This Country to Become Catholic.
—The Thrice-a-week World of October 28 has the following despatch, dated Washington, October 26: “The Rev. Father D. J. Stafford, rector of St. Patrick Church in this city, and one of the most prominent Catholics in America, whose name is known to almost every member of the Catholic Church in this country, and who recently declined an offer of $40,000 for forty lectures, made a remarkable statement yesterday before the twenty-fourth annual convention of the Catholic Young Men’s National Union, in session here. His statement was as follows: ‘There is something lacking in you young men. Your lack of ambition should give place to energy, loyalty, and interest in church work. I venture to say that if the young men of our church will work energetically, and with the same ambition as their sisters, this country will be ours inside of fifty years.’” But at the rate of the last quadrennial this country will be Catholic in less than ten years.