faith and a protest against profanity, false oaths in and out of court, and all immodest and indecent language. The demonstrations must vary according to dioceses. In some places ten, twenty, and even thirty thousand men parade in the episcopal city. This is not possible in dioceses where the cities and parishes are separated by great distances. The Brooklyn and Newark and Boston Unions have admirable arrangements by which the dioceses are divided into a certain number of sections. Each section or group of societies at the same hour conducts its public demonstrations. In this way near-by small towns can unite and the place of demonstration may be changed each year. These demonstrations have a wonderful effect, not only on the Catholic population, but even more wonderful on our non-Catholic brethren. When we see fifty, sixty, and seventy thousand people gathered together for public benediction we realize that we are living again in the ages of faith.
9. Untold good is being done by establishing Holy Name Societies for boys and young men. An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. The best way to have no profanity and indecent language among men is to prevent them as boys and young men from contracting the habit. Boys are soon taught that profanity and obscenity are unmanly. In some places a body enters the Holy Name Society as soon as he has received his First Communion.
Let us take care of our boys and young men now and thus wall we ensure, so much as it depends on us, a loyal Catholic manhood in the next generation. Praised be God and blessed be His Adorable Name for all that the Holy Name Society has done for the good of religion among the men of the United States!
Worship of the Holy Name
JESUS, Name of wondrous love!
Name of all other names above,
Unto which must every knee
Bow in deep humility.
