Devils Lake inter-ocean and Devils Lake free press. (Devils Lake, Ramsey County, N.D.) 1905-1909, 1907-10-25
T FATHER VAUGHAN
Delivered an Excellent Lecture on
1.-The Power of Love-"

Monday evening large and repre-
sentative audience of Devils Lake cit.
liens listened to the opening number
of the winter Lyceum course. The at
traction was Father Vaughan, the
noted priest-orator, who delivered an
entertaining and impressive lecture on
"The Power Of Love-" For an hour
and a half he held his audience en-
thralled, and completely carried away
by his eloquence, and when the lecture
was over and the people filed out of
the large hall, no one regretted either
the time or the money that had been
spent by them in hearing the famous
orator.
Father Vaughan was introduced by
Prof. Godward On the stage were
seated, besides Mr.. Godward, the Rev.
T. A. Oson and Joseph M. Kelly, mem
bers Of the entertainment committee
for the lecture course.
Father Vaughan opened his address
by stating that he had nothing new to
tell his audience, that the story was
very old and very beautiful, as old as
Gods world itself, in fact. The whole
life of Christ is one endless story Of
love. Throughout the unending ages
Of eternity will burn the everlasting
love of God. When man was made,
God in his love breathed into him and
raised him from the natural to the
supernatural plane. With the sin of
our first parents this world became a
desert, for sin had entered and God 8
beautiful world was lost. Upon the
most beautiful land this world can
ever know our parents turned their
backs.
For four thousand years men waited
their deliverance. Then the Messiah
came. He came to save this perish
ing people. To show His love for US
He left the Kingdom of Heaven to don
the rags of beggar. In love was the
Son born in the bosom of the Father.
What power did Jesus give His church
when He sent forth twelve ignorant
men to set forth her teachings. I'm
perial, pagan Rome, how she laughed.
How the Greeks, with their supercil-
ious philosophy, sneered at her. The
Goths, Visigoths, Huns and Barbarians
overrode the whole of Europe with the
Exception Of the church of Rome.
The raising up of weak creature
for Gods sake, said the speaker, is the
keystone of religion. True religion is
mans relation to the eternal Cod
seeking God through truth and beauty.
Were it not for that lesson Of love
that is told in all nature what would
we know of Gods love?
Make the helping of a weak creature
the grand motive of your life, he said.
He made a strong plea for the regen-
GRAFTON of mankind "You are build.
ing churches and sitting in half empty
pews, and think your work Is done
We do not need more churches or elo-
quent men to preach the gospel OF
Christ abroad, but rather, men and
women to live the life of Christ-more
charity and more sympathy in ou1
everyday life. Would Christ have
passed by the young girl whom sus
picion had marked, he asked, or the
fallen drunkard. Both have souls TO,
which Jesus hung in agony upon the
cross for three hours.
The penitence of Mary Magdaleu
and her forgiveness by Christ was
: strongly pointed to as an example
The men of the twentieth century, he
said, will say that charity is dead
: However, were it not for the men and
women daily living the Christian life
, your very homes would be invaded
with the odors Of hell. The matter
with the spirit of the twentieth cen
, tury, he maintained, was that We
i, have breathed in too much of the spirit
of the world. If everyone could only
, get their names in the newspapers
r they would all be great Christians
v If Christ were on earth today, he said
r he would not get one line In any news
\ paper. The whole of the life of Chris
o could be written on his hand-born /,
,, Bethlehem, fed away at twelve year
Iof age, and for eighteen more year
d lived under the jurisdiction of his pa,
t. Ients. The paragraph would not b
r. noticed in newspaper, yet it was b
Y. far the greatest life ever lived upo
j. earth. - ~, II.
Father Vaughan closed his addres
;el with strong word picture of the wor
is Of love on the field OF battle and ca
n mage, where, for the love Of the Chris
d the Sisters Of Charity lowered ove
Ig] the wounded and dying, cheering thel
n with comforting words of hone, Th