. Christian herald. rst Pan-Americanmass as one of the notable events of the year, andstated that President Taft and his cabinet werepresent in their official capacities. There can beno doubt that the Roman hierarchy interpret theattendance of the President and other high officialsupon this function as a great triumph of Catholi-cism—a long step toward creating the impressionthat America is after all a Catholic country. It is absolutely certain that President Wilson hasdeeply offended the Protestant sentiment of the na-tion. The undoubted right is conceded to the headof the nation to attend an
. Christian herald. rst Pan-Americanmass as one of the notable events of the year, andstated that President Taft and his cabinet werepresent in their official capacities. There can beno doubt that the Roman hierarchy interpret theattendance of the President and other high officialsupon this function as a great triumph of Catholi-cism—a long step toward creating the impressionthat America is after all a Catholic country. It is absolutely certain that President Wilson hasdeeply offended the Protestant sentiment of the na-tion. The undoubted right is conceded to the headof the nation to attend any religious service he maychoose as a citizen, but when his presence is soughtas a means of giving an official character to aRoman Catholic mass, and this is repeated yearafter year, there is a revolt against this as one ofthe means employed to make America Catholic. W. W. Prescott,Editor of tht Prot«atant Magazine Wathington. D. C. Pagt it 74 THE CHRISTIAN HERALD, D«cMnb«r 17. 1913 THE BREAD LINES SAVING POWER. WELL, THIS PUTS HEART INTOA FELLOW ON THANKSGIVING DAY THE BOWERY MISSION DISTRIBUTES GENEROUS DINNERS INBASKETS TO A LARGE NUMBER OF NEEDY AND DESERVING FAMILIES ALMOST. NOT QUITE. TOO HEAVYTO CARRY HOME STRANGERS watched with pitying eyes thehomeless hundreds who doggedly held theirplaces in the Bread Line on the opening nightfor the winter. Pity was in order, too true,but those who viewed this familiar spectacle fromthe vantage-point of the Bowery Missions manage-ment saw rather another embryo regiment to berecruited into an army already numbering nearlytwenty thousand saved men. This will be the seventh winter of the Bread hundred thousand breakfasts are served be-tween one and three oclock in the morning fromThanksgiving to Easter. How many of these areto the same men night after night cannot be known,nor how many of the tens of thousands of men whoattend the mission are first reached through theBread Line. But it is believed by the managementthat the
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