Answers to Correspondents

New Zealand Tablet, Volume L, Issue 3, 18 January 1923, Page 21

Answers to Correspondents

Scientist. The earthquake did no damage here, but there ' are rumors that it crinkled the paint on a few fciirrors down Milton way. Sport. Also ran. Probably his name was too much for him to carry into a place.. The letter “c” is soft in Scion. Pronounce it like “sigh-on.” As far as we know there is no race for hippopotamuses on the

West Coast. Reader. —Support of Labor does not mean approval of the entire platform. People who are utterly disgusted ■ by the atheistical ravings of some thoughtless and illiterate Labor philosophers are at one with Labor in working for Proportional Representation and for the extermination of flag-flapping and raucous Jingo-

ism such as is identified Avith Reform and its folloAvers. Labor would do Avell to put a spiked curb on a feAV

of its raw writers who are doing the movement infinite damage.

Query. Knight of the Blessed Sacrament pledges himself on honor: (1) To be at least a weekly Communicant, and if through no fault of his he has been compelled to miss, he will make up for it by an extra Communion, knowing that nothing so conduces to the glory of God as his knight’s duty. (2) To hand on what he has received by explaining the Crusade, and by knighting others after receiving their “Word of Honor.” (3) Never consciously to pass a Catholic church without a full salute, saying silently “Hail, my Lord and my God!” (4) To endeavor to make a knight’s vigil by visiting the Blessed Sacra- * ment occasionally, if only for a few minutes, (5) To make a practice of attending Benediction services. (6) To genuflect profoundly, reverently, upon entering or leaving the church. (7) To watch at the Forty Hours’ Devotion. (8) To make the sign of the cross reverently and with dignity. (9) To fight against anything in thought, word, or deed, in himself or from others, that may endanger the purity of his soul or body. (10) To offer his weekly Communion for all the knights and handmaids on the central “Roll of Honor,” not excluding other intentions.

The crusade was established by laymen for laymen, and with a layman’s intimate knowledge of the needs and difficulties of laymen, but priests, too, and Religious can hero find a fruitful apostolate as promoting members. It is obvious that the introduction of this crusade must prove a great blessing to any school or parish.

Jennie K. —The Editor collapsed when he arrived at page twenty of your letter. The Sub-editor has gone for a doctor, and I, the fearless and intrepid P.D., am taking the rest of the letter homo to read in instalments. The Editor often tells me I have not a jot of sense. Perhaps that is why my views on Prohibition are the same as yours.