'|'To the Editor of the "Noari-Cuma Dany News", Si—Although I do not intend to qublihed in your issue of May 15, test the assertion of A RUSSIAN
a certain discrimination should be: made between the Svoiet Government and the Russian people, I would very much like to stress the point that no such discrimination is pos-"in the question of defence of Russia against her age-old enemies, for the benefit of the credulous.
This, I know, is what the better part of us young and able-bodied Russians in this city do perfectly well lent. and fervently hope that our " Whatever might be the wrongs suffered by them through the revolution, will finally agree.
B. L. Shanghai, May 16.
The saints are ours, All walks of life, all types of mankind are represented: Spotlessly innocent saints like Aloysius, penitents like Magda-Jen; curiously static saints like Simon Stylites, and dynamic Pauls and Xaviers; beggar saints and saints in Royal families; serious, priestly saints like the Cure d'Arsand married saints like Chancellor Thomas More; peace-loving saints, and saints even for the ultra-modern girl, like Joan of Are who 500 years ago went around dressed like a man yet remained hol saints that everyone likes, like Patrick, and saints that nobody thinks of, like St. Dismas, patron of the condemned, a sort of "hoodlum saint" a modern calls him, "who roams the outfield of eternity making shoestring catches of souls;" and yet he had the honour of being directly canonized by Christ, "This day thou shalt be with me in paradise." Yes, the saints belong to our family, and we are proud of them. The Church that is such a school of sanctity is rightly called Holy.
We fix our eyes upon Christ's trans-candent example, and say to ourselves, "Well,' of course I can never catch up to Him. But then He never asked me to catch up; all He asks as. He goes forever swinging down the great dusty highways of the world is that we follow Him. We ought at least to make sure we are going in the right direction, determined to do all that is possible to carry out His will for our sanctification, even if it requires a sacrifice of friends, of family ties—even if it requires belief in His Holy Catholic Church and the Mystical Body ast Talk Given by Rev. J.F. Kearney, S.J.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.