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Show HORRORS! A WALL STREET JOURNAL ON RELIGION! Many Catholics who never find' interesting matter in their religious weeklies may bo surprised 1o find the Wall Street Journal echoing what has been insisted upon by Catholic, journalism for a decade of years and more. Says the Wall Street Journal: "Whatever may be a man's own personal beliefs, be-liefs, there is no, one who would not prefer to do business with a person who really believes in a future life. If there are fewer men of such faith in the world, it makes a big difference, and if faith is to continue to decline, this will require new adjustments. ad-justments. There are. certainly, 011 the - surface, many signs of such a decline. Perhaps, if it were possible to probe deeply into .the subject, it might be found that faith still abounded, but is no longer expressed in the old way. But we are obliged to ac-cepj: ac-cepj: the surface indications. These include a falling fall-ing off in church attendance, Vlie abandonment of family .worship, the giving ovr of ' Sunday, more and' more, to pleasure and labor, the separation of religious from secular education, under the stern demands of non-sectarianism, the growing up of a generation uninstructed as our teachers were in the study of the Bible, the secularisation of a portion of the church itself, and its inability .in a large way to gain the confidence of the laboring people. If these are really signs of a decay of religious faith, then, indeed there is no more important problem before be-fore us than. that of either discovering some adequate ade-quate substitute for faith, or 0 take immediate steps to .check a development tha has wihin it the seeds of a national disaster." ( |