Norwich bulletin., 1921-02-23

The trouble with the world is that it has forgotten great fuRaamental things. The modern world has thought it well not to- retain God in it's knowledge. ChFistendera Is the great eivilizat atfon of the world. It is the great spiritual facts upon which our foundations are Built that alone will save us This Is the Haes- sage which pr. Condo B. Fallen of New York had for the people of Norwich in his address on Carrying On, delivered Tuesday evening in thS CoHlmVHity house, Church street. under the auspices of White Cross council, No. 13, K. of C.
 DF. Fallen is one of the leading Cath ellie scholars of the country. For 30 years past he has been contributor to maga- zines. He was the Catholic revisory ed- flor of the New IntefAati6nal Eneyelepe- dia and Encyclopedia. Americana and the managing editef of the Catholic Encycle- pedia.
 A number of ex-service men were
 present in the audience of three hun aFed CT more. 1 DF. Fallen was introduced By Rev. 1 William A. Keefe. stae lecturer of the 1 Knights of Celurnhus.
 | pr. Fallen said there are twe kinds of people to be avoided in a crisis such as is
 facing, the world today One is the pes simist and the other is the oDtirnist. The speaker said < pessimist might be Kken- cd to man who wears beth suspehaers and belt. and in eeAtrast the optilaist
 might he Nkened to the man whe wears neither.
 | Where is the middle way? asked the
 speaker. To find it is q simple matter, | yet we have made compiler thing ef it. 1 The fact of the matter is, although 1t
 was not realized prior to the war, that we have always been in fight. Civiliza- | tion has been in the trenches for cen
 turies. It was because the world had forgotten fundamental spiritual facts
 that there was a war.
 1 Taking his audience back te the birth
 of Christ, Dr. Fallen said:
 Two thousand years ago sthe Roman
 empire was mistress of the civilized world. Rome had suhdued all nations
 around about her and had brought then, ] powerful. wealthy and civilized in her way. Yet the vast majority of human beings in that great empire were chattel
 slaves. They were of nc more value than piece of furniture. master of a thousand or ten thousand slaves could dispose of them at his will. Even a mas. ter of slaves was not a free man. Ht was himself. subject to the imperial will Caesars will was law. There was nt freeing from Caesar. They had no ides
 of democracy.
 How came it about that there is thii
 great democracy in the United States
 One of the provinces et thAt great Ro man empire brought about the change il
 the empire. It was called Jud6a and wa
 inhabited by the Jews. In that prcvine
 there was wonderful teaching that tn . individual was of supreme importance 1 that in reality he was the equal 6
 Caesar on his throne. It. tstook three hun !dred years to get that idea into the Re
 man body. That creed that come out 0
 Judea became the recognized religion o the Roman empire. Rights and privilege } were accorded the chattel slaves. In stead of the citizens existing for the ser l vice of the state, the state was for tn l service of the citizens. FHe trouble wit
 1 the world is that it has fofgStten thos great fundamental things. The medeF T world has thought 1t we'll not to retai I God in its knowledge. Religion hs l waned and wansd because tA6 world Aa t thought 1t well to forget God.
 We. are up against the real thiAt . That is the message of the war. The fir, . step in reconstructien is to understan E the situa ton. The situation is sniritua ? not economic. Life has become one va. : problem Everything is problem. l