The Little Apostle of the Mountain Province. Vol. IV, No.1 June 1927

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Title: The Little Apostle of the Mountain Province. Vol. IV, No.1 June 1927
Issue Date: Vol. IV (No. 1) June 1927
Year: 1927
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IV, No. l JLNE l927 Are Saints Born Such1 What? If The Child is Stubl;crn? The only one now iejt to speak of is Celine, the companion of my childhood. My memories of her are so many that I do 11ot know which to choose. We understood each other perfectly, but I ~•·a.; much n:wre forward and Ii: el_,.. and far l. ess ingenucus. Here is a letter which will sh, w you. dear 11;[ other, haw sweel was <;eline. and J:ow na,u~lily Th!rese. I was !hen nearly 1hrl'e years old, and Celine six and a half. "C:line is naturaliy mllT [~ a consoling: thought, for parents, the natural educators of their children, to see how such a stubborn 1itt1 e girl like Therese could become the clined lo be f!.ood; as to the little puss, Therese, cne can nr>t tell how she will turn out, she is so younf. a11d heediess. She i~ a very intelii~ent child, but has not nearly so sweet a dis po :ition as her sisfrr, and her stubbo1 nness is a'mosl unconq11erable. When she lza.s said: 'No.· no thin~ will make her ch au~ e; one could lea«e her all day in the cellar without getting her tv say: 'Yes.· S!ze w 0 u l d. snoner sleep !here." Autobiography or the Little Fiower. most lovely Saint on earth during this last century. Stubbornness is a great de feet, has many bad consequences, and is not easily eradicated. 2 A stubborn child refuses to obey, and obedience in a child is one of the first virtues it ought to acquire, otherwise how can the parents teach the little one and bring it up in the fear and love of God and man? Obedience, as was said before, is to be inculcated by simple reasonings,fatherly corrections, attractiYe little rewards, assiduous encouragement and affectuous commands. But the trouble with a stubborn child is that it will absolutely refuse to listen to and see any rea5on; it may reject all rewards and ad vices; it m:ty simply shut its intellect and heart to any one who tries to make it see the wrong of its doings and its fatal blindness. And yet the stubborn child has to be corrected. Suppose the child grows up with that defect. As the child, S(l will its stubbornness develop and this must sure become the cause of many mistakes in its life and be the source of much unhappiness. A stubborn person heeds no lesson, confides to his own narrowmindedness, follows his. o w n ways unguided and must fatally commit many blunders that w i 11 cost him many tears and great losses. Who can live with a stubborn person? Such a person hurts, again and again, those he is living with. He becomes angry easily when others try to make their own lights prevail against his blindness, and this not only makes charitable persons give up their efforts to guide and help, but it also makes them sorry: hence, at least their coldness, if not their anger for the one they showed love and affection to, by their willingness to enlighten and help him. Yes, stubbornness must Le corrected during early childhood, when the character is to be formed out of a tender heart and a guidable mind. But how must it be done? First of all, parents should newr give up their rights to their children, however small they may be. One wealrness of father or mother in surrendering to the whims or stubbornness of the child,means oil upon the fire. As soon as a reasonable order has been given, the child has to obey. But what, if it absolutely refuses? Of course, to forget the order, or to neglect it for the moment, does not mean sti1bbornness. The child is stubborn when it refuses and continues to refuse obedience. At first the parents should try to convince the child by affectionate and simple reasons, but if, nevertheless, the child remains stubborn, t h e n has the moment come of forcing the delinquent by a certain punishment. This may consist in the taking away from it something it is attached too, or by imposing some act it has a dislike f0r, so as not to play, to remain quiet in a corner, to keep silence, etc. This first punishment may be sufficient at the beginning: if the child shows repentance and willingness to obey, it should be g i \. e n a cha rice to get rid of the penance and to repair its impoliteness and disobedience. In some cases, stubborn children may even, when punished, continue to mope against the order and their parents, ar.d consequently persist in their disobedience. As long as they are in this mood, the punishment should not be lifted, but quite the contrary, it should be increased after a time and parents should use e\'en bodily punishment, for, as the Scripture says: "Spare the rod and spoil the child." But even then, when bodily pains are imposed, of course they should never be cruel. Remember, children are very tender. These punishments should keep some proportion: slighter punishments may be inflicted for smaller obstinacy, and more severe for a more grievous. Children thus punished may cry. Let them do so, as long as they do not promise of themselves to better themselves. Should it be repeated here that, before punishing such stubborn children, they should be warned of the coming chastisement in case they refuse to obey? No punishment produces any good, unless the delinquent sees the reason and the good t•f the punishment. And if the stubborn child has been chastised before, it may be good to remind it of another like correction, if again it refuses obedience. Naturally, when the head of the 3 child is hot, it may be almost useless to reason much and sn·eetly. Shouting and crying, may have a temporary effect, but will not correct the child. The best time to speak against stubbornness is when the child is calm and of good humor. Then the parents sh o u 1 d speak about all the grievousness of the sin of obstinate refusal to obey and of the duty of obeying, and of the reward God and they themselves too will grant to their obedient and virtuous children. Parents, thru your kindness you carry your children in your hands, but sometimes you may have to use the rod: if so, use it rather sparingly, but use it in a right reasonable way: a doctor sometimes cuts and n·ounds to save the whole body of a patient; you too have to be, as doctors, when, in order to eradicate the great evil of stubbornness, no other means are left, than that of punishing. However later, by charity and kindness, by sound reasoning at the appropiate time, you w~ll direct the strength of will, always present. in the heart of a stubborn child, toward a good end. Yes, there is strength of will in a stubborn tot; only, for the moment, it is mi::;lead by shortsightedness and blindness; to you then, to bring that w i 11 power away from its bad direction and to give it the right start in the right way. 4 A filussian [ableau nf the illesseh Dirgin 5 June Io, feast of St. Margaret of Scotland St. Margaret's name signifies "pearl;" "a fitting name," says Theodoric, her confessor, "for one such as Hhe.'' Her soul was one of the mo:ot precious pearls the Catholic Church has ever produced. A life ;;pent amidst the luxury of a royal court never dimmed its lustre, or stole it away from Him 1Yho had bought it "·ith His blood. She 1\"aS the granddaughter of an English king. In lOiO, she became the bride of ~Ialcolm, and reigned Queen of Scotland till her death in 1093. How did she become a Saint in a position where sanctity is so difficult? First, she burned with zeal for the house of God, because she loYed God. She built churches and monasteries; she busieo heffelf in making vestments; she c(ln)d not rest till she saw the la1Ys of God and His Church obsen-ed throughout her realm. If she had been living now i_n the Philippines, he sure that she would have done her utmost to propagate the faith in the "\fountain Province. Kext, amid:::t a thousand cares, sh_e found time to converse with God, ordering her piety with such sweetnesi;; and discretion that she won her husband to sanctity like her own. If all devout women only used their power over their husbands with kindness and sweetness and prayed assiduously for them, there \vould he many more dernut men in the "·orld. Lastly, she 1rnpt constantly over her sins, and begged her confessor to correct her faults. She did not neglect her duties in the world but she was not of the world. Xever was a better mother: she spared no pains in the education of her eight. children, and their sanctity 1Yas the fruit of her prudence and zeal. A mother that brings up her children in the fear and love of God, is a saint. Hhe was the most trusted counsellor of her husband, and she labored for the material improvement of her country. On her deathbed she recei,·ed the ne1Ys that her husband and her eldest son 1Yere slain in battle. She thanked God, Who had sent this last affliction as a penance for her sins. It is a sign of great love for God to submit to His holy will in adversity. After receiving Holy Yiaticum, she was repeating the words from the Missal: "O Lord, J!:'sus Christ, Who by Thy death didst give life to the 1rnrld, deliver me." At the words: "de] i ver me" she took her departure to Christ. This little life of St. .Margaret shows in a few examples how people in the world miiy attain a great degree of holiness, provided they know their doctrine, reason well and have a will. 6 So Speak the Wise . - . . And the Young Heed the Lesson ! 261. You are an honest man, and I am your ~ncle; and that's two lies. 262. He giveth straw to his dog and bones to his ass. 263. A dwarf on giant'~ shoulders sees farther of the two. 264. A g·ood friend is my nearest relation. 265. 'l'he ass knows well in whose face he brays. 266. You'd do well in Lubberland, where they have half a crown a day for sleeping. 267. A mar.. that will fight may find a cudgel in every hedg·e. 268. A stone in a well is not lost. 269. Better a diamond with a flow than a pebble without one. 270. He that thinks in his bed has a day without a night. ~ 271. What's g·ained on the devil's back is lost under his belly. 272. A thistle is a fat salad for an ass's mouth. 273. Nearest the king, nearest the· gallows. 27 4. There is nothing· new except what hath been forg·otten. . 27 5. Were there no fools, bad ware would not pass. 276. A barking dog seldom bites. 277. A coug·h will stick long·er by a hors_ e than a peck of oats. 278. Kone but cats and dogs are allowed to quarrel m my house. 279. That bolt never came out of your quiver. 280. Music helps not tootharhe. 7 Address Delivered by Rev. J. Desamber on Occasion of the Installation of the Nue1a Vizcaya Center · of the Knights of Columbus, Jan. 17, 1927. (Continuation) And hererfo. our own prm·ince of Kueva Vizcaya much good is to be d,)ne. Impossible to ·pqi~t out everything, but allow me to girn you some hints for general social l\'ork. That we have to do our bit for the Catholic education of the youth is more than obvious. I am not standing here in the pulpit to criticize Public Education as it is patronized by the Government. I fail to see any good in attacking the present Public School system. The Public Schools are what they are, and let us accept them as such. But it remains an historical fact that, while the Filipino people wPre unable to bear a double s,chooi tax, this present school system wa,; simply imposed upon them. Now one ought not to ,be a master in philosophy nor a doctor in p~dagogy to know that the education given to the youth must be in accordance with his final destination. A Philipino is not merely a citizen, but first of all he is an individual having obligations towards his Creator, God. A Catholic Philipino is moreover a member of the one true church, who teaches him with di,·ine authority his duties towards God. And as 903 of the Philipinos are catholics, there can be no true education for our Philipino youth, without the . teaching of the Ca,tholic religion. Such is our conviction, such is the conviction of every Knight of Columbus. Our boys and girls do not receive THAT required religious education in the Pu hlic Schools, so let them have it outside the schools. It is my earnest wish not to be misunderstood: \Ve have no intention neither any reason to blame the Public Schools Authorities of Kueva Yizcaya. In fact the Public Schools Authorities of this province are displaying a wonderful disposition towards religious education, and they are doing their utmost ,best to grant us all possible lawful facilities to give religious instruction in the Public Schools. I rejoite at this opportunity of being able to express the sincerest thank of our beloved Bishop and of all the Clergy of X ueva Yizcaya to those righteous and broad minded gentlemen who hr.ought about tH.ese actual friendly relations between Church and School. ... But a weekly 30 minutes religious instruction does not give a religious education. The students -boys and girls-are to be gathered into Catholic surroundings where they breathe thP pure air of a Catholic atmosphere; the students are 8 to be kept from dangerous places where their faith and morals are going to be spoiled; the students need thoroughly Catholic reading from which to get Catholic thoughts, Catholic feelings, Catholic inspirations and sometimes an antidote against the poisonous misrepre~en tation of the dogmas and practices of their religion; the students need to enjoy regular Catholic lectures from where they learn to appreciate the valne of their holy faith and to defend it against its enemies. The Knights of Columbus are called upon to join in such a laudable enterprise and may the re:;;ult of their endeavors soon bring in Nueva Vizcaya the heavenly blessing of a vir' tuous Catholic youth. The population of this province is rapidly increasing by immigration. The immigrants are generally poor, ignorant and exposed to the snares of the enemies of their faith. It will be the duty of the Knights of Columbus to lend a helping band to those hard struggling families, to provide them with the means with which to improve their condition - by sending to them, in their far off barrios, competent teachers who will instruct them and warn them against the deceiving doctrines of false prophets .... You know, my dear Brother Knights, how ridiculously polit\cal some of those false prophets are; how they 5hamelessly disguise themselves with the appearances of Catholic priests, how they cover Lheir evil intentions with the maskers of imitatiYe garments and ceremonies of the Catholic Church in order to better deceiYe their victim~ while the only purpose of their sad comedy is to despoil their countrymen of the most precious gift they possess, the Catholic faith they inherited from their fathers .... Every year Filipino boys are leaving their native land to venture themselves in that big labyrinth, the United States of America. I know by perso11al experience that the faith of almost all of them is suffering shipwreck when they arrive in a middle where their re· ligion is slandered and attacked. Henceforth they will find in the Knights of Columbus wise advisors whom to consult before they undertake the dangerous oversea trip. Some of them may come to understand that it is far better for them to remain in their beloved Philippines, while others may receirn the necessary informations. warnings and helpful recommendations in order to land in a middle where their faith and morals are safeguarded. These are, my dear Brother Knights, only a few outlines of what we are called upon to perform in this province of Nueva Vizcaya. This will constitute only a part of our great work. For the realization of these ideals we became Brother Knights, we have joyfully pledged ourselves to put into service the best we have in us. May Almighty God bless our new-bnrn Center of the Knights of Columbus! May our Center of Xueva Vizcaya increase in number of true, practical, faithful and generous Knights! May our chivalry zeal for good deeds bring spiritual and temporal prosperity in this province, in these beautiful Philippine Islands, and may the Pearl 0f the Orient be brought back fur ever to its lawful owner, our Lord Jesus Christ! Hand in hand, like true Hrothers," we will work together during all the days IY hi ch our Creator has decreed to grant us. And when the last moment has conJe, ·"·hen our highest Su_ prehie 9 Knight, cmr Lord and Savior, calls us to rest, a11d when lying on our bed of suffering and last struggle, we say a hopefull ''au revoir'' to those we leave behind to 0ontinue the noble work, we must be able to say of ourseh·es what the great Knight·St. Paul the Apostle said of himself ,~·hen he felt that his e{id was nigh; "I ha Ye fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith. As to the rest, there i8 laid up for me a crown of ju;otice, which the just Judge will render to me in that day .... '' What is Your (lift 1 'l'bis is the tale that the beggar told: The beggar who saw the King of old. t I left, he said, nt the break of day, My poor, mean dwelling, to beg my wayAnd wondered what treasure the hours wpuld bring: , When lo! in my pathway IsawtheKing! I shall ask, I cried, and shall ask again! And a golden shower wil I fall like rain! He came, and He did not pass me by: He gave no alms: As if poor as I, He held oll.t His hand .... From the dust of the street, I gathered, and gave Him a grain of wheat. Quite True A Schoolmaster t>ecebtly received the following nGte: "Dear Sir: Please Thatnight, when I counted myharve~t o'er On~ grai~ of gold made my little store! And only then did I understandAnd weep for the folly that held my hanc;i. t This is the taje ~hat the beggar told The beggar who saw the King of old. Yet we meet Him still-and the greater pai;t Shall be his who gives with a generous . heart, Sb.ill be his who can answer the King, when He Asl}s: W,hat is the gift you have given · to .Me? GRAC:E KEON excuse my son, Jack, from attending school today, as he has to be at the funeral of his two aunts. I will see it does no_t occur again." 10 A Little Apostle of Barlik ODEI is a young girl of Barlik, and Barlik i~ a mission outpost of Bontok. It boasts on 3,000 inhabitants.-- So. Kodei is one of these 3,000 sturdy mountaineers of Barlik, who pass the day toiling in the fields and the evenings pounding rice and cooking for that same evening and the next day. Really, she has to steal time to have a chance of attending my catechism lessons, given, when, once a month, I pass a few days in the "paradise lost" of Bar I i k. Then, she comes, tired and exhausted, after her heavy day's toil, but lively and anxious to know and make her way to heaven .... and something more. One day she comes to me and says: -"Father, I have baptized a baby that was dying. Is that good?" "Why not, Kodei?" -"Because I myselfT-am not baptized yet. I am a plain pagan still." -" K e v e r mind, provided you baptized correctly. How did you do. it?" -"I said to myself. that 1 it t I e baby is going to die. The Father is too far away to be called. I remembered what you taught us about baptism and how a baptized baby who dies goes straight to God in heaven. I said to myself, I will baptize that child and send it to heaven. So, I took water, poured it over the head of the baby and at the same time I said: N . .. _ I baptize thee in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost. Wa> that right Father?'' I will iet the readers give the answer. Some time later, _ I was again in Barlik, on my monthly visit, and in the meantime I had baptized Kodei. Kodei's mother, also baptized, was dangerously sick. I heard her confession and the next morning brought her Holy Viaticum, intending to give her Extreme Unction a little later, for I had to see other sick people before breakfast. Th e re rnmes Kodei to me, a Christ;an of only a few weeks, and says: -"Father, wi:I y~u not give her something more?'" -"What else? I ask, thinking she intends to beg for some food or .· medicine. -"The medicine of Apo Dios (the Lord God.)" I uncLrstood. Kodei wanted . for her mother, Extreme Un ct) on; God"s medicine for the dying. There are Christians who are afraid of asking this Sacrament. Some are afraid of talking about it to their sick relatives in danger of death: it might frighten them .... it might cause them harm .. .. it might kill them .... as if this Sacrament had been instituted by Christ to kill and not to save the soul and even cure the body if it only be good to the soul.. .. "a medici e of . Apo Dios!" And here comes a girl, a pagan of yesterday. She has talked to her mother about Extreme Unction, she has prepared her, and she asks me to give her this last Sacrament there and then: ''a medicine of Apo Dio:;." Is that not wonderful? I have much hope of ma king 11 good ~hristians of all the 3,000 Barlikers. I intend to build a chapel in their village, that will cost P2,000, but at the present time, I possess only Pl,000 for that purpose. · M ore, I have received six months" salary for a catechist in Barlik. but. a~ there is no chapel for the instructions to be given to the catechumensancl no room near the chapel for the catechist to live in, I can not s_nd a catechist or permane .. t teacher to the Barlik town. Thus the building of a chapel and the daily imtruction of the 3.000 Barlikers depend upon ari addifonal gift of Pl,000. Such is the life of a Missionary: he sees much good to be done, but he often stands before an unsurmountable obstacle, a few pesos he does not have and which others, Christians, spend lavishly on nothings and trifles .... a few p e so s, which. given, would mean "a medicine of Apo Dios" to the generous benefactor, blessings on earth and in hea\·en, and which would al:::o mean "a medicine of Apo Dios" to hundred;:; and thousands .... a medicine th<it civilizes and brings to heaven! FATHER GHYSEBRECHTS A neighbor went early one morning to ha\·e her husband, a barber. cut her hair. "Have you heard any news this morning?" she asked him. ''~o!" he answered. "You're the first woman that's been in." 12 The Negritos of North-Eastern Luzon By Father Morice Vanoverbergh Missionary in the Mountain Province, P.I. CHAPTER V.-Ethical Life Section 1. familv Life (Continuation) J. Marriage. ) The Negrito has no idea of celibacy, and prostitution is not known. Marriage is the state of life into which ~very .adu!t .Negrito expects to enter sooner or later. Before I k~e~ anything defi,nite about our .Negritos, I .had heard many 5itories about them: how they killed people with poisoned arrows, how they Ii ved 'in ·trees, and how a boy, to get married, had to shoot an arrow through a joint of bamboo held under the arr~ pf hi~ bride, with the understanding that, if he killed the girl, his own life would be---forfeited. What truth there is in all these stories I do not know, but certainly nothing of the kind ever happens with our Negritos here; and they them selves laughed a good deal, when I told them ,,what had been rel9ted to me a,s positive truths. ' When I asked the Agii'igay peoplE< how the, marriage contract was arranged, they, said that the par· ents .of the boy \Yent to ask the hand of the girl, and that, in case of a f~vorable answer on the part of the girl's parents, the latter were given some presents, which generally consisted of rice, cloth, or anything that rvigbt be of use to a Negdto. They added t)1at, if the boy's relatives had nothing to give, everything was all right also, as Fhese presents. were not strictly necessary. The parents, theugh, would not go against the will of their children, neither forc· ing them to. marry a definite person, nor forbidding them to marry the one of their own choice, if it w.as already made. There is no que;;:tion here of selling or buying girls, as the most complete freedom seems to be given to the boy in the choice of his future wife, and no girl is forced into accepting the advances of a man she does not like, nor pmhibited to accept the one of her liking. It is a striking fact that the same was told me, almost word for word, some time afterwards by Masigun in thg following way: the parents arrange the affair; if the girl or boy does not agree, there is no marriage; if the young people have arranged the matter by themselve:::, the parents must agree; they give presents, but if there are no presents, it does not matter. Incidentally we may add that among the Negritos young people are markedly freer than among mosr other tribes. The only marriage impediment that seems to exist is that between brothers and sisters, according to Masigun, and first cousins are allowed to marry. Residence appears to be very definitely patrilocal, so far as I could judge. When everything has been ~ttled, the girl goes to the boy's house, and that is all. No further ceremonies take place, as was assured me by all the Negritos I consulted, and so also by their neighbors of other tribes. They may have some prayer ceremony at the time, or some time afterwards, but this not a strictly exclusive marriage ceremony, as it takes place on other occasions as well. 13 The Negrito is monogamous. This is acC<!pted as a patent fact by everybody around here. This is in sharp contrast to the custom of the neighboring Isneg and Kalinga who do not scruple to take simultaneously two wives. Divorce among Negritos is rather rare. To treat this question more clearly I shall give chronologically the confirmations I obtained of this fact, and also the exceptions. The Ibanag soldier, who accompanied us from Kabugaw to Siwan, told us that the Negrito was much better morally than the Isneg, as he did not repudiate his wife, onte he had married her, while the Isneg would leave her on the most trifling pretext. At Agingay I met my fir~t case of a man, Tuliaw, separated from his wife. Tuliaw's first wife had been married by another man. I could not ascertain the real rearnn, but might surmise it by the following details given me by Tuliaw himself and by his companions. T-hey said that the Negritos did not separate except when one of the married couple had done something very bad (I believe they meant especially adultery on the part of the wife because for that of the. husband there are other means, as we shall presently see) ;then each went his own way, after they had divided the children, if there were any. Later on Ma~igun ~aid that, in the case of separation, the s111aller children went with the mother. 14 They never separate becau3e no children are born, while the pagans of other tribes almost universally repudiate a childless wife. Asi and Idaro are a very old couple. Neither was ever marr'ed to cinybody else, and they still li\·e most peacefully together, aithough no children were born to them. Masigun told me that Negritos separated when the one had somet bing against the other: this was a very indefinite statement. Toma, whose present wife is Felomena, had formerly married Firmina, who is stiil living and by whom he had several children. All of them came to the prayer ceremony from Ballisteros, where they had been living for a long time. Dandangan married the widow Asikam, his first wife; he has had no children by her, and by this time he is a very old man . These are the facts about the case. In the whole series of families that came under my notice, there were only two cases o: · divorces, and probably the cause was adultery of the woman. In tbe first case, the explanations of the Agingay people seemed to hint at this cause. In the second case, the woman Firmina, whom I met several times, did not at all seem to be of a very decent stock, as was obvious by her demeanor, her talk and her whole behavior. It should also be noted that Firmina was not living any more, and perhaps had never been, in typical Negrito surroundings, as she resided at Ballisteros,near the north coast of Luzon. Still if there were to be found more case~ of divorce. it should no: be wondered at. because with all the pagan tribes of northern Lurnn, with absolutely all of them, separations occur for the smallest reason. The Isneg especially are recog-n i ed by all Christians as falling in rhat caregory, and they themselve~ agree that divorce for them is a very common happening. I ha Ye now to treat rhe question of adulrery of the man, and in finding out about this I was very fortunate. If a man commit~ adultery, he is punishable by death <llld usually so punished. The offended husband shoots an arrow· at the guilty man, and there 1 he matter generally ends. If he escapes, which mt•st be a rare occurrence, it may happen that no other attempt is made on his life. I do not mean, however, that adultery is very frequent; on the contrary, I believe it is not common at all, and the reason is not far to seek. That the punishment of death was inflicted on a man guilty of the afore-mentioned cri~e, was assured me several times not only by Negritos, but by lsneg and Christians as well. But I have a more definite proof of this statement, as I had the opportunity of taking a picture of a scar left by an arrow on the body of Asi, who, fortunately for himself, escaped death in a most extraordinary manner;. the scar may be distinctly seen in his picture. The 1;) The arrow entered his body under his right arm, arrow entered his body under the right ar:m, through his side, at some distance .below the armpit, where - I could s.till see a round mark, not large in circumference, but very deep, and fr came out just at the middle of his back. where a scar about four inches long was still to be seen,iust in a line with his spine. When I fir~t not iced the fellow's wound, and inquired about its origin, he related to me that on a 16 certain day he was standing somewhere in front of his house, when a Negrito hit him with an arrow in the part of his body described above. He made no further comment on the occurrence, but an Isneg who was pre:;ent at the conversation, completed the story by saying that the would be murderer was the husband of a woman with whom Asi had committed adultery. Some days later I met a Kagayan, who stated he knew Asi very well, and who said that the wounrl had been inflicted by mistake during a hunting expedition, some Negrito mistaking Asi for the hunted ani~·... ma!; this was rather strange, when one remembers the skill of the Ne: gri-tos in the science of woodcraft. These explanations were entirely contradictory; so, I asked 1 he matter all O\·er again from Masigun, his fellow I\-egrito and one of Asi's relatives, and Masigun a~sured me that the arrow had been shot on account of a question of woman. There was no more questioning to to be done, of course, and, in this way, I had forther rea~onable evidence that among the Negritos summary justice is done to the adulterer, as death is the penalty. (To be continued) ..... ·rhe Songs of a People lgorrote Customs in East Benguet b_1· Rev. Fatlier Claerhoudt, ll1issionary, Bokod, Bengud (Copyrighted Lie. 343) IX (Continuation) On that same day when they were harvesting in the fields of Palang-pang, some were cutting rice on the other side of the river, in the small paddies of Sulin. Sulin was poor, very poor. The last year she had not reaped enough from her ricepaddies to support herself and her children; so, Sulin had borrowed rice here and there .... for the children were so hungry. Now that the time of harvesting had come, she had to return the rice, give back double for what she had borrowed and the heart of poor Sulin was beating sad 1 y wher1 she thought how nearly her whole harvest was to be carried away in payment of debts, for there were still the children to be fed .... But Sulin, while cutting rice, did not show the wound of her mother heart; she was chatting \\ith the womanhood on the field, thu her thoughts now and then were at home. with her children and these thoughts were as many c u t ting cudgels in her heavy bosom. She well knew that she was not the only poor one in the country, but, as each one feels his own pain first· and most, and as each one knows and recognizes his own sorrow best, an undescribable torment was torturing her heart .... her mother heart.. .. her mother heart of a poor widow with many children, because she harvested little and. of the little she was harvesting. most was to be carried off and away to the swollen granaries of her heartles:o creditors, .... usurers .... tloodsuckers ... of the blood of a poor mother and widow and of the blood of her many dear, beloved, hungry children. And among the women, w h o helped Sulin to harvest the rice of her small ricepaddies, were s:Jme of tho~e creditors. They were cutting rice which they placed and pressed in their kaibangs and carried off and away to their homes. Towards evening, Sulin let these go fir:::t; she had to cut s o m e "abba" before going home, she said, but it was not true; she simply felt an inner desire to be alone and to cry unobserved. Red was the sky above Baktang, but redder were Sulin's eyes. The rocky peaks a~ove Koorel were drawing as om17 her line on 1 he pale greenish air of the falling evening, and Sulin was completely alone in her small rice· paddies on the other side of the river: she wa~ holding her swollen face in both her stiff and scratched hands: she was sobb;ng heavily for she thought of her lasting and embittering poverty and of her dear little children .... orphans .... * * * The harvest is lasting for weeks, and fo- weeks one may see in the rice fie 1 d s long curving lines of women, cutting ear by ear the golden heavy rice. gathering bundles, tying them tightly for :he owner of the 6.eld on which they are harvesting- and they are al1owed to carry home the smaller and less heavy ears as a wage for their labor. ''Si-ani," the harvest time is for the mountaineers the time of a new life, becau:::e Kabunian gave them, once again, new food for many months, and therefore jingle-jangle the kalsas so clearly and lovely and therefore are so many feasts celebrated around the smoking huts of the now barren mountains. Unco!l'2ciously they are penetrated and filled with the mysterious voices that speak to them from and silently whisper to their hearts about food and happiness. They live together with the weed and the bushes that are sprouting and growing under the blue sky that is hanging over the c e n t r y mountains. What grows on their fields and hills is their means of existence. Therefore it is no won18 der that from the time of sowing and planting until the days of reaping and harvesting, they are watching the growing and ripening of their plants; no wonder thus that they weed and scratch and work and toil and slave unceasingly; no wonder thus that they anxiously watch the sky when . the burning :::un continues to spread her glowing rays over the hills and no rain falls over wha_ t thP.y sowed and planted: no wonder thus that they are sadly looking to heaven when the wild storms are playing havoc with their fields and mountains alike. Thus it is no wonder that, when the harvest time begins, the i r hearts are leaping with inner joy, because, at least with many. their granaries once more are filled with. the precious cereal, the support of their lives, for again they may Ii Ye, at least for some time, in peace and re"t on the source of well-being and riches: their rice .... *** When the breathing" of t h e mountain breeze is rolling over the lovely wa,·es of the golden ricef i e Ids and when the harvest is flickering in rhe shimmering sunWithout Religion "I know of but one thing more monstrous than a man without religion," Carlyle once said to Joaquin ;\filler the "Poet of the Sierras." "And what is that?" asked the American poet. "That, sir," exclaimed Carlyle "is rays, and when the mo n st r o u s mountains are everywhere loaded with hope inspiring g ·een and gold, and when God's maje:::tic creation is singing the praises of His wonderwork. then. the poor human heart enjoys the blessings of its living in union with His u n des<: rib ab 1 e bounty and goodne:os that crented and pre.:;erves \Vhen under the harvest the maje;;ty of the fielde is disappearing, ''"hen each evening the glowing west is throwing a last stream of beauty and mysrery over wavering and darkening nature, then too, a voice ;:;peaks to the poor human heart, of the evening of life to come and of the ::inking away of life it;:;elf into rhe Jarkness of death like the glorious day into the mi:::ty somberne::s of the rav111es. The Eternal Mower of the hereafter. who gives life and takes it away, will suddenly come; His shadow will bow over the heart and the heart will :otop beating .... and the pe pie will say: He or she is dead, but a hundred thous nd times happy is the c,ne whose death means the awakening of his soul i n to the b}inding vision of the heavenly Sion i\Ioun1a•n. (To be continued) a woman without religion." -Alexander was looking for work and the employer was asking him the usual questions:"What's your name?" "Alexander Johnson, suh." ';How old are you?" "Ah's twenty-nine, suh." "Are you married?" '·Xo; dat scar on mah haid i~ where a mule kicked me." .-.: .•. l'.· -, 19 CATHOLIC CHRONICLE The Holy Father has ordered all Bishops of the Cat h o Ii c Church to aid him to the fullest extent · in the crusade against tbe printing and reading of immoral books and papers. -Decrees declaring the heroism and virtues of the Venerable Don Bos::o, founder of the Salesian Order, were read in the presence of the Pope. Mussolini bas been presented with a fragment of the true cross by the family of Pope Benedict xv. The Holy Father bas sent a million francs to the Episcopal Commision in France, responsible for the new sanitariumforconsumptivepriestsandseminarians 20 -The process of Beatification of Father Damien has started. Father Damien was born in Tremeloo, near LouYain, Belgium, on Jan. 3, 1840. He died 37 years ago at the leper colony of Molokai, himself having contracted leprosy while attending the sufferers. Belgium. Missionary Institutes with residences in Belgium. The numbers in parenthesis indicate: First, the total of members of the Order and, Second, the number of Missionaries in the field. Benedictines ( 14, r 83-223) Missions in Co11go, Brazil, Ceylon. Korea. Capuchins (9,650-768) Missions: Hindonstan, Congo, Central America, Dutch Indies. Dominicans: (4,900-507) Missions: China, Japan, Congo. Mesopotamia. De la Salle Brothers: (II .378-850) Missions: all over the world. Franciscans: ( 16,968-2,850), Missions: all GYer the world. Jesuits: ( 18,718-3,484) Missions: all over the world. Lazarists: (Of St. Vincent de Paul) (3,87-1--581) Missions: China, ~ear Orienf, Africa, America. Missionarie:: oft he Sacred Heart. ( l, 200-500) Missions: Congo, Oceania. Redemptorists: (5,000-200) Missions: West Indies, Canada, Congo. Salesians: (6,500·1,169) Missions: English Indies, Brazil, Patagonia, Southern Africa, Congo, Mexico. Scbeutist Fathers: (800-500) Missions: Congo, China, Mountain Province of Philippines. The General Board of the League of the Sacred Heart has taken the initiative of furnishing speakers to the associations who decide to hold protest meetings against the persecution in Mexico. Twenty-seven lectures of the League, seven of whom use lantern slides to illustrate their addresses, havi: thus far offered their services for the Flemish provinces alone. Germanv. In the village of Eisenschmitt, where, as an aftermath of the vvar, there is no child of the proper age for the reception of First Holy Communion this year, the men and women of the vil;age who received First Communion fifty years ago took the place of the boys and girls who normally would recei,-e the Eucharist for the first time on Whitsunday. Holland. The yearly silent procession at Amsterdam in commemoration of the Miracle of Amsterdam, in the early hours of March 20, was thi~ year, attended by sixty thousand pilgrims coming from all parts of the city and distant places, on foot and in all kinds of conveyances. Hungary. New regulations have entered into effect, authorized by the minister of the Interior. Swearing is punishable by a maximum fine of $15 or a fortnight injail. Accosting and molesting respectable women on the street and other infractions of public morality are similarly punished. Girls in the most fashionable high school of Budapest, who were wearing short skirts, flesh-:olored stockings, or using rouge were sent home by the police to lengthen their dresses, to change to black stockings and to remove their cosmetics. The police are ordered to exercise a strong censorship over immorality in the theatre, vaudeville and the film houses. ,. Far East. ' ' According to Msgr. Freri, there are now 2,440 native priests i? the Far East. Japan and Korea have 60, China 830, Indo-China 700 and India and Ceylon 850. Japan. The Catholic Church is held in high esteem in Japan, especially i,n the higher places. It may not have the great numbers, but at court, in th!= universities, among officers and officials, professors and students one· finds fei:ve1.t Catholics and a great respect .for the Faith. The Governor of His Majesty, Yamamamoto, i~ a rlevout ·catholic. The society of Catholic Youth in Tokyo 21 numbers 600 members most 1 y teachers and students, said Mr. Claudel, French ambassador to the United States. Switzerland. An unusual case was tried 011 March 22 at Basle, where a S\\·iss priest appeared in the dock for refusing to gi\·e evidence as a witness in a legal action. The priest declared that he learned of the facts through a confessional and that his conscience forbids him to reveal the secret. The Public Prosecutor demanded imprisonment and a fine for contempt. The Tribunal ordered a nominal fine of one franc. the judge declaring that the Swis~ penai code "-as out of date co:1cerning the q '.testio:1 of ecclesiastical secrecy. which should be legally respected. Scotland. A prayer for the beatification of Margaret Sinclair, an Edinburgh working girl who died last year at the age of 25. has been sanctioned by the Archbishop of Glasgow. Margaret Sinclair, who became a Poor Clare Colletine and took the name of Sister Mary Francis of the Five Wounas, is famous throughout Scotland today. The life of Margaret Sinclair has captured t.~e imagination ofthe people of Scotland in the same way that a few months ago, Matt Talbot, a . , ~ • ' , ' l Dublin wo'rkman, took the hearts • , j ' of the Irish. p~ople by storm. ~·Ill llJllllJl'Wl•lll•lllUtllll'l•111•llllllllJllllJllllJllllJllll••1J1111l1J•lll•llllllm!MlllJllll•ll•lll••lll~ ~ ' ~ • • I .. c E • I i .J URRENT VENTS .J ·i ; ; • 1111•11/llll!lllllllllili!llllllJllll lllllJ_IHl_Dlltmllllllllt• .. IJlllllJllll .. lllllml•l•l .. lllll•ll'lllll•1• ·Philippines Politics. Se1·eral American representatiYes visited the Philippines, during the mo11th of May. They remained for live or six day_ s saw litt_ le but heard much anci left, most of them wiLh the farewell that Independence for the country is still :far away, one of theni, a democrat, dissenting and advocating early and ~omplete . independence. . · Governor General \Vood, voted the stock of all the Gornrnment owned companies, but made a few changes in the boards of directors. Nevertheless he advocates the sale of all Government business properties, except those of the Manila Railroad. President Quezon and other Filipino leaders pl:otest agaim£t tbi:s a 0 ction, saying the Legisiature 1'epresenting- tl:B people should: ham· her word to say about this policy_in which millions of the Filipino peopJe'S ,money arejnvo]Yed. Washing.ton sa.rs it .didn't order the sa" ie of said pi·op~rties.' -' ·The P. · I. Chamb'et :Of Commerc·e will draft a bill" for the-. :f..eg~sla ture requesting the establishm~nt of~ free commercial zone in tb.e port-0f Manila where importedgoods.forother for.eign . -- -. ~ -- . ' . . - . l ·ports can be deposited and· r~exported "·itho1it. any cuStoin duties. ~- · · Three Japanese. Yessels Were seized these ·last weeks near· the Babu· nmes .Islands b-y the Con.~tabulary, because they were w_ithin the twelv_e mi_ie lim·it of Filipino waters withoutthe'ne'cessa r.v perinit of the Custom officials. _-\.bout one thoasand American marines arrived in Olongapo to be ready for any eventuality in China. Followers of Flor Intrencherado, the self styled emperor of Iloilo, and the police of Yictoiias, Negros, had a clash in whieh three were killed and one wounded. This might haYe been _ avoided if the emperor had sooner been ~orced to stop his crazy policy. Health; There are now 76 hospitals in the Philippines. An a rnrage of two are added yearly. There are 12 in ~Tanila, the 64 others .. a re located in the pro,-inces.: 27 are pri ,·ate hospitals, of which 12 exist in Manila. All these hospitals have a capacity of 5,617 beds. including 3,783 beds in the government hospitals, 918 in the military and na rn l hospitals, and 1,425 in private hospitals. 121,341 patients were admitted in all these hospitals during 1926. In all these the Culion hospitals are iiot incl ded: they are six with 500 beds. La.>t yenr 35! negative ·lepers were discharged from Culion. It is planned to . hav~ four more }epercolonies, probably in Cebu, Bicol, l loilo and Minda°nao. Why not one in northern Luzon? Mrs. Wade in charge of the $2,000,000 drive in· the United States for the l}enefit of ·the lepers in the Philippines, hopes. to meet with great succes,s . .. The hospital of San Juan de Dios established in 1517 by a Franciscan brother, was the first in the Philippines. Schools. Sixty new American teachers ha,-e arrived. Mr. Rafael Palma, president of the University of the Philippines, now making a trip to Europe, has written that the-Hong-kong University "beats us in the quality and number of buildings." Never mind this: the teaching and quality of teachers are of much 23 greater importance. than splendid and costly buildings. Representath·e Chalmers said that the only hope for the Philippines and the Filipinos is in a unh·ersal language and in general education. But he did not say t.hat, as one can obsene from the papers, most of the dail 1· crimes are committed just b~' tho~·e who are supposed to know that universal language and to have receh·ed that general education he advocates from the public school. foreign 6olivia. Fearing a rernlution after a students' strike and riot in which two p.ersons were killed and forty wounded, t):le Government promised to pay the professors of the university who bad not been paid for three months this being the cause of said strike, and declared martial law, deporting, at the same time, a few leaders of the Liberal party supposed to be behind the trouble. 'C hina. The unavoidable break between the radical and com'en-ative but both Nationalist elements of Canton has come:. the conservative faction has its seatof government at Nanking, and the bolschevistic at Hankow. Negotiations to reunite both against the nort.herns have been of no avail. Further more: General Feng (the christian general -as cqristian as Trotzky) once beaten by Chang-tso-lin of the North, who tled to ~Jongolia, reorganized his army with Russian money and weapons, has joined the radical element of Hank ow, ready to. proceed with this against Peking and perhaps against the conservatives of Canton. I n the meantime the Cantonese government has tried to win.to its cause the famous general Sun Chuan-fang, the Shanghai general, "·ho, tirst beaten Liv the Cantonese, later, after their int~rnal division, threw them back. Chuan is an ally of Chang-tso-lin of the Xorth. If Chiang-kai-shek, the leading. general of the Cantonese and atthehead of the conservll.ti Ye faction of K anking can make hi.s peace with .Sun Changfang" th ell, the radicals may be ueaten and this would, a.t least in part, saYe China from Russian bolschevism. The Xanking party is backed by all serious Chinese and those who hal'e to save some capital that in the meantime will help the conse1·vati ms to finance their wa.rlike enterprises and without which no party can win a ciYil war. The Hankow party is, of course, backed by the Russians and those Chinese who want to appropriate the properties of others. In several provinces the peasants, headed by the bolschevik students, have taken possession of the land owned by rich proprietors. Boischevism has found its way even in Thibet, where the poor peasants have tried to apply the socialist rule of taking as their own what belongs to the lar:downers. They are fighting the rich Thibetans and Chinese alike. 24 The country around Canton seems tn be safe to foreigners, but it is not so in other parts of the country, especially there where the Hankow masters dominate: their cry is not only as that of the Nanking faction: China tor the Chinese, but also: A way with all foreig-ners. Due to the foreig-11 forces at Shang-hai and other important towns along the Yangtze river and the coast, there seems however to· be le~s danger to foreigners than Lwo months ago, although most of them abandon China, the Ca tho lie Missionaries excepted. There are some prognostics of an alliance sooner or later to be made between the Nan king party and the Peking government. This may become true if the bolschevicelement becom'es too strong. Anyway ·it is more than probable that this civil war will last for a long time wherefore the A merican expedition maims provisions for a t.hree years' stay to mePt all eventualities. Further treaties and arrangements between foreign nations and the Chinese, especially about the Hankow incident, have been suspended, because in fact there seems to be no responsible government that can execute whatsoever might be decided among the contending nations. · Chili. - ~fussolin i did away \vith parliamentarism in Italy and not only saved his country from Bolshevism, but has brought it back to a high degree of prosperity with all prognostics of a bright future. Primo de Rivera imit· ated the Italian-' 'duce" in Spain and Spain, t(Jo, has attained, more than ever, since the war not only internal peace but also wealth and happiness. Chili's vice-president, general Ibafiez has given the president of the country a three months' vacation with the un· derstanding of giving him mol'e, has suppressed parliament and is trying to establi~h Fa~cisrn, as is often callPd the Italian system of Government. President Figueroa has resigned. vVhy that reverse from democracy to autocracy? Since the war most of the nations are ' burdened by taxes, one· of their many causes is the excessive number of employees in the senice of the Go· vernments. The politicians of the country, sitting in Congress, of course during their campaign>' often recur to promises of gi Ying jobs to their lead· ers and electors. Jobs being all tilled up, new ones ha\·e to be created and more salaries thus being paid, more taxes are required. Another cause i~ the increasing bolschevism, which re· quires rather a strong hand and a wise head to deal with it. This can more easily be done by a few or one than by many, according to the proYerb: l\Iany cooks spoil the broth. In general, it is often repeated that democracy has been a failure, and hence the return of some countries to a constitutional autocracy, call it fascism or nationalism. Mexico. Calles may deny revol ntlons, or announce his victories over the several re,tolutionary bands that· infest the country: such news does not n lter facts. The Yaquis, a tribe of Indians, which has caused much trouble to the Mexi· can Government for more than a century and which was neversubdued, continue their war against Calles. Of course they are aided by others dissat· isfi.ed with the tyrannical conditions of the Mexican Nero. Serious reverses of the federal troops suffered at hands of these Yaquis may wake the revolt more general and overthrow the one who wanted to smash God and the Church of the country. Nicarjlgua. The peace between the revolutionary liberals and the party in power, the conservatives, thanks to the intervention of the American marines, has made- a further step: the two rival parties have concluded arrangements a nd both have arranged to turn in their weapons to prevent new clashes: All weapons have to be turned in and $10,00 will be paid for each gun given willin1rly. so. the dollar will reign when all weapons have been bought, provided Mexico, in her desire to start trouble all over Central America against the Americans, find~ no means of again arming the Nicaraguans. Only One Mother You hare only one mother, my boy, Whose heart you can gladden with joy, Or caui;:e it to ache Till ready to break, So cherish that mother, my boy. You have only one mother, who will Stand by you through good and through ill, And love you, although The world is your foe: So care for that love ever still You have only one mother to pray, That in the good path you may stay, ·who for you won't sp~re Self sacrifice rare; So lore that mother alway. You have only one mother to make A home e,·er sweet for your sake, Who toils day and night For you with delight: To help her pains ever take. You hare only one mother~just one: Remember that always, my son. / None can or will do What she has for you: V\'hat have you for her ever done? Patron Saint for Hobbed Hair <iirls The New Zealand Tablet suggests as patron saint for the modern bobbed-hair girl, Saint Rose of Lima, in whose office in the Breviary it is related that she had her hair cropped close in order to make herself hideous in the eyes of a man to whom her mother wanted to marry her. Her example is a perennial reminder of Saint Paul's words that a woman's glory is in her hair. Rose knew that, and she could think of no better way of making herself unattractive than _ to bob or shingle her lovely locks. 26 ,r ~~ ~ l=Q=u=:;::~::s;: · ~:;:;:~c::;I::=o~;,~ .. ~:::;;e:· B::;:=o=x=J Question; unsiimed will 11ot be an;wPred. Anon.1·rnou~ IPller; must find their way into the waste pa!)Pr ba>ket. "·e will not publish thP narnP,; of those who send questions. Question :Yo. 27. During Hr1ly Week. I heard some Protestants mark the ceremonies uftheC!rnrch. Please, lwu: caniun111cer them? A nswer.-By relig-ious ceremonies 1ve mean certain expressive Sil!m' and actions which the Church has ordained for the worthy celebration of tile Di vine serYice. Of course. true de,·otion must first of all be interior: it must come from the understanding of it, and from the heart. for "the tn1e adorers sha 11 adore the Father in spirit and in truth'". But we are not to infer from this that exterior worship is to be contemned because interior 'il·orship is prescribed as essentia I. 011 the contrary, the rites and ceremonies enjoined in the worship of God and the administration Qf the sacraments are dictated by right reason. are sanctioned b~- A lmil!hl y God in the Old Law. and by Christ and His Apostles in the "\few. True piety cannot long be concealed M:i the heart 11·ithout manifesting itself by exterior pra<'tices of religion: hence though intnior irnd exterior worship are distinct. the\' <'annot lie separated in the present life. ·what one feels in his heart, must needs appear in action and word. It is natural. for man to express his sentiments by signs and <'eremonies: and the exterior expression of the interior feelings adds to the fervor of the last. Will a devoted child content itself by lo\'ing its father and mother only ini1•ard? "Xo, its con1·ersation, deeds and its whole body will manifest its inner loH'. So will the true child of God show its affection for its Creator. The man who daily bends his knee to the "!\faker. who reci-tes or sings His praises. who deYoutly makes the sign of the cross, in one word, who shows an exterior decerum in his homage to God. will generally be one whose heart is united to God and who obeys His laws. On the contrary. show me a man who habitually neg.ilects outward obserrnnces of religion and charity. and· I will show you one in whose soul the tire of derntion, if not quite extinguif'hed, at least burns Yery faintly. :More. tile ceremopies of the Church. if understood, rivet our attention and lift it up to God: they teach us what is g-oing on and consequently increase our interior sentiment~ to"·ard reli~·ion. Al n:ii!tht.v God considered exterior worf>llip so indispensable to interior "·ors hip that we find :Him in the Old Law •- rescribing in the minutest detail the various rites and ceremonies to be practiced by the .Tewish priests (see the book of Leviticus). Our Savior, though He came to establish a more spiritual religion than that of the Old Law .did not discard the outward forms of 'l'l"orship. He Himself went in procession to Jerusalem. At the Last Supper He blessed the bread and w.ine and chanted a hymn with His disci·ples. He--put Bis fingers into the ears of t he deaf and dumb man and touched h is tongue with spittle. Imparting the Holy Ghost to His Apostles, He breathed 01·er them and afterwards theApostlescommunicated the Holy Ghost to others by laying hancls on them. The Apostle St. James directs that if any one is sick, he shall call in . the priest, who anoint him with oil. A re all these actions not ceremo· nies? Of course the ceremonies of the 27 Church today are more impressive, but it is quite natural that the majesty of ceremonial should keep pace with the growth of Christianit.y. When some mock the ceremonies of the Church. it is mostly because they do not un· derstand them as they refui::e to learn their meaning, or because they are prejudiced against anything of the Catholic Church. Let us study the ceremonies of the Church, especially those of the Mass and the Sacraments. Things That Endure Yo.nor and truth and manhoodThese are truths that stand, Though the sneer and the jibe of the cynic tribe Are loud through the width of the land. The scoffer may lord it an hour on earth, And a lie may live for a clay, But truth and honor and manly worth Are things that endure alway. Courage and toil and service, Old, yet forever neWThese are· the rock that abides the shock And h~lds through the storm, fiinttrue. Fad and folly, the whims of an hour, May bicker and rant and thrill: . But the living granite of truth will tower Long after their rage is still. Labor and lo\·e and virtueTime does not dim their glow: Though the smart may say. in a languid way, "We've outgrown aM. that, you know!" But a lie, whatever the guise it wears, Is a lie, as it was of yore, And a truth that has lttsted a million years Is good for a million more! A Russian Parable · l A man, discontented with what he thought his IBiserable lot, oomplained of Providence. " God," he said, "gives other men riches and I have nothing whatever. How can I ~et on in life havipg nothing whatever? How can I get on in Me having nothing to •tart with?" An old sage heard these words, and he said: "Are you so poor as you think yt1rn are, my friend? Has not God given you strength and you~h ?" "I admit that He has ,and I can say th:i.t I am proud of both my health and my strength." The old man then took the youth's ri~ht hand and said: "Would you have this cut off for a thousand rubles?" "No, most certainly not." "Nor your left hand." "No, indeed.'J ''Would you consent to become blind for ten thousand rub~s?" "God, forbid! I would not ce>nsent to lose even one eye for any sum." '·See, then, what riches the good God has given you." 28 ftAILBAG OFTHE LITTLE A~G!TlE For all correspondence \\ il h "'fHE LIT'l'LE APOSTLE" send ye ur letter to The Little Apostle, Box l393, Jlunila ~ranila, June 1, 192~. Dear Readers. Today I start my fourth year. Three years ago, the Very Rev. FathPr Van Zuyt, then provincial of the Belgian Fathers, said that, if the number of my subscribers could some day reach the three thousand, it would mean a great success; he was rather inclined to believe that one thou~and would be a tine goal. Well, today J count six thousand subscribers, although my little brother, El Misionero, has taken away from m~· list a good many who prefer the Spanish language to the English. In the Philippines it is commonly said that bad payment of renewals used to kill .all magazines after one or two years. Unhappily there 1s some truth in this saying specially where Carholic magazines and papers are concerned . Dear Readers: A debt is a debt, duty is duty: specially this of p~ying debts: not to pay them is forbidden by the seventh commandment of God. This language sounds a little bit rough, let me sweeten the pill with the sugar of verses lately found in an old document and written "a la Longfellow's Hiawatha," and if you find th.at the message concerns yourself, plea>e don't be offended, uut immediately do an act of justice and even charity, by sending at once your renewal with a nice little yellow Money Order: Should you ask us why that dunning, Why these sad complaints and murmurs, Murmurs loud about clelinq.uents, Who have read this pr.per monthly, Read what they have not yet paid for, Read with pleasure, read with profit. 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This is the month of June, the month of the Sacred Heart of Jesus.· His Heart speaks of infinite love of infinite sacrifices made for the sal Yation of souls. Does your heart speak of love for Jesus? Just think of how many sacrifices you· make for the sahation of souls: for the conversion of pagans and sinners. If you find only a few, say that you love Jesus little: but if ~-ou can count many and great offers brought to Jesus, then, be sure that 29 you love Him :·eally and much and that your heart beats in unison with the most Sacred Heart. The last number of "The Little Apostle" was just printed whe.n we heard of the transfer of the Right Rev. Monsefior Sancho, bishop of Tuguegarao, to the diocese of Vigan. Not only our most i;:incere con5rati1lations, but also our most fervent prayers accompany this worthy Prelate. Nearly the whole Mountain Province comes under the j uril"diction of Mon senor Sancho. In his zeal, activity, generosity and <;:harity we hope: may God bless and· preserve him for a long time, for His greater glory, the progress of Nueva Segovia and the com·ersion of the Mountain Province. "The Little Apostle." What to Remember Forzet each kindness that you do As soon as you have done 1·t Forget the praise that falls to you, The moment you have won it; Forget the slander that you hear Before you can repeat it; Forget each slight, each spite, each sneer, Whenever you may meet it. Remember every kindness done To you, whate'er its measure Remember praise by others won And pass it on with pleasure; Remember every promise made And keep it to the letter; Remember those who lend you aid, And be a grateful debtor. 30 For the 'Little Tots ~· H ~ A Li ~\ell e Liiif'e oll the lLittlle JFJlcwer lfolZ" iLihtOe Chill©lll"ellh (Continuation) CHAPTER X Death of the Little Flower':; Mother. NE DAY little Thert:se and her sisters at home were told to keep very quiet in the house, to avoid shouting in the garden and to \Yalk on tiptoe whene,·erthey moved downstairs. Why? Mrs. Martin was sick .... very sick .... she had to keep to bed .... the doctors had said that her condition was almost hopeless. The little child and her sisters, of course, did their utmost to obey these orders but to be sure that no noise should disturb the dear patient, little Therese and her sister Celine passed nearly all the time in the houses of some friends, but these little friends could not replace the caresses and blessings of her mother. Therese was sorry .... very sorry, for she was of a very affectionate nature: the slightest separation from a memt er of the family left a deep impression in her loYely heart. Pauline had been sent to Mans to continue her studies in the college of the Visitation. Therese had accompanied her to the station on the day she left. Afterwards she was often seen standing at the window a:Jd looking with an expression of sorrow in her eyes in the direction of the station. -''What are you doing at the window" she was asked. -"I am looking for Pauline to come back" was her unvariaule answer. One day the priest, preceded by a sacristan ringing a bell and car· rying a light,entered in silence the mansion of the :Martin family. Mr. Mart'..n and all the children, together with the servants, were waiting with burning tapers at the door. The priest, dressed in a white surplice, carried something very mysterious on his heart. All followed him to the room of the patient. A nice altar, adorned with a crucifix, burning candles and flowers, stood not far from the sickbed. The priest said a few words to Mrs. Martin, after which he gaYe her the Blessed Sacrament. All present were praying and making supreme efforts to hide their tears. Then the priest administered Extreme Unction. God had found that l\Irs. Martin was ripe for heaven and perhaps He wished to make it understood that if good mothers are His chosen instruments to lead their children, sanctification is nevertheless His own work: the \York of His Grace and our cooperation. The 28th of August, 1877, little Therese was called to the bedside of her mother to give her a kiss. How pale mother looked and how cold her lips were: she had passed away to a better life, f::om where her loving heart and watching eye would follow each step of her until they all would be reunited with her forever in the eternal glory. Although only four years old on this memorable day, little Therese never forgot the sobbings of her father, the weeping of her sisters and her own childish grief,especially when all followed the coffin to the church and to the gra ,.e. Coming home, a deep silence followed the last tears of their eyes. One of the servants, at the sight 31 of the little orphans, could not repress a prdfound sigh saying: - " Poor little girls , without a mother. " Ko , they had no mother on earth, but they would, as much a!' possible, fill up the gap left by their severe loss. All of a sudden, and still as if in despair, Celine threw herself into the arms of her sister Mary, sobbing, and exclaimed: - " You will be my mother! " This act of mutual love and confidence immediately found an echo in the heart of little Therese. She too, accustomed to the best of mothers, wanted to ha ,.e another mother. It would only haYe b':'en natural that she chose Mary, her godmother. But she did not. Thinking that Pauline might haYe been sorry if she had nobody to love as her child, she embraced her and ::.aid: -"You, Pauline, will be my mother!" It is a heavy cross to bear, that of a father of a big family, when he is left alone to educate his many children. Nevertheless Mr. Martin, a truly devout christian found strength and confidence in his holy faith. Doesn't God take care of the birds in the air and of the lilies in the fields? Is He not our Father, the best of all fathers? He submitted to the sacred will of Providence and would consecrate the rest of his days to his beloved children. Some of his friends advised him to remain at Alenson in whose earth his beloved had been 32 buried. Others told him to place all his children in a college, while others still counseled him to divide the children among the different members of Mrs. Martin's family. He decided to leave the place and to go to Lisieux where his brother-in-law was living. It was a real sacrifice to say fare\Yell to Alenson where he had his business, his friends and where he had li\·ed for years. Besides his O\Yn house, he possessed a loyely cottage, ''Le Pavilion," on the outskirt of the town, where he used to take his family, wheneYer possible, for recreation. To say farewell to these lovely surroundings was indeed a heavy cross, but he carried it manfully and as a true christian. \Vho knows if this change of residence from Alenson to Lisieux was not a determining factor in the vocation of the Little Flower to the Carmel of this place? Little children pray for yonr mother cYery day. Ask God to keep her alive long enough to receive, from her, all the material and spiritual benefits-she and she al011e can give you. If you still possess that dearest creature, thank God for His goodness and if you have lost her, not only pray for her soul e\"ery day of your life, but, by your obedience to your father, help him carry the heavy burden of caring, alone, for his beJo,-ed children. (To be continued; A Child's Song I am but a li!tle boy, Papa's, mamma's only joy Glad and happy all the day, Chasing every care away. Often when my mamma's s1id, And is feeling awfully bad, I do try my best to ease her Every pain and every care. 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