South Bend news-times., 1919-06-30
WORLD At WAR
WITH CHRIST
Or. CavanaUgh Points Out
Strife During Sermon at
Summer School.


the Sacred Heart chapel The Very
Rev. Or. John Cavanaugh O.. S. Co.,
the retiring president Of the Univer-
sity. addressed some $50 students
registered for the summer term.
The Rev DR.. Mathew Schumach-
ct. q. S. c.. dean Of the summer
school oficiated at solemn high
mass. Or. Schumacher was assisted
hy tie Rev Thomas A. Burke, e.. s..
c.. Prefect OF Discipline and the
Rev. Joseph Burke, C.. S. g., Head
Of the Preparatory Department. as
deacon and subdeacon respectively
The Rev. William Connor. G. s. c.,
Superior OF St Joseph's Novitiate
was the master Of ceremonies.
Preceding high mass an academic
procession took place from the
university parlors 20 the chapel
Two acolytes with a cross bearer
preceded the procession; priests Of
the Holy Cross and members OF the
faculty clad in cap and gown par
ticipated in the procession. DIT.
schumacher. the celebran az mass
and the two decons were dressed in
maroon dalmatics the official
church vestments for the occasion
OF the third Sunday after Penticost.
Christ. the Teacher.
Preaching ON Christ the Teach
er" Dr. Cavanaush said.
The truest thing that can he said
about whatever is good i'm the world
today is that it is the working out
Of the teachings Of Christ
If Liberty loving men are per-
mittcd 10 dwell i'm peace under lib
erty- giving governments, the preach
or added. they owe this boon 70
Christ
In part DR.. Cavanaugh said
IF the home is sacred. il marri-
age is honored II domestic virtue is
practiced. if innocence walks safe in
the streets or sleeps at home IN Sc
curity if honor between states and
individuals is recognized as an es-
sential duty. if justice sits en-
throned in the judgment chamber.
life and property are protected and
the pursuit Of happiness recognized
as a legitimate aspiration OF all man
kind. IL is 10 the teaching Of Christ
that we owe all OF these things. The
world is His school and all man
Kind are called TO learn of him.
1T is true that His teachings have
never been accepted universally
and His discipline never perfectly
received and practiced. Even In the
ages OF deepest. strongest faith there
were abuses in government. abuses
i'm the home. abuses among men IN
their dealings with each other.
abuses even fin the Church itself but
am of these things have come. in no
single instance. from the teachings
OF Christ. They have come from the
neglect or positive denials Of His
lessons. through the weakness or
oastinacy of the human will
Through which alone the grace OF
God can function IN the world
From the beginning of Christianity
institutions and men and philoso-
phies and movements. while enjoy
ing here and there "a temporary tri-
umph. have failed i'm the end Just in
proportion as they rejected Christ
he Teacher and turned away from
Lis light
At War With Christ.
- II too much 10 say that the
rurld today more than ever before
is al war with Christ? Is II too much
to say that Christ is almost banished
from His own Utilization Geo
graphically. Asia. Africa and the ISL
ands of the sea are professedly hos
tile TO Christ, except where here and
there in some hut ln the wilderness
haIf-starved. a lonely missionary
Keeps alive the light of Christ or
the altar of heroic sacrifice I'm Eu-
rope the vast territory that was
once the Russian Empire has beer
for centuries i'm sChIsm, and today
seems farther than ever removed
from Christ a large number OF
smaller countries are writhinl
IN the aconies of radical thought
their eyes red, their hand,
and mouths bloody their juds
ment turned to- insanity In
what has been the enormous Ger
man empires of Germany and Aus
tria. there are chaos. socialism. bit
ter black despair In the other Coun
tries OF Europe where peace Seems
10 be established and even through
out the vast eNpanse OF the whOl'
American continent. there is ~
nearly all cases = hCretiCal power iI
the asCendency And this is tru,
Of not only government itself but o.
an other things that 20 90 make M
civilization Particularly during th'
last so years. the vast majority %
the universities OF the world haV,
been engaged in the death grappl,
with Christianity For "a long tim'
scientific men have gone % the eN
treme limit IN the attempt 10 prov,
that science had dehtrOned Christ
Whatever may Doe said OF past cen
turtles this at least is true today.
vast prepouderance OF human gen
ius the material resources Of man
kind in wealth and power and pres
tige. the popular prcjudices and sus
picions. the Calumnies of history th
pretentious claims OF philosophy. th
subtle prtsuasiyencSs of the school
the dynamic energies OF romano
and poetry. and all forms OF humal
recreation. not 90 speak Of the pha
lanNes Of ORGANIZED vice. are draw
u.