EMPIRE SELF-RAISING FLOUR The West AUSTRALIAN
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PERTH, SATURDAY, MAY
Most Rev. Augustin
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1913
Dontenwill, 0.M.I.
An Appreciation---, By J.S. D.
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has almost on him the hand of the Almighty ma- ty. When we consider the Alsatian chivalrous seal-the screaming from her frontiers, the her His set mislimitless extent of this distant High. Ah jesty of God dethroned within out sionary field evangelised by the Cob - is a priest of the Most bosom, unconquered hope gleams to describe, worthy tongue what we a ; when like Immaculate 1 ites of Mary to within his patriarchal breast pro- realise that in the vast territory of what Murillo divinely illumined glory lone lighthouse in the storm, celestial the pourtray vividly presents sireland Nor' -West Canada Nature claiming that his hallowed of Father Dontenwill's First Mass. own, herself in all that rugged grandeur, We of the "Old Land" have seen will one day come into her the only all that grim austerity known and that, that land sanctified by i venerable parents in that God-apwelllabours of a Lacardaire, a Massilm, to the intrepid explorer ; her as angels Fointed hour, tears "such solitunfurl the forests will Bourdalaue, i iipenetrable a nigh I'enelon, a furrowtheir down streaming weep" not again the Standard of the Cross, ary canopy, L'er indigenous prairies Polar ed cLeeks, with the consolationstheir dreaded proudest once her her in couch, only anew the glorying of this world surging as a sea the the for of shroud Daughter inevitable the snows "Eldest title of animated frames, as they beheld their valiant disciples of De Mazenod, we first-born the light of God breaking countenance they love so well. Well Church." wondrous the at astonished stand ecstasy of Called to the Oblates of Mary Au- from his brow, rapt in an beloved "Soggarths Aroon" hailing f iith. the Christ -like charity of the eye While still a youth, Augustin Donfrom within a radius of twenty miles, New seraphic joy, as he moved-to the With Dontenwill. age, of faith-within the cloudless vision tenwill accompanied his uncle, a ven- gustin men of every rank and of every o'ershadbecause feet, World at his comely matrons to whom the silvery erable priest of the Diocese of Buflocks of time lend a dignity to riper years ; those again entering upon the Mi.THE OBLATE FATHERS AND long -drawn autumn of their lives; agile DONTENWILL, FATHER LYTTON, AND SCHOOL. IBISH04, INDUSTRIAL ARC' OF (;ROMP catchGLENDALOUGH AT youths and blushing maidens, OF WEST AUSTRALIA, TAKEN THEDS OF THE VICARIATE ing at the summer of their 'teens, blitheand lastly hundreds of happy, some children the pride, the glory of our Catholic schools-are gathered there ; the majestic steamer rides at her moorings ; tranquilly save the subdued murnought mur of many voices terlays the pent up emotion of that anxious throng, " while parting summer's lingering bloom' lends its peculiar charm to the not wished for, yet inevitable, day. Soon the air is rent with a wild exultant cheer, fur leaning on the tali -ail, attended by Father on his right hand, Smyth, on his Lytton, and Fntli left, appears the venerable SuperiorIener:i of the );,late Fathers noblest Celt of the Celts-looking a long farewell on the sc attired children of kindred race. And now the great heart of the illustrious Archbishop is moved to tenderness, for there al', n the ear in heavenly swe:it refrains from childhdrue ren's voices the matchless Irish melthlies of Mo ire--coniforting the siintiv Prelate in the remembrance
To the stranger, attracted to Fre22, mantle quay on Tuesday, April ignorant of the extraordinary, rejoicof ings among the Catholic citizens eventWestern Australia during these sight ful days, there bursts upon his rare grandeur, modest of spectacle a rowds of ardent in its intensity. admirers for an hour before have been streaming down to the rendezof the vous facing the broadside good ship "Orama" for a last look that of smiling recognition from
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i,rander has adorned the purple since Neville, Bro. W. J. Mc('allion, Bro., Howard, J. .1. Smyth, Bro. Lawler, the dawn of the Christian era. `I:aiding-Revs. T. Hayes, Bro. Burke, Boland. M. His Early Years Lytton (Colombo), Grace Archbishop Dontenwill, C. J. Flynn, E. Callan (Vicar), His Wheeler, The venerable subject of our sketch first saw the light in the ancient diocese of strashurg, the mother city of .Alsace-Lorraine, 4th June, Would 'twere by of a second Thahor. 1857, Since the historic records availowed by the surpassing splendour, angelic hour to of the Western his in our continent happiness the to falo, able, draw a veil over those tender subsevently entrus- the versatile genius of a towering h Lye gazed from afar with reverential the years when th prescience of a saint- World. and was care of the Obpersonality, Augustin shoulders paternal awe on the future missionary to that the to ted of ly mother saw mirrored before her of sufferings, now, preand to have as poverty, then, of ross who 1 and of eternal snows, Fathers, late dstonished gaze the grand high desover I rivations, of fatigues, in consecrata 'rerY early distinction thus received marked there with sided ristiny of her "Love's young dream ;" ur of Ottawa. Here the ing himself in the full tide of Pentecost of blessing to light those years of unconscious, of guard- the University after the manner of in.,. manhood to the Forvice of God eternity. to pathway student, stormy young ed innocence, of close communion The Man of SorVicar of Christ, to in the cloister, Pather Donteawill's Extraord with his Maker wiAch play as lightn- the illustriousvaried aspects, we are rows, Who allows not a cup of cold inary Gifts from its ing shafts of unutterable tenderness whom, lose gratified to o. serve he bears so strik- water riven in His name to newly -appointed Father ProfesThe sacrion a devoted mother's soul, it but re- reward, accepted the willing of learning a resemblance, displayed that for s:.r of this celebrated seat remains for us to form the assumpbrilliancy of intellectual at- fice, but had far other designs de- ing, of which he had long since beidarsable likeAlsatian young the tion that this which culminated in his this humble missionary son, came one of its most brilliant alumni wise imbibed those lessons of fidelity tainments with great eclat the M.A. voted client of Mary. off bearing imparted with consummate grace and distance " that France to his beloved himself, like St. Finding Priest a Degree. a profound knowledge of lanskill becomes ;" destroy time Augustin nor Cannot weaken, basking on the crested to Alphonsus, to the students who flocked guages dear of inso (1/035) fealty, of May lessons of unswerving The month of evanscent glory, even as he, redistant lands ; nor was 'rave from always there the as Joust strong men, comparable patriotism, by the world angels and to -forgetting world "the in mind of the young Levluminous as the characters terrible golden in cedars of Lihanus, and Archbishop put main scored future the limits of this the within forgot," confined ite venerable heritthe of the storm were.the priceless in the oblate the loving heart habit culture for religious the mental of on one arena but last extensive we the may for age of n gallant race. Then Montreal and servant of God, at unwornot Novitiate one him Fatherk, in noble 'vise rem his we this filled not say to -day that, though of its declining days in the o)ening profession clarified the thy of his great prototype, immortal ecstatic, joy mighty son of France, clothed in the after his with soul in him, of the faryear of the eighties, we find sacred panoply of peace, beholds with dream of life's ambitious hour; hence- Raphael, as Director the obedience to the command of his suof predilection, famed Art Studio attached to child the is saddened he art her banner traiing, in he forth once again at the Univers:the (lust, the eagle driven back periors,