The Field Afar Volume 11
Author | : Catholic Foreign Mission America |
Publisher | : Rarebooksclub.com |
Total Pages | : 48 |
Release | : 2013-09 |
ISBN-10 | : 1230002219 |
ISBN-13 | : 9781230002217 |
Rating | : 4/5 (19 Downloads) |
Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1917 edition. Excerpt: ...and afterwards hope for more." I assure you the future will bring results, once the lI'1l'llSSlOfl3.l'y spirit is securely rooted ere. This is a mercenary world, isn't it? We're always ranting about money and all its attending evils, and even quoting the Scriptures to confirm our statements, but isn't the click and jingle of Uncle Sam's coin a pleasant sound? Of course it is, looked at materially or spiritually, ---and the spiritual good, of course, is the end. That's what I tell my boys, and my preaching is bearing some fruit. I wish the fruit were bigger, but you know how it is at college. Every imaginable demand is made on a boy's pocket-book, and of course he thinks if he doesn't dig in he won't be considered a sport, or won't be showing enough class or college spirit, etc., etc. On the whole, the lads are pretty generous, I'm glad to say, even for those things which bring only spiritual retums.-john Lee's three children were customedito their continual presNothmg Is Id1e' sent to St. Gregory's School. ence, and they themselves became By Helen Moriarty. Their father was well to do, and quite at home in the school. HAT-,5 the matter, their mother, who had been born The year that _ohn Lee, r., it Cross t0day'n hlrl 3. 1 GT1 )7, . I'6gOI'y S 1'. anrllflg e Fanning said to his friend, the laundryman, as he handed a package across the low counter. The Chinaman grunted. " No like American ways," he answered at last, grumpily. john Lee was a very sophisticated Chinaman, raised in America, and it was only when he was put out that he relapsed into Chinese lingo. "Why not?" his customer inquired in some surprise, knowing ohn's heretofore loudly expressed devotion to the...