ik Yeow, Mrs. Lauw Yeo Wee, Mrs . Chin Swee Onn and Miss Rose Mary L i m .
and ended i t on Sunday evening the 14th A p r i l .
On Sunday evening before sermon a group photograph was taken with Father Bull iard as the central figure, immediately after a heavy shower. After sermon the parishioners retreated to the school hall where M r . Dorai Raj garlanded Father Bull iard after which Mr. A r u l on behalf of the parishioners spoke in eloquent Tamil expressing gratitude and thanks for having come all the way from India to preach the words of God to them and in conclusion wished him Bon Voyage. Ke was then presented a purse by M r . Dorai Raj in commemoration of his visit to this parish. Father Bull iard replied suitably and assured that he will always carry with him pleasant memories and after blessing all those who were
QUEEN A T THE CHELSEA. FLOWER S H O W
T H E I R M A J E S T I E S T H E K I N G A N D Q U E E N , photographed at the Chelsea
Flower Show in the Rock Garden Section.
K U A L A L U M P U R M A R R I A G E .
Fi tzpatr ick—Mart in . On Tuesday 23rd A p r i l 1935 at
the Church of St. John the Evangelist, Kuala Lumpur the marr iage was solemnised between Hariette Alexandra, daughter of M r . and Mrs . C. R . Mart in of Kuala Lumpur and Henry Walter Price, son of Mrs . L . Fitzpatrick and the late M r . Fitzpatrick. Rev. F r . D . Perrisoud officiated at the High Mass. Mrs . Fernando and M r . Herbert Daly were the Sponsors, A reception was held at the Masonic Hal l , Damansara Road where a large gathering of friends were present. In a wit ty speech Dr . L . S, Perera proposed the health of the bride and bridegroom to which the bridegroom suitably replied, at the same time proposing the health of the bridesmaid, Miss Mar t in , on whose behalf the bestman M r . J . R. Buxton responded. M r . and Mrs . C. R. Mar t in are very well known Eurasians of Kuala Lumpur, while M r . Fitzpatrick the Bridegroom is the Chairman of the Sports and Socials Committee of the Selangor Eurasian Association.
Among the very large attendance of friends and sympathisers were the Hon'ble M r . L a i Tet Loke, M.F .C . , M.S.C., M r . K o k F a i Y i n , M r . San A h Wing, J .P. , M r . L . Y . Swee, J.P., Dr . N g Bow Huah, Dr. J . S. Goonting, and the grave was covered by a profusion of floral tributes, marking the popularity and esteem in which the deceased was held.
A Requiem High Mass was said for the repose of her soul on Wednesday, 1st May, 1935.
T E L U K A N S O N . Visi t of Rev. F r . Bull iard, St.
Anthony's Church. For the first time since this
present church was built about 16 years ago, Mass was said here on Palm Sunday this year. Usually Mass was said at Tapah for the benefit of the parishioners there who will not be able to hear Mass on Easter Sunday. A s Rev. F a ther was here holding his mission these few davs, the opportunity was taken to say Mass with all the ceremonies of a Palm Sunday.
Rev. Father Bulliard opened his mission here the last place in M a laya for him to preach, on Wednesday (10th) .evening at 6 o'clock
assembled there, the gathering dispersed.
In spite of heavy rains all these days there were large crowds al l the days when the sermon was preached. A t midnight on that Sunday Father Bull iard accompanied by Father Aloysius left Teluk Anson by car for Sungkai where he caught the night mail for Kuala Lumpur.
R E V . F R . B O N A M Y VISITS F O R M E R P A R I S H .
Rev. Father Bonamy, the former parish priest of this place who is at present posted at Sungei Patani paid a visit to this place last Monday and returned on Wednesday. The people here were glad to see him as he was very popular wi th the parishioners and liked by one and all. The St. Anthony's School owes its existence to Father Bonamy's zeal and forethought.
R O Y A L J U B I L E E T H A N K S G I V I N G .
On the occasion of the Silver Jubilee of H i s Majesty K i n g George V , on Monday, M a y 6th, there will be a solemn Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament wi th "Te Deum" of Thanksgiving at 11.30 a.m. at St. Anthony's Church Teluk Anson.
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SATURDAY, MAY 4th, 1935.
GLOWING TRIBUTE TO CATHOLIC ACTION
THE MOST REV. DR. FOSS WESTCOTT, THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND BISHOP OF CALCUTTA, METROPOLITAN OF INDIA, BURMA AND CEYLON URGES UNITED EFFORTS TO PURGE CINEMA INDUSTRY
OF ITS EVILS.
[The following account will doubtless ennable our sapient 'armchair critics' to know more facts about the Catholic Legion of Decency, instead of vapouring ab)ut their ears and conniving at truth. Ed. M.C.L.]
(From "The HeraH "—April 14, 1935).
Calcutta.—Under the auspices of the Bengal Welfare Association, a meeting was held on Monday, at the Overtown Hal l , (Y. M . C. A . College Branch) Calcutta, to consider the demoralising effect of undesirable and unhealthy cinema films, posters, etc. The Most Rev. D r . Foss Westcott, the Church of England Bishop of Calcutta and Metropolitan of India, Burma and Ceylon, presided. A crowded hall listened wi th rapt attention to the several speakers many of whom emphasised the great work done by the Catholic Church under the Legion of Deceney both in Amer ica and India.
Part Played by "The Herald." R a i Ram Dev. Chokani Bahadur,
the well-known Marwari leader, traced the work done in India in the fight for clean films and explained what had been achieved in Calcutta, Bombay, Madras and Lucknow. He referred to the success which had resulted from the work of the Legion of Decency in America and drew the attention of the meeting to the fact that Catholics i n India had also been organized under a Legion of Decency to carry on the campaign against bad films in this country.
In this connexion the Rai Bahadur commended the part played by "The Herald9 9 in starting the Decency Campaign in India and in its work of keeping Catholics informed of the progress of the campaign.
Dr. Foss Westcott's Address. Most Rev. Dr . Foss Westcott be
ing obliged to leave to attend another meeting surrendered the
presidential chair to Dr . W. S. Urquhart, Principal of Scottish Church College, but before leaving he asked to address a few words to the meeting. , —
There were three points Dr . Westcott said he would like to particularly mention and the first was that they were not opposed to the cinema industry as such as the cinema could well be a great power for good. What they opposed was the cinema as a power for evil. He said i t had to be admitted that there were several good pictures exhibited to the public and i t should be their purpose to encourage such pictures while they opposed those of a different character.
The second point he said was the principle on which films were supplied to show houses. He understood that there was a contract system by which producers supplied to an exhibitor during a given period three or four films of a very high grade and 16 or 17 films which were of an indifferent, mediocre, or even objectionable type. It was necessary for them to influence the producers so that the show-houses should be delivered from a system which almost made i t compulsory that some of their films should be of a less desirable character.
Another thing; which was necessary was that definite principles and definite standards should be laid down by which al l films should be tested and by which their approval should be^ secured.
Tribute to Catholic Work. Final ly Dr . Westcott paid a
glowing tribute to the work of the Catholic Church in giving the lead
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in the fight against unclean films. " Credit where credit is due," said Dr. Westcott. He said that the Legion of Decency in America had been a real power for good and the Legion of Decency in India started by " The Herald " was also to be commended. He urged all communities and interests irrespective of caste and creed to unite their efforts with the work of the Legion of Decency so that the cinema industry may be purged of its evils which was a matter of common concern to all.
Among the other speakers, many of whom addressed the meeting in Bengalee, were:—
Sir P. C. Roy, M r . Surendra Nath Sen, S j . Ramananda Cha-terjee, K h a n Bahadur Ashaduz Zaman, Swami Satyananda, M a -ulvi Tamizuddin Khan, M r . C. A . Newberry and Dr. Urquhart .
Dr. Urquhart in concluding the meeting said it would be unfortunate if the idea got abroad that the meeting had been called by
" killjoys " to secure the destruction of all kinds of entertainment. Their object was not to destory healthy amusement, but to elevate it .
The meeting unanimously passed several resolutions which included :
1. The censoring of films depicting (a) Sex scenes and (b) Horror scenes.
2. Censoring of cinema posters and for this purpose a stricter standard than in the case of films to be adopted.
3. Cinema proprietors be compelled to exhibit once a week a special show for children.
4. A committee be appointed by Government to inquire into the effect of present day films on the. mind and morality of the public.
Af ter the meeting The Herald representative was asked by the Secretary, Bengal Welfare Association, to furnish particulars of the work of the Legion of Decency and he was assured the Association in its work for clean films would co-operate with Catholics.
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