New Britain herald., 1917-12-10
Hid OR LAP-DOG?
/ FIR. SULLIVAN ASKS
Priest Attacks Suffrage, Homes
!. Without Children, and Divorce


thoughts on the fact that Saturday
was the Feast of the Immaculate Con-
ceptlon, one of the most solemn in
I sshe calendar of the Catholic church.
Among the modern tendencies of
/ woman which Rev. Father Sullivan
CRITICIZED is the struggle for suffrage
He also deplored the usurpation by
the puppy dog of the child's place i'll
the homes of the wealthy and de-
nounced the divorce evil.
An abstract of R,v Father SulN-
vans Sermon fCllo-s:
with great so!emnitv ADD rcjo!c-
tlg the Catholic world united yestcr-
day in honoring the glorious Feast of
Mary the brightest gem n her crown
1t virtues. Her lminac3l@tc Con-
ception, Mary the Mother Of Jesus
4 the great EXempla: and Ideal of
Christian WomanhooG, might seem
vory\ timely subject, i'll these days
when the dignity and honor O! woman
Is being undermined by the un- Chris
t3R1l propaganda of those who wave on
nigh the banner Of women's rights,
woman suffrage, women's freedom. AS
we look into the lives of our A1neri-
can womanhood. and tear aside the
thin veil that would enshroud her
movements and activities, we are not
at NIL enthused at the low ideals and
Pcrnicious principles Which today arc
ahaptng her existence. with 4 rest
less energy worthy Of g. better cause,
we note certain class OF our women
running Hfisr strange gods. Pagan
ideals utterly at variance with our
Christian aspirations have entered
into their minds and hearts, trans
forming them from gentle. lovablc
Christian ladies' into militant agrees
sive Amazons.
IT'S it any wonder that our chival-
r0us legislators at washington are
pained ct the spectacle of so-called
Prominent Women storrning the
halls of congress in an effort to wrest
the ballot from its sacred, century
old entertainment. God and natures
God never intended that the Gentle
Sex the Weak Sex" should be en-
hroiled in the turmoil of political
battles, or exposed to the nerve-rack-
ing experience of a term in congress-
or state legislature. Furthermore
certain women here in America have
not tended to increase respect for their
sex on account of the lax attitude they
have assumed toward the divorce evil
For if some of our prominent
women, and others less prominent, led
on by their example, continue to hack
at the holy bonds of wedlock, which
The Lord Himself declared to be in
1issoluble, rushing into the divorce
courts with the same avidity as they
would enter a moving picture theater. |
men will take women at their face |!
value and she will topple from that |
pedestal GfAn which Christianity ele- !
waited her, falling to that low level |
where she groveled during the ancient |
days of paganism.
Mother, the dearest, the sweetest, |
the noblest word in our language! !
What does that mean to the women
Of our day? Is there no music in |
that word for them? Or is it rather |
an empty, meaningless title? Come |
with me and let us peer into some |
of our American homes, veritable |
palaces, furnished with a taste and
extravaganza that might rival an an
cient Moorish castle.
''M,1sic, ah, yes! the masterpieces
OF all time sung by the matchless
Ur&4sts of our day. From the mahog-
any box. of the Victrola the most en-
Hancing strains, are waited to our
delighted ears soothing our mott ten
der sensfbilities But the music, the
Heavenly harmony of children's
vo6ces-for this we look in vain. Our
ears, may be assaulted with the yelp
or Erowl of a lap-dog but the angel
voice of the child, the brother of the
Infant Jesus, the image of God Him
pe1f-hRs no place in the economy of
cur modern pagan home.<
'Ls there no hope, no remedy for
this alarming state of affairs in the
lives of our American women? There
IRE quacks and charlatans innumer-
patent-cure-alls on q gulible public.
Into the religious life, into the edu-
c2tional world have they dumped
their panaeeas with the result that
the medicines aggravated the disease.
Fh6se who have eyes to see, and ears
70 listen know how to diagnose the
Uit1bation, and where to seek the new
erLARxng remedy, which will recon-
struct the spiritual. the moral side Of
our American Womanhood.
when the Israelites were march =
Ing through the desert, on their
Journey to the Promised Land, firing
OF God and the things Of God, scrip
turc te4A, us howl they murmured and
criticised, and even despaired in that
.nunt1cent Providence which had so
wonderfully guided them i'll the past.
AS a just punishment for their in
gratitude and hardness of heart, the
Almighty sent into their camp fiery
srrpents, which inflicted untold hard
ships uEon the multitude. In des-
peraticn the people imp1ored Moses to
intercede with God, if he would dra "
back his avenging hand. And the
Almighty commanded Moses to lift
mp or high brazen serpent and sci
It up for a sign so that all who would
Ion1y If MIGHT he saved
To-day while the church lifts up
20 the gaze of the agonized man
power of the nations the Cross OF
III 1Sf she holds 70 fne woman OF