o work with.

Until the development of the organization would call for a diocesan
organizer, _one priest_ could act for a _Province_ or _Region_ of the
Country. The ordinary objection which our proposal here would meet
with, would be the lack of personnel. There is, we know, a shortage of
priests everywhere. But would not the Church, as a whole, in Canada
and throughout the world, receive more benefit from the life of a
priest entirely dedicated to this work of Missions, than if it were
given to a specific parish or diocese. Even were a parish or small
country mission to be deprived for the time being of a resident pastor,
should not that sacrifice be made, generously and cheerfully, for the
sake of a greater cause. It is assuredly a short-sighted policy to
sacrifice hundreds of thousands of souls for the care of a few, to
prefer the welfare of a parish to that of the Church at large. This
reasoning and its disastrous consequences are surely not Catholic.

We emphasise the necessity for the organizer to _consecrate his life
solely to this proposed work_. At this price alone will he make it a
success. Without doubt, it is the work of a man, the work of a life.

God grant that we may see the day when all the latent Missionary forces
of the Church of Canada will be awakened and united in one great
gigantic effort of apostolate! These forces form an invisible army of
reserves on which the Church is to draw, to fill, as it were, the
depleted ranks of Her Missionary units throughout the world. The lack
of organization is the weakness of our strength. Let the leaders come
forward, and we ourselves shall be astonished at the latent powers of
Faith in the Church of Canada.

CHAPTER V.

PLOUGHING THE SANDS

_The Church-Union Movement: its Causes and Various Manifestations. The
Protestant and Catholic View-Point._

Church-union is to-day the outstanding feature of the Protestant world.
The possibilities and promises, the necessity and advantages of this
movement are widely discussed in the press and magazine, in the pulpit
and on the platform, in Church conferences and synods. Denominational
barriers are being swept away; creed lines lowered; inevitably great
changes are impending. This universal unrest is assuredly symptomatic of
a chaotic Christendom outside of the true Church. The peace and
self-confidence of the Catholic Church pursuing the even tenor of Her
life is indeed in striking contrast.