The A.C.T.S.

New Zealand Tablet, 20 December 1906, Page 9

The A.C.T.S.

yi •V-'f p: v\ ':' /-'The-Australian Catholicl TruthpSddtety ;- the most practical outcome of the great Catholic Congress that assembled in.l - Mdlbotrne -towards theytclase^ot JL9O4>The need for such ' ail" organisation had long been pressing, and sopn.it was,out^'<fullrganoplied,^like >• the knight of the oldeh ' cHivalry," "to do battle for God and truth -and i right' against^"-the;' forces--of- ignorance,, prejudice, 'irreligion./andljimbXorality.'i Its swbr&'&nfl^laiice-are'the jjVjoice -aiwl -pen—the lecture and the-'pamphlet. Within -Ihe^two^ infant -years- of >its?existencejs'.ttte Society',.says^ its, .recently, published report, .'has prepared-and published' over" forty pamphlets, on. subjects of very varied "'-interest.-'* "So far", r the .list of our publications is but. , sample. _ of. whaL we desire,our- Society.4o aim at ; but the time has' come for the issue of a number ;of^racfcsp? explanatory', ofcfiiie*' "truirl^twe^^ife-ve, for which '-iherex«is^a'^-'tre%ljr deinanTlP^-TKfe toifal number of-pamphlets published- by ■ the Society- up~"to ' date is 247,000. The.number circulated is L 72,840.' Of. the Society's, excellent and recently issued 'Australian Prayer-Boole ', no fewer than 13,236 ri copies have 'been distributed.- The organisation is ~U<oing~excellent work. It is now; T taying-'J in every possible" way to"reach«out to the .farthest;' limits ' of the far-scattered States and Colonies,of the Australian group. It comes as a shock to us'-^tjb /learn^-froin the report^that there are in New Zealand'only forty-eight subscribers to this -noble and self-sacrificing^ work. We trust there will ,be from this Colony a numerous"- and "generous response to the appeal for five thousand more supporters ' who will cheerfully subscribe live shillings a .year, and.not expect it all v bapk,. again '. (Subscriptions will be received by,-the Rev. J. Norris, Catholic Presbytery, Dryburgh St., .North Melbourne),.';" In the interests of Catholic truth, f many- of-* the -Society's 'pamphlets are sold below cost price, others at aii^infinvtesirnalP profits W"ili€ipjb': that there are many among our readers on both sides of 'the Tasman Sea who will hasten to have a share, in great --and - "good''\work—ißin*dful%jof?;vlSß prophet's promise,, thai;' shall . shine as stars^lof all eternity. J^^^^j" I