The Little Apostle of the Mountain Province

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Title: The Little Apostle of the Mountain Province
Description: The organ of the Missionaries of the Immaculate Heart of Mary (Scheutveld) Fathers in the Mountain Province of the Philippines
Issue Date: Volume V (Issue No. 1) June 1928
Year: 1928
Language: English
Subject: Baguio (Philippines) -- Periodicals.; Catholic Church -- Missions -- Philippines -- Periodicals.
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Place of publication: Baguio
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SHIP CHANOLERY I I MILLS SUPPLIES . PAINTS & OIL ETC . I I I I I f ~~~~~------------------~~~i i : I VICTOR RECORDS I i of i I Catholic Catechism ! = ~ I I · · ~ 1 · I Every home-college-church-should have a set of these reI J cords. They are placed together in a beautiful album I'. i Pl0.00 only i I· Include them in your musical library today! I I Victor Talking Machine Co., Camden, N.J., U.S.A. I I GENERAL DISTRIBUTORS: i. I i i ERLANGER & GALINGER, INC. - i MANILA 601-609 ESCOLTA CEBU I - ' I Victor Dealers throughout the Islands; I x~~-~~-~---~-----~---~-----x VOL. V, No. J JUNE, J923 The Biggest · Thing in the World! WHA 'f the biggest thing in the whole world is? ... An act of love for God. Come along, big boss! You think you are great and doing marvels, beoause you are at the head of ia big organization and men move under your direction like wheels under pressure of steam or the weight of a clock. You are doing a thin,g only human and perhaps even unhuman. But that man who, under your dictates or heels, gives the strength of his body and the perspiratiOIIl of his blood that fatten your corpulence and gives this smilin,gly because he has a divine mission to fulfill, be it to nourish his family or to earn his own daily bread, that main, that laborer, who acts without murmuring against the fate alild daily cross of his life, but with the satisfaction of following Christ in His steps, that man is grand, he is daing a great thing, the biggest in the world: he loves God; his action, which is divine, makes this evident and his merit is not wei,ghed in silver and gold, but in the love of an infinite God. And you, heartless huma.n being-I should call you by another name, for you do not deserve even this-who finds pleasure in piercing the hearts of your neighbors and turning your knife in their bleeding wounds, because you despise and persecute them, or perhaps simply refuse thbm the consolation they have a right to, your work is mean and devilish; but the helpless victim you are crushing between the anvil of your pow.er and the hammer of your stupidity, may be called another Christ, if, at your merciless strokes, he finds the courage--no, the love for the Savior-to murmur in silence: "My Lord, Thy will be done". These simple words addressed to God are the prayer of Christ Himself in Gethsemani; they are the e:x'pression of an allembracing christian love for God: such an act of christian submis2 siah to Ga'.d's will is the biggest ly Father" and the downstri :ken thi1'g in the whole world. has felt a thrilling in his bo,som, If you thjn:k you are a big man an inspiration, a renewal of becaiuse you are rich, you are strength, a readiness to undertake quite mistaken: greatness is count- even greater hardships: he feels ed in pesos and dollars by men the heart of the Omnipotent and made of dust, but before the infinitely Mer.:iBul embracing him I~ternal and dnly Great, money is thro,u.gh the hea!rt of his superior: only like slime of the brok and the latter was a great man and he mu• d of the fields; that poor beg- rnz,de a great man out of th.e gar in rags, bending under the crushed inferior. Was his action double burden of weakness and ndt divine? And cou1d not everypoverty, is a far bigger man tha,n body do such? Why should one you, if, in remembrance of the profit of his supposed greatness poor Nazarene who lived on alms to smash and to ki'll? and was always teaching us real If the world despises frett~rs greatness, he but whispers in his and pouters, his hatred should suffocating hut that he is glad to ,rightly go to, alas, so many who loo'k like Christ. That poverello mistreat the · dignity of man, may kiss his cru: ifix: it is not the which is his initi·ative to foster betrnying signal pf a Judas, but good, but they are narrowminpedthe motherly caress of Mary; that ly jealous or stupidly ignorant as little man is grea:t and he is one of if good done by others took their the richest beings in the ·whole own a'wa'Y. Alas, such unhum1 an world. cravin)g,s t0 hinder another man's Did you see that other man, initiative and good, such perfect who des -ended from the high vacuums of brains otherwise pedestal of his di_ gnity and honor thought large and big, have spoilto whisper a single word of en- ed ma.ny heavenly projects, but coura.gement tq a laborer who not without sometimes producing slaves and toils but is downheart- even more hea.venly consequence. ed for a mistake or a failure, or If a man, the object of such hellish perhaps only foramisunderstand- pestering, is a true christian and. ing? Did you see that smile then, remembers how the Lord smooth the rou,gh face of that Himself was treat·ed in no other peasant now comforted by that way by his real executioners: the woud? Did you observe his re- jealous Pharisees and the ignorant newed efforts to continue his Scribes, and further, like Christ, arduous struggle for life? The keeps silenc,e to: refer his moral first, his superior, only has repeat- crushing to the God of Calvary, ed the word of the Messias: · then, oh then, something godly is "Have confidence in our heaven-. done thanks to that most devilish human aberration: a perfect act of lo~e for God goes to He:;iven and there is some more joy in Paradise, and that greater joy is someth~n1g infinitely greater than all what brai'ns conceive outside of Go.d and aJ:l what human power oan produce for only earthly purposes. Do you kno\v poor Emma? .... No? .... She is scar,cely known in her poor viUa,ge .... Now, that old, poor,litt1e woman is before the eyes of God one oif the world's greatest personages. Did you know that? -"Why? Whait did she do?" -"Whait she do.es? .... Oh,' not much-in the eyies of the world~nd everybody could do as much and the same; but not everybody does do it. What she does? Listen!" This morni:n,g when she woke. up, she has said "my God, I offer Thee my who.le day, good or bad". When she has begun her daily toiling in the half dark of the early morni:n,g, she has heard somebody cursing and she has said: "My God, I love The.e a thousand times more than this miser.able despises Thee". And when on her way she met a poor begg• ar, she has ,given him an alms, not much, because she is very poor, and she has said:"My God, it is to Thee that I give this." And when she was asked for help for the missions, she has given a:nother alms, while her heart murmured: "I am not rich, but I can help to saive a soul." 3 Somebody asked her a service; she rendered it with an inner whisper. "Oh, it costs me much, but it is for the good Lord!" One day she has been calumniated. Poor, litt:le woman. She has ta.ken her crucifix and said: "My God .... like Thee .... Thanks." And at night she slept in, softly beating her hr.east and saying: "My God, I have not loved Thee today; tomorrow I will love you n:i.ore." Emma has done but that, but she has done that for years. That is not much before the eye~ of the world, but before the all sighting eye of the Eternal: "that's all". And that is the reason why I tell you that Emma is one of the greatest personages of this wqrld. Now you, authors, orators, politi ~ ians, artists, ·bankers, big heads af big organizations, who fill the world with the fame of your nam~s .... you are running for human glory and fortunes ..... "smoke all that!" Within a few years, you will be in your graves, you will be dead, and after that? .. . Nothirig .... No, I am mistaken .. .. the tears you made others shed, and even those of others you could but did not dry, will accuse you and the good you prevented may be your condemnation. Within a few years Emma too will die, but who will observe that disap,pearance? And yet, I tell you, that poor, little woman has 4 accom,plished a greater work than you .•.. You have shaken the world? She has done more; she has moved God's heart. And when your works, like those of Emma, will be plaiced in the balance of God's justice, what a difference for you? T he world has his own balances and measures, but God, too, has Dear Subscriber: His own and they arie just. You who riead these lines, imitate Emma, that,poor,littlewoman, ·quite unknown. "The gr-eatest thing in the · whole world is an act of love of God." SA VON ARO LA. Among the advertising pages you will find a subscrip .. · ti on blank. For God's sake, secure a new subscriber, fill 1.n the blank, writing clearly the correct address and /or"' ward at your earliest convenience to: THE LITTLE APOSTLFP. 0. BOX 1393, MANILA, P. !. If YOVR own subscription expires, oblige by giving your new subscriber the safe companionship of YOUR OWN' RENE WAL The placing of a two peso bill in an unregistered letter means that it never may reach us. Oblige, paying by way of either check or money order. On.wards for the King of kings! May Little Flower bestow upon you 1!er choicest blessings. Your very grateful "LITTLE APOSTLE '1 5 St~ Aloysius Gonzaga June 21,. 1928 St. Aloysius the eldest son of Ferdinand Gonzaga, Marquis of Castiglione, .was born on the 9th of March, 1568. The first words he pronounced were the names of Je~us and Mary. ·when he was nine years of age he made a vow of perpetual virginity, and by a special grace was ever exempted from temptations against purity. He received his first Communion at the hands of St. Charles Borromeo. At ain early age he resolved to leave the world and in a vision was directed by our Blessed Lady to join the Society of Jes us. The Saint's mother rejoiced on learning his determination to become a religious, but his father for three years refused his consent. At length St. Aloysius obtained permission to enter the novitiate on the 25th of November, 1585; He took his vows after two years, and went through the ordinary course of philosophy and theology. He was wont to say he doubted whether without penance graoe would continue to make head against nature, which, when not afflicted and chastised, tends gradually to relapse into its old state, losing the habit of suffering acquired by the labor of years. "I am a crooked piece of iron," he said, and am come into religion to be made straight by the hammer bf mortification and penance." During his last year of theology a :malignant fever broke out in Rome; the Saint offered himself for the service of thesick, and he was accepted for the dangerous duty. Several of the brothers caught the fever, and Aloysius was of the number. He was brought to the point of death, but recovered, only to fall, however, into slow fever, which carried him off after three months. He died, repeating the Holy Name, a little after midnight between the 20th and 21st of June, on the octave-day af Corpus Christi, being rather more than twenty. three years of age. Reflec.tion. Cardinal Bellar.mini, the Saint's confessor, testified that he had never mortally offended God. Yet he chastised his body rigorously, rose at night to pray, and shed many tears for his sins. Pray that, not having followed his innocence, you may yet imitate his penance and thus join him some day in heaven. 6 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ it it · H So Speak the Wise.... H it it ·H and the Young Heed the Lesson! H it it ~**~~~~~~~~*~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ft tt 1.t 371. An ass that kicketh against the wall re1t ft ceiveth the blow himself ft 1t 372. Change of weather is the discourse of fools. 4t fr 373. Better to slip with the foot than with the fr fr tongue. ft ft ft ft 374. Three removals are as bad as a fire. ft tt 375. He that is needy when he is married shall 1t ft be rich when he is buried. tt tt 376. Choose thy company before thy drink. 1.t ·H 377. I talk of cha)k, and you of cheese. ·H tt 378. Nothing turns sourer than milk. tt ·H 379. A castle that speaketh and a woman that tt tt will hear, they will·be gotten both. tt ft 380. The thief is sqrry that he is to be hanged, ft tt not that he is a thief tt tr 381. He gives pap with hatchel. ft tt 382. The child hath a_ red tonglfe like his father. 1.t ft 383. A barjeycorn is bett-er than a diamond to ·H ·H a cook. ·H ft ft ·H 384. The calmest husbands make the stormiest ft ·H wives. ·H tt ft ·H 385. A blind man would be glad to see it. ·H tr ~t 7 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~ ~ ~ THE MISSION ~ ~ ~ ~ w ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ .. ~ The Cervantes Mission Lepanto, Mountain Province By Rev. Father J. Portelange, Cervantes Continuation. II. The Town of Cervantes and the Savage Malaya Igorrotes -"Our town. has been erected to command, and not to be dominated by _other~!" Such was the tl:iesis developed by a local politician, advocating the return of Cervantes to the honor of being the provincial capital, and he added: - -"Wasn't our town of Cervantes built - to ,be the capital ·of Lepant~? Hasn't it .been ·the · headquart~r; of the Filipino Re_ public, when its illustrious • President, with his Whole _ staff, remained, wi~h us for several days? Couldn't it have been called a "Little Rome" when hundreds of priests, representing_ ~he . ~ost renowned O~~ ders of Christianity, lived in our town for several months!" Of course, these words·- are to be taken with a gr~in of salt, for an orator, before a public meeting, is not always an historian, but th·ey will guide us through some historical facts that occurred m Cervantes. Who of you has ever heard of "el commandante Rayo", the "lightning Commander", "Commandante Sal-it", as the igorrotes used to call him? _ He was the famous Dori Louis Sareta y Figueroa, the last provincial command~ er who resided at Kayan, in 1879. He was an_ energet_ ic man, always on hqrseback, going from one Place to another to make inspections, anq always with the rapidity of lightning; hence . his nickname of "S~l;if', or "Lightning". Don Louis. wanted the capital of Lepanto to-be at a 'more central place than Kayan, somewhere 8 The Church of Cervantes built by Rev. F. Angel 0. S. A. and finished in 1892. at the crossing point of the different roads, from where he would be more able to command easily the ways of communication and to go to points he wished to visit. For this reason he founded Cervantes and made it the capital of the Lepanto province. In 1884 he began opening wide streets through the hilly plateau and erected the necessary buildings for a central government; thus, after all, our orator was right in saying that his town had been built to command and to be the capital of Lepanto. Speaking of the many and rapid inspections made by Don Louis, the Lightning Commander, we must not forget that the valiant SpaniaJ:'ds used to make regular inspection trips through the Mountain Province and the whole Northern Luzon. The Governor General, Don Fernando Prim'·ero de Rivera, in 1881, traveled for more than twenty days on horseback, covering the territory of the whole Northern Luzon. Our igcrrrotes still remember the famou's voyage of General Weyler, in 1890, when he was Governor General of the Philippines. From Candon he rode to Bontok in two days; pass i n g through Tadian he was kicked down by a vicious horse and picked up unconscious on the trail; nevertheless, after a while, he contiirned his way to Bontok, which he left the next day at 1 P. M. for Cervantes where he arrived at 10 P. M., escorted by a group of igorrotes bearing torches. The next morning, at 10 A. M. he started from Cervantes and reached Candon the same night, but so tired that, once dismounted, he had to be carried upstairs to enter the convent of Candon. But these stories would bring us too far from our subject. Let us return to it. Rev. Father Angel Perez, Augustinian, who had succeeded Father Redondo in Kayan, came with the Spanish garrison to Cervantes. Immediately he began to build a provisional chapel and later started the erection of the church, still preserved. Made of stone and brick, it is 43 meters long and 16 meters wide. The work on it lasted four years, for innumerable difficulties had to be overcome. For instance, the lim~ used in the buildii1g was to be brought from a distance of 22 Kilometers. Nevertheless the church was completed in 1892, a lasting monument of the zeal of the Spanish friars for the glory of God and the salvation of souls. The building of such a big church that Cervantes was expected to become a center of im~ portance, No doubt it was so under the Spanish domination, and, if this had continued some time longer, Cervantes would have developed greatly. Today 9 it numbers some 2,000 Christians and an equal number of infidels. The inhabitants of Cervantes still remember the festivities of the inauguration of their church in 1892. They say . that many people came from the lowlands to take part in the celebration, and, as there is no true feast without the traditional "Mor~moro play" and a "zarsuela'', some actors from Candon and Bucay, Abra, had been invited. But that same evening of the festivities for the inauguration of the church, some·thing very strange happened in t11e town. The representations were interrupted and the next day two thirds of the inhabitants were suffering of an acute fever. The actors fled in terror, but two of them never reached th e i r homes; they died on the road. Only after two weeks did the town return to its normal state of health. No wonder that the people of Cervantes still remember the event of the inauguration of their church and that it left a sad impression. June 12th of 1899, this same church was filled with a band of prisoners who had arrived from the lowlands, escorted by a guard of revolutionaries. Of these prisoners one hundred and forty were priests taken from every province of Luzon. The people of Cervantes will never forget the pitiful sight these priests offered while entering the town after 10 Crossing the river between Cervantes and Ca:yan. weeks and months of tiresome traveling. Many of them were old and they presented a most miserable appearance. Their cloths we11e soiled and in rags; some of theipriests were barefooted and some had to be carried by their younger and stronger companions; many of the inhabitants of Cervanties W€1pt bitter tears at the sight of s11ch misery. At the beginning, the people of the town were forbidden to help the poor prisoners. It was something heartrending to see the priests lining up in the street, twice a day, waiting for the call of "Rancho" of their guardians. They wen~ then furnished with rice and meat, but had, themselves, to go and fetch water, and cut firewood for their cooking which they themselves had to perform. However, .after a few days, the good . people of Cervantes managed to help the reverend prisoners and during six months, from June to December, they were r.elatively taken care of by the inhabitants. Two of the Fathers, one a Dominican and the other ·a Franciscan, passed away and their bodies -vvere removed to Manila for burial. It must have been a strange sight to see so many priests prisoners in the sfr.eets of Cervantes; this was the r·eason why our orator called Cervantes a "Little Rotne". How did they escape? November 28th, 1899, the news rea-:hed Cervantes that the President of the Philippine Republic wi:s on the way to t'-e town, flying before a regiment of American cavalry under Commander March and hard pressed by his enemies. The notice filled the ears of the prisoners with fear and sorrow. · Already before he arrived in Cervantes and while still in Angaki, President Aguinaldo had sent orders thati all the prisoners should leave immediately for Bontok, where be intended to rejoin them. if circumstances forced him to fly farther. · Novem'ber 30th, at noon, hear. rived in Cervantes accompanied hy his wife and her sister, and also by his entire staff, including General Gregorio del Pilar, and General Concepcion, etc. December 1st, the enemy continuing to advance in pursuit, General Gregorio del Pilar decided to go back and make a stand on top of the Tila Pass. He was killed on the spot, a true hero, sacrificing his life to give Aguinaldo time to rest and make his escape. It was on December2at6P.M. ti-at the sad news of the death of General del Pilar, shot through the head, was received at Cervantes and it was also reported by the messenger that the pursuing enemy was advancing very rapidly. That same evening, 11 President Aguinaldo left for Bontok via Kayan, wl~ere he passed the rest of the night of December 2. So there was some exaggeration in the statement of our orator wben he said that Cervantes J-ad hen the scene of the siege of the Republican Government. Wr a1:: had become of the prisoners? They left' Cervantes under a small escort, when it was heard that ti-e American forces were drawing nearer i;md nearer. There being two roads to Bontok, one via Kayan and Bagnen, and another via Sabafigan, much longer than the first, the prisoners, knowing that the revolutionaries were now hard pressed by the cavalry of the enemy, preferred to take the road to Bontok via Sabafigan and once on the road, they found all possible pretexts to delay their march and to win time. General Aguinaldo had taken the shortest road, the' Americans entering Cervantes a fow hours after he left the town. The priests' strategy along the road brought them so near the Americans, that their escort left them behind at Sabafigan for the sake of safety, at which the prisoners, now free, started back for Cervantes. More of these historical events could be told, but I fear I might abuse of the &pace of the Little Apostle's columns. The • population of Cervantes 12 at present is about 4,000 people, The Cent.er is almost entirely inhabited by Christians and some more live in the barrios. The town does not differ much from the villages of the lowlands and, if it does, it is to its ad vantage. The lgorrotes or infidels are scattered over the many hills and mountains around that range that is generally called the Malaya Range. Malaya is the name given to a chain of mountains situated to the west of Cervantes, running from South to North between the plateau of Cervantes and the plains of the Ilokano provinces. The principal mountains of the range are Data, 2,000 meters high, in the South; before the town is mount Malaya, of 1,800 meters altitude, and in the North is the Tila peak over which runs the road to Candon and measuring 1,355 meters. The name of Malaya is also given to seven barrios of Igorrotes, situated on the tops of seven hills, whose altitudes vary between 800 and 1,800 meters, and separated from each other by deep ravines, the beds of impetuous torrents during the rainy season. Practically, there are no roads that lead to those seven barrios anid thus the inhabitants .are living beyond the reach of civilization. They are cultivating potatoes and vegetables which tbey sell to the Christians, they also cut some timber us::d for the construction of houses. Until recently they have alwsys show111 little or no taste for civilization anld the Faith. They use to come to town without any clothes but the traditional breechcloth, made of the bark of a tree, with their long hair in disorder and their bodies dirty as dirty c2n be. Not long ago however, many of them came anid asked for a catechist to teach them the ele:. ments of reading and writing and the prayers. Is there any hope for their conversion? One of the greatest difficulties to bring them to the Church is their wide dispersion over so many unaocessible hills and another one is the absolute lack of r ny commodity in their midst. However, I hope that with the help of a good catechist and the building of a chapel somewhere .in th~ most central place of the seven hills, the grace of God will reach the hearts of a good many, but not after some long and often repeated instructions. To be continued. 13 Mission News & Notes The Rt. Rev. Constant Jurgens, Bishop of Tuguegarao. Holland. Msgr. Jurgens was consecrated in Nymege.n on Sunday Maroh 18 by Msgr. Arn. Diepen, assisted by Msgrs. Hopmans and De Boeck, the latter bishop of New Antwerp, Congo, and of the 14 Congregation of the Immaculate Heart of Mary. A great concourse of clergy and people at· tended the impressive ceremony. Later, Msgr. Jurgens deposited a crown of flowers at the foot of the statue of Msgr. Hamer who died a martyr in China during the boxer insurrection. Msgr. Jurgens will leave Holland for his diocese of Tuguegarao next August or September. Coat-of-arms of Msgr. Jurgens. Pectoral Cross and Episcopal staff of ·Msgr. Jurgens. From the Mission. The Rev. Father De Brouwer, formersuperiorof theBontok mission, and n<Yw on his waytoNymegen, Holland, to become rector of the seminary of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, once more expresses his most sincere thanks to the Rev. Maryknoll Sisters of St. Paul's hospital for their kind attentions and charitable care with which they treated him during his six weeks' stay in their hospital, after a double operation which, duringacertain time, brought him into serious darug·er of passing away. Cervantes. long live the Barrio of St. Therese! The people are learning fast and a good number of boys 'and girls, all schoolchildren, attend Mass every Sunday, walking a distance of five kilometers to come to Cervantes. But, as if the blessing of the conversion of St. Therese barrio had set a good example, another mass conversion of another barrio has taken place. On top of the high cliff dominating St. Therese's barrio. lies another hamlet by the nam'e of "Pili pit", •counting more than four hundred Igorrote inhabitants. Recently, forty 'men of Pilipit started to build a road downward connecting it with an existing trail. When the hard 15 work was finished they came in group to let me know that they too desired to be b~tized and become Christians; wherefore they asked me to send them a catechist to teach them the required doctrine and give them the necessary instructions. I can not describe the joy thart: filled my heart; so I accompanied the delegation to Pilipit and, once there, we selected the best place for schoolchapel. Just imagine: more than 100 children will be baptized as soon as the building is finished, but then .... yes, here begins the but ... I have no catedhist to send to Pilipit, or :rather I can easily find the right man for · the right plaoe, but .... weH, you all understand me. Shall that wonderful movement of a whole barrio asking to become Christians be stopped at its v·ery beginning? Is there not a family or a group of Catholics that is willing to afford the •mionthly salary for that Catechist and the salvation of hundreds? Aluling became St. Therese's barrio thanks to a group of Catholics from Iloilo! Who will adopt Pilipit's catechist? And what a name shall be given to this new center? You who have a heart for the conversion of this whole village, SPEAK and HELP! Apayao. How Father Van Overbergh was killed but did not die and is again quite alive and busy. 16 The mission of Apayao lies on top of a hill, which is a rather dangerous place during thunderstorms. One afternoon at the end of April, Brothers Henry and Gerard together with their helpers were busy working at the new church, Father Van Overbergh is building. A few clouds were gathering above their heads but there seemed no danger to be im. minent. The Father was taking ing a walk near the tower, when all of a sudden lightning struck the steeple and played havoc among the bystanders. Father Van Overbergh was seen to fall. Pio, one of the laborers, a Bontok boy, fell through th.e window at which he was standing. Four or five more men were thrown upon the ground. At the first moment not a single one of them all could move. The people shouted wildly, crying that the Father was killed and the others were dead. Thanks to God, Father Van Overbergh, after a few moments, could stand up and Japan. Sister Antonia, a French mis-· sionary n'un, has recently been given a permanent pass on the Japanese railways in recognition of her social work. Prior to this award, a: private company funcdraw himself towards the brothers, though his limbs were n~ar ly paralyzed. The others, too, were only unconcious and somewhat paralyzed, but, alas, Pio had been killed. Father Vam Overbergh says he did not hear the thunder and did not see the lightning. For a few days he could hardly walk, but is now completely restored. No much damage was caused to the building. The Father has ordered a lightning rod, though he has no means to pay for it. He says: Somebody, some charitable soul will provide us with the means to pay, but in conscience I could not do without the rod; it would mean to expose the lilves of my people who come to church, seeing that the church stands on the highest point of the hill and that during a great part of the year we are visited daily by thunderstorms. Until now the charitable soul has not been found. Do you know of any? tioning under government control, contributed 600 yens annually toward her transportation expenses. She has for more than forty years devoted her unusual talent for organization to the educational improvement of poor children and young girls. 17 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~ ~ I COUNTRY AND PEOPLE I ~ ~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The Songs of a People Igorrote Customs in East Benguet by Rev. Father Claerhoudt Missionary, Bokod, Benguet Copyrighted L ie. 343 Continuation XIV §Ji. ... gup., Dosaad FOR A very long time Silang suffered of a son: throat, coughed day and night and wasvisiblyw.astingaway. It would not heal. During theday,itwasless vexing, it was passable; but, at riight, it was just unbearab1e. It was awful Sibang could not sleep, he could nat shut an eye. It was enough that the fire in the hearth sent forth a little smoke, to make him feel a prickly itching in his dry throat a.Il'd to make him cough from the very bottom o'f his lungs as if his breast would burst .... Y es, it was a long time that Silangpainfully suffered. He felt no liking at all for work. His pipe did not please him any longer; he was often seen on the "atol", in front of his house absentmind~dly gazing at nothing, but bitterly grieving in his heart, and he was chewing "boa" and "<lawed" leaves, oftentimes speaking to himself, saying: "I think I'll • die very soon." One day, Malenes, who now and then acted as mambunung, was sitting near Silan,g. They were chatting and it was then that Silang exposed to him all the pain he felt and how long it had been lasting. -"Give me some ginger and a little ·salt" Malenes said, "I will rub your body with them and tell you the story of "Sigop" to make you better." Malenes took the ginger, crushed and mixed it with a handful of 18 salt and rubbed the medicine over Silang's suf£ering body. "Listen Silang" Malenes said: "A v.ery long time ago, there \Vere two brothers; they traveled all around, through the villages, s.elling ginger and salt. . On.e day, they were travelin.c; and they met "Akodow"-Akodow is living at a place where there is no water-and. hearing that the brothers were selling ginger and salt, asked for a handful of their merchandise, but the brothers did not pay any attention to the request of Akodow and started to go farther. -"GiVie us money" the brothers said, "aind we will giv• e you ginger and salt." Akodow became angry and nm away shouting to the brothers: 'm>in-ok-ok-kajo'-You will get a cough.' And ind.eed, a short while after, the two brothers began to cough most terribly ..... and, as soon· as they arrived home, they boiled tapoei and slm.lfghtered pigs and celebrated all kinds of kaniaws, but all to nd avail. But Kabigat, who was hovering in the sky, had pity on them and Kaibigat <liescended towards the earth. - "Go back to Akodow" Kabigat said to the two brothers, "and ask pardon". At which the two brothers went to the country of Akodow and they askeid pardon. "Good!" Akodow said, "but now bring me a dfr:ken!" And the two brothers brought a chicken to Akodow, and Akodow.praye<l: over it and exorcised it and gave the two brothers the pO\\·er to cure t.he cough of their neighbours after they reached home. .And Akodow gavethema,dvice: "When.ever you want to cure a rough of those who are affected by it, tell them to kill a chicken and to invoke my name when they pray". And the two brothers felt they were cul:1ed of their sickness, and when they rea·ched home, they taught their neighbours the way to get rid of their coughs.'' Such was the story of the "Sigop", the powerful story of the Sigqp; and Silang felt the ginger and the salt glowi:ng all through his body; he tightened his blanket once more around his oarcass and, for a long time, he remained chatting with Malenes on the atol, in front of his hut .... "Mandosaad si Kaisep" Ka.pit said to Sakbut, "I will go and see him". - "Ng;aranioi sakitto? What's wrong with KaiE:•ep?" Sakbut asked. - "Tagwi!.. . .I do not know. Why don't you come with me? ... " And the two men started for "Abwat" where Kaisep was living, and, when they arrived, they found that some people were al11eady gathered around the hut. The maimbunung was sitting in the house near Kaisep and had just begun his ·exorcisms. "Listen to what I will tell you", the _ mambunung said to Kaisep, "Kabunian gave us a medicine to remove any sickness that affects the breast. It was a long time &go, so toLd us our ancestors, and there was aiday that K.abigat, who dwells on earth, set out from the mountains and went down to the lowlands to do some commerce with the people af the valleys. Kabigat went to the lowlands and together with him went his sons. And whein they had arrived in the lowlands, they started their business and bought pigs. Thoo they came back to the mountains aJnid, on their way home, they passed the night on the road. So, one night they slept under a large "Bwaletee" tree. Kabigiat, who dwells in the sky, saw that Kabigat who dwells on earth, was sleeping under the Bwaletee. When art: dawn Kabigat, who dwells on earth, awo.ke, he felt a grieving pain in his breast, and his sans ·cried, for they said within themselves: He is dying". Kabigat, who dwells in the sky, saw their bi>t!ter tears and he pitied them. So, he came down and spoke to them, saying: -"Ngaranto inpasing nitan? What's the matter?" -"Ay, my breast!" Kabiigat, 19 who dwells on earth, answered. "anai ensakit i pagowko, my breast is aching." - "Slaughter a pig" Kabigat. who dwells in the sky, answere:l; pray the exorcisn of the "Dosr.d" f\nd the pain will disappear". And the sons of Kabigat, who dwells on earth, killed a pig and cooked it, after which Kabigat, who dwells on ea:rth, felt a relief, the pain had disappearnd and a.gain he was as well as ever." When he had finished this tale. the mambunun,g shouted: - "Kill the pig!" The small pig, that was lying in front of the hut and had been moaning and giroaning all this' time, felt a wooden prick pierce its heart; it howled with all its might, breathed heavily, jerked its feet, yelled :pitifully because of the cuttin,g ·pain and the bleeding wound, al1Jd moaned itself to death. The liver and a piece of fat were cut out, placed on top of a small wooden prick, held above the fire until they were roasted and then were passed to the mambunung who deposed the whole on top of the breast of the slau,ghte11ed µig. Then, he took the hatchet, entered the hut and placed the hatchet upon the aching breast of Kaisep. -"Come here" so prayed the mambunung. "Come here, you, mambunung of the past. 20 "Come and pray the prayer of the Dosaad. "When you say that prayer, the illness will soon disappear." At which the others brought the roasted piece of liver and the morsel of dri,pping fat to Kaisep and Kaisep ate them both. The Dosaad was finished and · all those present sat down on their heels and partook of the Outlawing War. The United States and France ha-rn signed a treaty by which both countries outlaw war. Readers who have followed the correspondence between Sel-retary Kellogg and 11. Briand are asl<i ng- how much wil I that outlawing of war·do to oromote world peace? ~othing at all. will be the answer of those who know h istory and stop to reflect. Two nations signing a round-robin denouncing warfare is a small matter, though both be powerful. In the event of a war like t'he last one (for commercial supremacy), the whole civilized world would be drawn into it. Amer_ cans and English in particular would insist upon having their rights protected. It is as silly a performance as beating the air for any two nations, or combination of many nations, to sign and ratify a peace covenant. The heads of them would be apt to quarrel some time on slight provocation; 11.nd treaties would be as scraps ·of paoer. If war is to d isappear, someefiective substitute for it must be found. That banquet soon .prepared. Ka~s·ep would soon be cured, he most firmly believe<l it. because Kabigat, who dwells in the sky, had said: - "Slaughter a pig, pray the ex· orcism of the Dosaad ~nd the pain will vanish'', and he had done all this. To b.: co11ti1111etl. the only one possible is a world Court, is the opinion expressed in the work: "Th Outlawry of War" by Dr. Charles Morrison. He writes: "The essential basis of world peace is a Court of law and ustice to which the nat.ions are willing to resort in· stead of resorting to war. If there is a way to establio:h such a Court,effectua 1ly to commit the nationsto take their disputes to it instead of taking- them to the battlefteld, our problem is solved. An authoritative Court of war is the only method of C0:\1PELLING a settlement of disputes between nations. Any programme which fails to provide a real Court with real law is not a genuine plan for world peace." The establishment of such a Court lies far ahead. It can be nothingrnore than a dream until the world is Christian, and the will to peace is strong and uni Yersal. The H·oly See would then be the tribunal for the settlement of disputes between nations. The' present state of the world gives no hope of international peace. Ave Maria. ... l'.· 21 ,.l\lt"l'tlll\\llll•\lll/t"ll>o11111•lllltlUllll~ .• "·;~, •1111/t!l·l'.",'!,l~t~~·~\l~lli~~:·~~~UIHl\n\I , • ~\\\*~ 11m1m1/l\lflftfN:~~)'.1~1~~~l1!1'.~l11_11111Nlll1l/lll. ' ,.~•' ~ r , · , ,11!H!1U1ll!lllf\n111il//l)Ui1Jlhl1i111ttlllhUlll\JM:. • r • ~-~ ..:_,,, 1 ,&~1:;H:;:;:::;;::ns-:r~~~:ifo~·t·1 Catholic Chronicle Rome. While the cause of the Venerable Don Bosco was being considered at Rome, the following miracle took place_ at Sampierdarena, near Genoa. A young girl had her left leg paralyzed and the doctors could do nothing for her. Then, certain ladic·s of a circle which is under the patronage of Mary Help c•f Christians, ·commonly known as "Don Bosco's Madonna", offei·ed up their prayers for the n~ covery of the sick girl. On January 15, the parish priest of the place once more recommended her to the prayers CJf the ladies of the circle, asking for a quick recovery of the girl on January 24, when the Congregation of Rites was to consid22 er tl-ie miracles attributed to Don Bosco. In the early afternoon of January 24, tl0 e afflicted girl threw aside her crutches, got up on her feet and began to jump about. Two days afterwards she went to C'·urch and received Holy Communion. Belgium. The new library\vit1 1 which Americim generosity is enriching the Louvain Catholic University is nearly finished, and the official inauguration has been set, with singular appropriateness, for next July 4. The rising tower of 200 feet is a constant inspiration to the University community, dominating the library proper. It is to shelter a carillon of the fin~st make, with which it will periodically. with its melody, remind all of America's friendship for Belgium. China. Since. 1923, 10 priests have been murdered, one of them a Chinese. In no year since the Boxer revolution in 1900 has there been such destruction in\ China as in 1927. Burning and pillage of missions and wholesale banditry were reported for all the 18 provinces. Confiscation of Church property has taken place in seven provinces. Nevertheless in some places mission progress has not been at a standstill, while in others the number of Christians has greatly decreased due to emigration of peoiple forced to leave their country mostly for Manchuria, because of banditry. Pekin had, during 1927, about 16,000 converts; and 16 vicariates re.ported over l,OOJ convert-,. The mis~ion of the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart continues to be infested with numberless bandits. Palakai was attacked by the~ with a continuous gunfire for two days and nights, until a certain amount of wheat and straw had been given them by th~ besieged mis'iionarim. Fathers Crabbe and Morel were held prisoners by different bands but were delivered after a few days. Father Vercr ysse's mission wa> cornjpletely plundered and the ,priest had nothing left but the clothes he was wearing at the time. A shot fired near his ear by one of th~ robbers left him deaf on one side. Ceylon; One twelfth of the population or 368,435 inha,bitants are Catl1olics. The Governor of the Island and two judges of the Supreme Court are Catholics as well as two of the five members of the Executive Council and three of the thirty-six members of the Legislative Council. The remainder of the 4,500,000 inhabitants are divided as follows: Christian sects other than Cat11olics: 74,565; Musulmans: 302,500; Hindoists: 982, 100; Budhists: 2,769,000. Danemark. Brother Ansgar made his vows in t'-e Benedictine A1 bbey at Clerf, Luxembourg. He1 is t 1 1e first Dane to enter the Order and in abbey est!a:hlished expressly to work for the conversion of the Northern peqple: Danes, Swedes, Norwegians, Finns and others. He is a convert 1-aving been received into the Church in 1926. England. England's contr~bution to the Prc1 pagation of the Faith increased last year from $40,000 to $50, 000. Tr e Holy Father has granted to laymen who render service on the National Council or the diocesan committees of the Propagation the privillege of having Mass said in their homes during sickness, with the permission of the Bishop. A hundred open-air platforms are now being run by the Catholic Evidence Guild in different parts of the country with some 500 speakers eagerly engaged in teaching the Faith to the man in the street. France. The youngest Bishop in France, Msgr. Felth, who has been named Bishop of Troyes at the age of 44, was consecrateld under extraordinary circumstances. The consecrating prelate was Cardinal Binet and the r assistants were Msgr. 23 Remmond and Msgr. Rodie. The four prelates had fought in t~-e war: Msgr. Remmond as c1-ief of a batalion of infantry, Msgr. Rodie as 1 a cgptain of artillery, Msgr. Feltin as a sergeant and Cardinal Binet as ·a simple soldier. In his discourse, the Gardinal mentiont.1d trese frets but l~e renvu-ked that, in the religious life, the rank had been reversed. Fiji Islands. Father Franieis Xavier Nicouleau, a Frem::h Missionary, died of leprosy after six years confinement with 400 lepers of Makogai, during whi:ch time he suffered the most excruciating tortures from the dread disease. He had labored thirty years among the natives of these islands. He had contracted leprosy while chaplain at Makogai. During his sickness he said Mass as often as he could and was· served by a leper whose legs had been amputated. He had a small workshop where he ma!de wooden limbs for those of his companions whose legs had been removed. United States. The net contributions from the United States for 1927 amounted to $1,126,871.71. Brooklyn diocese contributed most: a total of $154,049 and the diocese of Springfield came first with the per capital contribution of 17.9 cents per Catholic inhabitant. 24 Political. The United States Supreme Court confirmed the decision rendered by the Philippine Supreme Court, settling the famous question between former GoYernor General "\Yood and the Philippine Legislature and by which, as GoYernor Wood pretended, the Governor General of the Philip. pines has the right to Yote the stock in t.he government owned corporations in which the Philippine Government owns the majority of shares. Senate President Quezon, on ~Tay 3, strenuously objected to the Willis bill providing for civilian assistants for the Governor General, and to the measure that would deprive the Senate of its power to confirm the appointment of governors of nonChristian provinces. He said that the Philippine Legislature is re:<dy to appropiate whatever amount is necessary for assistants and that the Senate had only once refused to approrn the appointment of a goYernor. Governor General Stimson. urged the approval of the Willis bill saying that with the amount proposed by the bill and taken from the internal reYenues co.llected in the States from Philippine products, there would be no political interference with the appointments of his civilian assistants and no need for their approval by the Senat,e. As numerous telegrams were received by the Governor General and the department of the interior. a~king their intervention in The corning genral elections on June 5, some infered that serious disorders were believed to be imminent. Let us hope t.hat this fear will be futile, and that the elections will be held in the most peaceful way, as they always have been. Reside1.1t Commissioner Gaba !don who resigned his oost in Washington and returned to the Philippines, accused the Filipino leaders, Senate President Quezon and Senator Osmena, of having gi rnn up their ideal of Immediate Independence for .more aut.onomy. Senate President Quezon left Monravia for Washington to fight the \Villis Bill and is expected to come back to the Philippines in the near future. No demonstration was staged in Lanao, Mindanao, as had been feared by some, on account of the execution of four Moros in Bilibid prison. Governor General Stimson, after an inspection trip to Bontok. had the following to say: '·My trip .to Bontok and other places in the Mountain Province has been exeeeciingly interesting. The sturdy inhabitants are wonderful and certainly have enlisted my deepest sympathy. T hey are honest, intelligent and hard working and will recieve all possible help and encour· agement". M1scellaneous. Luxuries imported into the Philippines during 1927 were rnlued at rs, 213,268. Silk occupied the largest item with a total Yalue of 'Pl,408,0il and precious stones came second with a total value of PlA-83,737. For di· amonds alone, the Philippines spent 'P 1,408,071: for face powder, 'f>560,647 and for lotions and perfumery, 'P599,4'i8. The team of the University of the Philippines debaters have defeated all the American teams of debaters they met on their journey in the United States, · the subject of the debates being Filipino Independence and the Filipinos defending th\l affirmative, 25 i.e. that independence should be grant· ed immediately. The foreign trade of the Philippines during the first quarter of the year amounted to 1"155,412,820, while the record for the same period of last year was 1'148,231,357 only, or a difference of 1"'1,181,463, according to figures re· leased by the bu re an of customs. The total exports du.ring the period were valued at 1'76, 73.4,64.3 as against 1'78. 678;171 worth of imports, or a balance of trade against the Philippines l>y rl,943,534. During the s1me first quarter the Philippine Government realized a total income of 1'19,509,209,21, compared to 1'17,441,983,01 the total income during- the same period last year, or an increase of 1'2,067,226,26 according to a report of Insular Auditor Ben F. Wright. Foreign China. At the end ·of April the Southerners started their long promised drive against the North and their march as far as Tsinanfu, the capital of Shantung:province, was a continuous and easy victory. Said province has been in the grip of famine for months, and consequeratly Chang--Tso-Lin's soldiers in Shantung must have suffered from lack of food. This explains their weak fighting spirit; Add to this that Southern propa~anda had preceded their armies, and you know the reason for the northern collapse. The second stage 0f the Southern advance was the inter·rnntion of the Japanese at Tsinanfu. the Cantonese had As soon as reached the Shantung province, the Japanese had sent 2,000 soldiers to · t h e capita,], under pretext of defending their nationals in that particular town. Such precaution is not without basis, for soldiers victoriously ad,ancing and even the ignominiously beaten, confiscate their neighbors'goods, if not too heavy or too hot, and this bas alwa}·s been noted in China's warfare and among her soldiers eYen when not at war. Some Southern soldiers started looting a Japanese shop at Tsinanfu; Japanese soldiers intervened · and a clash between Chinese andJapa· mese forces drove the 40,000 Chinese soldiers away from Chantung's c>apital in no time, although the Japanese by that time had only a force of 4,000 armed men. China has appealed to the League of Nations, to the United States, but what can the League do, and what may be expected from the United States at present keeping marines in Nicaragua to protect American properties? 26 Japan, notwithstanding a Chinese ooycott against :her goods, occupies the railroad t hat runs from the Chinese bast to rrsinanfu. r_r:he southerners ma1dng a turn around Shantung's capital and helped by the Christian General are advancing towards T'ien· Tsin and Peking. Will the concentrated forces of the Northern warlord be able to resist the enthusiastic advance of their enemies? Af~er mucli Southern propaganda among ChangTso-Lin's soldiers, can Chang rely on his army? There seems tci be !Feat nn- . rest in his main stronghold: l.1anchnria, due to millions of people, who these last months, have emigrated from Chan tung and other warstricken provinces and settled in the rich plains of the most northern Chinese province, whioh by the name belongs to Chang-Tso-Lin but in fact more or less belongs to Japan. Will the J apanese permit the occupation of T'ien Tsin and Pel<ing by the Southerners? Any way the foreign ~ ations are taking precautions against the uncoming Southerners to protect their nationals agains murder and looting. Besides, it should not be wondered at if some Red General profited by the absence of the Cantonese N~tionals to start a revolution which would force the advancing Southern armies to come back, and permit the Northern' retreating armies to advance once more and regain the lost territories. England, Egypt. President Wilson's principle of selfdetermination has caused England much trouble since 1918; Egypt's national movement and England's se-· rious menaces against the Nile country during these last m·onths are· another sample of it. If nations have· a right to ·dispose of themselves. the· Egyptians have a right to claim their· independence and to drive out of their country the last British garrison along the < Nile and the western part of the S uez canal. In 1880 England t ook possession of Alexandria and Cairo in order to dominate the Suez. Canal and retain her free access to her Indian Empire. At that , time E~·ypt was sleeping intellectuall~· and econom1cany. asshe had done for twelvE! centuries, since the Islam conqueror iri'vaded ·her territory. Mohammedanism had devastated Egypt's agricultural resources and smashed her · higfiPcivilization. England built can a ls'f irrigated Egypt's barren fields, the fellah became rich, his children attended school, today 12,000 students study at the University of Cairo. With we-alth · and culture, Egypt claimed her redeemed country from the British for herself. · · England granted most of the Egyptian national demands. Formerly a colony, Egypt became a protectorate and t.his protectorate became an in· dependent kingdom, with no otbPr English control than a few soldiers along the borders and a kind·of English supervisor of the· Egyptian forces. Today, Egypt asks the complete erncuation of her territory by the English, but here she meflts only with a flat denial. An anti-English party was formed these la'st years. It has the majoritv in Cairo's parliament. Its chief and founder was Zagbloul Pacha wbo'died a few months ago. While King Fouad, last year, visited England and Europe, the British Governo,r imposed a certain compromise which the Egyptian premier, Sarwat Pacha, accepted. Engiand. maintained · her control of th8; Suez Canal· and her garrisons in Egypt.· If .the Egyptian nationalists tolerated Sawart Pacha, ·chief of the moderates, it was because of their fear of the English who were pressing king F01tad to prevea t the . Natio-· nalists from taking the reigns of· power · into their hands. But the text of the compromi,_e signed by Sanvat met with general opposition. Sarwat was forced to resign and the leader of the Nationalists, little desirous of obeying England's orders by signing the new treaty with Englamd, refused to form a new cabinet. When, after some time. the Egyptians insisted on their absolute free- . dom and the evacuation bf their country by the last English soldiers, England, as in similar circum;ltances before, used the menace of her warships and .. · ... for tqe moment Egypt is quiet. Mexico. Calles has bitten the qust of Uncle Sam's feet: he has rescinded his confiscatory measures agaiqst American oil companies in Mexico. Their properties are to be considered inviolate not for a certain number of years but in perpetuity. Judging from the few news items that have been allowed to trickle through the severe Mexican censure to the . outside world, Calles has been compelled to bow his head by sheer economic necessi.ty. The national treasury ~as empty, loans became due and international bankers are not put off like the claims of the indi>idual rights or the Catholic Church. They insist on cold cash. American oil companies were .a ready and constant source of revenues; Calles was told so by the new American Ambassador to Mexico, Mr. Morrow, of the .Morgan firm and as man of the ' f 27 stamp of Plutarco want above all else money and abundance of it, Calles listened to Mr. Morrow's reasons. Now, would Calles also listen to Mr. Morrow if he asked-him to reconside1· his extremist views with regard to his own countrymen? Any way it stands to reason that American. oil companies alone can not furnish all - the cash Calles needs. The remainder must come from the country at larg-e. But a country torn by strife, suffering from business stagnation and with its rich resources going to. waste, is unable to provide the needed income to meet the domestic and foreign obligations of the government. Direct necessity may .compel further volte-face on Calles' ·part, for religious persecution is the direct road to national ruin . • Portugal. General Oscar Carmona, who assumed the dictatorship of Portugal Nov. 29, 1926, has been eleeted president of the Republic without opposition, on March 25. · Miscellaneous. 4,000,000 Moslems live within short distance of Rome, in the Balkan Peninsula. Rumania has 250,000 Mussulnians in a population of 17,153,932; Greece, 241, 000 among 7,000,000 inhabitants: Jugoslavia 1,337 ,687 in a total of 12,017, 328; Bulgaria 690,734 in 5,483,125 population; European Turkey 770,100 in 1, 270,100,and Albania 560,348 in 817, 460. 28 ftAILBAG OFTHE LITT LE AtG.rTlE For all correspondence with "THE LITTLE APOSTLE" send your letter to THE LITTLE APOSTLE, BOX 1393, MANILA Manila June 1, 1928 Dear Readers, 10_ ,000 10,000??? 10,000 ! ! ! Can you guess it ? What mean these 10,000? ?~? That we are asking of you !"10,000? Not a bit! We do not even ask you for a. single peso .. not even one centa Yo. ,.\ nd yet we need 10,000 and YOU are needed to give us those 10,000. . . .\ nd you can help us to get those 10.000, if you give us some of your words, or five minutes of your spare time. Do you catch us? What we need are 10,000 subscriptions. Do you see now how we need you, and how easily you can help us. The other.day a good lady of Manila began a kind of dri ,.e of her own to bring in fifty new subscriptions. In Manila? Yes in Manila, where we have many subscribers, and she got them, because that lady has a will and she has that will because she knows what she is workin·g for: that is, for God, for her poor countrymen in the Mountain Province, for souls of others and her own. But then, she must be a lady with nothing to do, all day long? Quite mistaken she is a mother of a big family, she has a job that keeps her busy from morning till night, she is not very strong of health, she is not widely known .. .. but .... she has the will• and she knows what she is willing. That's the way to get subscriptions. That's the way to do some good for the great cause which is our object: the conversion of the infidels in the Mountain Province, by winning subscribers who will become interested in ·the conversion of the Igorrotes, for whom a God became man and shed Hi~ blood'. Now, you must not ·say: OTHERS will find subscribers and the 10,000 number will be reached anyway. Not at all. We need YOU. God needs YOUR cooperation. With more subscribers God's needs in the missions will be bet'ter known and consequently better attended and helped. Here, now, is an occasion to do some good. In fact we may s~y that by sending in a new subscription you do more good than by saying even long prayers. Why? It is easy to pray: it is not so easy to convince- a man to offer a peso a year for · the good cause. But a work fo1• God that req uir.es more efforts, shows more love and consequently deserves more merits. Do you catch that? .Apply that now to the efforts you will make to win some new subscribers. Suppose now that the few subscribers you win take an interest in the missions and afford some help to win souls for Goel. Isn't that good don.e to be partly ascribed to YOURSELF too? Just think of this! Every year arid in nearly every town, there are elections of queens; millions of votes are gathererd and thousands of pesos find their way into somebody's pockets. And what is the good done? Every ye[Lt there is a dri Ye for the RED CROSS. Hundreds and thousands set to work and they obtain their goal. Now, couldn't YOU, Dear Reader, display something of that activity jus~ mentioned? 29 Most of You are Crusader of the· Little Flower, the Patroness of the Missionaries. Please make a few steps and say a few words to win subscribers to our magazines the Little Apostle, El Misionero and Ing Misionero. Your action under the Little Flower's Patronage will please her more than many prayers, though you should not neglect these, for then, she will help you to reach your goal. Thus "A strong pull, and a long pull, and a pull of all together" and we will reach the 10,000. May God bless and reward your ef· forts! DESERVE IT NOW! The Little Apostle. In Memoriam tABSOL \rtn, we beseech Thee, 0 · Lord, the souls of thy servants Felisa Onayan, Oyuiigon, Oriental Negros; Tomai. Frantilla, Bais, Oriental Negros: Fabiana Sierra .Vela. de Jaub, Naga, Camarines Sur; Felisa del Castillo, Barrio Buenavista, Tinambac, Cam. Sur; Lourdes Baguiano, Arevalo, Iloilo; Vicenta Rodriguez, Carcar, Cebu; Miray Castillo, Hongkong, Hongkcmg; from every sin, that in the glory of the resurrection among Thy saints and elect they may arise in the newness of life, through Christ our Lord. 30 For the Little Tots Co11ti1111atio11 CHAPTER XXII-How the Little Flower Wf!S Miraculously Cured. I N THE presence of the sickly child, nobody dared to talk about the feast of Pauline's profession in the Carmel, for it would have caused great sorrow to little T i e:-ese and this might have caused even death. Therese however did not despair of attending the festivity and she firmly believed that God would ~rant her the necessary strength to see her second mother become the spouse of Jesus. Indeed, Therese insisted . so much in at least visiting her sister on the day of her profession, that they brought her to the· Carmel and there and then once more, she was allowed to sit down on the knees of her veiled sister Pauline, listening to her sweet words and sound advitce. · · But the next day, her condition became worne than ever. The doctors were called, and they declared that 1:hey were helpless before the. weakness of the child. Was this a:n atta:ck of the fallen angel, who envied the little child, and even the whole family, for all the good they were doing and especially for all the good Little Therese would do on earth? Unable to crush her soul by sin, would he shoke her by killing the body and thus prevent God's designs on the innocent girl? Human science had spoken: there was no remedy for the sickness; further efforts to save her life would be vain. Marie took care of her sister with all the tenderness she always had shown her. Leonie and Celine in turn pass· ed their time at her side, trying to console her. But all this could not restore life ti: at was fleeting every moment, and which. only a miracle could keep in her. A long time ago, the father of little Therese had received from a pious old lady a nice statue of the Blessed Virgin and since that time it had been pla.ced and revered in the place of honor of the house. Mrs. Martin always had a special devotion to this statue of the Immaculate Conception. It was not an ordinary statue; not very big, but very heavy, so that a strong man was needed to carry it. It was before this sacred image that the family recited their prayers in the morning and evening. It had so often been kissed' that some of the fingers had quite disappeared and the hands had been replaced several times. Every year, during the month of May, the whole family, more than ever, v en er ate d i t with special devotion and Mrs. Martin ordered flowers, every day with whiC:h to adorn it, to the great delight of the little Therese who clapped her hands at the sight of the statue surrounded by bouquets and plants. But, why did her pious mother 31 show that extraordinary devotion to this statue of the Immaculate Conception? One day, she told the reason to her elder daughters. After the death of Marie Helen, who passed away at the age of five years, still an angel of purity and. innocence, her mother remembered that tihe dhild OtlJce had told a small lie. This ·caused the pious mother great sorrow, for she thought lier Ii ttle child perhaps was in purgatory to expiate that little sin, and she reproadhed herself with her negligence of not having called a priest before the little girl died. · One day, while praying with great fervor before the statue, and unable to console herself at the. thought of the terrible sufferings her little daughter might be enduring in p_urgatory, she heard a mysterious voioe that said in the sweetest tune: - "She is with me!" There and then Mrs. Martin got rid of her scruples and felt a heavenly joy. This was not the only grace received from the hands of the Blessed Virgin, and Mrs. Martin added that the favors received from Heaven through the iiitercession of the Blessed Virgin were countless. So, after her death, when the family CH.me to Lisieux, the statue was brot,ght with them and continued to be the obje:::t of the family's special devotion. 32 At this moment of Therese's infirmity, we find the statue in the sickroom, today visited by many pilgrims. It was the month of May 1883. Little Therese, pale and weak, lay on her bed, behi,nd the white curtains. Near her, on a press, covered with an embroidered linen, stood the famous statue; behind it hung a white curtain of blue laces with golden stars. When less affected by her infirmity, Therese took pleasure in making crowns of roses and marguerites, which her sisters placed at the feet of the Madona, or she was mysteriously a·nd devotedly look~rig at the face of the statue, prayin,g for her prompt re'.'overy, if such were the will of God. One day, little Therese saw her father entering the room, looking more sorry than ever. He called Marie, gave her some money and told her to se,nd it to Paris for a noV'ena of masses to be offered in the Sanctuary of Our Lady of Victories, to ask for the recovery of the little patient. One morning during this novena, Therese had become so sick that she ditd not recognize her sisters. Mary thought she would die, and, prostrating herself at the feet of the statue of the Blessed Virgin, she prayed for her sister with all the fervor of a mother for hffi" child. After awhile, Leonie and Celine joined her in prayer. At this moment, little Therese, bowing her frail body towards the statue, whispered a ,prayer, imploring her recovery. This common prayer was a manifestation of deep faith which qpened the gates of Heaven, for, all at once, oh prodigy of God's mercy! it seemed to Therese that the statue became alive .... she saw it come nearer and smile at her. The face was of an undescribable beauty, but what above all enraptured her into ecstasis was that heavenly smile of the Queen of Heaven. Oh, that smile of the Blessed Virgin was like a sunray after a tempest! Since that moment, the the little girl felt herself cured. All her sufferings and paiins had disappeared and two big tears of satisfaction and gratefulness rolled down her emaciated cheeks .... Our Lady of Victories had overco,me the work of the sworn emnny of mankind, and dropped upon the dying girl a rose of her motherly love that cured the ·"Little Flower". To be continued. Cum licentia ecclesiastica Los M6dlcoa proclaman- que este Hierro vita! de la Sangre es muy sunerlor 3 Ia carne cruda, a los ferruglnosos. etc. - Da salud y fuerza. - PARIS 'l'lNO • . _Hemoglobina 3 gr. Vino generoso 88 gr. Extracto glirero-alcohillico de cortezas tle naranias 10 gr. - .JARABE· Hemoglobina 15 gr. 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