Manon 17, 1952

Lenten Meditation

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From The Columns of The Times. Insiders.

THE EMPTY HOUQ

when the empty house of Man-

wul is left empty. ev" mirits ctxne Ind take possession. That law. dramatically stated in the sayings that form the Gospel for the Third Sung” in Lent, has been verified in wumnporary experience. Wars to end war have proved to be vain dreams. To fight those wars was a moral obligation in a sinful and disorganized world; but they brought inevitable disappointment.

The attempt to expel the demon 3: aggression without a creative faith to take its place and guard the house threatens to bring in 'seven other mirits more wicked than itself," so that the last state is worse than the first.

only the finger of God can cast out devils. our Imid himself heal- ed patient, not diseases; and he denied them-or, cos they "said, have out the demons-by awak- i-ning faith in the goodness of God. ills principle, now generally ac- ;.-nawledged in the methods of our- alive psychology, was summarized in Seeley's well-lenown phrase. ”ihe expulsive power of a new at- icction." ,

A man cannot by sheer force of will overcome evil compuisions and desires; he must be helped to identify the self with the positive desire for a new good, and organ- ize his life round that centre. Tlicre is but one prescription acainsi sin--to be growing in the knmvledge and love of God. Dis- cipline and lmmstion are but

means to that end.

is of more than individual applica- tion. and explains much that is happening on the world stage. Every civilization hitherto has tested on a religious foundation and the worship of the gods has been at the centre of it. The mod- em world is attempting for the slut tune to maintain a culture on the basis of a non-religious philosophy of life.

The fundamental prwlem for the free world is not so much the material strength of Oommunl-n as its own cultural and moral weakness. Mr. Dowlas I-Iyde, in hie recent book, "I Believed." quotes a party member, already beginning to be disillusioned, who said that she dared not' face resig- nation because "I'm terrified of the vacuum which would be left in my life if I went."

”It is precisely." he goes on. "this vacuum which gives Oom- mvunlsm its chance. Communism, I believe, has its origin precisely in that spiritual vacuum.whlch exists all over what once was Christen- dom . . . (It) has been able to take what is essentially a religious instinct and use it for evil ends.

If so, the only effective answer of the west to the challenge that threatens it is positive. strategic resistance has been imposed upon it. and here and now that may be a duty; but of itself it offers no constructive solution. The positive nnswer is cultural and religious. The true resistance is to exhibit and to authenticate in action a better way through the witness

The law of the spiritual vacuum

of a Christian society.

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QUEBEC, March 15 Premier Duplessis said today Que- bec is ready to lift its meat rut- rictions is better methods of pro- ecting its livestock from ioot-and- mouth disease sre'!ound.

The Premier said this in answer to questions as to when the gov- ernment plans to relax its meat and livestock import restrictions.

The Premier said the restrictions -were "necessary" to protect the ProvInce's livestock and public health in general.

"The G... nment will be happy to co-operate in the enforcement of other methods of protection. if such exist and as long as they offer the same guarantees as the current embargo." the Premier said

T in Halifax where he is negotiating for a replacement plane to use in the service now being given to the public. He is expected to return this week and will resume oper- atlons in answering the many calls made on the flying service this winter. In the meantime Mr. Sharpe has been piloting the plane on the "mercy" flights.

ALL MALE CHOIR. - An in- novation in church services was initiated at St. James Presbyter- ian Church yesterday, when at the Vesper service the music was led by an all male choir of men and boys under the direction of Miss Lillian MacKenzie, Mus. Bac. There was a large and ap- preciative congregation and the ministcr, Rev. T. H. B. Somers, M.A., S.T.M., gave a fine expos- ition of the 2nd Epistle of St. Peter and the Epistle of St. Judc.

SONG SERVICE - The Trinity Young People's Union held their regular Sunday song service last evening in the social hall follow- ing the church service. The sing- ing was led by Leith Stetson and Donnie Wood. with Mary Mor- rison at the piano. Unfortunate- ly the guest for the evening, Les Alexander, was not able to be present, but the group was en- tertained very capably by Miss Betty Beers who sang. "Jesus Took My Burden" and ”Saved By Grace", and by Mr. Raymond Player who sang t'Think On Me" and "Found Me I-'alls- The Night', with Mrs. Keith Rogers playing the piano. The meeting closed by singing "Jacob's Ladder". the offering and the benediction led by Mr. Irwin.

Personals

The many friends of Mrs. F. C. Dollar, Brookfield, regret to hear of her continued illness in the Prince Edward Island Hospital.

Mr. Emmett Francis. son of the well known sportsman, ”Shonna" Francis. has been taken on strength of the 21st Armored Brigade R. C. A. C., as lieutenant ordnance of- ficer. Lieut. Francis was former- ly in the C. 0. T. C. at St. Dun-

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Erin's Sons Prepare For Big celebration

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Out come the green ties and shamrocks again as the sons of the Ould sod prepare to celdarate at Patrick's Day on Monday.

one of the biggest celebrations in Canada, that of Montreal Irish- men. will be heki Sunday after- noon when the United Irish soc- ieties hold their annual parade. Impressive floats will be dotted among the long 'line of marchers from parish groups, militlry units and many Irish organintions of the city and surrounding munici- palities.

smaller celebrations will be held in cities and towns acrou Canada Monday when Canadian Irish and Sons of Erin the world over com- memorate the deoth of the saint who brought Christianity to Ire- land. -

Among special events this year is a British Broadcasting Corporat- ion prograsn direct from the an- cient st. Patrick's Mem i-l church at Saul in Coiuity Down. The church stands on the spot where st. Patrick preached his first sermon after landing in Ire- land In A. D. 432.

After being a prisoner of s mar- audlng chieftain in A.ntrim for six years he went to the continent, where he established his religious reputation and was commissl d by the Pope to work in Ireland.

Great Missions ,

I-Ie preached and taught, organ- ized parlshes and built churches. he founded probably 866 churches and baptized 10.000 persons. Among his converts was his captor o! earl- ier years.

He banished the snakes and" he, made the shamrock the lmmortall emblem of Ireland. using the tiny plant as a representation of the Holy Trinity.

St. Patrick's day was decided on only after a lengthy Irish argu- ment which according to legend ended in a truly Irish compromise.

It is said that one faction in Ire- land claimed the Saint died on March 8. while an opposing party held that March 9 was correct. A Solomon-like Irish priest. Father Mulcahey, is said to have settled the argument by the addition of eight and nine and March 1'! has stood to this clay. I

COMPLETE VISUAL REFRAf.'l'lflN and ANALYSIS

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Addressing the Royal ,0anadisn Institute some time ago, the Pres- ident of the University of Toronto expressed anxiety about the effect upon cltlsens of India of the im- pact on their eountryof the Illlir erisilsm of the West. When he passed this remark. President smith had Just returned from a tour of the universities of India where he had personally experienced a little of the conflict between the forces of the West and East. He was far from sharing the unthinking West- erner's all too boastful confidence that the whole world has only to come to know the West in order to embrace spontaneously its way of life.

There has come about in the west. I am afraid. an almost com- plete separation between the theory of living and its practice. In theory it is Christian and rational, in practice it is predominantly mater- iallstic. At some time in the past we effected this divorce between reason and practice. and now we have finalized the divorce by quiet- ly laying reason aside. Thus Pres- ident Smith could rightly lament "the shoddy sentiment and the distorted values that are unthink- ingly embraced by the majority of nur fellow citizens."

If the soul of our new, unreas- oning, twentieth-century society could be adequately examined, how would it appear? I suppose we can only speculate on this. but the view suggested by a recent book by Professor McLuhan of St. Mich- aei's College is not unconvincing.

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In a fairly general survey of the fields of popular art. dress, adver- tising. entertainment. journalism, marriacn and burial customs. he has left the impression that we are fundamentally shallower than we care to admit. Our reading. for example. if circulation statistics are a real Indication. is largely "pre-digest:-d pap. -spooned out with confidential nudges." Like "A crowd of ient.husiast'c kids lining the curbs." we gaze upon the pic- tures and innocently absorb the chatter as "Time marches on." We We read Books of the .Month. not of our own selection. or flashy re- nrinis of sadistic sex novels and think that by doing as our neigh- bors do we are demonstrating that we. too. are cultured and sophis- ticated.

And so for the other aspects of life. It is the passing I " ticns of passion or the dictates of can- ricious sentiment that determine what we shall accept next from the fashloners of our sordid cult- III'C. v

An interesting but equally con- vincing. variation of this View of society appeared recently in Leo Chcrne's analysis of television pro- grams for the New York Timu Magazine. Mr. Cheme. executive secretary of the Research Institute

Thoughts For Our Time

By Ilk Eminence Cardinal Mcfiuigaa . (Copyright)

of America. was asking whether the "debate" programs of "Town Meeting were not in reality a dan- ger to the nation. They are pro- d, grams intended primarily as en- tertainment but based usually on very serious issues. They purport to present in some twenty minute both sides of some important con- ! O 0

As Mr. Cherne says: "Deciding the issue of the Marshall plan in thirty minutes is difficult indeed. Saving Asia from Communism be- tween the commercials is an irri- posslbllity. Finding the means to head off inflation in thirty min- utes is an economist's daydream.”

The disturbing factor. however. is that such programs distort the real issue. In the interest of enter- tainment value. they presenf the two sides of the case as though they are clearly defined and sharp- ly distinguished. But no genuine debate can be accurately recorded in black and white. There are all kinds of extenuating circumstances and modifying considerations to be taken into account. It is here that human reason comes effectively

"Aye. Aye Sir" Correci Phrase

OTTAWA, Mar. 15-(OP)-"Aye aye air" is the traditional reply of a rating to an officer in the Royal Canadian Navy, and any other phrase is frowned on. That's what the navy said to-

y.

A naval spokesmsn said though no general order stipulating the use of the phrase has been laid down, a ”reminder'' was recently posted at I-IM.C.S. Stadacona, the naval station at Halifax, remind- ing ratings that "aye, aye sir" is the correct nautical phrase.

The spokesman didn't know if the ratings in Halifax! had been diverging from the traditional practice to cause the notice to be posted there.

But, he added, it is a fact that "aye. aye" is traditional in the navy-adding "Sir" when replying to an officer-and anythingielse such as ”OK sir" just isn't pro- per.

second builder takes up where the first builder, reason, had to give up.

But our sophisticated age does not dare to believe. It looks on faith as childish, too unlrtterably silly. It has long since given up

into play. It is at this stage that the habit of faith. How can it now the audience might become truly be expected to carry on with its human by exercising its mogt hu. thinking? And thus are men left of their animal

man faculty. But in the interest We Playthings

of purchased time and entertain- senses and passions. Is it any won- ment value, this has to be sacri- def that Western man 15 H0 IOHKEF ficed. Is it any wonder that people attractive. no longer comprehen- sometlmes find us difficult to un- 311319. to Deollle on the other side the world?

derstand? Indeed, do we really un- Of derstand ourselves? ,

What does this imply? Surf.-l,v that, as a people. we are not really free. Our tastes. nur sentiments. our ideals, our notion of what is good for us. are all dictated by the materialistic principles of our so- callcd modern culture. Again. it implies that we are immature. that we are units incapable of taking the full view of any issue confront- ing us. Maturity and freedom do not come by mechanical mgns They are concomitants of reason. When we really start to think. when we become human beings. then do we achieve natural matur- ity and basic freedom.

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Yet most of us are afraid to tlilnk. And why? Because on those only ion rare occasions when we have tried to do so, it seems to have cot us nowhere. our thought was likp the unfinished wall of a beautiful building. The builder had begun the wall but had been up- able to complete it. with the re- sult that the last row of stones re- mains Iuitlnr! out, like the teeth of some gigantic gear, awaiting the hand of a second builder.

our thought was much like this and we were disturbed. We did not seem to realize that all thought, all thinking Is bound to be incom- plete. It is like the unfinished) wall calling into the void for something to complete it. What completes it.

of course, is divine faith. Faith the

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