Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-06-23
10000 STUDENTS
JOIN EUCHAR|ST|C
RITES IN CHICAGO
100000 Other Worshipers
Unite in Final Service
in Soldiers Field.
.PRIMATE OF HUNGARY
GIVES MAGYAR SPEECH
Cardinal Dougherty and Arch.
bishop Gauthier Also Address
Education Session.
Rv the AssncIated Press.

By the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, June 23.--J'nder blaZ-
ing SUM- more than $4,000 students of
rarochial high schools. academies and
universities participated today in the
Higher Education day services of the
%ucharistic Congress. Tens of thou
sands of other persons made up a
rast multitude of 100000 worshipers,
Who crowded Soldiers Field to capac-
ay for the fourth time in three days.
The spectacle today brought to a
close the colorful ceremonies and as
semblages of the congress at the
stadium. On Thursday the final cere-
monies will be held at Mundelein.
north of Chicago.
Cardinal CZernoch. primate of
Hungary, addressed the session in the
Magyar tongue.
Bishop Hoban Officiates.
hrated by Right. Rev. E. F. Hoban. /.
of eucharistic worship in the develop
Cardinal Dougherty of Philadelphia,
presiding prelate. spoke of the place
of Eucharistic worship in the develop
Uent of intellect.
IF the real presence of Our Lord
In the Holy Eucharist is to be denied
because the intellect cannot grasp it.
all mysteries will have to be rejected"
he said. And if we reject all myster-
les We come to chaos, for all about us
are all the mysteries of the natural
world which we cannot penetrate.
And if we find impenetrable the
Cd to nc fhiy1oc Of
shall we define the order of the su-
pernatural?
"All about we see manifestation of
life-but no one can tell what life is.
Plato could not tell us. Aristotle
could not say. st. Thomas Aquinas
could not tell us.
Canadian Prelate Speaks.
The limit of space-another mys-
terry. What is it? What is beyond?
There is no answer.
How then shall we presume to
penetrate the mystery of the Holy
Eucharist?
What is the Blessed Eucharist? =?
1t is the ladder of love to the throne
of Heaven"
Archbishop Gauthier of Toronto,
and apostolic administrator of Mon
Lredl. reviewed TIE nlSlOIN VI lAlc
Catholic Church on the American
continent since the sixteenth cen
tury.
Very Rev. W. H. Agnew. president
of Loyola University, Chicago, was
deacon of the mass.
The high school pupils massed in
the field and sang The Conservation
of the Nation" official hymn of the
congress.
Joseph Scott, knight commander of
the knights of St. Gregory. Los
Angeles. was the last speaker before
the mass.
10000 Men at Service.
Under the hish purple dome Of it's
open-air cathedral. Chicago witnessed
one of the most impressively beautiful
ceremonies of the EuchariStic Con-
Gress last night, the service for men.
More than 100000 pilgrims-mem-
hers of the Holy Name Society-re-
newed their pledge OF fidelity to the
church and to their order at Soldier $
Field under the soft moonlight of
calm Summer evening. At one point
in last nights service, the candles
which they held were eXtinguished
for a moment of silent prayer. with
only the red sanctuary lamp before
the tabernacle of the altar adding a
f1ickering gleam to the light OF the
moon and stars.
Suddenly brilliant food lights blaZed
and a hidden beam shone on the huge
crucifiX above the altar and then. one
by one, the tapers were lighted again,
until the vast field was covered by a
bank of light rising to the base of
the towering doric columns. The sea
Of fame was carried beyond the
stadium walls. where stood other
thousands unable to find places in the
huge structure.
AS the food lights were darkened
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