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 The Cincinnati District 
 Catholic Students’ Mission Crusade 
 
 
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 Report of the Jasper Conference 
 
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 Guide Book for Local Units 
 
 CONTENTS: 
 
 Resolutions Adopted. 9 
 
 Institutions represented.... 10 
 Register of the Convention.. 11 
 Papers of the Convention. .. 12 
 Mission Work of the Unit. . 21 
 Instructions for the Units.. 29 
 
 Address all communications to: 
 
 The Rev. J. Paschal Hayden, District Manager 
 Holy Cross Church, 
 
 Loretto, Ky. 
 
 Foreword . 
 
 Letters of Approval. 
 
 Summary of Convention. .., 
 
 General Constitution. 
 
 Constitution of the Cincin 
 nati District. 
 
Imprimatur: 
 
 Jan, 12, 1920. 
 
 ^ Joseph, 
 
 Bishop of Indianapolis, 
 
FOREWORD. 
 
 This Bulletin contains the official report of the First 
 District Convention of the Catholic Students' Mission Crusade, 
 which was held at Jasper College, Jasper, Indiana, July 8 , 9 , 
 10 , 1919. Its purpose is to give a brief summary of the ques¬ 
 tions considered, the organization effected and the work 
 planned and initiated at that convention. It also contains 
 suggestions for crusade activities with explanations and direc¬ 
 tions to guide the various Units in their relationship, and 
 cooperation with one another and with the District Organi¬ 
 zation. 
 
 The Bulletin has yielded everything to brevity that clear¬ 
 ness will allow. In reporting on the Conference and the many 
 excellent and inspiring papers read in its sessions, the editor 
 has keenly felt the exigency that dictated the plan adopted 
 of giving them only in short reviews. But the objective now 
 is Do, The ardent exhortation must give place now to the 
 clarion call of duty. The Crusade is on; the District of Cin¬ 
 cinnati is organized and we must get to work. 
 
 We shall omit the usual prefacial Apology except to ex¬ 
 plain that the lateness of the Bulletin is meant to find its 
 student readers sufficiently over the excitement of school's re¬ 
 opening to give it a proper reception. As the voice of a move¬ 
 ment that aims to arouse the mission spirit among Catholics, 
 to change their indifference into an earnest and primitive zeal 
 for the spread of their Holy Religion, the casual reader will 
 find more in its pages, more import and significance than lie 
 in their art or the quality of their composition. It is a labor 
 of love; it is the editor's own little contribution of sacrifice, 
 gladly given amid the labors and cares of his pastorial duties, 
 to a Cause that began with sacrifice, is continued with sacri¬ 
 fice and is abundantly deserving of all the blood and sweat 
 and life that can be poured into it. 
 
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 The Jasper Conference. 
 
 Letters of Approval. 
 
 Archbishop’s Residence, Norwood, Ohio. 
 
 V " IV 
 
 Rev. Frederick A. Reinwand, 
 
 St. Meinrad Seminary, St. Meinrad, Ind. 
 
 Rev. dear Father: i 
 
 The effort to awaken and stimulate among the students attending 
 Seminaries, Colleges and Academies, an interest in the important work 
 of saving sOuls is indeed most praiseworthy and deserves energetic en¬ 
 couragement. Every Catholic who loves his faith and appreciates its 
 real and manifold blessings, will cheerfully and generously help by 
 every means in his power to extend' it. How great endeavors are not 
 made by non-Catholics to propagate the tenets of their religion. Will 
 we who have the true faith suffer ourselves to be outdone in our efforts 
 to extend it by the endeavors of non-Catholics in behalf of their religious 
 opinions? To permit this would be indeed a crying shame and a dire 
 disgrace. 
 
 I most heartily, therefore, endorse the Catholic Students’ Mission 
 Crusade, whose object is to promote the interests of the home and 
 foreign missions; and I fervently pray that He, from Whom every good 
 and perfect gift comes, may bless it. 
 
 I trust that as many of the Catholic Students of the Archdiocese of 
 Cincinnati as possible will attend the meeting of the First Provincial 
 Conference of the Province of Cincinnati which is to convene at Jasper 
 College, Jasper, Ind., July 8th to the 11th, 1919. i 
 
 Sincerely yours in Christ, 
 
 - Henry Moeller, 
 
 Archbishop of Cincinnati. 
 
 Bishop’s House, Islington St., Toledo, Ohio. 
 
 Mr. Frederick A. Reinwand, President, 
 
 St. Meinrad Seminary Unit, C. S. M. C., 
 
 St. Meinrad, Ind. 
 
 Dear Sir: 
 
 I am pleased to learn of the splendid progress of the Catholic 
 Students’ Mission Crusade. In view of the present sad condition of 
 the missionary field owing to the devastating war, a Society of this 
 kind is indeed deserving of every encouragement. This work meets with 
 my most hearty approval, and I bless it with all my heart. 
 
 Sincerely yours in Christ, 
 
 Joseph Schrembs, 
 
 Bishop of Toledo. 
 
 Catholic University of America, 
 
 Washington, D. C. , 
 
 Mr. Frank A. Thill, 
 
 Mt. St. Mary’s Seminary, 
 
 Mt. Washington, Cincinnati, O. 
 
 My dear Mr. Thill: 
 
 I am a firm believer in the timeliness of this holy work, and I shall 
 do all in my power to help it to the success which it so well deserves. 
 
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 The spread of God’s holy kingdom ought to be the daily concern of 
 ,every good Catholic layman or priest, and he is bound, therefore, to 
 take an active interest in every movement that promises to help along 
 in any measure this primary obligation. I feel confident that with the 
 cessation of war conditions, the Crusade will find a more favorable 
 reception in all our colleges and academies.. This is very holy work, 
 capable of the greatest, happiest development, and I beg all the members 
 present on this occasion to nourish constantly the spirit of faith, hope 
 and charity in which they first entered upon the work. Every great 
 missionary enterprise in the world has had a most modest beginning, 
 and not a few difficulties to contend with, but once its spirit was under¬ 
 stood and its possibilities grasped, the Catholic people have come to 
 its aid in great numbers and with great generosity. 
 
 With kindest greeting to all the members of the Conference and 
 with best wishes for yourself, I remain. 
 
 Very sincerely yours in Xto., 
 
 Thomas J. Shahan, 
 
 Rector. 
 
 Bishop’s House, Diocese of Fort Wayne, 
 
 Fort Wayne, Ind. 
 
 I implore upon St. Meinrad Seminary Unit of the Catholic Students’ 
 Mission Crusade, God’s Choicest Blessing to promote the interests of 
 the home and foreign missions, and to secure to this end the support 
 of the Catholic Laity. 
 
 H. J. Alerding, 
 
 Bishop of Fort Wayne. 
 
 Bishop’s House, Indianapolis, Ind. 
 
 Dear Father Richard: 
 
 In answer to the letter signed by you and the Reverend Frederick 
 Reinwand, permit me to say that I send my cordial approbation and 
 blessing to the Catholic Students’ Mission Crusade Convention, to be 
 held in Jasper. 
 
 God bless you. 
 
 Joseph Chartrand, 
 
 Bishop of Indianapolis. 
 
 Summary of the Convention. 
 
 The Jasper Convention of the Catholic Students’ Mission Crusade 
 came about thru a contingency foreseen by the first Conference of the 
 Crusade held at the St. Mary’s Mission House, Techny Ill., July, 1918. 
 It was there provided that, when the movement attained sufficient pro¬ 
 portions in any part of the country, a district conference could be called 
 of all Units within an Ecclesiastical Province and a closer organization 
 effected. The first to organize in this way was the Cincinnati Province, 
 which held a convention at Jasper College, Jasper Ind. on July 8, 9, 
 10, 1919. 
 
 The arrangements for this conference were placed by the Executive 
 Board into the hands of the St. Meinrad Seminary Unit of St. Mein- 
 rad’s Seminary, Ind., and their zeal, backed by the wholehearted co- 
 
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 operation of educational institutions thruout the Province, made of 
 this gathering of Catholic students an important event in the history 
 of the Crusade. Seventeen Universities, Colleges and Academies, with¬ 
 in the Province of Cincinnati, were represented. A spirit of harmony, 
 earnestness and enthusiasm prevailed among its student delegates, who, 
 tho of various callings, were united in their devotion to the cause of 
 the Crusade: *‘The Sacred Heart for the World, the World for the 
 Sacred Heart.” There were many ideas, many plans, many proposals, 
 yet but one spirit. 
 
 The Convention, after hearing many inspiring things from the dis¬ 
 cussions and the papers prepared by the delegates, drew up a constitu¬ 
 tion and elected its officers for the district organization. This con¬ 
 stitution, being subject to and in conformity with the national Con¬ 
 stitution of the Crusade which was drafted at Techny one year before, 
 was laid out on the same broad, but definite lines, to furnish a nucleus 
 and a modus operand! for the present needs, and at the same time, by 
 its flexibility to anticipate and provide for the future developments of 
 the Crusade in the Province. 
 
 It was decided, for the sake of efficiency, to place the directing 
 faculties of the district organization into the hands of one executive 
 officer, The District Manager, who was granted every freedom, under 
 the Constitution and the guidance of the National Executive Board, 
 to conduct the Crusade in the Province. 
 
 Not the least of the good work done at Jasper was the meeting to¬ 
 gether of Catholic students, their interchange of ideas on vital sub¬ 
 jects and the friendships quickly welded among them by a common de¬ 
 votion to a sacred cause. Young men, about to assume the respon¬ 
 sible duties of Catholic clergymen and laymen of America, met their 
 future co-laborers and comrades and felt encouraged, strengthened and 
 enlightened for their task. 
 
 In this was apparent the educational feature of the Catholic Stu¬ 
 dents’ Mission Crusade. If we want the Catholic layman of the future 
 to be free from the narrowness and provincialism that hampers, so 
 evidently, his brethren of today; if we want him to have a broad and 
 Catholic outlook upon the world expressed in a genuine and practical 
 zeal for the spread of the faith and the salvation of souls; if, in short, 
 we want him to be of that spirit which will make his cooperation with 
 his fellow Catholics an actuality for good—^what better way than to 
 develop those saving qualities now while education is a possibility, by 
 giving them exercise and direction? The genius of Protestants for 
 organization is attributable to their students’ organization, the Volun¬ 
 teer Movement begun over 30 years ago. To accomplish a great revolu¬ 
 tion requires a lengthy leverage. If we want the task of future Cath¬ 
 olic leaders to be something more than the heart-breaking failures of 
 those who at present strive to organize their brethern for crying needs, 
 social and religious, we must begin the molding of their material while 
 it is fresh and malleable, in the generous and impressionable time of 
 youth. The drag of the church in America is the Catholic priest or 
 layman whose concern for the salvation of souls never reaches beyond 
 the limits of his own fireside, or, at most, the confines of his parish. 
 He is uninterested, or perhaps puzzled, when called upon to join in some 
 movement for the church at large. He may add one unit to the church 
 
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 militant, but he adds little or nothing to the positive side of her morals 
 or her general advancement. 
 
 The social and recreational side of a convention were not neglected 
 at Jasper. The delegates were made to feel at home by their genial 
 host, Father Bernard Heichelbech, O. S. B., President of Jasper College 
 and Father John Handly, C. S. P., who helped to stir up the fires of 
 fraternal love and fellowship among them. An entertainment was given 
 in the assembly hall each night, and there also was afforded a free ex¬ 
 pression of missionary ideas and experiences. Rev. Urban Sonder- 
 man spiced the program with very able dramatic selections, and a variety 
 of excellent music was rendered by the Jasper Orchestra. To attend 
 one such convention is alone sufficient to imbibe the missionary spirit. 
 The Crusade can do much good thru such assemblies. 
 
 The officers of the convention to whom is due the credit for its 
 orderly and harmonious procedure were: Moderator, Rev. John L. Ott 
 of St. Mary’s College, Dayton, Ohio; President, Rev. Frederick A. Rein¬ 
 wand of St. Meinrad’s Seminary, St. Meinrad Ind.; Secretaries, Rev. 
 Edward L. Eisenman and Bernard Loepker of St. Meinrad’s Seminary. 
 
 General Constitution. 
 
 Adopted at the Techny Conference of the C. S. M. C., July 
 28 , 1918 . 
 
 Article I. —Name. 
 
 Section I. The name of this organization shall be ^‘The 
 Catholic Students' Mission Crusade." 
 
 Article II. —Object. 
 
 Section I. This is to be an organization of Catholic stu¬ 
 dents to promote the interests of home and foreign missions. 
 
 Section II. The ideal to which this movement is dedicated 
 shall be expressed by the words 'The Sacred Heart for the 
 World, the World for the Sacred Heart." 
 
 Article III. —Organization. 
 
 Section I. The officers of this organization shall be a Pres¬ 
 ident, an Executive Committee of three, an Advisory Board 
 and a Field Secretary. 
 
 The President and Executive Board shall be elected in 
 general convention with power to name the Advisory Board 
 and Field Secretary. 
 
 Section II. The constituent units shall be Catholic student 
 organizations which shall report quarterly to the Executive 
 Board full details of mission activity, including a statement 
 
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 of all contributions to home and foreign missions made by 
 the unit or its members. 
 
 Each unit shall furnish to the Executive Board an annual 
 per capita tax of twenty-five cents, which shall serve to defray 
 the expenses of the general government, and shall entitle 
 all members to receive the official organ which is to be con¬ 
 ducted by the Field Secretary. 
 
 Section III. The Executive Board shall invite the units to 
 form themselves into districts for the purpose of holding 
 district meetings. These meetings shall consult on methods 
 of mission work for mutual encouragement. Their officials 
 shall promote the Crusade in the District throughout the year 
 and act as a clearing house for the transaction of the general 
 business of the District. 
 
 Article IV.—Conventions. 
 
 Section I. General Conventions, whose time and place are 
 to be determined by the preceding convention, shall consist 
 of delegates from each unit on the basis of one vote to each 
 unit. This vote may be cast by the delegates or by proxy. 
 
 Constitution of the Cincinnati District 
 
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 The Catholic Students’ Mission Crusade. 
 
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 (Adopted at the Jasper Conference of the C. S. M. C., July 
 1919 .) 
 
 Article I.—Name. 
 
 Section I. The name of this organization shall be the 
 Cincinnati District of the Catholic Students’ Mission Crusade. 
 
 Article II.— Object. 
 
 Section I. The object of this organization shall be to 
 elaborate and systematize the work of the Crusade in the 
 Ecclesiastical Province of Cincinnati, subject to and in con¬ 
 formity with the General Constitution and Authority. 
 
 Article III.—Organization. 
 
 Section I. This district shall include all Units comprised 
 within the Ecclesiastical Province of Cincinnati. 
 
 Section II. The officiers of this organization shall be a 
 District Manager and Unit Secretaries. 
 
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 Section III. The District Manager shall be elected in Dis¬ 
 trict Convention as hereinafter set forth in Article IV, Sec¬ 
 tion 2. In case of vacancy of the office of District Manager, 
 the National Executive Board is empowered to fill the vacancy 
 after consulting the individual units of the District. 
 
 Section IV. Unit Secretaries shall be established in every 
 affiliated Unit of the Catholic Students' Mission Crusade with¬ 
 in the Ecclesiastical Province of Cincinnati. They shall be 
 chosen by their respective units. 
 
 Section V. Unit Secretaries shall act under the direction 
 of the District Manager who shall be the supreme executive 
 of the District. 
 
 Section VI. The District Manager shall consult with the 
 Executive Board of the Catholic Students’ Mission Crusade 
 on all questions of National Interest. 
 
 Article IV.— Conventions. 
 
 Section I. Annual District Conventions, consisting of dele¬ 
 gates from each Unit of the Cincinnati District, are to be 
 held at time and place the District Manager, after consulting 
 the Unit Secretaries, may deem fit. 
 
 Section II. Voting shall be conducted on the basis of one 
 vote to each Unit. This vote may be cast by the delegate or 
 by proxy. 
 
 Constitution Signed By 
 
 Frank S. Beckman, Chairman Executive Board. 
 
 Frank A. Thill, Secretary Executive Board. 
 
 And other attending delegates. 
 
 Constitutional Committee. 
 
 Rev. J. Paschal Hayden, Mt. St. Josephs’ Convent, Chair¬ 
 man. 
 
 Avitus E. Lyons, Mt. St. Mary’s Seminary, 
 
 William C. Havey, Notre Dame University, 
 
 Joseph Keber, The Josephinum, 
 
 John B. Hardig, St. Xavier’s College, 
 
 Resolutions. 
 
 Adopted by the Convention. 
 
 —Resolved: That the First Provincial Conference of the Cin¬ 
 cinnati District of the Catholic Students’ Mission Crusade, 
 recognizes the vital need for the promotion of Catholic litera¬ 
 ture and the solution of the many menacing social problems, 
 
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 in order that the object of the Crusade—The conquest of 
 the World for Christ—be fully achieved; and therefore urges 
 that Catholic energies be bent toward the furtherance of the 
 Cause of the Catholic Press, and the remedying of social evils; 
 and hopes to include these activities within its scope in the 
 near future, in accordance with the resolution passed at the 
 Techny Conference. 
 
 2— -Resolved: That the First Provincial Conference of the 
 Cincinnati District of the C. S. M. C. recommend to the 
 next annual conference, that no Official Organ be published, 
 but that the bulletin method be continued when demanded 
 for report of Conference; and the Annual Report; and that 
 the Units be encouraged to maintain departments in Catholic 
 Periodicals. 
 
 3— Resolved: That the First Provincial Conference of the 
 Cincinnati District of the C. S. M. C. encourage the Units to 
 foster a special devotion to the Holy Ghost, and that this be 
 recommended to the next General Conference for all the Cru¬ 
 sade Units. 
 
 4— Resolved: That the Cincinnati District of the C. S. M. C., 
 assembled at Jasper, Indiana, July ninth, nineteen hundred 
 and nineteen, in the First District Conference since the last 
 National Conference at Techny, in nineteen hundred and 
 eighteen, hereby extends heartfelt thanks to Mr. Charles 
 Stocel of Cicero, Illinois, for the generosity in defraying the 
 publication expenses of Bulletin Number Three, containing 
 the report of the Techny Conference. 
 
 Be it further resolved: That the Secretary of the Cincin¬ 
 nati District Conference engross this resolution on the records 
 of the conference and forward a copy to Mr. Stoffel. 
 
 5— Be it resolved: That the members of the Cincinnati Dis¬ 
 trict of the C. S. M. C. tender a unanimous and heartfelt vote 
 of gratitude to the Benedictine Fathers of Jasper College,— 
 and in particular to Father Bernard, whose smile of welcome 
 was an assurance of cordial cooperation with the activities of 
 the Crusade,—-for the hospitality, the generosity, the magna¬ 
 nimity they have manifested during the stay of the delegates 
 of the Convention of the Cincinnati District, during the days, 
 July seventh to tenth, nineteen hundred and nineteen at their 
 excellent institution. 
 
 List of Institutions Represented at the Conference. 
 
 The Present Standing of the Crusade in the Province of Cincinnati. 
 
 1. Mt. St. Mary's Seminary, Mt. Washington Station, Cin¬ 
 
 cinnati, 0. 
 
 2. Precious Blood Seminary, Carthagena, 0. 
 
 3. Notre Dame University, Notre Dame, Ind. 
 
 4. Josephinum, Columbus, Ohio. 
 
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 5. St. Meinrad Seminary, St. Meinrad, Indiana. 
 
 6. St. John's University, Toledo, Ohio. 
 
 7. St. Xavier’s College, Cincinnati, Ohio. 
 
 8. St. Mary’s College, Dayton, Ohio. 
 
 9. St. Meinrad College, St. Meinrad, Indiana. 
 
 10. St. Mary-of-the-Woods, St. Mary-of-the-Woods, Indiana. 
 
 11. Mt. St. Joseph’s Convent and Academy, St. Joseph, Ky. 
 
 12. Loretto Convent and Academy, Loretto, Ky. 
 
 13. St. Walburga’s Academy, Covington, Ky. 
 
 14. Villa Madonna, Covington, Ky. 
 
 15. Academy of the Immaculate Conception, Ferdinand, Ind. 
 
 16. St. Charles’ High School, St. Mary, Ky. 
 
 17. Jasper College, Jasper, Indiana. 
 
 REGISTER OF THOSE ATTENDING THE CONFERENCE. 
 
 Mr. Frank Thill, Secretary of the Executive Board. 
 
 Rev. Jos. Kenkel, C. PP. S., Carthagena, Ohio. 
 
 Mr. Dewey J. Marks, St. John's University, Toledo, Ohio. 
 
 Mr. Avitus E. Lyons, Mt. St. Mary's Seminary, Cincinnati, Ohio. 
 
 Mr. Wm. J. McKeown, Mt. St. Mary's Seminary, Cincinnati, Ohio. 
 
 Rev. Frederick A. Reinwand, St. Meinrad Seminary, St. Meinrad, Ind. 
 Rev. Herbert Winterhalter, St. Meinrad Seminary, St. Meinrad, Ind. 
 Mr. Forrest Strange, St. Meinrad College, St. Meinrad, Ind. 
 
 Mr. Bernard Loepker, St. Meinrad Seminary, St. Meinrad, Ind. 
 
 Very Rev. J. A. Burgmer, S. V. D., St. Mary's Mission House, Techny, 
 Ill. 
 
 Rev. Joseph Molitor, The Josephinum, Columbus, Ohio. 
 
 Rev. R. J. Markham, D. D., Mt. St. Mary's Seminary, Cincinnati, Ohio. 
 Very Rev. Frank S. Beckman, D. D., Mt. St. Mary's Seminary, Cincin¬ 
 nati, Ohio. 
 
 Mr. Floyd Keeler, Apostolic Mission House, Washington, D. C. 
 
 Rev. John L. Ott, St. Mary's College, Dayton, Ohio. 
 
 Rev. Newton Thompson, Maryknoll, N. Y. 
 
 Rev. Paul A. Deery, Indianapolis, Ind. 
 
 Rev. Charles F. Walsh, St. Mary-of-the-Woods, Ind. 
 
 Mr. Wm. C. Havey, Notre Dame University, Notre Dame, Ind. 
 
 Rev. John H. Vagedes, St. Walburga Convent, Covington, Ky. 
 
 Rev. Joseph Reiner, S. J., St. Xavier's College, Cincinnati, Ohio. 
 
 Mr. Glenn F. Walker, Loretto Convent, Loretto, Ky. 
 
 Mr. Clement Bastnagel, St. Meinrad Seminary, St. Meinrad, Ind. 
 
 Rev. Benedict Brown, O. S. B., St. Meinrad Abbey, St. Meinrad, Ind. 
 Rev. Leander Schneider, 0. S. B., Jasper College, Jasper, Ind. 
 
 Rev. Norbert Spitzmesser, O. S. B., Academy of Immaculate Concep¬ 
 tion, Ferdinand, Ind. 
 
 Rev. Edward L. Eisenman, St. Meinrad Seminary, St. Meinrad, Ind. 
 Mr. William A Benz, St. Mary's Mission House, Techny, Ill. 
 
 Mr. Ralph, E. Thyken, St. Mary's Mssion House, Techny, Ill. 
 
 Mr. Edwin P. Seidel, The Josephinum, Columbus, Ohio. 
 
 Mr. Joseph Keber, The Josephinum, Columbus, Ohio. 
 
 Rev. Urban Sonderman, St. Meinrad Seminary, St. Meinrad, Ind. 
 
 Mr. Joseph O'Meara, Jr. St. Xaver's College, Cincinnati, Ohio. 
 
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 Mr. John B. Hardig, St. Xavier’s College, Cincinnati, Ohio. 
 
 Mr. Joseph G. Trible, St. Meinrad Seminary, St. Meinrad, Ind. 
 
 Rev. John Handly, C. S. P., St. Mary’s Church, Chicago, Ill. 
 
 Rev. J. Paschal Hayden, Mt. St. Joseph’s Convent, St. Joseph, Ky. 
 
 Rev. Bernard Heichelbech, O. S. B., Jasper College, Jasper, Ind. 
 
 Papers of the Convention. 
 
 The clearest indicant of the Conference are its papers. Utility 
 compels only a brief report of these, not regarding their eminent merit. 
 St. Meinrad Seminary Unit had ordered the work of the Conference 
 to a well thought out program and at each session some vital questions 
 of the Crusade were brought forward by a specially prepared paper. 
 
 The Conference was begun by an address of welcome on the part 
 of its genial host. Rev. Bernard Heichelbech, 0. S. B., President of 
 Jasper College, who introduced the Chairman of the Conference, Rev. 
 Frederick Reinwand. 
 
 Rev. Reinwand’s Address. 
 
 Rev. Reinwand, as President of St. Meinrad Seminary Unit, wel¬ 
 comed the delegates to the “First Provincial Conference of the Cath¬ 
 olic Students’ Mission Crusade.” He lauded them for the sacrifices 
 they had made to attend the Conference and briefly outlined the work 
 they were assembled to accomplish. He expressed the generally felt 
 regret that arrangements could not be made to accommodate female 
 delegates. He said: 
 
 “As an organization, the Catholic Students’ Mission Crusade is as 
 broad in its consititution and extent as any society of its nature can 
 be; its primary aim is the educating of the students to the true mis¬ 
 sionary spirit, that they promote the interests of the home and foreign 
 missions; this latter phrase was studiously incorporated in the constitu¬ 
 tion because, to the Catholic mind, the promotion of an enterprise is not 
 limited to financial support. To the students who are assembled to 
 perfect this young organization, it was evident that the first need of 
 Catholic missions is the assistance of prayer; and, realizing that “un¬ 
 less the Lord build the house, they labor in vain that build it,” the Con¬ 
 vention of July, 1918 admits to full and unqualified membership, with¬ 
 out financial obligations, mission societies founded among students of 
 religious orders and congregations. This, however, does not exclude 
 a voluntary contribution from such for the maintenance of field secre¬ 
 taries, organizers, the cost of producing propaganda, literature, etc., 
 and the expenses incurred by the executive branch of the Crusade. 
 
 At this point it should also be noted, quoting from the pamphlet, 
 “God Wills It,” that home missions, as well as foreign missions are 
 included in the scope of the movement. For, besides the peculiar appeal 
 of personal interest conveyed to many minds by the idea of home mis¬ 
 sions, it is true that those who surround us more closely truly deserve 
 the exercise of our Christian charity. It is true that at present scarce¬ 
 ly fifty per cent of the Indians.of this country belong to the Church; 
 that there are from ten to twelve million negroes within the confines 
 of this country, who have a claim to the attention of the Catholic 
 Church, and that, according to the Superior of one of the most success- 
 
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 ful missions among the negroes: “The efforts thus far made by the 
 great Catholic Church in America to win over the negro race, have 
 been surprisingly out of proportion with the magnitude of the task. 
 The Protestants have literally strewn the South with educational in¬ 
 stitutions for the negro; institutions ranking all the way from the 
 kindergarten to the university, while we Catholics have not yet pro¬ 
 vided the colored people with one college or school of higher learning 
 that can bear the name.” It is also true that approximately fifty mil¬ 
 lions, one half of our population, profess no religion at all; and that, 
 but for the religious revolt of the sixteenth centuiy, twenty-five million 
 more people, now professing Protestantism, would be in the army of 
 Christ, the Catholic Church. Out of the remaining twenty millions 
 who have the truth, there is certainly sufficient opportunity for the 
 student element to exercise Christian zeal. 
 
 That the foreign mission field is equally deseiwing of the conscien¬ 
 tious consideration and support of every Catholic student, in fact that 
 it is the foreign field which especially needs our assistance, is evident 
 from a knowledge of existing conditions. To any one that realizes, 
 that during the past, foreign mission work was carried on most exten¬ 
 sively by European missionaries, and supported by European money, 
 it must be etydent that our World War has weakened considerably the 
 Catholic missions. There are 800,000,000 pagans in foreign countries, 
 and to a nation which during the past year has vindicated its idealism 
 and spiritual outlook, such an appeal cannot remain unanswered. 
 
 We the Catholic students of the United States can do much to al¬ 
 leviate the burdens of the God-sent representatives in the home and in 
 the foreign lands, if only we apply a part of our gratuitously given 
 talents and abilities for such a noble cause. Most of us were bom of 
 Catholic parents, reared in Catholic homes and educated by Catholic 
 priests and sisters; our whole lives have been peacefully and happily 
 spent in the golden sunshine of Catholic society and surroundings. 
 What a paradise have we not had, having been thus enveloped in such 
 a Christian atmosphere and such a religious influence! How grand 
 the ideals, and how noble the examples which were daily placed before 
 us by the leaders and guardians of our youth, whose only aim was to 
 mold a good, Christlike and charitable character in us, so that our 
 passage over the stage of life may not be a haphazard one, or without 
 a landmark for our future heritage. Thus inspired vrith the spirit of 
 Christ and edified by the apostolic models about us, can we, the present 
 generation of Catholic students, refuse gratitude to a Good and Benev¬ 
 olent God tMio has given it to us to be what we are? WiU this genera¬ 
 tion of Catholic students shun the golden path of charity and love of 
 fellowmen to follow the standard of selfishness and individual monopoly 
 which at this very moment is sucking the life-blood from men and lead¬ 
 ing them to the arena of social unrest and radical materialism and 
 atheism? Is it nothing to us. Catholic students, that we have received 
 the grace of Faith and are here given the opportunity to share in the 
 work of carrying its inestimable graces to those less fortunate? 
 
 Dear brother crusaders, we are out to win a noble cause, yes, the 
 noblest of all causes, inaugurated by Chrst Himself and continued,- as 
 far as possible, by his ordained ministers from the first birthday of 
 the Church, namely: the Missions. 
 
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 Address of the National Secretary. 
 
 In the second session Mr. Thill, Secretary of the Executive Board 
 authoratively defined the purpose and scope of the Conference. He 
 clearly explained the general constitution in its bearing on the district 
 organization then in contemplation. He suggested in this address the 
 plan of choosing a District Manager and of having Unit Secretaries, 
 which was afterwards adopted. He admirably expressed the meaning 
 of the Crusade in a few words as follows: 
 
 “The Catholic Students’ Mission Crusade is an organization which 
 is passing through the first year of its existence. Today it is com¬ 
 posed of thirty nine student mission societies established in Catholic 
 institutions of higher learnng throughout fourteen states of the country. 
 And although an immense amount of energy has been expended to effect 
 even these results, yet, we feel that the spirit of prayer and sacrifice 
 which have characterized Crusade endeavor throughout the past twelve 
 months will ultimately insure a Crusade triumph. 
 
 “Our organization is an enterprise which has for its goal the establish¬ 
 ment of a mission society in every institution of higher learning in the 
 United States. Its object is not to gather funds; it does not propose 
 to limit in any way the activity of the affiliated mission societies which 
 constitute it, but wishes to become merely a force, an inspiration, to 
 kindle the sympathy of Catholic students for Catholic mission endeavor. 
 And for this reason the governing body of the Crusade has insisted 
 from the very beginning that prayer be made the cornerstone of this 
 new structure. It is true that our home and foreign missionaries need 
 money, but the financial contributions of student crusaders to the mis¬ 
 sion agencies of their choice must never cease to be the student mite. 
 Our strength is not the strength of numbers nor the power of dollars, 
 for: ‘Unless the Lord build the house they labor in vain that build it.’ 
 
 “We must inform ourselves on the true condition of our home and 
 foreign missions; we must keep alive the light of mission enthusiasm 
 which God has sent into our land, and we must sacrifice a little of the 
 little we have that the edifice, which has been cemented with the tears 
 of confessors and the blood of martyrs, may grow to still greater 
 proportions.” 
 
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 To expedite business, three papers were read in the third session. The 
 first by Mr. Clement Bastnagel of St. Meinrad’s Seminary, treated 
 with the subject of “The Provincial Organization;” the second by Mr. 
 Glenn Walker, who represented Loretto Academy, Loretto, Ky., con¬ 
 sidered the question of a “Field Secretary,” and the third was rendered 
 by Mr. William Havey of Notre Dame University that related the mis¬ 
 sionary activities and experiences of the University. 
 
 Mr. BastnagePs Paper. 
 
 Mr. Bastnagel dealt with the most important and pertinent question 
 before the Conference. He presented definite and concrete plans for 
 a Provincial organization in a paper remarkable for its logical thorough- 
 
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 15 
 
 ness with which it was thought out and the understanding it revealed 
 of the fundamental principles of the Crusade. “Scarcely a year ago/’ 
 he read, “a Mission Movement was launched which has astounded every 
 sincere inquirer with the magnitude of its task. The small seed hope¬ 
 fully implanted in the fruitful soil of devoted Catholic students’ hearts 
 took root, has grown and enlarged into a tender seedling, which, al¬ 
 though still delicate in its growth, gives promise of continued healthy 
 enlargement. The Crusade is really a plant. The richest field for 
 increase is furnished by a spirit of earnest prayer, generous devotion, 
 and self-forgetting sacrifice on the part of every one, and, the element 
 indispensibly necessary for it to breathe in, is God’s helping grace and 
 protection at all times. 
 
 In the General Constitution the object of the Crusade is worded thus: 
 ‘This is to be an organization of Catholic students to promote the in¬ 
 terests of the home and foreign missions’, and in the pamphlet pub¬ 
 lished by the Executive Board at Cincinnati, the purpose is put as 
 ‘the presentation to our Catholic students of mission facts and needs 
 which is the primary work of the Catholic Students’ Mission Crusade,’ 
 and this devout hope is then added that ‘by organizing our students 
 and by impressing on them the crying needs of the missions, the 
 sympathy of Catholic students will be awakened and their support 
 secured for Catholic mission enterprise.’ 
 
 Yet these comprehensive declarations of our end in view, admit of 
 a variety, or at least of a divergency of means towards its accomplish¬ 
 ment. These means can be grouped under three general heads: spiritual, 
 educational and m*aterial; in other terms, prayers, propaganda and 
 pecuniary aid. Any means lawfully employed and having for its im¬ 
 mediate or ultimate end the furtherance of truth or the combating of 
 error falls under these three categories. 
 
 Prayer, above all, constant prayer, full of ardent devotion and un¬ 
 shakable confidence, is the primal requisite for success. “How can we 
 expect the smallest measure of success in this superhuman enterprise 
 unless we begin by prayer? That students’ mission society whose mem¬ 
 bers pray most and best, will, assuredly, be the most successful no 
 matter by how far others may seem to surpass it in material results.” 
 
 Another quality in which our endeavors must excel is unselfishness 
 ‘Where a little unselfishness is found, a little will be accomplished, 
 where it is a dominating feature, there is nothing that may not be 
 accomplished.’ (Bulletin 1). 
 
 A knowledge of what we are about is the next requisite. The find¬ 
 ing of ways and means to insure its propagation follows as a necessary 
 corollary. Intelligent service, and not haphazard and perfunctory in¬ 
 difference should accompany all our efforts. 
 
 Lastly, although the financial aspect is not so important as propa¬ 
 ganda work, I must make mention of the reality that pecuniary con¬ 
 tributions aid more, in a majority of cases, to bring about the acquisi¬ 
 tion of a spirit of willing sacrifice, than long, protracted hours of 
 mental labor spent in behalf of Crusade activities. When Crusade work¬ 
 ers have once acquired a love for unstinted, magnanimous, self-forget¬ 
 ting sacrifice, they will have overcome one more great obstacle in the 
 way of their onward march.” 
 
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 The scheme of organization proposed by Mr. Bastnagel while not 
 wholly adopted at the Conference is of much suggestive value and will 
 no doubt have considerable bearing on the future development of Cru¬ 
 sade organization. It is given in brief extracts from his paper. “What 
 shall we call the Crusading Host of Catholic students within the Ec¬ 
 clesiastical Province of Cincinnati. No appellation appeals to me more 
 vigorously than: ‘The Cincinnati Division of the Catholic Students^ 
 Mission Crusade,’ which is an army term in harmony with the one, 
 ‘Unit,’ already in use.” 
 
 “What shall be the scope of this district organization? Its scope 
 cannot be more extensive than its jurisdiction, and its jurisdiction can 
 extend only to the province of Cincinnati.” 
 
 “The legislation of the Division should be done by the Division Con¬ 
 ference. All units represented at this Division Conference are to have 
 a voice in governing their district organization. This Conference shall 
 elect all officers for the Division and, at each assembly before adjourn¬ 
 ment, establish the Division Headquarters at some Unit within the 
 Province.” 
 
 “Who and how many shall its officers be? Modeled after the general 
 organization, the officers of the Division would be a President, an 
 Executive Committee of three, an Advisory Board, and a corps of Di¬ 
 vision representatives in proportion of three for each diocese of the 
 Province. The President of the Division shall be a priest belonging to 
 the Ecclesiastical Province of Cincinnati. Similarly as the Central 
 Executive Board consists of three members, a chairman, secretary and 
 treasurer, so also our Division Executive Committee should consist of 
 three members, two of whom shall be students chosen from the unit 
 where the Division Headquarters are established. The work of the 
 Committee shall include all the more active executive and general work 
 of the Division. It is to have charge of the Division Headquarters, 
 to appoint and advise the Division Representatives, and lastly to super¬ 
 vise the making and the collection of the quarterly reports and the per 
 capita tax of the Division.” 
 
 “The Presidents of Universities and the Superiors of Convents, whose 
 members have charge of subsidiary schools shall be ipso facto members 
 of the Advisory Board.” 
 
 “The Division Representatives shall be priests to promote and further 
 the interests of the Crusade in their respective dioceses.” 
 
 “The mission work of the Division, as to kind or manner, is in no 
 wise to be defined or restricted by either the Division Conference or 
 the Executive Committee. Each unit is to be left free, entirely free, 
 to pursue whatever way it deems best. Individual initiative is ever 
 the most salutary incentive to missionary zeal, for, it is better adjusted 
 to guard against a careless and perfunctory compliance with missionary 
 requirements.” 
 
 “This provision, however, we must make, that mission work in no way 
 be construed to interfere with, hamper, retard, or prejudice the organi¬ 
 zation or work of any mission society, already recognized or in existence. 
 Let us adhere to the proposed end of the Crusade, to the object of its 
 tenets, to countenance and promote all approved mission societies. 
 Heretofore, the zeal and enthusiasm of some of us has been misdirected j 
 the aim and purpose set for us has thus far been indiscreetly miscon- 
 
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 strued by a few; the result became evident in their activity, for they 
 had gone beyond the bounds of their constitution. Therefore the Cru¬ 
 sade’s aim was subject to a misinterpretation. 
 
 “Mission work among the parochial and other schools, that does not 
 come directly under the operation of the Crusade, shall be placed under 
 the special charge and care of Units established in convents or mother- 
 houses, the religious of which, have charge of these schools. Parochial 
 schools should not and cannot be affiliated with the Catholic Students’ 
 Mission Crusade. The scope of our movement excludes them. But 
 religious men and w’omen who are members of a Crusade unit established 
 at their respective monasteries and convents, assume the duty of en¬ 
 couraging and fostering among these schools all approved mission 
 societies and activities. The units should obtain a quarterly report 
 from them and record their efforts among them in their own quarterly 
 reports to the Executive Committee.” 
 
 “Acting upon this suggestion, Crusade work will not retard or inter¬ 
 fere with other mission societies existing in parochial schooln; it will 
 rather have to be regarded as a help lent to their cause. And this is, 
 after all, the aim of the Crusade, to aid mission enterprises whenever, 
 wherever, and in whatever way it can. Any work, therefore, having 
 for its end the extension or the defense of the Catholic Faith is con¬ 
 sidered as mission work and will be recorded quarter-annually and sent 
 to the Executive Committee for the inspiration and example of others.” 
 
 The Field Secretary. 
 
 Mr. Glenn Walker, representng Loretto Convent and Academy, Nerinx, 
 Ky., read an excellent paper on the question of a Field Secretary. 
 Although the office finally created by the suborganization culminated in 
 a District Manager instead of a field secretary, many of the duties and 
 qualifications demanded by the speaker for a field secretary are appli¬ 
 cable to the district manager. 
 
 Mr. Walker’s plan for financing the Provincial Organization: 
 
 “The method of financing the newly constituted organization, that ap¬ 
 peals to me as the most feasible, is that which our esteemed chairman 
 has suggested to me; namely, a part of the per capita tax of .25cts. 
 which is levied on the students of institutions of higher education thru- 
 out the province of Cincinnati. According to the Catholic Directory 
 of 1917 there are 19,202 students in such colleges. Eliminating 3,000 
 of these, the remaining 16,000 would net, at .25cts. per capita tax, 
 $4,000, one fourth of which would be sufficient for the provincial organ¬ 
 ization. 
 
 Another method would be an assessment levied against each institu¬ 
 tion according to the number of its students, leaving to each unit its 
 own method of raising this assessment. In one school the per capita 
 may be advisable, in another entertainment or festivals, etc.” 
 
 Mr. Havey of Notre Dame. 
 
 The paper read by Mr. William Havey in the third session of the 
 conference is given almost completely elsewhere (page 21), both because 
 it is a characteristic one and because it deals with matters of much 
 practical value to the Units in their present and future work. 
 
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 In dealing with the “Possibilities of the Crusade” the Rev. Norbert 
 Spitzmesser, O. S. B., who represented the Academy of the Immaculate 
 Conception, Ferdinand, Ind., especially urged the offering of prayers 
 for the missions. The three ways in which the Crusade would accom¬ 
 plish its work, he said, must be by prayer, education and self-sacrifice. 
 This paper was followed by a short talk on the “Crusade and Parochial 
 Schools” by the representative from Mt. St. Joseph’s Academy, Ken¬ 
 tucky, the Rev. J. Paschal Hayden whose views on this point coincided 
 with those of Mr. Bastnagel as given above. 
 
 The Relation of the Crusade to other Mission 
 
 Societies 
 
 This vital question was handled before the Conference in a paper 
 written by Frater Wm. A. Ross, S. V. D., of Techny, Ill. The following 
 substantial extract clearly shows the relation of the Crusade to other 
 Mission Societies. 
 
 “Many of the grown-up Mission Organizations regard the Catholic 
 Students’ Mission Crusade with approval and admiration; others 
 look askance at a new arrival in their field. 
 
 The relation of the Crusade to the Society for the Propagation of 
 Faith is perhaps the most important from a practical standpoint, be¬ 
 cause the Society for the Propagation of Faith is the largest Society 
 supporting Foreign Missions; it is most firmly established thruout the 
 Catholic World, and its work has received the official approval and bless¬ 
 ing of the Church. The Society for the Propagation of Faith was 
 established in France in 1822. It has had a rapid growth, and up to 
 1912 it had distributed to the Missions $80,349,653.00 During the 
 past year, the Society in the United States collected more than a million 
 dollars, thus almost doubling the return of 1916. 
 
 It is to be regretted that the Society for the Propagation of the Faith 
 has not yet succeeded in winning the students of our country to the 
 needs of the missions. In individual Colleges and Seminaries branches 
 of the Society have been formed, but the student body is still outside the 
 fold. The Society for the Propagation of the Faith leaders are fully 
 aware of the importance of getting the students interested. Mgr. Dunn 
 of the N. Y. Office says: “We have no hope for the future except in the 
 students,” and Dr. McGlinchey, the zealous director in the Boston Arch¬ 
 diocese has repeatedly emphasized the vast importance of winning the 
 students to the Mission Cause. 
 
 Now the C. S. M. C. has come to fill this need! It is not a collecting 
 agency. Its first aim is to educate the students to the mission ideal, 
 to prayer and self-sacrifice, and then to mission giving. As a mission 
 organization, the C. S. M. C. differs from the S. P. F.,— (1st) because 
 it is an organization of the Catholic students only (Const. Art. 2, Sec. 
 2); (2nd) it is a Crusade that appeals to the ideals and enthusiasm of 
 youth, to the love of spreading the Kingdom of the Sacred Heart; (3rd) 
 it aims to educate the student to mission study, to a love for the mission 
 work and then to that spirit that will carry him out into the busy world, 
 a leader who wins others to the mission cause; (4th) prayer, self-sacri- 
 
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 fice, correspondence with missionaries, study of the mission problem, 
 and personal services—all play as great a part as contribution. 
 
 Now how can the Crusade best cooperate with the Society for the 
 Propagation of the Faith? The following few suggestions may be use¬ 
 ful to show the possibilities of working out a definite program of inter¬ 
 communication. (1st) The members of the Crusade should be urged to 
 join the Society for the Propagation of the Faith; Units as a whole 
 could become branch societies,—tho this must be left to the free choice 
 of the unit. (2nd) The Central Bureau could secure a report from 
 the Society for the Propagation of the Faith on the most needy mis¬ 
 sion districts, destitute of schools, orphanages etc., with the- view of 
 furnishing the units with proteges. (3rd) A report of all contributions 
 to the Foreign Missions might be sent to the S. P. F., because it is the 
 aim of the Society to equally distribute all its funds. (4th) The Crusade 
 could be in touch with the S. P. F. for the arrival of Missionaries, 
 for the latest mission publications, or lectures by the Missionaries. 
 (5th) The Members of the Crusade in their work in the schools and 
 parishes could urge the establishment of branch societies of the S. P. F. 
 
 A Society similar to that of the Propagation of the Faith is the 
 Association of the Holy Childhood, whose membership consists of Cath¬ 
 olic children and whose purpose is to educate and save pagan children, 
 by securing baptism for those in danger of death, buying those for 
 sale, bringing them up in orphanages, and founding new homes for them. 
 Every child may be a member from the time of its baptism by the 
 monthly payment of one cent. The C. S. M. C. will cooperate with 
 the Association by its work in parochial schools. The members will 
 urge all Catholic children to join the Holy Childhood for the pagan 
 babies; in a word, the means of cooperation are as varied as those sug¬ 
 gested for the S. P. F. 
 
 From what has been said above, it follows that the relation of the 
 Crusade to organization like the S. P. F. and the Holy Childhood As¬ 
 sociation must be one of complete harmony and close cooperation. Such 
 a relation will bring great benefits for the Crusade and for the organi¬ 
 zations in question. This conception of the work can be proved by 
 example of the Protestant Students Volunteer Movement. As the 
 Protestant Boards have benefitted immensely by the Movement, so all 
 Catholic Mission collecting societies will benefit by Crusade activities. 
 
 The relation of the Crusade to the Church Extension Society may 
 be solved along the lines followed above. 
 
 In the Crusade, there will doubtless be many units which, owing to 
 their situation, or by reason of their future work of the members, will 
 be more interested in the Home Missions. These units could correspond 
 with the Extension Society, subscribe to its publications, enroll as 
 members, and send their free contributions to the Home Mission through 
 the Extension Society. As in the case of the S. P. F., the Central 
 Bureau, or provincial head could secure a report of the most needy 
 Mission fields, promising districts for the erection of chapels etc. Thus 
 the relation of the Crusade to the Extension Society will be one of 
 harmony and cooperation. 
 
 An important branch of the Home Missions is the work among the 
 Negros and Indians. Here there is a wonderful field of activity open 
 to the Crusaders for the education of the Amercian people to the needs 
 
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 The Sacred Heart for the World 
 
 of these missions and the responsibility of the Catholic body for the suc¬ 
 cessful solving of the problem. 
 
 But does not the Crusade interfere with some of the other missionary 
 collecting societies, and as a new arrival in the field should it not be 
 deppendent on, or at least subservient to the larger organizations? It 
 is not at all the desire of the Catholic Students’ Mission Crusade to 
 interfere with the other missionary societies. The aim of the Crusade 
 is to aid all the interests of the Church by co-ordinating all student 
 mission activities for better and more effective action. And to attain 
 its God-given destiny the Crusade must remain independent of all exist¬ 
 ing mission collecting societies. Many of the members of such socie¬ 
 ties are, as a rule, content with paying their fees, and they expect a 
 heartfelt “thank you” from the Church when they have given a nickel 
 a month or less for the missions. The organization of the Catholic 
 students is distinctively a Crusade—an educational movement world¬ 
 wide in its application and results, winning the world to the Sacred 
 Heart. 
 
 No other mission organization has succeeded in arousing the student 
 body,—and yet it is evident that the hope of the future lies in the 
 students. Therefore, since only such a movement as the Crusade can 
 succeed with the students, and since the students must be won to save 
 the mission cause, it follows that any interference on the part of other 
 mission societies will be to their own detriment. Whereas the Crusade 
 left to work out its own plans unhampered, independent and unrestricted 
 will renew the “face of the earth.” In its vast field of activity, it will 
 cooperate with, and assist all the mission societies, directly or indirectly, 
 provided it remains subservient to none. Like the trained army of St. 
 Ignatius’ dreams, it will strengthen the line where it is weak; it will 
 fill in the breach made by the enemy, it will bring new life and courage 
 into everything Catholic and missionary, carrying all before it in the 
 stirring cry “God Wills It!” 
 
 As the Crusade is made up of student societies as units, the relation 
 of these units to the other mission organizations may be worth dis¬ 
 cussing. Is it not better for the unit to distribute all its specific con¬ 
 tributions to the missions through one mission organization? Should 
 the unit correspond with the missionaries? 
 
 I cannot see the utility of sending all funds for missionary districts 
 or mission schools in the field afar for distribution to only one col¬ 
 lecting agency or society. It is claimed that such a measure has many 
 advantages for the unit, protecting it, thereby, against fraud and im¬ 
 posture, by masquerading missionaries or unworthy subjects in the 
 field. This is quite true—but the danger of fraud can be removed by 
 concerted action with the Central Bureau or the Provincial Head, which 
 would take the trouble of looking into such matters and keep the units 
 accurately informed. Another advantage claimed is that it facilitates 
 relations with such an agency or society enabling it to aid many mis¬ 
 sionaries in greater need, for knowing who receives the funds of the 
 Crusade, the Society could help others less fortunate. All this is true. 
 But as a universal practice in the Crusade, this measure has a decided 
 disadvantage, because it leaves little or no room for correspondence 
 with missionaries at the front. If a personal letter from the mission¬ 
 aries could be guarantied when the funds were distributed through 
 
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 21 
 
 one collecting agency, all would be well; but this seems to remain un¬ 
 certain. 
 
 Now why is correspondence with missionaries so important? Because 
 it accounts for much of the success in mission work. The more of that 
 personal touch or contact with the men in the field afar, the greater 
 the zeal and enthusiasm of those at home. The following extracts are 
 from a letter that is a fair sample of hundreds of letters received by 
 mission societies. The writer is a teacher in one of the schools of 
 Michigan. She began the work by studying the location of a catechist 
 to be adopted. The letter contains . .. .“Possibly you do not fully realize 
 that if people know just where their money is to be used they will give 
 twice as much. Their interest will continue and develop. The contribu¬ 
 tors work for a certain definite object, which stimulates their zeal as 
 nothing else can.” So it is evident that correspondence with mission¬ 
 aries is most conducive to arousing the zeal of those at home. The 
 personal letter from the missionary has all the advantages of a lecture 
 on the field afar, or even a personal talk by a missionary. Therefore 
 the units should correspond with missionaries and ask a personal reply 
 —and this plan seems to us to be a vital factor for arousing missionary 
 interest, especially when our Crusade will have its own official organ 
 in which many of such letters may be published. 
 
 What they are doing at Notre Dame. 
 
 Mission Work of the Unit. 
 
 Just as there is no love more passionate than the love of God, so there 
 is no ambition more consuming than the ambition to save souls. This 
 ambition flames forth most intensely at certain times, most effectively 
 in great crises when mens’ souls are tried and the barriers that kept 
 their vision from enduring things have been burned away by the same 
 fires that purged their hearts of the dross of worldliness. 
 
 Thus it will be to the lasting credit of the far-visioned, brave-hearted 
 young men who have started the Students’ Mission Crusade, that they 
 organized it at a time when such a movement was most opportune, at 
 a time not only when the missions at home and in distant places needed 
 help sorely, but also when the Catholic American youth was most re¬ 
 sponsive to appeals to inate generosity and characteristic enthusiasm. 
 
 The donning of the Khaki made the American soldier-student a cham¬ 
 pion of the loftiest principles for which any country ever fought. 
 
 The magnaminity, the love of justice and truth and virtue, inspired 
 by the critical conflict of 1917-1918, have sunk deeply into the young 
 men of the nation and must affect their future conduct. 
 
 Now that the beginning has been so auspicious, it is the duty of 
 those charged with this Mission Crusade to discover plans for the 
 realization of its aims and to secure means whereby its works may be 
 more effectually promoted. There is no doubt about its final success, 
 if we work earnestly and together, for supporting it is that same 
 Providence which inspired it. The purpose is divine, “The World for 
 the Sacred Heart; the Sacred Heart for the World,” as it has been 
 felicitously expressed: the means are an organized student body, litera- 
 
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 The Sacred Heart for the World 
 
 ture, propaganda of various kinds, along with many of those human 
 instrumentalities by which the Lord accomplishes His works among men. 
 
 According it is for us to use the means at our disposal in such a 
 way as to draw down the greater favor of Him in whose name and for 
 whose sake the movement has been started and to effect a swift and 
 sure extension of the work entrusted to us. Some time ago I was re¬ 
 quested by the Rev. John O’Hara, prefect of religion and Dean of the 
 Foreig:n Commerce Department of the University of Notre Dame to 
 prepare a paper for this conference on “Mission Work of the Unit.” 
 The subject assigned me was accompanied with an outline thoughtfully 
 furnished by the president of the St. Meinrad’s Unit. I decided, how¬ 
 ever, not to use the outline, not because it was unsatisfactory, but be¬ 
 cause after consultation with several religious experienced in missionary 
 matters and after obtaining Rev. Reinwand’s gracious permission, I 
 deemed it more practicable to give an account of the mission activities 
 engaged in by Notre Dame, particularly inasmuch as such a treatment 
 would cover in essential all the main ideas set forth in the outline, and 
 at the same time, consider them concretely. This paper, therefore, will 
 deal with the methods of an organization closely resembling the college 
 unit planned by the Crusade and, I think, be more helpful than a 
 theoretical or general discussion. It will not be strictly divided into 
 the educational, spiritual, and financial order printed on the program 
 but will, in its several sections, touch adequately upon each. I do not 
 aim to advance original schemes for the progress of Crusade work, 
 but only to tell you clearly and concisely just what schemes for the 
 furtherance of mission work Notre Dame has tried with success. 
 
 The religious community which conducts the University of Notre 
 Dame does not limit its activity to higher education, but is also, engaged 
 in journalistic, in parish, and in mission work—^both home and foreign. 
 As is natural, the members of Holy Cross Congregation link together 
 the three branches of the work of the congregation so that one branch 
 may share in the benefits and fruits of the other, with the result that 
 there is, what I might call a threefold reciprocal operation which con¬ 
 duces to the advancement of the interests of them all. To illustrate: 
 the college aids the missions by monetary contributions and by train¬ 
 ing men for labor in the mission fields at home and abroad; the mis¬ 
 sion in turn by extending its spiritual conquest through the material 
 assistance donated by the college and parish draws down the blessing 
 of Heaven, so that the congregation becomes more prosperous and the 
 resources proportionately greater, especially in vocations. The adage 
 “nothing draws success like success” obtains in the spiritual just as in 
 the commercial or the political or the literary world. The parish, like 
 the college, gives both spiritual and material help to the missions, as 
 I will explain later, and to the college gives boys who, after a university 
 training, will be intelligently and practically interested in the great 
 work of evangelization. That in brief, is the foundation of the Notre 
 Dame scheme for carrying out, in its limited way, the commission of 
 Christ. 
 
 Let us now take up in order the parish, the high school, and the 
 colleges as they conspire in the furtherance of truth, and see what can 
 be done for the missions by each. In South Bend, Fort Wayne, Indian¬ 
 apolis, Portland, Oregon; Austin, Texas; and Washington, D. C., where 
 
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 Holy Cross men are stationed, either in parishes or schools, and in 
 several other cities, notably Ogden, Utah, where the Sisters of Holy 
 Cross have academies for young ladies, many practical means are em¬ 
 ployed for the aid of the Bengal Mission. The Bengal Mission is one 
 of the thirteen Catholic missions of India and extends from the Bay 
 of Bengal to the foothills of the Himalayas. It has been under the 
 spiritual care of the Congregation of Holy Cross since 1853. It is a 
 little larger in square miles than the State of Indiana; its population 
 is six times as great as that of the State of Illinois—20,000,000 people, 
 only 12,000 of whom are Catholics. It has been found that people in 
 parishes and the children of the elementary grades respond cordially 
 and generously to the appeals of this mission, once its existence and 
 needs are made known to them by pastors and teachers. Card parties, 
 dances, novelty and histrionic entertainments, lawn fetes, illustrated 
 lectures, and various similar amusements are some of the usual means 
 employed for the raising of funds for the Bengal diocese. Mission clubs 
 have been formed in all the cities named before and, through their 
 promoters, keep in close touch with the Director of Bengal affairs in 
 the United States. In St. Joseph’s parish in South Bend, ten young 
 ladies recently established a sewing society for the purpose of provid¬ 
 ing altar linens for the missionary priests in India. Money for the 
 purchase of materials is raised by bi-monthly dues and by the sale of 
 papers and magazines. Their efforts are not, however, confined to those 
 two sources of revenue. The girls have given several musical recitals 
 and conducted two or three entertainments which have been largely 
 successful from a financial viewpoint. It is not difficult to interest 
 a parish group like this in mission work if interesting methods for 
 arousing and sustaining enthusiasm be employed. It must be kept in 
 mind however, that much of the success of a thing of this kind is at¬ 
 tributable to the pastor and his co-operation and counsel must be 
 secured. If a pastor is willing to encourage cordially and practically 
 a mission organidation in his parish in a surprisingly short while other 
 associations will take up work for the help of the missions with real 
 eagerness. 
 
 The high school, in which, next to the college, the mission spirit ought 
 to thrive, has been found by Notre Dame to be a rich source of mission 
 succor. The Brothers in the boys’ school, and the Sisters in the acad¬ 
 emies, have succeeded in enlisting the support of their pupils in the 
 dissemination of literature and oral information about Bengal and 
 have also, by inculcating the love of souls and a slight realization of 
 the value of a soul, made of many boys and girls earnest, enegetic 
 workers in their own vicinities in behalf of the foreign mission. Raf¬ 
 fles, donations of small sums saved by making little personal sacrifices, 
 athletic contests, entertainments, and the like, are the favorite and 
 frequent modes of raising funds among high school students under 
 the tutelage of Holy Cross religious. In Indianapolis last January the 
 raffle of a watch conducted by the boys of the Cathedral high school 
 netted $100,00 for the Bengal mission. Chances at $.25 were sold and 
 according to report were disposed of without the least difficulty. In 
 this, as in other efforts by the boys of this school, the priest of the 
 Cathedral parish, and particularly the Bishop, Rt. Rev. Joseph Char- 
 trand, gave active encouragement to the experiment. In March each 
 
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 boy of the school pledged himself to make during Lent a weekly con¬ 
 tribution equivallent to the sum ordinarily spent outside the holy season 
 for candy, theatres, tobacco, and the like. The result of this personal 
 sacrifice effort was one hundred dollars. The Sisters of Providence 
 in Indianapolis were enlisted as co-workers by the Cathedral Club to 
 give aid to the missionaries and to secure members for the Bengal 
 Foreign Mission Society, an organization established for the express 
 purpose of promoting the interests of the Bengal Mission. This ex¬ 
 ample shows that once a mission club has appeared in a city its spirit 
 rapidly extends itself to other schools with immeasurable benefit to the 
 men spending their lives in a lonely land that the “praises of God may 
 be on the lips of a new people.” 
 
 In Columbia college, Portland Oregon, which is chiefly a preparatory 
 institution, an amateur boxing match and entertainment was held last 
 February, and the proceeds from the admission charge contributed to 
 the Bengal fund. Thus even the strenuous pastime of Dares can be 
 utilized for the promotion of Catholic charity work for missions. At 
 the Central high school in Fort Wayne, the biggest athletic event of 
 the winter season is the “Mission Basketball Game,” a contest between 
 the most skilful team in that part of the state and the “Central quintet” 
 for the championship of the locality, all the proceeds of which go to 
 the Bishop of Dacca. Tickets are sold weeks ahead by all the students 
 of the school, so that by the night of the game a considerable sum has 
 been gathered and a crowd of spectators large enough to licit not a 
 little attention from the newspapers has been brought together. In- 
 1918 one hundred dollars was realized in this way and this year 
 $ 112 . 00 . 
 
 The spirit actuating all the mission work in the high schools and 
 parishes was thus succinctly expressed in an editorial which appeared 
 this year in a February issue of the Notre Dame “Scholastic,” the 
 weekly magazine edited by the students of the university: “A few cents 
 in the hands of a foreign missioner may mean the salvation of a pagan 
 soul.” The lessons learned from these illustration is that when Catho¬ 
 lic people are made to realize in a degree the preciousness of a soul, 
 all the obstacles to popular interest disappear of themselves. 
 
 For the reason that the Students’ Mission Crusade deals directly 
 with the university, college, and seminary, it is proper that considerable 
 importance and principal discussion should be given to this phase of 
 the subject. First of all the personal influence element ought to be 
 treated, for obviously, it is most significant. At Notre Dame, it is 
 customary to have, during the year, many men of prominence, both in 
 secular and ecclesiastical activity, address the students. Often it hap¬ 
 pens that a man who devoted himself to missionary labor comes to 
 the college and is invited to lecture on some subject within his field. 
 Many people think that the college student is so intent upon either 
 athletics or studies that he has neither the time nor the inclination to 
 attend to foreign mission work. But I know, from actual experience, 
 that this much misunderstood person is not insular and is not selfish. 
 Frequently he occupies himself with salutary things outside the curric¬ 
 ulum, the athletic schedule, and social affairs. There are other things 
 and nobler things in undergraduate life than Greek classas, and foot¬ 
 ball games and dances and the occasional raising of hilarity. The 
 
Top Ro'W, Left to Right. 
 
 1 Forrest Strange, St. Meinrad College, St. Meinrad, Ind. 
 
 2 Rev. Herbert Winterhalter, Villa Madonna Academy, Covington, Kentucky. 
 
 3 William .J. MeKeown, Mt. St. Mary’s Seminary, Cincinnati, 0. 
 
 4 •John E. Hardig, St. Xavier College, Cincinnati, 0. 
 
 .5 Avitus E. Lyons, Mt. St. Mary’s Seminary, Cincinnati, 0. 
 
 6 Rev. Paul Deery, Indinapolis, Indiana. 
 
 7 Joseph O’Meara, Jr., St. Xavier College, Cincinnati, O. 
 
 8 Clement Bastnagel, St. Meinrad Seminary, St. Meinrad, Ind. 
 
 9 Rev. Newton Thompson, Maryknoll, N. Y. 
 
 10 Rev. E. Eisenman, Recording Secretary, St. Meinrad Seminary, St. Meinrad. Ind. 
 
 11 Rev. John Handly, C. S. P., Chicago, Illinois. 
 
 12 Rev. John Vagedes, St. Walburga Academy, Covington, Ky. 
 
 13 Bernard Loepker, Recording Secretary, St. Meinrad Seminary, St. Meinrad, Ind. 
 
 14 Edwin P. Seidel, .Josephinum, Columbus, O. 
 
 1-5 Rev. Joseph Reiner, S. J., St. Xavier College, Cincinnati, 0. 
 
 16 William A. Benz, Techny, Illinois. 
 
 Middle Row, Left to Right. 
 
 1 Rev. Joseph Kenkel, C. PP. S., Carthagena, 0. 
 
 2 Rev. R. J. Markham, D. D., Mt. St. Mary’s Seminary, Cincinnati, O. 
 
 3 Rev. John L. Ott, St. Mary’s College, Dayton, 0. 
 
 4 Rev. Norbert Spitzmesser, O. S. B., Immaculate Conception Academy, Ferdinand, 
 
 Indiana. 
 
 5 Rev. Charles Walsh, St. Marys-of-the-Woods, Indiana. 
 
 6 Rev. J. Paschal Hayden, District Manager Elect, Mt. St. Joseph’s Convent and 
 
 Academy, Mt. St. Josephs, Ky. 
 
 7 Mr. Floyd Keeler, Field Secretary, Apostolic Mission House, Washington, D. C. 
 
 8 Rev. Bernard Heichelbech, 0. S. B., Rector Jasper College, Jasper, Ind. 
 
 9 Rev. Frank S. Beckman, D. D., Mt. St. Mary’s Seminaiy, Cincinnati, 0. 
 
 10 Very Rev. J. A. Burgmer, S. V. D., Provincial, Techny, Illinois. 
 
 11 Rev. Joseph Molitor, Josephinum, Columbus, 0. 
 
 Bottom Roiv, Left to Right. 
 
 1 Glenn F. Walker, Loretto Convent and Academy, Loretto, Ky. 
 
 2 Rev. Urban Sonderman, St. Meinrad Seminary, St. Meinrad, Ind. 
 
 3 Joseph Gilbert Trible, St. Meinrad Seminary, St. Meinrad, Ind. 
 
 4 Rev. Frederic Reinwand, Chairman of Conference, St. Meinrad Seminary, St. 
 
 Meinrad, Ind. 
 
 5 William C. Havey, Notre Dame University, Notre Dame, Ind. 
 
 6 Frank A. Thill, Secretary of Executive Board, Mt. St. Mary’s Seminary, Cincin¬ 
 
 nati, 0. 
 
 7 Joseph Keber, Josephinum, Columbus, O. 
 
 8 Ralph E. Thyken, Techny, Illinois. 
 
 9 Dewey J. Marks, St. John’s University, Toledo, 0. 
 
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 normal student knows it and he shapes his corlduct conformably to his 
 knowledge. Again to the average college man, who after all is just as 
 much a hero-worshipper as when he was going through the Penrod 
 period, there is in the priest who has abandoned home and brethren and 
 country to entomb himself in a far-olF, perilous land, an attraction and 
 a glamour far more magnetic than that which irradiates from the 
 athletic marvel or the intellectual prodigy. To those of you who know 
 the psychology of the college student, the reason is plain. It is the 
 same psychological principle which was at work during the war-times. 
 The government sent out men who had seen service at the front to 
 give speeches throughout the country in order to stir up greater in¬ 
 terest, pecuniary and patriotic, in the war and incidentally to augment 
 entlistments. What does this experience suggest if not that enthusiasm 
 for the crusade must be fostered in our Catholic houses of education. 
 That is, men who have done actual mission work, men who have seen 
 service in the far-flung outposts of Christianity, men who are aglow 
 with the love of souls and filled with the knowledge of how to save 
 them, must be brought into personal contact with our American stu¬ 
 dents that by their speech and example they may impart to the latter 
 the zeal and devotion which animates themselves. 
 
 “Quasi lumen de suo lumine accendat, facit: 
 
 Nihilominus ipsi lucet, quum illi accenderit.” 
 
 Like the traveller whose torch does not cease to burn when he gives 
 a light to that of another, so the missionary will be able to furnish 
 illumination and ardor to others without diminishing his own. 
 
 There are in vogue varous ways of promoting material interest in 
 the foreign missions among Notre Dame students, one of the most 
 feasible of which has been the placing of mite boxes in all the study and 
 residence halls of the university. Above the boxes is a neat placard 
 requesting contributions from spending money for the support of the 
 orphans of the Bengal diocese. I am happy to say that this simple 
 plea is answered nobly by the boys of Notre Dame; for when the boxes 
 are opened the contributions are found to be gratifyingly generous. 
 The men who labor for the conversion of the Bengalese are old Notre 
 Dame men, priests and brothers who once recited in the class rooms, 
 played on the same fields and loved the same teachers and traditions 
 as the students of today. In the Notre Dame student the spirit of 
 fraternity does not die when college days are over, and so the gallant 
 gentlemen who spend themselves on the other side of the world in a 
 land of loneliness and fever and sometimes death are remembered in 
 a most consolingly helpful way by their younger college brothers. 
 
 The Holy Cross Mission Band with headquarters at Notre Dame, 
 although engaged entirely in American mission work, helps considerably 
 to propagate an active interest in the affairs of Bengal. By their for¬ 
 tunate nearness to the students of the university, the members of the 
 Band are able to wield over youthful hearts and minds an unobtrusive 
 influence and shape in youthful souls great dreams that will later come 
 true in some glorious achievement for God and His creatures. 
 
 There is at Notre Dame one organized method for furthering the 
 foreign mission activities of the Congregation, formerly called the 
 Holy Cross Missionary Society, but now known as the Bengal Foreign 
 Mission. Society. Since its organization it has been, steadily growing 
 
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 in influence until now it supervises practically all the actual work of 
 assisting the Bengal mission. The object of the society is stated as 
 “an organization established for the purpose of aiding by prayer and 
 alms the foreign missions in the diocese of Dacca, East Bengal, India.’' 
 At vrst the qualifications for membership were strict and rather prohi¬ 
 bitive. For example, only one who had reached the age of eighteen 
 and was a member of the Congregation or postulant for the religious 
 state in Holy Cross Congregation was eligible for membership. Recent¬ 
 ly the conditions for belonging to the society have been so modified, 
 that anyone who says daily one Hail Mary with an invocation for the 
 conversion of the Bengalese, contributes five cents a month to aid the 
 missions, and reads the “Bengal Apostolate” a monthly magazine which 
 will, under the auspices of the Seminary members of the Society, be 
 published beginning next September, is entitled to the seven specific 
 benefits of membership, ranging from a pleneary indulgence on the 
 day of enrollment to a daily remembrance in the prayers of the Con¬ 
 gregation. The director-general of the Society, Rev. Michael Mathis, 
 C. S. C., is stationed in Washington, D. C., and from there advises the 
 officers and branches in all their operations. Promoters are appointed 
 in every high school, and college under the managements of the Holy 
 Cross Congregation and to them is delegated the responsibility of ex¬ 
 tending and directing the work for the Bengal Mission in their respective 
 localities. For several years a leaflet has been printed each month— 
 this leaflet will be supplanted by the “Bengalese,” the oflicial periodical 
 of the Society beginning next Fall—in which letters from the mission¬ 
 aries have been published, information about the mission in Dacca has 
 been given, and the work of the different allied organizations has been 
 discussed. It has been found that a publication, no matter how small, 
 is exceedingly valuable for instructing persons who are willing and 
 able to help the missions, and that it amply repays the time and labor 
 involved in its making. Accordingly it would, as it seems from ex¬ 
 perience, be for the advantage of the Students’ Mission Crusade to 
 have a monthly, or even a quarterly, official organ to acquaint others 
 with the aims of the Crusade and keep up interest among members. 
 This logically leads to the question of publicity. I had an occasion to 
 note the efficacy of advertising an organized collegiate movement when 
 the question of prohibition was up for debate between Notre Dame 
 and Cincinnati university. I wanted to get information on the affirma¬ 
 tive side of the question and sent to the Intercollegiate Prohibition As¬ 
 sociation, the headquarters of which was in Chicago, a request for mat¬ 
 ter that might be useful to one in such a contest. Enough literature 
 to fill a trunk was forwarded and while going through some of it I 
 discovered that the association was strongly organized in every secular 
 university of consequence in the country, was a most powerful opponent 
 of the liquor industry, and had students delivering speeches, writing 
 articles, and engaged in any propaganda that could help the cause of 
 the fight against liquor. Some students with convictions and courage 
 had persuaded themselves that the manufacture and sale of wine, 
 whiskey, and beer as bad, and soon a national organization for the 
 abolition of the liquor traffic was formed. The result you well know. 
 The liquor business will shortly be but a shadowy memory, and its 
 death is principally attributable to the hatred aroused for it and the 
 
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 fight waged against it by leaders of thought who demonstrated that 
 they could become leaders of action as well, who showed conclusively 
 that mind is might and that once an organization of undergraduates 
 takes up publicity for the realization of their aims a potent influence 
 is exerted on the rest of society. 
 
 The various schemes for raising revenues towards the subsidy of 
 the Bengal Mission are oftentimes as ingenious as they are practical 
 and productive. I have observed in reading the Bulletins published at 
 Techny and the papers printed in the report of last year’s convention, 
 that several of these schemes have already been suggested as a practi¬ 
 cable way of reaching the financial objectives of the Students’ Crusade. 
 The active members of the Bengal Society are in many instances leaders 
 in scholastic life, in the classroom, on the athletic field, on the forensic 
 floor, in every phase of college life. This leadership with them, however, 
 is not conducive to conceit, or priggishness, or what is worse, intellectual 
 snobbery, for there is no work, no matter how lowly, that they will 
 not, in their beautiful humility, engage for the service of the missions. 
 Just as affiliation with the Students’ Mission Crusade honors any uni¬ 
 versity or college in the country, no matter how large or ancient or 
 famous, so labor for the cause of pagan souls is regarded by the mem¬ 
 bers of this society as a genuine distinction. Paper is gathered and 
 baled by the boys themselves, old clothes, shoes, rubber, tinfoil are ac¬ 
 cumulated in a convenient place for the purpose of giving the proceeds 
 to the support of the Bengal diocese; some boys with all the zeal of 
 professional philatelists collect cancelled stamps; two young men par¬ 
 ticularly, one of whom is the university organist and the other Grand 
 Knight of the Notre Dame Council of the Knights of Columbus, sweep 
 out an assembly-chamber and turn over the remuneration for this 
 janitor work to the keeper of the funds for the Bishop of Dacca. 
 Obviously youths with that spirit, who can find time to lend their whole¬ 
 hearted services to a cause which they are under no obligation to ally 
 themselves with, a spirit emanating from an unaffected, unpretentious, 
 practical interest in the missions are an inspiration to those who are 
 seeking men and means to further this Crusade movement. Frequent¬ 
 ly the prize money of oratorical and debating contests is donated by 
 the winners to the mite boxes distributed about the university. An 
 appeal for the missions in the form of an editorial in the college maga¬ 
 zine often results in a gift from this source. I am familiar with the 
 case of one boy who won the gold medal for the best historical essay 
 on the Northwest Territory and subsequently received one hundred dol¬ 
 lars for the manuscript from a publishing concern. He gave half the re¬ 
 ward to the Bengal fund. 
 
 I have emphasized somewhat the disposition of the students of Notre 
 Dame in regard to mission effort because I have been among them for 
 several years and know them more intimately than the boys of other 
 schools. But I am sure that they are types of the studentse of every 
 Catholic college in the country, that the Catholic student is the same 
 the world over, his innate and frequent beneficence varying only in 
 degree and not in kind. The energies to be enlisted by the Students’ 
 Mission Crusade into a powerful force for Catholicism throughout the 
 world are the best possible for the purpose and if enlisted aright the 
 success of this movement will be as sure as the sunset and enduring as 
 
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 truth. A prompt seizing of our opportunities will mean the winning 
 over of thousands of Catholic students of the country and a convei^sion 
 of their energy into a service supervised by the Crusade that will make 
 this movement one of the biggest things that ever happened for the 
 weal of the Church in America. 
 
 ■ In regard to the spiritual side of the work of the unit not much 
 needs be said. I shall not treat at lenth then what Notre Dame does 
 in the way of prayer for the missions. For to even a nominal Cath¬ 
 olic it is patent that without prayer nothing could be accomplished 
 in mission work. Prayer is te basis of our effort as it is of everything 
 else that looks toward the spiritual betterment of mankind and the 
 greater glory of God. It is sufficient to say that every member of the 
 Holy Cross Congregation has at heart the evangelization of India, fully 
 aware that in proportion as he labors and prays for the foreign mis¬ 
 sion, the Holy Ghost will bless and further his individual labors and 
 the labors of his brethren. It is common knowledge that multiplied 
 vocations and prosperity most surely follow upon a religious order’s 
 active interest in aiding the missions and fostering the missionary 
 spirit. Last winter Bishop Le Grande of the Dacca diocese wrote a 
 clear statement of conditions in his territory, declaring that there is 
 no limit to what can be done there if the means are at hand. The 
 Superior-General of the Congregation published the communication to 
 his subjects in the form of a circular letter, with the exhortation that 
 its contents be remembered by the religious of every house in the 
 province during the daily mass and meditation. The Bengal Foreign 
 Mission Society makes it a constitutional provision for its members to 
 receive Holy Communion on the first Monday of each month and on 
 the days of meetings for the intention of the missions. 
 
 I have tried to show that by a missionary unit in a college, work for 
 the support of the missions can be successfully carried on in parishes, 
 high schools, and academies;-—-work of an educational, financial, and 
 spiritual nature most beneficial to the unit itself. If it is enterprising 
 enough, such an organization could easily group under it a number 
 of subsidiary agencies and by alliance with a national organization like 
 the S. M. C. make the whole work for missions much more extensive 
 and effective. I have shown the various ways in which a college unit 
 could function by sketching the operations of an organization which has 
 all the qualifications except the name and which has been at work for 
 more than ten years. And I feel confident that the success it has en¬ 
 joyed will offer an incentive to other institutions for establishing units 
 of much the same kind and their success will be even larger with the 
 lessons that experience alone can adequately teach. 
 
 These observations upon the mission work with relation to the college 
 unit suggest the existence of a factor of great significance to all 
 of us; a factor which really is what the success of the Crusade will 
 be based upon. It may have been indicated before, but it is worth while 
 making most apparent in conclusion. Stated in a sentence it is the 
 natural disposition of the American Catholic student for things in¬ 
 trinsically noble and heroic, and the providential compatibility of the 
 Students’ Mission Crusade with this disposition. Let us keep in mind 
 that this Crusade brings into our modern ^era the opportunity which 
 made the strong-souled knights of the Middle Ages, that it is in fine, 
 
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 what the Catholic student has always wahted, what he has long awaited,; 
 to gratify his natural craving for] ithings of the spirit. You are well 
 aware that the_ Catholic student, whether he be in the university or 
 in the high school, hungers to hear of deeds of valor and heroism and;' 
 loves to listen to tales of valiant men who gave themselves gladly to 
 the golry of God and the salvation of His children. And deep down in 
 his heart he yearns to take some part in those deeds and in some way 
 to help to make new stories of high-minded, stout-hearted Christian 
 knights. And what is the STUDENTS' MISSION CRUSADE but a 
 re-birth of the spirit of Christian chivalry? Show me a youth whose, 
 fancy is not quickened, whose heart is not thrilled, whose soul is not 
 awed by the story of those militant missioners, Richard the Lion-Hearted 
 and Don John of Austria; those deathless heroes, Xayier and Damien; 
 those intrepid couriers of truth, Marquette and La Salle, and I will 
 say that he is neither a youth nor a Catholic, but a thin-blooded, weak- 
 spirited creature whose virility and imagination are dead. But in our 
 ranks that variety is, thank God, very scarce. 
 
 We have but to make a strong appeal to the boys of our Catholic 
 schools and colleges in order to enlist their complete and cordial co¬ 
 operation. Let US urge then the establishment of a unit of the STU¬ 
 DENTS' MISSION CRUSADE in every Catholic college in the United 
 States with full confidence that our appeal will be heeded and that 
 great things will inevitably ensue. No work failed yet that had God 
 and His saints supporting it and was carried on by the undaunted spirit 
 of young manhood. We are sure of God's favor and the blessing and 
 approbation of his ministers. Let us then push forward bravely and, 
 hopefully in the firm faith that our venture will succeed and the golden 
 dreams of its beginners come true. All at Notre Dame would heartily 
 participate in this enterprise undertaken under the direction of the 
 STUDENTS' MISSION CRUSADE and would regard it as a high 
 honor to be in any way responsible for its success. 
 
 Conclusion, and Instructions for the Unit 
 
 This concludes the first Bulletin of the Cincinnati District 
 of the Catholic Students’ Mission Crusade.—Tardiness is not 
 its only fault, , yet we hope that it will, at least in some mea¬ 
 sure, serve the purpose of its issue. 
 
 We should have liked to publish here some of the excellent 
 papers read and speeches made extra sessionem at the Jasper 
 Convention, especially the talk of Mr. Dewey J. Marks of 
 St. John’s University, Toledo, 0. on the “Penny Collection” 
 and of Mr. Hardig of St. Xavier’s, Cincinnati, on the “Big 
 Brother’s Society,”, but we shall save these for our next Bul¬ 
 letin. 
 
 Let us see what progress we can make before that time. 
 The relation and manner of cooperation between the Units 
 and District Manager shall be simply that of neutral help and 
 encouragment. 
 
 A free expression of views, a generous interchange of ideas 
 and experiences in missionary work should always pass among 
 
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 them. While Units are entirely independent as to their mis¬ 
 sion work, they should not be selfish or exclusive, or hide their 
 light under a bushel, but should let the other Units know what 
 they are doing for the cause and should thus promote it by 
 their good example. 
 
 We give a few brief instructions for the operation of the 
 Provincial organization. 
 
 1. For the Scholastic Year the Reports of the Units shall 
 be made on or before the first of February and the fifteenth 
 of May respectively. These reports shall be sent to the Dis¬ 
 trict Manager, who will, in due time, furnish blanks to the 
 Units to facilitate their reports. 
 
 2. The Per Capita tax shall be sent to the District Man¬ 
 ager; likewise shall new Units apply to him for affiliation. 
 
 —Instructions for the Units.— 
 
 The Units of the Cincinnati District are no doubt anxious 
 to know specifically what their relations shall be with the 
 District Organizations and how they can cooperate with the 
 District Manager. These questions are briefly answered here 
 so far as it is possible to do so at the present development of 
 the Crusade. 
 
 The purpose of the District Manager's Office, is to bring 
 the Crusade organization closer to the Units and thereby in¬ 
 crease its efficiency. Its other object is to relay and facilitate 
 the work of the Executive Committee. 
 
 The relations between the District Manager and the Units, 
 therefore, shall be one of mutual encouragement and services. 
 The Unit, or the Unit Secretaries, should not hesitate to 
 write to the District Manager whenever they desire to in¬ 
 quire about, suggest or promote anything for the good of the 
 cause. 
 
 For the rest: This scholastic year, the report of November, 
 15th will be omitted, but all Unit activities from September 
 to February will be included in the February report. 
 
 —Suggestions for Crusade Activity_ 
 
 The Units are exhorted not to forget that their chief work 
 in behalf of God's Kingdom must be prayer for the missions. 
 Let prayers be said for this purpose in common; let novenas 
 be made and Holy Masses be read for the propagation of the 
 Faith. Another good practise is to observe the Church Unity 
 Octave and other enterprises of prayer in behalf of the 
 Church. 
 
 As to educational work, the field is a vast one. Self educa¬ 
 tion should be the prime consideration. Mission programs, 
 therefore, in which the heroic lives and grand accomplish¬ 
 ments of Catholic missionaries are reviewed and in which 
 present-day mission works and needs are investigated, are 
 most useful. 
 
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 An important activity in behalf of the missions is the con¬ 
 ducting of Crusade departments in magazines and other Cath¬ 
 olic publications. This is already being done by several Units; 
 it is a most effectual work. The District Manager wishes to 
 urge, especially, this method of promoting the Crusade. 
 
 Another promising line of endeavor, and to the present 
 unattended, would be the forming of clipping and pamphlet 
 libraries in college units. These clipping libraries could serve 
 to accumulate and have in readiness reading matter on Cath¬ 
 olic questions for the use of litereary societies in parochial 
 schools, or for those who have need of pertinent and current 
 literature on religious subjects. This work would be parallel 
 to the '‘School Extension Work,” carried on by secular educa¬ 
 tional institutions. It would serve to bring the Catholic people 
 close to their Catholic College for the greater welfare of both. 
 
 These are but a few suggestions. In the next Bulletin, the 
 report of the Units of the District will, no doubt, reveal many 
 good and practical ways of helping the missions. In the 
 mean time let us all work. The Catholic Students of America 
 are on trial. Do they realize the opportunity of the hour? 
 Are they alive to the needs of their fellow men, are they 
 zealous for the honor and glory of God? Let us answer these 
 questions the next few months by what we do for the mis¬ 
 sions in teaching, in prayer, in almsgiving; let our answer be 
 charity and self-sacrifice, that the ideal we have set before 
 us may never be lost:—'The Sacred Heart for the World, the 
 World for the Sacred Heart.” 
 
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