"'Do the materialistic tendencies of the times weaken your church
in America?' I asked a noble Paulist father whom I met once on a
railroad train.
"'Oh, no,' said he, 'we Catholics catch our people young and they
never get away from us. We hold that if we can have the care and
guidance of a child under seven years of age it will always come
back to the church in after years, in every important crisis of
grief or joy in life. That is why our great church is unaffected
by the godlessness that alarms others. We make Catholics of little
children and they never cease to grow as the twig was
bent.'"--_Julian Ralph_.