this call for help, it wishes him to hear.

But particularly the _future_ of the Church in these Provinces forms
the subject of the Extension's preoccupations. We all realize the vast
possibilities of our Western Provinces, and the important part they
must of necessity play in the future affairs of our Dominion. The
Church's influence then will be what we make it by our efforts now, and
its progress will be in exact proportion to the amount of our foresight.

This responsibility of the _present_ and the _future_, the Church
Extension preaches to all in season and out of season. Like the beacon
by the sea, it is ever turning its revolving lights over the immense
uncharted ocean of our Western missions and hopes that with time, every
Catholic in Canada will take his course on them. For, let us not
forget it, if we do not take care of our mission districts, others
will, and that to the detriment and loss of the Church.--_Fas est ab
hoste doceri_! It is permissible, says the proverb, to receive a
lesson from an enemy. Only those who have worked out West on the
missions know to what extent unscrupulous and most aggressive
proselytizers are always on the ground, ever at work among our people.
They are digging broad and deep trenches around the settlements of our
Catholic foreigners, particularly Ruthenians, draining to their profit
the dormant energies of the new Canadian. The invasion is slow but
sure, the leakage, great and continual. This lesson that comes from
the tremendous activities of the various Protestant denominations
should strike home more forcibly. The more stinging the lash, the more
sudden the rebound.

This educational policy of the Church Extension appeals to the Catholic
mind and tells it something it desires to know. It awakens that latent
Catholicity which Baptism has given us and on which the narrow
limitations of time and space have no claim. This education of our
Catholic laity in the value and necessity of the missionary spirit, in
the perfect knowledge and true appreciation of its character in the
Church of God, is the end and result of the Extension policy. To make
that spirit the inspiring, guiding and testing power of Catholic life,
is the definite aim of its educational work, of its publicity campaign.
When our laity will have absorbed the lesson, it will be ready for
action. This knowledge will awaken our sense of responsibility and
prompt our sympathetic support. This leads us