The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1918-01-26
ATTRACTIVE POWER OF THE MASS.

ATTRACTIVE POWER OF THE MASS.
To Catholics in the discipline of their religion
who learned from childhood the Importance
of the divine worship it is surprise to learn Of
the crowds soldiers the several environments who
attend the holy sacrifice indeed be true
that soemnty and gravity of the situation has in
tensed and stimulated the minds and hearts of ALL the
soldiers we'll Others interest in things spiritual This
change has been we'll described by Mr. John j. Chapman
father Victor Chapman who the first American in
the flying corps give his life for France Writing in
the Churchman (New York;, he says:
when the began of us thought of it dis
tan transient thing We adjusted lives to it to
emergency AS time however, the persistent
influence the dark onmovng cloud began to penetrate
obsess mind. And each of us has come
to he has inner relation to the tragedy which
overshadows and swallows up his external relations to It,
We by feeling of and of helpessness,
which, could but know it, is the elixir and andoe
that dsts in usthe for the plague the road
to salvation.
Sickness and grief in ordinary times he points out shut
out camor of passing and open peo-
PIES the silent forces which really control their
being and the sickness of converts thousands
daily.
These considerations may be true general way but
they do not wholly for the
tendance that the rule Catholic services the
while instances the Protestant meetings attract
but slim assembage. Mr.. John McGuinness writing in
the Monitor ewark refers to this situation in lucid
town, N. j.:
"Ten said every Sunday in the Y. NJ G. A.
and K of c. buildings Che Y M. c. A. permit the
their buldng) The buildings overfed at each
The kneel in the AISLE the doorsteps and
outside the ground. Professionals marvel this They
can't understand it. lasting impression is being made
them One of the chaplains told of wealthy
who gave his business in order to take the Y M.
c. A. work in the For several Sundays he had
watched these great gatherings of Catholics at the
nro Crn1o ho
every Sunday have thousands at the while
get only handful at service. Every Sunday you have
the thing; change and the buildings won't
hold the men. We CHANGE bring in speakers
Of national reputation do everything attract the
but without avail. Father, how do you do it? Why
do they come to the mass?'"
We have in the past heard similar complaints min
listers who had to preach to empty little reflection
will give you the Run back the pathway of
time till you to the sixteenth century, there will
find the beginning of their of complaint. The re-
VOTERS of the sixteenth century overthrow authornot
authority set man-but the authority established
by Jesus Christ the living voice. which speaks through
His which is other than the Holy Catholic
Church, in communion with the See of Rome.
when they rejected this authority they cut themselves
off from the main stem-the Catholic Church AS the
branch when the wthers and dies they
being off the STEM whitening and must
eventually de- fact they dead far making
spiritual concerned The result OF this decay
is manifest to none more clearly than themselves.
rejecting of this Divine Authority established by
Jesus exercised by His Church has led to chaos
place the revolters set their authoryprde
of intellect under which becomes authority
in himself Scriptures they interpret to their OWL
liking The this has led to the denial of its in
spiration."
There nothing in Protestant other form of wor
ship that can the place of the holy sacrifice of the
mass. those who trained to understand it's tire
power and significance it is always thrilling
and dramatic ceremony never grows old or stale BY
repetition minds and hearts Of those who can inter
pref apprehend its several parts and fails
bring spiritual cheer and consolation to those who partic
pate with in it's reexemplfcation of the sac
fee of Calvary Those who have from early chidhoo
been disciplined and feel the and holmes
Of this sacred function have had engrafted upon thei
spiritual being priceless gf the value of which is no
comprehensive to those outside Of the faith.
BoLsHEvIkI BEGGARs ON HORSEBACK.
Is the world witness in Russia repetition of tn
horrors Paris commune during the period of tn
sangunary French Revolution of the closing of tn
eighteenth century, Events of the past few days woul
seem to foreshadow such debacle, result of tn
arbitrary dissolution Of the constituent assembly at tn
hands of and the Boshevik central executive
mee The deposed Gear the German Kaiser has notf
ing on the leaders Of the socaed and soldier