n the work and in the interests common to us all as
Catholics."--The N.C.W.C. Bulletin, Oct., 1920.

_Fas est ab hoste doceri_. . . . Powerful is the example of a brother,
but often, stronger and more pungent is the example that comes from an
enemy. There are times indeed, when shame and honour are stronger than
love. This brings us to speak of the tremendous activities of our
separated brethren. Never have their efforts in view of organizing
their social service departments been so persistent and so manifest,
particularly in the mission field. Doctrinal lines are being lowered
and various denominations absorbed gradually into a "Church-union"
scheme from coast to coast. A "_social service programme_" is the only
binding element which is giving to them a fictitious unity. Fabulous
sums are placed at the disposal of these bodies for home and foreign
mission work. The Methodist Conference of Canada (1918--Hamilton) has
pledged itself to levy $8,000,000 in the next four years for mission
work. In our own country, in our Western Provinces, the field
secretaries are most active among our Catholic foreigners. On the
landing stage of our docks they are found to welcome the immigrants to
our shores. And what could we not say of their "press activities!"

This movement for co-operation has, since the end of the war, taken
tremendous proportions. Here is a fact which speaks volumes. . . .
"The fight between Protestants and Catholics," said a German Protestant
minister, "will forthwith subside in the domain of dogma, but it will
rise in the domain of social problems. No doubt truth in the social
order will prevail as it has prevailed in the field of religious dogma.
But we have to change our strategy, study new tactics, and in our plan
of campaign turn from the defensive to the offensive." Never should
the Catholics of Canada present a more united front. To sneer and snap
our fingers at the energies and organizing powers of others is often
but a poor excuse for our own inertia. It is certainly no argument.
_Fas est ab hoste doceri_. The lesson has often a sting, but it is a
lesson. . . . We need organization! . . . The Congress is the great
medium of organization. What are we going to do? Changing a little
the wording of one of Cicero's famous sentences, in his orations
against Catiline, the arch-enemy of Rome, we shall say: "_The enemy is
at our doors! . . . and we are not even deliberating_!"

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