The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1918-06-01

Professionalism SEEKS IN VAIN FOR UNITY.
Several months when soldiers sailors began
to embark for Europe the great crusade for world free
dom and democracy, called attention to the advantage
Catholic faith would enjoy in relation
to religious worship their nonCatholc brothers
It pointed that the would bring into
bold relief the blessings of the uniformity faith and dis
cipne which obtains in the Catholic Church contasted
with the varying and uncertain forms of worship pre-
vang in the several Protestant denominations And this
forecast of the religious situation amply borne
by the facts they being developed in the
sectors of the battle-ground.
Letters received from Catholic soldiers France attest
their satisfaction and qualification in the fact that they
and do attend the kind of service that to which
they have been trained from childhood and which they
have learned to depend for spiritual comfort and
strength. How welcome in that distant warorn
the sound Of the familiar "Domnus vobscum, Kyric
Eleson" and the Cora nobs" of the priest in the
celebration Of the within sight sound of the acv
tiles of the enemy Such is the of of the
letters the front; the language
emphasize the uniformity identity the appeal
of the prayers and sacrifice
The Catholic boys we'll appreciate every phase
of the services they attend because Of their youthful train
ing and feel of being at home in their churches
Notwithstanding the strangeness their environment
But what has Professionalism to offer to it's membership
against the universally Catholic practices disc
pine? Where Baptists Methodist Presbyterians
other sections of Professionalism find the forms Of
worship service those of their home churches? Not
in Picardy Flanders not France Italy, and not
in Germany tself-the home of Professionalism they
reach there in their victorious progress
It is not therefore, surprising to note that the unver
salty of Catholicism and the hopeless dvergences Prot
estantism have profound impression upon all
American forces and that impression will not leave
their minds when they return to the home land After the
defeat of the Teuons has into history the great
lesson Of their religious experience will survive, and will
surely tend inspire in their minds and hearts
and appreciation of the unity of Catholicism and
corresponding dstrust of their multiform divisions
of Christianity. 81,
Sensing this hopeessness impotence of the divisions
of Professionalism brought to test and failure the
European battle grounds Bishop Brent appeals for unity
among them.
There must be-" he says two eventual peace tables,
of the exhausted nations the other of the exhausted
churches. To have the former without the latter would
that the spiritual vision and the moral conscience
of the nations superior that of the churches.
These expressions almost acknowledgment of the
spiritual bankruptcy of separated brethren in the sres
of the world crisis their embarrassment they strive for
the uniformity that the Allies have achieved in
bringing all the activities of the under the SUI
preme command of CommanderinCh Foch. If they sim
cerely and honestly desire to execute similar in the
religious field they will not have to far find working
whether in great church body under the
supreme leadership of Benedict in Rome There and
place to be found the unity which they DESIRE
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