The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-09-10
75,OOO PEOPLE ATTEND MASS
 IN OPEN AIR
Celebrated By Archbishop Farley at Special Altar 15O Feet High Erected at Cost of $35,OOO.
Father Vaughan's Powerful Sermon On An Empty Cradle and Empty Church In Relation to Marriage Tie.
Especial from United Press,


 Montreal, Sept. 1o.-With perfect weather conditions prevailing some 75,ooo persons gathered in the open air in F1etcher's Field this morning and participated in the pontff1cal mass celebrated by Archbishop Farley of New York assisted by Cardinal Van nutelli, the PapaI Envoy and Cardinal Logue of Ireland, who occupied thrones especially erected for them Two sermons were delivered. one in French and the other in English by Rev. Father Haze and Mgr. O'Con- nell of Boston. A special altar had been erected at a cost of $35,OOO at the foot of the mountain and at one end of the field. It was 15O feet cross about which were grouped fig ures of angels carrying crystal trump cts.
 In his sermon Archbishop O'Con- nell exhorted Catholics to fully real ize the enormous treasury of grace contained in the central act of the church's worship. The inventions of men. he said, can never take the place of the priesthood of Christ.
 Tn conclusion he said: "The great religion of Christ is his own church truth and his law, but because he himself dwel1s under her roof. So that while she feeds the minds of her children with his doctrines and guides their actions by his preeepts, she nourishes their very souls with hinse1f.''
 The final meetings of the Euchar- istic Congress were begun at Il o'clock this morning
 t'The Roman Catholic church alone enforces obedience to the law of God governing racial suicide From what I hear of conditions in the United States the Catholics will soon control that country through force of num- bers,'S today said Father Bernard Vaughan. most of EIngland'S S Roman Catholic priests, who is a del- egate to the Eucharistio Congress. sterile Paganism. The battle for the possession of the wor1d,'' he con- inued, twill soon be narrowed to the Roman Catholic church and the de structive forces of angosticism. Prot estantism is disappearing. To me nothing can be more contemptib1e than those married women who shake tEeir little fists in the face of God saying: we ignore you and despise your laws Their fever rush for pleasure is leading them to Paganism and destruction of Carthage and Phoencia, of Greece and Rome.
 ttAn empty cradle and the empty church are the great problems Of modern life. Racial suicide act and Catholic Church stands alone 1n it's enforcement of the law of God con cerning marriages and the Roman Catholic Church alone has no com pIaint to make of empty pews
 'I can understand the married woman who feels that she does not want to be left out of public affairs and who wants her share of the prizes of life. I find no fault with her ambitions, but I think it is a grand thing to see a woman taking in washing. She is far better than her richer sisters who spend their time taking ine money. I think it is unfortunate that women have to work outside the home but it seems to be a necessary economic condition of the day.
 sfWe must all aim toward ideals we can reach, but neither the nations nor their peoples are striving toward a Christian ideal. Our age has no sense of proportion of the fitness of things for it has lost sight of God and His teachings.''