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Rases Above all Others.
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LADY -- The Inspiration of a Thousand Years of Chivalry
of woman, therefore they fight like men, right on until the forecasted wars could have been said of the gallant the Apocalypse come true. No man English fleet that sailed with How- can by a thrust of his pen do away the erd to put scars on Spain, and in- with the effects that bulk on pages finitely above such inspiration is the world's attention, from out the inspiration which went with the of history, and whose causes were knights and soldiers of Europe for a directly traceable in the field to the Lady," and thousand years during the days when knightly oath "By Our"fancied presGoths and Huns and Mussulmen were in the home to the whatever conquered again and again by the ence of the Madonna." In Christ's men who sought to serve Our Lady. way we consider the cult of find results The novelist of Elizabeth's time Mother, we can nowhere should easily apprehend that the other than those which well accord thought of service to a woman does with the character of the "Woman not make men effeminate ; quite the above all women glorified," of whom joust, a the valiant women of Scripture were Howard, the "boys of the bulldog contrary. Was there ever a com- but types and figures. I praise all the which in war, a battle, breed" generally, could be inspired by wo- good Englishmen who rallied for the a of idea the not had batants the thought of a woman-Queen EliAll Queen Her Grace, and set off for the for fought they what in man zabeth-hut the result of loyalty, to the "Woman above all women glorified," we are asked to believe was to make the Spanish character lack the virile fighting qualities which some English novelists seem to imagine the whole world admires at a distance in Englishmen and cannot imitate. "They pray to a woman, therefore it is no wonder they fight like women," that is the blasphemous slur flung in the face of her from the whom we have learned
The radiant gracious vision of Our Lady, so real to knightly eyes in the ages of faith, was the inspiration of chivalry and valour and daring during those centuries so grossly misrepresented, when men were led to do great deeds by the thought of her whom they had vowed to serve. Charles Kingsley set himself a monstrous task, when in his book "Westward Ho !" he essayed to saddle cowardice on to the Spaniards, as a result of their devotion to Mary the mother of Christ. The pirate the Catholic Admiral hero Drake,
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but she was such an inspiration to her subjects that she needed but to sing "Love me and the world 15 mine." It was the one thing wanteen ing with that her empire had world-wide but men did not love her, and the eervice they put forth for her cause, mighty and generous, pales before the world -service of the collective homage and valour and love lavished on Our Lady by the order, of knights in the ages of faith, and by the daring individual achievements of knights not in order of battle, who for sake of our Lady showed honour to all womankind, The history of European civilisation !oust be forgotten of min before cowardice can be imputed to any nation because of its love for Our Lady. In these days and in our own country a knighthood of Our Lady has new come into being, inspired from afar through the long centuries when knights swore "By, Our Lady." In these days and in our own country we see a whole continent raising a great Church to Our Lady-of Victories. What victories ? Ask the Vandal, the Ottoman, the Mussulmen, the Algerine. These great achievements happily and naturally synchronise with our country's clearer appreciation of its need for patriotism, of its call to arms, of its determined and succeeding effort to give a militant characteristic to its manhood. Catholic influence and THE PRONOUNCEMENTS OF Al:e-
knights to call "Our Lady." European civilisation saved from Goths and Huns the holy places in. Jerusalem wrested from the grasp of* What the false prophet's followers Part had Our Lady in the daring that went to bring about these results ? Let the banners of St. Mary It Major in Rome declare for her. was not an after -thought of Don .Juan of Austria to take those banners to Rome the ideal before him was to break the Ottoman power in Europe to sane Christianity, and to lay down the tokens of victory at the feet of Our Lady. How did Luxembourg receive the title of Tapissier de Notre Dame but by the thank offerings of his enemies' captured banners, which he sent to ,Paris to decorate the temple called by Our Lady's name. One who writes of the days of "Good Queen Bess" should be the " WOMAN ABOVE ALL WOMEN GLORIFIED." vo-y last to slur the fighting qualities of those who "serve a lady." the reasons that made men aim for destruction of Spain, and I honour What was the inspiration of the patbe reduced to two- them most because their service was riotism of the savage pirate Drake, deadly fight may OUR HOMES." for a woman. Yet she was not a AND ALTARS dinned "OUR of service immortal the of of made that means, first of beautiful woman. "She wore false It power ? What the home of a Howard, is c:tholics and Protestants and pir- :ill, a woman-a woman the queen of hair of a red colour (no accounting 7s a union that Spain could never the household-consider her as a for tastes), her eyes were small, her tere to disrupt, but the wife, a mother, a sister, a bride-to- teeth black, her nose prominent." the PASSIONATE LOYALTY TO THE he, it is all one-she is the first fig- She had impulsive views like so SERVICE OF A WOMAN ure, and men have fought round her Queen in Wonderland, whb was to order "off with his head," oueen Elizabeth. They fight for a from the beginning, and shall fight wont !
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helped greatly to mould public opinion to this great issue, and behind Catholic thought is always the figure sometimes as a peaceful of Mary, Madonna of the Chair, sometimes as a radiant Queen among Seraphim. sometimes as "terrible as an army
set in battle array," always as the "Woman above all women glorified." an inspiration in war and peace, the fulfilment of the types the valiant women of the Old Law, of Judith, of Detcrah, of the mother of the Machaheesf The whole Christian eorld must yet "rise up and call her bleseed ;" it must be won to her service. and England shall yet come to take its rightful place at the feet of the great world Queen and glory in ite title Mary's Dowry. Then the knights of the new Merrie England shall dvaliantly and swear to do more "Py our Lady."
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Sparks from Everywhere Catholic hundred crimes, and have confessed signor Giltillan and other Hall, Norfolk, and There are about 50,000 Protestants ford, of Wroxham clergyman of that city to use their fifty. to has in Dublin out of a total population Honnington Hall, Lincolnshire, influence to abolish "ridiculous ant Mr. Philip Snowden, M.P., presidbeen clothed with the ('armelite haof 230,038. The Protestants are dipractices among youn4astounding povvided into 23 different sects, some bit by Cardinal Bourne at the Car- ing recently at a "war against and old, matrons and debutantes, of comerty " conference at Blackburn, of them claiming only a few followdancing the tango, bunny hug, turmelite Condent, Hendon. plained that, while there was a great key trot, moon and other undesirable ers. The Anglicans form the largest TLere are now only four coloured boom in trade, the workers gained no dances." body, having, according to the census, 39,357 members. priests in the United States, the corresponding advantage. The population of N.S.W. on DeBev. John A. Plantevigne, who was The L.O.L. Grand Council of AusThe Rev. Felix A. Rossetti, S. 31 last was 1,778,980, sho cember in held at died recently the fifth, having recently tralia, which was and Professor Powers, of the teach of 80,000 for the increase lug an Baltimore. floeged the ''ne temere" del tag staff of St. Ignatius' University, worth, and months. were they all decree for reported, is it have, San Francisco, The second American Catholic Mis- passed a hi-falutin motion declaring l'he Kaiser will have to pay a war Rediscovered a cure for cancer. sionary Congress is to take place in their appreciation of a nebulous tax on his private fortune, estimated been already have markable results Boston, beginning on Sunday, Octo- something done by the States' Goat £7,400,000. achieved by their discovery. ber 19, and ending on Wednesday, Oc- vernments to protect the harmony of A N.S.W. school inspector, who 13 year. Engthis tober 22, of in Missions to non-Catholics family life. good Australian, the other day a pracland is becoming a common thounearly £1,250,States thirty In United aggregating the Claims the continent he loves so well drew splendid tice with missionaries, and sand wage-earners are killed by infiled in the United in outline, on the black -board of as results are being experienced as a dustrial accidents every year, and at 000 havein been respect to the loss of the outback school. He asked the youngStates breaking They are 'consequence. least 500,000 seriously injured. sters what it was, but only the Titanic. down the prejudice against the bar1n anpeal has been made to socie- brightest boy in the school had a acque of Peter. Three motor -car bandits who have bright boy said he though!: of terrorised the district about Mos- ty leaders in letters sent out by the tion. Therabbit. :eiss Sibyl Trafford, daughter Mon- it was a Mo., of St. Louis, Archbishop accused of been over a cow hive the lute Mr. and the Hon. Mrs. Traf.