1914

Document 254
The Lamp Jan. 1914 pp.3-4
[Because of the authority “we” exhibited in this unsigned, first page editorial, its author has to be
Fr. Paul Wattson, S.A.. The purpose of The Lamp is given as the “conversion of non-Catholic at
home and the propagation of the Faith in the heathen world beyond our borders,” a purpose
different from the original purpose of The Lamp, namely, to draw the Anglican Communion into
the Catholic Church.]
THE LARGER LAMP
We have prepared a surprise this month for our readers by fulfilling in advance a promise
recorded in our pages several months ago, to the effect that when THE LAMP attained a
circulation of 25,000 we would increase the size of the magazine 50 per cent. We have
inaugurated Volume XII by doing this very thing, and we believe that as a result the day will
come all the quicker when the circulation of THE LAMP shall have reached the 25,000 mark. We
begin 1914 with a publication of 10,000 copies and new subscriptions are rolling in at the rate of
about one thousand a month.
Never at any time in its history have we received so many assurances on the part of our
readers that THE LAMP has their enthusiastic good-will, and that far from being laid aside
unopened or unread, we are told repeatedly in letters from our subscribers that they read it “from
cover to cover”; “every page,” some say; others, “ every word.”
All this encourages us to do our best to make THE LAMP one of the foremost Catholic
magazines of America, and we see no reason why success should not crown our endeavors.
Certainly THE LAMP has the most glorious of object to subserve, i.e., the conversion of non-
Catholics at home, and the propagation of the Faith in the heathen world beyond our borders.
Besides its missionary object, whatsoever things in the Catholic world are true,
“whatsoever just, whatsoever holy, whatsoever lovely, whatsoever of good report, if there be any
virtue, if any praise of discipline,” (Phil. iv:8) all these things come within the general scope of
THE LAMP, which shines to make clear the fair beauty of Sion, and to bear witness to the glories
of the Catholic Religion.
There is only one thing in connection with the advent of the larger LAMP which we
regret, and that is the necessity we are under of doubling its subscription price. But just here for
the reassurance of our old subscribers, we hasten to state that the doubling of the subscription
price does not apply to any whose names are already on our subscription list. To you the price
remains one dollar a year, and will not be advanced in the future, unless you expressly request us
to mail it to you at the larger figure.
It may surprise our readers to have us tell them so, but in order to increase our circulation
so that we may have tens of thousands of readers, where before we numbered them but by
thousands, it is absolutely necessary to make the magazine a two dollar instead of a dollar
monthly. The explanation is this (for you know we have always been very frank with our readers):
It is impossible to build up a great circulation for a Catholic magazine without employing
canvassers or agents, who will go from door to door among our Catholic families in the cities and
towns, and induce them to subscribe. Take for example Extension, the magazine of the Catholic
Church Extension Society, the circulation of which has now reached 175,000. Had it not been for
the agents employed in a systematic canvas of all the Catholic centres of population throughout
the country, a quarter of a century would have gone by and no such circulation would have come
to this admirable magazine, in spite of the noble cause it advocates.
The dollar magazine cannot afford to pay an agent sufficient commission to allow him a
living wage for the expenditure of his time and energy in the arduous work required of a
successful canvasser. By advancing the price of THE LAMP to two dollars we are enabled to give
our readers not only a much large and better paper, but at the same time it puts us in a position
where we can employ a trained corps of canvassers, who will introduce THE LAMP into
thousands, yes, tens of thousands of homes where otherwise its genial and beneficent light would
never have penetrated.
Document 255
The Lamp Jan. 1914 p.4 (In The Words of Fr. Paul, edited by Fr. Titus Cranny, S.A., III 107)
[The use of “we” in this unsigned editorial indicates that the author is Fr. Paul Wattson, S.A.,
editor of The Lamp. The editorial employs a favorite phrase of Fr. Paul Wattson, S.A., namely,
that prayer hooks the faithful up with the “great Dynamo of Divine energy”.]
MAKE IT A REAL WEEK OF PRAYER
The January issue of THE LAMP should reach our readers on the eve of
the Church Unity Octave and we cannot too earnestly urge you to observe
this Octave in a real and serious spirit of piety and prayer.
Prayer, in its energy and power may be likened to that invisible

something in the material world which we call electricity; like the wind, we
see its visible effects but the secret of its tremendous influence cannot be
fathomed. By prayer we are permitted in the providence of God, to unite
ourselves with the great Dynamo of Divine energy which issues from the
mind and will of Him, Who is Ruler of the universe and the author of all
those events that we designate by the term Divine Providence.
It follows, therefore, that a mighty concert of human wills and hearts

attuning themselves to the prayer of the Redeemer of the World, “Ut
Omnes Unum Sint” (That They all May Be One) and sustaining their
concerted intercession through a period of eight days, must of necessity
produce a result in the moral and spiritual sphere, commensurate with what
we see in the physical world when a multitude of single wires converge their
electric currents to a given center, there to be directed by a wise
intelligence, toward some predetermined end.
The prayers of a great number of individuals offered to God during the

Church Unity Octave for the restoration of Catholic Unity to a disordered and
divided Christendom, with the end in view of the conversion of the world,
consequent upon that unity, cannot fail to produce, in the divine Providence,
results of the greatest value in the Extension of the kingdom of God and the
salvation of Souls.
Animated, therefore, with this confidence, let all our readers betake
themselves to prayer during this Octave and season their orisons with some
degree of abstinence or self-denial, attending Mass and receiving Holy
Communion as often as possible, in accordance with the Intentions of the
Octave – and the results cannot fail to be permanently satisfactory both to
the Sacred Heart of Our Lord, and to us who are the members of His Mystical
body.
Document 256
The Lamp Jan. 1914 p.13
[The use of “we” and the personal style of the column, “In the Mission Field”, indicate that the
author is Fr. Paul Wattson, S.A., editor of The Lamp.]
IN THE MISSION FIELD
We have already mentioned in this department of THE LAMP the formation of the Maria
Missionary Circle in Pittsburgh. It began by a young lady stenographer inviting a few of her girl
friends to meet at her home one evening to form a sewing circle to work for, and contribute of
their earnings to the Chinese missions. This happened to be on the Feast of the Nativity of Our
Lady and so it was proposed by one of those present to call their organization the Maria Sewing
Circle. This organization has come to the attention of the Missionary Director of the Diocese of
Pittsburgh, Rev. P.C., Danner, and he is giving it his encouragement. It is probable that other
circles will soon be formed. The general name Maria Missionary Circle has been adopted and it is
proposed that the member of these circles shall hold weekly meetings. Each active member is to
try to form a circle of seven associate members from whom she is to collect at least a penny a
week. Whatever sums they contribute or earn by their efforts will be forwarded to the mission
field through the Diocesan Missionary Aid Society. As for ourselves, we would be glad to see
similar Maria Missionary Circles established in connection with the Union That Nothing Be Lost
wherever THE LAMP circulates.
Document 257
The Lamp Feb. 1914 p.51 (In The Words of Fr. Paul, edited by Fr. Titus Cranny, S.A., VIII 80)
[The use of “we” in this unsigned, front page editorial indicates that the author is Fr. Paul
Wattson, S.A., editor of The Lamp. The use of the term “our boys” indicates his authorship, as
well as his saying that he, as editor of The Lamp, will preach at St. Patrick’s Cathedral in Lent for
Self-denial Week. ]
THE U. N. B. L. SELF-DENIAL WEEK
It is time to remind the readers of THE LAMP of the great Self-Denial

Week of the Union That Nothing Be Lost, which begins on the Fourth Sunday
in Lent (Mid-Lent Sunday, as it is called). The Gospel for that Sunday is the
feeding of the five thousand with the five barley loaves and the two small
fishes, and then at the end of the feast Our Lord’s command to His Apostles,
“Gather up the fragments that remain, lest they be lost.” There are no dues
attached to the U. N. B. L., but instead the Self-Denial Week is observed by
the members, and the proceeds, whole or in part, are transmitted to the
treasurer of the Central Chapter at Graymoor to be applied as the President
of the Union shall designate.
This year we propose to divide the Self-Denial Week offering into three
equal parts, the first part will be sent to China, the second part will be
devoted to missionary work in the home field, and the third part we hope
will be large enough to provide for a scholarship for one of our boys in St.
John’s House of Studies. Now these are three splendid objects, and they
ought to inspire not only the enrolled members of the U. N. B. L. but all the
readers of THE LAMP to take a hand in the observance of this week and to
roll up a combined offering that will make the offering of 1913 look small by
comparison.
Some, we trust, will be prudent and zealous enough to begin a

missionary propaganda in preparation for the Self-Denial Week right away,
not only by installing a mite box or a tiny U. N. B. L. basket in your own
home, to gather up the stray pennies and other fragments that may be
going to waste, but by telling your neighbors about the Self-Denial Week and
getting them interested, as well. As for ourselves, we will gladly mail mite
boxes to all applicants.
The Editor of THE LAMP has been invited to preach a mission to non-
Catholics in St. Patrick’s Cathedral, New York City, during the Self-Denial
Week and it ought to result in filling a basket with non-Catholic fragments,
broken off from Catholic Unity. We ask our readers to pray every day for the
success of this mission, and our fifteen hundred subscribers in Greater New
York ought to do more than pray; if each one of the fifteen hundred will act
as missionary escort for some non-Catholic neighbor or friend and bring him
or her to the mission, perhaps we shall have twelve baskets full of converts,
instead of one.
Our ambition is to see the readers of THE LAMP organized into a great
missionary army praying, and working, and giving for the extension of the
Kingdom of God at home and abroad, and with that sublime and magnificent
end in view let us every one so let our “light shine before men that they
may see our good works and glorify our Father in Heaven.”
Document 258
The Lamp Feb. 1914 p.57
[From the personal nature of this item “In the Mission Field” column, we surmise its author is the
editor of The Lamp, Fr. Paul Wattson, S.A. Of note is his application of “fragments” to loose
money. From his mention of not sitting with arms folded when a need is present, it is evident that
Fr. Paul made things happen.]
We were reading the other day an article in The Living Church (Anglican) which gave a
practical insight into the methods employed by the women of the Episcopal church in making a
United Offering at the triennial convention of that body, and which has steadily swollen in volume
at every successive meeting of the so-called general convention, until last October at the meeting
in New York City this United Offering poured a golden flood of over three hundred thousand
dollars into the treasury of the Protestant Episcopal Foreign and Domestic Missionary Society.
We don’t believe for one moment that the women of the Episcopal Church are more
interested in missions than our Catholic women are. It is only I am sure because they happen to be
at the present moment better organized, that is the real secret.
Thank God, the Catholic Church in America is now engaged upon the gigantic problem of
how to organize most effectively all the missionary agencies at her command and as the Church
through her divinely appointed leaders is indwelt with the wisdom of the Holy Ghost we may be
very sure this mighty problem will be wisely solved, but in the meantime none of us need sit with
folded hands. The fields are white to the harvest and the workers are calling loudly to us to help
them with our alms. Will not the Catholic women, who read THE LAMP, start a “United
Offering?” The way to begin is to form a Maria Missionary Circle, like those being organized in
Pittsburgh. If that is more than you can undertake, at least provide yourself with a mite box. In
some way obey our Lord’s command–gather up the fragments that nothing be lost.
Document 259
[The use of “we” in this piece indicates that the author is Fr. Paul Wattson, S.A., editor of The
Lamp. Of interest is the Octave celebration for the first time in St. Patrick’s Cathedral, N.Y.C.]
THE 1914 OBSERVANCE OF THE CHURCH UNITY OCTAVE
The full report of how the Church Unity Octave was observed this year must be
postponed until the March issue but beyond a doubt the 1914 observance will far exceed in extent
that of any previous year. By every mail, reports of its observance are coming in from all part of
the United States, Canada, British Columbia and England.
Archbishop Blenk of New Orleans addressed a long letter on the subject to all the clergy
and
the faithful of his archdiocese, making the observance of the Octave an annual and permanent
custom. The Archbishops of Montreal and Quebec also added the weight of their authority to help
on the glorious cause.
It was publicly observed for the first time in St. Patrick’s Cathedra, New York City, while
Bishop Cusack made it the occasion of a Mission to non-Catholics in St. Stephen’s Church. Seven
thousand Church Unity prayer leaflets were distributed in St. Patrick’s Cathedral and St.
Stephen’s alone.
But what augers best for a great harvest of conversions during the next twelve months
was the immense amount of praying done by Religious Communities of men and women
aggregating tens of thousands. This along represents a spiritual force of tremendous power.
Splendid results cannot fail to follow. Therefore we rejoice, thank God and take courage.
Document 260
[From the use of “we” and the personal tone of this piece, it appears that Fr. Paul Wattson, S.A.,
editor of The Lamp, is its author.]
A CHAT WITH OUR SUBSCRIBERS
Lying before us on the table is a report made by the head of the mailing and subscription
department of THE LAMP from December 15th to January 24th, the date on which we are writing,
and it gives the total of renewals at 423, and the number who have notified us to discontinue THE
LAMP are only 18. If there is a Catholic magazine in the country, which can show a better
average than this we are read to give the editor a cordial handshake in mutual congratulations.
The many letters we receive from our readers telling how well they are pleased is an evidence in
itself that THE LAMP is popular among its subscribers, but then the silent majority might find
THE LAMP exceedingly dull and uninteresting but when four hundred and twenty-three take the
trouble to mail us their renewal while only eighteen drop their subscription (and some of these
lament their poverty as the reason) we think we have an infallible proof that THE LAMP has
firmly gripped the heart of its readers.
Whereas, most naturally, this greatly pleases us nevertheless it puts us on our editorial
mettle not to allow any deterioration to creep in, moreover as a higher priced magazine THE
LAMP must demonstrate at least to its new readers that it is really worth two dollars a year. Some
have prophesied that we shall fail to do this. Like all prophecies this one must stand the test of the
future. Meanwhile we shall continue to rely on the good will of our readers to hep us gain an
entrance for THE LAMP into a larger number of Catholic and non-Catholic homes every month.
Document 261
Lamp. It is a series of pieces Fr. Paul wrote in his quest for better treatment of the homeless in
Peekskill, N.Y. See The Lamp Feb. 1913 p.33 and The Lamp Mar. 1913 pp.63-64 for other
entries.]
PEEKSKILL’S ST. CHRISTOPHER’S INN
We have been asked many times what was the outcome of the correspondence published
in our columns last winter between the Superior of the society of the Atonement and the President
of the Peekskill Village Board, regarding a lodging-house for the wayfaring men who besought
the hospitality of the village on cold winter nights. Our protest was made against giving these men
no other choice than that of being committed as vagrants to the town jail or driven by the police
out of the village limits as a menace to the peace and safety of its sleeping citizens.
We are happy to announce that the protest seems not to have fallen upon deaf ears or
insensible hearts, for this winter a lodging-house for penniless travelers has been opened and
supplied with fuel by the Peekskill Board. All praise to you, good gentlemen, and we trust every
town and city in America now without a St. Christopher’s Inn, will imitate your Christian
example.
Document 262
The Lamp Feb. 1914 p.89-90
[Most of the Rosary League letters in The Lamp are singed by Fr. Paul Wattson, S.A. Although
this one does not have a greeting nor a signature, perhaps Fr. Paul is the author. Fr. D’Souza
could have been one of the missionaries he was helping financially through the pages of The
Lamp.]
THE ROSARY LEAGUE PAGE
This picture of Our Lady with the Infant Jesus is supposed to date back to a remote
period. Tradition has it that it was brought to India by St. Thomas and that it was painted by St.
Luke. When St. Thomas saw his persecutors closing around him, and knowing that his life on
earth was drawing rapidly to its close, he hid the picture in the ground. Some centuries later the
foundations for the steps leading up to the top of Mount St. Thomas, where the Apostle is said to
have been martyred, were being laid, and during the process the workmen discovered the picture,
which was taken to a chapel below. The next morning the people of the place set out to visit the
picture, but it had disappeared and was found in the chapel above. Again it was taken below, and
again it was found in the chapel above, and this occurred for three days in succession, and since
then the picture has remained in the chapel above the Mount.
The picture is painted on a board of thin plank, and though it lay below ground for so long
a period, except for a slit in the wood running through lengthwise, which is perhaps natural, there
is not the slightest sign of decay in the wood, nor has it suffered from the depredations of the
white ants. The painting, too, is quite fresh as though it had been but recently painted. The
following story is told of this picture:
As will be noted, the paint has flaked off near the temple and neck of Our Lady. An artist
tried to remedy this defect, but he was stuck with blindness, and regained his sight only when he
had made a vow to remove the paint he had put on when trying to renovate the picture. Some
twenty-give years ago a novena was made by the whole congregation to learn the wish of the
Blessed Virgin as to the renewal of her picture. An artist was called in, but when he applied his
brush to the picture the colors turned into tiny globules of mercury, and fell off the board. Nothing
would stick on. This has been attested to by the lady of high repute who was an eyewitness. The
photograph of the picture was taken by Father D’Souza of St. Mary’s Church, Bangalore, who is
the authority for the story of this picture.
Document 263
The Lamp Mar. 1914 p.99-100 (In The Words of Fr. Paul, edited by Fr. Titus Cranny, S.A., II
203-205)
Lamp. The mention of St. Francis with outstretched arms in this editorial occurs in other writings
and talks of Fr. Paul]
THE THREE CROSSES
As we lift up our eyes to Mount Calvary we behold three crosses. Upon

the central one, which is elevated above the other two, hangs the figure of
the Son of God, the “Unspotted Lamb,” who has thus become “obedient
unto death, even to the death of the cross,” that He might take away the
sins of the world and “open the gates of heaven to all believers.” Upon the
other two crosses hang the two malefactors. The cross on the right hand is
that of the penitent thief who, addressing his companion in sin, confesses
that they both suffer the due punishment of their evil deeds. But turning his
gaze towards the Lamb of God – the Crucified victim of man’s transgression
– he humbly prays: “Lord, remember me when thou shalt come into thy
kingdom.” And the life-giving answer is vouchsafed him: “This day thou
shalt be with Me in Paradise.”
The suffering sinner on the third cross is rebellious to the last and not
only curses his own fate but hurls his bitter malediction even at the Divine
Victim, Who willingly would have granted him pardon if he had only asked
for it along with his penitent companion.
Now St. Paul says that Jesus Christ is the same “yesterday, and to-day;
and forever.” This fact makes the crosses upon Mount Calvary as enduring
as Golgotha itself. Even in the twentieth century, wherever we turn we see
Mount Calvary, and not only on Good Friday but on every day throughout
the year the tragedy of the crucifixion is being re-enacted, and still as of old
upon the mount of crucifixion we behold the three crosses.
1. THE CROSS OF ATONING SACRIFICE

Always lifted above the other two, in the central and prominent
position, is the cross of
Christ Crucified. It is true that Jesus, once having offered Himself, and
“having ascended above all the heavens,” “sitteth on the right hand of the
majesty on high,” and is “always living to make intercession” for sinners.
Nevertheless it is also true, that in the members of His Mystical Body on the
earth Jesus Christ constantly is “crucified afresh,” thus “filling up those
things that are wanting of his sufferings...for His Body, which is the Church.”
(col. 1:24.)
This is the explanation of why, in every age, the vessels of election

and the choicest of the saints of God have been called upon to endure, as
innocent victims, every form of physical, mental and spiritual agony to
which the human race is heir – not excepting martyrdom in the most infinite
variety of forms this has taken under the instigation of satanic hatred and
the ingenuity of demon-possessed men. Yet there never have been wanting
heroic souls who eagerly have embraced the cross of Christ in obedience to
the exhortation of the apostle: “Let this mind be in you, which was also in
Christ Jesus; who taking the form of a servant, humbled Himself, becoming
obedient unto death, even to the death of the cross.”
Happy are they who, preserving innocency in themselves and walking

in the footsteps of the saints, with outstretched arms like St Francis of Assisi,
invoke the Crucified One to descend from heaven and imprint upon their
bodies the stigmata of His passion, or else with St. Paul cry out in the fervor
of sacrificial love: “God forbid that I should glory, save in the cross of our
Lord Jesus Christ; by whom the world is crucified to me, and I to the world”
(Gal.6:14.)
2. THE CROSS OF THE PENITENT
The second cross – which is always in evidence among us – is that of

the True Penitent whom the justice of God has sentenced to hang suspended
upon the wood which his own hands wrought in the day of wilful
transgression. But, like the children of Israel when bitten by the serpents in
the desert, he lifts upward his eyes unto the Brazen Serpent on the Cross,
and in the words of the penitent thief he cries: “Lord, remember me now
that Thou has come into Thy Kingdom.” Blessed is the sinner who, realizing
at the same time both the justice and the mercy of God, confesses that he
suffers the due reward of his deeds and that he is crucified because he justly
deserves it, but at the same time rejoices in the knowledge of pardoning
love and cries out with David: “Have mercy on me, O God, according to they
great mercy. And according to the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out
my iniquity. Wash me yet more from my iniquity, and cleanse me from my
sin. For I know my iniquity and my sin is always before me.” (Psalm 50: 1-
5.)
3. THE CROSS OF THE REPROBATE
But alas for him whom we see lifted upon the third cross! He too, like
his companion, with his own hand made the instrument of torture upon
which now, in the desperation of his last agony, he hangs suspended; the
doom of hell overwhelms him; the yawning abyss – like the mouth of an
immense dragon – is opened to swallow him up; the worm that dieth not is
making ready to feast upon the corruption of his flesh; the fires that never
shall be quenched await to envelop him in their soul-penetrating embrace.
Yet there is no accent of penitence on his parted lips, no cry with the
Prodigal: “I will arise and will go to my father, and say to him: Father, I
have sinned!” Only curses and blasphemies at the miseries that have
overtaken him, who from early childhood ever resisted the cross, fled from
its shadow and was willing to break every commandment of the divine Law
rather than suffer the least pain, curb any motion of concupiscence or
subdue any unlawful desire. Alas, alas for that impenitent sinner who,
seeking to escape the cross, is nailed thereto – not for a few brief hours of
sacrificial or penitential suffering – but is doomed to hang suspended from it,
in unutterable anguish, through all eternity!
Wherever we turn these three crosses confront us. Whether we will or

not, sooner or later we shall be compelled to choose among the three. If we
have not already done so, the present season of Lent gives us a favorable
opportunity to make our choice and since we are urged in the Good Book to
“covet the best gift,” why not choose the Cross of Christ??
Document 264
The Lamp Mar. 1914 p.100-101 (In The Words of Fr. Paul, edited by Fr. Titus Cranny, S.A., VIII
79)
[Since the writer of this editorial notes that he started The Pulpit of the Cross magazine, Fr. Paul
has to be its author. A favorite theme of Fr. Paul was to show how a small amount donated results
in a large amount. Of interest is the triangular piece of cardboard in the envelope–ingenious!]
THE WEEK OF SELF-DENIAL

Last month we prepared our readers to look forward to the Union that
Nothing be Lost Week of Self-denial, which begins on Mid-Lent Sunday,
March 22. When this number of THE LAMP reaches you we shall be standing
on the very threshold of the self-denial week and it will amount to something
great, if all our readers take a hand in its observance. We wish to
demonstrate the power of co-operation, and how much can be accomplished
by a trifling amount of effort on the part of a large number of individuals.
Sixteen years ago in Omaha, Nebraska, we published a monthly magazine
called The Pulpit of the Cross. It had a circulation of about 1,500 copies. We
wished to build a mission church and asked each one of the readers of The
Pulpit of the Cross to send us twenty-five cents. This they did with such
unanimity that in consequence we were enabled in a few months to put up
and pay for one of the finest mission churches in the Anglican diocese of
Nebraska. Not that these twenty-five cent pieces constituted the sum total
of the offering; but they gave the start and impulse which ended as we have
said.
At the present time we have 10,000 subscribers to THE LAMP and in

your copy this month you will find enclosed an envelope addressed to THE
LAMP and with it a triangular piece of cardboard, suited to hold a small coin.
Just do a little arithmetic and see what a splendid self-denial week offering
we shall have to report in the April number if everyone of these envelopes
are returned with the results of even the smallest self-denial on the part of
the individual subscriber. Suppose, for example, the ten thousand
envelopes were returned with every one containing a five-cent piece, that
would amount to five hundred dollars, by no means an aggregate to be
despised; if every one contained a dime the result would be an offering of
one thousand dollars, whereas if every one sent a twenty-five-cent silver
piece, it would total the grand sum of two thousand five hundred dollars.
As we announced last month, whatever the offering amounts to, it will

divided into three equal parts, one part will go to China, one part to some
worthy missionary object at home and the remaining third will be devoted to
our Apostolic School at Graymoor. This will give every one of our readers a
chance to contribute something to home and foreign missions and to St.
John’s House of Studies, without the amount asked for being a serious
financial burden upon any.
Our readers will not expect any acknowledgment of these offerings

unless they enclose a self-addressed post card for the purpose. Every letter
of acknowledgment sent back means so much of a loss to the missions. We
will thank you all at once in the Easter number.
Document 265
The Lamp Mar. 1914 p.119-120
[The fact that the introduction to the letter calls Hazlehurst his “old time friend” seems to suggest
that the author is Fr. Paul Wattson, editor of The Lamp. His reply to Hazlehurst is very blunt.]
GLASS HOUSES
Our only comment to the able letter of Mr. Hazlehurst, a well-known layman of the
Episcopal Church, which was originally addressed to the Editor of The Living Church and which
is reprinted below, is simple to suggest to our old time friend that “people in glass houses should
not throw stones.” When the Anglican Communion is no longer in schism and has forever done
with heresy there will be no occasion for Kikuyu letters either from the Bishop of Zanzibar or
from any of her distinguished lay members. Meantime, dear Mr. Hazlehurst, purge thyself of
schism, yea, of heresy too, by entering the True Church that hath never erred and against which
the gates of heresy and schism will never prevail.
MR. HAZLEHURST’S LETTER.
To the Editor of the Living Church:
In reading the many comments and criticisms which the Kikuyu affair and
the noble letter of the Lord Bishop of Zanzibar have called forth, I was much
struck with the phrase in one of the articles which I read, that the Bishops of
Uganda and Mombasa had made “a mistake.”
It seemed to me at the moment I read the article an extraordinary word to

use in connection with the grave actions these bishops have perpetrated, which if
continued in and sanctioned are bound to lead to the disruption of the Anglican
Communion.
Heresy and schism are sins against the Majesty of Almighty God. We pray
to be delivered from them as we do from other evils, such as plague, pestilence,
famine, battle and murder, privy conspiracy and rebellion. That bishops, false to
their vows to defend the doctrine, disciple, and worship of their Church should so
far unite in worship with bodies of men living in these sins of heresy and schism as
also to commit the sacrilege of giving to them the Blessed Sacrament of the Body
and Blood of our Lord, seems to me little more than a “mistake.”
Whatever may have been the motives of these bishops, their actions have
caused a grave scandal, and great unhappiness and misery to countless souls. Unity
with heretics can never be accomplished so long as they remain in error and live in
open opposition to the Church of the Living God. The compromise of Catholic
principles for what is, after all, but a vain and empty dream, can never bring down
on any movement the favor and blessing of Almighty God.
GEORGE HAZLEHURST.
Document 266
The Lamp Apr. 1914 p.147-148 (In The Words of Fr. Paul, edited by Fr. Titus Cranny, S.A., VIII
77-78)
Wattson, S.A., editor of The Lamp. Fr. Paul treats of the 16 th century Protestant Reformation and,
according to him, its terrible effects–a favorite mention of his. Of note is Fr. Paul’s comparing the
Reformation to the lifting up of the “gates of hell.” He looks favorably, though, on the Faith and
Order meeting, which can contribute to Christian unity, which he says will definitely take place. ]
THE SALUTATION OF PEACE
Among the profoundest sayings of all history are the seven last words
of Christ upon the Cross; and it is a very natural assumption that Our Lord’s
first saying to His disciples, after His resurrection from the dead, would be
no less profoundly significant. It is St. John who records the Salutation with
which the Risen Christ greeted His Apostles on the evening of the first
Easter Day: “Now when it was late that same day, the first of the week, and
the doors were shut, where the disciples were gathered together for fear of
the Jews, Jesus came and stood in their midst, and said to them: Peace be
to you.” Saint Luke also records the same salutation.
The history of man’s fall begins with the prologue: “And there was war
in heaven.” For making peace between rebellious man and the Divine
Father, whose majesty the sons of Adam had so grievously offended, Jesus
has just offered Himself, the Divine Victim of Atonement, on the cross; and
now as Victor, issuing from the Sepulchre, He proclaims His triumph to the
representatives of redeemed humanity: “Peace be unto you.”
Christ once declared the antithesis between Himself and the Devil in
the words: “I am the Truth,” “The Devil is a liar and the father of it.” So
again in this Easter Salutation he declares the antithesis between Himself
and our ancient enemy. The Devil is the author of war from the beginning
and the Risen Lord of Easter Day is the prince of Peace. With the song
“Peace on Earth” the angels hailed His birth; and with his own lips, after His
resurrection, he gives the Apostles the same Salutation: “Peace be unto
you; and again I say unto you, Peace.”
THE PENTECOSTAL REIGN OF PEACE
When His Kingdom among men was inaugurated by the Holy Ghost on
Pentecost Day, the reign of peace among its members was for a time
supreme. In the Acts of the Apostles we read: “And they that believed were
together and had all things common, and continued daily with one accord in
the temple, and breaking bread from house to house, they took their bread
with gladness and simplicity of heart.” (Acts ii: 46.) But Satan – the author
of schism and fomenter of strife – was not long in getting busy to destroy, or
at least sadly mar, this happy state of unity. The first centuries of Christian
history are the record of persecution and war from without and of heresy,
strife and division from within. Perhaps the culmination of the devil’s furious
efforts to annihilate the peace and unity of the people of God is to be
assigned to the period of the so-called Protestant Reformation, namely, the
sixteenth century.
Volumes have been written in the vain effort to give a compendious

history of all the schism, heresy, strife and bloodshed that are directly to be
traced to the lifting up of the gates of hell, in the Reformation Period,
against the Petrine foundation of the Catholic church. The church herself
has emerged from that strife more of a “city that is at unity within herself”
than at any previous age in her long history. For this we have cause to
rejoice and praise God at this Easter Time. But there is another Christian
phenomenon which should add still more jubilation to our Easter Alleluias
and that is: The remarkable movement towards Unity which every year
seems increasingly to manifest itself among our separated Christian
brethren, the members of those sects and denominations almost without
number, which have issued from the womb of the sixteenth century
Reformation, that prolific mother of divisions.
THE WORLD’S CONFERENCE ON FAITH AND ORDER
Not only have the Protestant sects formed a working concordat among
themselves under the name Federation, but now the Episcopal church
comes to the front with a proposal to hold a World’s Conference on Faith and
Order, designed to embrace the representatives not only of all Protestant
denominations but also the Schismatic bodies of the East; and overtures
have been made – though as yet unofficial – towards representative
Ecclesiastics of the Catholic Church.
While a friendly attitude on the part of Catholics generally has

manifested itself towards this last development of the Church Unity
movement outside our borders, an occasional writer has given expression in
the Catholic press to an inability to see how any good can come from a
Conference such as has been outlined by the Episcopalians. But in forming
our judgment about a matter of so considerable importance, we must not
lose sight of the changed spirit that has come over Protestantism, namely,
the spirit of union as opposed to disunion – of peace as opposed to strife and
persecution. “Ye shall know the tree by its fruits,” and the fruits of peace
and goodwill are from God and not from our common enemy.
And if indeed it be God Who has begun this movement towards unity
among our separated brethren, it is only a part of our confidence in His
omnipotent power to believe also that he will bring it to good effect. The
movement has not yet advanced far enough among the “other sheep” for
them to have caught very definitely the vision of the Rock of Peter as the
God-created foundation of unity; but we may confidently anticipate for our
non-Catholic co-workers in the cause of a reunited Christendom such a
vision in the fullness of time. And meanwhile should we not wish them good
luck in the name of the Lord and manifest towards those who still are in the
far country not the spirit of the elder brother, but the spirit of the father in
the Parable of the Prodigal Son, who remained not within the house behind
closed doors until his erring son held the knocker trembling in his hand, but
went forth with joy and generous love to meet him, “while he was yet a
great way off.”
We know that his spirit already is in the heart of the Holy Father and
that we, as loyal Catholics, should love as he loves and desire what he
desires, and in so doing we shall the more infallibly echo in our own hearts
the yearnings of the Sacred Heart of Jesus and the Maternal Heart of Mary,
Our Lady of the Atonement.
Document 267
The Lamp Apr. 1914 p.150
Lamp. The item from Multum in Parvo is a commentary on an article in The American
Catholic(Anglican) which states that the Roman Catholic Church is in a position with its numbers
and might to start the ball rolling for Christian unity. The article wishes that some future pope will
take the lead. The wording in this Multum in Parvo commentary, e.g., words like “divinely
constituted Centre of Unity,” is further proof that it was written by Fr. Paul.]
MULTUM IN PARVO
In the person of Pope Leo XIII such a Pope “with a consuming desire for the Re-union of
Christendom”did arise, as his great encyclicals on the subject amply show, but the movement
among “the other sheep” towards the divinely constituted Centre of Unity will have first to
advance for more than it has yet done ere the Successors of St. Peter can use their “enormous
powers and influence” much more than Popes Leo XIII, Pius X, already have done. The Father in
the Parable of the Prodigal Son could do little but wait until the latter experienced a change of
heart and started on the homeward journey, then he, the Father, was most quick to advance
towards him with outstretched arms. No less ready to advance towards them will the “other
sheep” find the One Shepherd, when in obedience to the Saviour’s call they right about face and
take up the homeward journey towards the Fold of Peter. Meantime we can heartily commend the
zeal of The American Catholic in “working for the spread of true Catholicism.”
Document 268
[Since the writer of this piece speaks of composing editorials for The Lamp, he must be the editor,
Fr. Paul Wattson, S.A. The priest saying Mass in the account is also pastor of the laborers outside
of St. John’s. Hence it has to be Fr. Paul.]
THE BISHOP OF LEAD’S TWENTY-FIFTH ANNIVERSARY
It is with more than usual pleasure we publish the following letter addressed to the
Catholic Public. Our readers of two years ago will remember two editorials which appeared in
THE LAMP on the subject of Sunday labor. We gave a concrete illustration of its sad effects at
our own doors and described how, while Mass was going on in St. John’s Church, Graymoor, on
Sunday morning, a band of Catholic workingmen with pick and shovel, were laboring at the
construction of the state road outside the Convent gate. All of them were parishioners pro tem of
the priest who was saying Mass and he knew at the same time that hundreds of other parishioners
who ought to have been at Mass were building for the City of New York a great aqueduct, and
were working on Sunday just as hard as on any other day of the week, being the while as much
strangers to the house of God as if they had been heathens.
We recall our delight a few months after having made our editorial protest against this
crying abuse of Sunday labor, to read in the Catholic press that Bishop Busch of Lead, South
Dakota, had persuaded the city authorities to pass certain legislation designed to restrict
corporations to the performance of only such Sunday work as was absolutely necessary. One of
the wealthiest mining corporations of the world operates in Lead; and a pitched battle between the
mining interests and the good Bishop, fighting for the souls of his flock, ensued with the result
that last summer the Bishop became a voluntary exile from his See City in protest against the
action of the mine authorities.
Here is an opportunity for us to show our sympathy with the courageous opponent of
those who, in their greed for gold, would rob the laboring man of his privilege of duly observing
the Lord’s Day. The Lamp will gladly transmit any contributions sent in our care to the Diocesan
Committee of Lead.
[Here follows the letter from the Diocesan Committee of Leads, pleading for funds, but eliminated
here because of length.]
Document 269
The Lamp Apr. 1914 pp. 164-167
[The author of the sermon is given as Fr. Paul Wattson, S.A. Perhaps John Cardinal Farley, the
Archbishop of N.Y. was present at this Mass along with members of the Sixty-ninth Regiment
which is acknowledged. The theme of a grain of wheat dying before is bears fruit was a favorite of
Fr. Paul. The Scripture quote at the beginning of the sermon, “Unless the grain of wheat....” is one
of Fr. Paul’s favorite. He often quotes the words of the Easter hymn, “The Strife of O’er.” Of note
is his spelling “centre.”]
SAINT PATRICK AND THE IRISH PEOPLE

By Rev. Paul James Francis, S.A.
A SERMON PREACHED IN ST. PATRICK'S CATHEDRAL,

NEW YORK CITY, ON ST. PATRICK'S DAY, 1914
"Unless the grain of wheat falling into the ground die, itself remaineth alone; but if it die it
bringeth forth much fruit." St. John xii:24-25.
In the words just quoted from the Holy Gospel I strike the keynote of my sermon to you
on this morning of golden sunshine and of fair prospect for the Church of God and for the Irish
and American people. I shall endeavor to illustrate the sublime significance of the text first in the
life of St. Patrick, and second in the lives of his children, the Irish nation and race, and third, to
call on all those who now crowd this great cathedral, sacred to the name and memory of Saint
Patrick, to hand on to generations yet unborn the same magnificent tradition of self sacrifice and
faithfulness unto death, which during the past fourteen hundred years has filled all Christendom
with the fame of the Irish and peopled heaven with such a multitude of saints that no one would
have the temerity to undertake to count them.
That Saint Patrick himself was "a grain of wheat," predestined of God to fall upon Irish
soil and there to die in order that he might fill the heavenly garners with Celtic wheat, needs no
forensic skill to demonstrate; it is as self evident as an axiom in geometry.
THE STORY OF SAINT PATRICK'S DEATH TO SELF
Recall the story with which you have been familiar since childhood. Nurtured in a home of
Roman refinement and Christian culture, his father a Frankish prince, his mother of the same
patrician origin as her kinsman, St. Martin of Tours; at sixteen he is suddenly taken captive by a
band of Irish pirates, carried by them into a mountainous section of Northern Ireland and there
sold into slavery to a cruel landlord, who makes of him a keeper of cattle and a feeder of swine.
Thus is he practically buried alive amid the bogs and the woods and the rocky hills, for in cold and
hunger and nakedness and desperate loneliness he is driven forth from the companionship of men,
to consort by day with swine, and sleep at night sheltered from the biting frost by the kindly cattle
that lay in close proximity to him. So by the discipline of the cross was he providentially schooled,
and while his body became inured to hardship, fasting and fatigue, his soul flourished in the riches
of divine grace, as it could hardly have done in the luxurious environment of his childhood's home.
Then it was, according to his own confession, that his conversion took place and "the love of God
and his fear increased in him more and more." "In a single day," he wrote, "I have said as many as
a hundred prayers, and in the night nearly the same, so that whilst in the woods and on the
mountains, even before the dawn, I was roused to prayer and I felt no hurt from it, whether there
was snow or ice or rain." Like John the Baptist in the wilderness, he was being prepared for his
predestined work, that through his preaching all the Irish might believe.
At twenty-two he escapes from captivity, and returns to the regions of Roman and
Christian civilization. As a grain of wheat, lie now has a chance "to save his life" and revel in the
pleasant things, both physical and intellectual, of that state of high social rank in which he was
born. The honors and the emoluments of the proud mistress of the world lay at his feet. But the
cross of Jesus Christ hovers luminous for him over the Emerald Isle, his soul within him is drawn
irresistibly towards the land of captivity from which he has escaped; in his very dreams he sees all
the children of Ireland from their mothers' wombs stretching out their arms and piteously crying
for relief. "It was the voice of the Irish, and I was greatly affected in my heart," so he writes in his
confessions.
Long years of training and preparation were to pass before Patrick was the fully ripened
grain of wheat which the Divine Sower would cast into Erin's soil, but during all that time he
perfectly corresponded with the Divine Will. He understood his mission as distinctly as Abraham
realized the call of God, and never for a single day did he abandon the transcendent self-denial and
austerity of his life, and during all those long years, with St. Paul, his maxim was: "God for bid
that I should glory save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world is crucified unto
me and I unto the world." At last his half century of schooling and missionary training is ended,
the hands of Pope Celestine I are laid in consecration on Patrick's head: from the Successor of St.
Peter the Fisherman he has received his final commission, and a little while thereafter the feet of
its glorious Apostle make their impress once again upon Ireland's shore, this time never to be
effaced, for the slave boy now returns as the Ambassador of Christ to open the gates of the
Kingdom of Heaven to a people of whom it will never be said, as St. John wrote in his Gospel of
the Jews, "He came unto His own and His own received Him not." On the contrary, the
missionary expedition of Saint Patrick into Ireland in a very short time assumed the nature of a
triumphal march from capital to capital and from principality to principality. One after another, the
petty kings or chieftains of the entire island, from the northernmost to the southernmost extremity
bowed themselves to the sceptre of the cross, and with their subjects were baptized by Saint
Patrick and his band of missionary helpers. Almost by magic, a native priesthood and hierarchy
arose, monks and nuns were multiplied and the whole face of the land was dotted over with
churches, monasteries and institutions of Catholic learning. If there is a parallel in all Christian
history to the evangelization of Ireland by Saint Patrick I must confess my ignorance of its
existence.
Coming at the age of sixty, if we may credit the tradition, to begin his apostolic labors
when many modern missionaries are put on the retired list, he found the Irish people wholly
pagan, and he lived to see them wholly Christian. Elsewhere the blood of the martyrs has had first
to water the ground ere the seed of the Church could take permanent root, but the con version of
Ireland was completely achieved by her Saint-Apostle without the shedding of a single drop of
blood. Again I must confess my ignorance if, anywhere else on the face of the earth, the same
thing can be said of the conversion of any nation.
What a fine holiday time, you may say, Saint Patrick must have had, passing like some
political idol of the people from one scene of hero worship to another, with himself always the
centre of popular applause, as village and town and city vied with each other to do him honor, and
perpetual crowds pressed around him to kiss his archepiscopal ring. But think not that Saint
Patrick ever abandoned the footsteps of the Crucified. Following hard after his Master from hour
to hour, he was, first of all, a perpetual martyr to ceaseless labors and hard, incessant work. Well
might he have said, with the Great Missionary to the Gentiles: "I labor more abundantly than they
all." But, in addition to this, hear what the Breviary says of his life of prayer and bodily
mortification: "Besides the daily care of the churches, he never gave his indomitable spirit
relaxation from prayer. He was accustomed to say two hundred prayers during the day and to
adore God with three hundred genuflexions, and at each canonical hour he blessed himself with
the sign of the cross a hundred times. The night he divided into three parts. The first part he
employed in the recital of one hundred psalms and twice a hundred genuflexions; the second part
in saying the remaining fifty psalms, standing the while erect in icy water, with heart and eyes and
hands raised towards heaven, but the third portion of the night he gave himself to meagre [sic]
sleep, lying upon a bare rock."
What the Breviary relates may have been Saint Patrick's daily routine only on special
occasions of retreat, such as the forty days of Lent, which he is said to have spent in imitation of
Christ amid the lonely crags of Croagh Patrick, but that he was to the end of his long life a man
who practised the greatest austerity, constant bodily mortification, ceaseless prayer, and was
crucified afresh with Christ a thousand times, there can be no reasonable doubt, and it was just
because, like a grain of wheat falling into the ground, he died so completely to himself, and so
entirely for the souls of the Irish people, that God has made his self-sacrifice so marvelously
fruitful.
HOW DEATH AND RESURRECTION HAVE SUCCEEDED

EACH OTHER IN IRISH HISTORY
Now, in the second place, let us cast our eye swiftly over the annals of the Irish nation
from the days of Saint Patrick and see how in the providence of God they, too, have been made to
fall into the ground and die for certain long periods of time and how, after each new national
death, they have had their joyful resurrection accompanied by such fruitfulness as has benefitted
and enriched the Catholic Church throughout the whole world.
As the direct and immediate product of Saint Patrick's own long life of daily dying and
sacrifice, we have for the Irish nation three centuries of such fruitfulness in sanctity and Christian
learning as to constitute a chapter in Catholic Church history so glorious that every page might
well be printed in red letters and illuminated with gold. Those were the centuries that gained for
Ireland the immortal title of "the Island of Saints and Doctors." Not only did the whole island
teem with holy priests, monks and virgins, making the land radiant with their sanctity; but
thousands flocked to Ireland from every country in Europe, attracted thither by the far-famed
holiness of the newly converted nation and the brilliant learning of her priests and religious.
Schools and colleges and universities overflowed with the noble youth of France, Germany, Spain
and Italy, eager to sit at the feet of Irish doctors and philosophers, and drink deep of the fountains
of Christian wisdom and knowledge. Nor was this all. The missionary spirit of Saint Patrick so
breathed in his spiritual sons that they could not tarry contentedly at home, and so we find them
going forth in astonishing numbers to carry Christ's evangel into the lands of Northern Europe,
which at that time were still pagan. They passed over to the rocky coasts of the Hebrides; they
established their monasteries as missionary centres amid the highlands of Scotland; they entered
Northumberland; they crossed the seas into France; they helped in the evangelization of Germany
and they gave Irish saints even to Switzerland and Northern Italy.
But at the beginning of the 9th century began a long crucifixion period for Catholic
Ireland. In the providence of God it was expedient for the nation, like a grain of wheat, to fall into
the ground and die. The terrible Vikings from Norway and Denmark came in their pirate ships,
like hungry wolves out of the woods devouring the sheep, and having tasted of Irish spoils, they
came again and again, in larger and larger numbers, until the whole land was overrun with the
worshippers of Odin and Thor. The priests and religious were put to the sword, the churches and
monasteries and institutions of learning were burned and the whole face of the land made
desolate, and the Irish themselves driven into the mountain fastnesses and into the dens and caves
of the earth. It was the first drastic test of Irish fidelity to Christ and His holy Church, even unto
death, and heaven knows how grandly they stood the test.
As our Lord's body lay in the grave for three days, so for three centuries continued the
Danish persecution and enthralment. Then, under the leadership of Brian Boru of Munster,
Malachy of Meath and O'Kelly of Connaught, the death blow was given to Danish supremacy and
again fair Erin was free. Swift upon the very heels of the retreating Norsemen the Church of the
Irish emerged from her hiding place, and once more the land became resplendent with churches,
monasteries and schools and all the outward and visible signs of a flourishing Christianity; and
whereas the glory of this second resurrection did not attain to the glory of the first, yet again the
grain of wheat that had been buried in the earth lifted high its golden head, basking in the divine
sunshine, and its fruitfulness overflowed into other lands.
THREE CENTURIES OF PROTESTANT OPPRESSION
This second resurrection period endures for about three hundred years, and behold a yet
more terrible crucifixion awaits the long-suffering Irish people. Under Henry VIII and Elizabeth
the storm of the Protestant Reformation breaks in fiendish fury over Ireland, and once more that
martyr race, weltering in their own blood, are driven like sheep to the shambles, such being the
price they are compelled to pay for fidelity to Christ and to His Vicar, the Pope of Rome. I shall
not attempt to dilate upon the indescribable sufferings and the desperate poverty of the Irish
people while once more, as a grain of wheat, they lay in the grave for still another three centuries.
It is a more agreeable task to point out to you the immense train of benefits which has
already ensued in the good providence of God from the holocaust of ten generations of the
children of Saint Patrick. Take one concrete example as illustrative of the whole. In the middle of
the last century, when Father Mathew, the Irish Apostle of Temperance, and Daniel O'Connell,
walking hand in hand, were heralding another glorious resurrection day for the Irish nation, their
joint work of emancipation was suddenly cast down to the earth by the failure of the potato crop
and the awful, heart sickening famine which followed, when the cry of the starving Irish
penetrated far across the Atlantic and reached the remotest corners of America. It was hard to
penetrate the mystery of Divine Providence at the time, but it did not stagger the faith of this
wonderful people, who, like Job, have ever said: "Though He slay me, yet will I trust in Him." But
in the light of the subsequent history of Catholicism we see the rich harvests the Irish famine has
produced. The tremendous onward strides the Catholic Church has made in the United States,
Canada and Australia since then, is due in very large measure to Irish immigration, brought about
by hunger and want in the old country. Here you have a striking illustration of our Lord's saying,
"A grain of wheat except it die abideth alone, but if it die it bringeth forth much fruit."
Ground under the heel of penal oppression on Erin's Isle, the Irish Catholics have in the
meantime spread over the face of the earth, so that you find them in every Christian land, and
wherever they are they mightily support the Church and help to propagate the faith, not only by
obeying the primeval mandate of God, "Increase and multiply and replenish the earth," but by
their spirit of generous self sacrifice and their zeal for the missionary extension of the Kingdom of
Christ. Behold for a moment this great Archdiocese of New York, which has but two or three
equals for numerical strength in the whole wide world, and can you imagine how its glory and
strength would diminish and its vast agencies for the temporal and spiritual good of this great city
would be crippled, if all Catholics of Irish birth or extraction were suddenly wiped out of
existence? Your imagination may be able to conjure the picture and measure the appalling calamity
which would ensue, but mind cannot compass such a conjecture.
THE PRINCIPLE BROUGHT HOME
And now to bring the great, potent principle of sacrifice home to ourselves.
What Saint Patrick did in his day, and all the generations of the Irish since, to a greater or
lesser degree, have done in their day, shall not the American sons and daughters of Erin's Patriarch
do in our day, viz., give our lives in sacrifice for the missionary extension of the Catholic Church
and the conquest of the whole world for Christ. It was a great, big thing that Saint Patrick did
when lie converted that little island in the Western Sea to Christ, but do we, as Catholics, realize
the gigantic possibilities of missionary conquest which beckon the twentieth century descendants
of Saint Patrick to give their lives and their all to the grandest and most inspiring cause which ever
inspired a human being to take his life and lay it down, a holocaust upon the altar of sacrifice?
Not only are the fields of Catholic conquest whitening to the harvest in our own dear
America from ocean to ocean and from the Canadian borders to the Gulf of Mexico, but Africa
and Asia and the islands of the sea are calling more loudly than ever before for Catholic
missionaries. India, with its hundreds of millions of souls, is overwhelming the Indian Bishops and
Vicars Apostolic by the demands of her people for baptism and Catholic ministrations; Japan, the
Island Kingdom of the far East, as Ireland, in Saint Patrick's day, was the Isle of the far West,
now, as in the time of St. Francis Xavier, lies open to the missionaries of the Cross; and as for vast
China, with a population that aggregates a hundred million more than all the Catholics in the
world after nineteen centuries of Christian evangelization, she also, as never before, is stretching
out her hands unto God, and not only are the missionaries now laboring there baptizing converts
by the thousands, but they are calling loudly to America to come over and help them, both with
men and money, to gather in the harvest. I am firmly persuaded that there never has been so
golden an opportunity since Saint Patrick's conversion of Ireland for missionary conquest, than is
presented in the foreign mission field at this very hour. and I make bold, in the name of Saint
Patrick, to ask you to deny yourselves to the uttermost in a united effort to add fresh laurels and
new conquests to Erin's brow by your obedience to Christ's command, "Go ye into all the world
and preach the Gospel to every creature."
Among the titles which our beloved Cardinal Archbishop has so deservedly earned there is
none which makes me personally more proud of him than that which some of the foreign
missionaries, out of sheer gratitude, have given to him, namely, "The Cardinal of the Missions." I
hail his Eminence by that title with all my heart, "The Cardinal of the Missions," and at the same
time nothing in the achievements of our great archdiocese fills my heart to-day with greater
gratitude to God than the fact that now for several years New York has headed the list of all the
dioceses of the world in her contributions to the Society for the Propagation of the Faith.
Our great metropolis is dotted all over with eloquent monuments to the self-denying
generosity of the Irish Catholics, and now, I pray you, dot the whole pagan world with similar
monuments of your sacrificial love for Jesus Christ.
But, men of the Sixty-ninth Regiment, and all the Catholic faithful within the reach of my
voice, I ask you to do more than keep yourselves poor by your superabounding gifts to the
extension of the Catholic Church at home and abroad. I ask you to consecrate the children you
now have, or shall have hereafter, yea even from their mother's womb, to the sacred propaganda
of the Faith, until Saint Patrick shall see of the travail of his soul in you his spiritual offspring, and
that glorious day shall be hastened when the kingdoms of this world shall become the Kingdom of
Our God and Saviour Jesus Christ, and the Seed of Mary, whom Saint Patrick taught the Irish to
love, shall people all the continents of the earth.
IRELAND'S THIRD RESURRECTION
In conclusion, I ask you to behold with eyes of patriotic admiration and hearts aflame with
love and gratitude to God, the evident fact that now at length another joyful Easter Day has
dawned for Ireland. The grain of wheat so long sepulchred in the tomb of the Crucified has risen
from the grave. You here in America have kept vigil, as your Irish fathers did before you, and you
have seen the resurrection process of Ireland's emancipation, both in religion and politics, slowly
unfold, first the blade, the tiny green shoot emerging from the earth, then the ear, and now at last,
with Home Rule almost realized, the full grain in the ear. Yes, thank God, Erin's Resurrection Day
in the cycle of the centuries has again dawned upon the earth, and, judging from her past history,
we make bold to prophesy for Ireland's new Eastertide a duration of at least three hundred years,
and as it has been preceded by the longest and the hardest Lent the Irish race has ever been called
upon to keep, we may with the greater confidence hope and pray that the glory of this present
Paschal era may equal, if not surpass, the glory of the three hundred years in Ireland that were
ushered in with the advent of Saint Patrick and ended by the coming of the Danes.
And so, as in prophetic gaze our eyes look beyond cross-crowned Calvary and behold the
Angel of God roll back the stone from the sepulchre, we apply to the long-crucified children of
Saint Patrick the soul-stirring words of the Easter hymn:
"The strife is o'er, the battle done,

The victory of life is won,
The song of triumph has begun.
Alleluia ! Alleluia! Alleluia !"
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[From its tone of spokesman for The Lamp, this piece appears to be written by Fr. Paul Wattson,
S.A., editor of The Lamp.]
THE ROMEWARD TREND AMONG OUR ANGLICAN BRETHREN
That the Romeward movement in the Anglican Church is gaining in momentum, even her
own members are now bearing witness with noticeable frequency. The latest evidence of this is
contained in an editorial of the English Church Times entitled “Romeward Drift.” THE LAMP
does not claim to be endowed with the supernatural gift of prophecy, but our contention of long
ago that the Oxford movement would eventuate in a distinctly Romeward one seems to be coming
true. To make this the more striking we shall put down in parallel columns an editorial which
appeared in THE LAMP of March, 1908 (six years ago), and the above mentioned one from the
Church Times of March 6, 1914. Of course, the Church Times, to save its face must interject such
phrases as “the specific error of Romanism, which is an undue exaltation of the Apostolic See,”
and again, “the Church of Rome, for all its faults and errors,” but nevertheless it concedes now,
what it denied so strenuously a while back, that the Oxford movement was in realty a Romeward
one.
[Here follows the reprints from The Lamp and the English Church Times, eliminated because of
length.]
Document 271
The Lamp May 1914 pp. 195-196 (In The Words of Fr. Paul, edited by Fr. Titus Cranny, S.A., III
95-97)
Wattson, S.A., editor of The Lamp. Another proof of his authorship is the note about a solitary
companion of his in the early days of Graymoor (who was Ferdinand Wallerstein, later Bro.
Anthony, S.A). For years the two were the only friars at Graymoor.]
SHALL WE TRY TO CONVERT THE JEWS?
Long have we prayed and much have we thought bout the Conversion of the Jews, who
have come in such vast numbers to our shores. In Great er New York alone there are over one
million Jews and, as far as we know, there exists not one Catholic mission having as its specific
object the conversion of the Hebrew People, nor in fact have we heard of such a mission existing
in any part of the United States The question is, whether Our Lord’s command, “Go Ye into the
whole world and preach the Gospel to every creature” (St. Mark 16:15) is to be regarded as a
dead letter as far as the Jew is concerned. The Holy Spirit found it a hard task at the first to
convince St. Peter and the Apostolic College, that Christ died for the Gentile nations as well as for
the Jewish race. Shall we Gentile Catholics go to the opposite extreme and act as though Our
Lord did not die for the Jew at all, but for the Gentile only?
A MISINTERPRETATION OF ST. PAUL
There seems to be a general impression abroad that it has been divinely revealed through
St. Paul that the Almighty has excluded the Jews from Salvation until the full conversion of the
Gentile world is accomplished, after which the Hebrews who are still on the earth will have a
chance to be grafted again into the olive tree from which they were broken off when they rejected
the Messiah and crucified the Lord of glory. Those who labor under this impression should read
very carefully the eleventh chapter of St. Paul’s Epistle to the Romans in order to get a truer
impression of what the great Apostle to the Gentiles does actually teach concerning the salvation
of the Jews. He begins by asking, “Hath God cast always his people? God forbid. For I also am an
Israelite of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin. God hath not cast away his people
which He foreknew. Know you not what the Scripture saith of Elias; how he calleth on God
against Israel? Lord, they have slain Thy prophets, they have dug down Thy altar and I am left
alone and they seek may life. But what saith the divine answer to him? I have left Me Seven
Thousand men, that have not bowed their knees to Baal. Even so, then at this present time also
there is a remnant saved according to the election of grace.” (Roman 11:1-5)
Now this remnant of the elect Hebrews who have believed and been saved did not become
extinct when the Apostles who were Jews died, but in every succeeding generation there has been
a considerable remnant of the Hebrew people who have accepted Christ and been grafted as living
branches into the vine of Christ’s Apostolic Church. Scholars well versed in Semitic ethnology tell
us that Christians of Jewish lineage, especially in the countries which border on the
Mediterranean, are much more numerous than is generally supposed and we have little doubt that
this is true. Certain it is that there have been notable conversions to Christianity among the Jews
in every generation.
A DEEP-ROOTED FALLACY
The notion which has taken deep root in the minds of so many Catholics that it is a
hopeless task to try to convert a Jew belongs to a class of pernicious fallacies, which ought to be
buried in the same deep hole with the oft repeated argument against foreign missions that there
are so many heathen at home. With so little zeal manifested in their behalf, it is really a wonder
that Jewish conversions to Catholicism are as numerous as they are.
We are constantly meeting with Jewish converts, or hearing about them from other priests,
wherever we go. Our solitary companion for years on the Mount of the Atonement was a Jews
and he stood loyally by us, when on account of our witness to Papal Supremacy and Infallibility
our most trusted friends abandoned us.
SHALL THE PROTESTANTS PROVOKE US TO JEALOUSY?
On the desk before us is a letter which we have received from a Protestant Jewish Minister
working among his own people in Brooklyn. He says:
We cannot tell definitely how many converts to either Catholicism or

Protestantism we have, but I have heard from reliable sources that we have two
thousand Jewish believers in New York City. One Missionary among the Jews (he
has labored in New York City for nearly twenty years) says that thirty thousand
nominal Jewish believers would be more correct. I am personally meeting Jewish
converts very frequently. Recently I attended a mission where Communion was
administered to a congregation, almost wholly composed of Jewish believers in
Christ.
I walked a distance with one of our Jewish attendants last Friday evening
and he informed me that he believed and purposed to be baptized next month. He
is a fine Bible student and understands Hebrew quite well and also has knowledge
of the Talmud. Last Saturday afternoon, we had a splendid meeting in New York.
They often listen quite attentively, and press us with questions after the preaching
service.
If these Protestant Evangelists can succeed as well as they do, the Catholic missionary
ought to do much better. We were conversing the other day with a former member of the New
York Apostolic Mission Band, who informed us that in conducting a mission to non-Catholics in
some parts of New York City where the Jewish population is particularly dense, the church would
be largely filled with Jewish inquirers during the mission, and this suggests the question, if we
have missions to Gentile non-Catholics, why not also make a specialty of missions to the Jewish
no-Catholics.
For ten years now the conversion of the Jews has been daily prayed for by the members of
the Rosary League of Our Lady of the Atonement and we trust the time is not far distant when we
shall begin to see some visible results of so many prayers. Meanwhile we invite a discussion of the
whole question in our correspondence columns and we shall be very grateful to any of the Clergy
who will employ their pen in helping us foster a deeper and more hopeful interest in a subject of
such vital importance to such a vast number so souls.
Document 272
The Lamp May. 1914 p.197-198
[The writer of the piece identifies himself as the Editor of The Lamp, which is Fr. Paul Wattson,
S.A. He repeated the story of the link between Rose Leaves and the Catholic University in Tokyo
many times. England as “Mary’s Dowry” was a favorite expression of Fr. Paul Wattson, S.A.
Apparently the poem included here is not the work of Fr Paul.]
MULTUM IN PARVO.
The influence of the press is illustrated by the following incident. The first monthly
published at Garymoor was a dainty little paper with a pink cover called Rose Leaves from Our
Lady’s Garden. A stray copy reached Prof. Arthur Lloyd, President of he Anglican Missionary
College in Tokyo, Japan. As a result he became a convert to the Graymoor Reunion with Rome
propaganda in the Episcopal Church and took to paying Peter’s Pence, At the close of the Russo-
Japanese war he wrote our present Holy Father, venturing to suggest the wisdom of a letter from
His Holiness to the Mikado thanking the Emperor for his kind treatment of Catholic soldiers
during the war. Pope Pius acted on this suggestion and delegated the Bishop of Portland, now
Cardinal O’Connell, Archbishop of Boston, to be the bearer of the letter to the Mikado. His
Majesty was so much pleased that he expressed to the Papal Ambassador his willingness to allow
the Jesuits to found a University in Tokyo, and this has since been done. The subjoined news item
has appeared in the Catholic press:
The Japanese Government has formally recognized the Catholic University

of Tokyo, which is directed by the Jesuit Fathers. The professor of philosophy,
Father Gettelman, S.J., is an American. The name of Jesuit University is Iochi
Diaga Kou, which means High School of Wisdom. All the Fathers connected with
the institution are of the German Province of the Society of Jesus, with the
exception of Father Boucher, a French missionary of Shanghai, and Father
Tsuchilhashi, a Japanese. The latter has studied in France, and has the reputation of
being one of the foremost mathematicians of the Jesuit Society.
No one rejoices more at this foundation than the Editor of THE LAMP, and we ask the
prayers of our readers for the soul of Rev. Arthur Lloyd, who so ardently loved the peace of
Jerusalem, yet died without the city’s gates.
____________________
May is the month of Mary: it is also the month of the English Martyrs. There is something
singularly appropriate in this. England was called in the old days before the blight of Protestantism
descended upon it, “Mary’s Dowry.” The destruction of the shrine of Mary was one of the saddest
events of that unhappy Reformation period., and the lament of a Catholic on beholding the ruined
shrine of Our Lady of Walsingham shows with what heart-breaking sadness the clients of Mary
saw their Lady dishonored.
Bitter, bitter, oh, to behold

The grass to grow
Where the walls of Walsingham
So stately did show.
Such were the walls of Walsingham
While she did stand:
Such are the wrecks as now to show
Of that holy land.
Weep, weep, O Walsingham,

Whose days are nights,
Blessing turned to blasphemies,
Holy deeds to despites:
Sin is where Our Lady sat,
Heaven is turned to hell,
Satan sits where our Lord did sway,
Walsingham, oh, farewell.
Document 273
The Lamp May 1914 p. 200
[From the personal tone of this entry in the Graymoor annals and the use of “we” in referring to
when the S.A. was outside the Catholic Church, the author of this piece has to be the editor of
The Lamp, Fr. Paul Wattson, S.A. Another proof of his authorship the use of his constant phrase
for the S.A. “our Institute”. If the barn referred to was built 35 years before, that means in 1879.Is
this the barn which the Sisters make into the edifice Bethany? Of interest is Fr. Paul’s statement
that the community has grown so much that it now has three horses and three cows.]
GRAYMOOR ANNALS
Now that the winter is passed and the summer is fast approaching we find ourselves
confronted with may things to be accomplished before the snow flies again on the Mount of the
Atonement. Whether all the building that we want to do this summer is realized or not, will
depend upon the helpfulness and generosity of our benefactors, most if not all of whom are
readers of THE LAMP. In an address in Baltimore a few weeks ago, we told of the days (now
happily passed) when THE LAMP, instead of bringing in any revenue to the Community, was kept
running solely by the rigid economy and self-denial of the Friars and Sisters of the Atonement.
Those were the days when we still were without the Fold of Peter. “Now,” we said, “it is very
different and the readers of THE LAMP give us everything we ask for.” To demonstrate once
more the truth of this statement, we are going to tell our readers just what it is we want to
accomplish this summer in the building way, and then if we succeed in doing all these things it will
be another wonderful proof that we were not using the language of the hyperbole when we said in
Baltimore that “THE LAMP readers give us everything we ask for.”
You will remember our having told you last fall, that we had purchased a second hand
portable house from the New York Aqueduct Construction Company. Other Brothers Christopher
at the present time are engaged in building a cement basement for this bungalow in which we
propose to have a bathroom and also stationary washtubs so the poor men may have a place to
wash their clothes was well as take a bath, an exceedingly rare luxury with most of them. We
intend to divide the upper story into living and sleeping rooms for the yong men who have charge
of the mailing depart of THE LAMP. These facts ought especially to interest our readers in the
speedy completion of this annex to St. Christopher’s Inn. Only about one third of the amount
necessary has yet been contributed.
The next thing we want to do is to stucco St. John’s House of Studies, which should have
been done when the building was erected, but we were overtaken by winter and the matter had to
be delayed. We estimate that this work will cost $500. At the same time we wish to stucco St.
Paul’s Friary, which adjoins St. Francis Church, so that all the buildings will have a uniform
appearance; and this will cost another $250.
Still another pressing necessity is the building of a barn to accommodate the three horse
and three cows which the growth of our community has made necessary. The stable we have been
suing was built for a horse shed along side of St. John’s Church some their-five years ago, and it is
now laterally tumbling to pieces.
Up to this time we have kept pace in material things with the expansion of our Institute,
without becoming involved in debt and we hope to maintain in the future the same record.
Primarily, the praise is due to God and to His Saints while (humanly speaking) it belongs to the
loving generosity of our good benefactors. From month to month we shall try to keep you
informed as to the progress we are making with all this building; and we believe the report will
both demonstrate the liberality of our readers and our own cause for downright thankfulness.
Document 274
The Lamp May 1914 pp. 201-202 (In The Words of Fr. Paul, edited by Fr. Titus Cranny, S.A.,
VIII 45-46)
[Fr. Paul Wattson’s authorship of the article is stated at the beginning. Fr. Paul notes the altitude
of the Mount of the Atonement; how he was inspired to turn a chicken house into St.
Christopher’s Inn and calls the “ground” of the S.A. Sisters’ property the “Graymoor
Portiuncula.”He also states that the motto of the Society of the Atonement is “Omnia pro Christo
et Salute Hominum,” and that he believes that the S.A. “from its infancy has been of God.”]
THE SOCIETY OF THE ATONEMENT
By Rev. Paul James Francis, S.A.
(A reprint from America.)
As a straw upon the surface of the waters, though so small a thing, will
nevertheless, indicate the way the tide is running, so the corporate action of
the Society of the Atonement four years ago last October, in passing from
Anglicanism into the Catholic Church, marked a new stage in that
remarkable Romeward movement which has asserted itself so persistently in
the Church of England, and her branch communions during the last two
generations.
The movement began, as all the world knows, at Oxford in 1833,

exactly three hundred years after the setting up of the royal supremacy in
England and the rejection by King and Parliament of the Papal authority.
Newman, who was the corypheus of the movement, revealed its
providential, as well as logical terminus ad quem, by becoming a Catholic.
Many followed his example and the stream of individual conversions
gradually has swollen from Newman’s day to this; yet the movement within
the Anglican body has suffered no reaction on that account and it has
steadily progressed, both doctrinally and numerically. The Catholic leaven is
ever more and more permeating the Anglican lump.
That a Religious Institute, comprising a community of Friars, another of

Sisters, and a small band of secular tertiaries could have existed for ten
years in the Episcopal church, and all this time holding the Catholic Faith in
its entirety, inclusive of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin
Mary, and of Papal infallibility, was astonishing to many. Yet this was done
by the Society of the Atonement, not in secret but openly, and with a
monthly magazine boldly proclaiming the fact to the world. This was simply
one of the psychological phenomena in connection with the Romeward trend
in the Anglican Church. That it was not a bit of mere individual eccentricity
has been demonstrated since by the reception into the Catholic Church, a
year ago, of two much larger communities in England, viz., the Benedictine
Monks of Caldey and the Benedictine Nuns of Milford Haven, South Wales. A
new pro-Roman party now exists in the Church of England; and the present
agitation over the Kikuyu affair is likely to bring the fact into ever-increasing
prominence.
The home of the Society of the Atonement is Graymoor, in the

Highlands of the Hudson, three miles back from Garrison, a town on the east
bank of the river and connected by ferry with West Point. At the summit of
the Mount of the Atonement, having an elevation of 700 feet, and
commanding a stretch of magnificent river and highland scenery, stand
clustered together the community buildings of the Friars of the Atonement –
St. Paul’s Friary, erected in 1900; St. Francis’ Church, which was dedicated
on the Feast of St. Peter’s Chair, January 18, 1912; and St. John’s House of
Studies, completed in the summer of 1913, and now rapidly filling with
young students who are eager to qualify as members of the Congregation.
On the southern slope of the mountain, hardly more than a stone’s

throw from the Friary, there lies, almost hidden among the trees a poor log
cabin, which has afforded shelter to many thousands of homeless men in
the five years of its existence. It bears the name of St. Christopher’s Inn,
not alone because of its dedication to the patron saint of travelers, but
because the way-faring men, commonly styled tramps, are called at
Graymoor, Brothers Christopher (Christ-bearers). To make a frank
confession, I would blush to have any of our fine friends visit this hostelry of
our penniless guests – it is so desperately poor and rough. In fact, it was
originally intended for a chicken house; and it was a photograph of the log
cabin in which Lincoln was born that inspired the idea of converting it into a
St. Christopher’s Inn.
Down in the beautiful Graymoor Valley, just at the foot of the Mount of
the Atonement, and a half-mile distant from St. Paul’s Friary, are the grounds
– ten acres in extent – of the Sisters of the Atonement, and all has been
acquired since the Society became Catholic, except the original three-
quarters of an acre on which stands St. John’s mission church, erected about
1875, by Dr. Gray, the Episcopal rector at Garrison, and St. Francis’ House,
the Sisters’ convent, which was built in 1899. Soon after the coming of the
Sisters this tiny bit of ground acquired the name of the Graymoor
Portiuncula, after the famous Portiuncula of St. Francis at Assisi, and no
doubt the name will cling to it always.
Submission to Rome has meant growth and expansion to the second,

as well as to the first, Congregation of the Society; and this is evidenced by
the enlargement of St Francis’ House to twice its former size – a work that
began last September and which will not be completed until May or June. In
its Anglican days the Sisters’ convent chapel was ample to accommodate
the few people from the neighborhood who occasionally came to worship or
to hear a sermon, and the larger building, St. John’s mission church, was
seldom used. Now the church is filled at Mass on Sundays, even in the
winter, and in summer it is so crowded that its enlargement, too, will
doubtless soon become a pressing necessity.
The motto of the Society is Omnia pro Christo et Salute Hominum (All
things for Christ and the Salvation of Men), and it voices the missionary
purpose of its existence. When His Holiness Pope Pius X was humbly
besought to take the Institute under his sovereign care as Shepherd of
Christ’s Sheep, the three-fold mission of the Society of the Atonement was
defined to be: First, to labor for the reconciliation of the sinners unto God,
through the Precious Blood of the Atonement. Second, to pray and work for
the return of Anglicans and other non-Catholics, to the unity of the Catholic
Church. Third, the conversion of the heathen.
It is too early in the life of this young Society to show much work
actually accomplished on these lines. It has taken the past four years to lay
foundations, which is always slow and tedious work and one that requires
great patience and even great wisdom. But anyone who takes the trouble to
scan from month to month the “Graymoor Annals” as these are published in
THE LAMP, the organ of the Society, cannot fail to see the hall-mark of
progress clearly inscribed upon every department of its work. As for the
writer, I have always believed that the Society of the Atonement from its
infancy has been of God; and certainly this faith has not lessened by the
spiritual and temporal favors
showered upon the Institute during the last five years of its flourishing existence.
Document 275
The Lamp May 1914 p.203-204
Lamp. The words, “all that concerns us is the welfare of the missions” speak of Fr. Paul’s great
zeal for the missions.]
THE CHURCH’S OPPORTUNITY IN CHINA
THE LAMP now has fifty thousand readers and what grand results will follow, if all this
great company could be persuaded to enlist in an army, where every man will do his best by
voluntary self-denial to extend the kingdom of God in foreign lands. Let our slogan be: The Lord
hath need of all I can given him to win the whole world to His standard.
The nearest approach we have made yet to anything like a popular support of Foreign
Mission on the part of our readers has been the Self-Denial week offering which up to the time we
go to press represents a total of 1, 498 individual offerings. Of course it is to be remembered that
many of our readers contribute regularly through some other channel to the Society of the
Propagation of the Faith. It matters not to THE LAMP how the offerings are sent, all that
concerns us is the welfare of the missions and to inspire in every one a real desire to contribute
something towards the conversion of the entire world for Christ.
Document 276
The Lamp May 1914 pp. 233-234 (In The Words of Fr. Paul, edited by Fr. Titus Cranny, S.A., I
147a-148)
[The authorship of letter is evident from its signature, Fr. Paul Wattson,S.A.]
ROSARY LEAGUE PAGE
A LETTER FROM THE FATHER SUPERIOR
To the Members of the Rosary League:
As you all know, the Rosary League of Our Lady of the Atonement is
now growing with great rapidity and several thousand new members are
being added to our Roll every month. This fact makes me feel quite
patriarchal when I reflect that every Enrolled Member of the Rosary League
is a new Child of the Atonement and a member of that spiritual family, which
taking its rise at Graymoor has already spread into so many different
localities.
During this, the Month of Mary, the Motherhood of the Blessed Virgin is
emphasized, not only because by virtue of the Incarnation she forever has
become the Mother of God, but by virtue of the Atonement she is also the
new Eve and the Mother of that vast multitude which have been
regenerated in baptism and born anew into the Kingdom of God. In other
words, she is the Mother of us all. Now the Atonement lays special stress on
this glorious fact. It was from the altar of His atoning sacrifice that Jesus,
the New Adam, spake to Mary, the New Eve, saying: “Woman, behold thy
son;” and to Saint John, the ideal Son of the Atonement; “Son, behold they
Mother.” Therefore, in adopting the title, Children of the Atonement, for the
members and associates of the Society of the Atonement we are
emphasizing a great and wonderful truth – a Child of the Atonement is a
child of God and of Mary, born again of the Holy Ghost, sprinkled with the
Precious Blood of Redemption and destined for citizenship in the Heavenly
Jerusalem.
In thus calling ourselves, Children of the Atonement, we, of course, do
not claim a monopoly of the title, as though no others than ourselves were
Children of the Atonement; but we use it for bringing home to ourselves a
livelier realization of our birthright in Mount Calvary and its Cross and our
spiritual lineage in Jesus and Mary of the Atonement – even as the
widespread sodalities of the Children of Mary are not meant to imply that no
one else than they who belong to the sodality are Mary’s children; but by
reason of the Sodality and its name they are helped to realize more vividly
that they are of a truth children of Mary.
I cannot too strongly impress upon the minds and hearts of all the
Members of the Rosary League the great importance not only of reciting
daily a decade of the Rosary with the intention for all the members of the
League but to say the “Common Prayers of the Children of the Atonement,”
which are printed on pages 5 and 6 of the Rosary League Manual (a copy of
which can be had by any one simply for the asking). I can conceive of
nothing that will more effectually bind all the Children of the Atonement
together as constituting a united family though widely scattered over the
earth than to say the same Atonement prayers with the same intentions
every day. And may Our Blessed Lady of the Atonement embrace us all in
her maternal heart, praying for us now and in the hour of our death.
Paul James Francis, S.A.
Document 277
The Lamp June 1914 p.243
Wattson, S.A., editor of The Lamp. He encourages responses in the Editor’s Mail Bag.]
THE LITURGICAL METHOD OF ASSISTING AT MASS
This is the Month of he Sacred Heart and of Corpus Christi, when the faithful strive to
show their love to the former by devotion to the latter in the Most Blessed Sacrament of the Altar.
In this connection we desire to direct the attention, especially of the Clergy, to an

illuminating article by Dom Benedict Steuart, O.S.B., in the current number of Pax, the quarterly
paper of the Benedictine Community of Isle of Caldey, on the liturgical method of assisting at
Mass.
Having always in mind the purpose of our Holy Father, Pope Pius X, to restore all things
in Christ, so notably emphasized by his liturgical and Eucharistic reforms as to have deservedly
earned for His Holiness the title of the “Pope of the Blessed Sacrament,” it seems to us that the
contention of Dom Benedict is worthy of serious consideration by American Catholics as well as
those of England, and we shall welcome in the Editor’s Mail Bag a discussion of how far the
liturgical method of assisting at Mass can be made practical on the part of the faithful here in
America.
[Here follows the reprinted article by Dom Benedict Steuart, omitted here because of length.]
Document 278
The Lamp June 1914 p.247
[It appears that Fr. Paul Wattson, S.A., editor of The Lamp, is the writer of this piece, since he
talks about being shut out from Anglican pulpits when preaching his pro-Rome stance.]
MULTUM IN PARVO
The Right Rev. Aelred-Cariyle, after being ordained a priest of the

Catholic Church andsolemnly invested with the office and exalted dignity of
a Benedictine Abbot in Communion with the Apostolic See at the Abbey of
St. Benedict, Maredsons, Belgium, where he has been studying theology and
serving as a Novice for the past year, will during the present month return to
the Island of Caldey to assume once more the government of the twenty
odd young men, who in February, 1913, abandoned the Utopian dream of
building an abiding Benedictine Abbey on the shifting sands of Anglicanism,
and planted their feet firmly on the Rock of Peter. The future of Caldey is
now, in consequence, solid and secure. Thanks be to God.
_______________________
An impressive ceremony took place recently in Grand Rapids, Midi.,

when the Rev. Ernest J, Jewell celebrated solemn High Mass, following which
his own daughter, Matilda, received the white habit of the Order of St.
Dominic. Father Jewell was once the rector of Trinity Episcopal Church,
Manistee. His wife died before his reception into the Catholic Church.
When the Father Superior of the Society of the Atonement was

shunned by the clergy of theEpiscopal Church, generally on account of his
Reunion principles, Father Jewell invited him three years in succession to
preach a mission in his church in Manistee. This parish has given since then
two of its rectors to the Catholic Church, viz., Father Jewel! and John G. P.
Ewens, now attached as a Seminarist to the Vincentian Congregation, or
Lazarist Fathers. Not a few of the parishoners have also become Catholics,
notably Mr. John Davis, now a Brother of the Holy Infancy of Jesus, and
Dr.Ellsworth Ellis and family. Dr. Ellis occupied the position of Senior Warden
of the parish and is the leading physician of Manistee.
Document 279
The Lamp June 1914 pp.249-250
[With the use of “we” in a very authoritative fashion, especially about the faith of the friars in
God’s providence, it appears that Fr. Paul Wattson, S.A., is the author of this piece. In noting his
name, he gives no title with it.]
GRAYMOOR ANNALS
The Mount of the Atonement is a busy place this summer. We are "making hay while the
sun shines." We are pushing the "Annex”to St. Christopher's Inn right along to completion and
when it is finished it will prove, we trust, ornamental as well as useful. It is a one-story bungalow
with basement and is to have a pretty piazza. The living part is to be the domicile for the young
men whoare employed in THE LAMP office and the lower part is to contain a shower bath, laundry
tubs andother conveniences for our Brothers Christopher, who illustrate the saying of Our Lord
to His Apostles, "the poor you have always with you." We are specially fortunate just now in
having as many as five carpenters at one time and we are in consequence hurrying along the
preliminary furring and wire lathing of the Friary and St. John's House of Studies, while an expert
Brother Christopher plasterer is pressing hard after them putting on the stucco. Down in the
valley other Brothers Christopher are excavating the foundation for the new barn, our need of
which we told you about in the May number.
All that we have just named in the way of building might be regarded as a fairly large
contract for one season but in reality we are constrained to face a much larger proposition than
the foregoing.
Although St. John's House of Studies has been opened a little over a year it is already
becoming too small for the number of students, who are coming to us to be educated and trained
for our Congregation. We now have ten in actual residence and as many more have applied for
admissionin the near future, while fresh applications are added to the list constantly. It is as
evident to us as anyfuture contingency can be that an addition to St. John's House must be erected
between now and thebeginning of the new year, if we are going to provide room for boys and
young men knocking for admission. Already the architect is working on the plans and we hope to
announce in the July issue that work on laying the foundation of the new part has begun. The
same Brother Christopher, who laid the first stones of St. Francis' Church, has turned up again,
and this we interpret as a providential straw upon the tide.
We seem to hear some of our readers exclaim: "Where is the money coming from for all
this?"That is a question which only He can answer, "whose is the silver and gold and the cattle
upon a thousand hills." As far as the Friars of the Atonement are concerned we can only rely upon
the same miracle of Providence being continued, as has followed the development of
our Institute from the very start. We have a prayer which we say every day,
asking God to give us "all and only such temporal goods as are needful for
the fulfilment of our vocation." That prayer has been literally answered ever
since we first began to say it and we have no just reason to believe that it
will ever be otherwise. When .little has been required for our necessities, we
have received in material alms just that little, when we have needed more
we have received more.
It is God, who has been giving the increase to our Institute in the way
of vocations and Hehas guaranteed: "Seek ye first the Kingdom of God and
His justice and all these things (temporal necessities) shall be added unto
you." We simply spend as we go along, depending upon daily alms for our
daily needs, and to God, our Patron Saints and our Benefactors be the praise
and thanksgiving.
In April we asked for some one to volunteer to provide for the

installation of electric lightsin St. Francis Church. Very promptly came the
response and now we are only waiting for a Chicago firm to send the
fixtures, for all the wiring has been done and in fact some of the lights are
already in use.
We also gratefully acknowledge the reception of a box of clothing,

several second-hand cassocks for our scholastics, and in particular a tunic
and dalmatic in cloth of gold, the latter, however, cannot be used unless
some one gives us a chasuble of the same material. Perhaps some one of
our priest-subscribers can supply from his discarded vestments just the
chasuble we need
It was on Ascension Day fourteen years ago at high noon that the
Mount of the Atonement
came into the possession of the Children of the Atonement and the
Anniversary was commemorated by a solemn High Mass in St. Francis
Church, the Rev. Paul James Francis, S.A., Celebrant; Rev. Francis Paul Bethel,
S.A.,Deacon; Rev. Emilio Cauceglia, Sub-deacon.
Document 280
The Lamp June 1914 pp. 277-279
[From the use of “we” and “I” at the beginning, it is evident that the author of this piece is Fr.
Paul Wattson, S.A.]
ST. ANTHONY'S CORNER.
By way of an editorial tribute on his birthday (June 13) to St. Anthony.

the miracle-worker par excellence among the Sons of St. Francis, we are
reprinting below an article which we contributed in 1913 to St. Anthony's
Almanac, published by the Franciscan Fathers of the Holy Name Province. We
hope it will make interesting reading for all the clients of the dear Saint
among our twenty-five thousand subscribers.
SOME PERSONAL RECOLLECTIONS OF ST. ANTHONY.
My first introduction to St. Anthony occurred about twenty-five years

ago. I was a young Anglican rector at the time and on a visit to Balti more,
when another Anglican clergyman remarked to me incidentally:
"Mrs. --- has become a Roman Catholic, and I see her

occasionally, and every time I meet her she has discovered a
new saint to whom she is greatly devoted. The last time it was
St. Anthony, about whom she tells wonderful things. She lost her
prayer book and set of beads while down town recently, went
into a church, invoked St. Anthony, and on her way home the
conductor on board the street car handed her the lost articles.
She says a few days after this her little son wanted to get some
money out of his iron bank, but the key was lost, and while they
were looking for it he said to his mother, "Mamma, why do you
not pray to St. Anthony, since he found your prayer book and
rosary?' and such was the faith of the child, according to his
mother's account, that the door of the bank immediately flew
open without any key."
Of course we both put this down to superstition and congratulated

ourselves that our own purer and more primitive type of Christianity was not
encrusted with the barnacles of saint worship. I did not dream at that time
that in after years I would myself become one of the devoted clients of St.
Anthony and learn by experience that devotion to the Wonder-worker of
Padua was not a foolish superstition.
In the very early days of our Graymoor Foundation our Sisters had
among their small possessions a flock of less than a dozen fowl, all of them
white Leghorns. One morning the Sister in charge of these precious birds
came to the Mother in great dismay. Three of the hens had been stolen !
Such a loss was regarded as a serious calamity and reported to the chaplain.
I at once said to the good Sisters, "Go into chapel and invoke St. Anthony,"
which accordingly was done. The next morning when the Sister visited the
poultry yard to feed the chickens, to her great delight the three missing liens
were among the flock with this extraordinary exception: one of the restored
fowls was black instead of white! This phenomenon we explained on the
hypothesis that when St. Anthony got after the thief and woke him from his
troubled sleep, in the darkness of the night he restored a black substitute for
one of the stolen hens. This only confirmed our faith the more, because if all
the chickens returned had been identical with those that had disappeared
the skeptical might have said the chickens wandered off for the day and
returned to their roost at night.
Some time after this the Sisters' horse one day disappeared, having
gotten out of the Convent yard, and was searched for in vain. The special
anxiety of the Rev. Mother was lest "Nellie" should suffer from thirst, since
the whole country that summer was exceedingly parched and dry by reason
of a great drought. Once more St. Anthony was invoked to preserve the poor
animal from physical suffering. On the third day "Nellie" was discovered in
the woods on the Mount of the Atonement where she had wandered in
search of grass. At that time the Friary had not been built and it was in a
wild state. Her discovery was hailed with delight and she was brought in
triumph back to the Convent and immediately a bucket of water was
presented to her to drink, but to the astonishment of all the horse
manifested no thirst whatsoever. It has always remained a mystery under
any other supposition than that St. Anthony answered the Rev. Mother's
prayer in a supernatural or at least extraordinary way, because we know
that on the Mount of the Atonement there was nowhere at that time a drop
of water to be found.
The most convincing demonstration which St. Anthony ever gave me

personally of his power over lost articles occurred while I was a student at
St. Joseph's Seminary, Dunwoodie, New York, in the spring of 1910. I was
busy with some manuscripts in my room one afternoon and had occasion to
do some pasting, using liquid mucilage contained in a tube. The pin-like
stopper I had laid beside me on the table, but when I reached for it it was
gone and I spent many minutes looking for it among the manuscripts and on
the floor, but in vain. As was my custom in hunting for lost articles, I invoked
St. Anthony. At the same time I confess to having experienced a streak of
skepticism as to the efficacy of the invocation. A half hour later I had
occasion to go down to the Seminary Chapel, and left my work for that
purpose, walked through the long halls and into the chapel, which was
several hundred feet distant from my room. When I reached my seat in the
choir, what was my astonishment to behold lying before me on the book rest
the missing stopper. No one had been in my room since the stopper was
taken from the table, and no one, even the most skeptical of my friends to
whom I have related the incident, has ever been able to give a rational
explanation of how that stopper got from my room to my place in the choir
of St. Joseph's Chapel. Nor can it be explained in any other way than that it
was transmitted through some supernatural agency.
This sort of thing by the testimony of many different witnesses is

constantly happening through the invocation of St. Anthony and must be set
down as part of the evidence of his wonder-working ability. For instance,
there has come to my knowledge the following fact: At the Niagara
University, conducted by the Lazarist Fathers, the little Sisters of the Holy
Family have charge of the kitchen, and in the summer of the same year as
the incident I have just related, the Sister in charge of the pantry sup plies
one day left her keys lying on a shelf in the storeroom and passing out
closed the spring lock behind her. Amid the perplexity and distress which
followed owing to the impossibility of opening the door which was a strong
and heavy one without breaking it open by force, one of the Sisters specially
noted for her devotion to St. Anthony was approached by the others and
asked to invoke her favorite Saint. This she did with so much success that
when they returned to the corridor outside the pantry the missing keys were
found lying tucked out from under the door where they could be readily
picked up. It is certain that the keys were not there previously because a
diligent search had been made on the supposition that the Sister might have
been mistaken in her impression as to having left the keys behind her when
coming out of the pantry.
St. Paul's Friary on the Mount of the Atonement was dedicated in

honor of the Immaculate Conception of the Mother of God on December 8,
1900, and St. Anthony introduced himself to its occupants on that occasion
in a very impressive way. Some one presented us with a large, almost life-
size painting of the Saint holding the Christ Child in his arms, and it was
placed in a position of honor in the Friary Chapel which it continued to hold
until the new Chapel of St. Francis was erected, and for eleven years daily
prayers and intercessions were made before that shrine.
Perhaps one reason why St. Anthony has shown himself such a
devoted friend to the Society of the Atonement is because it happens to be
the latest infant in that great Seraphic family where St. Anthony is honored
as par excellence the First-born of St. Francis, and who is therefore our big
elder Brother. Kneeling in our Friary Chapel before that beautiful picture of
the Saint of which we have just spoken, we have many thousand times
commended the Society of the Atonement to the Blessed One in his arms
and have prayed the good Saint to watch over and guard the infant
footsteps of our holy institute, that all God's purposes for it might be fully
realized. When, in January, 1911, the new Chapel of St. Francis was
completed on the Mount of the Atonement a place was given to the statue
of St. Anthony on the gospel side of the altar, St. Clare occupying a similar
position on the epistle side, while St. Francis occupies a lofty niche above
the high altar. This statue of St. Anthony is modeled from the picture which
it has superseded as the Saint's shrine.
The very day it was erected a letter was received by us containing an

offering for the chapel fund sent by a mother in honor of St. Anthony with
the request that we pray for her baby, Anthony, who was very ill. That letter,
together with another petition, was the first to be placed at the feet of the
Saint in his new abode. In acknowledging the gift we told the mother what
we had done and in a few days she wrote another letter enclosing a
thanksgiving offering of five dollars and saying that her baby was now quite
well. From that day on St. Anthony seems to have assumed charge of the
bread problem at the Friary, and offerings in a steady stream with requests
for prayer and invocation of the great Saint have continued unremittingly
and increasingly to come to us, so that the devotion has developed into a
perpetual Novena to St. Anthony for the various intentions which we receive
daily. These Novenas begin every Tuesday and end on the Wednesday of the
following week. Thus
as a new Novena is begun the day before the old one ends it results in our
making a perpetual Novena to St. Anthony. The shrine has been further
enriched by a tiny particle of the Saint's body (de ossibus, duly
authenticated) and a section of our monthly publication, The LAMP, is now
regularly devoted to recording the twentieth century wonders wrought by St.
Anthony, at his Graymoor Shrine (Garrison, N. Y.) and elsewhere.
Document 281
The Lamp June 1914 pp. 281-282 (In The Words of Fr. Paul, edited by Fr. Titus Cranny, S.A., II
139)
[Fr. Paul Wattson, S.A., editor of The Lamp, signed this letter to Rosarians. He mentions a
favorite habit of his, applying mystical numbers to the Society of the Atonement–in this case the
number 7. The letter also contains an expression of his: “by the by.” He notes the height of the
Mount of the Atonement: 700 feet.]
ROSARY LEAGUE PAGE

LETTER FROM THE FATHER SUPERIOR
Dear Children of the Atonement:
I am writing to prepare you ahead of time for the due observance of

the Society of the Atonement’s special month, which is July, the month of
the Precious Blood. Those of you who have been reading the “Origin and
History of the Society of the Atonement,” now being told in the pages of THE
LAMP, will recall that it was on July 9, 1893, which was that year the Octave
of the feast of the Most Precious Blood, the Name and Scriptural Constitution
of the Society were first made known. As it was also the 7 th Sunday after
Pentecost, that particular Sunday has always been observed as the
anniversary of this most important event in the Society’s evolution.
This year I hope all the Children of the Atonement will observe the
anniversary with unanimity and zeal, because it is the twenty-first
anniversary, and the Society may be truly said to have attained its majority.
Usually people count anniversaries by periods of ten, but in the history of
the Society of the Atonement the mystical number seven has been a
favorite of divine Providence. It was just seven years from the first
anniversary, that is to say, on the Seventh Sunday after Pentecost, 1900,
that in a tent pitched on the Mount of the Atonement divine worship for the
first time was solemnly rendered on our Holy Mountain (which by the by is
just seven hundred feet high) and now that twice seven years have rolled by
since then, it is surely fitting that the Seventh Sunday after Pentecost, which
this year will be July 19 th, should be celebrated by the Children of the
Atonement at Graymoor and elsewhere with considerable devotion.
I can suggest no better way to celebrate our S. A. festival than by

making it a day of General Communion by the Children of the Atonement,
wherever they may happen to be. Reckoning all the members of the Rosary
League and the Union-that-Nothing-be-Lost among the number, as well as
the Friars, Sisters and Tertiaries of the Society, the Children of the
Atonement aggregate a family at the present time of over ten thousand
members and therefore the reception of Holy Communion on the part of all
of them will serve as no mean tribute to the Precious Blood and cause much
happiness to Jesus and Mary of the Atonement.
Another recommendation I have to make to the members of the

Rosary League is that you all unite in the observance of the next Novena of
Last Resort, which will begin on Saturday, July 4 th. Send in your petitions in
plenty of time, as they all have to be typewritten and classified, and note
carefully the directions in your Rosary League manual as to how you yourself
are to take part in the Novena.
If any of you do not possess and wear the Rosary League medal, you
had better write for one at once. In white metal they cost only ten cents
and none should be without Our Lady’s medal, which is one of the most
beautiful in existence.
Commending you all to the Sacred Heart of Jesus and the Immaculate
Heart of Mary, I am your devoted servant.
Document 282
The Lamp July 1914 pp. 291-292
Lamp. Words like the “Precious Blood of the At-one-ment” and “Children of the Atonement” are
favorites of his.]
THE PRECIOUS BLOOD OF THE ATONEMENT
JULY, the Month of the Precious Blood, has succeeded to the Month of
the Sacred Heart, even as that succeeded to the Month of Mary, the Mother
(Genatrix) of both the Sacred Heart and the Precious Blood.
Our Mother the Church is the interpreter to us of the Mind of God; let
us sit at her feet, while she teaches us to reverence more deeply the
mystery of the Precious Blood.
First, the shedding of the Blood of the Son of God for the Redemption
of mankind was contemplated in the Mind of the Eternal before the
foundations of the world were laid, this was revealed to St. John in the vision
of the Apocalypse, when he saw in heaven, surrounded by "the four Living
Creatures and in the midst of the Ancients, the Lamb which was slain from
the beginning of the world." (Apoc. v:6 and xiii: 8.)
Second, the sacrificial system of the Jews with its shedding of the
blood of bullocks and of lambs and of goats without number or measure, to
make an atonement for the sins of the people, all hinged for its significance
and efficacy upon the outpoured blood of this same Lamb of God, slain in
the purpose of the Most High, ages before the morning stars sang together
or the sons of God shouted for joy." (Job. )
Third, the value set upon that Blood of Atonement by God Himself is
manifested in the Mosaic law, for in Leviticus we read
"If any man whosoever of the house of Israel, and of the

strangers that sojourn among them, eat blood, I will set my face
against his soul, and will cut him off from among his people:
because the life of the flesh is in the blood: and I have given it to
you, that you may make atonement with it upon the altar for
your souls, and (that) the blood may be for an expiation of the
soul." (Lev. xvii : 10, 11.)
His sacrificial garments sprinkled with His own Blood, our great High
Priest has passed within the veil of Heaven, and there in the pres ence of the
eternal Father ever liveth to make intercession for us poor sinners through
that same most Precious Blood, while on earth His anointed priests dispense
the cleansing, healing and pardoning virtue of that same Most Holy Blood in
the Holy Sacrament of Penance.
It was the blood of the paschal lamb in Egypt sprinkled upon the lintel
and door post of the Hebrew houses which made the destroying angel pause
at the threshold and pass over, whereas in every house where the blood-
marks of the lamb appeared not, lo, the next morning the firstborn was
found dead "from the firstborn of Pharao, who sat on his throne, unto the
firstborn of the captive woman that was in the prison." (Ex. xii: 29.) It is the
Blood of the Paschal Victim, slain for the sinners of the whole world, whose
blood must be sprinkled on us all, if we are to escape the Angel of judgment
and the terrible sword of his vengeance.
ANOTHER ASPECT
There is another aspect of the Blood of Atonement, which must not

escape our notice. "The Blood of Jesus Christ (not only) cleanseth from ill
sin" (I John is 7), but by the two Sacraments of Regeneration and the
Eucharist it is infused into the soul and body of the elect people of God and
we become blood of the Blood of Jesus Christ, for as St. Paul says : "We are
members of His body, of His flesh and of His bones." (Ephesians v: 30.)
As from the original fountain of Adam and Eve there has been derived
to the entire human family the same blood, so that thereby God “hath made
of one, all mankind, to dwell upon the whole face of the earth" (Acts xvii:26),
so by means of the Precious Blood of At-one-ment, issuing from its fountain
source in Jesus and Mary, the Holy Ghost is making of one the "acceptable
people" (Titus ii: 1-4) of God to dwell, not alone on the earth, but to attain
to an eternal citizenship in heaven, where we shall have our share with the
"Four Creatures" and the "Ancients" in singing "the new Canticle" unto the
Lamb: "Thou are worthy, O Lord, because Thou wast slain, and hast
redeemed us to God in Thy Blood, out of every tribe, and tongue, and
people, and nation." (Apoc. v : 9.)
INCREASE AND 'MULTIPLY
Now when God saved Noah and his family from perishing in the flood
and brought them out of the ark He commanded them, saying: "Go ye upon
the earth : increase and multiply upon it." (Gen. viii: 17.)
O Catholic people, know well that the same divine command is upon
us: "Increase and multiply on the whole earth the holy seed, the offspring of
the Precious Blood, the Children of the Atonement," and remember that
those to be redeemed by the Blood of God's Everlasting Covenant are to be
gathered out of every nation and kindred and tribe and tongue and people
on the earth! It is not enough for the Irish Catholics to multiply Irish citizens
for heaven by bringing forth large families of Irish children: it is not enough
for American Catholics to multiply American Catholics by the same process,
but we are bound to do our utmost to propagate the elect seed among the
Chinese, the Japanese, the African and the Hindu. The water and the blood
which issued from the side of Christ must "sprinkle many nations" (Isa. Iii:
15.)
This then is true devotion to the precious Blood, to propagate the faith
at home and abroad, to sacrifice ourselves in every way to carry forward
and extend the missionary work of the Church, to either beget ourselves
sons and daughters unto God, or else to support with our alms those
missionaries of the cross who are literally obeying the command of "the
Lamb that was slain": "Go ye into all the world and preach the gospel to
every creature.
Document 283
The Lamp July 1914 pp.326 (In The Words of Fr. Paul, edited by Fr. Titus Cranny, S.A., II 140)
[Fr. Paul Wattson, S.A., editor of The Lamp, signed this letter to Rosarians. The letter emphasizes
the importance of fraternal charity.]
ROSARY LEAGUE PAGE

We begin by reminding you of the request we made last month, viz.,

that wherever you may be you will all make your Holy Communion on the
morning of the Seventh Sunday after Pentecost, which is the twenty-first
anniversary of the discovery of the Name and Scriptural Constitution of our
Institute and is therefore for all the members and associates of the Society
our own special Day of Atonement. The Seventh Sunday after Pentecost
falls this year on July 19 which is now close at hand.
Relying upon your loving loyalty I am going to ask further that every
Child of the Atonement in receiving Holy Communion on our festival wear
the Medal of Our Lady of the Atonement, suspended by a red, or scarlet,
cord around their neck, the red cord being in honor of the Precious Blood
without the shedding of which there could have been no Atonement. We
trust that the fulfillment of this request will begin a custom that will soon
become universal among all Children of the Atonement, wherever they are,
and that in consequence it will become a common sight in many churches to
see the Children of the Atonement frequently approaching the altar and
everywhere known and recognized by the red ribbon or cord and the medal
of Our Lady suspended therefrom.
Will you all do this for the love of God, Our Lady and our Holy
Institute? In this way you will become real missionaries, for others will
notice the medal and the cord, will ask you what it means and thus give you
an opportunity to win others to our fellowship in the Blessed Atonement and
kindredship in the Precious Blood.
In order to bring the possession of Our Lady’s medal (full size) within
the reach of all, we have determined to reduce the price of the bronze medal
from twenty-five to ten cents, and the white medal one to five cents. By
having them manufactured in thousand lots we are able to make this
reduction. Those who have only the diminutive sized medals given without
charge by our agents to new subscribers may perhaps secure the larger
medal before July 19th by ordering from Graymoor at once.
When Our Lord was about to make His great Atonement for us on
Mount Calvary he imparted a New Commandment to His disciples: “A NEW
COMMANDMENT I GIVE UNTO YOU,” He said, “THAT YE LOVE ONE ANOTHER.”
The Children of the Atonement should be specially zealous to observe and
fulfil this commandment of mutual charity one toward another, and as a
means to that end I make this suggestion: that on going to Holy
Communion, when you see one another wearing the medal and the red
ribbon, if opportunity is afforded on leaving the Church, exchange some
word of greeting and try to anticipate more fully on the earth that loving
union of mind and heart which will characterize the Children of the
Atonement in Heaven.
Yours in the union of the Precious Blood of the Atonement,

Paul
James Francis, S.A.
Document 284
The Lamp Aug. 1914 p.339
[From the use of “we” in this unsigned, front page editorial it appears that Fr. Paul Wattson, S.A.,
editor of The Lamp, is the author. It shows his burning desire for Christian unity. In knocking
down a pessimistic opinion about any good coming from a meeting between Anglican clergymen
and the Pope, Fr. Paul demonstrates his confidence that unity will take place by the power of the
Holy Spirit.]
ANGLICAN DELEGATION OFF FOR ROME
This month marks the departure of an important delegation of the

Episcopal Church for Europe in the interests of the proposed World
Conference on Faith and Order. The delegation consists of Bishop
Rhinelander, of Philadelphia; Bishop Anderson, of Chicago, and the Reverend
Dr. Manning, Rector of Trinity Church, New York City. They have declared that
their present mission is to "the churches of Europe and the Orient," and they
have expressed their intention of visiting Rome and seeking an audience
with His Holiness, Pope Pius X.
Commenting editorially on this Anglican Mission to the Threshold of

the Apostles, the Freeman's Journal voiced what seems to be a widely
"existing sentiment in Catholic editorial circles:
"We are afraid that the proposed mission to Rome will

result in nothing more than a desire to accomplish what, in
existing circumstances, cannot be realized."
We frankly regret this pessimistic view of the outcome, as taken by our

highly esteemed con-temporary. We quite agree with Dr. Manning in his
sermon on the subject in his own pulpit, sometime before sailing, when he
said: "We, in our mission to the Churches of Europe and the Orient,
recognize that any hope of immediate destruction of sectarian lines would
be absurd," but who can it be that is urging on these prayerful and well-
disposed men to bring about this conference and to labor for the ultimate re-
union of Christendom unless indeed it be the Holy Spirit Himself in energetic
concert with Our Lord's own prayer, "That they all may be one," and if this
hypothesis be true, then of course itwould be far from any of us to take a
pessimistic view of the outcome or to say that under existingcircumstances
nothing more can be realized than the breathing forth of the mere desire for
that unity which the divisions of the past have made impossible.
Surely we Catholics should not be less hopeful of final reconciliation

and unity than even themost sanguine of our separated brethren. As for
ourselves, we await with prayerful eagerness the reception these
distinguished representatives of the American Episcopal Church shall meet
with at the Vatican. Of one thing we have no doubt, in the person of the
Vicar of Christ, now happily occupying the Chair of Peter, they will encounter
the same loving heart which beat in the breast of the father on the
homecoming of the Prodigal Son and in the subsequent attitude of Pope
Pius, our Sovereign Pontiff, towards this proposed World Conference, we
shall be able to read the mind of Christ and the Holy Spirit towards it. And in
the meantime we commend this important Anglican delegation to the Holy
See to the prayers of all our readers. Not since the sixteenth century has a
delegationquite similar to this waited upon the Successor of the Fisherman.
Document 285
The Lamp Aug. 1914 pp. 343, 345
[From the authoritative use of the word “we,”the familiarity with S.A. history and the word
“Institute” in referring to the S.A., it is evident that Fr. Paul Wattson, S.A., editor of The Lamp,
wrote this piece.]
GRAYMOQR ANNALS
Our Atonement feast day, the seventh Sunday after Pentecost, July
19th, was celebrated at Graymoor with great gladness and thanksgiving. We
were favored with the presence of the Rev. Father Bernardine Ibald, O.F.M.,
who for twenty-four years has been the Father in charge of the Portiuncula
at Assisi. When the Rev. Mother Lurana made her pilgrimage to Rome and
Assisi, preparatory to making her Foundation at Graymoor, Father
Bernardine received her with great cordiality at the Portiuncula, permitting
her to pray, though at that time an Anglican, in the Chapel and the very cell
where St. Francis prayed and showing her all the precious relics of the Holy
Saint. It was a great joy to us to have this holy man of God, so impregnated
with the spirit of our Seraphic Father and so long associated with the very
place trod by his blessed feet, visit Graymoor on our festival and to offer
the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass in St. Francis's Church on the Mount of the
Atonement, and in our little convent Chapel of St. Mary of the Angels, which
long ago we named our Graymoor Portiuncula ; the good Father was also
Deacon at the Solemn High Mass sung in St. John's Church at ten o'clock in
commemoration of the twenty-first anniversary of the Finding of the Name
and Holy Texts of our Institute.
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Our call for regular volunteers to fill the vacant cells in the enlarged Convent of St.
Francis, Graymoor, is meeting with a satisfactory response, for the Sisterhood of the Atonement is
growing as well as the Community of the Friars. One priest, who has a great love for our Institute
and by his zeal has brought many of the “other sheep” into Peter’s Fold, will be sending one of his
converts to Graymoor to test her vocation on the Feast of the Assumption. We hope many other
priests will follow his example. We have lost many vocations up to the present time because
aspirants desiring to come to Graymoor have been counseled against doing so by priests who did
not believe that the Society of the Atonement was going to prove a success. It is time, we think,
when the clergy who have doubted the permanency of the Society of the Atonement should alter
their opinion.
Document 286
The Lamp Aug. 1914 pp. 377-378 (In The Words of Fr. Paul, edited by Fr. Titus Cranny, S.A.,
II 141)
[Fr. Paul Wattson, S.A., editor of The Lamp, signed this letter to Rosarians. Of note is his
awareness that the spiritual, i.e., devotion, is entered through the material, i.e., the medal and red
ribbon.]
ROSARY LEAGUE PAGE
The Novena of Last Resort for July, the month of the Precious Blood,
far surpassed in the number of petitions sent in anything of the kind
Graymoor has yet attained to. The classifying and typewriting of the
intercessions was no small task, and although a considerable time was taken
up night after night in reading aloud the petitions before our Lady’s altar the
list was only gone through once during the entire novena. Our readers will
also note that the number of acknowledgments for favors granted is steadily
on the increase. In comparing the two novenas as to favors granted, it is to
be taken into account that there are four novenas of St. Anthony during the
course of the month and only one to our Lady of the Atonement.
I consider that a new stage of development and growth for the Rosary
League has been inaugurated during this our Atonement month by reason of
the custom just begun of wearing the Atonement medal with a red ribbon
attached or suspended around the neck while receiving Holy Communion.
The practice has been taken up with much enthusiasm by some and the
increased demand for the medals in consequence is very pronounced. The
reduction of the price of the bronze medal to ten cents and the white metal
one to five cents brings their possession easily within the reach even of the
poorest.
The Bronx Chapter of the Union That Nothing Be Lost, which has a
membership of several hundred and is called the St. Joseph’s Society,
received Holy Communion corporately at eight o’clock in the Church of Our
Lady of Pity on Seventh Sunday after Pentecost (our Atonement Festival) a
portion of the church being specially reserved for them, and we are told “the
cream of the society were present, wearing medals of Our Lady of the
Atonement, suspended by red ribbons.” At Graymoor on that day the men
formed their ribbons into a bow with the medal attached, but the women
and children wore the medal suspended to a red ribbon around their necks.
Not only on the special feast days of the Society but always when receiving
Holy Communion, I hope the medal and the red ribbon will be in evidence.
We regard the medals as so many seeds, the more they are scattered
far and wide over the land the more the Children of the Atonement will
increase and multiply. Let every member of the Rosary League become a
diligent seed sower.
Yours in the precious blood of the Atonement,
Document 287
The Lamp Sep. 1914 pp. 387-388 (In The Words of Fr. Paul, edited by Fr. Titus
Cranny, S.A., III 201-202)
Wattson, S.A., editor of The Lamp. The mention of “a handful of us” in regard to
the Society of the Atonement being received into the Catholic Church further
proves the same.]
THE PASSING OF PIUS X
In the passing of His Holiness pope Pius X from the Papal chair in Rome
to the companionship of St. Peter and his Successors in the great Assembly
of the Church Triumphant, the Catholic Church on earth mourns the death of
a saint.
Perhaps we have not appreciated the fact sufficiently, but it

should be a reflection to fill the heart of every earnest Catholic with
thanksgiving to Almighty God, that after the lapse of nineteen hoary
centuries the Catholic Church should have been ruled over by one whose
faith in the verities and power of the Catholic religion seemed not one whit
less virile and vivid than that of St. Peter himself, and although the miracles
performed by Pope Pius X were not as numerous as those of the Church’s
first Vicar, concerning whom we read in the Acts of the Apostles that “the
people brought forth the sick into the streets and laid them on beds and
couches that the shadow of Peter passing by might deliver them from their
infirmities.” Acts 5:15, yet the miracles of healing performed by Pius X while
occupying Peter’s Chair are sufficiently numerous to demonstrate that the
hand of the Lord was not shortened to work through Pius as he had worked
through Peter.
One of the most striking of these miracles was recorded in THE

LAMP for January, 1913. At that time a former Church of England clergyman,
well known to the Editor, was a student at Beda College, Rome, and in a
letter to us he said:
“The Bishop of Salford (Dr. Casartelli), who is staying here was up in

the common room for recreation last night. He told us he had been
conversing with a Greek Bishop now living in Rome. This Bishop was a
Greek Schismatic and made his submission to the Holy See. He is a very old
man – 92 years of age. He was blind in both eyes and paralyzed in one arm
and side. When he went to the Pope he asked him to breathe upon his eyes
and to lay his hand upon his arm. The Holy Father did so and the aged
Bishop came away healed. This happened a year ago; he told Bishop
Casartelli about it himself. The Bishop heard the old Greek Bishop say Mass
– he resides at the Convent of the Coenaculum.”
WHAT THE CHURCH UNIVERSAL OWES HIM

The whole Church owes a debt to the late Sovereign Pontiff which is
incalculable, and he will rank among the greatest of the Successors of St.
Peter by reason of the reforms he has wrought in
the Curia; the revision he inaugurated of the Vulgate and of the
Breviary; the codifying of the Canon law, a gigantic labor; the death blow he
dealt to Modernism, the most subtle and dangerous of modern heresies; the
defense of the Church in France against the destructive plots of her civil
enemies; but more than any of these things, because he has brought the
Church of the twentieth century nearer to the ideals of the first in the re-
establishment among the faithful of the practice of daily Communion and
the bringing of little children to Our Lord in the Blessed Sacrament at the
earliest age of spiritual perception. The noblest title with which the name of
Pope Pius X will be handed down to posterity is that of the Pope of the
Blessed Sacrament.
WHY GRAYMOOR’S DEBT IS GREATEST
Whereas the Society of the Atonement shares with all the rest of
Catholic Christendom in the benefits which have flowed to the Church
Universal through these far-reaching reforms, Graymoor owes a debt of yet
deeper gratitude to the late Sovereign Pontiff, for he it was who opened the
door of Peter’s Fold and bade us welcome to its sacred inclosure when we
knocked for entrance. He might have refused our petition to receive us in a
corporate body and to preserve our Name and Institute. There was but a
handful of us and he might have rejected our extraordinary request and
bade us make our individual submission and be content with that.
The Society of the Atonement, therefore, owes its very life as an

Institute to him whom we must ever call in a unique and special sense Our
Holy Father. Our Lord said of Mary Magdalene: “She hath loved much
because she hath been forgiven much,” and we know not among the
children of Pius X any who have greater cause to love him out of sheer
gratitude than the Children of the Atonement. It has already become our
prayer that God will hasten the day of his Canonization, and we hope ere
long to see Joseph Sarto as Pius X elevated to the altars of the
Document 388
The Lamp Sep. 1914 pp. 392, 393
[From the authoritative use of “we” it appears that Fr. Paul Wattson, S.A., editor of The Lamp,
wrote this piece. Of note are forces negative towards Graymoor, since it has been in the Catholic
Church only five years at this point.]
GRAYMOOR ANNALS
We are giving our readers an idea of the growth of our Congregation

by placing on opposite pages pictures of the young men in our House of
Studies in March, 1913, and a photograph taken a month ago of our Novices,
Postulants and Scholastics, so that the two illustrations represent the growth
of seventeen months. We doubt not that you will rejoice with us in this
encouraging increase in the number of our religious aspirants. From four to
fourteen in so short a time is making fine progress.
When a father sees his children rapidly increasing it is only natural and
right that he should be solicitous to make provision for their, support and
education. St. Paul says, "If any man have not care of those of his own house
he hath denied the Faith and is worse than an infidel." This solicitude must
be my apology for taking counsel with you as to ways and means of
providing scholarships sufficient for all our students. Last month we
proposed a plan by which those of our benefactors whose means are more
or less limited might have a share in providing these scholarships.
We proposed the establishment first, of a scholarship to be made up of

birthday contributions of any sum whatsoever to be sent to us by our
benefactors each year on their birthday. We also proposed the establishment of
scholarships made up of one dollar, five dollars and other larger contributions.
Up to the time of writing, in response to this suggestion, we have received three
contributions.
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The summer vacation will end and studies begin in St. John’s House of Studies on Our
Lady’s Birthday, September the 8th. We made a gentle protest last month against certain of the
Clergy discouraging religious aspirants coming to our Sisterhood on the ground that Graymoor
was still an experiment that had not demonstrated its stability. We have been disappointed in the
coming of several young men to begin their studies in preparation for the Priesthood in our First
Congregation, and again the influence that dissuaded these young men from coming has been
traced to the same source. We rely upon those of the Clergy who have a better opnion of us to
offset by their good offices in our behalf this unfortunate want of faith on the part of others.
Document 289
The Lamp Sep. 1914 p.424
[Since the unsigned letter to Rosarians mentions “my monthly letter,”the author must be Fr. Paul
Wattson, S.A, who wrote the other letters to them. Moreover, the letter is from “Father
Superior,” who, of course, has to be Fr. Paul. Of note is that he says that Pius X died from a
broken heart because of WW I. ]
ROSARY LEAGUE PAGE
How true the saying that we can never tell what a day may bring forth. A few weeks ago
very few of us had the faintest suspicion that suddenly all Europe would be plunged in a terrible
war, yet like a bolt out of the blue sky the calamity of war has fallen upon the nations of the old
world and part of America is already involved. A month ago we little thought when we addressed
our letter to you that our September issue would contain the announcement of the death of Our
Holy Father, Pius X, yet this saintly Successor of the Galilean Fisherman has fallen among the first
victims of the cruel war we have just mentioned, his heart smitten through, not by a leaden bullet
or a sword of steel but by that invisible weapon of the executioner, Death, which we call anguish
or grief, for Our Holy Father died heartbroken because his children would be driven by their civil
masters to slaughter like sheep in the shambles, and Catholic would virtually murder Catholic in
the unholy name of civilized warfare.
It remains for us who loved and venerated him, not alone as the Vicar of Christ but as one
of the saintliest Popes that has ever sat in the Chair of St. Peter, to give heed to his dying bequest,
namely, that we pray for the peace of Europe. As members of the Rosary League of Our Lady of
the Atonement we are specially bound to pray, and I can convey to you no more fitting message at
the present time than to conclude my monthly letter with the words of that exhortation which
Pope Pius X addressed from the Vatican to the whole world on the second day of August:
"At this moment, when nearly the whole of Europe is being dragged into
the vortex of a most terrible war, with its present dangers and miseries and the
consequences to follow, the very thought of which must strike every one with grief
and horror, we, whose care is the life and welfare of so many citizens and peoples,
cannot but be deeply moved and our hearts wrung with the bitterest sorrow.
"And in the midst of this universal confusion and peril we feel and know
that both fatherly love and apostolic ministry demand of us that we should with all
earnestness turn the thoughts of Christendom thither 'whence cometh help'—to
Christ, the prince of peace, and the most powerful mediator between God and
man.
"We charge, therefore, the Catholics of the whole world to approach the
throne of grace and mercy, each and all of them, and more especially the clergy,
whose duty furthermore it will be to make in every parish, as their bishops shall
direct, public supplication so that the merciful God may, as it were, be wearied
with the prayers of His children and speedily remove the evil causes of war, giving
to them who rule to think the thoughts of peace and not of affliction."
As it is the office of the Supreme Shepherd not only to command the sheep but to go
before them to show them the way to follow in his footsteps, Pope Pius X did not merely exhort
the three hundred million Catholics throughout the world to storm heaven for peace, but he
himself bowed down his spirit so deep in prayer that his soul was yielded up in anguish, and
passing out of the body actually went to God to intercede in the very presence of the King of
Kings to stay the deluge of blood and save the children of men from internecine destruction. If
Almighty God holds out against the torrent of supplication which as his last pontifical act Pope
Ignis Ardens has precipitated against the throne of Grace and Mercy, it will only be because
Divine Providence sees some necessity for suffering the war to continue which is hidden from the
eyes of men.
Document 290
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Lamp.]
POPE BENEDICT XV
THE Conclave of Cardinals which elected Successor of Pope Pius X assembled in the
Vatican on August 31. Fifty-seven members of the Sacred College were present. On the ninth
ballot Cardinal della Chiesa received the requisite number of votes and as Pope chose the name of
Benedict XV. He was solemnly crowned with the triple tiara en the Sistine Chapel on September
6, fifty-eight Cardinals and a multitude of high ecclesiastics and of the faithful being present, the
ceremony being accompanied by the acclamations of the crowds, the sounding of trumpets and
the ringing of bells.
HIS PREVIOUS CAREER
Pope Benedict is the two hundred end fifty ninth Successor to St. Peter and we give here
the briefest possible resume of his life's history until he became Pope.
Giacomo della Chiesa, son of Marquis delle Chiesa, was born et Pegli, in
the diocese of Genoa on November 21, 1854. After a course in the Capranican
College and in the Academy of Noble Ecclesiastics, Rome, he was ordained to the
priesthood, December 21, 1878. In 1883 he was made a monsignor and shortly
afterward accompanied Cardinal Rampollo to Madrid as secretary of the Papal
Nunciature. When this Cardinal was made Secretary of State by Leo XIII, Mgr.
della Cheese returned to Rome and occupied various positions in the secretariat.
He was first a minutante and later, April 23, 1901, he became substitute to the
Secretary of State and also held office as Secretary of the Cypher. On May 30,
1901, he was made consultor of the Holy Office; on December 16, 1907, he was
named Archbishop and was consecrated by Pius X in the Sistine Chapel, on
December 22 of the same year. On February 23, 1908, he took possession of the
See of Bologna in succession to Cardinal Svampa. On May 25, 1914, he was
created a Cardinal.
VERITA’S PEN PICTURE OF THE NEW POPE
The Rome correspondent of the Philadelphia Catholic Standard and Times thus describes
Pope Benedict XV:
In person the newly elected Pontiff is ascetic in features, bright and

vivacious. In manner Benedict XV is particularly charming and gracious, and well,
in truth, might it be so. To the innate charm and refinement of the educated Italian
has been added a life-long training in the world of diplomats in Rome and Madrid,
which fact weighed heavily with the Sacred College during its deliberations of the
last three days.
But gentle and charming as is the character of the new Pope, it has another side,
viz., that which brings into play courage, tenacity and perseverance. His success as
Archbishop of Bologna evidences this. For there are sees and sees. In the history
of four centuries the Archdiocese of Bologna has not been regarded as a see that a
weak character could rule. The turbulent element there accounted for the broken
heart of more than one Archbishop, and in the general strike that paralyzed Italy
three or four months ago the city and surroundings of Bologna took first place in
riots, church looting and bloodshed. One who proved able to ride the whirlwind
and stem the blast as Archbishop of Bologna with special success will know how
to guide Peter's Bark amid the shoals and troubles that now surround it.
A COMBINATION OF LEO AND PIUS
It may be early in the day for a forecast of the policy of Benedict XV, but
nevertheless one can come to a fair conclusion from his past history.
Benedict XV will, I believe, be a pastoral-diplomatic Pope--one who will

embody the characteristics of the last two Pontiffs. He will be to the pontificate of
Pins X what Leo XIII was to that of Pius IX. When Leo XIII assumed the tiara he
found nearly every power in Europe at variance with the Holy See, and he spent
years in remedying the situation. And now Pope Benedict, on taking his seat on
Peter's throne, finds that France and Portugal no longer officially recognize the
Church, that Spain has been restive, and that the European war will bring for the
Holy See an entirely new era.
Will he follow the line of conduct which his old friend, Cardinal Rampolla,
would have observed had he become Leo XIV? I feel inclined to think Benedict
XV will do so, but in a modified form. Remember, when Cardinal Rampolla filled
the Pontifical Nunciature of Madrid he had as lieutenant the newly elected Pope,
and when Cardinal Rampolla stood behind Leo the Thirteenth's throne as Secretary
of State, the present Pontiff filled a post of confidence in the Cardinal's office. Up
to the very last he remained Cardinal Rampolla's close friend. These facts lead one
to think the pontificate which has just opened will closely resemble that of Leo
XIII, while the friendship that existed between Pius X and the Cardinal Archbishop
of Bologna will surely leave its impress upon the line of action which, as Benedict
XV, the latter will pursue.
A WISE POPE NEEDED
Not since the wars of Napoleon have the exigencies of temporal kingdoms required for the
throne of the Fisherman a wiser and more diplomatic Ruler of Christ's Spiritual Kingdom, the
Catholic Church, than in the present hour, and we do not doubt that the Holy Spirit has chosen
according to the Church's need.
There is in our new Holy Father's face a certain look of sadness which harmonizes with the
distress and anguish which have overtaken the peoples of Europe and cast a gloom on all the
earth beside.
Yet in the reign of Pope Benedict XV we hope the words of King David will again be
happily realized: "Heaviness may endure for a night but joy cometh in the morning."
Document 291
The Lamp Oct.1914 pp. 436-438
[In the Nov. 1915 issue of The Lamp (p.484) the editor of The Lamp notes that the present
editorial is his work. Hence, the author has to be Fr. Paul Wattson, S.A. The reference to St.
Francis being called the "the Abraham of the New Law” in his litany was used by Fr. Paul
often, as well as the story about the throne of Lucifer being left vacant for occupancy by St.
Francis.]
WHY NOT BECOME A FRANCISCAN TERTIARY?
Our mail today contains a letter from a subscriber in Pennsylvania,

who says: "I would like to belong to the Third Order of St. Francis. I f you
have any rules please send them."
Such communications are by no means uncommon. We are always

glad to receive them. Our only complaint is that we do not receive many
more requests from our readers to be admitted into the Third Order of St.
Francis. Of one thing we are certain that if Catholics generally fully
appreciated all the benefit it would be to them for time and eternity to join
the Franciscan Third Order of Penance they would rush into the Order by the
tens of thousands and we would soon have a million Tertiaries of St. Francis
in America alone.
In the first place the rule as modified by Pope Leo XIII is by no means
difficult to observe and the rank and file of our good, pious lay folk could
keep it without adding any heavy burden to what is already their practical
rule of holy living. Among the many advantages Catholics secure to
themselves by joining the Franciscan Third Order permit us to recommend to
your consideration the following:
1. It is not a mere Sodality, or guild. The Roman Pontiffs have

repeatedly declared that it is a real and true Order of the Church, having an
approved rule, a novitiate, profession and habit like all other approved
religious Orders.
2. It has produced a vast number of canonized Saints, founders of the

mightiest religious congregations that have enriched the Church of God in
modern times; missionaries, benefactors of humanity in every walk of life,
and it has a sanctifying and spiritually beneficent influence on all its
members. In a word you will become a better man or woman by joining it.
3. It has always tended to the social uplift and emancipation of the

common people, whom we call the masses. It was so in St. Francis's day and
it has been so for seven centuries since. Pope Leo XIII was the greatest
authority on social questions of modern tines and he did not hesitate to
declare that the Third Order was one of the foremost agencies on which he
relied for the reformation of society and he did his utmost to propagate and
extend it, as also did our late Holy Father, Pope Pius X.
4. Membership in the Third Order affiliates to all three Orders of St.

Francis. For as the Grand Communion of Saints unites all the faithful in a
mystic body, applying the merits and good works of one to another, so all
the members of the Three Orders established by St. Francis are bound
together in a mystical fellowship or union, which makes every Tertiary a
sharer with the Friars Minor, the Capuchins, the Poor Clares, and all the
Religious Congregations of men and women belonging to the Third Order in
the holy masses, prayers, penances and rich indulgences of the entire
Franciscan Institute.
5. But the reason for becoming a Franciscan Tertiary which appeals

most strongly to us, personally, is a family one.
As the family of the old Adam is divided and sub-divided into many
branches, the Smiths, the Browns and the Joneses for example, so that the
family trees among men are almost as numerous as the oaks, the cedars
and the pines of the forest, likewise there are family divisions and branches
among the elect children of God, whom Christ by His Precious Blood has
redeemed out of the world and made heirs of the Kingdom of Heaven. What
a multitude in the New Jerusalem, for instance, will arise up in the great
assembly and with a mighty shout, hail St. Benedict, the Founder of
Monasticism in the West, as their Patriarch and Father through all eternity.
Some men are very proud of their family lineage on the earth, and
sometimes they have a right to be proud. How much more have we cause to
be proud of our royal lineage in Christ, the heir to the throne of David. But
even among royalty there are some houses more noble and illustrious than
others. This is true even of the Kingdom of Heaven.
As for ourselves, we own and do confess that we are immensely proud

of belonging to the house and lineage of that most illustrious of Christian
Patriarchs, St. Francis of Assisi. The so-called "Seraphic Family," spiritually
begotten by St. Francis, is not only the most numerous in its many branches
and ramifications of any branch of the Catholic household of faith existing
on earth today, but it has peopled heaven with an innumerable multitude of
Saints, many of whom shine in the celestial firmament as stars of the first
magnitude.
If any one be inclined to dispute the correctness of this assertion let

him reckon up in the Franciscan column not alone the three great divisions
of St. Francis' First Order, i.e , the Friars Minor, the Capuchins and the Minor
Conventuals, together with the Poor Clare nuns of the Second Order and the
thousands upon thousands of the Religious of the Third Order and the well
night two million secular Tertiaries scattered throughout the world, but let
such a one figure into his sum total of the spiritual descendants of the
Seraphic Patriarch all those who are spiritually descended from St. Ignatius
Loyola, founder of the Jesuits; St. Francis Xavier, missionary to India and
Japan; St. Charles Borromeo, founder of the Oblates; St. Vincent de Paul,
founder of the Lazarists and the Sisters of Charity; St. Philip Neri, founder of
the Oratorians ; St. Francis de Sales and St. Frances de Chantal, joint
founders of the Sisters of the Visitation; St. Paul of the Cross, founder of the
Passionists ; St. Alphonsus Liguori, founder of the Redemptorists; St. Angela,
founder of the Ursulines, Blessed John Baptist de la Salle, founder of the
Christian Brothers; Father Olier, founder of the Sulpicians and Dom Bosco,
founder of the Salesian Fathers and Sisters.
But how, you may ask, can all these be claimed for the family of St.
Francis? For the simple reason that before they themselves became spiritual
progenitors in Israel they were the sons and daughters of St. Francis, all of
them belonging to his Third Order. Every member of Israel's twelve tribes is
a son of Abraham, because every one of the twelve sons of Jacob from
whose loins the twelve tribes sprung were in the loins of Abraham, and the
law of spiritual generation corresponds to that of natural generation.
This great truth is emphasized by that petition of the Litany of St.

Francis which styles him "the Abraham of the New Law by reason of his
numerous posterity."
Surely then to be accounted a son or daughter of the Abraham of the

New Law is a distinction to be eagerly coveted by those Catholics who value
their heavenly citizenship above the racial and social distinctions of earth
and, like King David, would rather be "an abject in the house of God than to
dwell (as a prince) in the tabernacles of sinners" (Psalm 83:11).
While St. Francis was yet alive one of his Brothers had a vision in
which he beheld the magnificent throne, once occupied by Lucifer in heaven,
standing empty and an angel informed him that God was reserving it for his
servant Francis. Whether the vision is to be relied on or not, we are certain
that the Seraphic Patriarch of Assisi, whom Our Lord Himself decorated with
the Holy Stigmata of His Passion, the most honorable insignia a mortal man
can bear, will occupy a position high up and very close to the throne of God
and Blessed Mary, and it will be worth infinitely more than the proudest
distinctions of earth to be the very least in heaven among the children of St.
Francis.
We will gladly give fuller information to those who ask it about the Third
Order and how to join it.
Document 292
Lamp. A further proof is that he calls St. John the Baptist one of “our” holy patrons.]
GRAYMOOR ANNALS
We have been suffering from a water famine on the Mount of the Atonement. When St.
Francis Church was in process of building a Protestant physician chanced to visit us one day and
he was so distressed to see the poor Brother Christophers toiling up the mountain side under the
scorching July sun, carrying pails of water, for mixing the mortar,| that he gave us twenty-five
hundred dollars to supply us with a water plant. Last year we sunk a well in a little valley half
way down the mountain side and the flow of water was so abundant that we congratulated
ourselves that we had solved the problem of water supply for both Friary and Convent for years
to come. Over the well we built the pump house seen in the illustration on the preceding page and
installed an Ingersoll engine to force the water to the summit of the mountain.
The exceeding dry spell of the past two months has demonstrated the inadequacy of our
well to meet the demand made upon it. Our engineer pumps it dry three times a day and what it
produces in proportion to what is needed is hardly more than the proverbial "drop in the bucket."
On this page we give a snapshot of the reservoir we have constructed out of the quarry
fromwhich the stones were gotten for St. Francis Church. Our readers can readily see what a
beautiful shrine this could be converted into, and we have promised to place a heroic statute of St.
John the Baptist, one of our holy patrons, under the canopy and in the center between the four
pillars, provided the Saint of Jordan will find some benefactor to supplement the gift of
Dr.H_____, our Protestant benefactor, by defraying the cost of sinking an artesian well. We are
now satisfied that nothing short of an artesian well will produce the quantity of water we need.
Document 293
The Lamp Oct. 1914 pp.443-444, 446
Lamp. In this one he emphasizes how great amounts of money can result from the accumulation
of small amounts, e.g., pennies. He will emphasize that many times in writings and talks. This
entry shows Fr. Paul’s literary skills as he pleads for missionaries made desperate because of WW
I.]
OUR MONTHLY CONFERENCE WITH OUR MISSIONARY CO-WORKERS
Among the devilish effects of this wicked war in Europe not the least to
be reckoned with
is the financial distress it will entail upon our poor missionaries in the field
afar. Rev. Father Markert, of the Society of the Divine Word, who is well
informed on all missionary matters, standssponsor for the following
statement:
"Up to the present time five-sixths of the contributions to

the missions were furnished by France, Germany and Belgium.
With the beginning of the present war these resources are
suddenly closed and there is no hope that they will be opened
again until a long time after the war.
"It is impossible to determine accurately the loss of the

various missions but all of them will suffer heavily. In the last
twenty years the world has witnessed the awakening of
missionary zeal unparalleled in history and the hope that at last
the entire world would be acquainted with the great message of
the Gospel was well founded. The war has suddenly cut off
nearly all revenues of the Catholic missions. Reports have
already been received here, which say that the mission institutes
of Europe are empty, pupils, priests and brothers have been
called to the colors. The large printing establishment of the
Society of the Divine Word at Steyl, which helped in a very large
measure to secure the means of support for the missions, had to
be stopped, and similar conditions undoubtedly prevail in other
mission houses.
"Help from Europe is not to be expected for a long time to

come. Thousands of missionaries will see the results of long and
arduous labors destroyed in a few months, if speedy help is not
extended to them."
Now more than ever the eyes of the Catholic missionaries in China,
Japan, India, Africa and the Isles of the Pacific will look to us, their brethren
in fortunate America, where red-handed war followed by gaunt eyed famine
and the black-robed skeleton, Death, marches not through our land, which
smiles with the most plentiful harvests experienced in many years. Shall the
missionaries look to us in vain? God forbid.
Remember we are the children of light and shall we not be wise to

make the best of this golden opportunity and spend and sacrifice ourselves
to the uttermost to purchase by our alms immortal souls for the rewards and
inexhaustible riches of heaven? It was God's Angel who gave hisword to the
Prophet Daniel that "they that instruct many to justice shall shine as stars
for all eternity" (Dan. xii:3). When by our alms we make it possible for the
missionaries to instruct the heathen in the justice of Christ and save their
souls we are most assuredly making ourselves their partners in the promised
reward. How often in business, one man supplies the capital necessary to
carry on the money-making enterprise and the other puts in the work, but as
joint partners they divide between them the profits. So God has ordained
that while the missionaries do the work, the faithful shall become partners
with them by supplying the capital.
Truly, the wisest people we know anything about among our American
neighbors, are thosewho are living with Franciscan simplicity, economy and
self-denial, and are putting every penny they can rake and scrape together
into the cause of Home and Foreign Missions.
Suppose we imagine the case of two men, one of whom spends his
entire income over andabove his actual living expenses for Catholic Church
extension at home and abroad, the other has carefully saved and deposited
in the bank the sum of fifty thousand dollars. Which of the two, think you,
has acted with the greatest prudence?
Catholics of America, consider! It is not only the eyes of the Foreign

Missionaries who arefixed on us in this their hour of direst need, but those
eyes of Our Divine Redeemer, which lookedon Peter in the court room of
Caiaphas, and sought the uplifted gaze of Mary, His Mother and John, the
Beloved Disciple, from Calvary's tree, are now looking down on us from on
Highentreating with their pleading eloquence our charity and alms for the
preservation of His most cherished work, the apostolate among the
heathen. .
On behalf of thousands of missionaries, who left all to preach the

gospel of peace and to savehuman souls from eternal destruction, Jesus, the
Good Shepherd, implores you. Millions of neophytes, raise their voices and
their hands for help to the throne of Christ and of Mary, lest they fall back
into the night and barbarity of heathenism, and our Great High Priest and
His Mother look to us to fill up the void in the missionary treasury, caused by
the European war, and, Oh, shall Our God and Mary Immaculate look to us in
vain!
Hundreds of thousands of little children in the foundling homes of the

missions, myriads ofthe heathen sick and the aged in the hospitals of the Far
East, are uniting with missionary priests and sisters in prayers to God to
save them from starving and God turns to us as his human agents,
reminding us of what Our Lord will say on the Judgment Day: "Inasmuch as
you did it to these, my brethren, in pagan lands you did it unto Me."
___________________________________
BISHOP BIERMANS' LETTER
The dire distress of the missionaries on account of the Old World war
has been brought home to us most forcibly by a visit made to us by the
Bishop of Uganda. Much has been written in THE LAMP during the last nine
months on the subject of Kikuyu and the quarrel between the Anglican
Bishops over the Federation Conference of the Protestant missionaries held
in that place. Kikuyu lies just outside the boundary line of the Bishop of
Uganda's Vicariate and how the Protestant scheme of federation affects the
Catholic missions will be noted in Bishop Biermans' letter:
[Here follows Bishop Bierman’s letter, omitted because of length.]
We venture to propose to our readers two definite lines of help, which

we may extend to Bishop Biermans.
In the first place he tells us that he has fifty-two priests in his

Vicariate. If each of those priests could be supplied with 300 Mass Intentions
in the next twelve months that alone would represent a revenue of $15,600.
We beg the clergy, who have more Mass Intentions at their disposal than
they can discharge to send the surplus to us for Uganda.
The second line of help we could very readily extend to the. Bishop, by
all of us taking a hand,would be to supply transportation to Central Africa for
one of those five priests recently ordained by him at Mill-Hill and who are
ready to set out for his Vicariate as soon as the necessary five hundred
dollars apiece is forthcoming. Remember we are fifty thousand strong and
one penny from each of us would make up the five hundred. Let us get busy
and see what we can do. If THE LAMP fails to transport one of those young
missionary evangelists to the heart of Africa the Editor will be a crestfallen
and disappointed man. Do not despise the day of small offerings and let the
rain of postage stamps, nickles, dimes, quarters, fifty-cent pieces, dollars
and checks for Bishop Biermans begin at once, so that we can announce in
November that the five hundred dollars has been raised.
One priest sent to Africa is good for the conversion and baptism of at
least a thousand souls. What a splendid compensation for a little exertion
and self-denial on our part here on the other sideof the earth.
If we could make a thousand dollars in a few years' time by expending

a few cents now, whoamong us would withhold the few pennies? And yet
one immortal soul in the sight of God is ofmore value than all the diamonds
of Golconda,
Document 294
The Lamp Oct. 1914 p. 469
[Mother Lurana was the writer of the column “The Romeward Trend Among Anglicans.” (See
Diary of Mother Lurana Sep. 3, 1915). Did she also write the Editor’s Note for this installment
or did Fr. Paul Wattson, S.A., the editor of The Lamp write it?]
THE ROMEWARD TREND AMONG ANGLICANS
EDITOR'S NOTE :
One of the functions of THE LAMP is to throw light on what the English "Church Times"
has called "the Romeward Drift" in the Anglican Body, in order that our readers may keep in
intelligent sympathy with what constitutes from the Church Unity standpoint one of the most
hopeful features of Anglicanism. What the extremely advanced Anglicans call "the Catholic
Revival" in the Episcopal Church is still a minority movement but it is the same identical
movement which landed Cardinals Newman and Manning on the Rock of Peter and has brought
sixty Church of England clergymen into the Catholic Church within the last five years. The
viewpoint of these Catholic-minded Anglicans and how they converse among themselves is
interestingly illustrated by the following unaltered reprint from "The American Catholic," the
leading High Church monthly of the Episcopal Church in the United States. It is published at Los
Angeles, California, subscription price, $1.00 a year.
Document 295
[Fr. Paul Wattson, S.A., signed the letter to Rosarians. Hence, he is its author. Of interest because
of its rarity is the phrase “Fathers of the Atonement,” since he always writes, “Friars of the
Atonement.”]
ROSARY LEAGUE PAGE
I trust you will all read with a great deal of interest this month's
chapter in "The Origin and History of the Society of the Atonement, because
it is the story of how the Rosary League was founded in October, 1901. This,
then, is the beginning of the fourteenth year of the League's existence, and I
am going to ask every member to unite with every other member in a
zealous and well sustained effort to make this the banner year for growth of
membership and increase of usefulness for our Rosary Sodality. Permit me,
therefore, to outline a campaign of extension in which every individual
member of the League can take a hand:
1. Have the Rosary League Manual always on your prayer table and
say the prayers of the Children of the Atonement faithfully every day.
2. Keep a supply, of the Manuals on hand and give them to your

friends as opportunity offers recommending them to join the League. The
Manuals can be ordered from THE LAMP at a penny apiece, or ten cents a
dozen.
3. Always wear your Medal in full view and have a supply of these also
on hand to give to those who will want to follow your example and who will
willingly pay you the trifling sum the Medal costs. The Medals are to be
ordered from THE LAMP; price in white metal 5 cents each, 50 cents a
dozen ; in bronze metal, 10 cents each, $1.00 a dozen. They are provided
with or without stick pin, and some have a pin bar; all the same price. In
ordering state what kind you wish.
4. If you have the time to attend to it become a Promoter, just as

some of your zealous fellow Catholics are promoters of the League of the
Sacred Heart. The Fathers of the Atonement, or the Sisters, will supply you
with special literature for the purpose upon application. This is in fact one of
the very best ways of extending the League. We need and ought to have a
great many more promoters. When any Promoter has formed a band of
seven or more members, we call it a chaplet, and such chaplets should be
very numerous.
5. One of the most successful ways of winning new members to the

League is by telling your neighbors about the Novena of Last Resort. If they
become sufficiently interested to join in the observance of this Novena, they
not only are likely to ask to be enrolled in the League, but to become
subscribers to THE LAMP.
During the month of October, wherever it is possible, I hope there will

be the family recitation of the Rosary every evening, and that the General
Intention for the speedy ending of the European. Asiatic and Mexican wars
will be remembered by all.
May our most loving and most beloved Lady of the Atonement pray for
us "poor banished children of Eve" that "from our exile in this vale of tears"
we may be conducted in safety to our celestial home, "Jerusalem, the
golden, with milk and honey blest."
"Where stand those halls of Sion,

All jubilant with song,
And bright with many an angel,
And all the martyr throng.
The Prince is ever in them,
The daylight is serene;
The pastures of the blessed
Are decked in glorious sheen.
"There is the throne of David;

And there from care released,
The shout of them that triumph,
The song of them that feast.
And they who with their Leader
Have conquered in the fight,
Forever and forever
Are clad in robes of white."
PAUL JAMES FRANCIS,

S.A.
Document 296
The Lamp Nov.1914 pp. 483-484 (In The Words of Fr. Paul, edited by Fr. Titus Cranny, S.A.,
III 108-110)
Wattson, S.A., editor of The Lamp. Of note is his single blame on Martin Luther for the wars
going on in Europe at this time.]
PREPARE FOR THE CHURCH UNITY OCTAVE OF 1915
We make our first editorial announcement of the coming Church Unity

Octave one month ahead of schedule time this year, because world
conditions at the present moment summon us imperiously to pray for the
peace of Jerusalem as the exigencies of Church and State have never quite
so appealingly called us to our knees before.
We ask our readers without exception to carefully peruse the

Conference given by E.H. (p. 507) with our Separate Brethren, based upon
the mad war now waging on the other side of the globe.
One of the most appalling aspects of the colossal conflict is the
impotency of the five hundred million disciples of Jesus Christ, the Prince of
Peace, to stop the inhuman butchery, surpassing in its carnage the bloodiest
war ever waged by uncivilized savages.
Never since the foundation of the world were so many millions of men
under arms engaged in a single war. In comparison with the present
European armaments, the army of Xerxes dwindles to the dimension of a
single battle front of one of the nine great nations now battling for the
mastery. Yet with the exception of the pagan Japanese, all the combatants
are Christians, and some fifty thousand of them have been constrained to
lay aside the vestments of the altar and the habit of Holy Religion to don the
uniform of the civil soldier.
WHAT IS THE EXPLANATION?
How explain this impotency of the disciples of Christ to sheath the

bloody sword and stay their hand from acting the part of Cain, the first of
mankind to slay his brother? Why should even the voice of the Vicar of
Christ, in the person of the saintly Pius, whom all men revered as the most
Christlike of men, why, we ask, should even the voice of Peter have fallen
unheeded upon the ears of those earthly potentates, whose diplomatic
ultimatums are responsible for loosing the hellish dogs of war and rushing
millions of peace-loving men from the mill, the farm, the market place, to be
slaughtered like sheep in the battle trenches, above which devils dance and
hold their fiendish carnival in defiance of the angels of God, who sang when
the Prince of Peace was born, “Glory to God in the highest and on earth
peace to men of good will”? For the first time in the history of the Roman
Empire the temple of Janus was closed and universal peace reigned in all the
world when the Word of God was made Flesh and first came to dwell among
us, but now the Prince of this world sits high enthroned upon the altar in a
military Cathedral whose mighty towers are builded of cannons, howitzers
and siege guns, while with devilish glee he shouts, “Bravo,” amid the din of
death-dealing artillery and mocks at the Prince of Peace.
Why, O Catholics, O Orthodox, O Anglicans, O Protestants, are we, in

union with our Divine Head, thus rudely jeered at by the denizens of hell?
How comes it that we are forced to be the spectators while our fellow-
Christians, like savage, brute beasts, are killing each other, not by the
thousands or the tens of thousands, but by the millions, in the amphitheatre
of Continental Europe? How is it that we are utterly helpless to stop this
wholesale murder of Christians by Christians?
Be not so short-sighted as to lay the blame at the door of

commercialism, the mere greed for gold, accursed though it be; charge it
not to militarism, unless you are going to confound the effect with its cause;
blame not the aged Emperor of Austria, or the Kaiser of Germany, the Czar
of Russia, the King of England, the President of the French Republic, or even
the original cause or pretext, the regicide of Servia. Trace more deeply into
the soil of Europe the great tap-root of this colossal tree, whose branches
are laden with the golden fruits of commerce, the death-dealing apparatus
of war, and whose leaves are dripping with the blood of the slain. The hand
that planted the sapling from which this mighty tree has grown was Martin
Luther, and the principles of the Protestant Reformation are the rich
fertilizers upon which it has thrived. The tree began to bear fruit after its
kind while Luther yet lived, as the thirty-year war in Germany and all the
other Reformation wars which broke out all over northern Europe abundantly
bear witness.
UT OMNES UNUM SINT
On the night in which He breathed His never-to-be-forgotten Prayer for

the Unity of His Disciples, Ut omnes unum sint, the Divine Founder of
Christianity also provided the Bond of Unity and a visible touchstone of
Catholic Fellowship when, turning to Peter, the Prince and Head of His
apostles, He said to him: “I have prayed for thee, Peter, that thy faith fail
not, and when thou are converted, confirm (strengthen) thy brethren”; and
after His resurrection He made His Divine will yet more manifest by thrice
addressing the Rock-man, on whom He had said He would build His church,
“Feed My lambs, feed My sheep, shepherd My flock.”
It is only when all the Christians in all the world clearly recognize the
Supreme Authority of the Apostolic See, and the unerring orthodoxy of the
Voice of Peter, that all believers in Christ will be one again, as on the day of
Pentecost, and the whole world, bending low beneath the outward witness of
Christ’s Sovereign Authority reigning among men, will indeed accept His
Messiahship, and “the lion will lie down with the lamb,” and all the world
shall rejoice in a universal peace.
This is the message of paramount importance which a sect-ridden

Christianity and a civilized world, staggering under its load of militarism,
needs at this hour; and, chastened by the terrible suffering entailed upon
mankind by the savage mania for war now sweeping so many nations into
its vortex, it may be that Protestants and Orthodox alike will give reverent
heed to the Vicar of Christ, and for this, fellow Catholics, we have need to
pray, and to season our prayers with fasted vigils and penitential exercises.
Therefore, we plead with our readers to make themselves and others ready
to observe as never before the coming Church Unity Octave, from the Feast
of the Chair of Peter at Rome to the Festival of the Conversion of St. Paul,
the great Catholic Doctor and Apostle of the Gentiles, i.e. from January 18 to
January 25.
Document 297
The Lamp Nov. 1914 p. 489
[There is no internal evidence that the writer of this piece is Fr. Paul Wattson, S.A., editor of The
Lamp, other than the use of “we” in giving his opinion of newly consecrated Bishop Patrick
Hayes. Bishop Cusack, mentioned here, was the overseer for Graymoor and Bishop Gabriels was
known to Father Paul from his journey to Ogdensburgh just before entering the Catholic Church.]
CONSECRATION OF BISHOP HAYES
An event of the first importance in the history of the Archdiocese of New York was the
consecration of the Right Reverend Patrick J. Hayes, D.D., as Bishop Auxiliary in St. Patrick’s
Cathedral on the Feast of the Apostles Simon and June, Thursday, October 28 th. His Eminence,
the Cardinal Archbishop of New York, was the Consecrator, and the Assistant Consecrators were
Rt. Rev. Henry Gabriels, Bishop of Ogdensburgh, and Ret. Rev. Thomas F. Cusack, Bishop
Auxiliary of New York. The sermon was preached by Rt. Rev. Mgr. Joseph F. Mooney, P.A., V.G.
A score of Archbishops and Bishops were present, monsignori in great numbers, many Religious,
both Fathers and Brothers, about seven hundred of the clergy and over two hundred seminarians
from Dunwoodie, forming in procession as body of one thousand ecclesiastics. Other thousands
of the laity throned the Cathedral.
The ceremony of consecration covered a period of four hours and was most solemn and
impressive. The scene in the sanctuary and around the high altar, as viewed from the nave, was
such as to leave an indelible impression upon the memory of the beholder. The prelates and clergy,
who best know Bishops Hayes, regard him as one who possesses in an eminent degree all the
qualities laid down by St. Paul to Timothy and Titus as needful for a bishop of the Church of God,
and we believe the faithful of the archdiocese, when they get to know the new Bishop, will love
and reverence him in the same way that everyone, without any exception, reverences and loves
Bishop Cusack.
With two such Auxiliaries to support on his right hand and left, His Eminence, the
Cardinal Archbishop, as Aaron and Hur held up the hands of Moses, we are profoundly sincere in
thanking God that He has deigned to give such holy prelates to preside over the destinies of the
great Archdiocese of New York. To the Trio my He add ad multos annos.
Document 298
The Lamp Nov. 1914 p. 492
[From the authoritative tone of this piece it is evident that the author is Fr. Paul Wattson, S.A.,
editor of The Lamp. Another proof of his authorship is the use of “Institute” when speaking of the
S.A. His joy in being in the Catholic Church is bubbling over here.]
GRAYMOOR ANNALS
October 30th was the fifth anniversary of the admission of the Society of the Atonement
into the Fold of Peter. Only five years, but what wonders of accomplishment in so short a space!
Those who have visited Graymoor lately and have seen all the visible sings of growth and
advancement declare with one voice that it is marvellous. To us it is but another evidence of the
divine power that circles around the Rock of Peter, giving life and fecundity to every religious
institution that shelters under its benediction and strong defense. Had it remained aloof from the
Holy See the Society of the Atonement at best could never have been more than a feeble effort to
express the Franciscan ideal in an alien land, but now in ful communion with the Apostolic See
and nourished with paternal solicitude by the great White Father of Christendom its whole bing
pulsates with divine energy and God’s spirit of growth and expansion rests upon it. Blessed
forever be the day that ushered the Graymoor Institute into the bosom of the Catholic Church.
Document 299
The Lamp Nov. 1914 pp.493-494
[The phrase “We of The Lamp” indicates that the author of this piece is Fr. Paul Wattson, S.A.,
editor of The Lamp. He will use the military term “Commander-in-Chief” many times in speaking
of one in authority. “Trodden under foot” is a phrase Fr. Paul used when, as an Anglican, he was
refuting those who said Anglican Orders were invalid and, consequently its Eucharist. Of interest
is the instances he gives of wasted money, e.g. on strong drink, candy, shows, etc. Notice that he
does not include tobacco.]
MONTHLY CONFERENCE WITH OUR MISSIONARY CO-WORKERS
We want to say something to you this month on the necessity of our

being better organized to carry on our glorious propaganda of the Faith at
home and abroad. We of THE LAMP have begun to do something but if our
missionary forces were better organized we could do much more. Now we
have ready to hand our own missionary organization, the Union-That-
Nothing-Be-Lost, which is admirably fitted to our purpose and is designed t o
serve as an auxiliary to the Society for the Propagation of the 'Faith and our
American Catholic Church Extension Society.
The Union-That-Nothing-Be-Lost is based on the command which Our

Lord gave to His Apostles to gather up the fragments that remained after
the feeding of the five thousand in the wilderness with five barley loaves
and two small fishes. In obedience to the Master's command each Apostle
took his own basket and brought it to their Commander-in-Chief filled to
overflowing with the pieces of bread and fish that they had gathered up and
which would otherwise have been wasted and trodden under foot. Each of
us holds in his hand the basket of opportunity and if we have the true
missionary spirit by a little industry and self-denial we may fill that basket,
with the material means of saving souls without number from being trodden
under foot of devils and lost in hell. Father Hopfgartner, of Borneo, told us
that he could safely promise to save at least one soul for every dollar that
was given him to support the catechists who labor so successfully among
the natives.
One has but to think a moment of the millions upon millions of dollars
spent every year by Catholics in America for intoxicating drinks, candies,
theatrical shows, jewelry and unchristian finery in dress to demonstrate how
easy it would be for these same Catholics, by a little self denial and
economy, to fill their missionary basket with many small coins and even
dollars and bank drafts for the sacred cause of missions.
The Rule of Action laid down for individual members of the U. N. B. L.

is thus expressedin the Constitution:
I. To make the best use I can of every talent I possess.
II. To waste nothing—either time, money, food, clothing

nor opportunity of doing good which may be given me.
III. To spend upon self the minimum rather than the

maximum of what is at my disposal;
that I may have the more to give to God and to those whose
need is greater than my own.
IV. To practice as strict an economy in order to lay up

Treasure in Heaven as the worldly-wisedo in accumulating
treasure on the earth.
V. To keep ever in mind the text: "That Nothing Be Lost,"

and for love of God and therewards of Eternal Life, to do all the
good I can, in all the ways I can, to whomsoever I can, aslong as
life affords the privileges and opportunity of service.
Of course our readers will understand that this rule simply represents
the Ideal toward which we are to aspire. It does not impose upon conscience
any obligation, which to violate would be sin. As the Union-That-Nothing-Be-
Lost grows in numbers and strength the spiritual benefits accruing to the
members will constantly increase, and even at the outset we can promise
several hundred Masses said yearly by missionary priests for the benefit of
the member, living and departed; moreover, by reason of our custom of
sending the offering of the members to their destination through the Society
of the Propagation of the Faith we secure for them at the same time their
share in the thousands of Masses offered on behalf of benefactors by that
Society and rich indulgences accorded by the Holy See.
We ask, therefore, all our missionary co-workers to send us your

names and addresses so we may enrol you in the Union-That-Nothing-Be-
Lost. Coopies of the constitution will be sent on application gratis.
Document 300
The Lamp Dec. 1914 pp.531-533
[The use of “we” in these unsigned editorials indicates that the author is Fr. Paul Wattson, S.A.,
editor of The Lamp.]
NEUTRALITY
We did not think that it would be necessary to state editorially that in

regard to the greatEuropean war THE LAMP is strictly neutral, but to our
amazement we have been accused by our German readers of being pro-
British and by our English readers as being pro-German. In the "Editors Mail
Bag" we have published by way of illustration two protests against an article
we reproduced from America in October, one of these protests is English, the
other is German, and we received a third from a German priest which we did
not print lest we should seem to show partiality by setting two against one.
Every week we read the summary of the war news printed in the
columns of the able Jesuitweekly, America, and we are filled with admiration
at the impartial exactness with which they give the facts as summarized
from the press despatches, and yet the following editorial description of
America's woes will awaken a fellow feeling in many a Catholic editorial
breast:
"The editor of America has deemed it well to reveal a few

of the mysteries of his sanctum, and to disclose to the public
gaze the contents of some of the letters that come in each
morning's mail: The passages he quotes from his
correspondents' contributions are typical samples of the
expressions of opinions which find their way to many a Catholic
editor's desk. For example,:
“‘Your recent editorial on "Heroic Belgium" is indefensible. Please stop my

subscription at once.’ The pro-German bias of last week's Chronicle is the last
straw. I will read your paper no longer.’ ‘The insensate hostility to Austria you
display shocks and pains me. Drop my name from your subscription list.’ ‘Your
attitude toward England has cost you at least one subscriber.' 'Is your paper edited
from Berlin?’ 'I may subscribe again after the war.’ ‘ I think I am your oldest
subscriber, but the calm and dispassionate way you spoke last week of the
bombardment of Rheims Cathedral is intolerable. Drop my name.' 'Permit me to
say that your manifest bias for France comes with bad grace from a paper of your
antecedents. Please discontinue my subscription.' 'Your account of Ireland's
attitude toward the war could not be further from the truth. Stop my paper.' "
OUR NATIONAL DUTY TO MEXICO
In connection with this editorial, be good enough to read the reprint on page 561 of Dr.
Kelly's Philippic in the November Extension, entitled, "Where the Gates of Hell Are Open."
Dr. Kelly's language is so thinly veiled that a person of intelligence can readily surmise
whatunspeakable atrocities have been committed by the lustful hordes under the bandit freebooter,
Villa, but we confess we did not give full credence to the intimation until from private sources of
information we became possessed of some of the horrible facts. Really we question whether in the
whole history of Catholic persecution anything quite so infamous has ever befallen the virgins of
Christ. It is enough to solidify the entire mass of Catholic citizenship in America to Sternly
endorse the set of resolutions recently passed by the Federation of Catholic Societies in the
Archdiocese of Boston, under the personal leadership of His Eminence Cardinal O'Connell, and to
give the Administration at Washington clearly to understand that it will suffer at the hands of the
Catholic ballot unless the protective arm of America is effectively outstretched over Mexico to
bring the reign of just law out of the chaos of anarchy now prevailing and to guarantee for
generations to come to all people within the borders of our sister republic civil and religious
liberty.
The resolutions we have referred to are printed below:
RESOLUTIONS ADOPTED BY FEDERATION
"We denounce the outrages perpetrated against bishops, priests and

religious men and women in Mexico. Thousands have been robbed, tortured,
exiled, and in many instances brutally murdered; and some of these were American
citizens. Religious women whose lives have been consecrated to the practice of
every form of Christian charity were subjected to what is worse than death—the
brutal lust of an inhuman soldiery. "We protest against the unexplainable silence of
our public press concerning these well authenticated outrages. This mighty power
for the formation of public sentiment and opinion has often made appeal even in
the case of individuals; as, for instance, the Russian Jew, Beiliss, or Miss Stone, the
Protestant missionary who was held in captivity by Turkish bandits. The Mexican
outrages have thus far been scarcely mentioned by the press.
"In the name of sacred religion; which has been ruthlessly attacked; in the
name of pure womanhood, which has been shamefully outraged; in the name of
humanity, where fundamental rights have been violated; in the name of Christian
civilization, which is being supplanted by a rule of rapine, lust and murder, we
mostearnestly appeal to our government at Washington to do its utmost toward
stopping this inhuman persecution of just men and women in Mexico.
"By reason of the Monroe Doctrine the civilized nations of the world look
to the United States of America to exercise its great power for the preservation
and maintenance of the fundamental rights of mankind on this American continent.
"We therefore most earnestly urge upon the President of the United States
not to recognize in Mexico any government which does not effectively guarantee
civil and religious liberty in the true sense of the word.”
THE SECOND CALL
We began to remind you of the approaching Church Unity Octave (January 18-25) a
monthahead of time this year, because the longer and the better we prepare for it the more
generally will it be observed. Last year's report surpassed all previous records and the Church
Unity Octave for 1915 ought to go far beyond even that.
The whole world has a terrible object lesson of the effects of a disunited Christendom in
thepresent European carnage, and we of the United States have a little illustration of
our own in the outrages perpetrated upon priests and religious in Mexico.
The reason why the United States has sat still with folded hands and let the
old Dragon have his way across the border is because the Christian forces of
America are divided, and much of the non-Catholic portion has actually
fostered and supported the armed savages who have wrecked the hatred of
hell upon the Catholic Church in Mexico. If the Christians of the United
States were one, the hell hounds in our sister republic would have been
chained and muzzled long ago.
O for the unity of Christians! For this let us storm heaven from now on
through the ChurchUnity Octave. There can be no doubt that the saints, with
our glorious Lady at the head, will mightily increase the volume of our
prayers as they rise like incense from the earth, and our great High Priest,
"Who, ever liveth to make intercession," finding in them the echo of His own
prayer, "Ut omnes unum sint," will pass the volume on to God the Father,
and the answer that will roll back to our poor war-ridden earth cannot fail to
be commensurate with the love and omnipotence of the Creator and Ruler of
heaven and of earth. Keep this Octave with utmost zeal and strong, deep
faith. It is worth while.
In order that individuals may the better secure the co-operation of

their friends in extending the observance of the Octave, we have had a
Church Unity Octave Post Card printed, which can be ordered from THE LAMP.
Price, 5 cents for 10, 10 cents for 25, 40 cents for 100. We provide also a
form of prayer for use during the Octave at the same price.
Document 301
The Lamp Dec. 1914 pp. 538, 539
[From the use of “we” it is evident that this piece was written by Fr. Paul Wattson, S.A., editor of
The Lamp. Also the writer identifies himself as the “Editor.” Fr. Remy Lafort will have a not-too-
positive role to play in the S.A. being in the Catholic Church as a new community. Of note is his
suggestion to help the Sisters in their financial trouble before helping the Friars.]
GRAYMOOR ANNALS
The red letter event to be recorded in the Graymoor Annals this issue
is the visit which His Eminence, Cardinal Farley, paid to St. Francis House on
the afternoon of Wednesday, November 4th, accompanied by his Secretary,
Dr. Thomas G. Carroll, and the Censor librorum of the Archdiocese, Dr. Remy
Lafort. Just five years previous, two weeks after the reception of the Society
of the Atonement into the Church, the Archbishop of New York visited
Graymoor for thefirst time, his purpose then being to confirm the new
converts and to give the Friars and Sisters of theAtonement his blessing.
This second coming of His Eminence to Graymoor was in the nature of

a canonical visitation to the convent and he has graciously promised to visit
the Friars in the spring or early summer. The lateness of the hour and
another engagement prevented the Cardinal from repeating his ascent of
the Mount of the Atonement, but besides seeing separately every member
of the Convent community, he confirmed a small class in the Sisters' chapel
and took time to greet in the reception room of St. Francis House the Friars
of the First Congregation, the postulants and the scholastics, nineteen, in all.
His Eminence expressed himself as both surprised and greatly pleased

at the evidence his visit afforded of the wonderful increase and development
of the Society since its submission to papal obedience five short years ago
and he summed up his impressions of the Convent in the words of Jacob:
"this is none other than the House of God and this is the Gate of Heaven."
Graymoor appreciates more than we can say this distinguished favor
shown us by our Cardinal Archbishop, and like the precious ointment of Mary
in the gospel this visit will remain a fragrant memory with us always.
_________________________________
We have been so busy begging for the Foreign Missions and other
worthy objects whose need was even greater than our own that the financial
needs of Graymoor have been pigeon-holed in the editorial sanctum for
some time past. Necessity compels us to bring them now to the attention of
our benefactors. We have been compelled to do a great deal of building
during the past year to keep pace with the rapid growth of both
communities and in consequence the end of the year finds both the Friars
and the Sisters facing a money problem hard to solve. To be very concise,
the Sisters still owe the builders, who contracted for the enlargement of the
convent, fifteen hundred dollars, and the Friars still owe on the enlargement
of St. John's House of Studies about one thousand.
Now we have established a tradition at Graymoor, which we would

very much like to maintain, which tradition is to pay aw we go and to escape
the unfortunate boast of the body, who being taunted by his playmates next
door with having no cupola on his house as they had on their’s, defiantly
made answer: “I don’t care, cupola or no cupola, I heard my father say that
we’ve got a mortgage on our house anyway.”
In all seriousness we ask our benefactors to save us from a mortgage
by sending us alms enough at Christmas to meet our obligations and as the
Sister’s debt is larger than our own, please give hem the preference.
You know that it is one of the Editor’s proudest saying that he never
asks the reader of THE LAMP anything which they do not give in swift
response. Now you will say: “Father, that is a pretty large Christmas gift.” Yes,
yes, but then there are a quarter of a million readers of you and when there are many hands to do
the lifting heavy burdens become correspondingly light. Don’t’ forget Graymoor at Christmas and
we hope to have a good report of your alms to make in the January number.
Document 302
The Lamp Dec. 1914 p.541
[The “old man” in this piece is John Reid of Waterbury, Conn., aka, “the miser of Waterbury.” The
fact that the writer is in correspondence with him, means that Fr. Paul Wattson, S.A., the editor of
The Lamp, is the author of the piece. Of note are the extremes that Reid goes to in order to help
the missions.]

MONTHLY CONFERENCES WITH OUR MISSIONARY CO-WORKERS
Evidences constantly multiply that the principles of our Missionary Society The-Union-
That-Nothing-Be-Lost, are gripping the minds and the hearts of our readers and training you in
the school of economy that in the end you may distinguish yourselves among the Catholics of all
nations as the most generous and self-denying givers in the world to the missionary extension of
the Church at home and abroad.
Let me illustrate by a concrete example. An old man who has belonged to the U. N. B. L.
from the start sent his check for one hundred dollars for Bishop Biermans, and we quote (without
his permission) from the letter that accompanied the gift: "Not in fifty years have I exercised
economy so much as I have the past year that I might fulfil all that is stipulated in the Nothing-Be-
Lost by-laws, even to make a match do twice and when visitors, come to spend an evening, I rise
and blow out the I candle or extinguish the lamp, saying we can talk just as well and as much in
the dark. I use postals in answer to letters, saving cent, envelope and paper."
This zealous apostle of the missions who, since we have known him, has given literally
thousands for the Kingdom, would not dream of wasting any money on stationery; the letter
before us was written on a sheet yellow with age, torn out of an old ledger. Only yesterday he sent
us another twenty-five dollars for Bishop Gregory of Curacao (Dutch West Indies) and he said the
thought of those poor starving children coming to school without a mouthful to eat had induced
him to cut down his own three meals to two a day. We may get a lecture from him for telling you
all this, but mind you we are not mentioning his name and we believe the story will stimulate the
same spirit of economy and personal self-denial in others.
Document 303
[The piece is written by the Editor of The Lamp, who is Fr. Paul Wattson, S.A. He emphasizes the
value in the number of Masses applied to individuals.]
TO OUR SUBSCRIBERS
It is really very gratifying to receive such expressions from our subscribers as the
following brief specimens:
[Here follows a letter from a Lamp subscriber, omitted because of space.]

It is the Editor’s desire that everything about THE LAMP should redound to the greater
glory of God, the good of everybody concerned and the salvation of souls, and in consulting the
spiritual advantage of our subscribers we have devised and propose to execute the following
system of Mass intentions for the living and the dead. You will at once see how it will operate on
the “nothing-be-lost” principle, benefitting our subscribers as no mere premium system could
benefit them and at the same time it will immediately profit the poor missionary priests at home
and abroad, whose very livelihood oftentimes depends upon these Mass intentions.
It is therefore with the greatest confidence in our hearty approval that we now lay before
you the scheme of spiritual benefits we have devised for the good both of our readers and of our
destitute missionaries, not forgetting at the same time to provide a way by which THE LAMP can
be made to shed its beams more extensively on the pathway of our non-Catholic brethren,
especially of those who are vainly trying to be Catholics without the Pope and beyond the page of
Peter’s Fold.
SPIRITUAL ADVANTAGES ACCRUING TO OUR SUBSCRIBERS
1. One hundred and fifty Masses are said yearly for the
temporal and spiritual benefit of all LAMP subscribers.
2. Those who renew their subscriptions are enrolled among the

Benefactors of the Society of the Atonement,for whom three
hundred and sixty-five Masses are said by missionary priests
every year.
3. A list will be published in THE LAMP every month of subscribers

whose death is reported to us, or of any member of their
immediate family, and for the repose of their souls some foreign
missionary priest will be asked to say without intermission a
series of thirty Masses, which are called Gregorian Masses, and
for many centuries the Gregorian Masses have been regarded as
very efficacious for the poor souls on whose behalf they are
offered. .
When the number of our permanent subscribers has been largely

increased the Friars of the Atonement will still further increase the number
of Masses offered up every year for the benefit of both the living and the
dead, and consequently those who thus stand by THE LAMP will increasingly
enjoy a greater spiritual reward.
Nor must it be forgotten that THE LAMP, by the missionary offerings of

its generous readers, is constantly putting missionary bishops, priests,
sisters and pagan converts under obligations of prayers and sacrifices on
our behalf, and this also greatly accrues to the advantage of our pious
readers.
Last, but by no means least, thousands of our subscribers are enrolled

in the Rosary League of Our Lady of the Atonement or the Union-That-
Nothing-Be-Lost, and thereby they become ipso facto associates of the
Society of the Atonement and sharers as such in the prayers and good works
of the Friars, the Sisters and the Tertiaries of the Three Congregations of the
Atonement, and on that account will the more abundantly enjoy, if they
otherwise persevere in a state of grace, the rewards of the Hereafter.
All of which is hereby subscribed to by

THE FRIARS OF THE ATONEMENT.
Document 304
[Fr. Sargent was Fr. Paul Wattson’s novice master when he was a Holy Cross Monastery in
Westminster, Md. He told Fr. Paul he believed he had no vocation to found an Order. Of note is
how Fr. Paul encourages support for Fr. Sargent and for Benedictines in general. It is assumed
that Fr. Paul is the author of this piece, since he demonstrates admiration of Sargent.]
AN ASSOCIATION OF THE CLIENTS OF ST. BENEDICT
It has now been a little over five years since the Rev. Henry R. Sargent,
at one time Superiorof the Anglican Order of the Holy Cross, said farewell to
his brethren of the order and sailed for England where, a few weeks later, he
made his submission to the sovereign jurisdiction of the Apostolic See and
became a Catholic. Returning to America not long afterwards he entered the
Archdiocesan Seminary of Boston and in due time was ordained a priest.
During these five years of waiting he has never abandoned for an instant his
determination to die clothed with the habit of Holy Religion, but, like all men
who have been fully possessed with a holy ideal he has had to undergo a
real trial of faith. His is truly a glorious ambition and THE LAMP not only wishes
him success in its accomplishment but desires to focus its light on the
project sufficiently to guide to Father Sargent's assistance some choice souls
that might otherwise remain in ignorance of what this holy servant of God
aims to accomplish.
Father Sargent is an alumnus of Harvard University and represents in

family lineage and education the best traditions of New England. Now, that
above and beyond all this he is a Catholic,the mighty desire has gripped him
to bring the influences of St. Benedict to bear upon our great centers of
secular learning here in America by making somewhere in the United States
a Benedictine Foundation of piety and learning such as, already flourish in
England.
It is true that there already exist in America a number of Benedictine

abbeys, but when weconsider how numerous these abbeys are abroad and
how much America needs to have them increased and multiplied, so that
what they have done for the old world during the last fourteen hundred
years may be paralleled in the new world in these last times, there is no
room to deny thatif Father Sargent can add even one more Benedictine
abbey to those already in existence he will have done the Catholic Church
and the United States a distinct and signal service
Towards the end of September Father Sargent again sailed for England
and is now with theBenedictines of Downside Abbey; there he hopes to be
joined by several other priests of one mindand heart with himself and when
their novitiate is completed they will, D.V., return to America. Meanwhile an
association of the Clients of St. Benedict is being formed in this country to
further the success of the proposed new Benedictine foundation by their
prayers and good works.
Applications for fuller information, terms of membership and the

medal of St. Benedict shouldbe addressed to Miss Edith R. Wilson, 47 Second
Avenue, New Brighton, New York City. God speed and prosper this new
association.
Document 305
The Lamp Dec. 1914 pp. 566-567 (In The Words of Fr. Paul, edited by Fr. Titus Cranny, S.A.,
III 87-88)
Lamp. The message contains some favorite themes used by Fr. Paul Wattson, S.A., in other talks
and writings: the prophecy by Daniel about the stone “hewn out of the mountain without hands”
(Daniel 2:34-35) and the corn of wheat falling into the ground and dying (John 12:24). His words,
“doing all the good we can to whomsoever we can as long as the present life shall last” appear
also in his U.N.B.L. Rule. Fr. Paul treats the theology of the Blood of Christ at the end of the
message.
THE ROSARY LEAGUE PAGE
THE CHRISTMAS MESSAGE

Dear Children of the Atonement
Peace be unto you from the Babe of Bethlehem and His Blessed Mother and ours. After
we have listened to the song of the angels until our hearts are brimful of Christmas melody, let us
go in company with the shepherds even unto Bethlehem and entering the stable, on bended knee
before Mary’s new born Child, recall to mind His words in after life: “Except ye (too ) become as
little children and be born again ye cannot enter into the Kingdom of Heaven.” The Infant Jesus
was that “Stone” of prophecy, seen by Daniel in the vision, “hewn out of a mountain without
hands,” which was to grow until it should itself become a great mountain and fill the whole
earth.” What Christmas began, Calvary has fulfilled. Mary’s Babe was the “corn of wheat,” which
by falling into the ground and dying has multiplied His own infancy in the regeneration of the
Children of the Atonement until the multitude of them who constitute His mystical body more and
more fill the whole earth.
Two great mysteries of the Catholic religion perpetually continue the divine process by
which originally the Word was made flesh in the womb of May and was born at Bethlehem; the
first is the Mystery of Regeneration, for in this mystery the baptistry becomes a new Bethlehem
and within the bosom of the infant, or adult, who is baptized Mary’s Babe is born afresh by the
operation of the Holy Ghost. The second mystery is the Holy Eucharist, whereby the Catholic
Church or chapel also becomes a new Bethlehem (House of Bread) and the altar the manger on
which the Infant Christ lives afresh in the Host as the priest bending over the tiny particle of
snowy bread whispers the mystic sentence of the new creation: “Hoc est enim Corpus Meum.”
Rejoice, then, in thy oneness with Mary, O thou Child of the Atonement, for by virtue of the two
greatest sacraments of the Catholic Church the Babe of May has not only been born in thee, but as
often as thou dost partake of the Holy Eucharist it is the Infant Jesus under the appearance of a
baby host who passes through the door of thy lips into the tabernacle you have lovingly prepared
for him in they heart. Pray not only for spiritual understanding great enough to worthily
appreciate this marvelous truth but for grace also to love and serve the Divine Infant as faithfully
and unselfishly as Mary His Immaculate Mother. Hide thyself so completely in him that with His
great servant, St. Paul, you may be able truthfully to say: “It is no longer I that live but Christ that
liveth in me.”
But his possession of the Babe of Bethlehem as our very own involves a duty of charity to
our fellow Christian, which every true Child of the Atonement must be keen to fulfil. Because of
our spiritual oneness in Christ Jesus, on us rests the burden of that New Commandment which
Christ gave unto His disciples, “that ye love one another, as I have loved you that ye love one
another.”
It may not be much, but let us do what we can in union with the Sacred Heart of the
Christ Child to offset the reign of hate and bloodshed in Europe and across our border in unhappy
Mexico by manifesting towards our neighbor a charity which has no limit, doing all the good we
can to whomsoever we can as long as the present life shall last.
God hasten the day when pentecostal love and unity shall flourish again among all
Christians, beholding which the pagan world shall exclaim again as it did of old: “Behold how
these Christians love one another.” With a heart full of affection towards you in the Lord, I wish
you all a Merry Christmas, and from His Throne in Mary’s arms may the Divine Infant bless you
every one.
Paul, James Francis, S.A.
N.B.–I ask, as far as it is practicable, that all members of the Rosary League on Christmas
Day wear a piece of reb ribbon in connection with their medal, when they receive Holy
Communion (if they be men) and that the medal be suspended around their neck by a scarlet cord
or ribbon (if they be women). It will be remembered that Rahab, in the fall of Jericho, was
commanded to suspend a scarlet cord out of the window of her house and by obedience she and
all her household were saved from death in the destruction of the city. Through the scarlet blood
of the Atonement we children of Mary know that we have passed from death unto life, and by
wearing the red ribbon in connection with your medal of Our Lady of the Atonement you will give
visible expression to your faith in the Precious Blood and gratitude to God for the unspeakable
gift of His dear Son.

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The Lamp Jan. 1914 pp.3-4

THE LARGER LAMP

MAKE IT A REAL WEEK OF PRAYER

Prayer, in its energy and power may be likened to that invisible

It follows, therefore, that a mighty concert of human wills and hearts

The prayers of a great number of individuals offered to God during the

IN THE MISSION FIELD

THE U. N. B. L. SELF-DENIAL WEEK

It is time to remind the readers of THE LAMP of the great Self-Denial

Some, we trust, will be prudent and zealous enough to begin a

IN THE MISSION FIELD

THE 1914 OBSERVANCE OF THE CHURCH UNITY OCTAVE

A CHAT WITH OUR SUBSCRIBERS

PEEKSKILL’S ST. CHRISTOPHER’S INN

THE ROSARY LEAGUE PAGE

THE THREE CROSSES

As we lift up our eyes to Mount Calvary we behold three crosses. Upon

1. THE CROSS OF ATONING SACRIFICE

This is the explanation of why, in every age, the vessels of election

Happy are they who, preserving innocency in themselves and walking

2. THE CROSS OF THE PENITENT

The second cross – which is always in evidence among us – is that of

3. THE CROSS OF THE REPROBATE

Wherever we turn these three crosses confront us. Whether we will or

THE WEEK OF SELF-DENIAL

At the present time we have 10,000 subscribers to THE LAMP and in

As we announced last month, whatever the offering amounts to, it will

Our readers will not expect any acknowledgment of these offerings

MR. HAZLEHURST’S LETTER.

To the Editor of the Living Church:

It seemed to me at the moment I read the article an extraordinary word to

THE SALUTATION OF PEACE

THE PENTECOSTAL REIGN OF PEACE

Volumes have been written in the vain effort to give a compendious

THE WORLD’S CONFERENCE ON FAITH AND ORDER

While a friendly attitude on the part of Catholics generally has

THE BISHOP OF LEAD’S TWENTY-FIFTH ANNIVERSARY

SAINT PATRICK AND THE IRISH PEOPLE

A SERMON PREACHED IN ST. PATRICK'S CATHEDRAL,

HOW DEATH AND RESURRECTION HAVE SUCCEEDED

THREE CENTURIES OF PROTESTANT OPPRESSION

THE PRINCIPLE BROUGHT HOME

IRELAND'S THIRD RESURRECTION

"The strife is o'er, the battle done,

THE ROMEWARD TREND AMONG OUR ANGLICAN BRETHREN

SHALL WE TRY TO CONVERT THE JEWS?

A MISINTERPRETATION OF ST. PAUL

SHALL THE PROTESTANTS PROVOKE US TO JEALOUSY?

We cannot tell definitely how many converts to either Catholicism or

The Japanese Government has formally recognized the Catholic University

Bitter, bitter, oh, to behold

Weep, weep, O Walsingham,

THE SOCIETY OF THE ATONEMENT

By Rev. Paul James Francis, S.A.

(A reprint from America.)

The movement began, as all the world knows, at Oxford in 1833,

That a Religious Institute, comprising a community of Friars, another of

The home of the Society of the Atonement is Graymoor, in the

On the southern slope of the mountain, hardly more than a stone’s

Submission to Rome has meant growth and expansion to the second,

IN THE MISSION FIELD

THE CHURCH’S OPPORTUNITY IN CHINA

ROSARY LEAGUE PAGE