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Show SCORES MODERN HASTE Father Bernard Vaughan of England Warns the People to Beware of "Tidal Wave of Pabanism" Sweeping Over World. At the Eueharistic Congress last month at Montreal, Mon-treal, the Rev. Father Bernard Vaughn, of England delivered an address on "The Eueharistic Life the Antidote for Modern Life," in which the great English prelate painted a picture of modern conditions con-ditions as lie saw them and pointed to the Church as the refuge from the direful consequences he foresaw resulting from the "tidal wave of paganism" pagan-ism" sweeping over the world. . "We are living in a day of headlines, snapshots, snap-shots, taxicabs and. music halls in a day when the scramble for the prizes of life has become a m& passion," said Father Vaughn. "It is a day of fever, fret and fume. "Competition for earthen toys is so keen and the margin of profit in commerce has become so .fine that the one cry beating through the air is 'Hurry up.' Xo one seems to have time for pause till, worn out in the pursuit of gewgaws and vani3 ties, a rest cure becomes imperative and the clock is stopped. "We are living in a day when it matters not what you believe, but only that you do, and when you may do what you like, provided you are not found out; in a day when the relations between the sexes takes one back to pagan times, while the garbage gar-bage on which men and women feed is foul and loathsome as the stuff over which they gloat and chatter; in a day when mrariage has become so debased and defiled that not even the pledged troth can make it long and endurable without change of prospective partners in a life of legalized vice; in a day when there is no empty place but in the cradle, cra-dle, no room in which to move but in the churches. "In conclusion, let me remind you how it has come to pass that so responsive, intelligent, quickwitted quick-witted and brilliant a people as the Irish have never been caught and captured,' as so many were, by the glare of pseudo-theology or the glamour of false philosophies. - ... " " "Let me "tell you why the Celtic race, naturally so easily won, has never welcdnied to its schools or showed even cold shelter to Jausenlsm or Kantianism Kantian-ism or Martianism or Xietzscheisni. "The reason for this is not far to seek. If Ireland Ire-land is the most thoroughly Catholic land throughout through-out the civilized world, and if Dublin of all the capitals cap-itals of Christendom is the most intensely Catholic, the secret of this glorious privilege is easy to reveal: re-veal: Ireland is what she is because her sons and daughters say their prayers and go to the sacraments. sacra-ments. "Let us go forth resolved to do likewise, and we, too, like them, shall remain unspoilt by modernity, mod-ernity, 'unspotted from the world.'" |