to say a word on the
Society's policy of action.

2. _Policy of Action_.--Vision resolves itself into action. When the
mind sees deep and clear, the heart feels warm and generous, the will
acts promptly and decisively. As the spark leaps bright and sharp from
the silent battery, ignites the fuel and drives the piston, so will a
broad vision give a generous impulse to action. You readily see the
value of an educational policy, and its intimate connection with that
of action.

Action to be efficient and lasting must be organized. Grouping of
forces, co-ordination of efforts, are what we need most in the Church
of Canada. In the rank and file of the laity, hidden treasures of
enthusiasm, latent powers of energy go to waste, because there is no
leader to awaken them, or if aroused, no organization to direct them.
The policy of the Catholic Extension is to bring to vigorous activity
these long slumbering desires, to give an effective vent to the pent up
energies of the Catholic heart, to group all Catholic missionary work
for the conservation and propagation of the Faith in our mission
districts.

Have we not been working too much as separate units? Has not our zeal
been limited by the boundaries of our parishes and dioceses? What
activities have been absorbed by side-issues, while the great cause of
the Church at large should have occupied our attention! We were
deliberating . . . and the West was being lost to us! The time has
come to rally around the Church in our mission fields and prove
ourselves worthy of our name--"Christian" and our surname--"Catholic."
The policy, therefore, of the Extension is to enlist the organized
effort of every parish, of every diocese in a great missionary
movement, and to throw the weight of the Catholic influence of the East
into the immense field of our Western missions. It is not for the
promotion of any project, for the benefit of any particular section of
the Church in Canada, that the Extension Society exists. True genuine
Catholicity is the only inspiration of its activities.

This united action will manifest itself first and above all in
_prayer_. The preservation of the Faith, and the conversion of souls
are supernatural works depending primarily and in the final analysis on
the grace of God. Never has it been more necessary to emphasize this
trait of the Catholic Aspostolate. Confronted with elaborate schemes
of finance and the co-operative action of various deno