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No. 2,798
PERTH, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1933
Vol. LIX.
A Great Missionary Society What Cardinal Vaughan Did for Foreign Missions On
N. •eimber 17, 1871, Herbert - missionary dreams saw their r eiii-ee;on. It had long been his _ anest to 'pear the standard of Christ o distant parts of the earth, and it fi tting that he should himself lea -1 first band of missionaries to leavt at College whose foundation hat' 1.een the goal of all his hopes. Archhiihe Manning presided at the • :• ,t-ture ceremony, which was _Toseph's College, Mill Hill, Lor rt. :in(' Herbert Vaughan depa: ' ! a mission to the coloured peoples er A,nerica, as leader of a band of four pHa_sts from his young Society. They ,, •.-u welcomed in America by Bish ps clergy, and the coloured people • ,nthusiastic in their ap. 'stiee declaring that they now - ti. • • , wn priests.- The priests who toe, pars ir this first missionary enterprise ‘eer • hers Dowling, Gore, Noonen Jed Vignerout. Fatheh Dowling <11c1::nbed n the following year, a le to fey&
Kafiristan originated in the Aghfan called and placed in charge of the new c ampaign of 1879, when Mill Hill priests mission. He was consecrated Bishop were requested to act as chaplains to 1 in Rome, and with four more priests he the forces with a view to settling I left for Uganda, arriving at Mengo, the among the natives when the war endcapital, on September 11, 1895. ed. It was not, however, till 1887, that Fruits the Cardinal Bore to Heaven. they ere definitely established in NorthAll this illustrates the rapid growth ern India for missionary work. Father of the Society in the earlier years of Brouwer was appointed Prefect Apos- its existence. When the Cardina died l tolic of North Punjab. He left Mill in 1903 he left behind him a flourishing Hill accompanied by four more priests. Society which was doing missionary work in five different parts of the globe. It was in 1895 that Cardinal Vaughan The number of Christians at that time saw his first band of missionaries leave Mill Hill for Uganda. With the re- in the various fields of the Society— cognition of British authority in Ugan- New Zealand and Kashmir excepted— da by King Mwanga in 1889, the Pro- amounted to 81,900 souls. No mean spiritual family for Herbert Vaughan testant element began to exercise conto represent in Heaven. siderable influence, and it was chiefly to counteract this that the Holy See 'Since his death the Society has excreated the Vicariate of the Upper Nile tended its activities into yet another and entrusted it to the care of the Mill five fields of action. Hill Fathers in July, 1894. Father King Leopold of the Belgians ,anxiHenry Hanlon, then in India, was reous to counteract English Protestant
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missionaries in the Congo, appealed to Mill Hill for aid. In January, 1905 seven priests, under the leadership of Father Martin O'Grady, left for the Congo. The year 1906 saw the arrival of the Mill Hill Fathers in the Philippines The revolt against the Spaniards and the founding of a native Church had resulted in the most acute perstauticn of Catholicism. Thousands of the faithful were without their priests and the Church seemed doomed to eestruction, when Archbishop Agius, the Papal Delegate, made 'his famous appeal tor help. Mill Hill respondeel nobly to the call, and on January 6, 1994, Father Verbrugee. with six fellovaprieiits, landed on the Islands. In 1912 islands in the oar:bbean Seas were entrusted to the Seeiety, Jhis mission passed into the hands of the Franciscans in 1926.
The Latest Advance. The Society's latest ter-itoriai advance was made with the opening cf the mission in the P.ritish.Cameroons in India is now the most densely popu•We think it disgraceful that the March, 1921. One of the results cf the lated land of the world, according to Census Report should have been used Great War was the expulsion by the the last census report. The total infor propagating what not only the Government of the German missionarhabitants are i.Oven as 353 millions. This Christian tradition, but even Non ies working in the 1:.;ameroom. and marks an increase since 1921 of 34 milChristian religious opinion in this court- Rome turned to Mill Hill tc L11 the lions, which is almost equal to the total try regards as immoral teaching. Dr gaps made by the re,iring G(rmans. population of France and greater than netten sneers at the 'misplaced prudFebruary 28 of that year an ne.On that of Spain. ery (in opposing birth prevention) of presshe departure ceremon.e was held some countries which claim to be more in the Pro-Cathedral, Liverpool. r- ather Discussing_ the problem of India's civilised.' and discusses the question of Campling. the present Disho and Vicar growing millions, the Census Commishuman birth in the language of the Apostolic of the Upper was the sioner, Dr. 1-1, J. Hutton, advocates arstud-farm. Such methods in an offi- leader of the ha "al. and he was accomtificial birth. control. and JOT this he is cial document can only lower British panied by Fathers Robinson. Kelly severely taken to task by the Bombay prestige. As Archbishop Goodies and Moran. "Examiner" in its issue of t-eptember wrote recently: 'By being non-religious The formation of Kenya Colony an6 30. in its official outlook, the British Rai the further de.v.::oranent of the u ork does not realise what it has lost in the Upper Nile VicLriate in recent "Dr. Hutton goes beyond what we India than which there is no more rey ears have necessit separation should have thought were the duties ligious-minded country in the world'" of that part of the ttea the mission in Uganda In 1881 the third mission field of the of a Census Commissioner, and advo,,ituated in the ncw Ccionv. Only 28 millions Society was opened. The saintly Span- cates popular instruction in artificial lions (eight per cent)of India's 352 mil. the establishment in 192i ci she new are literate. This. ish priest, Don Cuarteron, had return- birth control." reproves the editorial. however, Prefeclure of Kay.:-endo. which in the is an increase of one per cent "The ed to Europe in 1879, and had begged Census Commissioner and the since 1921. November of last year was made the the Holy Father to make a fresh at- Government of India must be told Vicariate of Kisamn. Similar developThe birth rate in India is higher tempt at the evangelisation of the na- quite plainly that this is much more than it is in Europe, but this is counments in the mise;en in Borneo have tives of Borneo, amongst whom his than an economic question: it is also. terbalanced considerably by a high necessitated the °nailing cf North Rot life-long labours had met and first and foremost, a question of death rate. notably among infants and neo as an indepenleat Prefecture. with most discouraging results. The the morals. . among women at child-birth.—Fides Pope To-day, Thanks to God's Grace. entrusted the enterprise to Mill Hill, and Father Jackson. chaplain at the Such. in brief outline, is the develop time to the forces in Afghanis ment on the rnissi303 of the Society tan, was appointed Prefect Apostolic. since that winter evening just over Three Priests, Fathers Dunn, Kilty, and Goosixty years ago when Herbert Vaughan Sens, left Mill Hill and joined him at led the first band of Mill Hill Fathers One of the most dangerous errors of Old time fidelity and honesty of conKuching in the autamn of 1 1. to the missions. It is a survey which our age is the claim to separate morduct and mutual intercourse extolled is of necessity limited and much that ality from religion; thus removing all RePairing Ravages in New Zeaalnd. 4 so much even by the orators and poets might rank as important has been omit The evangelisation the Maori had solid basis for any legislation. ted. But it is at least a sufficient Commenced with the ofarrival of paganism give now . place to specu4 This intellectual error might perhaps Zealand of Bishop Pompall in New lations in one's own affairs, as in those_ proof of the worth of the great Preier in 1836, have passed unnoticed and appeare and. the Church had develope d of others without reference to consci• late to whom it owes its beinv. The d with as- less dangerous when it was confined to Society has now some 500 priests st.tonishing rapidity. ente. Then came the a few, and belief in God was still tioned in its various missions and colUaori rising in the 1860, with its deplorable common heritage of mankind, and With them are working 200 In fact, how can any contract be leges. was results for Catholic ism, and next the tacitly presumed even in the case of I twenty Sisters, besides many lay-brothers. maintained, and what value can any years witnessed the almost COM. those who no longer professe d it opentreaty have, in which every guarantee Helping these is an army of over 3,000 Plete destruction of the Church in New ly. The Catholic population conscience is lacking. of And how Catechists. Zealand. The Faith was, however, of Mill Hill Missions has risen to the can there be talk of guarantees of conBut to-day, when atheism is spreads till living in the hearts of the older science when all faith in God and all magnificent figure of 477,357 souls. Maori and it was essential that a fresh ing through the masses of the people, fear of God has vanished? start should be made before these died the practical consequences of such an God's grace has enabled the work to prosper in a marvellous degree; countOff. Hence, in 1884, Mgr. Luck, 0.C.B., error become dreadfully tangible, and then Bishop of realities Take away of the saddest kind make their this basis, and with it all less souls have been snatched from eterAuckland, appealed to moral law falls, and there is no rem- nal ruin; heroic lives have been crownCanon Benoit, the Rector of Mill Hill, appearance in the world. edy to stop the gradual but inevitable ed by saintly deaths, and over it all is for missionaries. In October, 1886, In the place of moral laws, which destruction of peoples, families, the poised the dauntless spirit of the great Fathers Becker and Madan set sail for disappear together with the loss of State, civilisation itself—Pope Pius XI., Cardinal whose dream it was in life, faith in God, brute force is imposed, I! N-ew Zealand., Encyclical Letter, "Caritate Christi and consolation in death —"Catholic it The Mill Hill mission to Kashmir and trampling on every right. Comptilsi."1 Times." -0411.-.11410-11. APO1111.0.-111N11.---041. *4.- i.e. -041,-.411. -4.4.- .0.- 4,41.--4,40.-. 4 0410-0411.-00-0411....-4040.-049.- .1100. -.00.--...--00-400-414.--...4 1.--4141.- -04. Thus e- • inaugurated, the work of !I St. joscpl!'s Society on the Foreign `r ssien• Herbert Vaughan had re' stream of missionaries eeo: To flow from St. Joseph's t , the heathen world. It was to be a whose tributaries, even in his ee n day, were to penetrate into many parts of the world, and which :e.osi his death, have continued to inert ,es, in strength and depth to the present day. India was to be the next field of op7ations assigned to the Society. Whilst I lerbert Vaughan was still in America . Bishop Pesinelly. of Madras. appealed I, to him for help in his mission. The F " ear 1s75 saw the departure from 1111 Hill of the first band of missionarI ies for India.
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