The. Crusade of Rescue

New Zealand Tablet, 6 December 1906, Page 14

The. Crusade of Rescue

♦ (From our Wellington correspondent.) "" - - z ' On ~ Thursday last I had the pleasuie of a chat the Rev. James Goggin and Mi. J. Godfiey Rauwho as iepie=,entatives of the Incoipoiated Society of the Ciusade of Rescue, London, England, aie c n a -visit to the Colony foi the pui pose/of raising funds for the carrying on of the noble woik ""undei"taKen by the society The lepiesentatives have a special leitei of lecommendation fiom his holiness the Pope to the English-speaking would, and have afieady spent some time m Australia, chiefly fn Victoiia It is then intention foi ,the pieseni to speak of tfien work in the chuiches heie, and will begin at St Joseph's on Suiuay Alter visiting the seveial "j>aris'hes of the aichdiocese, Auckland will be visited, and then .possibly Chiistchuich In this connection, howevei, no definite airangements have~yei been made t His ,Giace the- Aichbishop has given" to then work most cordial appioval, and Bishop Lenihan, of Auckland, -has also accorded the lepiesentatives a waim invitation The woik of the society concerns itself "with the" wjAts and stia>s of A ondon. A sum of something __ like £14,000 iwas spent last yeai by,the society - in -caring foi tjie homeless" and destituted Catholic childien of London, and about 1700 of these helpless little ones are at present undei the care of the society A gieat deal is done an assisting emigiation, chiefly to Canada, but the woik is greatly haiupeied owing to a-'Want of the necessaiy funds The Rev Fathei Goggin/ is heie to appeal on behalf of" these homeless ones, and to such an appeal no tnie Catholic can evei - turn a deaf eai.- Mi Raupert, who has lectuied befote the- 'Aichbishop, Bishops, and cleigy^of-'Victoiia on j ' Spuitism,' is also well known in connection with such . woiks of icpute a& ' Roads to RomeV ' Ten Years in _an Older,! • Dangeis ofr Spmtualism, 1 ami ~' Modem Si'.ntismr < 'lhe lepiesentatives" desue to get through then woik in the Colony. as 1 quickly as as othci paits of the Empire amT Amcuca nfust be visited