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Show PROTESTANT COMMENT. On Cardinal Gibbons' Sermon to Young Men. Rev. Dr. Washington Gladden, pastor pas-tor of the First Congregational church, in his sermon last Sunday evening took up the subject matter of Cardinal Gibbons' sermon on obstacles to success, suc-cess, given on a -recent Sunday in the Baltimore cathedral, and printed by the Associated Press. Cardinal Gibbons Gib-bons said that society is confronted today by five great evils "divorce which strikes at the root of the family and of society; a defective system cl education; the desecration of the Christian Chris-tian Sabbath which tends to obliterate in our adult population the salutary fear of God and the homage that we owe him; the gross and systematic election elec-tion frauds, and lastly, the unreasonable unreason-able delay in carrying into effect the sentences of our criminal courts and the numerous subterfuges by which criminals escape the execution of the la wg." Dr. Gladden said that the address as reported in the daily pipers contained con-tained abundant food for thought; that it eeemed. as a whole, a most wise and |