he Eastern
dioceses of Canada.

Each diocese is a constituted unity in itself, but not for itself
alone. Like each particular organism in the human system, it exists
for the benefit of the whole. The Catholicity of the Church implies
this idea of solidarity whereby the strong help the weak and the rich
come to the rescue of the poor. Never, perhaps, has the Church
suffered so much from the wasting of energies. The torrent, if not
directed, spends its energy on itself; turned into the mill race, every
drop counts.

One of the great lessons the war has given to the world is the absolute
necessity of centralized effort and the advisability of central
organization rather than multiplying organizations. We are living in
an age of _efficiency_ through _co-operation_.

_Fas est ab hoste doceri_.--The lesson coming from our separated
brethren should strike home. One has to go West to see the feverish
activities of the different denominations in that new field. Ask the
mission organizers of the various non-Catholic bodies how much money
comes from the East to support the struggling Protestant churches of
the West; visit their immense printing establishments which are
producing and distributing the literature you will find on the table of
the lonely Western settler; study these organizations which are
supplying field secretaries, teachers, social workers to our foreign
Catholic settlements, then you will begin to understand this word of
Pius X.: "The strength of the enemy lies in the apathy of the good."
The mass of evidence, which can be had by the simple reading of the
non-Catholic missionary reports, as to their activities in Western
Canada, is nothing short of staggering. What examples! What lessons!
Should they not turn our apathetic Catholics into enthusiastic
apostles, stir them into watchfulness and action? And what could we
not do _with more unity of action_?

Two conditions make united action possible--_uniform plan_ and
_authoritative leadership_. It would be rather preposterous on our
part to attempt to formulate what we could call a plan of campaign for
our Western apostles. We wish only to submit a few suggestions which
may help to group our scattered energies and bring rescue to the
Church, particularly in the unorganized districts of Western Canada.

To readjust our methods to conditions as we find them _means efficiency
with the least waste of energy_. Therefore, we claim that a "survey"
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