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FREE; tory to realise that the Turk always was threatening the civil and religXMAS CARDS, PRAYER BOOKS AND ROSARIES POSTAGE has been and is to -day the inveter- ious freedom of Europe. Sylvester II. DURING DECEMBER. ate enemy of Christianity. It is in- was the first to try to unite Europe COUNTRY ORDERS RECEI VE PROMPT ATTENTION, deed a strange phenomenon that the in the cause, St. Gregory VII. gathCatholic Church which has in the ered an army, Urban II. promoted profanity A War past won over so many pagan na- the crusade, and Eugenius commis- Stephen was founded in 1561. It bad tions to the Faith is powerless to ef- sinned St. Bernard to preach the Ho- its principal house at Pisa and kept The processions of the Holy Name a certain 'number of galleys equipped feet anything with regard to Islam. 1y War. From that time onward Societies in America as a protest with the battle naval a to fight leavened the corruption Church The 4 the Roman Empire with her teach Pope after Pope attempted, some- Turks and protect the trade of the against profanity should seriously Of times successfully, sometimes of any communiings, and when the wild hordes of eessfully, to rally the Christian na- Mediterranean. It is interesting to arrest the thought speech is a deplorable Profane of ty. crders English own our note that Euupon down poured barbarians tions round the standard of the demoralising inrope from the North of Asia, the Cross. Jealousies between kings and the Garter or the Bath ware founded habit, a shocking, be heard in public to is It dulgence. religious ancient of the in imitation later and Vandals Goths and tierce princes, the internal quarrels of cum and in private, from the lips of the the Lombards became her faithful tries, and the miserable treachery of orders of knights. young to Young as well as the old. Imitative children. St. Augustine preached The one supreme fact of the pre the schismatic Greeks often proved of thought Saxons and they gave up their insuperable obstacles. Nothing the sent Balkan war is that :t is aa at- children catch the trick their elders. idolatry. St. Itemigius appeared in Pope could do could prevent the cal- tempt on the part of small Christian less profanity from their schooltheir midst and the Franks submit- amitous fall of Constantinople. Still Powers to liberate Christian eoples Little boys carrying in the ted themselves to the mild yoke of the Papal policy was successful to a from the tyranny and murderous per- hooks are to be overheard streets taking sacred names in vain, most the For the Gospel. The paganism of the Turk. of the of secution great degree, and the invocation mouths with vile and German tribes succumbed to the zeal tier Lady as the Help of Christians part those peoples are not .Catholic, filling their expressions that poison their of the Irish and English missionburettes ancient those in the Litany of Loretto placed there but belong to aries. The Northman or Normans by Pius V. in thanksgiving for the which centuries ago were arise, Profanity is a habit. not necesbecame the devoted vassals of the overthrow of the naval forces of the TORN FROM THE UNITY OF THE an expression pf irreverence, sarily ferocious the Magand even Church, Turks at CHURCH. a disgusting mode nevertheless hut their Faith under the yars accepted comes from a deIt THE BATTLE OF LEPANTO. of expression. Frofrom removed far are Still, they has royal St. Stephen. But the Turk a wish to acbe emphatic, sire, to own have their they in that testants of the festival the of institution the never faltered in his fierce and conHoly Name of Mary by Gregory XIII, apostolic liturgies, their clergy have centuate even the commonest statest ent and of the Holy Name of Mary for true Orders, and their teaching so ments of ordinary conversation. It EN.MITY TOWARDS CHRISTIANthe victory of Vienna by Innocent far as it is positive it that of the is a token of thoughtless, selfish egoITV. XIII., are the liturgical memorials Catholic Church. For them ccrpor- tism. It corrodes the moral nature His infidelity is aggressive and bias and makes men indifferent to the of some of the triumphs of the Popes. ate re -union is always a possibility. Cardinal Newman The Popes curbed and defined even if As phemous. Astonishing as it may seem, the higher, finer, uplifting influences of Points out, "it is a mystery but the they, could not overthrow the Otto- Christians of the Turkish Empire ex- life. fact stands since the year 1048 the man power. The average profane man, the user Without that unity ceed in number the ruling race, while Turks have been the great Antichrist which, in spite of every obstacle, the Balkan States are principally of irreverent expressions, carefully among the races of men." The whole that the See of Peter was able to schismatic with a good sprinkling of guards his speech when in refined as He is not inseparably history of the Turk in his relations give to Europe, the Western civilise- Catholics. The finest of the Alban- sociations. with Christians, whether as an intion would have vanished in, the de- ian tribes are Catholic, and have re- addicted to the habit. It is somevaaing force or as a merciless des- gradation of a Turkish province. thing that he can put aside at will. mained so in spite of persecution or So it is not merely a case of speakpot ruling over Christian peoples, is of the more insidious banishments. In other As one of the results full of unspeakable deeds of inhuman Church's untiring zeal and vigilance words, it is again the Cross against ing without thinking, for if it were cruelty. The Turk of yesterday is the for the safety of Christendom we find the Crescent, Christ is opposed to so, the profane man would be prois Turk of to-day. He has a veneer of those extraordinary institutions, the Mahomet. Western urope faille in all companies, and that We in civilisation with all his old vices great military orders. Of all proles- scarcely feel the detestable presence not the case save in rare instances. underneath. He is not bound even vions that of arms would seem to be of the Turk. His occupation is an True gentility requires that a man by the ordinary conventions of civil- furthest removed from religious. in- historical fact to which we have be- should speak with the same regard lie is essentially a liuences, Anti yet the Church with come used. Nevertheless the tolera- for the decencies of life in all places iced warfare. Foul expressions liarberian. He has not scrupled to that marvellous gift that she has tion of a hopelessly cruel race %%fain and at all times. pc,ison w in times past and tospiritualising everything, formed the borders of Europe and the do- are as harmful to the one who utbar -room as in a :lay he does not shrink from scientithose minion of an infidel over a Christian tern them in a. The vile oath or objurgateIlly spreading pestilence among his parlour. Christo disgrace is a standing race GREAT ltELIGIOCS BROTHER tion, the really meaningless but foultendom. Yet HOODS Ole K NIGHTS For centuries the ever increasing sounding expletive, always reacts A CERTAIN SECTION OF THE power and gradual advance of the and gave them the constitution and upon the one who utters it. It may ENGLISH PRESS offend the ears of the hearers, but it Turk was a perpetual menace to the character of religious Orders. They were bound by their vows of poverty, is full of sympathy for Turkey. The very existence of Christendom. The harms the speaker. A practical reform in this direction Prayer against the Turk which ap- chastity, and obedience, they recited question of Christianity as a cause re.. their a is orlice raised, and they fought the bat- to be promoted is not often pears in the Roman Litany might be wrought if those who Valia of the times when the shadow of lee of the Church. Their monasteries in the chancelleries of Europe. have regard for the sacred names and were citadels and yet true monaster- antes of power and eusceptihilicies of who abhor vileness of speech should ;a:reat European disaster rested upFrom the ies, and the knights by their vow of Mohamedans in other and subject take it upon themselves at all times n the Western nations. obedience and their zeal for the Faith countries are the first eonsideration and in all places to make known c" Permit point of view realised a military ideal that is but we as Catholi.ls cuht their disapproval. They need not go THE CHARACTER oF THE TURK seldom reached. The crusaders were Nevertheless, to have the deepest sympathy a ith through the world in a belligerent leplorable. Essentially a nomadic transitory in their nature and des- those gallant little races who are spirit of reproof. There are effective shepherd of the deserts, the most tined to meet some special danger. devoted to the Catholic Faith as ways of signifying a rebuke without eryii ishing industries and the most These orders of knighthood were the they know it, whom to -morrow may quarrelling. q The hundreds who are eerfect system of agriculture will un- permanent ramparts that the Church see in union once more with the marching should espouse this cause, i'er his withering dominion be replac- erected against the Turk. such were Church, and who are now making a not merely to protect the holy ed by a deplorable wilderness. From the Teutonic Knight and the Knights desperate attempt to set free their names from profane use, but to pro tile d:wri of history Asia Minor has Hospitallers of St. .John. They pro- kinsfolk who for years have been the test against all other forms of viclieen celebrated equally for its superb totected Christian communities that unhappy victims of the unspeakable ions speech. natural advantages, the splendour of ware on the fringe of heathendom, outrages of the Turk. its arts, and its almost proverbial guarded caravans of pilgrims to the & e;,Ith and luxury. To -day what Holy Places, and held the frontiers the says days," old the good "In the of ace one cif the granaries 'Pf the church. Auctioneers.missionValAuagestours., and Cam "Catholic Advance," "father, moF now almost an uncultivated IF, T HEROIC. DEFENCE OF In together knelt children and ther, its ,....ered with vast ruins of. MALTA F.SPERANCE, WESTERN AUSthe little sitting room and devoutly fotieer arandeur. 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