essayed to conduct a newspaper according to his ideas of the manner in which our Blessed Lord would have done, is still fresh in our memories. Farfetched as was the idea, we cannot aver that it far exceeded the requirements of our own creed. One of the greatest non-Catholic newspapermen of our time is on record as having declared that an editor has got to square his paper with the judgment day every day he lives. Now, leaving editors and proprietors to sit alone with their consciences and deal, each for himself, with this momentous question, let us consider the duty of the Catholic parent in this matter. Plainly, it is to uphold those who are able and willing to supply this vital need of soul and mind-the Catholic writer and publisher, who have, nowadays, to disobey too often the dictates of conscience in obedience to the sordid call of daily necessity.

Talent and training are ours in such abundance that from ranks which we claim by right of heredity and education, those of the secular press are recruited at every call. We rejoice betimes in the success of an individual, as when, about the beginning of this year, a great non-Catholic publication, long noted for its prejudice, chose as its editor the girl graduate of a Catholic institution; much more practical would be the appreciation for providing congenial place for such talent, and an accepted medium like the great daily newspaper and illustrated periodical of the times to further acquaintance with the masses of our people.

The political news columns of March furnish yet another proof of Catholic versatility, in mentioning a government commission assigned to the Jesuit Fathers of Manila, which was the preparation of accurate maps of the Philippine archipelago; it was said that no less than thirty of those were conveyed to Washington by Father Algue, S. J.

Education lost indeed a champion whose prowess had been proven on many a well-fought field when Abp. Hennessy of Dubuque was called to receive the eternal reward of his varied labors; 1900 was the seventy-fifth year of the great prelate's life, the fiftieth year of his priesthood, and the thirty-fourth of his episcopacy.

Another who could reckon half a century in the Master's service was Father Duffo, S. J., who died in Alabama, aged 74 years, having shared the perils and helped to alleviate the miseries of thirteen yellow fever epidemics in his beloved. South.

The annual conference of the Association of American Catholic Colleges occurred in April at Chicago, where those best known in the important work met to exchange views and discuss existing conditions.

"So and for ever may your light shine before men that they may see your good works and glorify your Father who is in Heaven."

The close of the Catholic Winter School at New Orleans was made memorable by a wonderful display of telephonic progress, when Abp. Elder of Cincinnati, from his home, hundreds of miles distant, conversed with Father Biever, who presided over the final session.

Work had already commenced on the Summer School grounds at Cliff Haven, where the session opens on July 1, to continue until September 1, and the interesting announcement was made that the Sisters of St. Joseph had begun the erection there of a convent building, to cost when completed $100,000.

In Philadelphia, the cornerstone of a mammoth new academy, built as addition to one already famous under the guidance of St. Joseph's Sisterhood, was laid by Rt. Rev. Bishop Prendergast on the Feast of Our Lady of Good Counsel, April 16.

From Rome much was heard of the doings of American pilgrims, the names of prelates figuring more numerously on their lists than on those of any English speaking country. In the great church of the "GESU"-the church which shelters the tomb of St. Ignatius Loyola, and the shrine where rests the hallowed hand that in life baptized a million to the Faith, the hand of St. Francis Xavier-an American prelate, Mgr. Spalding of Peoria, delivered a sermon on “Education and the Future of Religion."

Here, at home, lectures to non-Catholics, characterized as a new mission movement, became more and more the order of the day, principally under the auspices of the Paulist and Passionist Fathers. The modus operandi, as detailed in the "Missionary," the official organ of the Union, made interesting reading for the many accustomed to associate such activities only with foreign lands. One advantage of the "home movement," as it may be called, is the opportunity offered for universal help, which need not imply by any means intrusion in the field of the Missionary, where we of the laity should but tempt the fate of fools venturing where angels hesitate. The most persuasive orator of the devoted band will, however, bear willing testimony to the fact that one lay man or woman, actually practicing the Catholic Faith, is a living sermon whose efficacy cannot be equaled by earthly eloquence.

Let us all then join the great guild of EXAMPLE, for it must be sadly admitted that even in such cardinal requirements as simple honesty, plain sobriety, ordinary charity of speech and justice of action do the majority fail, thus becoming stumbling blocks in the paths of many who sincerely seek truth.

The International Catholic Truth Society, first organized by Rev. Dr. McGinnis of Brooklyn, and incorporated at Albany during April of this year, is largely composed of laymen, but under clerical direction; its subjects are, "to make

known the truths that the Church teaches; to enlighten those who honestly differ with us; to correct erroneous statements as to Catholic beliefs, and to defend the cause of the Church, particularly from attacks of anti-Catholic literature."

Abp. Corrigan's pastoral on education, issued. before his departure for Rome, atracted much attention, and the sympathy of the people went out to Bishop Sbaretti in his Cuban home, striving for revision of the odious marriage law enacted by the military governor there, under which only civil marriages are declared valid.

With us, another bishop laid down in peace the crozier wielded for many an arduous yearBishop Mullen of Erie, Pa., of whom the "Catholic Standard-Times" well said, that he had learned from his great compatriot, Saint Columbkille of Iona, the lesson of labor in foreign vineyards.

Mary's month brought the wonted freight of joys and sorrows for the Church of her Son's love; it witnessed many a festive celebration whose beauties custom can never stale for us, and a special occasion, too, welcomed by every lover of genuine Catholic poesy-the unveiling of a memorial to Fr. Abram Ryan, the poet-priest of the South, at his birthplace, Norfolk, Va.

On May 24, the joy bells of Rome's 400 churches, ringing to proclaim the canonization of St. Jean Baptist de la Salle and the dear St. Rita, "patroness of the impossible," echoed in loyal American hearts; to them the name of the one has grown familiar through the life work of the noble brotherhood he founded, and that of the other by association with that pioneer order of St. Augustine, whose glorious beadroll of saints is augmented with each passing century.

Something to rejoice in, too, was the masterly defense of Monastic Orders in the pages of the "Sacred Heart Messenger," and elsewhere from the pen of the "Messenger's" gifted editor, whose scholarly lecture on the life of Fr. Jogues and his companions in martyrdom is another valuable contribution of the year to our national church history.

Then there was Mrs. Leland Stanford's gift to the Rt. Rev. Bishop of Sacramento of the beautiful Stanford mansion with an endowment fund of $75,000, to be conducted by the Sisters of Mercy as a day home for children; the appointment of a new bishop, Rt. Rev. Henry Moeller, D.D., to the see of Columbus, Ohio, and the first visit paid by President McKinley to the Catholic University; to chronicle announcement from the Sisters of Notre Dame that Trinity College, Washington, will open on October 4, of this year, was also welcomed.

The note of universal sorrow came in the tidings of the destruction by fire of St. Mary's College, Belmont, N. C. Beside the certainty that the loss is a severe one to Southern Catholicity

there was also the feeling of what the catastrophe meant to the saintly Bishop Abbot, who, through his untiring efforts for this undertaking, nas become known, and as a natural consequence, beloved in many sections of the land by a people quick to recognize and honor sanctity and zeal like his.

Truly, whom the Lord loveth He chasteneth in His own time and way, else had this trial been spared to gentle, zealous Bishop Haid!!

June, the month of commencements, and consequently rich in domestic interest, may this year claim the distinction of consecrations and conventions as well. Its early days saw the consecration of Bishop Keiley of Savannah, Ga., and the convention of German Catholic Societies at Detroit, where the attitude of our Government towards the faithful in our new possessions was severely criticised.

On the 17th, at Baltimore, Cardinal Gibbons officiating, Rev. Dr. Henry Granjou, who for three arduous years had charge of the American branch of the Association for the Propagation. of the Faith, was consecrated Bishop of the Diocese of Tucson, Arizona.

Later, we had the Conference of Seminary Rectors and Professors assembled at the Theological Seminary of St. Charles Borromeo, Overbrook, Philadelphia.

Besides these, as all the reading world knows, Philadelphia rejoiced in the temporary possession of the Republican National Convention, mentioned here because of the notable fact that its one impressive half hour may be characterized as the "Catholic half hour." This occurred on Nomination Day, the third of the session, when the Right Rev. Archbishop of Philadelphia gave by invitation the opening benediction. He succeded, as is his wont, in asserting his own magnetic individuality and impressing upon all his hearers the existence of that intangible, inexpressible attribute of the old Church, which can only be called her hereditary right of domination. For the moments occupied by his remarkable rendition of the Lord's Prayer and the invocation which followed, the tribute of absolute quiet and respectful attention was his, which means much in such an assemblage.

News from China and the irrepressible "Boxers" is at this writing eagerly looked for, the indications being that once again those whom some of us have been privileged to know in the flesh stand firm at their post of duty beneath the shadow of the martyr's coveted crown and palm.

From Rome a belated item of American news claims place because of its significance as a reminder that the "word of the Lord endureth forever." Through the medium of His best loved among the children of men He has declared that the "Humble Shall Be Exalted," and seldom was

more visible fulfilment of this promise than when Rev. John Edwards of New York, long a toiler in the lowly places, was raised by His Holiness to the rank of Domestic Prelate, exchanging the familiar title of "Father" for that of "Mgr.

With June ends this partial record of the years 1899-1900; for all its incompleteness it is hoped that it may at least serve as a guide post directing the reader's attention to movements of which fuller information is desirable and indeed necessary for all who would be counted among the faithful, helpful children of Mother Church.

Let us each resolve, as Bishop Horstmann of Cleveland counseled not long since, "to be prac

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If such one did his or her share for even one of those objects what glorious things should be recorded of 1901. MARGARET M. HALVEY.

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