Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-09-08
PUT BRAKES ON LIFE
WORLD TODAY TOO SPEEDY,
SAYS FATHER VAUGHN.
The Eucharistic Life the Antitode
for Modern Excuses, Declares I.
English Priest.

MONTREAL. September
The Eucharistic Life the Antidote fos
Modern Life was the subject OF an ad.
dress delivered today by the Rev. Father
Bernard Vaughn OF England before the
eucharistic congress here. in which the
speaker painted a vivid picture OF modern
conditions as he saw them and pointed
TO the church as the refuge from the
direful consequences he foresaw resulting
from what he described tidal wave OF
paganism" now sweeping over the world
I'VE are living" said Father Vaughn,
in a 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 r. a day Of fever,
fret and fume, when competition fof
earthen toys Is so keen and the margin
OF profit In commerce has become so hns
that the one cry beating through the air
Is hurry up No one seems to have
time for pause TIL. worn out In the pur'
suit of gewgaws and Nanities: a rest cur:
becomes Imperative. Ne clock is stopped
be prescribed as prohibitive for an eighth
part Of a year.
1--WE are living in a day when the high
ideals of old are fast yielding to the
pressure OF creature comforts. when prin.
cipie is being exchanged for expediency,
In a day when self-sacrincing Catholicism
Is being bartered for self-centered ma
terialism. when the Christian sense OF sin
is being regarded as a bygone supersti.
tion: I'm q day when II matters not what
you believe, but only what you do, and
when you may do what you like, pro-
vided you are not found out: In a day
when the relations between the sexes
take one back to pagan times. while the
garbage on which men and women feed
is as foul and loathsome as the stun
over which they glosf and chatter: in
day when marriage has become so de-
based and defiled that not even she
durable without change Of prospective
partners in a life OF legalized vice; In
day when there is no empty place but In
the cradle. no room in which to move
but In the churches. Well may leading
Partisan physician sum up the situation.
exclaiming: 'Cest une pouriture.
God or Mammon.
observe that the cleavage today. a. IN
no previous time since the dawn OF Chris
tianity. is between God and Mammon: or
shall / say, In language more definite
still. between Catholicism and Agnostic.
ism. II not evolutionary materialism II.
self. For confirmation OF my strong as.
sertions read the story OF present-day
life. as II is reflected in society. as IL Is
mirrored forth on the stage. as IL is
shown up in the law courts. as II Is writ
large on our book stalls. or. IL you will.
as it is published in society journals. In
the monthly magazine, In the weekly
pictorial and In the daily press.
with Mammon. then, asserting itself
az IL does amid all sections OF the CON-
munity I'm this twentieth century, with
home life gone. with social life demoral-
ICED, with our marts of industry like
gambling hells and the very streets like
nightmare. what I ask Is to lift up and
proclaim the interests of God against
the devastating plague Of frivolity. folly
and riot"