The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1916-06-19

Twelve thousand persons. many OF
them members Of the Knights Of Column
bus. were present yesterday morning at
the service on Fordham campus, which
marked the closing Of commencement
week. They stood bareheaded In the
sun n listened to a sermon In which
the preacher. referring to the city ad-
ministration and It's charity investisa-
ton. recalled the %treachery Of JudaA
and then reminded his hearers that the
man behind the investigation was elected
largely by Catholic votea
1t was so hot in the sunshine that
more than a dozen women tainted and
we're taken to Fordham Hospital IN am
balances.
Mass was celebrated at q large altar
erected on the campus and decorated
with American flags and the papal coll
ors, yellow and white. Mgr. J. Connolly
OF the Church OF Our Lady of Good
Counsel was the ~celebrant, assisted by
the Rev. 7. Rummell Of the Church Of St
Anthony and the Rev. Joseph A. Kelly.
S. j.. OF Fordham.
The preacher was the Rev. Owen A.
Hill. S. j.. a Southerner. one Of the fore
most Jesuit preachers In the country.
who teaches ethics at Fordham. His
sermon warned Catholic laymen that un-
less they awaken this country would
see the expulsion OF religious teaching
orders. as did France n Mexico.
Father Hill denounced socialism as hell's
latest effort to dethrone religion, and
defined the sphere OF the State and
Church.
TEXT 81 the Address.
The sermon In part follows:
W Catholics must endeavor to res
urrect within ourselves the old time
faith and piety that animated the re-
ligion OF our fathers. In matters scien-
tifc. IN matters literary. We must keep
abreast OF the times. but We must scorn
to borrow our relision from an age OF
unbelief like the present. For our faith
we must Journey back 20 the Middle
Ages. when all the world was Catholic.
when all devotion 10 the saints was not
left entirely to the women and girls, but
was the %proudest boast OF stout warriors,
sturdy sailors and makers OF history.
Because the devout male sex In a
MISSIONER. BECAUSE piety sits awkwardly
on men. though II adds a borrowed dig
nifty TO women. We easily slip into the
mistake Of con fosinding yirtue with
physical weakness. and men are nothing
IL rot strong. robust and impetuous.
"Piety is not OF mind or
BODY. and your Ideals. knights OF Co.
lumbus. are a living refutatiop OF any
such lie"
Speaking OF the patron OF the knights.
the preacher said:
He brought home with him. M the
spoils OF conquest Of his frs, expedit,op.
nine Indians for PURPOSES OF baptism.
Did pietv weaken the force OF the great
Columbus, Far from IL, The Church
of God can wish Won no greater blossinp
Than an imitation Of his srlendid virtue
A. citizen and saint,
NO Catholic can he holy vi,ho,, an
abiding spirit Of faith. and these times
OF ours try mems faith to the limit we
arc the sons and daughters NJ God sat
down in tho ,nids, ~ , ra-ye,se perer,.
lion. and uubeli.f Is in the air
s.x. U.,J. Arc swo,,c,
Men ana women arc falling away
from talth. from honesty and piefy. sim
oily because their heads are swollen TO
such an extent by their progress In
human knowledse that they hold them
selves quite independent of God and inn
Iudently refuse allegiance and submis-
sion To Gods church,
Leading up 10 the present political
situation, Father Hill said