PREDICTING CATASTROPHE AND BUT ONE SAVIOUR.
The Christian Advocate of Sept. 18, 1902, quotes from an address by a Paulist Father, Alexander P. Doyle, on the occasion of the laying of a corner stone of a Catholic church in New York City, as follows:— There are men who see danger in the lack of cohesive power in our great nation, country-wide in its reach, and at best only loose-jointed in its organization. The last Civil War was between the North and the South; the next, it is said, will be between the East and the West. The Catholic Church, embracing all nationalities, existing among all classes of people, and pervading all ranks of society, will be the cement that will hold together the various parts which are politically, at best, but loosely joined. Her strong and marvelously-knitted-together organization will serve to unify and make firm our civic well-being. But why has there not been more cohesive power in those countries which are practically wholly Catholic, such as Italy, Spain, France, the South American republics? History ought to teach the world some lessons, and it would, too, if read with some purpose. The “more sure word of prophecy” is clearer still.