The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-03-23
HOLDS
 MARY AS IDEAL
 OF WOMANH00D
Eloquent Priest Delivers Powerful Lenten Sermon
 At St. Patrick's.

In forcible utterance Rev. John
 Mccarthy, s. J., preached the third of
 his weekly Lenten sermons last night
 at St. Patrick's church in this city. l Father Mccarthy took as his text,
 And there stood at the Cross, Mary, His Mother In this connection he held up Mary as the example of a Christian mother.
 The speaker pictured in unique manner the Blessed Virgin as the old mother. In charming word pictures he described the type of an old mother and suggested the surprisingly tender beauty of the aged Mother of Christ. He said that he liked to think of her lines of sorrow g1orifed in Heaven even as are the wounds of her Divine Son, and that he liked to think of her as a toil-worn. care-1aden mother who could appreciate the bur dens and troubles of her earthly chill dren. Father Mccarthy spoke of the supernatural love of Christ and His mother for humanity, and of the stu pendous sacrifice made by His mother when in His. last words He asked her in yielding Him to the Father to adopt maphind, for whose ssins he was dying. as here hi1dren.
 In other words. ''MotHer behold thy son. the Mother of Christ in the per son of St. John took all mankind as her children, though the sins of man had slain her Son. and at that moment for her the gold had gone from the sunshine, and the sunshine had gone from her heart. and her heart had left her body in the agony of parting. At this juncture the speaker depicted the last meeting between friends and noted the various. manner in which partings are made and good-byes said; and with rare feeling denoted Io silence of the eye rather than in the expression of the spoken word.
 Father Mccarthy deplored the pass ing of the institution of the home in our large cities and laid it not to economic conditions. Said he: They say it is due to the high cost of liv- ing; rather it is the low aim of liv- ing. It is not that women cannot pay the price of living; but that they re- fuse to make the sacrifice of living as a mother. Many of these women say that are going to reform conditions, but they do not begin at the proper place, in the home. They may be suf- fragette or anti-suffragette, telling their sisters that they must vote, or telling their sisters that they ought not to vote. I say, give the vote-but will that alter conditions?
 Honesty and integrity and purity are not a question of economics; they are question of morality It is the. home that makes honest men and modest women. You cannot legislate manhood into honesty or womanhood into purity. Send out from your homes honest men and there will be justice in business; send out from your homes honest politicians and graft will cease to be known; send out from your homes honest statesmen and leg islation will be fair; send out from your homes honest lawyers and courts of law will be free from suspicion; send out from your homes modest daughters and immodesty in dress will be unknown; send out from your homes modest daughters and the mod ern excesses of the modern dances will cease; send out from your homes, mod est daughters and the nasty sa1acious plays will fail, patronized as they are at the present time by audiences of so per cent.~VEemen. My dear Christ ian women, yours is a great opportun- ity. Think of Christ's mother stand ing at the Cross. Sorrow and pain and trouble come to you all, yet re- member your duty. To cooperate in procreating children to people the world? Certainly, but not merely that, to cooperate in peopling Heaven with saints