Communications
188 THE COMMONWEAL June 23, 1926 ...
...My friend, we are at cross purposes...
...You recently commented on G. K. C.'s attitude we must preach sermons that children of twelve...
...EDWARD HAWKS...
...adians are well able to sum up the respective merits and deCleric:-"My dear friend, in this I agree with you entirely...
...TO the Editor:-Does Mr...
...Henry Heide, New York City, received Washington, D. C. the same distinction for his great and noble work in aid of TO the Editor:-Forgiveness (in the April number of the the starving and suffering children and religious of Central Atlantic Monthly, by George Herbert Palmer, professor Europe...
...low 'development of their philosophy of taste.' That is why Canada is extremely fortunate in her position, and CanI urge you to do something for the younger generation...
...W. DIAMOND...
...I do object to the it all sound rather silly...
...Heide's own modesty has contributed tion to present international conditions arising out of the war not a little to the public forgetfulness of the honor conferred and to the aftermath of hatred and distrust persisting in spite on him for services which, in their way, are epic in character...
...Nowlan, in all sincerity, that somechildren...
...Such vulgarity is unity: in the gradual emergence of, and emphasis upon the atrocious...
...Holiness Pope Pius XI, in conferring upon Mr...
...tion of an error which was made generally by the press...
...The TO the Editor:-In reading over Week by Week in The worship of the 'ages of faith' was beautiful because it was real...
...Phelan the REv...
...how or other he place himself on the other side of the border Cleric:-"You think, then, that the younger generation who and reweigh the value of his effort to amuse readers who have passed childhood will be stimulated more successfully by have some acquaintance with the Douglas theorem...
...the movies, and the confessional magazines' have taken ad- WILLIAM FRANKLIN SANDS...
...what you call intelligent sermons...
...emeritus of philosophy at Harvard) is so generous and noble WILHELMINE SCHEPPEGRELL-KEPPLER...
...You said just now that you laymen go to understood, not merely as a sentiment or an aspiration, but as church to get spiritual stimulation...
...merits of the inhabitants of both the United States and Great In order to reach the understanding of the younger generation Britain...
...In speaking of its stimulating effects...
...It Professor Palmer defines forgiveness, and applies his defini- may be added that Mr...
...I sometimes wonder what he would Laic:-"Pardon me, Father...
...James J. Phelan of Boston, by His am reminded that I have some prayers to say...
...distinction of a Knight Commander of the Order of Pius IX, you state: "No other American has received this distinction...
...I am afraid that I must repeat my desire us to take his contribution seriously...
...I gladly take monthly magazines to matters of applied religion...
...I am afraid that the a living force in the individual...
...You are taking me up unfairly...
...vantage of this fact...
...TO the Editor:-If it is not trespassing upon your gener- His essay is practically Christian because quite simply and osity may I suggest a continuation of the imaginary con- as a matter of course he treats Christian principles as the versation started by your correspondent, D. T. Powell, in The motive power of our actions...
...That is why I maintained that if the laity were to be responsible for the arrangement of the church services they would prefer Nearer My God to Thee to the SOCIAL CREDIT Saskatoon, Sask...
...objection that you resent the crowd...
...by the return to Christ, the remark reminds me of the electric sign that our neighbor, search for Christ, and the regulation of one's personal acts Reverend Septimus Goodfellow, has installed in front of his by His teaching, whether one believes Him to be divine or to church: 'The Church That Cheers.'" have been merely human...
...Is this true to experience...
...The contact with Protestantism has confused our ideas of worship...
...have called the negligible cultured minority does not stimulate That is, I think, the true American way and may well be your 'mid-grade morons.' As you have suggested, 'the tabloids, America's contribution to Christianity...
...We do THE ORDER OF PIUS IX not go to church to escape reality nor indeed to seek it...
...of differences based upon inherited prejudice or ignorance of Cleric:-"Tastes differ...
...Philip F. Nowlan, the writer One who passes for a clever thinker has said that brass bands of the letter [Social Credit] in your issue of May 12, are very spiritual things...
...religion a second one...
...We go to give rather than to get...
...Goodfellow goes in for stimulation, and as he wants to get the crowd he gives the crowd what stimulates them...
...If so, well he ends a paragraph with the remark: "doesn't Laic:--"I do not resent the crowd...
...188 THE COMMONWEAL June 23, 1926 COMMUNICATIONS VICARIOUS BEAUTY of the fact that the rising generation has all but forgotten the Philadelphia, Pa...
...an appeal to practical Christianity that it deserves comment (Editors' Note:-We are glad to print the above rectificain your columns...
...That which stimulates what you each other's thought rather than upon knowledge and reason...
...But I see that the hour is late and I the high honor paid Mr...
...toward your country...
...I must go...
...We New York, N. Y. go to worship it...
...Commonweal of June 2: I am profoundly impressed by the space given in all our Cleric:-"Your taste in cigars is undeniable...
...think if he surveyed the scene from this side of the border...
...I doubt it...
...Commonweal of June 16, I find a small error which I I doubt if anyone at that time ever gave the least thought to take the liberty of calling your attention to...
...There is a true basis of Christian Laic:-"My dear Father, I protest...
...When I spoke of the younger generation, I did not speak of May I suggest to Mr...
...war...
...ON FORGIVENESS Two years ago Mr...
...I agree...
...Surely you can see the difference between an appre- common ground of religion, followed by gradual elimination ciation of beauty and what is practically a denial of it...
...Dies Irae...
Vol. 4 • June 1926 • No. 7
