The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1934-02-21
REV. DOUCHERTY
GIVES ADDRESS
AT ST. MARY'S
MANS DESTINY" SUBJECT
OF LENTEN SERIES ON
.sPIRIT or AGE AND SPIRIT
OF CHRIST" LAST NIGHT

Rev. i. x. Deugherty delivered
an ekSeIleht sermon last evening
at Ct Mays. church on MANS
Destiny" which was the subject OF
the Lenten series on the spirit Of
the Age and the Spirit of Christ. /"
Father D0ugherty said:
Il viii try to picture tonight in
q word movie what's wrong with
the age. Has the age lost its bear
ings? Has 1t lost perspective?
Has it lost life's purpose? Every
one knows the closeup" in the
movies, the projection of the low
er's kiss, the villains scowl. In it
there Is an interruption Of the
story while we dwell on a minor
aspect Of the whole. Here is also
the absence Of all background and
unity of eoordinated facts of. the
case; the face suddenly becomes
maenified beyond al proportions
and occupies the whole screen.
eWhile we gaze on it, i blocks
sill intellectual consideration of
cause and effect, the whole nexus
of events, the whole purpose Of
thexdralaa.. Theological attention
is suspended and the sense appeal
becomes crudeiy emotional and af-
fects the sigbtseers to forget all
else. For the last two or three
decades this technic Of the close
up has been affecting us in actual
life-aided and abetted by screen,
stage, press, education and with
our constant contact with our
problems Of depression--mental
financial and moral-that has
thrown our perspective out Of
focus--that we are engrossed with
the sense and emotional appeal,
and forgetful of the whole pur-
pose Of the drama Of life.
Whats wrong? Let me paint
a picture of the modern age.
want to uncover its hidden mean
ing. want TO show how the age
has lost It's unity and along with
that the individual has lost. his own
interior unity. and has been
abandoned to unhappiness, inse-
eurity and despair.
"When religion presumes to en-
ter the field Of business or profess
sion and sprays its fertilizing in
fluence Of God-given principles to-
grow crop Of human activity. it
Is told that businesa Is one thing
and religion is another. In politics
again, whether at Geneva's peace
conference. government. national.
state or eitv, God Is not chosen
nor wanted. Politics is politics
and religion is religion. Let each
go its own way. In the field of
education, in character formation
Of eitizenfhip again our children
are brought up SIS The children of
divorced parties, to have nothing
TO do with the other-God. In the
professions. medical. legal, seien-
tifie. religion is regarded a. an OBJ
stfuetion to individual liberty so
the professions will favor divorce
laws, sterilization, birth control.
that are threatening the life of the
family and of the nation. Religion
il told that it has nothing to do
with such. This is great modern
heresy. If life has a unity. this
cannot be true. Civilization SIM
ply can't 90 on II three separate
forces are going to work at cross
purposes within i, No. machine
copld run without unity Of coof-
dlneted parts. No life cal grow.
wI6ther il be plant OF human.
THUS the unity 81 the modem
W. ) sAroksn %. Baslnkss kssa
professions have their own re-
rpeetive codes Of practice. and
carry ON unconcerned with any
principles that religion may lay
down for them.
Government. under the spe-
eiouS plea Of separation Of church
and state. proelaims a complete
Indifference to any teachings Of
religion. And so the school, the
breeding place of business. pro-
fessional and state leaders. must
wash is hands and have nothing
to do with this just One. business.
government. and the school are
fepsfate things: and religion Is
stlll another with nothing 70 do
with any Of the ether three. Il
i ans wonder that the unity Of the
family b broken Up. too! Where
lie was Supposed to be an organic
whole and mankind . unity. we
hase four separate unrelated activ-
itisS
Is it any wonder that usodern
life : . chaos. that i has broken
up into conflicting elements? But
If this i true Of the social aspect
Of modern lie. what q the in
dividualf After al, government.
business. profession. the sehooI,
family and church are al eompos-
ed Of human individuals. each with
his ewn problems IN this life and
IN The next Why. Ne. too. : d.
xided against himself. HI. nrnf..-