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Montreal, May-June 1927 Vol.IV., 5th Year No.3 liVaa mm §mm: V-Ai WORKS ALREADY EXISTING of the Missionary Sisters of the Immaculate Conception MOTHER-HOUSE 314 ST.CATHERINE ROAD, OUTREMONT, NEAR MONTREAL (Founded in 1902) Diocesan Office of the Holy Childhood.Procure for the Missions.Work-room of Church Vestments, embroidery, lace and painting for the support of the Mother-House and Novitiate.School for the formation of Chinese catechists.Sewing-circles for ladies and young girls.Diffusion of a Missionary Review : The Precursor.Free missionary Library.NOVITIATE PONT VIAU, NEAR MONTREAL HOLY CHILDHOOD HOME P.0.BOX 93, CANTON, CHINA (Founded in 1909) School for catechists.Catechumenate.School for Christian and pagan pupils.Orphanage.Foundling-Home.Work-rooms.SHEK-LUNG LAZARETTO SHEK-LUNG, NEAR CANTON, CHINA (Founded in 1913) CHINESE WORKS IN MONTREAL 74 LAGAUCHET 1ERE ST.WEST, MONTREAL (Founded in 1913) Sunday school and language courses for Chinese adults, every Sunday afternoon, from 2.30 to 4.00.CHINESE SCHOOL (Founded in 1916) Teaching of English, French and Chinese.CHINESE HOSPITAL AND DISPENSARY 76 LAGAUCHETIERE STREET WEST, MONTREAL (Founded in 1918) The Missionary Sisters of the Immaculate Conception also visit Chinese patients in Catholic or Protestant Hospitals.{To be continued on page 3 of the cover) Montreal THE PRECURSOR May-June 1927 please i>elp tfjc iHtsisitonarp listers! of tïje immaculate Conception By procuring work for them THE Missionary Sisters of the Immaculate Conception have a work-room in which are made church-vestments and altar-linens, the profits of which are destined to support their Mother-House and Novitiate.Missionaries must undergo several years’ preparation before being able to commence their apostolic labors in foreign fields.The articles mentioned on the following page may be procured, on reasonable terms, at the work-shop of the Missionary Sisters of the Immaculate Conception, 314 St.Catherine Road, Outremont, Montreal.We paint, to order, spiritual bouquets,'^calendars with pictures of Our Lady, the Holy Family, the Little Flower, and mission scenes.First Communion and Confirmation badges, scapulars, Agnus Dei, cushions, etc.Wax infants for Christmas cribs, are also made in all sizes.Chinese embroideries and laces are offered for sale.They are made by our Chinese orphans.By encouraging these sales you co-operate in the salvation of many young pagan girls who, while earning their livelihood in Catholic work-shops, receive at the same time the light of Faith.I _ >"5 « :r.3 •SS» •ssas** Montreal THE PRECURSOR May-June 1927 l£mblp Heab Httentibelp Chasuble, damask silk, silk braid.$ 18.00 and $ 28.00 moire - antique, with beautiful emblem.30.00 “ 38.00 velvet, gold braid and emblem .30.00 “ 45.00 gold-embroidered moire-antique 75.00 “ 100.00 gold-cloth, gold braid and emb.50.00 “ 75.00 “ fine gold - cloth, very richly hand embroidered .90.00 ' Dalmatics, per pair .50.00 ' gold-cloth, per pair.100.00 ‘ 150.00 80.00 150.00 upwards 50.00 Benediction Veils.7.00 Cope, damask silk, silk or gold braid.30.00 “ gold - embroidered moire-antique, gold emblem .70.00 “ 90.00 “ gold-cloth, gold - embroidered by hand with a beautiful emblem.90.00 “ 150.00 Albs, Antependiums .10.00 “ upwards Linen Surplices, Monstrance Veils.3.00 Felt Altar-Covers, green or red.5.00 Tabernacle Veils, Sick Call Burses.5.00 Reversible Confession Stoles .5.00 Ciborium Covers.4.00 Preaching Stoles .10.00 Cinctures .2.00 Altar-bread Boxes .2.00 Missal Marks .1.75 Breviary Marks.1.00 Canopies, Flags .30.00 Banners .60.00 Altar Cloths .6.00 Amices .12.00 per doz Corporals .8.50 Finger-towels .4.50 Purificators .5.00 v Palls .4.00 We supply Altar-breads at the following prices : Small.$1.00 per 1000 Large .0.37 “ 100 Altar Linen { ill r^~Ï5jHE Montreal THE PRECURSOR May-June 1927 Practical jfWeami of helping the Missionary Sisters of the Immaculate Conception By contributing alms to : The erection of the Novitiate Chapel dedicated to Our Lady of the Missions.The erection of Chapels in mission countries.By providing for the : Annual supply for the upkeep of the sanctuary lamp in our houses of Canada and in mission countries $ 20.00 Foundation of a Burse for the support of a missionary sister.1,000.00 Annual support of a maiden-catechist.50.00 Annual support and education of an orphan.40.00 Foundation of a crib—at perpetuity.’.200.00 Annual care of a leper.60.00 Monthly upkeep of a crib.5.00 Ransom of a baby, likely to live.5.00 Ransom of a dying baby.-25 Monthly support of a missionary sister.10.00 Monthly support of a novice preparing for the missions .10.00 Annual subscription to The Precursor.1.00 The alms that you will give to the missionaries, the help that you will bring them, will be employed for the greater glory of God, and will be for you the most certain and remuneratory investment, the “ hundredfold ” promised by Jesus Christ.& % # The missionary must not be alone to sacrifice himself.All Christians must unite and help him in his work by their prayers and alms. Montreal THE PRECURSOR May-June 1927 Benefactors of the Society 1.—Founders, those who donate $1,000.00 or more.2.—Protectors, those who, by the donation of $500.00, provide the dowry and trousseau of a poor novice.By combining their alms, a parish, community or family may have right to this title.A Founder’s or Protector’s Diploma is awarded to persons making the above mentioned donations.3.—Subscribers, those who give an annual offering of $25.00.4.—Associates, those who give the sum of $2.00 per year.The Society also considers as Benefactors, all persons who contribute to the maintenance of its works any offering whatever, in money or kind.Privileges Accorded to Benefactors While commending their Benefactors to God, that He Himself may reward them according to their generosity, the Missionary Sisters of the Immaculate Conception assure them as large a share as possible in the merit of their apostolic labors, as also in the prayers and sufferings of all the unfortunates confided to their care.Besides, Benefactors are entitled to the following spiritual advantages : 1.—A special intention in all the Masses heard and Communions received by theJSisters.2.—A Mass offered every month for their intentions.3.—Every Friday in the year, the Sisters offer, for their Benefactors’ intentions, their hours of adoration before the Blessed Sacrament exposed in the chapel of the Mother-House.(The names of Founders and Protectors are deposited on the Altar of Exposition).4.—For the same intentions, the members of the Community make, every day, the Guard of Honor to Mary, which consists in the continual recitation of the Rosary before the altar of the Blessed Virgin.The evening hours of Canada corresponding with the morning hours of China, as the Guard is closing here, it commences at the Lazaretto of Shek-Lung, where the poor lepers, in succeeding groups of fifteen, continue the Perpetual Rosary for the intentions of the Society’s Benefactors.5.—A Requiem High Mass is sung every year for deceased Benefactors.6.—A share in the merits of the Way of the Cross, made daily by the Sisters, is also accorded to deceased Benefactors.7.—In the Novitiate Chapel of the Missionary Sisters of the Immaculate Conception, two Masses are celebrated every week for all Subscribers to “ The Precursor ” and for all living and deceased Benefactors. ( l 1 ¦ ur â>tlber STuïitlec 'T'HE third day of June of this year marks for our In-* stituie its 25th anniversary of existence.It was in 1902, on this date, that under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, our most venerated Foundress, Mother Marie du St.Esprit, and her first companion, Mother Marie de St.Gustave, laid the base of our religious and missionary Community, with the high approbation of His Grace Archbishop Paul Bruchési of Montreal and under the paternal direction of Reverend Gustave Bourassa, P.P., of St.Louis de France.This Silver Jubilee is for us a halt between past and future; it is a retrospective regard cast on our career to recall the days that have gone by.The past?how enriched with graces from the Author of all good !.Twenty-five years swiftly fleet away perhaps; but twenty-five years abounding with celestial benefits are a long chain.chain of silver that has interwoven itself with the thread of our existence to embellish it and give it its full worth.Among the many favors which God has deigned to bestow upon us, we cannot fail to mention that which He granted, by the voice of His Vicar here below, His Holiness Pope Pius X.of holy memory, in placing our nascent Institute under the spotless Virgin’s tutelage, by the beautiful appellation which he gave it of “Society of the Missionary Sisters of the Immaculate Conception".It was in 1904, at the occasion of the jubilary feast of proclamation of this dogma which recognizes Mary conceived without sin.The all-pure and kind Virgin has always proved herself to be a tender Patroness and loving Mother: her bounty has obtained for us so many favours that our filial hearts, though deeply grateful, are powerless to adequately voice their thanks.- In an uninterrupted series of choice favours, our young Institute has pursued its course under the maternal regard of Mary who watched over its destinies, and with the benevolent encouragement of our venerated Prelates whose true apostolic zeal has fostered an ever-increasing and consoling expansion of our work.Lively sympathy and the most touching interest on the part of the Reverend secular and regular Clergy as also of Religious Communities, are for us a very potent motive of profound gratitude.Also, at every hour of its existence, God has deigned to choose for our humble religious family, to help it in its necessities and to enable it to pursue its numerous works of apostolate, devoted friends, generous benefactors, thirsting but for His glory and the salvation of souls.In these latter years, again at the epoch of a Jubilee and m the course of the year which witnessed the Vatican Missionary Exhibition (1925), our Immaculate Queen and Patroness crowned her multiple gifts through the august medium of His Holiness Pope Pius XI ., supreme Pastor now reigning, in granting our humble Institute the priceless privilege of a first Pontifical Approbation, and in placing it under the protection of His Eminence Cardinal Van Rossum, Prefect of the Sacred Congregation of Propaganda.0 God, 0 Mary, how indebted we are to you!! Five lustres comprise our entire history.But these five lustres appear to us fecund and luminous, and on the date which will complete them, we shall sing with our whole soul the Magnificat, our prayer of jubilation.On this solemnity par excellence of joy and gratitude, we permit ourselves to solicit from our venerated Pastors, as a pledge of the most precious of heavenly graces for our very humble Institute, the favor of a special blessing.We instantly beg our charitable benefactors and friends to unite with us on that day to render thanks to God, so magnificent in His liberalities towards us, and also to the Immaculate Virgin who has been the delicate and generous dispenser of divine benefits. Œï]t üonti) of jWarp .IT is in the season of flowers that is placed the month dedicated to our Heavenly Mother.The choice could not have been better since homages of veneration and love are offered to the creature, the most beautiful, the most gracious, the most perfect of all God’s works.The origin of the month of Mary dates from the end of the eighteenth century.This devotion sprang in Italy in a group of pious persons, afflicted by disorders which became more numerous and more serious with the coming of the spring season.These persons, inspired to obtain pardon and to impede the course of evil, turned towards the Virgin of virgins and, by special practices in her honor during the month of May, tried to counterbalance the numberless crimes of the earth.This pious and salutary devotion spread rapidly in all places, and there is not to-day a village which does not hold it an honor to raise to Mary an altar where, each day of the month of May, homages will be offered her by her faithful children.It is so consoling to render to one’s mother the duties of filial love and respect! And when this mother is Mary, what confidence, what love and what abandonment should we not experience ?The month of Mary which means: the month which belongs to Mary, the month of her audiences and of her favours, should be very dear to us.It is during this month that we should revive our fervour and our tenderness in regard to the all-powerful and all-bountiful Sovereign of Heaven; it is during her blessed month that we may expect still more from this Queen who holds the key of the divine treasures. Œï)e &eltgtaus ©ueâtion in Cijina • What are the motives of the Chinese people’s hatred for Christianism ?There are five causes, three of which are more important: — The first is that Catholicism is accused of being a foreign religion; but this objection, of a political order, holds no more credit to-day when everybody knows that Jesus was an Asiatic.The second pretends to base itself on foreign nations’ injustice: war against opium, occupation of Kiaotchow, Wei-Hai-Wei, Port Arthur, etc.This objection, equally political, does not justify the rejection of Christianism.Let us now see the three chief motives:— The third, the strongest, consists in the devilish pride of the literati, real Pharisees, eager of exterior show, who will never consent to own up that China has, for thousands of years, made a mistake in following false religions.The forth is the abject materialism of this nation that wishes to satiate itself with the pleasures of the present life.The fifth is ancestors’ worship, dear to the people, and worship of Con-fucious, dear to the literati.The learned all desire to hasten the crushing of Christianism which opposes this triple dream and is hated the more as it presents itself divided into Catholicism and Protestantism.To be convinced of this, one has only to read the reports of the different Conferences held during these last years, where a war scheme has been prepared the First Act of which will be the elimination of all foreign missionaries, through pressure exercised over the Government.The Second Act will be to submit by force to the Chinese legislation the ministers of the Church, that is to say, the native clergy and, at the least slip on their part, to crush and imprison them, to decapitate them with their flocks, and to spoliate the goods of their church.The Third Act will be the confiscation of ecclesiastical property and inaptitude of acquiring any; the forced acknowledgment, on the part of the Christians, of ancestors’ worship and of rites in honor of Confucius.It has been foreseen that missionaries of fifteen different nations could not be expelled: so, without losing any time, extra-territoriality has been claimed, in order to annihilate the missionaries’ influence, and the Chinese Governments have refused to draw the diplomatic body into this trap.Thank God! up until now, the ministers have ratified nothing; but the question is studied, and this shows the very great influence of Bolshevism in the governmental and diplomatic spheres. 126 Montreal THE PRECURSOR March-April 1927 Up until now, we have seen in the Republic but a devastating torrent everywhere; and the attempt at progress in public education has but hastened the discomposition of institutions.The Bolshevic insolence will never be able to ruin the Christian religion so long as it will be upkept by the chiefs of at least ten foreign nations, because of the serious complications that would ensue.Of course, China of to-day does not fear any nation taken separately, save Japan perhaps.But it fears the power of an alliance, such as that of 1900, against the Boxers, and it trembles at the thought of the erection of European United States, which would maintain in their mighty hands the hegemony of the world.It desires, and will do its utmost to obtain it, the constitution of a purely Chinese Church, submitted, first to hierarchical chiefs, then independent till the day when schism being accomplished, the civil power will proclaim itself lay pape, like the czars of Russia.The Chinese Clergy must not fall headlong into this snare; we know that the Protestant Chinese Churches have already and since long claimed and obtained their independence; this explains why they so easily drop into Bolshevism and freemasonry.The Catholic Church counts but 2,000,000 faithful: it is a quotient on 400,000,000 inhabitants! Consequently, the Church could not oppose any efficacious resistance against persecutors which the hatred of the Name of God would bring up when foreign nations would no longer bar the way.In order to suffer the less and pursue, despite present difficulties, its onward march, the Church must : — 1° Multiply foreign missionaries of every nation; 2° Maintain in China as many foreign Vicars and Prefects Apostolic as'possible; 3° Take diplomatic steps for the maintenance of a firm regime of extra-territoriality and of existing treaties; 4° Efficaciously work for the official acknowledgment of Christianism and its hierarchy in China, by diplomatic agreement with the Chinese Government, when a permanent Government will have been established; 5° Demand freedom of education and the right, for schools directed by missionaries, to award diplomas; 6° Establish High Schools in each Province; 7° Be more and more inflexible against the worship of ancestors and of Confucius; we know that in certain places there is a tendency, among the native Protestant clergy, under pretext of the more easily converting the literati, to consider these worships as purely civil; 8° Foster religious literature: newspapers for the learned, apologetic pamphlets in simple style for the people.This summary of a work published in China shows how the religious question is interpreted in certain parts.Complicated by Russian bolshevism, Japanese Imperialism, European and American diplomacies, the religious problem is quite arduous to solve! Again might we truthfully say: “The future is in God’s hands”! .&Ê&M ^âW’ÉÙàM* «**> MS Emperor’s Temple, China Montreal THE PRECURSOR May-June 1927 167 A terrible calamity, (similar to the end of the world), threatened humanity in the year 1906-1907.A formidable thunderbolt was heard on Mount P’ou t’ouo, south of Peking, and a stela fell from heaven.A prayer written in red letters also fell from Heaven near T’chen-kia-tchoang.A mandarin copied it and after having recited it fervently gave it to the prefect Ma.The latter refused to believe in it; examplary punishment soon followed his incredulity: he and his entire family died.When the stela fell, Mi-lei-fou heard these words from heaven: “ Well! well! It is the last year of the world: out of ten persons, eight or nine will die.Heaven and earth are no longer adored, filial love and respect for authority have disappeared; everywhere the widow and orphan are oppressed, everywhere the feeble are the slaves of the mighty, injustice reigns in commerce; the cereals are wasted, the oxen are killed; only those who recite this prayer will be spared.If anyone refuses to believe my words, let him open his eyes and look forward to the years 1906 and 1907; the fields will remain uncultivated through lack of tillers; the houses will become empty.At the fifth and sixth moon, poisonous serpents will swarm the earth; at the eighth and ninth moon, the ground will be strewn with dead bodies.Those, and only those, who will devoutly recite this prayer will escape the ten tribulations that will strike humanity: wars, conflagrations, anguish during the day and during the night, discord in the homes, death of children, robberies, putrefaction of dead bodies left without burial; no one will remain to don the clothes and eat the rice: terror will reign over the whole world.“ Nearing the end, Che-kia-fou, from the top of his mountain, sent this prayer from heaven.The all-merciful Koan-yn was touched with compassion in seeing the calamities that will strike unfortunate humanity.“Mi-lei-fou ordered the two generals Tchao and Koan, commanders of the sacred mountain of T’ai-chan, to take note of the good and bad actions of men.If they do not reform, besides the ten tribulations above mentioned the rice will reach an exorbitant price, floods, thunder, famine and cold will exterminate what is left of the people.“ Che-kia-fou, who has governed the world since twelve thousand years, has ceded his authority to his colleague Mi-lei-fou who has just taken possession of the Seals.“ Finally, the official chief of Taoism, the Master of Heaven T’ien-che, has discovered a sovereign remedy against all future calamities.It suffices to throw four ounces of incense ashes into the wells with ten ounces of T -choan-k'iong, one of Koan-tchong ,two ounces of Long-hoang phosphorus, and all who will drink of this water will have nothing to fear.” PRESERVATIVE PRAYER I am no other than Koan-yn of the South Sea.Every man is corrupt from the first to the last; the worship of Heaven and Earth, the honors rendered to the Spirits are trampled under foot.Abstinence is violated, holy pictures are despised, the five cereals are wasted, filial piety no longer 168 Montreal THE PRECURSOR May-June 1927 exists, everywhere disrespect for authority parades, oxen are killed, dogs are flayed, faith that existed towards the ancestors and spirits has disappeared.Witnesses of this disheartening spectacle, the searching spirits scattered in the air to note the good and bad deeds of men, presented their report to Yu-hoang.On reading it, he became very angry: he put into movement the divine troop of the Minister of Thunder, and commanded the dragon-kings of the four seas to exterminate the human race.Five hundred thunderbolts were prepared in the thunder armories to crumble the guilty world into dust; famine and epidemics will do away with all who survive.At this sight, I rushed from the South Seas towards Western Paradise to touch Jou-lai-fou by my prayers and supplications.For seven entire days did I remain kneeling in his palace.I at last obtained a decree of grace which I brought in haste to Yu-koang, in his palace Kin-k’iue.There I redoubled my supplications, but all in vain: the supreme majesty of the August Pure would not relent.“ I remained on my knees for seven more days and made a solemn vow to minutely teach men to distinguish between right and wrong.If there be a man who call in question the divine order of Yu-koang, let him wait until next year and he will see.“ A girl twelve years of age named Li Sieou-yng, whom the mandarin Li brought to light near the village of T’chen-kia-tchoang, sub-prefecture of T’chang-p’ing Men, dependant on Peking, came to my grotto to thank Yu-hoang.Whoever refuses to believe this revelation will assuredly fall a victim to the epidemic.When the heavens will send down pillars of thunder and fire that will exterminate the human race, I, from the heights of heaven, shall shower the sweet dew of my protection.Whosoever, touched with compassion, will exercise the good work of propagating a copy of the present prayer will save all the members of his family.From one to ten and from ten to one hundred, we shall succeed in preserving the living from damnation, for is not the conversion of sinners the most cherished desire of our heart?“ Those who will recite this prayer of Koan-yn must be careful not to paste it elsewhere than before the censer.“ Honor heaven and earth, be dutiful towards parents, do not trample under foot the papers on which characters are written, for fear of perishing in the universal conflagration.Do good in order to avoid the ten calamities; you will then enjoy unalloyed happiness.” An order from Buddha follows, prescribing to actively spread this prayer, under pain of the greatest misfortunes.The student who gave me this prayer firmly believed this revelation.However 1907 has gone and the earth has not ceased its revolutions; when I saw him after the date marked for every danger, he looked not a little abashed. Thanksgivings to the Blessed Virgin for favors obtained “ 0 MARY, the entire universe would perish before you refuse your assistance to those who, with all their heart, implore your help and protection.Bl.Henry Suzo.Would you please publish in “THE PRECURSOR” how thankful I am towards Our Immaculate Mother for a position obtained?May I ask the help of your prayers that I succeed in my work ?P.T.W., Montreal.—I am enclosing Money Order for Seven Dollars and Fifty Cents.I have great faith in the Blessed Virgin and promised to give half the proceeds my first oil painting would bring me.I owe my success to her and therefore take great pleasure in sending you my contribution.Please pray for me as also for my dear parents and my sister.W.F.O’N., Chicopee Falls.— I enclose Two Dollars for lights to be burned at Mary’s Shrine in thanksgiving for a favor obtained through her powerful intercession.Mrs.J.P., Northbridge, Mass.— I owe the Queen of the Missions everlasting gratitude: she has favored me in so many ways and particularly through her Miraculous Medal.From one who has great devotion to Our Blessed Lady.— Your prayers have been answered.The enclosed offering is for your works in thankful gratitude.W M., Burlington, Vt.— Herewith the sum for $6.25 to help your beautiful works.Said offering is made to thank Our Blessed Lady for a favor granted and to obtain another which I am badly in need of for the month of May.R.F , Montreal.—You may use the enclosed Five Dollars for your Chinese Missions that are in such distress.And may I beg your fervent prayers for a friend that he mav secure employment?M.McK., Montreal.— I am sending you a subscription to the “ THE PRECURSOR ” to thank Our Immaculate Mother for the Protection she has shown our family during the past year.Mrs.J.P.B., Spencer, Mass.P ease find enclosed One Dollar to help in your missionary work.The offering is small but it exPresses deep gratitude.M.K„ Ansonia, Conn.— I have experienced quite often how powerfu Our Divine Mother shows herself through her Miraculous Medal.I am a nurse and frequently find dire need for these medals; would you please send me a number of them?Gratefully vours L D Haileybury, Ont.— Please find enclosed One Dollar as thanksgiving in honor of Our Blessed Mother and St.Anthony.Miss A.W„ Timmins, Ont - My husband is a heavy drinker and I think, dear Sisters, that your prayers have helped already for he is beginning to fight against the temptation.But the devil is strong and we must overpower him with Our Blessed Lady’s help.With many many thanks of nnlkfr for ^no I remain Mrs.J.S., No.Uxbridge, Mass.— Enclosed you will find One Dollar for a novena of lights in thanksgiving fora favor received.Mrs.AW., Rosemount lin^fo^mv you Three Dollars to express my gratitude to the Immaculate Queen of the Missions for my husband’s restoration of health.I only wish I could mail more now but whenever I have any to spare I shall not forget The Missionaries of the Immaculate Conception Mrs H F Worcester, Mass.— Will you please have a Mass celebrated in your chaPel °n ,^e inst, the anniversary of a successful “ first year of a business undertaking ?We also wish to thank your Community for their fervent prayers and novenas to obtain this b essing for us.Mr.& Mrs.H.L.W., Outremont.— I have always been interested in your lepers of Shek-Lung China.Allow me to offer the enclosed Twenty Dollars for their relief.One who admires your noble works.St.Lambert, Que.—I am pleased to offer this donation of Fifteen Dollars for the ransom of three Chinese babies which you will kindly name M;ary and Therese.I hope that these little angels will help me to the better express my gratitude to Our Blessed Mother who has been so very kind to me.Miss L.B Webster, Mass l am sending you Ten Dollars, the remainder of my promised offering of Twenty-Five Dollars in thanksgiving to Our Heavenly Queen who favored my little daughter by strengtheninD her eyesight.I trust that this alms will help you a little in your needy works.Mrs.C.A R;, Providence, R.I.— I come to express my gratitude for your kind prayers; my daughter s health is really improving.If she continues to gam strength, I promise to send Five Dollars for your works, for I feel that her present physical condition is solely due to Our Heavenly Mother’s protection and help.Mrs.G.B., Westport, Mass.— I am coming to you with a grateful heart, for the Blessed Virgin and the Little Flower of Jesus have helped me treaty.I Inclose a Money Order for One Dollar and Fifty Cents and beg Our dear Lord and His Holy Mother to bless you for all the good you are doing.Mrs.C.1.1., Bristol, Conn.I am a subscriber to “ THE PRECURSOR ” and I am pleased to renew my subscription l shall soon go to the Convent to bring you an offering I promised at the event of a certain favor received.Mrs.J.F.C., Montreal.- The enclosed Two Dollars is a thanksgiving donation for success in lousiness.Mrs.B.L., Holyoke, Mass. A MASS is celebrated every week in the chapel of the Novitiate ** of the Missionary Sisters of the Immaculate Conception for the intentions of the Subscribers to “ The Precursor ” and all their living Benefactors.Petiti ons “O Mary conceived without sin pray for us who have recourse to Thee Kindly find enclosed Five Dollars for the ransom of a Chinese baby.I am making this offering in order to obtain improvement in my health.Miss I.B.M., Marlboro, Mass.— You will find enclosed One Dollar for lights to be burned at Mary’s Shrine for special favours.A Subscriber, Mattawa, Ont.—My sister has been suffering from a nervous breakdown caused by our mother’s death.I would like very much to have your prayers for her intention.Miss E.McM., West Fitchburg, Mass.— My husband has not been feeling well lately.As we have great faith in prayer, we beg for your assistance on this occasion.Mrs.G.B., Central Falls, R.I.— I recommend my cure to good St.Anne and also beg her help for another intention.Miss V.B., Ludlow, Mass.— Your fervent prayers are asked for my daughter that she may keep her position and be cured from severe physical trouble.My husband’s health is also poorly.Mrs.J.C., St.Henri, Montreal.— Enclosed you will find One Dollar for vigil lights to be burned for the obtention of a special request.Mrs.A.M., Montreal.—My poor husband is addicted to drink.Would you kindly pray for his conversion ?Mrs.J.St.A., North Uxbridge, Mass.— I am enclosing One Dollar for a no vena of lights to be burned at my favorite saint’s shrine.May the little Flower help me! Miss E.F., Charlestown, Mass.— Please pray that my friend obtain a position soon so that she may not be obliged to journey far to her home.Mrs.F.J.S., Ramore, Ont.— Kindly intercede with Our Blessed Mother for my husband who is given to drinking.If my request is granted, I shall send you what I can afford for your mission cause.Mrs.P.H.McG., Waterbury, Conn.— My right lung is affected from having done too heavy work.Please pray to Our Lady for me.Mr.E.F., Worcester, Mass.— I desire you would make a novena to the Sacred Heart of Jesus and Saint Margaret Mary for my husband who needs to be cured from eczema and for my daughter who must obtain a good position.Mrs.O.H.L., Frelighsburg, Que.— The recovery of a sum of money lost in an investment.H.O.S.— A poor mother recommends her wayward daughter.Mrs.H., Kingston, Ont.The offering I send to-day is for a novena of lights to be burned at Our Blessed Mother’s shrine for a very special intention.Mrs.P.M., Montreal.— A poor mother recommends to the prayers of the Community and subscribers the conversion of her son who is addicted to drink.Quyon.— A fallen away Catholic.His wife, Toronto, Ont.—Protection from Our Immaculate Mother is sought by one of her children.Mr.K., Toronto, Ont.— Prayers are requested for the obtention of a good position.Miss D.St.T., Grand Falls, N.B.— Special intentions: Mrs.H.T.L., West Bathurst, N.B.; I.B., Spencer, Mass.— The sale of property and health.H.A.C., Attleboro Mass.-— Would the Sisters offer a prayer to St.Teresa of the Child Jesus that she intercede with our Immaculate Mother at God’s throne?G.L.M., Holyoke, Mass.— Would you please lend me the help of your prayers for my little girl who is ailing that she be able to make her First Communion ?Also kindly send me a Miraculous Medal for her.Mrs.J.P.L., Verdun.—Perseverance and steady employment are requested.Mrs.M.E.L.— I beg of you to kindly pray for my husband that he might find work, he had been idle all Winter.Mrs.A.L.—The enclosed offering is for a novena of lights in honor of the Little Flower asking her aid for a very special favor.Mrs.J.A.L., Verdun.— Employment requested through the intercession of Our Immaculate Montreal THE PRECURSOR May-June 1927 171 Mother: Mrs.E.St.P., Holyoke, Mass.; P.T.W., Montreal.— Improvement in health Mrs.S.C., Warren, R.I.— Gain of a lawsuit; temporal favor.Miss M.T„ Port Col-borne, Ont.— If my husband who suffers very much from rheumatism and weakness be cured I promise to send Five Dollars to your missions.Mrs.M.C., Montreal.— The help of God to secure a better position.J.J.H., Fort Frances, Ont.; Mrs.R.H., Toronto, Ont.-—Two particular favors are requested.Mrs.W.T.N., Holyoke, Mass.—I desire you to make a novena to St.Teresa for my intentions and that of my husband’s.If favors are obtained, I promise to send generous offerings in honor of the Little Flower.Mrs.J.H.M., Douglastown, P.Q.— Will you please find enclosed Five Dollars; I wish to renew my subscription to “ THE PRECURSOR ” and the balance please accept for your noble works.I only ask you to pray very very hard for me to St.Anthony for a special favor and to the Blessed Virgin for my complete recovery.Mrs.G.K., Montreal.—The conversion of a very dear friend is solicited through your prayers.Miss E.A., Chatham, N.B.— I am longing to receive a special favor from Our Lady of Seven Dolors and St.Teresa.Kindly make a novena with me for that intention.Mrs J.A.L., Verdun.— Enclosed please find an offering for a Novena of Lights for my intentions.Mrs.L.F., Espanola, Ont.— I would be very grateful if I could obtain with the help of your prayers the grace