The Washington herald., 1918-04-13
PATRIOTISM
URGED IN TALK
BY ARCHBISHOP
Most Rev. E. J. Hanna
D. D., Addresses Large
Audience.

A large representative nee lis
tened to a most impressive address
Yesterday afternoon at the Belasco
Theater, when the Most Rev. Edward
j. Hanna, D. D.. Archbishop of San
Francisco, Cal. spoke on the subject
Of Religion in the New Order"
The lecture was for the benefit of
the free wool fund of the Catholic
Women's War Relief Service OF Wash
ington, and for upward of an hour
the speaker was listened to with the
most intense interest and applaudCd
frequently.
introduced by Chief Justice.
Archbishop Hanna was introduced
by Chief Justice White, of the United
States Supreme Court. who paid a
glowing tribute to the cause for
which America~ts4 contending in the
present war, and was emphatic in his
declaration that we shall win.
Seated on the platform. besides
Chief Justice White, were Associate
Justice Mckenna, OF the United
States Supreme Court: Brig. Gen.
Frank Mcintyre, U. S A. chief OF
the Bureau of Insular Possessions;
Admiral William S. Benson, L. S. N:
Senator James D. PhcIan. of Califor-
mia; Morris Francis Eagan, United
States Minister to Denmark. and
Shane Leslie. editor of the Dublin
Review.
The Archbishop spoke in a broad,
liberal sense upon the issues involved
in the world-war. his remarks apply
ing a general way to the cause OF re-
ligion without reference to any par
ticular creed or sect.
The Address.
In looking back over the history
OF democracy, we find always that
democracy has failed when men have
ceased to live up to it's ideals OF
manhood, and that the forerunner of
depreciation and failure is always a
weakening of these ideals" Arch
bishop Hanna says.
Men love comfort; men love luxury
and idleness; men love power: men
love the f1eshpots of Egypt. In the
new democracy the men who will
stand the test must be men who turn
aside from comfort and luxury, from
the enticements of wealth. There
must be therefore in the new order
a new standard OF values. Man must
reckon with truth and justice and
mercy as first-the kingdom of God
and expect other things will be added
to him.
The New Order.
In the new order when men turn
back from the fields of battle-and let
us hope turn their swords into plow-
shares, as the old saying goes-thesc
g. ..
before. These men will feel that in
their hands is a power and that the
world must feel that power. And the
men, too, who have toiled that we
might win the victory; the men who
have given of their sweat and of
their blood-they, too. will feel their
place as they never have felt it be-
fore. But If these men can not be
held in check, if these men can not
be taught mans dignity. If these men
can not be taught brotherhood: if
these men can not be taught a proper
standard by which to value things; If
these men are failing to make sacri-
fices-then indeed is there little hope
in the future, and revolution, red rev
oiution. must cover this earth.
Our hope, and our only hope. comes
in some power that is able to take
hold of man and make him appreciate
his place and his dignity: and 1t
seems to me. seen through the ages.
that that power is religion, and that
power is in the church.
Man is swayed to and fro by mas
ter passions. and these master pas
sions have always been the cause OF
mans downfall. These master pas
sions have always been the cause why
freedom was lost.
And here is the great force of re-
ligion, and here religion and the
church will have her place in the
days that are to come. and only in
this power can we hope for a tri-
umphant and a victorious Democracy.
Our Own Country.
Now let us turn our eyes back to
our own land-the fairest indeed upon
which God has ever smiled; great in
! Is extent. for it is from sea to sea
Grcat in its beauty for Him, for here
IN this chosen spot OF earth we can
rear men of undaunted hope and love
who are willing to give up all they
possess in order that truth and JUS
tice may prevail.
Other nations are looking for in
crease In territory; other nations are
looking for wealth: other nations are
looking for treasure. But we are pour
, IHS out Of our treasure. of the treas
l:r Of our hills and valleys and the
-.Jre Of our manhoOd'S power, moi
commerce, not for territory, not
personal ACKNOWLEDGMENT, but that
Garth may be a safe place for
to live. where might will not be
.s ii. where man may develop into
'... full image of Jesus Christ.
And as we stand here. after CEN
tdrv and a half of public experiment
/ may We not be proud that VIC. in this
the most gigantic and momentouS
struggle the earth has ever seen.
stand for the highest ideals that have
ever insnired The human racn2"