Communications
COMMUNICATIONS SURSUM CORDA Morristown, N. J. TO the Editor:—An observation made by Father Earls, S.J., of Holy Cross College, during a retreat which he recently gave in New York City, seems...
...Previous to that time, Mr...
...in Ireland, where all phases of nature, in the night as well as in the day, were like beads on a rosary to tell a spiritual thought—the cock-crow at night seeming to say in Gaelic, "the Son of the Virgin is safe," and the sunlight upon an acre of wheat bringing an old Gael to say (as Aubrey de Vere tells): "See Almighty God making bread for His people...
...When A. R. Orage and Holbrook Jackson bought the New Age from me in 1907 it had already been in existence—as an independent organ of English radical politics and a literary review—for some fifteen years...
...In our villages and towns, the parish church may be observed from many points of vision...
...TO the Editor:—Mr...
...COMMUNICATIONS SURSUM CORDA Morristown, N. J. TO the Editor:—An observation made by Father Earls, S.J., of Holy Cross College, during a retreat which he recently gave in New York City, seems most worthy of being "passed along...
...Arthur Compton Rickett was its editor from 1897 to 1898...
...and thither their eyes could look during the free moments in the days of strenuous occupations, and their hearts could practise the true password—Sursum Corda...
...E. Tresker...
...Orage is described, not quite, accurately, in your issue of February 10, as "the founder" of the New Age...
...Father Earls, in emphasizing the need of a frequent Sursum Corda in our present workaday, rush-away world, enumerated the multiplied means that other people have for this frequent form of prayer in other countries—prayer being the elevation of the mind and heart to God...
...Joseph Clayton...
...THE NEW AGE Worcestershire, England...
...Ramsay MacDonald wrote articles on the Labor movement for its columns, and I succeeded the late Labor prime minister on the staff of the paper (in 1896) on the occasion of his first visit to America...
...He related an instance of three business men of his acquaintance who, in selecting offices in their down-town districts, chose a floor and windows that would allow them to see the spire or the cross upon a Catholic church...
...in Quebec, the spires rising from the country plains everywhere and pointing to heaven, as their bells "bless the hour...
...but it is consoling to know that even the windows of our skyscrapers assist our busy men and women of the metropolis to make a frequent "spiritual communion," as they discern, amid the horizons of roofs, the cross that points to heaven above and marks the site of the tabernacle below...
...The first distinguished editor of the New Age was the late Alfred E. Fletcher, who had previously edited the London Daily Chronicle, a paper made famous by H. W. Massingham...
...In the Tyrol, the constant sight of Calvaries along the roads even in the mountainous districts...
...Though we are without the fulness of "this energizing force of the Catholic atmosphere," yet, as Father Earls noted, there are men and women who are active economists of the limited opportunities our environment affords...
Vol. 3 • March 1926 • No. 19
