to total strangers
do not produce permanent results." This influence of the
field-organizer is so great that we may safely state that the life of a
society fluctuates with the various impulses it receives from him. He
is the very heart which gives health and vigor to its organism.

Here lies the secret of the mission-organizations in the Protestant
Churches, to which, of late, we have referred so frequently in our
Catholic papers, under the heading of: "_Fas est ab hoste
doceri_." . . . Every denomination has its field-organizers entirely
consecrated to mission activities among its people. Financial results
tell to what extent they are effective in their work.

We have also among our own missionary societies, examples that
illustrate the point we wish to emphasize. Since when has the Society
of the Propagation of the Faith, in the dioceses of New York and
Boston, leaped into prominence, and headed by generous contributions
the list of the whole world? How did that change come about? Where is
the secret of this success? The establishment of permanent diocesan
organizers is the answer. What they have done, why could we not do?
"_Quod isti--cur non et nos_?"

Never, we claim, will the missionary potentialities that lie dormant in
Canadian Catholicism, be actuated to bear its message of spiritual
light, heat and power to the Church at large, until we establish in the
field at various points, secretaries or organizers, whose life-work
will be to call into play, to systematize the mission forces of the
Church in Canada. If on the contrary, as in the past, we content
ourselves with an occasional appeal for missions, a collection now and
then, a spasmodic effort here and there, a subscription to a Catholic
paper or missionary magazine, the work for Home and Foreign missions
will remain exterior to the corporate life of the Church, will not be
woven into its very fibre to permeate its activities. As shadows on
the wall, they will suggest rather than reveal the possibilities of our
missionary effort. The great and pressing call of the White Shepherd
of the Vatican will go unheard. If there is a response that comes from
Canada, it will not be from the Church at large.

_II.--What?_

The "_raison d'etre_," the definite function of a field-secretary is
organization. This work implies the double duty to spread, by an
intelligent and well thought-out propaganda, the knowledge of the Home
and Foreign Missions and