The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1919-11-29

undervalued-and religion instead of
being of the very substance of the
things of life, has become rather an
incident or recreation to be taken or
left alone, not as God has commanded,
but as ones mood prompts. There is
even the denial of all religion and of
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With these varied and warning theo-
ries and solutions, the masses seem a
bit discomfort and impatient. The
great majority of mankind deal only
with the immediate present. They
are for the most part concerned
neither with abstraction nor with
history, nor with the principles gov
erning the course of events. Little
concern is given to the future. The
masses deal with three great necessi-
ties OF life, food, shelter and clothing.
The pursuit of material and physical
happiness is principally in those. If
these become more and more unsatis-
factory the dissatisfaction will ulti.
mately eliminate in revolution. The
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aroused to discomfort by having
brought home to them forcibly that
the good things of life are restricted
to the few. Education in it's highest
form is the accomplishment of the
comparatively few, culture belongs
again to the few, great wealth is the
possession of the few, power is exer-
cised by the few, great varied monope-
lies are controlled by the few. All
this has been prepounded to a dis
contented public, as it effects their
food, their clothing and their shelter
and their increasing demands for
pleasure. The masses have the in
stinct for liberty The God-given pow
ers of the intellect, even though they
be not developed, have the instinct of
education, the instinct against injus-
tice. The masses of all the nations
are coming into fuller knowledge of
the facts and motives that brought
about the world cataclysm. Again the
masses feel that like the good things
Of life, as education, culture, wealth,
the decision of the world war was
made by comparatively few men. Is
there not a demand today in the
masses that this power pass from the
hands of the few into the hands of
dangers we face at the present mo-
ment, the power that the masses are
conscious of as their possession and
which they may exercise without the
guiding principles of reason. 1t must
be said that mountainous waves of
injustice tossed the bark of humanity
in the industrial and social order of
the pre-war days, not for a generation,
but for centuries. Today the cry is
heard in every nation by the masses:
I'VE know the power we have and We
shall exercise it,
Good Out of Evil,
College women are naturally eX-
pected to study principles and to ap-
ply them to the changing conditions.
Let me emphasize again the state
ment that their knowledge should be
philosophical, that is, by knowing the
causes of things. | cannot share the
view of those who are unwilling to
see any good come out of the great
Iwerld war. Almighty God does not
permit evil for it's own sake, but for
1.-THE good that He will bring out of it.
The Lord is not limited to today or
ltomorrow, this year or the next ae-
eade. That great good will come out
of the war ultimately, in the ProVi-
ldence of Almighty God, is certainty.
One of the immediate good things
THAT expect from the war is the set
iting aside of the, false rationalistic
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