The Cairo bulletin., 1910-09-09
FATHER VAUGHN DELIVERS
STRONG SERMON BEFORE Eu.
cHARisTis CONGRESS.
CHURCH IS THE REFUGE
For Tidal Wave Of Paganism Now
Sweeping World, Declares Cath
olc clergymaf--- Big Re-
cept TO vanuteIIi.

/ MOUtIcdl, Stpl.
/, of every creed and profession attend
led the reception accorded tonight By
the city Of Montreal 20 Cardinal Van
rtelli, papal legate to the Euchar-
ist Congress in session here, s
| "The Eucharistic life the antidote
for modern life" was the subject OF
an address delivered today by the
Reverend Father Bernard Vaughn, Of
/ England, before the Eucharistic con.
gress here, in which the speake.
painted vivid picture OF modern con
ditions as he saw them ana pointed
to the church as the refuge from the
direful consequences he foresaw re
sulting from what he described a
Tidal Wave of Paganism" now
sweeping over the world.
I'VE are living,' said Father
Vaughn, "in a day OF headlines. snap
shots, taxicabs, and music halls; in
day when the scramble ror the prizes
of life has become a mad passion. 1t
| is day Of fever, fret and fume,
when competition for earthern toys Is
SO keen, and the margin of profit in
commerce has become so fine that the
one cry beating through the air vs.
hurry up. No one seems to have
time for pause till. worn out In the
pursuit of gegaws and vanities. rest
cure becomes imperative, the clock
is stopped and all action, mental as
we'll as physical must be- presraibed
as prohibitive for an eighth part CT
a year.
1--WE are living in day when the
high ideals of old are fast yielding to
the pressure Of creature comfdrts,
when principal is being exchanged for
eXpediency in a day wnen seifsacrI-
ficing Catholicism is being bartered
for self-centered materlalism. when
the Christian sense or sin is being
regarded as by-gone superstition;
| in day when it matters not what
you believe, but only what you do
and when you may do what you like,
| provided you are not found out In
day when the relations between the
sexes takes one back to Pagan times
while the garbage on which men sand
women feed Is as foul and loatnsoms
as the stuff over which they gloat
and chatter in day wien marriage
has become so debased and defile,l'
that not even the pieGged truth can
make 1t long and endurable without
change OF prospective partners in
life Of legalized vice; IN a day when
there is no empty place but In tha
cradle, no room in which to move
but in the churches. Wen may a lead,
| ing physician sum up the situation
exclaiming: &C est une pouiture."
Mote well that before this tiial
waEe of PaganIsm stretching from
sew 10 sea and river to river every.
thing is going under wfth one except.
lion, and that is our Holy Religion
The church Of Chr.s; indissolubly
one. infallibly true, indestructibiy
Igood is the one and only institution
that is holding her own ami is sem
per idem unchanged anG unchange-
able, amidpall this wreckage and ruin
littering the spaces Of the worldltk D
Christ, the church remains yesterday,
today and the same forever Her cen.
ire of gravity never shifts.
"If, as twentieth century Catholics
we are to be real credit to the
chrrch, an inspiring example to the
world, and mission TO our country,
we must become so closely united
with Christ that in very ST. ctly
and literal sense, ours will be the
Christthought, the Christ-word the
IChrist-deed; ours the Chirst.lfe, ours
the Cbrist-character. Resolve then
first OF all regularly to feed your
divine life, on this divine food, this
'Bread come down from heaven
Tribute to The Irish.
'In conclusion let me remind yol
haw II has come to pass that so re.
sponsive, intelligent, quck-wittel
and brilliant people the Irish have
been caught and captured, so many
were, by the glare of pseudo-theolosy ~
or the glamour OF false philosophy
Yes, let me tell you way It Is thar
the Celtic race, naturally so eas'l
won, has never welcomed to It's
schOls, or showed even cold shelter
ia Jansenism, or Kan;isism, or Mar
tianism. or Nietzscheism. or Nun
daneism has ever succeeded in fiul.
ing focthold in Erin's soil The re:t.
son for this is not far to seek. II Ira.
land today Ia the most thoroughly
Catholic land throughout the civil