The Family Circle

New Zealand Tablet, Volume LII, Issue 10, 18 March 1925, Page 61

The Family Circle

IF— ■ ' cr: • If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you; If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, > But make allowance for their doubting, too;' If you can wait and not be tired by waiting, Or being lied about, don't deal in lies, Or being hated, don't give way to hating, And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise. . If you can dream—and not make dreams your master; If you can think— not make thoughts your aim; If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster And treat those two impostors just the same; If you can bear to hear the, truth you've spoken Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools, Or watch the things you gave your life to broken, And stoop and build 'em up with worn-out* tools. If you can make one heap of all your winnings And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss, And lose, and start again at your beginnings ■<£T L And never breathe a word about your loss; If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew To serve your turn long after they are gone, And so hold on when there is nothing in you Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on!" If you can talk with crowds and keep your . virtue Or walk with Kings—nor lose the common touch, . "If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt .; you, '" , . .If all men count with you, but none too much ,i If ywu can fill the unforgiving minute "Wifch sixty seconds' worth of distance run, Yours is the Earth and everything that's in %f"s i% v And —which is more—you'll be a Man, my son! —Rttdtard Kipling, in An Anthology of * Modem Verse. r. ""■'■"■•'.' «!MKMMMM> GIVING. At times we all'grow weary of the un;;/ending series of appeals for worthy causes; ; hut|fas a poet has said: .■■•..". - /; I a. t' v jpor giving is living," the angel said \ Go feed the hungry ' sweet charity's bread. \\ .': "And must I keep [giving; again and again?'' t ; ;My selfish and querulous answer came. (.' , | "Ah, no!" said the angel, piercing me r/■.,;" through, .''.-■},', T' .'•; ~. . ir ,_;..- n: . ;,j ? i.-, '"Just give till the Master stops' giving to |g - you.? • :'••■"; ?y)Wil ■ &W)p

ORIGIN OF THE HOLY YEAH. Dates Back to Days of Most-*— Observance Instituted' by Pope Boniface VIII. The origin of the Holy Year dates back to the time of Moses. It was the custom of the Hebrews to celebrate .a jubilee every fifty years. The prophet explains this inspiration, which came from God, in Leviticus. These passages may be found in the 25th chapter of Leviticus: 10. And thou shalt sanctify the fiftieth year, and shaft proclaim remission to all the inhabitants of thy lairds; for it is the year of jubilee. Every man shall return to his possession, and everyone shall go back to his former family. 17. Do not afflict your countrymen, but let everyone fear God; because I am the Lord your God. 18. Do My precepts and keep My judgments, and fulfil them; that you may dwell in the land without any fear. 19. And the ground may yield you its fruits, of which you may cat your fill, fearing no man's invasion. Jubilee in 1300. But Holy Year, as it is celebrated by the Church, was instituted by Pope Boniface VIII. He introduced the jubilee in the Church, appointing the year 1300 as a Holy Year, and exhorting the faithful of the whole world to come in a pilgrimage to the tomb of Peter. In return he granted them means of gaining many graces. Boniface also decided that the jubilee would be every hundred years. The poet Dante is stated to have visited Rome that year to gain the indulgence of the jubilee. He bears witness in his Inferno to the great crowd of pilgrims who came to Rome and it is estimated that at least two million foreigners poured into the Eternal City. Pope Clement VI, heeding the prayers which came to him from everywhere', and especially from the Roman people, who sent Petrarch and Coli di Rienzo as ambassadors to Avignon, shortened the time fixed by his predecessor to fifty years. But the jubilee that he announced for 1350 found Rome desolate and devastated by civil war and brigandage. Hardships of Journey. Pilgrims of to-day will go to Rome in ships, comfortable and luxurious;, speeding trains will carry North Europe to the city of the Vatican. Motor cars, too, may carry their thousands. But in 1350, the second Holy Year, travel was not easy. At that time a pilgrimage meant hardship and want. St. Birgitta and hundreds of Swedes went all the way to Rome from Sweden on foot. . .';.' It was Pope Urban VI who, designating 1390 a jubilee year, ordered it to be observed every 33 years, corresponding to the years of Christ's, life on earth. This custom was. continued ;• under Pope Martin .V, ' who proclaimed 1323 a jubilee year. ; , , v , In 1450 Pope Nicholas V restored the custom of observing the fiftieth year, while Paul

II shortened the period between jubilees to 25 years and opened the Holy Year of his reign in 1475. The actual rite for the opening was established by Alexander VI in 1500. The series of jubilees was uninterrupted until 1750. The events of the latter years of the 18th century and of the 19th prevented celebrations in 1775, 1800, 1850, and 1875. In 1900 the observance was restored. Cardinal Wiseman, in his Recollections of the Last Four Popes, has presented a vivid description of the jubilee of 1825. Many can recall the grandeur of the jubilee of 1900. Despite the fact that it lost in splen-" dor somewhat through the confinement of Pope Leo XIII in the Vatican, it was carried out with the greatest solemnity everywhere in the Catholic world. This jubilee is of particular interest because of the suggestion made by the Pope that the sessions of the Vatican Council might be resumed during, the jubilee year. The deliberations of the Ecumenical Council of the Vatican were brought to a premature close, after eight months, by the outbreak of war between Germany and France in 1870, and political disturbances that followed in Rome. The Council has not yet ended its deliberations. And, since this Council was the first' to be held since the Council of Trent in 1563, those who go to Rome this year will, if the Council's deliberations are resumed, witness what will be one of the greatest international Christian congresses in the history of the Church. In 1900 there were over a million visitors: It is difficult to imagine what the attendance will be in 1925, but Rome will be thronged. The million that the lasf Holy Year brought caused a tremendous sensation,, with unending processions of pilgrims, headed by their bishops, passing from church to church singing the Miserere.

STICK TO IT! There are numberless rungs in the ladder of life, And the way to the top, if you knew it, Is strewn with adversity, trouble, and strife, But don't be downhearted—stick to it! As you steadily mount never loosen your • grip, Let the will point the way, and you'll do it; . . ; ....'■■ * ..... Take care not to let opportunity slip, Go ahead with a will and—stick to it! Though the journey is long and the way very rough, Keep your object in view and pursue it;, Don't shrink from a frown or a kick or a cuff, '-■; f '"'-' But press bravely on and—stick to it! . So when you start out to climb up to the • ,top, . . ' t r ' / »>j. v ;• t r. Take the rough with the smooth and win through it; ; : •" '\ u r Though you meet with reverses, take courage !>.[ —don't stop- iy. ~;:;:. (jiU H^ .: Keep your' eye oh''"the goal ! -and—stick; lo r. 'it! r--'-' , " f ??» -'M : <Hn:.; WM m

ONLY A DREAM. Hubby listened intently. His wife and his mother were talking. The latter was saying: "You have indeed secured a splendid husband, and I think you ought to treat him with a little more tact and consideration. Don't always want to know where he is going, and if he comes home a little late, be agreeable and wait until he explains before you begin asking a lot of awkward questions. He's just the sort to appreciate any generosity on your part. Be kind to him." Hubby stirred uneasily, trying to hear more, when —he awoke.

DIFFERENT. A well-known man was asked to write his autobiography, which was to be called Twelve Milestones in My Life. He set to work and made a list of the, various incidents he proposed to include. Then he took the manuscript upstairs, and, after having explained the general plan of the proposed book, proceeded to read out the skeleton of the twelve chapters to his wife and daughter. When lie had finished they both exclaimed, almost simultaneously: "Well, I do think you might have included me as one of the milestones in your life." "Aren't you both forgetting that I have been asked to write of the milestones in my life —not the millstones?"

SMILE RAISERS. "Why does a stork stand on one foot?" "Give it up. Why does he?" "If he lifted the other foot, he'd fall down." 555: Said a hunter to a farmer who rode beside him: "I wouldn't ride over those seeds if I were you. They belong to a disagreeable sort of fellow, who might make a fuss about it," "Well," said the farmer, "as hint's me, he won't say nothin' about it to-day." " Yesterday, darling," said the young wife, "I got a diploma from the School of Cookery. Andand how do you like my cooking now?" "Fine," said her husband, his mouth full of omelette. "And what is this I'm eating?" "Oh, darling! Guess!" "The diploma." SSSJ Small Nephew: "That shilling you gave me slipped through a hole in my pocket." Uncle: "Well, here's another. Don't let it do the same." . "Perhaps half a crown would be safer, wouldn't it, uncle?" *?& • "I didn't know you were back, Mrs. Jones," said .the neighbor's little girl. "Did you have a good time?" • • ;■ [;•,..,:, "But r I've not been away,.,my. dear," replied the other, in a puzzled, tone. . "Haven't. you reallyr^,<f.jWhy >; .'l,heard mother tell father that you and Mr. Jones had been at Loggerheads for a long time."