Our Field September 1926

Of course none of those churches can accommodate the big crowds of 2 000 3 000 and more which come on special feast days but then the micionary says Mass in the open the Sanctuary being then a kind of shamiana erected for the circumstance the verandah of the bungalow or any other suitable place havit in front a large space to accommodate the people. [...] Then I state that this is only one Mission among so many and this brings me to the Propagation of the Faith with the eyes of all the Missiona les of the world now turned to the Catholics of America etc. [...] There is no doubt about my sermons and lectures and talks and stories doing a lot of good to the pastor and his curates and giving them a i ew interest in Missions and this must surely tell in the organisation and working of the Propagation of Faith. [...] Ontenth of the money spent upon it would 11! sufficient to run our"97 Bengal Mission on the most generous and liberal lines and reheite the poor Superior of much of his worry and anxiety : whe& the young minds think it is all very nice and pleasant and wonderful and envy my luck they only see the veneer on the surface and this vanishes when a little scratching I ays bare the coarse grained ma [...] We know that the representative bodies even in India.4110-4einietimes misrepresent the true state of the population we kno*'also that there is some truth in the saying—it is even Gospel truth—that the children of the world are wiser tnan the children of the light.