Communications
386 THE COMMONWEAL August 25, 1926 in pairs, or singly, up and down the gallery, either ...
...It was a most picturesque sight...
...Augustine, Trinidad, describing a trip made to from another would hardly constitute definite instruction for Mount Tabor, where the Benedictines in Trinidad are Catholic guidance...
...single-handed, four years to erect this masterpiece of All anti-Catholics seem intent upon indicating the Church's West Indian masonry and wood...
...doing splendid work preparing young students for Any law which legislates against an evil that had become the priesthood...
...of the protestations of Methodists that there is no religious It took a hard-working and faithful brother, almost issue in the present controversy...
...among all classes of our faith would seem sufficient evidence Just a few days ago I received a letter from a sister that such is a fact...
...And that reminds me of my visits a wide-spread habit must, of necessity, meet with stiff resistance to Mount Saint Benedict, the mountain home of many and extended discussion...
...The walls is the assertion of the Mexican consul at Washington, who declares that Catholics are enemies of democracy...
...When the number was large, they TON THE TOPIC OF PROHIBITION formed two rows, each invariably facing one another...
...There are three rooms reserved for C. Kelley...
...In conclusion it would seem good to reflect that the more You are now 1,851 feet above sea-level...
...ing to submit to a mild form of slavery...
...The building contains fifteen rooms, a large hall, PLAIN TRUTH ABOUT MEXICO and a chapel, dedicated to the Transfiguration of Our Newark, N. J. Lord...
...Particularly false The wood was hewed from nearby forests...
...How utwere made of tapia dirt having a high percentage of terly absurd it would be for us to condemn a type of govlime and clay...
...You see is a duty they cannot ignore...
...386 THE COMMONWEAL August 25, 1926 in pairs, or singly, up and down the gallery, either COMMUNICATIONS chatting to one another, or silently reading from a prayer-book...
...ELsIE A. GALIK...
...In a former in one direction and then forward in the opposite letter I contended that this question is an open one for Catholics...
...There is no difference in principle between prohibition and modification...
...The millions outside the Church must be considered...
...theology, sees no conflict nor inconsistency between Church You leave St...
...There are many arguments advanced priests, located on the northern range of the island, to prove that prohibition is wrong, but when the objections are some fifteen thousand or more feet above sea-level...
...a reservoir from which water is filtered...
...It is especially soothing after one reads so much guests who are admitted only on Mondays...
...Pittsburgh, Pa...
...with Church teaching nor agree, as in this instance, with the Crossing a long bridge cut across a lush valley, you things that she has approved...
...And the almost hidden from view...
...The palm leaves which offer shade from Catholic Church teaches her children that obedience to law the harsh tropical rays, rustle in the breeze...
...The Church of the hill, a town recently made famous by the fact defines the rule for personal guidance...
...Her law is one of that it is the home of the only tropical college of moral suasion...
...agriculture in the whole British empire, and take a Unhappily, however, many do not conform their lives path leading up the mountain...
...The atmosphere on this alcohol is to be shunned, it is much better to shun it altogether mountain top, where sun and shadow play hide-and- than to meet it part way...
...A quotation from one editor offset by one in St...
...is God's own country after all...
...Augustine, a little town at the foot teaching and governmental law in the matter...
...And finally, the monastery...
...One only hopes that here, I often wonder whether "God's own country" it will be short-lived...
...threshold of a fairyland...
...Two towers rear their pinnacles into the blue T O the Editor:-I am very thankful for your exposition heavens, one flying the papal flag, and the other the of facts about Mexico by the Right Reverend Francis Union Jack...
...simmered down into a concrete solution, we find the consensus Here the sons of the illustrious order of Saint of objectors is that a mild modification of the law would be Benedict have built a town by itself, supplied with the proper way to bring about the best results...
...A layer of cement as a protective ernment which permits absolute freedom of religious covering finished the tapia work...
...Governmental law has become necessary see a flourishing cocoa plantation, the property of the to fit the case and the conditions that follow...
...Practically all the refusal to obey the law, when, in reality she is merely refusmaterials used came from the surrounding country...
...And as they never changed fronts nor presented their O the Editor:-At whatever risk involved, I would like backs to one another, one column moved backwards to comment again on the prohibition topic...
...A few yards away is a investigations undertaken here and there, disclosing startling triumph of Caribbean architecture, Mount Tabor conditions, show us that prohibition is by no means an exception building, jeweled amidst the scarlet hibiscus, and cut- as to disrespect of law...
...worship After recalling my experience among Catholics in However, since Mexico is Catholic, and the Catholic unimy home town and listening to a Chinese-born Ameri- verse has raised its heart to God in prayer, there can be no can friend speak of his Catholic consciousness over doubt as to the outcome of the crisis...
...Regardless of individual negations, the wide dispute direction...
...seek all day long, is rarefied and conducive to prayer A mere layman, neither quoting Scripture nor delving into and meditation...
...ting the hillscape so magnificently as to appear the CHARLES J. BYRNES...
...A little we concern ourselves about the observance of law, the less house, the first ever erected on this mountainside, is we need be disturbed about the infractions of law...
...If water, light, and food...
Vol. 4 • August 1926 • No. 16
