THE TABLET y i W e e k l y N e w s p a p e r a n d R e v i e w
DUM V O B I S GRATULAMUR AN IM O S E T IA M ADDIM U S UT IN IN CCEPTIS V E S T R I S C ON STAN TER M AN EAT IS
From the Brief of His Holiness Pius IX to The Tablet, June 4,1870.
Vol. 155. No. 4,700.
London, June 7, 1930.
Sixpence.
R eg is tered a t the General P o st Oee ic e as a New s pape r
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New s AND Notes . . . . . . 749 “ Line by L in e ” . .. . . . 753 A Woman Unafraid . . . 755 Liverpool Cathedral . . . 755 With the Pilgrimage to
Lourdes ......................... 756 A Welsh Catholic Prayer
Book
R e v i e w s : Much More
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758
A “ B e s t ” Philosophy . . . 758 Sea Harvesters ................. 759 By Dr. Goudge ................. 760 Yalue 760 Spoilt ............................ 761
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Books Received .............. 761 New Books and Music . . . 762 Ch e s s ................ .............. 762 Catholic Education Notes . . . 763 From The Tablet of Eighty
Years Ago . . . .............. 764 Coming Events Correspondence : .............. 764
Rome (Our Own Corre
spondent’s Weekly Letter from) ............................ 767 O Come, Creator, Holy
Ghost l Et G^t e r a ........................770
769
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L etters to the Ed i t o r :
“ The Pope and Modern
Art ”
“ A Deplorable Impres
sion ”
Intending Pilgrims to
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Lourdes ............................ 772 Ob it u a r y .............................. 772 Forty Hours’ Exposition . . . 773 E p is c o p a l E ngagements 774 St. Joan’ s Alliance . . . 774 The Commercial Road Pro
cession ............................ 774 Or b i s Terrarum :
England, Scotland and Wales ............................ 775
O r b i s T e r r a r um (Oontd.) :
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Ireland ...................... . . 776 Belgian Congo .. 776 Belgium ...................... .. 776 China ...................... . . 776 France . . . .. 777 Germany ...................... . . 778 Holland ...................... .. 778 India ...................... .. 778 Italy ...................... .. 778 Molokai ...................... .. 780 Spain ...................... .. 780 V e n e z u e l a ...................... .. 780 School Sports .. 780 So c ia l and P ersonal .. 780
NOTANDA
The Trevelyan Bill. Threats from Mr. Kedward, Wesleyan Minister and Member o f Parliament. W h o are the Poor Man’s True Friends? (p. 753).
Malta. Sir Augusto Bartolo’s and Sir U go M ifsu d ’ s respective statements; and a preliminary Note by the Editor o f The Tablet on the Maltese Blue-book (pp. 751-2).
A Protestant’ s odious charges against certain (i.e. uncertain) clergymen o f his own Church. A Tablet note-writer weighs the evidence and finds sixteen ounces missing from every pound. “ Father Matthew ” (p. 750).
“ Much M ore.” Three books on Blessed Thomas, especially his Utopia and his A pologye (p. 758).
June, 1780. A true story fo r the 150th anniversary o f the Gordon Riots (p. 755).
The new church at Farnham, Surrey. An exterior view (p. 774).
A pilgrim to Lourdes offers some impressions o f his first visit (p. 756).
Some Catholic names in the Birthday Honours List (p. 770).
their hearts changed is not habitual with some o f us. W e find it easier to repeat that part of the Litany which says : Ut inimicos sanctce Ecclesice humiliare digneris, te rogamus audi nos. But surely the conversion o f our persecutors is more to be desired than their humiliation. Humiliated, they remain our enemies, sevenfold embittered ; but converted they would not only tolerate but help us.
For the Empire even m ore than for the Church the prospect is dark. In India, a pseudo-idealist who has basely betrayed the trust o f the “ Untouchables ” has brought about deaths and bloodshed in the name o f non-violence ; and the end is not yet. At home, the anti-God army has been allowed to entrench its advance guard behind a stout breastwork of diplomatic immunity. As for our “ representatives,” as we still call them, no longer are they usefully and loyally divided into His Majesty’s Government and His Majesty’s Opposition. No sooner had voices— our own small voice among them — been raised in favour of the removal of Unemployment from party politics than fierce protests were raised against the surrender of partisan electioneering advantages. The time has indeed come for crying Veni Creator Spiritus.
NEWS AND NOTES W HITSUN Eve finds us more than ever in need o f the H oly Spirit’s light and might. Both as Catholics and as Britons we scan an horizon heavy for us with storm-clouds. Although there has never been a time when it was more important that the rising generation should be fortified with Christian principles, there are hundreds o f thousands of our fellow-countrymen— some o f them professing the Christian Faith— who are vowed to the destruction o f definitely religious schools in general and of Catholic schools in particular. To pray that the minds o f our adversaries may be illuminated and
New Series. Vol. CXXIII. No. 4,099.
That Trade follows the Missionary is an o ld saying : indeed, it is charged against certain Protestants in the U.S.A. that Gospellers are the best possible trail-blazers for commercial travellers. At: present, the connection between Religion and Business is being discussed on our own soil. Lancashire’s famous Whitsuntide Processions have so multiplied that there is a movement for restricting them, on the ground that they obstruct both pedestrians and wheeled vehicles. Big Business replies that the inconvenience is worth w h i le : because most of the feminine processionists will wear pretty cotton dresses, thus helping the Cotton Campaign. Our Catholic women and girls will be marching on the Friday o f Whit-week for definitely religious reasons : but not one o f them will be other
