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New Zealand Tablet, 31 March 1910, Page 502

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An Appreciation !>■ An esteemed Queensland subscriber, in renewing his subscription to the Tablet, writes:— ‘ 1 would not miss the Tablet for anything. It is a veritable Catholic Truth Society in itself, and is as solid as a rock. There is a very large amount of good solid matter in its columns, and even the stories and jokes contain good moral lessons. Moreover, the Tablet really is. a Catholic newspaper; it does not touch party, politics, and consequently can honestly claim the patronage of Catholics of all shades of belief in political matters.’ ■ i. i . ii Carnegie and Rockefeller Donations M /iln an open letter, quoted in a recent issue of America, Bishop Candler, of the American Methodist Church South, declares that the money given by Rockefeller and Carnegie to educational institutions, under the conditions of acceptance, tends to godlessness. The Carnegie fund,’ he says, ‘excludes from its use members of the faculties of the church schools, and the Rockefeller fund denies the use of any part of what is given for theological instruction. These two foundations embody prevalent notions on this subject. Now, , we may as ( well understand’ first as last that ' the .policy of religionless education ; and unmoral culture can end in nothing but ruin. 1 > ....... ’ _ * ; - ■ ' - fJf * • * The colleges -of the Roman Catholic Church have not asked a penny of the Rockefeller - fund or the-Carnegie

fund, and one risks nothing in saying they will not. These colleges do not propose to be drawn away from their mission by any promises- of gold. Would that our Protestant.institutions were equally devoted to the religious objects-they were achieve.’ . - J - v . 4 Stick to the Farm * rr ‘ ■ _ As a journal which has always deprecated the tendency o our young, men to scramble for places in city 'offices and shops,, and which has from time to time urged the superior advantages— the point of view of health and independence—of a farming life, we must take our share in \L g Vn ] ! raillery of the following lines taken from the New York Sun. In spite of the poet’s satire, we say to land f oUng men once more > and yet again, ‘Go on the Stick to the farm,’ says the President ‘ To the wide-eyed farmer boy, Then he hies him back to his White House home. With its air of rustic joy.- 1 ~ . ‘Stick to the farm,’ says the railroad king , lo the lad who looks afar, Then hies him back on the double-quick To his rustic private car. Stick to the farm,’ says 'the clergyman To the youth on the worm-fence perch, Then lays his ear to the ground to hear A call to a city church. - ‘Stick to the farm,’ says the doctor wise To those who would break the rut, Then hies him where the-appendix grows In: bountiful crops to cut. A Precedent Straws show how the wind blows, and the fact that for the first time in the history of the State, if not of the entile American nation, a Catholic Archbishop, . Monsignor O Connell, of Boston, gave the opening prayers, the other day, in the Superior Civil Court of Massachusetts, is certainly not without significance. It is common knowledge that Boston once the home of Puritanism in America is now practically a Catholic city, . and the removal of the last barrier which prevented a Catholic prelate from officiating on such, an occasion was bound to come. » Six judges of the Superior Court stood in their places at the invocation. The Archbishop’s prayer was as follows : ‘ Almighty Father, Eternal God, hear us. We, Thy creatures, humbly acknowledge Thy laws, by which the whole universe is governed, and the justice of Thy judgment upon our actions. ‘Give us the light, O Lord, to understand Thy : ordinances, and the strength to obey them, that peace and order, the blessed. fruit of Thy government, may fill the land with benedictions, and that a law-giving and lawabiding people may give glory to Thy holy name. Teach us in Thy wonderful ways the lessons of compassion as well as righteousness, so that mercy may temper justice and charity may soften chastisement. ‘Let all human weakness remind us of our .own failings, so that while duty compels us to denounce lawlessness, in our hearts we may acknowledge our own defects. Grant us, O Lord, Thy guidance to understand what is -just, and give to the people the love of peace and order. ‘ We humbly ask Thy blessing in the name of Thy Son, Jesus Christ, our Lord, Who taught us to say: ‘“Our Father, Who art in heaven, hallowed be Thy name. Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread, and forgive us our trespasses as we forgive-those who trespass against us. And lead us not , into temptation, but deliver us from evil. Amen.”’ '