The sun., 1910-10-05
FATHER VAUGHAN'S REPLY
SHiRP ANSWER To NEW Y0Rk'S
PRESBYTERIiN CLERGT.

Commercial Prosperity No sign % splr-
/ ItuaI Advancement Repeats That
/ Professionalism In It's Youth u Nearer
Grave ThAn 3,OOO-Icar-OId rival.
Father Bernard Vaughan OF London
leciured AT the Brooklyn Academy OF
Music last night on Joan Of Arc for
the benefit of Brook lyn College. hut a.
the outse, he had something to SAy in
answer 10 the Presbyterian Ministers
/ Association. which objected 20 his declar-
alton that Catholicism u the hope Of
America. since Protestantism is dying
ou' Father Vaughn said:
| have been eHcommunicated by ths
pr'.-bvterian Ministers Association Of
Greater New York They say ! gave out
a pronuncamento about the United State-.
although have been only two davs hero
/ And before they began their eScommunica-
/ ton of me they give ont = prOnunciamento
/ about spain and the countries OF South
america in which hardly one OF them ever
spent Two hour~ Again they condemn n
me unht TO speak about Professionalism
IA the ni'ed StAtes. because arrived only
few DAYS ago. and they let Bishop ssllsv
escape the Protestant Bishop whom ]
quoted and who. II 7 am rightly informed.
I arrived here not two days. or two years,
but twenty years ago
: but what ~ more important than all THE.
when | spoke about Professionalism being IN
decay ! was speaking OF Protestanism ss a
spiritual power-as a power capable OF
building up a spiritually. snpernaturaiiy
minded people. Rs a power capable OF erect
ing a temple to God in the human soul
/ Hut the ministers say TO me. Look at this
great and glorious republic. Have you
seen its sSyscrapers. its railroads. ts
bridges. its halls Of commerce.
But reply Gentlemen. what proof 10
there In all this that PTo'e-tanism ts
living spiritual power why. the deader II
: 49, - spiritual power the more likely are
all these material things TO be accom-
plished The deader ~ IL the more awake
are human ambitions snd human energies
and human passions to 90 forward IN the
l Ines of material progress and to build
rnansiun here on earth and make them sccn
AZ mansions IN heaven
4 The Presbyterian ministers fling down a
'hallrnse to me and ask me 10 show them
a ns ion that Catholicism has built up com
merciHilv That Is not the question christ
dill not found hi church To hs a chamber
b rt commerce or an exchange in Wall Street
J tie drove he buyers and sellers out of he
temple bt lei me send a challenge TO the
! ministers association | say to them
| Shov mo "a nation that Prote-tan'ism has
u
! Ie~'anti-m has d"Neio.~d trveTenc~ Tor
snh"riiy. where n has kent down the num-
her Of divorces and racial s'IIctde When
the Prr-hvferisn ministers show ms that
prote-t anti-m In the nI'ed states - q vital
force IN com hating these evils aud IN build
ing NJ resp."; and rev c.en"e for IA ana
Aui hort's ! Vill AXE hack y hat sad aud
| viii ASK Bishop SelleW to do the same
Bat before I taae leave ~ he Presby-
terrain Ministers N-~o"iaiion and go back
- nv own country. here With my own
~,r- , can daily VUness Proic='antisn. let
ne 'ru me association thAt there
time y ben IraI". Fran'- and spain we're
great and grospe rous nations and when The
south American republics. Il not zEra'
Nr" a. least happy nations. ard this was
a. time thai IA those countries the Catholic
church vas free
civ" back 10 her freedom IN tho-- lands
Loosen ~" hunds 'hsi Fl~' Na=onTv has
thrown about her. give no. "a thr-N Coun-
trl-s = frs-dom that she has here among YOU
give hsr freedom that 1ro'c-, ar'i~n has
here mako ulloV in'e, 'or mineral wealth
and modern inventions and then the Minis
'er- Association can discuss IN. -ub'cct of
vitality with some appearance ~ lo=i" and
fairness and fur IN" sake Of atill greater
fliTneSs ineN NAV add few reflections
On 'ns Ca,holr Bslstum and it, marvellous
prosperity AMI on the great central party
lu ,isrmanv, Whch. bn' aus~ q - - intensely
,4tho,iI. - 80 Intensely patriotic.
E3' 'h"r saN iur' THIS nation Ms porn "a
Protest ant sm l am not 'alS'ng about her
r.lfI. .Ur nor death. and deliberately
proc tam fttf rTutrs' ant IN. atfsr ~ year
b.. u'arsr 90 s..Ne han b. tat olv'ism with
.I,. ,rlr- If her back