The Washington times., 1912-02-05
CHARACTER IS NEED
OF DAY, SAYS NOTED
LONDON CHURCHMAN
Father Vaughan, Jesuit
Priest, Scores Present Day
Evils in Lecture.

Father Bernard Vaughan, of London.
appeared last evening In the Belasco
Theater before a large audience, giving
his lecture. Character the Need of the
Day" This noted Jesuit priest, whose
work in the London slums, together
with his numerous lectures on THE
Sins of Society,"" Is famous in two con-
tnents.
Nothing is giving such an impetus TO
Socialism," said Father Vaughan, ''as
the cradeless nursery, the life of pleas
ure, the legalization of prostitution, and
extravagant orgies" He declared the
rising generation was being well
trained but badly raised. ut would be
well II men and women, before enter
Ing upon the sacred state of life called
matrimony, would bear in mind more
closely that what is bred In the blood
| comes out in the bone, there might be
fewer tokens of physical wreckage on
the highways and byways of life," he
said. Man and woman in welded life
should be indissolubly one. infallibly
true, and intellectually good. Instead OF
expecting so much more, let them be
contented with much less, each from
each. Love means giving. rather than
getting"
OF environment, Father Paughan had
much to say. The pendulum had swung
of late from heredity to environment,
and votarles of pleasure were making
environment the all-absolving excuse of
| their lives
Create Circumstances.
Instead of being the creature OF cir
cumstance," exclaimed Father Vaughan.
| 'let man be its creator, and out of all
sorts of material let him build up a
staircase sloping UP to the throne of
God. Without toll there is no rest,
without rain no rainbow. and without
| fight no victory"
On the subject OF education, the lee
turer was enthusiastic. He deplored a
good deal of the present day methods
declaring that there was little In mod.
ern education calculated to build UP
manly character.
Some OF Father Vaughan's epigrams
were as follows: THE man who gives
up religion is like the bloom plucked
from the parent tree spiritually he
must fade and droop and die Once on
the incline plane, unless you are an
acrobat, you can only slip further down
Like wireless telegraphy, religion Is
most felt when 1t Is most needed. In
surgery I find nothing to mitigate the
pains or to bind up the wounds of q
broken heart.
Man and woman are in nothins
alike, each gives to the other what the
other has not. each completes and Is
completed by the other.
"A foolish man thinks aloud, but a
foolish woman feels aloud; the best way
to ms mage her Is her way. Let dancing
be eXhirarating, but not Intoxicating
animal dances with animal names lead
to animal performances; they are moi
human. There is no traCkway &c
heaven. but any amount of tobogganinG
toHell.
Like Two Wires.
!; THE dIffereice between the religiou
and irreligtous man Is the differenc,
between a copper wire vitalized by
electricity and the wire Just cold ant
dead with want OF fire. Once We los
sight of God we lose all sense of pro
portion.
: Science. like wealth, has no mora
sense; it's value depends upon the us
made OF 1t. The light of this new world
: and the salt of this new earth, Is re
ligion; without II our light is Quenche,
| and our doom Is sealed"
, Father Vaughan will remain in Wash
ington day or two, a guest at George
town University. Today he Is to cal
Uron President Taft, and before his de
parture he will be entertained bv
number of prominent Washington
Catholics.