of bondage. This is a logical necessity, a
natural consequence. The Master emphasized it when He said: "And you
shall know the Truth and the Truth shall make you free." These pregnant
words of Christ are the charter of Christian civilisation and mark the
passing of expediency as the supreme rule of human liberty.

This explicit confidence in the abiding power of Truth and in its
necessary relation with our moral and religious life has prompted the
creation of the Catholic Truth Society and inspired its policy. Never
was any Society more useful nor so well adapted to the conditions of
present times.

The world nowadays is fast drifting from its Christian moorings and
taking to the high seas of modern paganism. The outlook on human life is
as in the days of Greece and Rome. The old cry: _panem et
circeuses_!--is to be found on the lips of our multitudes and reflects
the aspirations of their life. In the social realm, State-monopoly is
fast absorbing the individual and the family, and is heralded as the
supreme ideal of human society. A speedy and complete return to
Christian principles will alone re-establish the world on its proper
axis. Christian Truth shall again make the world free and save it from
the bondage of neo-paganism. For, history and experience prove that
there is nothing more tyrannical than that bondage--let it be the bondage
of Czardom or Bolshevism--which comes to man under the cover and name of
liberty. In the present universal unrest, so widely and so emphatically
voiced throughout the world, the mission of the Catholic Truth Society
appears as most providential. The spreading of Catholic Truth will help
the world to reconquer its liberties and, with them, true civilization.

To state facts, discuss principles and advocate policies, in connection
with the Catholic Truth Society of Canada, particularly in the West, is
the object of this chapter.

_Facts._

The Catholic Truth Society was born in England; November 5th, 1884, was
its birthday; Mr. Britten,[2] its honored and devoted parent. The
activities of the Anglican Church inspired this great Catholic layman to
counteract the influence of its propaganda. Tract for tract, pamphlet
for pamphlet, lecture for lecture, advertisement for advertisement was
the plan of campaign of our new militant leader. To marshal all the
tremendous forces of the "printed word" for the service and defence of
Mother Church was his noble ambition. He ha