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I envy not the proud their wealth, Their equipage and state ;
Give me but innocence and health, I ask not to be great. I in this sweet retirement find A job unknown to kings, For sceptres to a virtuous mind Seem vain and empty things.
Great Cincinnati's at his plough With brighter lustre shone Than guilty Caesar e'er could show, Though seated on a throne. Tumultuous days and restless nights Ambition ever knows, A stranger to the calm delights Of study and repose. Then free from envy, care and strife, Keep me, ye powers divine, And pleased when ye demand my life, Mai I that life resign. Laetitia Pilkington ( 71 2-1750). (Irish Poetess!). 1
The other day a child said to me, whoever heard of a girl's name be-
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Story of Fr. Bernard Vaughan. S.J Father Bernard Vaughan, S.J., re-
visited the Catholic Club, Boston, U.S.A., to lecture there on " The Faith That Makes Us Free. In opening, he said :" I am glad to be here in this splendid new land of energy, where I iind plenty of work to do, and the difficulty is to so arrange m. jobs that they will not overlap. In this I am' not like a friend of mine whom I met last Spring in London. He asked me for a coin, and I asked him why he was not working Ile said he was out of a job. I then asked him what he worked at-when he did work, and he said ' Well, ir the summer I picks strawberries. Not so. many strawberries but still enough to tide me over the summer. Then in the fall I picks 'ops, but just only enough to tide me over the fall. In the winter I manages to pick a few pockets, and then I spend the spring picking oakum for the Government. But last winter I wasn't caught picking pockets, and so that's the reason I'm out of a Job this spring.' " cently
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Criticism is so easy, a task that Here are a few lines about Zita. no matter how unskilled, any one, " Z for Saint ,Zita, the good kitchen can do it without effort. The man maid ; in the gutter can criticise the saintShe prayed, and she prayed, and she hut that does not lift him an inch prayed, and she Pra,ed out of the gutter. When Thales, One morning she got so absorbed in away back in the classic times, was her prayers, asked what was most difficult, he reShe simply neglected her household " To know one's self ; " plied affairs. but when he was asked what was Too late she remembered 'twas Ibread- most easy, he answered, " advise making day, another And she trembled to think what her mistress would say. Manners are not like clothes. It She flew to the oven, looked in it and is a bad thing to have two suits of cried, ' Glory he to the Lord the bread's them-one for home and the other for abroad. Wear our best manners ready inside ! ' They suffer more by The angels had kneaded it, raised it all the time. put away than by constant being with yeast, Made the fire, put the Pans in the use. If you keep your best manners for company only they will fit you oven-at least how badly, and your visitors will suspect I can only suppose that was that they were Put on for them. Seit was done, at a cond best clothes may be worn For the bread was all baked by home, but not so second best manquarter to one, l'o pray like (3t. Zita, but not to ners. !
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Is the way to be good, and (if possible) great."
Is there an, other song of life so sweet as the harvest sang ? Them is
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without work. We cannot too earnestly warn people against supposing that ioN, can come to them without responsibility. There are those who seek joy in change. To-dal, in the music of the sea, tomorrow in the quiet of the mountains the next day in the mere fascination from place to place, of movement from toy to to,. Those who have tried it thus have found all life to pall and cloy upon them. Well has " In idleness alone Carlyle said is there perpetual despair." no good singing
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An oratory Built by Tramps Tramps, just plain tramps, did a large part of the work of constructing the chapel of St. Francis, which the Franciscan friars dedicated. Thousands of the wayfarers have helped, and in the words of the friars, have proved themselves worth., disciples of St. Christopher, the "'walking saint." The chapel owes its origin to the Rev. John C. Hawes an Anglican missionary from the Bahamas, who was received into the Catholic Church on St. Joseph's Day in March last, and who as a thanksgiving offering drew plans for a stone chapel which would serve the friars of the Atonement as an oratory. Work upon the building was begun on St.
Patrick's
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ago the roof was placed over the the two -foot thick walls, and on feast day of St. Francis the building was dedicated. Iirother Christophers is what Father Francis, who is in charge of the work, zalls the wayfarers who have helped to build the chapel. Father Francis has even called the place where the wanderers sleep and eat The first St. Christopher's Inn. money Contributed toward the erection of the St. Francis Chanel was by. three Protestants of Grasmoor, who each gave one dollar, and only two hundred dollars was in the treasury when the work was begun. The masons, quarrymen, mortar -mixers,
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their skilled or unskilled labour. MASS BEGINS DAY These disciples of St. Christopher begin their day's work attending Mass in the temporary friar's chapel. Then after a breakfast of wholesome food work is begun and continued until noon, when the Angelus is said. It is not all work and prayer at Gra,moor. Songs and recitations, and other forms of entertainment are not infrequent. For instance, the fourth of July was celebrated in a fashion t..) he rementhered. The day began with High Mass at 7-.1o. Then the " Brother Christophers" lolled around until noon, when a roast beef dinner with plent., of trimmings was furnished by a woman interested in the welfare. Man, a man sat down at that table and enjoyed the best meal he had eaten in perhaps a c,unle of years. Ever., trade and profession has had a representative in the construction of the chapel of St. Francis. A school -teacher who lives on the hinge of the gas house district in New York and who is a communicant at. the Carmelite Church on East Twenty-eighth street, went 111) to Gray moor during. his summer vacation, and spent some (lass there. He asked for something to do and was assigned to a job h\ Brothin Anthon.,.. During the noon meal at which Cocoa was served to wash down the solid food, one " Brother Christopher " remarked that the present twentieth century work at GraymOor reminded him of the thirteenth century when men received as Pay for their labour four -pence or live pence a day in addition to their meals, the difference being that in these only mediaeval times a labouring man received in addition to meals a few draughts of brown October ale. All the members of the community take turns at overseeing the con-
struction, for they believe that the eyes of the master does more work than both his hands, and they realise that owing to the weaknesses of mane of their workers vigilant oversight is necessary. Father Francis, and his brethren cherish the idea that the, have hit on the correct method of conducting a colony for vagrants.
Pocketfuls of Sunshine A pocketful of
sunshine, Is better far than gold ; It drowns the daily sorrows Of the young and of the old ; It fills the world with pleasure, In field, in lane, c.ad street, And brightens every prospect Of the mortals that we meet. pocketful of sunshine Can make the world akin, And lifts a load of sorrow From the burdened backs of sin Diffusing light and knowledge Through thonny- paths of life, It glides with silver lining The storm clouds of strife. A
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