New-York tribune., 1912-03-11
CHOICE Of TWO IDEALS
Father Vaughan Contrasts So
CiaIiSm and Christianity.
FORMER SACRIFICES MAN
Preacher Declares Existence IL
Plans Might Prove Most
Cruel Tyrant.

Before a congregation which flled Inc
oroat building the Rev. Bernard Vaughan
delivered his third Lenten address yester-
dav in ST. Patrick's Cathedral. He TOOK
for his subject Socialism and the lnul-
vidual" and said socialism sacrificed the
Individual 10 the state. while Chrisuanlty
offered as an ideal a life penetrated ana
nermeated with the spirit and the primer
pies Of Christ
Father Vaughan said two ideals were up
if,od on either side Of the Atlantic, one OF
these was socialism and the other Christi
aritv Retveen these two, he said, democ-
racy had TO make its choice. Socialism, ne
believed, is a sort OF deihcauon Oh tue
state in which man Is to find the heaven
for which he was born
'But my complaint" said Father Vaughan
'Is not merely that socialism would suo-
ordinate man to the state, but that IL woulo
subordinate him to some future state WIN
an existence of very doubtful character
and which might prove 10 be the most cruei
tvrant that ever ground an indiylduai INTO
the dust"
The sneaker went on to say that man
craves for something which no SOCIALISM,
rretends 10 offer him-union with Gou D!
faith here and sight hereafter. lie auueu'
Tor moment. note the inconsistency
, of the socialists position. lie raiis as
S'bristianity for dealing i'm futures anu
deIuding the people with draft on etcI
rttv vet no himself speculates IN idture9
-, fgr loss assured character than tne
hcayan which even q shoeless chud' selliiS ~,
"n evening paper in a slum. KNOWS 10 ~
The one grand end for when SGod Hiaue
MN ..,,,,- NTH mon IL must never be
cor1otteu that man is an end In hWseli, J,
and must not he made a mere lIieaIr ar, ~ ~
the welfare of others. NAN MS - nU nUbn3 ~
scrnyy I'm state machinery. Ihe upsnot Jt
S,,t,tir, before democracy an ideal Wuch
rffers no true and immediate satlSia1'iot s,i' os
Vas prettv sure TO end IN pohCy ~ II
.ab II would demand n present lhssai-
E,ant Of iustice. even at the cost or
!!raior ~ terror" Taught that they nau
richt to all private productive proper.y -
fbey might press for the linnI1 inaiti iI,a .
nsS,on of IL as the original ana leslLI,i..ttoc -
snnrs Even now Il was no easy rhattsI
~" -. i,non some Of them back. can they oS, "
sItogether blamed for being SO ahAIUI,55 be
enter into possession OF tnei'
heaven?
Father Vaughan contended that uhder
socialism state action, Instead Oh oeiis
sunnIementary to individual enterpnse'
world become a substitute for H. ne III
divlduaI would he swallowed up oy tne
state" he said. socialism ~ hoh-' =
20 not unnatural. 1t would paralyze What
man holds most precious-freedom 10 rear
i,a himself Under socialism no man
would have the ordering Of his own lie
or the shaping of his own destiny There
wound be no use for any one who had not
frst of all responded to the call. Come
into nv parlor, said the spider to the n.y. y
The preacher closed his sermon by say
ing:
The greatest social reformer the world
hos ever seen was Christ Himself. and
LEE tbem note we'll that Christ began not
with the state but with the ,bn indiyidrs
ma S i"ns "as addressed TO the Individual: If
fmo thou wilt wilt come unto me-" III thou wilt be
neTfect." "If thou wilt enter Into hie
bs n was through the Individual that He
IN a dav gone by, restored the fallen race
so it is with the indyiduad d Nv we TOO mSs
I7h Ii;r, In the fruitful though toilsome
work of social and industrial reformation