The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1907-04-07
'FATHEHvAUGHAN
SORES SOCIETY
SMART SETS MOBILES HELD UP TIC
BITTER form BY LONDON
PRIEST
Cat and Dog worship, Rivalry for
Displayland Worse Sins
hndemued.

Cat and Dog worship, Rivalry for
Displayand Worse Sins
| bndemned.
London. MaIh 31-London society,
at least thoseImembers of 1t whose
| consciences hide been pricked by the
sermons Faith Bernard Vaughn has
| delivered FROM the pulpit Of Farm
| Street Chapel breathes more easily.
| for the fery-bngued Jesuit preached
the last Of thh to-day. Taking as his
general topicl THE Sins of Society as
Gagged by th3Passion of Christ" he
has incurred SKere censure both from
the press andhis ministerial colleag-
ues on accountof the vehement langu-
age which he lsed in his Negotiations.
Society. howjver, has taken its cas-
tijation imam eger spirit. MMany times
there was not vacant corner in the
church. So grdt has been the demand
for seats that persons entering the
chapel were a$ed at the door whether
they would tale shilling or sixpenny
seats
Scores CatIand Dog Worship.
Before beginning a hecent sermon
Father Waugh made the following
statement on Ae cat and dog worship
he had denounced:
Many RESPONDENTS have told me
that what I sid in previous sermons
about cat and log worship among silly
women Is not true /, therefore, refer
them to the servants who have to stay
up half the niaht petting and nursing
these little bejsts; 20 the cook who
have to cater pr them; to the veterin-
airy surgeons Who have to take care Of
their diseases; Ito tho undertakers who
have to furnish thei- funerals.
III this IL nd enough, let them 20 to
the printers who issue memorial not
ices edged II deep black inviting
friends to memorial service In the
drawing room, with the notification
that it is not to say 'adieu,' but .au
revoir'-whateter that means. sup
pose 1t means that they are all going
to the dogs.
ScandalizhE Every Section.
II have no batience with these peo-
pie, who ought to be dandling children
in their laps Ind nursing their little
ones instead Of scandalizing every Sec
ton of the community by pouring out
their love upon these creatures that are
not meant to be treated as their own
offspring.
File upon them, ard upon those who
encourage them! I have been sent q
lot Of trashy GARBAGE cannot call 1t
literature-on this subject of the intel
ligence and Of the soul of dogs and Of
cats. Why do not THEY go on to rats
and mice? If one animal has a right,
all others equally have it"
Having delivered himself of this re-
ply to his critics. the priest continued:
You pampered votar.es of pleasure say
that there Is no sin except that of be-
ing dull. 1t is sin, Itell you, that has
made your minds dull and your sight
dim. or you would recognize in the
torn, bruised and bleeding Christ be-
fore you the output of those sins of the
flesh with a description of which I will
not pollute this tongue on which has
rested the Bread of Angels.
Society SeIf-Convicted.
Men and women have written to me
saying that society to-day is no worse
than 1t was in the time of Charles II,
or the Georges. do not think 1t is SO
bad, but surely 1t argues poorly for the
morals of society when 1t makes
boast of being associated with such ul-
cerous periods Of history.
1 know that many of my friends in
the West End are soundly sleeping in
their sins while the flres of hell are
raging around them, and / shout from
this pulpit-'Awake. arise. escape for
your life before the fire-gates close
for ever on you!
Society is crucifying Christ anew
to-day in its club rooms and drawing
rooms. in its boudoirs and bedrooms;
selling him like Judas; denying Him
like Peter; disappearing Him like Cal
aphas; hooking him like Herod: con-
deming Him like Plate"
In another sermon he declared that
the elite Of London. though nom
inally members of either the State
or the Catholic Church, were as
devoid of Christian ethics as the
had the light, but hid in the darkness
of the worse vices of antiquity. The
carnal impetusority and the lecherous
longtngs, always unfulflled. of Lon
don's rich, he said. led them to indulge
in unnamable crimes. a disgrace of
modern society.
Cruclfying Christ Anew.
Upon the text My little children.
these things write l unto you that We
sin. not" he brought the act of atone
ment to Mayfair.
HE made this great act of contrition!
What has it done for Mayfair All
these conversations in the boudoir. in
the club rooms, in the drawing rooms.
He heard them, every word, saw every
thing. That heart so pure, so tender, so
to be racked by these
spiteful words and thoughts. 1t is
your work; you drove those nails in
that bleeding heart.
What, Christ might ask, is the
good of my shedding blood? Who
cares-' And the reply to-day is; 1t hap
pened so long ago. Are there not con-
Trajectory accounts? Was 1t true? Was
1t not merely a good man going
through what he must go through
whether he had sinned or not
I'm some of the churches we are told
that there was no fall: that the atone-
ment is a fable. We like to hear these
things. The world indulging its sins is
like a naughty how who homes that
there is no God. The world does not
Like the nasslnn of Jesus Christ IL Is