that he send labourers into the
harvest." (Math. IX, 36, 37, 38.)

The Divine Master cannot but hear the prayer asking Him to send
"labourers to the ripening harvest." And could we give better proof of
devotion to Church and Country?

Great is the seriousness of the present hour, tremendous the task that
confronts us after the war. Never has any generation in history been
so freighted with the responsibilities of the future as ours is,
marching home from the battlefields of Europe. We are living in
stirring and changeful times. Nowhere in the Dominion of Canada will
the period of reconstruction have more far-reaching effects than in the
West. The after-war problems will meet there with rapid and very often
radical solutions. To understand this issue that faces our country, to
grasp it in all its breadth and fulness, should we not broaden our
vision, readjust it, we would say, to the new scale of changing
conditions? Only then will we be able to marshal our forces and throw
the weight of Catholic principles into the solving of the social,
economic and religious problems of the hour. "The Church cannot remain
an isolated factor in the nation. The Catholic Church possesses
spiritual and moral resources which are at the command of the nation in
every great crisis. The message to the nation to forget local
boundaries and provincialism is a message likewise to the Catholic
Church. Parochial, diocesan and provincial limits must be forgotten in
the face of the greater tasks which burden our collective religious
resources." (Card. Gibbons.) Let us give to the people that broad,
Catholic vision of our present duty to our country and to our Church.
The broader the outlook, the deeper the insight. The measure of their
vision will be the measure of their action. No leader can meet with
success without a certain receptivity to work upon. This receptivity
is formed by spreading ideas, by an educational propaganda.

It may take time before the vision struggles into consciousness and
wins its way to the dominance of the mind. What we need is a
systematized, continuous effort that will gradually crystalize that
vision into a definite workable project. A flourish of trumpets and
blaze of Catholic zeal, as we are accustomed to witness on the occasion
of some special sermon and appeal by a missionary, will only prompt an
act of passing generosity.

The special object of the _Catholic Church Extension Society_ is to
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