SOMETHING BETTER THAN MONEY You do not want your life to be a cipher. You want to help some one, and you do not know how. You have very little money to give, perhaps none at all; very little influence; very little of anything. But you have more than you think. You have the possibility of the most valuable equipment that any man ever had. What is the greatest underlying need in the commercial world to-day? It is not simply more wages. Men are having larger wages than they have ever had in the history of mankind. It is more sympathy. It is a greater willingness on the part of those in position and power to enter into real appreciation of the trials and anxieties of those whom they control. It is a greater willingness on the part of the employee to realize that his employer has his cares as well as he; that he has his sleepless nights too, and thus, just as often as he can, to give him credit for at least trying, amid many perplexities of his own, to do his best. Why is it that one preacher will reach a multitude and another will not? That is a question which it is seldom easy to answer, because there is no "secret" of success, unless we use the nebulous term "personality," and that does not answer. The "secrets" are multiplex, and many of them escape analysis. But among them all, in the successful preacher we shall always find this: When he looks out over his congregation on Sunday morning "he has compassion on the multitude," as Jesus had; he puts himself in their place. No man with a heart in him can be formal or cold or unimpressive when he can say to himself at such a time, and feel it, "Here is a company of struggling men and women, each one the centre of a history; each one in some undefinable way longing to be better than he is; each one stifling his own sob and fighting his own battle. And each one of these trouble-tossed men and women is silently pleading for some word of courage and hope." That is the "secret," if there is any secret. He sits where they sit. And this same secret of influence runs all through life. Whether our pulpit is in the church or the workshop, the school-house or the home, we can never really help others until, by the power of just such sympathy as the Master Himself felt, we have put ourselves in their place. Thus, one teacher in the school is more successful than the other. They may have the same equipment, and often have. But the first has learned to become in spirit a little child, to sit where the scholars sit. You want to help somebody? Then learn to sit where he sits. The last thing that the Good Samaritan gave was his money. KEEP YOUR PROMISE Many a woman who would not think of lightly breaking a promise made to a grown-up person, is utterly careless about keeping her word with her children. She promises whatever is convenient at the moment, and apparently thinks that the breaking or keeping of these promises is a matter in which she can please herself, and that her children have no right to consider themselves aggrieved if she does do so. A mother who acts thus does her children grievous harm. She forgets that the sense of justice is strong in quite a little child, and that it is natural and reasonable, that he should expect his parents to be as good as their word, and to fulfill their promises even at the cost of convenience. Promises should not be lightly broken, and the parent who is guilty of this soon loses her children's confidence, which is one of the sweetest things our little ones can give us. When boys and girls learn to doubt their parents' truthfulness, they soon lose all trust in anyone. STUDY THE GREAT DOCTORS The Pope's counsel to students of the Catholic University who met recently Rome: In order that you may be able to give an account of the faith that is in you study the works of those great apologists and do not permit yourselves to be taken in the toils of these new reformers. Let the world call them superior minds, powerful intellects, unsullied consciences, brilliant intellects, but Jesus has judged them: "He that speaketh of himself seeketh his own glory; but he that seeketh the glory of him that sent him, he is true and there is no injustice in him." And do not let yourselves be deceived by the wily declarations of those others who are forever protesting that they are on the side of the Church, that they love the Church, that they are working to prevent the people from being separated from the Church, striving to bring the Church into line with the times so that she may come closer to the people and win them back again. But judge them by their works. If they treat badly and despise the pastors of the Church, and even the Pope; if they try in every way to withdraw themselves from their authority, to evade their directions, their enactments, if they do not fear to raise the standard of revolt, then what Church is that of which they speak? Certainly it cannot be the one established on the fcundation of the Apostles and the Prophets of which the supreme corner-stone itself is Jesus Christ, and therefore we must have ever before our minds the admonition addressed by St. Paul to the Galatians: Even should we or an angel from heaven preach a gospel to you besides that which we have preached to you let him be anathema. You will meet, and unfortunately only too often, new apostles of this kind because so long as there is pride of intellect or corruption of heart scandals will never be absent from the world. It must needs be that scandals come, said Christ, and God permits. them and tolerates them to prove the fidelity and constancy of the just. But be not dismayed or disheartened by these scandals however painful they be; have compassion for those poor blind guides who in their ignorance or obstinacy, believing themselves to be wise, have become fools, and praying for them that the Lord may enlighten them and bring them back to the fold they have so unfortunately abandoned. Be you strong and faithful to the promises you have made, and in your society you will find the means to escape the danger by which you are surrounded, and by serving the interests of religion and the Church you will be making provision for your own welfare. Catholic parents loyal to the wishes of the Church will see to it that their children take up their studies under Catholic guidance. FORDHAM Adjoining Bronx Park, Conducted by the Jesuit Fathers ST. JOHN'S HALL FOR SMALLER BOYS The location affords the healthfulness of the country with the advantages of the city. Medical School in connection with Fordham Hospital. Law School at 20 Vesey St., in the midst of the Courts. Write for Catalogue ARE THEY MARRIED? The wisdom of the Catholic Church in declaring that marriages between her children must be performed by a priest in order to be true marriages, must be reasonably plain to 60,000 people in Chicago. Municipal Judge Beitler hurled a bombshell at certain Chicago marriages, by declaring that wedding ceremonies performed by justices of the peace are illegal. It is stated that his decision has excited something akin to dismay in many households. If the Supreme Court affirms Judge Beitler's holding we shall have a shocking kettle of fish. Why? Because thirty thousand couples have been so married in Chicago during the present generation. Now these people are wondering as to their status. Without doubt they will await the verdict of the highest court with considerable anxiety. The Church never makes such blunders as frequently does the State. When she marries a couple there is no doubt as to the validity of the ceremony. It sticks. Even the divorce courts cannot undo her work with any amount of legal dynamite. The moral is plain. If anyone wishes to be permanently married "for better or for worse"-and sometimes the latter-let him turn Catholic and go to a priest with the young woman of his choice. In insisting on this, a wise woman buildeth her house. RELIGION AND ANARCHY A well-drilled police may do much towards keeping anarchy within certain limits. But police supervision deals only with symptoms, not with causes. Religion is the only force which can deal with anarchy in its origin. And the statesman who interferes with the religious instruction of children of the country at once opens the widest gate to the Anar chist. If a direct and cogent proof of this were wanted, it is found in a resolution adopted at the annual conference of German Anarchists held at Leipzig. The resolution declared that membership of any church or religious sect was contrary to the principles of anarchy, and called upon all members. to cease belonging to churches. * THE RICH AND POOR The brutal arrogance of a rich man who looks down upon poor man because he is poor, and the brutal envy and hatred felt by a poor man toward a rich man merely because he is rich, are at bottom twin manifestations of the same vice. They are simply different sides of the same shield. The kind of man who would be arrogant in the one case is precisely the kind of man who would be envious and filled with hatred in the other. The ideal should be the just, the generous, the broad-minded man who is as incapable of arrogance if rich as he is of malignant envy and hatred if poor. 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