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\u003Cbr>BLESSED PIUS X………………………  \u003Cbr>Florence D.Cohalan  \u003Cbr>THE TRADITION OF DICK WHITTINGTON…………………  84  \u003Cbr>Douglas Newton  \u003Cbr>SAINTS SET THE PACE …………………………      ………………  86  \u003Cbr>Harold Butcher  \u003Cbr>THE OBJECTIVITY OF MR.BLANSHARD……………………  89  \u003Cbr>David F.Rea  \u003Cbr>………………………………………104  \u003Cbr>AMONG THE NEW BOOKS……  \u003Cbr>Mary F.Lindsley  \u003Cbr>GUILD NOTES……………………  ……………………………………111   |\n| --- |\n\n# STAFF OF THE EPISTLE\n\nEditor  \nREVEREND DAVID F.REA  \nTreasurer  \nMR.JOHN C.KELLY  \nSecretaryHELEN M.SCUDDER  \nSpecial ContributorsKATHERINE BURTONEUPHEMIA WYATT  \nP8e seeyeisb  \n# T H E E PIS TLE\n\nA Quarterly Review  \nPublished by The Saint Paul Guild4 East 73rd Street,New York 21,N.Y.  \n\n| VOLUME XVII   | NEW YORK,SUMMER,1951   | NUMBER 3   |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n\n# E DIT OR I A L\n\nAS this issue of the Epistle goes ing of educational opportunity,theAto press,we are in the process of onward march of democracy一，celebration of the Fiftieth Anniver-would be a century of progress andsary of the St.Paul Guild.It was achievement.Looking back fromjust fifty years ago that a group ofthe perspective of mid-century,wefifteen men and women,most ofsee a world of broken dreams andthem converts,met under the guid-shattered illusions—,a world plaguedance of the Reverend Alexanderby the horror of two bloody wars,Doyle,C.S.P.to found the Nationaland threatened by the terror of aCatholic Converts'League.It is im-third.Yet through all these dis-probable that any of those presentappointments and disillusionments,at that inaugural meeting werethe Church has unfalteringly con-aware that they were beginning atinued to bring to men the blessingsmovement which in the years toof faith and hope and charity.come would bring incalculable spir-A cynical writer once remarkeditual benefits and substantial mone-that experience is the name that mentary assistance to men and womengive to their mistakes.A less super-in search of truth and love.ficial view of human history willThis half-century has been a grimlead us to regard experience as theand bitter one for mankind.Itssum of wisdom which enables us todawning was greeted with joy andjudge the present and to assess theexultation by a generation whichfuture in the light of what has hap-was confident that mankind was onpened in the past.If history is of anythe doorstep of Utopia.Scientific andvalue at all,its value clearly lies intechnical advancement,the spread-the fact that it offers compelling  \nevidence for the truth that the spir-Faith.Keenly sympathetic with the  \nitual must take primacy over the difficulties faced by ministers who  \nmaterial,that even temporal values entered the Church,the members of  \ncan be preserved only through the the League undertook to raise funds  \nacceptance of eternal principles.Ourcentury has learned by bitter experi-ence the negative implications ofOur Lord's command:\"Seek ye firstthe Kingdom of God and His Jus-tice,and all these other things shallbe added unto you.\"  \nIt has ever been the mission ofthe Church to help mankind to seekand to find the Kingdom of God.\"Salus animarum suprema lex\"一the supreme law in all matters is toaim at the salvation of souls.\"Whatshall it profit a man if he gain thewhole world and suffer the loss ofhis immortal soul,or what shall aman give in exchange for his soul?”Every Catholic movement,everyCatholic organization has as its ul-timate goal this one objective,thesanctification and salvation of theindividual.  \nSuch was the objective before theminds of the founders of the Na-tional Catholic Converts'League fif-ty years ago.Not beguiled by thenaturalistic optimism of the time,they knew that man's primary needin the twentieth century,as in thefirst,would be for Christ.They real-ized that to many of their contem-poraries Christ was an unknown Per-son,and Catholicism an unknownquantity.To achieve their 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