Earlier text: Impressions by the WayEncouraging Outlook at Our Medical College
By G. A. Irwin
THE College of Medical Evangelists is now well under way in the fourth year of its existence. There are sixty-three students in attendance, divided as follows: Fourth-year class, seven; third-year class, twenty-one; second-year class, sixteen; first-year class, nineteen. Without question, the present year thus far has been more satisfactory to both faculty and students than any that has gone before. The members of the faculty are each year coming to understand better their several lines of work, and are learning better how to blend their work together as a whole, and, as a result, union and harmony prevail. The interest manifested by the faculty in their work, as evinced by their regular attendance and enthusiasm, has inspired confidence on the part of the students, and they, in turn, are settling down to good hard work. The uncertainty of the earlier years has now passed, and in its stead is a marked spirit of confidence, not only in the consecration and teaching ability of the faculty, but in the stability and permanency of the school. The buildings and appliances that have been provided from time to time have been of a stable and permanent character, and at the same time both convenient and practical. Taking into account the magnitude of such an undertaking, and the serious difficulties that have surrounded its development, it is marvelous how the Lord has guided thus far, and saved us from making serious mistakes. During the progress of a college board meeting that has just closed, Sister White spoke to the members of the board and faculty and the heads of departments. Her theme was the importance of having confidence in God, and being in a condition of faith and unity with him, so we can be led at all times by his counsel. Speaking of Loma Linda and the work that God would have done at that place, she used the following interesting and encouraging words:— “I was here at Loma Linda when this place was purchased. As I spoke to the people, the power of God came into our midst again and again. On the occasion of my first visit to look over the property, I knelt right down with our brethren and the representatives of the owners of the place who were here; I knelt right down in the midst of them, and prayed to God about the work that should be undertaken and carried forward in Loma Linda. When I got up, some of those who were not of our faith seemed to be deeply moved. From that time I have ever felt under bounden duty to God to make of this place just what it should be. I know that there are men here who have wrestled in the cause of God, and I know that they have passed through an experience that they never would have had if Satan had not had the power to oppress them.” “Let us all strive to make of Loma Linda just what God means it should be. This is the principal thing I have to say—make of this place what God would have you make of it. Every one of you is under bounden duty to God to labor in harmony, and to press the battle to the gate. If unbelievers come in and talk their doubts and fears, remember that Satan is not dead. He has agencies through whom he works; but shall we become discouraged because of this?—O, no! Christ, our Saviour, lives and reigns. Let us not look on the dark side. As soon as we yield to the temptation to do this, we shall have plenty of company. But there is nothing to be gained by looking on the dark side. What we want is courage in the Lord; and we want to follow on to know the Lord, that we may know that his going forth is prepared as the morning. This is not going back into darkness. You know how the morning is prepared. If you follow on to know the Lord every day, you will increase in brightness, in courage, in faith, and the Lord Jesus will be to you a present help in every time of need.” These words of encouragement were especially appreciated when we came to consider how we were to provide for a clinical hospital, which seems to be an imperative necessity. A hospital of our own is necessary, not only to give our school a proper rating and standing with the medical authorities, and to admit our students to the several State boards for examinations, but it is necessary also that our students may have the opportunity to make diagnoses under attending physicians, and to prescribe rational treatments and watch the results. While public hospitals in the community can be utilized in order to make up the requisite number of beds, and furnish the students a wider range of subjects and diseases, they can not, from the very nature of their work, give to the students the practical experience so essential to one learning to treat disease without the use of poisonous drugs. This being one of the fundamental features of our medical faith and practise, it goes without argument that the facilities with which to teach such principles, must be supplied. As well might we abandon our colleges and academies, and send our students to the theological schools of the world to fit them to preach the third angel’s message, as to expect to educate physicians to practise hydrotherapy and other natural methods of treating disease, without the appliances and opportunity to learn how to administer successfully such treatment. In addition to its being a necessity for the foregoing purposes, the hospital building will meet a long-felt want as a place where our own people of limited means can receive treatment. While our sanitariums are doing a liberal amount of charity work, there are still scores of our own people who are suffering with diseases of various kinds because they are unable to pay the rates that are charged people of means, and which must be received if these institutions meet running expenses. Such a hospital building as we need, and for which plans and specifications have already been drawn up and accepted by the board of directors, will supply seventy beds, and will cost about twenty thousand dollars when completed and ready for occupancy. The question as to how we can raise this means without interfering with, or in any way crippling, other lines of work, was the most serious one that confronted our board at its recent session. After a full and very clear presentation of advantages and the actual necessity of having a commodious and well-equipped hospital, we all engaged in a most earnest season of prayer that God would suggest to our minds a plan in which all could be united. There seemed to be a general conviction that the Lord would be pleased to have us ask those persons whom he has specially blessed with means to unite in creating a fund for this purpose. While, taken as a whole, we may be called a poor people, yet there are many persons among us varying in wealth all the way from ten to one hundred thousand dollars. There are single individuals who could build and equip this hospital, and still have an abundance of means left with which to support their families and materially assist in the general lines of our work. It is to brethren and sisters who have means that we are making this special appeal. A few thousand dollars invested now to provide facilities for the training of workers to go to the needy fields in regions beyond, will bring a rich harvest of souls when the Holy Spirit is poured out in the final loud cry of the third angel’s message. At the rapid rate prophecy is fulfilling, it can not be many years more until money will be of no avail. Now is the time to send your means on before, to lay up treasure in heaven. When reading this article, may the Spirit of God press the question home, Is this an appeal from God to me? Have I been prospered in my business for such a time as this? If I fail, will help come from another quarter, and I be passed by when the rewards are being meted out?
G. A. Irwin. West Pennsylvania Camp-Meeting
By B. G. Wilkinson
THE West Pennsylvania camp-meeting was held Aug. 22 to Sept. 1, 1912, at Washington, Pa. The brethren had secured a very beautiful grove easily reached by the car lines of the city. Heavy rain-storms delayed, in some measure, getting the camp in order, but eventually everything was well arranged, and passed off with the usual spiritual blessings of the Lord. New and vigorous plans for the coming year were laid by the workers of the conference. The annual business session of the conference was not held in connection with the camp-meeting, as had been done in years previous. The meetings were entirely given over to the consideration of spiritual interests, so that there will not be anything now to report with reference to business, as the business session of the conference will be held in midwinter of the coming year. Nevertheless, many items of considerable importance were presented, to which the people gave an earnest response. The fifteen-cent-a-week plan and the need of the mission fields were brought before the brethren and sisters, who responded to this in a very encouraging fashion. Also some union financial matters, such as raising money for the advancement of educational work, met with a hearty reception and very substantial donations on the part of the people. The attendance at the camp-meeting was about as usual. As it was held in the southern part of the State, there was not the usual attendance from the north. There was a good attendance on the part of the city people to the evening meetings, during which the word of God was preached with power and deep interest. There are bright days ahead for the West Pennsylvania Conference, and even now things are looking more hopeful. This field has in some measure been giving of its best laborers to other fields, and consequently has not paid much attention to its internal development, as have some other conferences in the union. The committee, however, is taking the matter earnestly in hand, and all branches of work throughout the conference are building up anew. Philadelphia, Pa.
By Henrietta P. Branch
The work among the colored people of Philadelphia is onward. Recently Elder T. H. Branch baptized four persons, and four others are observing the Sabbath, expecting to be baptized soon. A young man who has for some time believed the truth but hesitated to step out, kept his first Sabbath last week. To the Lord be all praise. Many are interested in the message, and there are numerous requests for Bible readings. This keeps us busy early and late, and then we are not able to answer all the calls. We are praying for more laborers in this great city. Our place of worship is too small to accommodate all who desire to attend, and we are looking for larger quarters. The members of the First African Church are busy with the Harvest Ingathering Signs, and we are expecting great things of the Lord. Pray for the work in this great city, for the harvest truly is great and the laborers are few and weak. Great Opportunity to Use the Newspapers
By Walter L. Burgan
Of all the days in which our brethren have an opportunity to spread the message through the newspapers of the United States, these are the golden days. The war between the Balkan allies and Turkey, and what the driving out of the Turk from Europe means in the light of prophecy, has opened to every minister in our ranks in this country, and to others who will write, the avenue for disseminating our views on this subject through the most powerful medium now here for our use. That our people are taking serious notice of the terrible situation in Europe, and can see in it the nearness of the end of the struggle between righteousness and iniquity, is quite evident; and it is hoped that they are availing themselves of the greatest opportunity they have ever had to have news items dealing with the Eastern question in the light of prophecy printed in the great18 mediums of the land. There never has been a more opportune time to secure the publication of articles dealing with the Eastern question through the newspapers than now. The millions of people in this country are reading with intense interest the lengthy reports in the newspapers, especially those in the powerful dailies of the large cities, giving minute details of the terrible bloodshed taking place, and the wonderful conquests that have been made by the allied nations of the Balkans; but how many reports have you seen dealing with the prophetic side of the question? Editors of these papers, no doubt, would receive contributions dealing with the prophetic side with eagerness, and such articles in print only would be read by the multitudes with as much interest as would reports giving accounts of the battles being waged between the belligerents. There are several ways in which the views on the Eastern question could be printed in the newspapers. An article in the form of a sermon could be handed to an editor, or it could be written as a letter to the editor for that column known by such names as “The Mail Bag,” “The People’s Letter Box,” “The Forum,” “The Tribunal,” etc., in which persons are permitted to give their opinions or views in a more free way than in any other part of the paper. Another successful way would be to have the matter published in the form of an interview. Brethren and sisters, do not let this opportunity slip by to tell millions of people what this conflict in Europe means in this world’s history. ISAAC SANBORN
By Isaac Sanborn
I RECENTLY visited a community, about one hundred miles from home, where three years ago I baptized a father and his son and daughter. I found all faithful except the son, who married outside the truth and has given up the Sabbath. A father and his daughter, whom I also met three years ago, promised to obey God and keep his commandments. I spoke twice to the Lynden church, and left the believers there much encouraged. I also met twice with the church at Brantford. During the thirteen days spent in this vicinity I visited many different families, traveling about one hundred seventy-five miles with a horse and buggy. The day after I returned home a letter came from Brother M. J. Allen, asking me to come to Hamilton and assist in the quarterly meeting. Arriving there Friday, I spoke to the believers that evening. Sabbath afternoon I spoke again, after which we celebrated the ordinances, and had a good social meeting in which each of the fifty-five persons present took part. On Sunday night I addressed an appreciative audience on “The Inheritance of the Saints.” The Lord gave me great liberty. On Tuesday I was obliged to return home, having contracted a severe cold. I am planning to visit Simcoe soon, and after that, if it please the Lord, I want to make another visit to Hamilton. I have not seen such an interest in the truth for years as there is at that place, and I want to help all I can. Sixty-five years ago I was converted to present truth, and in 1851 began to teach the people what I then knew of this great threefold message. In 1858 I was ordained to the ministry by Elder James White. I have only one slight defect, and that is in my hearing. I have always felt so happy to be connected with a people to whom the Lord speaks through his Holy Spirit. Western North Carolina
By W. H. ARMSTRONG.
ABOUT the first of July I was invited by the North Carolina Conference to come to Banners Elk and take charge of the work which Elder R. T. Nash had been carrying on, as he had been called to Albemarle. We now have a new church building, the best in this part of the country, and at this writing (November 14) we are holding protracted meetings, with an excellent outside attendance. Another church building will soon be erected about eight miles from here, and we plan to have a church-school at each place. This is a good, healthful locality, and there are some excellent opportunities for buying homes, either those of a few acres or large farms. The people are very friendly and hospitable, and any of our Northern brethren desiring to locate in this part of the country would receive a hearty welcome. We need some families who are well established in the faith to help in these new churches which have just been raised up. Any who come will find a wide field for missionary work. There is also a good opening for a first-class boot- and shoe-maker, one who is able to carry on both old and new work. A competent workman would, I believe, soon have a good trade. Any who are interested in these openings, and desire further information regarding conditions here, should communicate with the writer.
W. H. ARMSTRONG. Minneapolis, Minn.
By O. O. BERNSTEIN
OCTOBER 1 we closed our summer’s effort, consisting of eight weeks’ tent-meeting and three weeks’ follow-up hall meeting. The total expense of conducting the effort was $668. (This does not include salaries, street-car fares, nor tracts allowed each worker for personal use.) Total donations and collections, with inventories on song-books, electric lights, supplies, and lumber not discounted, were $462. The deficit of $206 was more than made up by a $300 check—back tithe from an old member who felt blessed by the meeting. The tithe of the Minneapolis church for the first nine and one-half months of 1912 was more than for the whole year of 1911. There are thirty adults keeping the Sabbath as the result of the summer’s work, ten of whom were recently baptized. Another baptism is soon to follow. The influence of the tent-meetings has been felt in various quarters of the city, and eternity alone will show the vast amount of good that has been accomplished. We are thankful to the Lord for his great blessing and his presence with us. A second effort of six weeks began Sunday, November 10, in the Nicollet Avenue and Fifteenth Street Baptist church, which we have rented at a very reasonable rate. The opening night every seat in the auditorium, galleries, and anterooms was taken early, so that chairs had to be placed in the aisles, and then scores who were unable to get in went away. Those assisting in this effort are Mrs. Minnie Bridges, Miss Gertrude Burghart, and Mr. Gust Freeman, as Bible workers, with Brother Stemple White as chorister and assistant evangelist. The outlook is encouraging, and for success we solicit an interest in your prayers. O. O. BERNSTEIN. The Message Among the Foreigners in Our Country
By O. A. OLSEN
At different times we have called attention to the large and needy foreign mission field in our home land. The yearly influx of hundreds of thousands of immigrants from all parts of the world, filling our cities and country with this foreign element, forms an immense and needy field for missionary operations. A good work has been started and is being pushed forward with energy among the Germans, Swedes, and Danish-Norwegians. The three foreign seminaries — German, Swedish, and Danish-Norwegian — have started on their third year with increased attendance and improved facilities. We are glad to report a growing interest in these schools, and the outlook is very encouraging. In North Dakota we have a large Russian population, among whom we have a number of strong churches; also a Russian department in the Sheyenne River Academy well attended. The work in the East is making some progress. The Hungarians in New York City have added twelve by baptism this year, and several others will go forward before the end of the year. The Italians have likewise added a number by baptism. They have also started an effort in the Bronx, with a good attendance and interest. In Brooklyn, New York, a tent-meeting has been conducted in the Finnish tongue. A large attendance with a good interest was reported. This is the first effort of the kind among the Finnish in this country. We are glad for this beginning, small though it is, among the thousands of Finns in this country. Our Bohemian-Slavonian church at Newark, N. J., purchased a lot some time ago, and the members are now engaged in erecting a church. Newark is a real foreign city. The work started there a little more than three years ago when some of our Slavonian brethren moved there from New York City. These brethren have been active and earnest in their efforts to extend the light of the truth among their own nationality. We now have a church-membership of thirty-three, with a good outside interest. Seven persons were recently baptized. These brethren are all poor, having only their daily wages to depend on. The church, when finished, will cost $4,500; the lot costing, in addition, $1,050. This is a large undertaking for this small company, but the expense of hiring a hall and the difficulty of getting anything of the kind within their means, led them to undertake the building of a church. Besides raising all the money they can, they have done all the work themselves, working after hours at night and all day on Sundays. The only work for which they have paid money is the plumbing. They feel much in need of a few hundred dollars with which to finish, — get windows, doors, and some chairs. During the present year we have begun colporteur work among the Roumanians and Hungarians in Cleveland, Ohio, and Chicago, Ill. In Chicago Brother Calderone is at work among the Italians, with some interest. The Northern Illinois Conference has purchased the Scandinavian West Erie Street church for developing the work among the Italians, Poles, Slavs, Bohemians, and other foreign nationalities that have filled that part of the city. The time is ripe for an earnest effort to bring the message to these hundreds of thousands of foreigners in our cities and country. Earnest, consecrated laborers, with a burden for this work, are needed. Let us pray the Lord of the harvest to send such to answer these urgent calls for help. Among other foreign nationalities in New York City there are hundreds of thousands of Russians who are calling for the message to be preached among them. We sincerely hope this call may soon be filled. We plead for the message to be speedily given to the foreigners in this country, and thus hasten the coming of our Lord. O. A. OLSEN. The Thirteenth Sabbath Offering, December 28
SABBATH, December 28, is the time for the next thirteenth Sabbath offering to be taken in all our Sabbath-schools. At the last council of the General Conference Committee, held in September, the following action was taken:— “Voted, That we request the Sabbath-schools to devote the offerings for the thirteenth Sabbath of the last quarter of 1912 to the needs of the training-schools for missionary workers at Camarero, Argentina, and at Pua, Chile, aiming at ten thousand dollars for these enterprises on that day, the overflow above this amount to be devoted to the general missionary work of the South American Union among the Spanish and Indian missions.” A leaflet has been prepared and sent out to all our schools, setting forth the urgent needs of making better provision for the training of workers for this great Neglected Continent. Some special articles will also be found in the REVIEW from Brother J. W. Westphal, and others, in South America, concerning the dire straits in which they find themselves because of a lack of adequate facilities for their educational work. We hope these articles will be carefully read, also the leaflet; and that a most liberal offering will be made for our school work in that great and needy field. South America is a continent of vast proportions, with a population of nearly fifty millions. Here are found almost illimitable areas, where millions are fettered by the superstition of Roman Catholicism. Millions more are primitive pagans, or Indians, on whose ears the sound of the true gospel has not yet fallen. We have a message for all these millions, to be given in the remnant of time which remains before the Lord comes. The territory is almost twice as large as that of the United States. Steam and electric railroads are not so far advanced as in this country. Vast regions are covered by the Andes Mountains, and whole republics must be explored by the evangel of the gospel on horseback. It is a task of tremendous proportions to carry the message to the millions here under such circumstances. The workers must be educated on the ground. It is for this purpose that the offering is to be given in our Sabbath-schools, December 28. Can not each one do a little better than in any previous offering? By doing so, we shall cheer the hearts of the faithful workers in that field, who are struggling against great obstacles, and give the work of God much needed help. SABBATH SCHOOL DEPARTMENT. A NEW church building was dedicated at Anderson, Ind., a few weeks ago. A CHURCH of twenty-seven members has just been organized in Chattanooga, Tenn. FIVE new members were added to the Capitol Hill Church of Denver, Colo., several weeks ago. THE Minneapolis, Minn., church has received ten new Sabbath-keepers into membership recently. BAPTISM was administered to three believers in Murcia, Spain, recently, and to three at Cartagena. FROM the interior of Armenia comes news of twelve persons having lately begun to obey the truth. ELDER W. R. HANSON reports that four persons have recently begun to observe the Sabbath at Elk City, Okla. SEVEN persons were baptized in the ocean at Kagoshima, Japan, the fruits of a tent mission in that city. A REPORT from Italy states that nine persons at Gravina, Bari, have been baptized, and seven others at Genoa and Montalto are to receive baptism soon. The assassination of Premier Canalejas of Spain has afforded Roman Catholic papers the opportunity, which they have improved, of saying unkind things about the man who sought to introduce a larger measure of religious liberty into Spain. The Jesuit weekly, America (Nov. 23, 1912), has this fling at him:— “As a matter of fact, Canalejas was not a statesman at all, but a shifty and unscrupulous politician, who had resolved to hold his place at any cost.” In marked contrast with this clerical narrowness is the estimate of the premier made by the New York Times of November 13, from which we take this extract:— “Spain has produced no abler, stronger, nor purer statesman in this generation. Though his radicalism may have been somewhat modified, inevitably, since he assumed the responsibilities of premier in 1910, his constructive ability had not lessened. He was first conspicuous in public life in 1900, when he assumed the leadership of the Anti-Clerical Party in the Cortes, and favored the measures which led in time to the suppression of objectionable religious orders and a prospective revision of the concordat. After much remonstrance, the Vatican practically accepted the measures projected by Canalejas, but not until ten years had elapsed and the relations of Spain with the church had been severely strained. This restriction of so-called clericalism was by no means a blow at religion. Spain has suffered more than any other country in modern Europe from the baser sort of priestcraft, and it was overrun with orders the members of which lived on alms, and in return fed the natural superstition of the people. To priestcraft of this sort socialism and anarchy are the inevitable alternatives. Church and state are not yet separated in Spain, the country still being Catholic; but religion is free, Protestants enjoying larger privileges than formerly.” No man who works for the best interest of his country, when that work requires him to oppose the Roman Catholic Church, can expect to be called a statesman by a Catholic writer. Only one course is open to the man who desires to be lauded by the representatives of the Papacy. THE freedom of conscience which prevails in Russia seems to be the medieval variety, which permits the expulsion of a Russian for purely religious reasons. A case which may be a sample of many others is reported in the New York Times of November 24. Leon Bakst, “one of the leading painters of Russia,” was recently expelled from that country for the sole reason that he is a Jew. We quote his account of the affair as given to a Times correspondent:— “I am still dazed by my experiences. It is almost impossible for me to realize my present situation, for despite reports to the contrary, I am simply debarred from reentering St. Petersburg. My passport bears the stamp of the Russian police ordering me to leave the city in twenty-four hours; and even if I were able to reach the capital without mishap, no hotel would dream of receiving me under its roof, and any one of my friends who was found harboring me would be convicted of a penal offense.” “Although I have served as the court painter; although I have had four grand dukes among my pupils; although I was commissioned by the Grand Duke Alexis, while he was commander-in-chief of the Russian navy, to paint the portrait of Admiral Avelan in commemoration of the signing of the Franco-Russian Treaty; although the national museums in St. Petersburg and Moscow have officially recognized me as a Russian painter by acquiring a number of my works; although I was not only born in St. Petersburg, but am a member of old St. Petersburg society, the Russian police coolly informed me that I was only a Jew, and as such had no right to remain in St. Petersburg. “When I received the official notice commanding me to quit the city as an undesirable, I refused to believe it, and instantly hurried to the office of the chief of police to demand an explanation, believing there was some mistake. “But St. Petersburg is my home,’ I said to the official who received me and confirmed the paper I had received. ‘Where do you want me to go?’ “‘You are a Jew,’ he replied, ‘and as such have no right to reside anywhere in Russia but within the pale,’ “I asked to be given a passport for foreign travel to enable me to leave Russia. This I was refused. I then asked for an interview with the chief of police, who finally condescended to extend my stay in St. Petersburg seventy-two hours, giving me opportunity to see my friends. “I did not intend to ask help from the grand dukes, not wishing to be merely tolerated on account of influential patrons, and so I went to Count Tolstoi, director of the famous Hermitage Museum, with whom I did some work at one time, and told him the situation. “He at once rushed off to see M. Sazonoff, the foreign minister. “‘Impossible,’ exclaimed the latter, ‘they will make us the laughing-stock of Europe,’ and he in his turn hurried off to see the minister of the interior. “As a result of this visit, I was notified by the police that I might remain in St. Petersburg for the time being. This, of course, does not give me the right to return. “I pointed out to the police official whom I had seen first, that should the news of my expulsion leak out, Russia would find itself in a ridiculous position in the eyes of the whole civilized world. “‘I dare say,’ he answered, ‘but you are a Jew, and you have got to take the consequences.’ “Though I was not too rudely treated, I was given clearly to understand that I was no better than any ordinary criminal character, despite the fact that the art world everywhere recognized me as a representative Russian artist. “Diaghileff, with whom I am associated in the Russian ballet productions, and who went to see the St. Petersburg chief of police on my behalf, was told that officially I was down on the police books only as a Jew, and that no matter what I might be as an artist, to him I was only a subject of the czar who, according to existing laws, had no right to reside in St. Petersburg. “Now, for the real reason why I have only recently become an undesirable citizen in the eyes of the Russian police. In 1903 I became an Orthodox Christian in order to marry a lady who was a member of the Greek Church. Without nominally changing my creed, it would have been impossible to do this, as the law at that time prohibited any alliance between Orthodox Christians and members of any other denomination. “Two years later, however, the law allowing freedom of conscience to Russian citizens was promulgated, and I decided to end the religious masquerade I had been forced to play, and therefore became a Jew once more. “I am not so very indignant over it all. My sense of humor makes the matter appear to me personally in the form of a huge farce, but I am sorry my country should still allow the existence of laws absolutely incompatible with civilization.” It is easy to see that difficulties and perils must attend our own work in a country where such conditions prevail. The Height of Hypocrisy
By DELWIN REES BUCKNER
THE thorn-crowned Saviour writhes in keenest pain;
But little care the jealous Jews, who hail
Their King with scorn, and chuckle at the sale
Base Judas made, till mockery is vain;
For on the cross the Lamb of God hangs slain.
And still, meanwhile, all nature seems to quail
Before the Father's wrath, and e'en the veil
In the once-valid temple tears in twain. Now draws the Sabbath on; so with a spear
A heartless soldier thrusts the breathless breast;
The smitten Lord is loosened from the cross.
But what hypocrisy! The rulers fear
To desecrate creation’s hallowed rest,
But do not hesitate to kill its Lord. Catholic Recruits for America
A PRESS despatch reports the visit to the Pope of the students of the American College at Rome. We quote two paragraphs:— “The Pope was pleasantly surprised when he learned that this year the students number 160, representing nearly all the dioceses of the United States. He admired their smart appearance, and congratulated Bishop Kennedy on having a fine set of young men, who promise great work in the Catholic Church in America.” “Not only has the American College this year the greatest number of students in its history, but it surpasses in number all the other English-speaking colleges put together—the English, Irish, Scotch, and Canadian.” This training of students in Rome is a part of the program to make of America the first Catholic nation in the world. State and Church
By William Warren Prescott
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