The broad ax., 1926-06-26
HE CLOSING SESSION OF THE
EUCHARISTIC CONGRESS WHICH
WAS THE GREATEST OF ALL IT'S
PAST SESSIONS CAME TO A
GLORIOUS END THURSDAY, JUNE
oath. AT THE LADY OF THE LAKE,
MUNDELEIN, ILL.,, IN THE MIDST
OF OVER A MILLION PEOPLE.

ideals of their Church.
Then there came Mothers Day.
This day was the most holy of the
Church-old women past three score
and ten who had looked to the Guild
ing Star Of the future at home and in
the Church, for soon their days would
be counted an end, and on to the
blessed city where they would kiss the
angelic hand of the mother of so great
cause, Mile. Tamisier-two hunderd
thousand of them gathered to listen
to the words to be spoken which
| would give to them renewed spirit that
would be a guide to the thoughts to
be taught to the thousands who had
attended in the morning These words
were given by radio to millions of lis
teners OF every other faith of earth's
creation. They seemed to have drunk
in that which was intended to give to
them-a high ideal, more Christian
like benevolence-fo mingled with
them throughout the service were the
Sisters who made the bread that fur
nished the sacrament for those who
partook of that which was intended as
a part of the body of Christ. The ex-
preston seen upon every face was like
the tint of new, undescribed rose;
each step they took to the conveyance
to carry them back home seemed to
have breathed into them the new air
which gave new faith in the work to
be done.
In the evening of this day two hun
| dred thousand fathers gathered as
never before to listen to the words to
be told to them which would mark
out the way for better assistance in
making their public demeanor such a
model of earthly brotherhood as the
nations of the earth would better I'M
derstand the teachings of their Church
They sang in Mass; they listened to
prayer at the altar; and then the Car
dinal stood in silence while this multi
tude severally and jointly prayed for
better world When the closing
came, they returned to their homes,
more edited than before Little ones
climbed upon their knees, mothers and
wives drew their chairs near, that the
fathers could tell to them their story
of the lessons they had been taught,
} and before time to sleep had come,
they had linked these three together
and waited in silence for Wednesday
when Higher Educational Day took
the field. This is the most important
statue of the Church And, too, it is
looked to to bring new light upon
each of the provisions of the doctrine
Young boys and girls, who will be
the mothers and fathers of tomorrow
who had travelled over every surface
and other available line to listen to the
ecclesiastical words Of the Cardinal
who had been directed to hold the
| services for that day-the pictures and
lessons drawn carried them back to
the days of Babylon. They looked and
marveied at the architecture of the
altar which had been constructed after
| the manner Of that Of St. Paul of
Rome, and from it lessons Of higher
education were told. They came from
the lips Of Archbishop Gauthier Of Mon
treal who was master of his English
and a convincing reasoner upon the
point of the necessity of being able to
give an explanatory reason sufficiently
lucid that even child might understand
The Archbishop pictured to them that
out Of this higher education they be-
came the living apostles Of the Church
and that it was their duty to be patient
in endeavoring to bring to Christ
through their educational avenue those
who did not understand, and that there
fore the future power of the Church
rested with them. When he had FIN
ished, there came Cardinal Dougherty
with an address which dealt directly
with higher education and its positive
necessity. The thousands who were
unable to enter Soldiers Field, who
had come from far and. near espe-
cially to listen to the Cardinal, one
of the most learned men of the Church,
were enabled to hear his voice under
standingly through the amplihers ar
ranged about the Field. The Cardinals
subject was treated in the most mas
terly manner and yet so simple that
the uneducated who wanted to under
stand went away satisfied after he had
| finished, so that the time spent in lis
tening had given them new reasoning
power to demonstrate the ideas Of the
II power Of higher education and to be-