Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-09-10
CHURCH REFUGE FOR ALL
Father Bernard Vaughn Talks Of Eu-
charistic Congress.
LIFE TOO FAST THESE DAYS
Scramble for Priscs Has Become Mad
Passion and Peace Leads Away
From the True re-
ltRlon.

MONTREAL. Sept 9-"The Eucharisto
Life, the Antidote for Modern Life" was
the subject OF an address delivered today
by the Reverend Father Bernard Vaughn
OF England before the Eucharistlc congress
here, In which the speaker painted vivid
picture OF modern conditions as he saw them
and pointed to the church as the refuge
from the direful consequences he forssaw
resulting from what he described a tidal
wave of paganlsm" now sweeping over the
world.
I'VE are living" said Father Vaughn,
lin day OF headlines. snapshots, taxi
cabs and music halls. in a day when the
scramble for the prizes of life has become
a mad passion. IL is a day OF fever. fret
and fume, when competition Tor earthen
toys is so keen, and the margin OF profit
in commerce has become so fine that one
cry beating through the air is hury-up.'
No one seems to have time for pause till
worn out In the pursuit OF gegaws and vani-
| ties, rest cure becomes imperative, the
clock Is stopped and all action, mental as
well as physical, must be prescribed as
| prohibitive for an eighth part OF a year.
| I'VE are living In day when the high
| ideals of old are fast yielding to the pres
sure Of creature comforts when principle
is being exchanged for expediency, In a day
when self-sacrificlng Catholicism Is being
| bartered for self-centered materiaiism
when the Christian sense of sin is being
! regarded as a bygone superstition; In a
| day when 1t 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 be-
| tween the sexes takes one back to pagan
| times, while the garbage on which men and
women feed is as foul and loathsome as the
stuff over which they gloat and chatter; in
a day when marriage has become so de-
based and defled that not even the pledged
truth can, make 1t long and endurabie
| without change of prospective partners In
a life of legalized vice; In a day when there
| is no empty place but I'm the cradle, no
room In which TO move but in the churches
Well may a leading Partisan physician
sum up the situation, exclaiming: 'C'est une
pouriture.'
God and MammOn.
| observe that the cleavance today, "a
In no previous time since the dawn of
Christianity, lie between God and Mann
mon; or, shall say, in language more
definite stil. between Catholicism and
agnosticism, II not evolutionary material
ism itself For confirmation of my strong
assertions read the story of present day
lie, as II is reflected in society, as II is
mirrored forth on the stage. as 1t is shown
up In the law courts as II Is writ large
on our book stalls or. If you WILL as II Is
published in society journals, In the
monthly magazine in the weekly pictorial
and in the daily press
with Mammon, then, asserting itself
as 1t does amid all sections OF the com
munity In this twentieth century, with
nome life gone, with social life democrat
lied. with our marts of industry like
gambling hells, and the very streets like
nightmare, what ask is to life up tnd
proclaim the interests of God against the
devastating plague Of frivolity folly and
riot.
Note well that before this tidal wave
OF pasanism, stretching from sea to aea
ana river to river, everything is going
under with one exception, and that is our
holy religion. The Church of Christ indis-
solubly one, infalllbly true, indestructiblv
} good. is the one and only institution that
: is holding its own and is 'semper dem
unchanged and Interchangeable, amid all this
) wreckage and ruin littering the spaces Of
the world-like Christ. the church, too, re-
mains yesterday, today and the same for
ever. It's center OF gravity never shifts.
Union with Christ.
IF, as twentieth century Catholics Wa
are to be a real credit to the church an
inspiring example to the world, and n mis-
sion to our country, we must become so
closely united with Christ that, in a very
strictly and literal sense ours, will be tha
Christ thought the Christ word, the Christ
deed; ours the Christ life, ours the Christ
character Resolve, then, first of all. reg
ularly to feed your divine life, on this
divine food, this Bread come down from
heaven
In conclusion let me remind how n
has come to, pass that so responsive in
telhgent, quick witted and brilliant a peo-
pie as the Irish have never been caush,
ana captured, as so many were. by the
3 glare of pseudo theology or the Rlamor M
raise philosophers. Yes, let me tell YOU
= why II Is that the Celtic race. peturaII,
, SO easily won' has never welcomed to It's
, schools or showed even cold shelter "a
Jansenism' or Kantianism, or Martianisn,,
or Nietzscheim, nay, let me fur.
: ther tell you why 1t is tina,
q no form OF modernism or mum.
daneism mas ever succeeded in finding foot.
mold IN Ern's soil. The reason for this
} Is not far to seek. II Ireland TODAY Is
the most thoroughly Catholic land through.
out the civilized world and IL Dublin. al
all the capitals OF Christendom, is the
most intensely Catholic. the secret Of thi,
glorious privilege is easy TO reveal. Ire.
land Is what 1t Is today because its son,
and daughters say their prayers ana "a
o to the sacraments Let us 60 forth. "a.
. solved to do likewise. and we. too uks
{ them, shall remain unspoit by modernity
Y 'unspotted from the world