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defiled that not even the pledged troth
can make it long and endurable with
out change Of prospective partners in

can make 1t long and endurable with
out change Of prospective partners in
q life OF legalized vice; in a day when
there Is no empty place but in the
cradle, no room in which to move but
In the churches. Well may a leading
Partisan physician sum up the situa-
tion, exclaiming 'C'est une pouriture. >
Observe that the cleavage TODAY
as in no previous time since the dawn
of christianity, is between God and
mammon; or shall i say, in language
more definite still, between catholic
ism and agnosticism, if not evolu-
tionary materialism itself For con-
firmation. Of my strong assertions
ready the story of present-day life,
as 1t is reflected in society, as it is
mirrored forth on the stage, as it is
shown up in the law courts, as it is
writ large on our book stalls, or IL
you will, as 1t is published in society
journals, in the monthly magazines,
in the weekly pictorial and in the
daily press.
with mammon then. asserting it.
self, as it does amid all sections of
the community in this twentieth GEN.
tury. with home life gone. with social
life demoralized, with our marts of
industry like gambling hells, and the
very streets like nightmare, what |
ask is to lift UP and proclaim the in
terests Of God against this devastat-
ing plague Of frivolity. folly and riot
Note we'll that before this tidal
wave of paganism stretching from sea
to sea and river to river everything
Is going under with one exception,
and that is our holy religion. The
church of Christ indissolubly one,
tnfallibly true, indestructibly good is
the one and only Institution that is
holding her own and is semper idem'
unchanged and unchangable, amid all
this wreckage and ruin littering the
spaces of the world-like Christ the
church too remains yesterday, today
and the same forever. Her center OF
gravity never shifts:
III. as twentieth century Catholics
we are to be real credit to the
church, an inspiring example to the
world, and mission to our country
we must become 30 closely united
with Christ that, in a very strict and
literal sense, ours will be the Christ
thought, the Christ-word, the Christ
deed: ours the Christ-life. ours the
Christ-character. Resolve then first
of all regularly to feed your divine
life. on this divine food, this bread
come down from heaven
I'm conclusion let me remind how
it has come to pass that so respon-
sive, intelligent, quick-witted and
brilliant people as the Irish have
never been caught and captured, as
so. many were, by the glare of the
pseudo-theology or the glamour OF
false philosophers. Yet, let me tell
you why 1t is that the Celtic race
naturally so easily won, has never
welcomed to its schools. or showed
even cold shelter to Janensim. or
Kantenism. or Martianism, or Met
zscheism nay, let me further tell you
why it is that no fbfi II; 81 modernism
or mundaneism has ever succeeded in
finding foothold in Erin's soil. The
reason for this is not far to seek
II ireland today is the most thorough.
ly Catholic land throughout the civil
lized world; and If Dublin of all the
capitals of christendom is the most
intensely Catholic the secret of this
glorious privilege is easy to reveal
Ireland is what she is today because
her sons and daughters say their
prayers and go to the sacraments.
/ Let us go forth, resolved to do like
wise, 'unspotted from the world.''