Norwich bulletin., 1914-01-31

found impression upon this class and ceunteract to seme extent the atheiist- ie and agnestic teachings of our non Catholic universities and their learned professors. teachings that are des- tructive of those right principles of morality which are the solid founda- ton of society. The atheist has brains. We must meet him with brains, not silence. We must light him with intellectual weapons, not rfdicule. One fault which educated Catholics have Is that they keep the wonderful things of the church to themselves. They lock this knowledge up in their breasts and guard it care fully from their neighbors. They leave this work to the priest, little realiz- ing how limited his field is. His words are directed to Catholics. and of his parish We know that the church, by reason of Its divinity. by reason of it's two thousand years of experience with the frailties of human nature has a remedy for all the ills that affect civil society. Very few outside of ourselves know it. Judges of our courts know it. Thinking statesmen know it. Why not send out our brilliant, educated Catholic laymen to tell 1t to the people from the public platform?
 The work and influence of our in tellectuaI or university laymen is be- ing but little utilized for the benefit of the church or society. So far as public knowledge goes, our intellect uals are confined to the clergy, who | live lives mostly apart from the busy outside world, and their influence radi- ates principally among Catholics. They cannot effectively do the work | we propose to do. They do not move 1 in the practical world of thought where men say what they think. Other denominations apart from their l clergy have large intellectual or un- | iversity class of men who are always | in demand in educational circles. This | class of man rules or at least makes a l powerful impression upon the world of l thought and action about us.
 The Catholic press is, of course, a | powerful factor along educational ! lines for the we'll being of the country; but it reaches only Catholics. How ! many fair-minded non-Catholics sub
 scribe for and read Catholic papers 1 How many atheists and agnostics read l tions by asking another. How many 1 Catholics subscribe for and read l Protestant periodicals? The voices of | the men we send out would reach these people, where the Catholic news | paper or magazine would not. It Is
 
 wade the province of the missionary They will pave the way, it is true. for 1 the missionary, and the priest and the Paulist may well follow, because the l way is made easy and the field fertile 1 Their purpose is educationalism, not l proseIytism, and this tends to the sta
 bility and perpstuity of our country and it's institutions. AS said by ar
 eminent Catholic layman our Catho- lio principles are making headway too slowly Ideals and principles the oP-
 pesite of ours are eagerly sustained
 and an irreligious and immoral liter
 atuFe tending to the ruin of the indi-
 vidual and the state is circulating 1T
 every direction,
 Today is Age of Prepasandist.
 We are in the age of the prepa gahd
 ist, Intellectual vagaries, religious
 IasFai, political and economic, are boRI
 every day and have their follower among supposedly intellectual people
 As patriotic citizens we owe it to se ] eiety te bring these people back to th' old and safe Iaes4iAgs, Besides, thef' are really thousands, perhaps fniilieH of deeply earnest men gFeping in tn dark, eagerly seeking to reach tn light Fhe rise of socialism all eve !; the werld illustrates this. The visiei
 of these earnest neH is clear eneugi } ] te see that there is something wEeHe : hut aatr essar- sHaash te sac that thu