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Cardinal Francis Spellman — Part 4
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Commeniot atealeouws
Some time ago, after stalk a ow of
country's leading colleges for weman, vs oom
fmviced to dine with the maior. Ales on
seudents were at the ame rabke wah on th
eat next tm ue took up the mots thet oe bed
seruck im our talk—chat all of x com te ime
aioners wherever we may be,
She painted to che girl sx the hal of
table and mid, “There's « mimioar ter yey
‘That girl probably wields more inflam: dee
any other srudent in this college Shr » tad
ef the Communisn.”
While she said chat wot more than 2! ow
the 1,000 students at the college wens maby
Comrounistic, yer everything she omnes
about them showed what selow semen
they were for their couse. Every mor sey
made bad for its objective the ferthersas af
busines to obtain ss many infucecs! pustane
as possible in sll student arganizstom Ther
Gid not expect to make full convert: owe of we
of the seudents, but they were sntaow we tom t
everyone in the college became they hare the
all who became even slightly dapoud wewenb
their philosophy became ia reality ene Sr. @
poribly ten per ceot Commas. They
knew, wo, chat all chese stadeats eventeclly go
eet ince various parts of the country. aw te
Gistant parts of che work, where awh one
would peobsbly be feirly influential is ter eam
mennity. If they succeeded is getting tha gous
tae of scudents oly slightly despesnd errant
aa stheistic philosophy, the tombs wonbl,
aarvertheleas, be far-reaching.
From what we could gocher, thre pony
pores of atheism were Sire subjected @ 9
thorough eraining im chair Commenerc phe
feeophy before they ever resched colbeyy oni
Wmspiration afcer their entrance Seven. &
guert have boes inscilled in them thet chery our
u
~o
qeeny thes few eorosted with tm idea chit
the world.
“tied thia avail group felt that she
ow 2 veal part of 6 great cause. ‘Ths conve
us govs ber pores. ‘There was nothing half-
Gerad shout ber. Nothing daunted ber.
reds, jodgiag from their apparent per-
qamcr wad determination, We saw they had
ae ea many people w0 ponble As
Qe marereton went 0c, we could not belp
fe weliect on what & tremendovs influence s
qed gromp ihe this was having on large
ees J oodam Here was s mere two and
eor-teelf per cont of the student body roccest-
fay eolering the outlook of the ninery-erven
aad ¢ heal por cont
iniducass or be tafiwonsed
Ow the ether hand, each one af the other
8°) eredests bed scarcely any cause beyond
Qerelt Mone of chem were quite negative.
were acither hot aor cold. Among them
Ths
Toy were acither bot nor cold. Amon
ome ag bty-arven Catholic girls, We met scv-
goad af them. It was easy to ace chat the faith
@ mews of them was being grently dimmed.
fems af them mo doobe would even lose their
feck The ree would certainly come out of
@dleg: wach weaker Catholics than they went
Qe They were postive in contra to the Com-
@eeane, Hardly a gil among them had any
femres thee the possessed the greatest ides in the
World, a0 ides that belonged to every other girl
@ the callcge jum ot much 2s it belonged to
bereli. Becswm the did not appreciate this,
de baad Seale desire to spread her philosophy of
td
‘be oll probebikicy ao ome had token the trou-
he befere che went to college to show her the
@eeerdeay opportunity for good shead of
fe; omy Rady wo ene was guiding, directly,
‘@ tampiring her after her arrival at college. She
Gt emt appreciate that she could make her fel-
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