Communications
RELIGION AND PATRIOTISM Chicago, 111. TO the Editor:—The attached clipping from The Book of Anecdotes of the Rebellion, compiled by Frazer Kiridand and published in Chicago by H. C, Stebbins in...
...THE LAYMAN'S CHANCE WoUaston, Mass...
...He rose and said: " 'Stop, sir...
...The minister was speechless and indignant...
...Thus is the door open to make the Church of our fathers known and loved...
...WILLIAM E. CRAM...
...This is no time for discussion, sir,' said the Major...
...as witness Dr...
...The General denied the authority of that military prelate to change the liturgy, and contended that the omission of the prayer, in the peculiar circumstances of the time and place, was an overt act of treason...
...In 1926, the days of the full moon were: six fair, three cloudy and three rain or snow...
...This brought the matter to a crisis...
...if your people will commit perjury so freely, the sooner you leave your pulpit the better.' "After further conversation...
...This appeared in New Edition of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry of September 10, 1926...
...Surely if^ Christ had not established His Church upon Peter, the Rock of Ages, there would have been no land of the free and home of the brave, as there would have been no independence from the slavery of sin or the tyranny of unregenerated man...
...Fulton, and others, who were all accustomed to omit the prayer for the President, and pray in silence for the triumph of treason...
...Thousands of the younger gensration have seen the fallible humanity of the sects—but they ave not yet seen the infallible Divinity of the Catholic Church...
...I have been preparing my records of the weather with the changes of the moon for each lunar month since January i, 1925, and find only three instances of rain or snow for three or more days in succession...
...but inasmuch as your minister has seen fit to omit invoking a blessing, as our church service requires, upon the President of the United States, I propose to close the services.' "The clergyman, astounded, began to remonstrate...
...Logically, when Americans listen to the voice of the Catholic Church in spiritual matters they do not lose one iota of their Americanism...
...The General patiently and courteously argued the point with them at great length, quoting Bible, rubrics and history, with his wonted fluency...
...My impression is that clear nights outnumber clear days at that time...
...I was born and bred in the Low Church...
...TO the Editor:—^A "G...
...Leacock, Dr...
...Owing to the volume of the letters which are being received on the subject of "Two Religions" of Anglicanism, tue are forced to declare this controversy now closed.—The Editors...
...I came here for the purpose, and the sole purpose, of worshipping God...
...He joined in the exercises with the earnestness which was natural to his devout mind, until the clergyman reached that part of the service where the prayer for the President of the United States occurs...
...As prohibition is a serious subject it would also seem in order to attempt to draw some deeper deductions which these few quoted words would suggest and the high merit of the debate would warrant...
...so sharply drawn or upon which men think with deeper conviction...
...He may follow his party in a manner like tariff or world court, but why ask for a leader on a social question that fairly forces itself upon the reflecting citizen for his practical solution...
...WILLIAM E. KERRISH...
...It was with disappointment that I came to realize that no such wide-spread movement obtained, and that at best it was confined to a few earnesti individuals...
...and February, 1927...
...By open street lecture work, such as is done in Boston by the Catholic Truth Guild, as well as by precept and example, the Catholic laity can in some measure repay the debts they owe to God and country...
...The question was asked: "Shall there be a frank pronouncement on the subject—one way or another—by the Republican party platform ?" The answer is returned: "Most likely not...
...The ladies flashed wrath upon the officer, who stood motionless with folded arms...
...The two parties differ in their interpretation of most vital matters...
...TO the Editor:—Permit me the liberty of calling your attention to an editorial in The Commonweal of May 11 concerning the solidification of helium "just reported...
...It is my duty to bring these exercises to a close...
...January, 1927...
...The voter has never confused prohibition with purely party politics and issues, but preferred to make this semi-social problem one of his own liking...
...Goodrich's refusal to pray for the President of the United States: "An event occurred one day during General Butler's career in New Orleans, which brought that officer into such direct collision with the Episcopal clergy, that New Orleans was not considered by the General large enough to contain both parties in the controversy...
...On the other hand, there is the growing minority party, the High Church with its seven sacraments...
...G. K. Chesterton's conversion, toward reunion with Rome...
...General Butler sent for the Episcopal clergymen...
...In 1925, the day of the full moon was fair in eleven cases, and half rain and half fair in one case only...
...Their debate was exceptionally free from false and foolish appeal to a degree that one can seldom discover in the immense verbiage that fills the public press of the day relative to the matter...
...But, General,' said Dr...
...Many thousands of well-meaning Americans are today watching the Church in a spirit of wistful inquiry and intensive interest not manifest in the past...
...Rather do they get a fuller conception of the natural heritage of social justice and human liberty which is theirs...
...Will the Catholic laity in America, who rightly contribute so generously to the missions in far-off lands, fail to see the great opportunity which exists here to assist in bringing countless souls under the Divine influence which the Catholic Church alone does wield...
...TO the Editor:—It was by no idle chance that, America came into being...
...Hence the gas of the atmosphere has long since passed the stage of "hope...
...The situation may seem peculiar until we examine and study it more closely...
...Evidently our Episcopalian friends, being human, have sometimes found it awkward to reconcile religious formula with patriotism in time of war...
...These truth-seekers are looking at the Catholic laity, realizing that we possess a "something" whose reality they cannot encompass...
...In my later teens I became interested in the ritualist branch of my church, believing, as I did, that it was closer to Christ's teachings and more in accordance with the traditions of historic Christianity...
...It is now the full moon of May and we are having one of those typical long rains which seem to come only on the full...
...To my mind, no one has yet sufficiently indicated the really significant division of this communion into two camps, the High Church and the Low...
...Leacock asked: " 'Well, General, are you going to shut up the churches?' " 'No, sir, I am more likely to shut up the ministers.' "The clergymen showing no disposition to yield, General Butler ended the interview by stating his ultimatum: 'Read the prayer for the President, omit the silent act of devotion, or leave New Orleans prisoners of state for Fort Lafayette.' "They chose the latter—Dr...
...Being a social question primarily, the voter can get his own first-hand information and make his comparisons without the need of party leaders, and it appears he has done and is doing this...
...A "G...
...The men scowled at him...
...I was also firmly convinced of the existence of a wide-spread movement in the High Church, which took place directly after Mr...
...Day after day it has held up a warning hand, counselling them to postpone their trans-Atlantic flight...
...There is perhaps no political question on which the line^ are...
...Goodrich, opposite the mansion of General Twiggs...
...Leacock, Dr...
...SOLIDIFICATION OF HELIUM Atchison, Kansas...
...TWO RELIGIONS" OF ANGLICANISM Cambridge, Mass...
...On a Sunday morning, early in October, Major Strong entered the office of the General in plain clothes, and said: " 'I haven't been able to go to church since we came to New Orleans...
...Why should the Republican party, taking its lesson from Democratic experience, needlessly and to no purpose wreck its bark on the waters of turbulent discussion upon a question on which the nation has already, in a solemn and formal manner, adopted a policy after much previous discussion...
...CHARLES J. BYRNES...
...I wish that I had kept a record of the weather between sunset and sunrise for the last two years...
...Such a houseparty reflects a high compliment upon those who can stage it...
...The average length of the periods of unbroken fair weather just before and just after the full, was seven days in 1925 and eight in 1926...
...They replied that, in omitting the prayer, they were only obeying the orders of the Right Reverend Major-General Polk, their ecclesiastical superior...
...The laity of other Englishspeaking lands have seen with clearness the "layman's chance" and have, with the approval of the Church authority, perfected organizations of zealous propagandists which are already writing glorious lines into the missionary annals of Christ's Church in the modern world...
...ADRIAN STOLLBAUM, O. S. D...
...That prayer was omitted, and the minister invited the congregation to spend a few moments in silent prayer...
...Since January, 1925, almost six-sevenths of the days were fair at the time of the full moon, and only a little over one-seventh stormy...
...Moreover, there is every reason for Catholics believing that the Oxford movement was inspired by the Holy Spirit, Only consider the case of the great Cardinal Newman...
...Catholic practices (many of which arc avowedly post-Reformation) glorifying in the name of "Catholic" and teaching, in its extreme form, I think I can truthfully say, practically all papal doctrines save only the doctrine of papal infallibility itself...
...TO the Editor:—The attached clipping from The Book of Anecdotes of the Rebellion, compiled by Frazer Kiridand and published in Chicago by H. C, Stebbins in 1887, may be of interest to your readers at this time, in view of the fact that Attorney Marshall, who has seen fit to question Governor Smith's patriotism, is an Episcopalian...
...The young officer had not previously heard of this mode of evading, at once, the requirements of the church and the orders of the commanding general...
...Fulton—and were duly shipped on board a transport...
...the northeast wind continues to hold sway and the rainfall increases...
...for the disturbance hangs stationary along our coast...
...Moon, Tide and Weather, published in The Commonweal of June I, I would like to offer the following weather notes as verification...
...Page nine: "Every gas known to chemists has now been prepared in a! solid form...
...DAVID A. ELMS...
...There is real truth in this humorous poke at the political party that occupies the helm...
...On the one hand, there is the majority party, the Low Church, confessedly Protestant and evangelical in tone, and bearing unmistakably the influence of Puritanism...
...Day after day thq official forecast has promised the brave fliers fair weather on the morrow following the passage of the storm out across the ocean...
...Worthy of comment and indicative of a very hopeful sign is the fact that neither of the public debaters advocated a disregard for the observance of law...
...Let us not forget that Anglicans are undoubtedly sincere in their desire to attain the true "Faith once delivered to the saints...
...The last to succumb is helium, etc...
...Prohibition as a party never attracted except in a small way any strength from either of the major parties, but Democratic and Republican parties alike have felt the weight of its growing sentiment within their ranks...
...REV...
...After giving more study to the question, I became converted to the position of the historic Catholic Church, of which I am now a member...
...This morning I am, going.' "He crossed the street and took a front seat in the Episcopal church of Dr...
...TO the Editor:—^As a recent convert from Canterbury to Rome, I have been reading your communications on the two varieties of Anglicanism with great interest...
...Yet this does nolj mean that our attitude should in any wise be other than moderate, tolerant, patient, and encouraging...
...Goodrich and Dr...
...Pope Leo XIII has declared Anglican Orders not valid, and that settles the question fof Catholics...
...At the University of Toronto, Canada, the experiment of liquefaction of helium by Professor Kommerlingh Onnes in 1908 at Leyden was merely repeated...
...These three came just before and just after the full in January, 1925...
...TERENCE O'DONNELL...
...But this situation does not by any means excuse any one of us of the "One Fold and One Shepherd" for writing unsympathetic communications such as that of which M. K. S. complains in The Commonweal of May 18...
...Goodrich, Dr...
...O. P. house-party" is the way The Commonweal of April 20 sizes up the debate on prohibition by the noted political leaders, Senator Borah and President Butler...
...Leacock, 'your insisting upon the taking of the oath of allegiance is causing half of my church members to perjure themselves.' " 'Well,' replied the General, 'if that is the result of your nine years' preaching...
...MOON, TIDE AND WEATHER Hampton Falls, N. H. TO the Editor:—In connection with my article...
...O. P. HOUSE-PARTY" Pittsburgh, Pa...
...The two schools of Anglicanism appear to an impartial Catholic observer as all but mutually exclusive...
...The minister soon pronounced the benediction, the congregation dispersed, and Major Strong retired to report the circumstances at headquarters...
Vol. 6 • June 1927 • No. 5
