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in and year out, does his share, and more than his 

 share, of the unending work which he feels is im 

 posed upon him alike by Christianity and by that 

 form of applied Christianity which we call good 

 citizenship. Far more than that number of women, 

 in and out of religious bodies, who do to the full 

 as much work, could be mentioned. Of course, for 

 every one thus mentioned there would be a hundred, 

 or many hundreds, unmentioned. Perhaps there is 

 no harm in alluding to one man who is dead. Very 

 early in my career as a police commissioner of the 

 City of New York I was brought in contact with 

 Father Casserly of the Paulist Fathers. After he 

 had made up his mind that I was really trying to 

 get things decent in the department, and to see that 

 law and order prevailed, and that crime and vice 

 were warred against in practical fashion, he became 

 very intimate with me, helping me in every way, and 

 unconsciously giving me an insight into his own 

 work and his own character. Continually, in one 

 way and another, I came across what Father Cas 

 serly was doing, always in the way of showing the 

 intense human sympathy and interest he was taking 

 in the lives about him. If one of the boys of a fam 

 ily was wild, it was Father Casserly who planned 

 methods of steadying him. If, on the other hand, 

 a steady boy met with some misfortune, lost his 

 place, or something of the kind, it was Father Cas- 



