Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-10-22
SILVER JUBILEE AT ST PATRICK'S
Twenty Fifth Anniversary of Corner Stone Layns-Ssrnos B Father Neale of Ieryvie- Strangers Were Present
 at Both Morning and Evening Services.

1 toll, by the bonds of common re- demption. If the day ever comes, which God forbid, when class shall be arrayed against class in this country, woe to the state if religion be not there to curb and to restrain {; to command, like her Divine Master. the winds and waves of human pas sion and to uphold the majesty of the law Not only does the church make for justice as between man and man, she makes for what is equally essen tial to the welfare of the state--the sanctity of the home. What is the great evil in our national life to-day? 1 Forget, If you can, the mad rush for wealth with it's attendant dishonesty in high places, forget the conditions which allow the frightful cOncentra- tion of wealth in the hands of few, forget the political corruption which buys and barters and sells what should be most sacred to every citi- zen--forget these because they are all known, and for that reason they must needs work their own cure. The one evil that is preying insidiously and secretly upon the vitals of our life is divorce with it's resulting im- moralitie5, it's cruelties to the born and unborn. This is the foe because 1t strikes at the family and the fam lily is the foundation of the state.
 Against this foe there is one in stitution which presents the world over an unbroken and an undaunted front. There is one voice that pro- claims from every altar, from every confessional; What God hath joined together, let no man put asundef'- the church of Jesus Christ, the church which teaches the restraint of the passions, which denounces all infractions of the moral code, which forbids not only the immoral act but the immoral thought, which prevents them both, as far as possible, by the purity with which 1t surrounds man and principally woman, and which is as ready to-day as she was of old when she dared the armies of Phillip Augustus or braved the wrath of Henry VIII--though 1t cost her a kingdom to defend the honor, the inviolability of the marriage tie and the sanctity of the Christian home.
 Religion, therefore. such as Is preached from this altar is the sup port-nay. the very pillars of socie- ty, And if you would pull down these pillars you would like another Samp- son but invite your own destruction.
 While this church thus stands for so much to those who are outside her fold and to the public at large, it has in addition for you of the household, higher and holier meaning.
 Not to you is 1t only place of assemblage where faith and good works are inculcated--tO you it is the house of God. so that pointing toward it you say with St John: Be hold the tabernacle of God with men, Faith teaches you that here within these walls resides all the power, and wisdom and blessedness of the Son of God. Here you worship Him in company with the angels who hover round this footstool of His glory. Hither, too. you come when wounded by sin to have the wine and al of absolution poured upon you. Here you contract those mutual obliga- tions of matrimony which give you