stirred by the .spiritual and temporal needs of the East until there is more personal contact. To many of us, the Orient is (JP! abstraction. The hungry orientals cannot (Lome here, hut some lof us can afford to go to them. The money will he well spent provided the Congress is made into a rallying point for a worldwide Catholic effort on behalf of the spiritually and materially underprivileged. If, through professional ingenuity, the motives of the pilgrims to the Congress can be purified by a journey to the Holy Land on the way without substantial additional cost, so much
the better for all concerned,— EDITOR,