minations, we may
take lessons from them, but should never forget that there is something
more fundamental; we mean, the grace of God. Our prayer--the prayer of
every child, the prayer of every man and woman within the fold, the
prayer of every nun and priest, should be the prayer of the Master to
the Heavenly Father: "Send harvesters into the fields!" How powerful
should not that prayer be! How strong a binding link between the East
and the West!

But prayer, like faith, without works is dead. The Extension,
therefore, not only solicits our prayers, but also our help to meet the
needs of our home-missions--_Men and money_, financial aid and
apostolic vocations, these are the needs of the hour. Money to build
chapels, schools, orphanages, hospitals; money to help the Catholic
press, the spreading of Catholic Literature; money to forward the great
and vital cause of higher education. This organized financial
assistance of the Church in the East, as a whole, as a corporate body,
is the best expression of the reality and sincerity of Catholic
solidarity. To boast of our beautiful churches and sumptuous
cathedrals in the East and to leave our priests in the West without a
decent chapel to say Mass denote either painful ignorance of actual
facts or the fallacy of our Catholicity.

Great is the need of money, but greater still the need of men. The
principal work of the Extension is to foster, develop and bring to
fruition missionary vocations for the West. Burses are founded to
assist young men in their studies, and in a few years, it is the hope
of the Extension to be able to send to every diocese of the West
zealous harvesters for the harvest that is awaiting them beyond the
Lakes. Could we be invited to share a more noble task than to
contribute to the education of the heralds of the Gospel, of the
ambassadors of Christ to that Western Kingdom of ours?

Let us conclude.

These are the _principles_ on which rests the Church Extension Society;
this is the _policy_ it pursues. The adoption of these principles and
the furtherance of this policy will, we are confident, develop the true
type of the Catholic Laity. The parish, its works, its pastor, will be
the first to benefit by this missionary spirit of the laity. Long
enough has the priest, the missionary, laboured alone in the harvest
field and borne the heats of the day; long enough have but a few loyal
and generous souls shouldered the burden of the missi