er
numbers outside her pale who were simply ill-informed; it has helped more
souls than anyone will ever be able to count, into the Fold. Moreover,
it has been the fruitful parent of progeny (not always filially grateful)
which extends to-day to the uttermost parts of the earth. And always it
has maintained a standard--which, in fact, it created amongst us--of
material high quality, of intellectual respectability and of religious
solidity, the more worthy of grateful appreciation because not everywhere
fully appreciated. Nor can we forget that the Society is in a real sense
"the work of one man," though never has it been that very different
thing, a "one-man work." No one layman (and very few ecclesiastics) has
done a larger definite and objective work for the Catholic Church in our
time than Mr. Britten."

Such a record should shame the faint-hearts among us who seem to think
that no corporate efforts are of any use in the world now rushing on to
its own destruction. That it should shame those who take no interest at
all in the progress of their religion, would be too much to hope.

The mustard seed has become now a great tree; branches have been detached
from the main trunk and transplanted in the various parts of the world.
Ireland, Australia,[3] India,[4] America, Canada, each now has its own
Catholic Truth Society.

In 1887, six years after the foundation of the parent Society in England,
Canada had a first branch in Toronto. Halifax,[5] Montreal, Winnipeg,
Regina, Saskatoon, Vancouver soon followed suit. Silent and powerful as
the incoming tide, the Society in Canada is working its way into every
diocese and parish of the land. The Society is now incorporated by act
of Federal Parliament, with Head-Office in Toronto, 67 Bond St. Its
noble and just ambition is to weld into one great efficient organization
the various other branches that are in operation here and there
throughout the Dominion. Organization means efficiency, strength and
success.

The time has come for the Catholic Truth Society in Canada, to create its
own literature, to issue its own pamphlets dealing with the needs and
problems of our own Country. We have been importing from other countries
and have lived until now on their mental activity. But this move demands
unity of purpose and concentration of effort. Moreover, should not this
Dominion-wide organization serve marvellously to rally our dispersed and
disunited forces? There i