The Washington times., 1909-10-10
Father Stanton Attacks For
mer President of
Harvard.
DECLARES A CHILD
is BETTER GUIDE.
Thanks God Education Here Is
Not Divorced From
Religion

Declaring the trend of modern uni
versities is away from God and severe
ly attacking by inference former Presi-
dent Eliot, of Harvard. for his recently
announced religious views the Rev. VIII
liam J. Stanton, ;. J., or Newton, Nd.
preached an eloquent sermon TO the stu
dents in the chapel Of the Georgetown
University this morning.
Although he did not call President
Eliots name, the speaker said all his
hearers would understand TO whom he
referred.
Even the professor emeritus Of one
Of our great universities, a man Ct
fifty years learning and experience.
comes o1t OF the North and speaks as
though the world might benefit by his
training" said Father stanton What
does he do? He rides rough shod over
the convictions of 1870 years; he would
rob the world OF hope; he would put
God of the stage and hand mankind
over 10 his own uncertain efficiency.
oh. lame and infpotent conclusIoni A
little child Is a better guide than you,
discredited prophet Of the North: you
may preside gracefully over sessions Of
the faculty, you may do well for your
institution. but you are not a guide in
religion.
Education or Damnation.
II win not mention the name Of this
man: You all know who he is But he
denies everything the wor.l has held
sacred and leaned upon for centuries.
us this education or damnstion?
This man would have his religion
bound by no creed or dogma. and as
one brave newspaper expressed it, per-
III rrfr
only by his own breath. That is All
there is TO It.
Speaking dfa1lslr to the sEsomhled
students and their friends who crowded
the chapel, he continued:
Thank God our education here is not
divorced from religion. You are not the
victims as I was the victim for a num-
her OF years of a system of education
that shuts out God and religion The
trend Of most modern colleges now is
against religion and the supernatural.
Education should begin with God first.
Not TO do this is TO slight God. and 10
try TO form a mans character without
His assistance. You know the subter-
fuges Of many of the modern institu-
tions OF learning. They are found 10 do
without God. They are substituting
evolution for the Divine Being. God
vas before evolution, and there could
be no evolution without Him.
Explains Phenomena.
Evolution is a wonderful little mouth
filling word, much employed by some
OF the little scientists. Say evolution
and you have explained every phenom-
enon and have explained away God. They
would tell you that evolution has
brought from the jelly FISH the thinking
man OF today but ask them what caus-
ed evolution and there thcy stick. True
men Of science did not deny God Before
evolution there was n great intelligence
ths. laid out a great plan and evolution
is not the origin but a process. Cal lt|
what you may. but why not call It God %
The Rev. Mr.. Stanton said modern
teachings were a menace 10 the AmerI-
lsssness. Such conditions, he said had
prompted President Taft TO criticise no
less than a dozen times recently the
lax enforcement Of our criminal laws
ana such theories would tend to further
lawlessness.
The solemn votive mass OF the Holy
Ghost for the opening Of all depart
ments Of Georgetown University was
the occasion Of the Rev. Mr.. Stantons
presence there this morning.
The celebrant OF the mass was the
Rev. Eugene Del. Mcdonnell, S. J.
president Of Gonzaga College, the Rev
Alphonsus A. Donlon, s. j., of Wood
stock College, officiated a deacon, and
the Rev. Mark J. Mcneil. S. J., pro-
fessOr Of rhetoric at Georgetown, was
subdeacOn.