New-York tribune., 1910-10-03
PRAISE FOR N. Y. SlUMS.
Paradise Compared to London's,
Declares English Priest.
VAUGHN AT CATHEDRAL
eff ST. Paul Were to Come Here
City Would Be Swept Into
Catholic Church.

The Rev Rernard Vaughn. OF I'VE .'"Sui'
Church. Farm street London ""o - '''e
International Euchartstic 50 VI
Montreal said the greatest proo'en OF '"-
dav was that Of racial suicide CAUSING
the "en,n+v- cradle and the empty church'
delivered the sermon in St. Patricks & "a
thedraI Yesterday morning. IN Vhich ne
said the slIne of New York were para
disc compared with those In LONDON ne
smoke of the nstriotisn1 and growth CT tne
Catholic Church. it's LOYALTY to country. ana
it's members. true in the faith ready 10
fight and die for love Of Country.
He commented on the statement OF H'shop
Walter AsbbeI SeJlev. of Jamestown.
n. Y. of the Free Methodist Church' wh'ch
he said he had read in the newspapers. tnat
Professionalism was in decay. II 81 7 aui
were to come to New York. he said' ne
believed the whole city would be swept
into the Catholic Church
Father Vaughn. as he prefers to nc 40
dressed. knows something of New ork
congested districts, which he referred 10
as the ''sums,' for he spent large part
Of Saturday night in a trip through Mui-
berry Mott Sullivan. Houston ana some
of the East Side streets. ana told Wha'
he had found there by this casual obserVa-
ton.
"If ST. Paul Were Here"
IF st. Paul were TO come to New YORK.
on the tide of his Irresistible influence he
would sweep the entire city into the Cath-
olic Church. said Father Vaughn. There
is something about this apostle of the
Gospel. so fearless. so straight. so uncom-
promising After two thousand years you
cannot take UP one of his letters without
fe cling that he has a grip on his subject.
With clear exposition. terse language and
graphic setting with a daring born OF
conviction. the apostle throws on the screen
a picture of the church that leaves the
unprejudiCed man no excuse not to recog-
nize her position beside that of rival claim
ants He breaks up all un-Cathohc theo-
ries when he tells us that Christ is the
head of the Church. He is the head, and
il the body We are the members of that
body
The limb cut off will wither and die,
lie continued. "A month ago in Canada /
spoke of those churches outside tho Cath
olic faith as cut off. and the Protestant
faith rose up and tore to tatters not what
I said. but my wretChed self. | was not
interested in that; but what | am interest
ed in is what I read this morning. Bishop
Walter Ashbel Sellew. of Jamestown, of
the Diocese Of New York. says that his re
Iigion is dying, after three hundred years
of senile decay. ] never ventured to say
as much l only suggested little more
life inStilled.'
II am proud of Bishop Sellew for strik-
ing this note of warning, said the London
priest $50 that men outside the Church can
see whether their religion is H vitaliZing
energy or a miCrobe fastening on death.
We -annot afford to tempOriZe when speak
ing of the things for which Jesus lived and
died.
What New Workers were anxious to hear
was what this clergyman -SoCiologiSt would
saw of their own city. He saw some of 1t
Saturday night, and yesterday he said:
SIums Better than london's.
Il spent the night in the slums of your
CITY. and ! enjoyed the privilege of being
with my brothers. humble though they may
be. ! compared your sluns with those OF
a vaster city l know well, and l rcjOiced-
There were children playing and dancing
in the electric light and people sat on their
porches happy and contented. Poles. Jews,
Italians. Chinese and Japanese were there.
all CAV and living. Tne children with a
slice of melon and A ray of sunshine were
richer than your milliOnaireS. more human,
more godlike. ] almost wished TO go PACK
there and say, I have come to stay
Your SltIms New Workers. are paradise
courts and alleys known to me III the East
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