The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-08-16
Family And Home Seen As Necessary
 Props In Fight Against Paganism

RGA0OAA4A EANAAALEAAAEAAO tAAAOuAAA tAAC elimination or annihilation of oth- CTS in the field. So confusing has been the state of the world that men seek the evil cause of disas- ter in the forms of social relation ship itself rather than in the mal- ice of those who have exploited and perverted those forms to the detriment of society. Extremes of revolution are suggested by various groups in the field of government in order to find a newer and a bet- ter because a nuwer way of social development.
 Souls Attuned
 No change of external forms in human society will effect change in the souls of man dwho may per- vert the best of forms to the de struction of man and society. Even the ideals suggested by the Vicar of Christ and the realization of the new social order which he outline will avail little unless the souls of men are attuned to the heavenly harmony of the angelic choir which announced peace on earth. It is the essence of the divine life which can alone give action, movement and performance to any order of social existence. Paganism can per- vert any order as' it can pervert any soul.
 But because millions may have lapsed into organism or near organism is no cause for dismay in the hearts of those who gird themselves for the service of God and society. With the assistance of divine grace the destiny of the human family lies in our hands" :" Such is the slogan given us by the spiritual leader who has summoned us to the divine cause of human salvation.
 Church Is Mother
 The church is the universal mother who can never permit her. self to resent persecution. revenge wrong or fight her children even though she may discipline them and correct their errors. Every hu- man being purchased by the blood of Christ, is the offspring of His spouse. AS a mother she must not only gather to her heart the chil- dren who have strayed from her and disowned her but also the children who have never acknowl- edged her and the children who curse her today as did the chil- dren of the past. While the church champions social justice she par ticipates in the divine nature of her blessed founder in preaching and dispensing love that the mal- ice of men may be dissipated as mist before the rising sun. No natural sentiment of love is ade- quate to endure the test as no hu- man sympathy is sufficient to sus- tain the courage of either her or any of her leaders in the conflict through which each must pass in teh course of earthly existence the course of earthly existence
 Only the charity of God-and God, says the beloved disciple, is charity-can enable each of us to meet the challenge given to each in the mandate of her supreme head. ''In order to bring back tc Christ these whole classes of mer who have denied Him. we mus gather and train from amongs their very ranks auxiliary sul' diers of the church, men whc know their mentality and their as. pirationS, and who with kindly fraternal charity will be able tc win their hearts. The world has nowadays sore need of valient soldiers of Christ, who strair, every thew and sinew to preserve the human family from the dire havoc which would befall 1t were the teachings of the gospel to be fiouted and a social orde rpermit- ted to prevail which Spurns no less the laws of nature than those of God. For herself the church of Christ, built upon the solid rock, has nothing to fear, for she knows that the gates of hell shall not prevail against her (Matt. XVI, 10; and the experience of cen- turies has taught her that storms even the most violent, pass, leaxing her stronger and triumphantly vic- torious. But her maternal bosom cannot but be stirred at the thought of the countless ills which tempests of the kind would oc- casion to so many thousands; at the thought above all, of the im- mense spiritual evils which would ensue, entailing the eternal ruin of so many souls redeemed by the blood of Christ" (14l-144.
 Illumive Course
 May the deliberations of this convention illumine the cause of your future activities! May the grace of God sancify and support each of you in the consecration of self to the cause of the Chris tianization of the world! May the companionship of the Son of God console each of you in the dark hours as in the brightl May the participation of each of you in the life of God qualify each for the fullest measure of heavenly citi- zenship in Ills Kingdom for time and eternity!
 HOODLUM DESIGNATE