The Missionary and Man
6a THE COMMONWEAL May26, 192 inal thought and pointed phrase. Most...
...It is true that the missionary ment's acceptance of this stipulation...
...After all, a stances to which the apostolic benediction of the Holy noble man wishes to wed nobility...
...John Mont- respondence relative to the appointment of the aposgomery Cooper, of the University...
...forth, and Fort Augustus, cooperation in the foundation of the Mediaeval Academy of America, which is LOGICAL MEXICO considered "to be one of the most significant steps toward the history of culture the United States has THE Mexican government is acting true to form...
...To Johnson, however . . . to express their grateful appreciation of so signal an his Titty, as he called her, was the most beautiful, act of generosity...
...the former, a way places to which travelers and scientific investigauniversity in the true sense (inasmuch as it is not a tors rarely penetrate...
...JohnMorgan, who personally assumed responsibility for son's wedded devotion is admirably expressed by that it and deposited it in his New York library...
...judge the rising generation...
...the strength of the Church, as heretofore, does not There is no doubt of the value of these two objec- lie in earthly law, or human countenance, or civil statives to anyone who has spent much time in mission tion, but in her proper gifts: in those great giftscountries with any interest in mission work...
...We can quote only a little of much that deserves quotation : "The feverishness with which intercollegiate and interscholastic sports THE MISSIONARY AND MAN are pursued is one of the stigmata of our age...
...and if he succeeds, Father added a benignant dignity...
...and public comment upon them, as found in Church in America by affording a much needed breaththe newspapers, runs so largely into the terms of our ing spell in which to coordinate and consolidate adage, such as numbers, money, and fashion, that I some- vances in certain activities...
...movement, and, if a suggestion is in order at the moThat the University is keenly alive to this oppor- ment of its organization, should be utilized as it is tunity is evidenced constantly...
...knowledge accumulated by different orders and relig- who have governed these peoples, with intimate knowlious or Catholic lay bodies and by individuals in the edge of them from quite other angles...
...Obviously, the State Department had them have been, for half a century from the outside still fresh in mind the investigations conducted before world, there is invaluable knowledge of scientific value the Senate Committee in 1919 and 1920, reference to and of incalculable importance to the primary object which has previously been made in The Commonweal...
...That Johnson remained the bridegroom throughout life, reveals his THE Newman School, one of the most interesting essential nobility...
...undertaken...
...and we believe that it may be taken as a . . . Goethe once said: `Whom God deceives is depledge of much else to be accomplished by American ceived of his own weal.' Could a man be more industry in the service of traditional civilization...
...6a THE COMMONWEAL May26, 192 inal thought and pointed phrase...
...Most recent move- being utilized in Europe...
...pleted another stage of its development when a new Perhaps the explanation of Johnson's-and all simigymnasium was dedicated under impressive circum- lar-illusions is simpler than it seems...
...it is their common civilization, was suffered to fade from true also that in the past he has lived, and in cases view and become almost forgotten...
...In ever ding day, till the lady died in her sixty-fourth year.' so many places the imitation of Maecenas is generously I pity the reader who can laugh at that passage...
...It would typical Englishman, Thomas Babington Macaulay be difficult to parallel such an instance of consideration `To ordinary spectators, the lady appeared to be a for scholars and the cause of scholarship, and there short, fat, coarse woman painted an inch thick, dressed are many besides the present writer who would wish in gaudy colors...
...And gradually lives in most intimate contact with his people, far more a matter of so much moment to both peoples, and to intimate than are most parish contacts at home...
...to say upon the occasion...
...We assume, however, that Mr...
...was coolly planned long in advance...
...graceful, and accomplished of her sex...
...The time is ripe for America, for the two contiThe great name which you bear is the finest evidence nents of America, to make real and important conof this belief of mine, because the saintly Prince of tributions to the Church general...
...Their reac- to the United States may very soon and very tantions are as varied as the minds of those who witness gibly prove to be a measure advantageous to the them...
...All this is valuable to this new of inestimable importance to Christian civilization...
...MacMechan speaks, as a poet would, the Atlantic through the courtesy of Mr...
...It may be a two Americas and Europe such as is not and cannot surprise to some to learn that there are not a few well be offered anywhere else...
...of mission work...
...It might be better, of course, to say that it is ute : "Lord Harlech, of Brogyntyn, Oswestry, Shrop- really a toast to a thing that has never been vanshire, was so exceedingly kind and generous as to lend quished-a memorial to what, regardless of the holhis manuscript, a very rare one never before described, low wit of Anita Loos and her ilk, is the eternal conto me for examination and collation, sending it across queror...
...in the process he ment and Mexican officials during 1921, when there is too often handicapped in sympathetic understand- was talk of a treaty to be signed by the two countries, ing of the people with whom his mission lies, some- will see clearly that the grim violence of the present times with lasting prejudice to his personal efficiency...
...The Mexican Foreign Office, however, in the person It is to be hoped that this new activity will draw of Senor Pani, objected to this provision on the ground to it all who have anything whatever of knowledge and of "legal reasons which preclude the Mexican governexperience to contribute...
...No wonderment of this Though these brought with them the great religious sort comes upon me here ; for I realize that the foundations, their needs frequently meant a disadvanfounders of this school had in their minds an ideal tage to those who had already found their place in which they are constantly developing and in which the our growing community and whose needs were not correct proportion of those things which enter into altogether the same...
...J. Pierpont with examples : "How the world regarded Dr...
...Most interesting, development of the physical as well as of the intelpossibly, is the constant indication of assistance re- lectual powers of the human personality...
...The Griscom is well aware of how many other benefactions lover continued to be under the illusions of the wedof the same character might be chronicled...
...Those whose faith in Anthropos (the notable Catholic review published in Providence is strong may find consolation in these in Vienna) in the new ethnological museum in Rome, words of the great Newman : "The truth remains that and the Milan University conferences...
...utter ignorance and inexperience...
...ARCHIBALD MACMECHAN, widely beplain his conclusions concerning the date of Geoffrey loved as a charming essayist, contributes to a recent of Monmouth's Historia Regum Britanniae, Mr...
...ceived by scholars from men able to defray tie financial cost of manuscript explorations...
...number of the Dalhousie Review a defense of marital Alton Griscom pays the following well-deserved trib- love...
...the training of boyhood is to be constantly maintained...
...Nevertheless, there are many college, but a large group of colleges guided by men who are not missionaries or priests who have peneand women studying and teaching along differing lines trated as far, for business or for pleasure or scientific of experience from the same fundamental principles) interest, or who even have administered the affairs of has in it the seed of a clearing house of the practical the people among whom the missionary's work lies...
...blessedly deceived than in preserving the illusions of his wedding day until the dying day...
...that he was always blind to the patof modern Catholic educational foundations, com- ent faults of his wife is a compliment to womanhood...
...Every resource in the times wonder whether we are not distorting the per- past fifty years has been strained to the uttermost to spective and setting up false standards by which to care for the immediate needs of new incomers...
...Among the great the Church in whose presence these boys move daily forces which are beginning to make themselves felt in knew always, whether he was on the cricket field of that direction there are two of especial importance Eton, on the waters of the Isis at Oxford, climbing the Catholic University of America and the American among the hills of Capri, or even in the solemn pre- Catholic Foreign Missions Society of Maryknoll-oncincts of the Sistine, that there must be room for the the-Hudson-both of which are doing signal work...
...tolic delegate, the Calles potentates are certainly not Twenty-six delegates to this meeting discussed, as doing anything unexpected in carrying out the cama preliminary to organization, ethnological training for paign of forcible repression which has followed the candidates to the missions and the promotion of ethno- publication of the Mexican bishops' pastoral letter...
...seen," and now the first meeting of the Catholic An- Having consistently broken its word, as has been thropological Conference, planned by Reverend Leo- revealed again by the publication of the Vatican corpold J. Tibesar of Maryknoll and Dr...
...From the very beginning ments of importance are the drawing to the University all of America should be drawn in and utilized, not of a Benedictine foundation from Downside, Ample- merely the United States...
...Writing to ex- MR...
...Then our govIn the orders, in scattered and isolated missions, in ernment did insist that "the citizens of each of the private hands, and in cellars and in attics there is a high contracting parties shall not be disturbed, movast wealth of literature ; in the rapidly disappearing lested, nor annoyed in any manner, on account of their pioneer missionaries, practically cut off as many of religious belief...
...It logical research and publication by Catholic mission- is difficult to restrain one's feelings before the harrowaries along the lines so greatly encouraged by the Pope ing spectacle of this repression...
...These I T is quite possible that restriction of immigration are great and spectacular social events...
...May 26, 1926 THE COMMONWEAL 63 The second is a powerful addition to the work (growing daily fewer with increased facility of commuwhich lies so near the heart of the Holy Father, bring- nication and transportation) still lives in out-of-theing fresh vigor to a world-wide effort...
...such men in America, for we have not thought much The Catholic University can become a focal point of these matters...
...Senator George no amount of misunderstanding by the outer world H. Moses, of New Hampshire, found the right words will drive him to relinquish his treasure...
...Most of Blessed are the poor in spirit, the mourners, the meek, the "hardships" of the new missionary arise out of the merciful, the peacemakers, the persecuted...
...His first years in But even these, having read the summary of the the field are often spent in laboriously acquiring the diplomatic relations between the United States governelements of the problems of living...
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