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THE PATH OF DUTY 
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REV. JOHN F. CRONI IN, S. S. 
Delivered on the Sundays of August, 1943 

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August 1: Justice is Strength -.i: •• ^ f o ^xayl'- .rtO • 3 

August 8: Humility Exalts 9 

August 15: Charity Gives Life 15 

August 22: Patriotism'Breeds Heroes , 21 

August 28: Worship Builds Greatness J 27 

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JUSTICE IS STRENGTH 
Address delivered on August 1, 1943 

My friends, the series of talks which conceals death and corrup-

which is about to begin centers tion. 
about five virtues which the world Today we may rightly rejoice 
needs today. If we are to keep the i n our strength. But naked strength 
peace which we are winning so c a n b e abused. A powerful motor 
gloriously, we must be prepared in c a r c a n s e r v e i t s o w n e r well> b u t 

heart for the task. The world of ^ c a n a l s o r u s h i n t h e w a y s o f 

tomorrow will demand great deeds d e a t h a n d destruction. It is for us 
from each of us. It will call for the t o d e c i d e u P° n t h e u s e o f o u r P°w" 
calm heroism of godly living, for e r" _ M a ^ G o d i n H i s m e r c y 
the dedication of our lives to the u s i n t h i s decision-
service of our fellow man, that There are two virtues which 
God's Name may be honored upon should be the pillars of society, jus-
earth, as it is in heaven. In these tice and charity. With these as 
days to come it will not be enough o u r support, a noble structure can 
to pass wise laws, even though we b e b u i I t - Without them, we build 
rightly pray that the Spirit of Wis- u P° n shifting sands. In our talk 
dom may descend upon our rulers, today we are to consider justice in 
Nor will man be saved by the plans o u r dealings with our fellow man. 
of economists and the treaties of N e x t Sunday we shall deal with 
statesmen, though it would be folly justice in relation to our own 
to discard these helps. These are s e l v e s - which is but another name 
but the externals of a great nation. f o r t h e forgotten virtue of human-
They are necessary. But real great- o r l o v e o f neighbor, and then 
ness lies in the heart of man. A o f that higher charity which men 
nation with a soul will find wise c a l 1 Patriotism. Finally we shall 
and learned men to guide it. But d w e 1 1 u P° n the highest degree of 
a people without a soul could both justice and charity, and this 
possess the cleverness of a Solomon' i s worship, man's duty to his Mak-
and the strength of a Samson, and e r -

still be an evil force, a menace to Justice is the rendering to every 
the peace of the world. Our Sav- man of that Which is due to him. 
ior warned us against whited sep- It is the granting of rights and 
ulchres, possessed of a cold beauty the acknowledgment of duties. It is 



4 THE PATH OP DUTY 

that even-handed equity which sets 
man apart from the animal, who 
knows only the laws of force and 
violence. Without bias and without 
prejudice, it deals fairly with the 
lowly and with the great. Riches 
cannot corrupt it, nor can power 
prevail over it. Without it, gov-
ernment is tyranny. With it, the 
strong can live with the weak; the 
friendless with those blessed with 
influence and prestige. Justice 
makes man noble. Indeed, unless a 
man is just, he is hardly a man. 

All this we gladly admit. Few 
of us there are who would not pay 
tribute to this great virtue. Yet 
in practice, we do not always live 
up to our profession. It is not that 
we are consciously unjust. We do 
not steal or cheat or lie. The 
thought of defrauding our neighbor 
would shock us. We pay our bills, 
and even pride ourselves that on a 
certain occasion we corrected a 
merchant when we received more 
change than was our due. Yet in 
spite of this, there are certain 
broader demands of justice which 
we overlook. But it is these pre-
cise demands which the modern 
world most needs, if it is to survive. 

The first quality of justice need-
ed today is a sense of duty. In our 
nation many of us are more sensi-
tive about our rights than about 
our duties. We are more conscious 
of the attractions of pleasure than 

of the stern insistence of obliga-
tion. Even in a time of great na-
tional crisis we find it necessary to 
offer inducements and sugarcoating 
for sacrifices which should be taken 
as a matter of course. We use 
salesmanship and p r o m o t i o n 
schemes, when it should be enough 
to say: Your country needs it. In 
the midst of a war for the survival 
of civilization, an appeal to self-
interest should be unthinkable. Yet 
the headlines of recent months re-
veal our shame in this matter. For 
example, if anything should appeal 
to our sense of justice, it should be 
the idea of rationing. It is obvious 
that in a war like this there are 
bound to be shortages. So much 
of our manpower and machine 
power have, been drafted for war 
that even a great industrial nation 
can -hardly expect to keep its stand-
ards of living intact. We cannot 
be both an arsenal for the world 
and a nation living in ease and lux-
ury. We realize that we are sup-
plying allies whose factories have 
been bombed, whose farm lands 
have been turned into airfields or 
battlefields. We know that gaso-
line for a mechanized war will 
spare the lives of our sons and 
brothers in the armed services, dis-
abling the enemy without enormous 
sacrifice of human life. 

All these things are clear to 
everyone. No one denies that 



JUSTICE IS STRENGTH 5 

shortages exist - and that most of 
them are inevitable. Most Ameri-
cans, thank God, accept them cheer-
fully and honestly. Yet theré is 
another side to the picture which 
cannot truthfully be overlooked. 
Our newspapers were filled with 
cynical pictures of crowded high-
ways when the pleasure-driving 
ban was made a matter of honor 
rather than police regulation. Pres-
sure groups were formed to de-
mand our rights to recreation as 
usual. Black markets flourished 
and soon spread to the even more 
essential field of our basic foods. It 
was considered clever to carp at 
regulation and to magnify and dis-
tort inevitable mistakes in admin-
istration. Wild rumors and dan-
gerous jokes spread like fire. En-
forcement became necessary^ but 
this was greeted by some as a par-
allel to .Prohibition days or to the 
Nazi Gestapo. We may well hope 
that all this was exceptional rather 
than typical. It is only natural 
that we hear more of the trouble-
some few than of the patriotic and 
law-observing many. It would not 
be a comforting thought that many 
of us were like the Romans of the 
fifth century, who used military 
funds, not against the barbarian 
invader, but simply to provide more 
games and sport for the populace. 
Fearful indeed would be the day 
when we lost our sense of duty. 

There are deep roots to this dis-
regard for duty. Much of it stems 
from our system of education. For 
a while it was fashionable to dis-~ 
card the very notion of discipline 
in the training of children. Some 
parents and teachers thought that 
self-expression was the ideal. Every 
trait in a child's personality had to 
be developed, no matter how much 
it conflicted with the rights of 
others. Such training might pro-
duce a respectable hermit, but it 
did not fashion men and women for 
the duties of social living. Rather 
it led to a generation which de-
manded a comfortable religion and 
an easy life. In the churches, the 
notion of sin and obligation were 
to be treated as survivals of out-
moded customs. In the home, mar-
riage was not supposed to inter-
fere with the pleasure of husband 
and wife. Parties and fun were 
goals to which all else was to be 
subordinated. Children were not 
welcome because they demanded too 
much attention. They were a bur-
den on vacation trips. They were 
a problem when one wanted to go 
to the theater. Furthermore, they 
were a financial drain which kept 
one from living up to the neigh-
bor's standard of luxury. 

Such was the attitude towards 
duty popularized in the novels and 
motion pictures of the Twenties. 
Some of it even survived the de-



6 THE PATH OP DUTY 

pression of the Thirties. With some 
of us, it did not take deep root. 
The bravery and endurance of our 
armies, and the great sacrifices of 
many at home, prove this. But it 
remains a danger so long as the 
cynical few seek selfish advantage 
in this hour of crisis. It is the 
task of every American to set the 
example of a generous spirit of 
service. The question should be 
not: What must I do; but rather: 
What can I do. No other attitude 
is safe in time of war. No other 
attitude is adequate for the equal-
ly important, if less dramatic, task 
of safeguarding the future peace. 

But this is not enough. There 
is a second demand of justice to-
day which is no less stern and ex-
acting. It is the call to integrity 
and honor and truthfulness in our 
dealings with others. There is 
danger in time of war of a relaxing 
of this standard. Military neces-
sities call for the. concealment of 
many facts. Some go so far as to 
assert that in the interest of 
propaganda we must distort the 
truth. All our enemies must be 
portrayed as fiends, and all our 
allies as spotless crusaders. On 
the home front, wild hysterical ap-
peals must be used to win the sup-
port of every one in the war effort. 
Fortunately such methods are much 
less common today than they were 

in 1917. But there is still enough, 
to warrant concern, particularly in 
view of the problem of peace. 

An outstanding example of dis-
tortion and injustice is found in 
the story of our home production 
front. Here we have not been 
given a fair picture of the truth. 
Many persons have the impression 
that our war production is a hope-
lessly bungled job. They blame 
this upon selfishness on the part of 
capital and labor, and on military 
and civil administrative incompe-
tence. Certainly such an impres-
sion has been transmitted to many 
of our soldiers on the fighting 
lines. The selfishness of the very 
few is allowed to overshadow the 
overwhelming devotion of the 
many. 

This is a false picture. It is 
like portraying our glorious vic-
tory in Sicily by telling only of the 
dozen or so stories of individual 
incompetence and cowardice which 
I feel sure are bound to occur in 
such a huge undertaking. The 
facts are that capital and labor 
alike have done a magnificent job 
of war production. Hundreds of 
thousands are working themselves 
into a premature grave, giving 
their lives for their country, just 
as surely as did -the soldier lying on 
the plains of Guadalcanal. There 
have been greedy business men; 
but thousands of others have ren-



JUSTICE IS STRENGTH 7 

dered unselfish service beyond the 
power of money to buy. Some 
workers have been foolish enough 
to strike brifely even in time of 
war, but millions more have work-
ed seven days a week, month after 
month, often in a strange city, 
under unbelievable housing condi-
tions, often traveling hours to their 
work—likewise a sacrifice which no 
money can buy. The result of this 

. and the equally splendid achieve-
ments of our farmers, has been a 
miracle of production far surpass-
ing the results of any other nation. 

In two years we did more than 
the Axis did in ten years of delib-
erate preparation for war. These 
are the facts. Our soldiers and the 
public have a right to know them, 
and not distorted propaganda pro-
duced by some selfish group. Unless 
we develop a conscience and a 
sense of justice in this matter, we 
will soon develop a cynical na-
tion, distrusting all sources of 
news. We have already gone too 
far in that direction. One of the 
reasons why we so long underesti-
mated the menace of Hitlerism was 
our unwillingness to trust the re-
porting of the facts. Again, in 
recent mine strikes, many persons 
wondered why the miners followed 
their leaders instead of the press, 
radio, and newsreels of the nation. 
The answer is simple. The miners 

have long felt that their side of the 
case would not be given a fair 
hearing by those who supply the 
news. The result is that they pay 
no attention to public opinion, 
which they consider deceived and 
misinformed. This is a most seri-
ous matter. The essence of democ-
racy is free choice by informed 
voters. When we lose confidence in 
our ability to get the truth, the 
next step is to lose confidence in 
democracy. The right of freedom 
of speech must be safeguarded by 
the duty of telling the complete 
truth, undistorted and undiluted. 

There is another important ex-
ample of injustice in the matter of 
truth. We find this in the portray-
al of our war aims. Some publicists 
feel it their duty to hold that each 
of the United Nations is a great 
and pure democracy, fighting only 
for the four freedoms. But we 
know that this is not of necessity 
true. Most of us entered the war 
because we were attacked by that 
evil beast which we call the Axis. 
We saw Europe and Asia overrun 
by looting soldiers, thirsty for 
world conquest. Then the day came 
when our interests were attacked, 
and we fought. This is the pri-
mary reason why the United 
States, the Soviet Union, and many 
other states are in the war. Over 
and above this we may accept the 



8 THE PATH OP DUTY 

ideals of the Atlantic Charter. We 
may propose a treaty of peace 
which would embody great prin-
ciples of wisdom and justice. We 
hope and trust that this will be the 
case. But first we must realize that 
the evil we are fighting against is 
an all sufficient justification of our 
war, independently of the good we 
are fighting for. If this is under-
stood, then we will not face the 
disillusionment and cynicism which 
poisoned our minds after the last 
war. We hope for a world of the 
four freedoms; we shall strive to 
accomplish this; but we shall not 
feel that the struggle has been vain 
if we fail to attain the full ideal of 
world justice. So long as the world 

is better without the Axis than it 
was when tyranny was in flower, 
we shall have succeeded. We hope 
to do much more; but should we 
fail, we shall still believe that our 
cause was just. 

Justice, then, demands a passion-
ate devotion to truth as well as a 
willingness to share a common 
burden. It means absolute in-
tegrity in public life as well as 
in private. Honesty and principle, 
regardless of consequences, must be 
the rule. Such has been the tradi-
tional spirit of America. It is the 
real source of our greatness. It is 
vital that we preserve this heri-
tage in a world which so badly 
needs the example of great living. 



HUMILITY EXALTS 
Address delivered on August 8, 1943 

It has been written that God poor, the ignorant, the lowly—de-
hates the proud soul, but the hum- spised by men, but great in the 
ble He loves. The pages" of Sac- clear vision of the Almighty. Some 
red Scripture warn us repeatedly were shocked that He mingled with 
that he that exalts himself shall the publicans and sinners, but such 

• be put down, while the lowly and was His mission. When He gath-
the meek shall inherit the earth, ered about Him faithful followers, 
We know that when the Virgin not many were great or powerful 
Mary was made Mother of God, or learned in the eyes of men. 
she cried that God has raised up St. Paul saw this well, when he 
the little ones, but the proud of warned the Corinthians: "See your 
heart grovel in the dust. The vocation, brethren, that there are 
broken and humble spirit of the not many wise according to the 
sinner , is welcome in the courts of flesh, not many mighty, not many 
heaven, but the pride of the Phar- noble: But the foolish things of the 
isee is condemned. Our Divine world hath God chosen, that he 
Savior, leaving us a message of may confound the wise; and the 
wisdom and of salvation, said: weak things of the world hath 
'Learn of me, for I am meek, and God chosen, that he may confound 
/tumble of heart: And you shall the strong. And the base things 
find rest to your souls" (Matt. of the world, and the things that 
11:29). And with Him, teaching are contemptible, hath God chosen, 
and example were one.' His birth and things that are not, that he 
was in the poverty of the stable, might bring to nought things that 
Over His youth there is the cloud are: That no flesh should glory in 
of obscurity, a worker in a little his sight" (I Cor. 1:26-29). The 
village of simple folk. When the shining example of the Savior's 
day came for His manifestation humility had burned itself into 
to the world, He did not go to the heart of Paul. He appeals to 
Rome, where dwelt the power and brethren through the meekness and 
majesty of empire; nor did He lowliness of Christ. His writings 
journey to Athens, where learned are filled with references to the 
men disputed and debated in their humility of the Cross. Indeed, in 
conceit; but He went among the his letter to the beloved disciples 



10 THE PATH OP DUTY 

at Philippi, this was the standard 
which he left to them: "For let. this 
mind be in you, which was also in 
Christ Jesus: Who being in the 
form of God, thought it not rob-
bery to be equal with God: But 
emptied himself, taking the form 
of a servant, being made in the 
likeness of men, and in habit found 
as a man. He humbled himself, 
becoming obedient unto death, even 
to death on the cross. For which 
cause God also hath exalted him, 
and hath given him a name which 
is above all names: That in the 
name of Jesus every knee should 
bow, of those that are in heaven, 
on earth, and under the earth: 
And that every tongue should con-
fess th^t the Lord Jesus Christ 
is in the glory of God the Fath-
er" ( P M ; 2 :541) . Such then, my 
friends, is the inspired language 
of the Holy Book. It teaches us 
the way in which we should walk, 
that we have life instead of death, 
light rather than darkness. 

Such also is the lesson of history. 
Two weeks ago tonight we rejoiced 
at the news that one of the crim-
inals who led the world into war 
had fallen. He prided himself in 
the strength of arms and not in the 
justice of his cause. For the weak, 
he had but scorn. To him, violence 
was a tonic, war a sacrament. In 
his madness, he imposed upon a 

gentle and cultured nation the man-
tle of tyranny. He made Rome, 
the eternal city, the sacred city, 
resound with! the clash of arms 
and the hoarse cries for conquest 
and plunder—and this in the very 
shadow of the tombs of the Apos-
tles. Strutting and preening him-
self in a mad drama, this dictator 
formed an unholy alliance with 
other forces of evil that they might 
rule the world. They laid then-
plans without scruple, without pity. 
But today, in the ashes of their 
ruined cities, they eat the bitter 
fruit of pride. God has stricken 
them with confusion, as of old He 
did those presumptuous spirits who 
would raise a tower to the very 
gates of heaven. What God did 
not tolerate in the rebellious angels 
cast into the depths of hell, He 
surely will not accept from us, 
who are but the dust of yesterday. 

But we do not need to study kings 
and warriors to learn the value of 
a humble heart. Our daily lives 
teach us this lesson. We see about 
us the selfish, the violent, those 
who are insolent and conceited. 
There are many who live for them-
selves and consider others as tools 
and instruments for their designs. 
There are tyrants in the home 
as well as in the dictator states 
of Europe and Asia. -Cruelty and 
ruthlessness is not reserved to 



HUMILITY EXALTS U 

rulers, nor is viciousness confined on child care, on success in mar-
to brown-shirted oppressors. Pride riage, and scores of other topics, 
of life is found among young and Much that they tell us is wise and 
old, rich and poor. In others we practical, but little is new to those 
can see this and observe its folly, who have meditated on the life 
Those who live for themselves are of our Savior or the teachings of 
left to themselves. Every man's St. Paul. 
hand is raised against them. They Yet, in spite of these teachings, 
are alone and ̂ unhappy, wretched there is still much to learn. Con-
and miserable men. They may tempt for pride does not mean 
gam power, but never love. They acceptance • of humility. We may 
may attain success, but not lasting see the folly of the one, without 
achievement. 'Instinctively we re- understanding the wisdom of the 
sent them and dislike them, even other. It is possible to put on a 
when we fear them. They have cloak of modesty and reserve as a 
built a hollow temple upon shifting device to win favor, without a real 
s a n d s - change of heart. We speak of a 

Today even those without re- sensible pride and a proper con-
ligion acknowledge the worth of ceit, as a middle ground between 
this great Christian virtue. There the braggart and the saint. While 
are countless books written which we do not countenance worship of 
tell us of easy ways to gain sue- self, we smile at those who speak 
cess by winning friends. We are of themselves as weak and sinful, 
shown how to gain power and in- Perhaps we may use the language 
fluence over our fellow men. These of reserve, understating our 
writers explain devices which guar- achievements and qualities, but we 
antee results, be it in the field of would be hurt to the quick if others 
salesmanship or in the broader were to agree with our pretended 
sphere of human relations. But estimate of ourselves. This is the 
they warn us that external man- way of acting of the lady and the 
ners are not enough; the heart gentlemen, the language of polite 
must feel what the lips express, society, something good in itself, 
And thus, in the language of busi- much better perhaps than conceit 
ness and with the trappings of and braggadocio, but still quite dif-
modern technique, they present to ferent from the ideal of Christ 
us the age-old virtues of humility It is precisely this difference 
and charity. Others come to us that adds to the sickness of modern 
as psychologists. They write books society. 



12 THE PATH OP DUTY 

It is impossible to attain a full 
measure of justice and charity so 
long as we have a distorted view 
of our own selves. Justice means 
the giving of every man his due. 
It is the balancing of his rights 
and ours, the acknowledgment of 
duty and obligation. But if we 
start from a false premise of self-
ishness, we shall invariably stress 
our rights rather than our duties. 
Our judgments of others will be 
harsh and implacable. We will de-
mand, not give. Our nation will be 
split into dozens of pressure groups, 
each seeking its own interests, none 
seeking the welfare of all. Such 
a nation cannot survive. Justice 
must be truly impartial, and only a 
humble man can judge impartially 
of others. Justice must be tem-
pered by friendliness and tolera-
tion and charity, and a proud man 
is not often kind towards his fel-
low man. The virtue of charity 
implies an esteem and love for our 
neighbor, but we do not esteem 
those whom we despise. It is only 
when we realize our own weakness 
that we can be tolerant towards 
the frailty of others. Sympathy 
does not come easily from those 
in the fullness of physical and 
moral vigor. Those flushed with 
success are often harsh towards 
their fellows broken with failure. 
The young, who have not known 
sickness or weakness, demand more 

than do those from whom the years 
have taken their toll. Thus we can-
not truly deal with others, until 
we have a correct view of our-
selves. Until we learn humility, 
we shall not be really great. 

Many will rebel against this de-
mand. They will assert that they 
cannot be dishonest with them-
selves. They cannot deny their 
virtues. If they are talented in 
mind, this is an objective fact, 
proved by their success in studies. 
If they have more energy and per-
sistence than their competitors, 
their achievements will tell the 
story. They ask: Should a Bee-
thoven pretend that he has no 
musical ability? Would Napoleon 
have been justified in saying that 
he knew nothing of military art? 
Do we expect a Washington or a 
Lincoln to act as if they did not 
possess qualities of leadership? 
Surely justice demands that we 
tell the truth. Would not humility 
be opposed to justice? The answer 
is.: Humility is justice. It is a fair 
and honest appraisal of ourselves, 
the good as well as the bad. It would 
be wrong to deny our talents or 
pretend to faults which we do not 
possess. Indeed it would be a 
false and dangerous perversion 
of this virtue to reject opportuni-
ties for doing good. It is wrong 
for an able man to evade respon-
sibility. Our Lord condemned the 



HUMILITY EXALTS 13 

servant who buried his talent in first cast a stone at her" (John 
the ground, instead of using it to 8:7). And it is written that they 
the full. went away, one by oife, beginning 

Humility is justice. But it is with the eldest. That was justice, 
justice which sees the bad as well and humility is justice, 
as the good. It sees the entire were this to happen, how then 
picture, not some limited part.' We would we feel towards our fellow 
have abilities, but we also have man? If every shred of pretense 
faults. If it is fair to acknowl- were stripped aside and the naked 
edge the one, it is only just that soul laid bare to every passer-by, 
we admit the other. We have done would we then raise our head in 
evil as well as good. But normally pride? Once, long ago, that did 
we conceal our failings. If we can- happen. A group of righteous men 
not hide them, then we excuse brought in a woman, that they 
them. We blame our weakness on might stone her for a crime she 
circumstances. We were tired. We had committed. They came to our 
happened among bad companions Savior and asked His opinion. For 
and it was their example which led a long time, He did not speak. He 
us astray. Or this is a weakness simply stooped and wrote upon the 
in our nature. We inherited it sand. As each of these men saw the 
and can do nothing about it. We writing they realized that a guilty 
must balance this evil against secret of their heart stood revealed 
the good we find in ourselves. And by Him Who sees into the inner-
not merely the known evil, but the Again, we should not be too 
secret thoughts of our heart, the anxious to claim credit for success, 
hidden designs which never come Many succeed through chance, 
to light, the shameful and base when others more deserving fail, 
projects which we fail to carry out, Opportunity, education, heredity, all 
not through lack of intention, but these contribute much to achieve-
merely because opportunity did not ment in life, and for these we can-
present itself. Supposing science not take any personal credit. It is, 
were to discover a method of pene- related that one day St. Philip 
trating into the innermost thoughts Neri spied a criminal being led to 
of every man, just as "today it lo- the gallows and cried out: "There 
cates objects in fog and darkness— but for the grace of God goes 
most chambers of the soul. Then Philip." That was the honest ap-
He arose and said: "He that is proach. In the eyes of God it is 
without sin among you, let him not achievement alone which counts, 



14 THE PATH OP DUTY 

but rather the right use of the tal-
ents and abilities which were given 
to us. When the final day of reck-
oning comes, we may find that our 
prisons have disgorged saints into 
the courts of heaven, while the 
proud and the self-righteous look on 
from afar upon those whom once 
they despised. Certainly publicans 
and sinners were the ones who lis-
tened to John the Baptist and our 
Savior. They, not the Pharisees or 
the teachers of the law, received the 
kingdom of God. This is the rec-
ord of history. It should teach us 
caution in appraising our virtues 
and others' faults. 

If each of us can learn this les-

son in his own heart, then we shall 
be "better prepared to deal with our 
fellow man. We will be less likely 
to criticize and more willing to 
understand and cooperate. Capital 
will see the viewpoint of labor. The 
worker will be ready to admit that 
management has many difficult 
problems. All of us will take a more 
reserved attitude in speaking of 
government, particularly in view 
of the complex problems of war. 
Understanding will breed friendli-
ness and sympathy. Then we shall 
be ready to march together as one, 
a great nation, united for victory in 
this hour of war and for triumph 
in the day of peace. 



CHARITY GIVES LIFE 
Address delivered on August 15, 1943 

As we look backwards towards Here, in contrast, we see the two 
the dawn of man's day upon earth, ways of life which are open to 
We behold a sorrowful picture. We man. The one is pagan; the other 
see a strong man, his hands red- is Christian. The pagan lives for 
dened with blood, cry out in de- himself. He is hard, and cruel, and 
fiance of Almighty God: Am I my proud. If his fellow man is weak 
brother's keeper? This man was he feels contempt for him. If he 
Gain, the murderer. It was the first is strong, then the feeling may be 
time'in history that man set upon fear, or envy. Even the greatest 
his fellow man in anger and hatred among them thought thus The 
that he might kill. A fateful day! brilliant philosopher Aristotle 
A revelation of the evil that can taught that some were by nature 
surge forth from our hearts! A destined to be slaves. Here is a 
warning that man, made in the man whose wisdom was to guide 
inifeg6 of • God, is also fashioned the world for over twenty centuries 
from the dust of earth! If this yet he could not see the shadow 
ffiS l l ^ i ^ despair, of the Divine in the eyes of his 

Picture'which neighbor, tfhe Christian has a dif-
we ifr<MAalko face. Centuri.es later fererit philosophy. His law is the 
m m "another dying—this time law of love.' "A new commandment 
tiptni a Cross, likewise' a victim of I give unto you : That you love one 
anger and hatred. He had been con- another, as I have loved you, that 
demned to die, subject to that' ter- you also love one another. "By this 
rible mockery which is law with- shall all men know that you are my 
out justice. Yet, in the wisdom of disciples, if you have love one for 
God, His life had been given, not another" (John 13:34-35). This is 
taken. He had offered Himself as the standard of Christ. 
* ®acr i f i&e *<*' m any- "Greater Ipve The law of charity was not given 
thattthis no man hath, that a man as an ideal for the few. It is the 
lay down his life fbr his friends" law by which' all men shall be 
(Jdhn 15:13). This Man was judged. Our Savior tells us of a 
Christ, the Redeemer. He had day to come "when the Son of Man 
giV&i His life as an atoning gift shall come in his majesty, and all 
for every man that comes into this the angels with him, then shall he 
w o r i d : sit upon the seat of his majesty: 



16 THE PATH OP DUTY 

and all nations shall be gathered 
together before him, and he shall 
separate them one from another, as 
the shepherd separateth the sheep 
from the goats." Then Our Lord 
goes on to give the catechism of 
judgment, for the King will say-
to those on His right hand: "Come, 
ye blessed of my Father, possess 
you the kingdom prepared for you 
from the foundation of the world. 
For I was hungry, and you gave me 
to eat: I was thirsty, and you gave 
me to drink: I was a stranger, and 
you took me in: Naked, and you 
covered me: sick, and you visited 
me: I was in prison, and you came 
to me." But the just, looking upon 
the splendor and majesty of the 
King of Glory, will ask in amaze-
ment: "When did we do all this to 
thee?" And the answer will be 
given: "Amen I say to you, as long 

,as you did it to one of these my 
least brethren, you did it to me" 
(Matt 25:31-40). Here is the chal-
lenge of the Christian spirit to the 
selfishness of man's heart. Here 
is the great law that through the 
centuries freed the slaves, built 
great hospitals and homes of char-
ity, tempered justice with mercy, 
and gave man on earth a foretaste 
of the happiness of heaven. 

Today, thank God, we take this 
standard for granted. We are kind 
to the unfortunate. We contribute 
generously to the community fund, 

the Red Cross, to our local char-
ities. The news of some disaster, 
such as a flood, an earthquake, or 
famine, touches our hearts, and we 
do not fail our brethren in need. 
As we read in our New Testament 
the story of the good Samaritan, 
we may be able to say: I too have 
helped the stranger in distress. I 
have seen Christ in the misery of 
my fellow man, and have given far 
more than the cup of cold water, 
which is blessed from above. Yes, 
even in time of war, I hate evil, 
but I love my fellow man. I do 
not seek blind revenge. I would 
not enslave the enemies which I 
have conquered. Rather I seek only 
to free them from the bonds of 
war-making leaders, so that com-
mon men of every nation may dwell 
together in peace and harmony. 

All this is true, but it is not 
enough. There are other claims 
of charity which men overlook, not 
perhaps from malice, but through 
carelessness or ignorance. We re-
fer particularly to the social ques-
tion. For example, during the last 
ten years we have had as many as 
fifteen million unemployed. As 
high as four million families were 
on relief. In our cities slum con-
ditions have been appalling. Mil-
lions of our fellow citizens still 
live in homes which breed disease, . 
crime, and vice. Whole families 
are crowded together in a single 



CHARITY GIVES LIFE 17 

room. Children grow up without 
knowing the meaning of wholesome 
games and récréation. Even in our 
farmland there are regions where 
poverty is bitter. Many workers 
who roam from harvest to-harvest 
have a harder lot than the slave 
conditions of yesterday'. There are 
tenant farmers who have never had 
a decent meal or a real suit of 
clothes. This is our shame, not a 
story of darkest Africa or South 
Sea jungles. 

Knowing this, some përsons be-
come Socialists or Communists. 
They are embittered at needless 
suffering and would overthrow the 
entire social order. Because a few 
are callous exploiters, these think-
ers would destroy free enterprise 
and turn over all industry to the 
State. Communists preach hatred, 
revolution, and utter destruction of 
all who oppose them. 

Others take a different approach. 
They blind themselves to reality. 
They deny the facts or. overlook 
them. Millions really do not know 
how the other half lives. What they 
do know, they dismiss smugly. They 
assume that misery is the fault of 
those who suffer it. Some say that 
poverty and destitution are neces-
sary evils, inseparable from the 
present economic system. During 
the depression such persons said 
that anyone who really wanted a 
job could find one. As à result a 

person could be jailed for permit-
ting an animal to starve, but our 
laws had no concern when men and 
women were left without resources. 
All these things have happened 
within the memory of living man. 

What then are we to conclude? 
That the Communist is right? That 
man naturally exploits his fellow 
man, and that the masses must 
arise and smite down their oppres-
sors? By no means! This attitude 
is not so much cruelty as blindness. 
It springs not from callousness, but 
from ignorance. Individually we 
are kind. As a group we are often 
cruel. We fail to see that the so-
cial problem is distinct from our 
individual problems. We lack social 
consciousness. For example, the 
average business man wishes to be 
kind and fair to his workers. As a 
rule, the higher up he is, the more 
tolerant he becomes. Sometimes 
under the pressure of competition 
he may be forced to do hard things. 
But this is a matter of sincere re-
gret. He would much prefer to 
live and let live. Here is where 
the radical is wrong, in looking for 
evil motives where there are none. 
Yet, by overlooking terrible evils, 
even with the best of intentions, we 
feed fuel to the flames of revolu-
tion. 

To make this point clear, we 
might treat one phase of the social 
problem, the question of unemploy-



18 THE PATH OP DUTY 

ment, in the light of Christian 
charity. That idleness is an evil, 
none would deny. We might next 
ask: Do good people consciously 
bring about such a blight upon the 
land? The answer is: Yes, and no. 
It is no, in the sense practically no 
employer wants to see workers des-
titute and starving. Yet, from 
another point of view, the answer 
is yes. We do deprive men of jobs 
by striving constantly for increased 
efficiency. We welcome new inven-
tions which allow one man to do 
the work of ten. This cuts costs 
and increases output. But what of 
the other nine? What is to happen 
to "them? The chances are that the 
average employer would have no 
real answer to these questions. He 
has never thought out the social 
effects of his actions. Even if he 
had, he feels that competition and 
the demands of his stockholders 
should be heeded. Regretfully he 
may dismiss the workers, but the 
fact remains that they are out of a 
job. 

Here is a real problem. We have 
not thought enough about "it. Every 
time it reaches the danger stage, 
we have been able somehow to es-
cape. Perhaps some great invention 
like the automobile leads to jobs for 
millions. Perhaps a major war 
draws off our reserves of the un-
employed. Thus far we have suc-
cessfully evaded the issue. But are 

we going to be able to evade it 
forever? Inventions and discoveries 
today may lead to fewer jobs, not 
more. Then what shall we do? We 
must have an answer, or we play 
into the hands of those who preach 
that capitalism is rotten and must 
be overthrown.' Here is a real ex-
ample of the need for a, social ap-
proach, not merely individual char-
ity. 

So much for the causes of idle-
ness. But the same thoughts apply 
to the remedies for this evil. In our 
Christian fellowship, we would not 
let anyone starve. If we know of 
a deserving family reduced to mis-
ery, we are the first to help. This 
is good. It is in the spirit of 
Christ. But it is not enough. Deep-
er remedies are needed, so that men 
can have not merely relief, but 
work. They wish to keep their 
dignity and sense of self-reljance, 
not merely to live on the sufferance 
of others. And it is in this more 
basic charity that we fail. As a 
nation we have offered no con-
structive program for private jobs 
for all who need work. We had no 
program during the depression 
years, and we have none for the 
coming days of peace. In a few 
years, thirty million workers will 
have to be relocated or absorbed. 
Little has been done about it. In 
fact, it has been the fashion to 
sneer at planning or theorizing, as 



CHARITY GIVES LIFE 19 

if it were practical to face the fu-
ture with no program and no pol-
icy. Furthermore, when some form 
of public help has been necessary, 
many of us have treated it as a 
joking matter. Others have been 
angry because the misery of our 

^ fellows has led to increased taxes. 
We have been ready to criticize, 
but slow to offer a workable alterna-
tive. And while we quibble and 
complain, there remains the shame 
of our age, the indictment of mod-
ern capitalism, that millions who 
seek work, seek in vain. 

This is but one example. Many 
others, equally telling, could be of-
fered. Much could be said about 
our duties towards other nations. 
Certainly national selfishness can 
be a factor leading to war. When 
people are desperate and see noth-
ing but darkness ahead, they may 
well gamble upon the power of their 
armies. Who can say that we are 

, completely guiltless of Europe's 
problems and Europe's wars? When 
a brother asks for bread, we do 
not give him a stone. But in many 
an hour of crisis, our only gift has 
been criticism and advice. At times, 
in fact, we have condemned others 
when we were anything but in-
nocent ourselves. We are shocked, 
we say, when colonial peoples rise 
up in rebellion, yet at home we have 
our grumblings of discontent. 
Should there be a riot in Calcutta, 

our experts have a complete solu-
tion. But there have been riots in 
American cities as well. This does 
not mean that we are smug or sel-
fish or hypocrital. We are not 
adopting a double standard, one to 
judge others, another and a more 
lenient rule for judging ourselves. 
Rather this shows once again the 
shortsightedness of our charity. We 
see the miseries of individuals, and 
we help them. The dramatic suf-
fering of nations moves us. But 
this is impulsive, surface aid. It 
leaves untouched the hidden sores 
which fester deep within us. It 
passes by the real causes of much 
that is sordid and embittering.. Im-
patiently it rejects slow, tedious 
reform, and demands a quick cure 
or none at all. But hasty remedies 
are often worse than the disease. 

This, then, is the challenge to 
our age, to develop a charity steeped 
in wisdom and insight; a love that 
cures, not the hurried sympathy 
which merely soothes. Today, and 
above all, tomorrow, millions of our 
fellow men will lie by the roadside, 
wounded and distressed. We must 
not pass them by. They will cry: 
I am hungry-^- feed me; I am 
homeless—shelter me. Our answer 
must be the answer of Christ. 
Nothing less can save the world. 
Soberly and carefully we must 
shoulder the common burden. The 



20 THE PATH OP DUTY 

misery of our fellow man is a be unworthy of our heavenly Fath-
eommand to our charity. We would er were we to fail. 



PATRIOTISM B 
Address delivered 

A pagan poet once said: It is 
sweet and fitting to die for one's 
country. None of us would chal-
lenge this statement. America 
has never lacked heroes, who would 
die for the land of their birth. We 
were born in a bloody war of inde-
pendence. The plains of Saratoga 
were consecrated by the death of 
brave men. The soil of Yorktown 
was hallowed by the triumph of 
our armies. We revere the name 
of Washington who led the forces 
of freedom through bitter and 
lonely days. We' think of the 
martyr president, Abraham Lin-
coln, who died that the nation 
might be one. Above all, we honor 
the common man, the unknown sol-
dier who was not to know fame, 
but who did knbw greatness. Many 
of our sons lie in foreign s o i l -
in the Philippines, in France, in 
Africa—our airmen shot down 
over Germany and Italy and China 
—but though their honored re-
mains are far from us, they are 
enshrined in our hearts. 

There are heroes at home, too. 
Words of praise cannot express 
our debt to the wives and mothers 
who remain behind. Their courage 
is an inspiration to their loved 
ones in the field. Their burden of 

REEDS HEROES 
on August 22, 1943 

loneliness and anxiety is not light, 
but they do not complain. Strong 
of heart, like the valiant women of 
all times, they have given every-
thing and have claimed nothing 
for themselves. As the Virgin 
Mary on the Mount of Calvary 
consoled her dying Son, so they 
have been a comfort to the 
afflicted and a source of strength 
to those who are fainting by the 
way. 

We honor the old who have re-
turned to work, though they know 
it often means to them a literal 
sentence of death. There are doe-
tors wearing themselves out in the 
service of the sick, to replace the 
younger men in the service. 
Nurses have returned to duty after 
years of home life. Other women 
have gone into our war plants and 
shipyards, living a life which is 
often hard and trying. Capital 
and labor, with few exceptions, 
have given without stint in the 
service of their country. Business 
men and workers have sacrificed 
the work of a lifetime, because 
their country asked this.' Anyone 
close to the heart of wartime 
America must testify that this 
heart is great. We do love our nar 
tive land. We will give, and give, 



22 THE PATH OP DUTY 

and give again when our country 
asks of us. The spirit of our 
fathers is not dead within us. 
Honor and nobility dwell in our 
midst. 

It is good to be able to say that 
Americans will refuse nothing 
when the welfare of the nation is 
at stake. If ever we have failed, 
then it is because we did not see 
clearly; it was not that we shiik-
ed the burden. We may not have 
realized what our country demand-
ed of us. Had we known it, we 
would have done it. Blindness, not 
malice, was our fault. 

Yet, good will is not always 
enough. There are certain errors 
which are fatal. In good faith we 
may take poison, when we thought 
it was medicine. A hidden defect 
in our car may one day cause a 
fatal wreck. So it is with our 
country. Through ignorance, a 
loyal citizen may do it great harm. 
At times the nation may survive, 
but at other times, the damage 
cannot be undone. The cause is 
lost. Freedom has perished. Thus 
it was with France during the 
years between two great wars. In 
those days, the nation was divided. 
Quarrelling groups insisted that 
their course was the only one. 
Some of these were selfish. A few 
put personal interest above na-
tional honor. But we may be sure 

that most have repented with tears 
the mistakes which left a nation 
weak and divided in the face of the 
conqueror. At the time they 
thought that labor, or capital, or 
some political party, was the 
enemy. Their strength was dissi-
pated in the struggle against their 
brothers, and when the invader 
came they could no longer act as 
one. Once they said that these 
were honest differences among 
good men. Now they know that a 
divided people cannot defend itself. 

Germany and Italy also traveled 
the same road. Their 6itizens were 
much concerned with the problems 
of the moment. Capital feared the 
growing might of labor. The un-
employed cast desperately about 
for an avenue of hope. Farmers 
and middlemen found themselves 
crushed between big business and 
organized labor. As a result, all 
»velcomed the new party which 
promised everything. They put on 
black shirts or brown shirts, prac-
ticed the party salute, and waited 
for a perfect world to come about. 
Today they have learned a hard 
and bitter lesson. Over the graves 
of , their fallen sons and brothers 
they shed tears of sorrow and re-
pentance. But the damage has 
been done. 

The lesson is clear. There are 
problems of peace which are just 



PATRIOTISM BREEDS HEROES 23 

as critical as the decisions made 
at war. A nation can perish from 
within as well as from without. 
Failure to meet great issues may 
be as disastrous as failure to pre-
pare for attack by an enemy. In-
deed, it is often more dangerous 
to be unprepared for peace than 
it is to be unarmed before the 
invader. Attack from without may 
strengthen and unify a nation. Dis-
ruption from within kills the soul. 
The first is dramatic and clear. It 
brings forth hidden strength and 
provokes supreme effort. The sec-
ond is confusing and deadening. It 
leads to apathy and despair. From 
the one a people may arise puri-
fied and strengthened. From the 
other, they may emerge debased 
and enslaved. 

This, then, we may learn from 
Europe between wars: A nation at 
peace may face . greater dangers 
than a nation at war. A higher pa-
triotism is often needed to pre-
vent disunity .at home than in-
vasion from abroad. When a na-
tion is attacked, the issue is clear. 
All differences disappear before the 
common peril. But with the prob-
lems at home, the issues are often 
most confused. The more serious 
the question the greater the. dan^ 
ger of division and dissension. 
Good men' and patriotic men may 
feel it their duty to oppose their 

fellow citizens. Debate and com-
promise may result, when dramatic 
and definite steps are vitally need-
ed. Here is a supreme test of 
good-will. Our nation may face it 
before many years are past. 

There are deep cleavages in 
America which could lead to dan-
gerous divisions. Even in time of 
war, we are painfully aware of 
the struggle between capital and 
labor, farm and city, government 
and some of its citizens. Three 
times during this war there have 
been major campaigns against or-
ganized labor. First, it -was the 
strike question; then the forty-
hour week; and finally, the prob-
lem of absenteeism. While these 
campaigns were on, a stranger 
might have found it difficult to 
discover who was our enemy, Hit-
ler and Tojo, or the American 
workman. While these minor wars 
were being waged, sensible per-
sons advised caution. Each time 
they pointed to production figures 
to show that these attacks were 
based on wild exaggerations. 
Eventually the attacks died down 
and we heard nothing more about 
them. But the damage they did 
was great. They produced bitter-
ness, and class cleavages will per-
sist for many years to come. They 
turned our soldiers against orga-
nized labor at the very time that 



24 THE PATH OP DUTY 

production totals were unbelieve-
ably high. For example, when our 
President set as a goal for air-
plane production the figure of fifty 
thousand planes a year, his state-
ment was dismissed as fantastic. 
Many good people pardoned it as 
a war stratagem designed to de-
ceive the enemy. Yet today we are 
almost doubling this impossible 
goal, and that in an industry which 
some consider one of our less ef-
ficient war industries. How then 
can we say that labor has not done 
its part? or that capital is more 
interested in profits than in pro-
duction ? 

Equally dangerous is the setting 
of the farm against the city. The 
farmer has had real problems dur-
ing this war. He has seen a great 
migration of farm workers into the 
war plants, and this at a time when 
production goals were set higher 
than ever. In spite of these dif-
ficulties he has done his patriotic 
duty to the full. Incidentally, he 
has been making profits. But none 
will begrudge him this. Had things 
stopped here, there would have 
been no problem. But some busy-
bodies felt that they could spare 
the time and energy to stir up the 
farmer against labor. They paint-
ed wild pictures of war wages, con-
veniently overlooking the costs of 
city living. Thus they would incite 

the farmer to seek unreasonable 
profits. They claimed that he 
should be exempt from the common 
struggle against inflation. As a 
result, unregulated food costs for 
a time threatened the entire eco-
nomic structure of the nation. Here 
are the seeds of a dangerous class 
struggle. 

There are other serious cleavages 
in America today. Thus there have 
been attempts to set one group 
of taxpayers against another, or 
against the government. There are 
complaints of impossible demands 
made upon our citizens. It is true 
that taxes are high. But war is 
always costly, and this war is most 
expensive. Our pocketbooks have 
been hurt, but other nations have 
borne greater sacrifices. Our taxes 
are much less than those of Eng-
land and Canada. We are paying 
but thirty per cent of the cost of 
the war: They are paying over 
half. Are we less patriotic than 
they? Of course not! The average 
American may grumble a bit, but 
he will do his part. 

Cleavage and disunity do not 
spring naturally from the heart of 
the common man. He is 'not given 
to complaining or reviling his fel-
low citizens. Our differences are 
rather the work of a few trouble-
makers, unwilling to adjourn pri-
vate wars in the hour of peril. They 



PATRIOTISM BREEDS HEROES 25 

are seeking political gain or pro-
moting class interest, sowing con-
fusion and doubt and distrust at a 
time when unity is imperative. They 
are weakening us as we face the 
fearful problems of peace, when 
millions of workers must return 
to private industry. If America 
is to survive the next ten years, 
it must be united as never before. 
The greatest crises of our history 
lie before us. Are we to meet them 
with capital in arms against labor? 
soldiers against civilians? farm in 
opposition to city? Promoting dis-
unity would be treason in time of 
war, for it might lead to the loss 
of a battle or a campaign; but 
what of disunity which might lead 
to the loss of our country? We do 
not wish to be alarmists, but we 
cannot forget the formula which 
led to the rise of Hitler and Mus-
solini in Europe. It was a simple 
mixture—a great crisis, plus a di-
vided nation. 

Today, then, and tomorrow, we 
need an even greater patriotism 
than we have shown in these days 
of war. We need unity in the face 
of the difficult social and economic 
problems which our nation must 
solve. Labor, capital, farm, and 
city must work together for the 
survival of a free America. Name-
calling and selfishness will not ac-
complish this task; they will only 

lead to ruin. We must work to-
gether, submerging our differences 
in our devotion to the common 
cause. Unity must be real, not 
merely lip service to a name. It 
must mean a genuine effort to see 
the entire picture, to learn others' 
points of view first-hand, not by 
reading about them in our news-
papers, or hearing them in our 
clubs. Furthermore, it means prac-
ticing unity now, each in our own 
community. 

May we offer one practical sug-
gestion of a means of starting the 
practice of unity? What of a pro-
gram like this: Businessmen in 
every city and town have informal 
meetings at lunch with labor lead-
ers. Farm leaders might well sit 
in at the same table. At the same 
time service clubs and other lunch-
eon groups would invite speakers to 
give a different point of view from 
the usual class picture. In these 
face-to-face gatherings differences 
could be ironed out in a friendly, 
open fashion, not left to bitter, 
heated controversy. When this is 
tried, and it has been tried in some 
parts of the land, then the results 
could be amazing. We would find 
out that the other man is a human 
being, a patriotic citizen, a reason-
able type of person. Prejudices and 
misunderstandings would melt away 
like ice on a summer pavement. 



2 6 THE PATH OP DUTY 

Some differences would remain, but Here is the challenge to our pa-
nothing which could not be settled triotism, our love of country 
by reasonable compromise. And, which is second only to love of 
above all, a great lesson in prac- God. Here is the real test of that 
tica democracy and patriotism primary virtue of charity. We are 
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tic*. This would be real patriot- the day for heroism. For the love 
1S™'. ' of our great nation, let us keep the 

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most critical hour,, not in winning to Hs^let us walk united, one peo-
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WORSHIP BUIL 
Address delivered 

In our earlier talks, we noted 
that justice and charity are needed 
to save modern society. Justice 
means fair and honest dealings 
with ourselves and with our fellow 
man. Charity goes beyond jus-
tice and adds friendliness and 
kindliness to the harsh demands of 
right and equity. It gives more 
than can be demanded as a strict 
claim of duty.. Both of these vir-
tues reach a height in patriotism, 
the supreme love of country above 
selfish, personal interest. But they 
can go higher still in the greatest 
of all virftues, love of Almighty 
God. No duty is more exacting 
than the duty of worship of our 
Creator. No love is more worthy 
than the love of Him Who has 
made all that is beautiful and 
worthy. 

If God has no place in our lives, 
then they are hardly worth living. 
Without Him, the world would be a 
puzzle without an answer. It would 
be hard and cruel. We would see 
evil triumph and good go unre-
warded. We would note that so 
often the oppressor is not over-
thrown, nor is the exploiter forced 
to render justice. Our hearts 
would* be saddened as the weak 
were ground down by the violent. 

DS GREATNESS 
on August 29, 1943 

as the gentle and kindly were 
brushed aside by the selfish and 
thoughtless. So much of life would 
then be meaningless. If this life 
were everything, why should the 
hero risk all that his country might 
be free? 'If there were no God, 
would justice and decency have any 
real meaning? If this world is 
everything, then why not live for 
today? Why not get the most for 
oneself, and let others shift for 
themselves? 

We know that this is not the 
case. God has left His law im-
printed in the very marrow of our 
being. That is why we condemn 
the cruel slaughter of innocent 
peoples. It is this inner sense of 
justice that makes us cry out 
against thé dictator who claims 
that might is right. From this law 
in our hearts, we realize the sac-
redness of our fellow man. We 
know that man is a little lower than 
the angels, not a little higher than 
the animals. Knowing this, we 
fight and die for justice and de-
cency. If we perish, our sacrifice 
will not be forgotten. To us, death 
is a beginning, not an ending. It 
is but a change of garments, that 
we might enter into our lasting 
home. 



28 THE PATH 

It is true that there are some 
among us who would scoff at this. 
They would make man just an-
other animal, more fortunate than 
his fellow-brutes. Some professors 
consider religion and decency a 
mere matter of instinct, forgetting 
that instinct does not leave room 
for freedom, and man is free. 
Others tell us that virtue is but 

, custom and habit. But we know 
that custom and habit give us the 
rules of etiquette, not the laws of 
life. Still others will say that man 
is but a plaything of an inner, sub-
conscious self. But to these dis-
ciples of Freud we reply that man 
is the master of his destiny. He 
molds his own fate. It is for him 
to decide whether he shall live as 
the beasts of the field, or as man 
created in the image and likeness 
of God. 

Yes, it is true that some are still 
foolish enough to say in their 
hearts: There is no God. But most 
of us know better. From the rising 
of the sun unto the setting thereof, 
the name of God is great among 
the nations of the world. Among 
all peoples there is offered to Him 
a clean sacrifice (C/. Mai. 1:11). 
Everywhere there are those who 
walk before Him, humbly seeking 
that they might do His will. There 
is no tribe so crude and barbarous 
that it does not reverence Him Who 

OP DUTY 

is all-holy. And among civilized 
men, those who are truly learned 
stand in awe before His wisdom. 
Indeed, it was the great Pasteur, 
father of modern medicine, who 
made a classic act of faith. One 
day at his laboratory, he gazed out 
the window at the simple folk 
going to Mass. Then he said that 
his studies into the mysteries of 
nature had so deepened his faith, 
that he believed with the firmness 
of a Breton peasant. Some day, he 
hoped, his wisdom would be great 
enough that he could believe with 
the faith of a Breton peasant's 
wife. 

Such is man's natural worship of 
his heavenly Father. Nothing 
should be allowed to spoil it. God is 
supreme, almighty, all-holy. We are 
the creatures of His hands. He has 
made us for Himself. All that we 
have and all that we are comes 
from Him. The spirit within us is 
a spark struck by His all-powerful 
arm. He is sovereign, Lord and 
Master of the universe. We should 
never forget the words of the Old 
Testament, as it tries to express 
in human language the greatness 
of the Divine. He is called the Lord 
of the armies, a consuming fire, 
a voice appearing in the thunder 
and fire of Sinai, an all-holy pres-
ence before which man is base and 
impure. He is the supreme law-
giver, a just judge of the living 



WORSHIP BUILDS GREATNESS 29 

and the dead. His presence is 
majesty and power. Before Him 
all nations tremble, not with the 
fear and dread of evil, but in awe 
before the flaming sun of His per-
fection. Holy is His Name. 

This we must never forget. Yet 
there are some who do forget. 
They preach a fashionable religion, 
a diluted version <5f the Sacred 
Writings. This spirit creeps into 
sermons and books. Preachers and 
writers explain what we gain by 
believing in God, and what we lose 
by unbelief. Underlying, all this is 
the idea that we believe in God be-
cause it does us good. Religion is 
centered about man, not about God. 
We are asked to worship because 
we get something from it, not be-
cause God has a right to our ser-
vices. At times there is almost an 
apologetic tone about modern 
preaching. All that is asked is a 
spare moment, a minute or two 
which would be wasted anyway. 
There is a note of coaxing, the plea 
that we try it; it won't really do us 
any harm. The claims of the Al-
mighty are sometimes presented— 
we say this with all reverence—as 
if mother were enticing Junior to 
eat spinach. 

We do not wish to be harsh or 
critical of others. The wind must 
be tempered to the shorn lamb. 
Our Savior would not crush the 

bruised reed or extinguish the 
smoking flax. He did not hesitate 
to present truth in a way which 
was attractive to fallen man. But 
it is a far cry from such consider-
ateness to the modern notion that 
God must be brought in with a note 
of apology—that He must be ac-
cepted in the way and manner we 
like. This is a vital point. It con-
cerns ,the very heart of religion. 
Religion is worship of a sovereign, 
all-holy God. Incidentally it may be 
concerned with social service, or 
solving personal problems, or pro-
moting fellowship or brotherhood 
or community welfare. But these 
are products of religion, not its 
essence. The first and greatest 
commandment remains unchanged: 
"Thou shalt love the Lord thy God 
with thy whole heart, and with thy 
whole soul, and with all thy 
strength, and with all thy mind" 
(Luke 10:27). 

Love of God means first, wor-
ship; then obedience to His law. 
Here again we find a dangerous 
attitude abroad. There are many 
who pick and choose among the 
laws of God. Some they find at-
tractive and suitable; these they 
keep. Others they find distasteful 
and unpleasant; these they reject. 
,Some would never think of steal-
ing, but they are harsh and unfor-
giving towards their fellow man. 



3 0 THE PATH 

Others abhor the thought of a lie, 
but they are proud and vain. Many 
reject sensuality as a plague, but 
through lying gossip they kill the 
reputations of their neighbors. 
Thus we pick and choose. We for-
get that the same Scriptures which 
promise heaven to the just, threat-
en hell to the wicked. God did not 
give one law for the time of 
Christ, and another for today. He 
did not leave us to be the judge 
of what is good for us, and what 
can be dismissed as old-fashioned. 
His standard is clear: "He that 
hath my commandments, and keep-
eth them, he it is that loveth me" 
CJohn 14:21). Self-deception is 
dangerous at any time. In this 
matter it can be fatal. 

We wish to make one point clear. 
These words are not directed 
against any religious faith. Rather 
they are a warning against an atti-
tude of mind which could spring 
up in any Church. At all times, 
some men take liberties with the 
law of God, picking and choosing 
according to their desires. Nearly 
two centuries ago, the cynic Vol-
taire uttered a much-quoted state-
ment. He said that God made man 
in His image and likentess, but 
modern man reverses the process, 
daring to portray God in accord 
with man's blind vision. Real reli-
gion is humble worship of the 

OP DUTY 

Creator. Man cannot exalt him-
self above his Maker. 

Once this is seen, we can then 
go further. We can go to God, not 
merely as the ruler of the world, 
but as a Father Who loves us. He 
is all-holy, infinite in perfection; 
but He loves us with a devotion 
which words -cannot express, nor 
can our minds hope to understand 
it. Here is a truth which we would 
never have dared to believe, had 
not God Himself told it to us. 
Even from the,, beginning, when 
man's sin led to exile in this world 
of tears, there was a promise of 
Redemption. It was this hope 
which sustained the faithful 
through centuries of darkness. 
The patriarchs and the prophets 
of Israel saw this clearly. Some-
times men say, without thinking, 
that the Old Testament was a testa-
ment of fear, not love. But what of 
the patriarch Moses, who pleaded 
with God for some glimpse of His 
eternal beauty, to sustain him 
through the weary years of wan-
dering in the desert? What of the 
tender pathos of the Psalms, 
where David asks for one day in 
the house of the Lord, rather than 
a thousand years in the tents of 
the wicked? Yes, there was love 
of God before the coming of 
Christ. But when God sent His 
Son to live with us upon earth, to 



WORSHIP BUILDS GREATNESS 31 

walk with the children of men, 
then we truly realized that God is 
our Father. And when we picture 
the scene on Calvary, when Jesus 
Christ, eternal Son of the eternal 
Father, offered His life as an 
atoning1 sacrifice for the love of 
man, we begin to understand. He 
is a God of mercy and forgiveness, 
the good shepherd who seeks those 
who have strayed far away, the 
father of the prodigal son, welcom-
ing the sinner who returns to his 
father's home. He is the miracle 
worker of Galilee. The blind open 
their eyes to see the face of the 
Savior. The deaf hear the wisdom 
of His words. The lame and the 
crippled dance with joy at His 
words of healing. And above; all, 
the sinners go from His presence, 
happy that the burden has been 
lifted from their hearts. Such is 
the lesson of the Gospels. 

We could learn the same lesson 
by looking about us, if only we 
would see. We marvel at the noble 
splendor of the mountains. We 
know of lakes more beautiful than 
the finest jewels. We see a sunset 
which takes our breath away, so 
rich and varied are the colors. We 
say that we could stay forever in 
these temples of nature. Yet these 
are but pale reflections of Him 
Who made them. We turn to the 
works of man—the sculptures of 

a Michelangelo,: the majestic sym-
phonies of a Beethoven—at' times 
we are carried out of Ourselves, 
enraptured by their delicate 
strength, their bottomless depths 
of beauty, but they are of man 
and man is of God. Then, greatest 
of all the gifts of nature, there is 
human love—the love of man and 
wife, the devotion of mother and 
child, the strong loyalty of friend 
towards friend. Here is a fire with-
in the heart of man which makes 
him noble and strong and great. 
Here is a force which is stronger 
than death, more enduring than 
empires, yet as delicate as a gen-
tle breeze. But this too is of. God. 
Surely then if the works of His 
hands attract us so strongly, how 
much greater and more lovable 
must be He Who created them! 

At present we are of earth, blind 
to the splendors of divine beauty. 
We know Him only from the things 
which He has made, and from the 
truths which He has revealed to 
us. We see as it were through a 
veil. But the day will come when 
the veil will no longer be there. 
We shall gaze upon the infinite maj-
esty of God, and in that vision will 
be happiness supreme. Until then, 
we are pilgrims and wayfarers in 
this passing world. We walk with 
countless millions who are also 
sons of God, heirs of heaven. These 



32 THE PATH OP DUTY 

are our brothers, children of the 
same Father above. They are our 
'Companions, returning to the same 
home. If only we could see them 
in this light, then it would be only 
natural for us to treat them with 
justice and charity. We would 
know that kindness shown to the 
least of these little ones is an act 
of reverence towards our heavenly 
Father. With such a spirit, our 
future, and the future of our great 
nation, will be safe. We have as 
our motto the beautiful words: "In 
God we trust." If only we live these 
words, He will protect us. 

Heavenly Father, in Thy Mercy 
and Providence, watch over this 
land of the free. Give us the grace 
to inspire other lands, not by our 

wealth and power, but by bur spirit 
of reverence, and justice, and kind-
liness. Save us from the evil of 
selfishness. Protect us from civil 
strife and class hatred. Grant that 
the worker may dwell in pea.ce and 
justice with his employer, that they 
both join hands with those who till 
the soil. Send down Thy wisdom 
upon our rulers. . May they serve, 
as well as govern. May they in-
spire by the example of godly liv-
ing. We ask all these things of 
Thy merciful Providence. We ask 
them, not as a reward of virtue, for 
our sins have been many, but as a 
gift of Thy loving kindness, 
through Jesus Christ, our Savior, 
Who dwells with You in the unity 
of the Holy Spirit, eternal God, 
blessed forever. 



THE PURPOSE OF THE CATHOLIC HOUR 
(Extract from the address of the late Patrick Cardinal Hayes 

at the inaugural program of the Catholic Hour in the 
studio of the National Broadcasting Company, New 
York City, March 2, 1930.) 

Our congratulations and our gratitude are extended to the 
National Council of Catholic Men and its officials, and to all 
who, by their financial support, have made it possible to use 
this offer of the National Broadcasting Company. The heavy 
expense of managing and financing a weekly program, its 
musical numbers, its speakers, the subsequent answering of 
inquiries, must be met. . . . 

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To our fellow-citizens, in this word of dedication, we wish to 
express a cordial greeting and, indeed, congratulations. For 
this radio hour is one of service to America, which certainly 
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sure, to the voice of the ancient Church with its historic 
background of all the centuries of the Christian era, and 
with its own notable contribution to the discovery, explora-
tion, foundation and growth of our glorious country. . . , 

Thus to voice before a vast public the Catholic Church is 
no light task. Our prayers will be with those who have that 
task in hand. We feel certain that it will have both the 
good will and the good wishes of the great majority of our 
countrymen. Surely, there is no true lover of our Country 
who does not eagerly hope for a less worldly, a less material, 
and a more spiritual standard among our people. 

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thy for all, this work is inaugurated. So may it continue. 
So may it be fulfilled. This word of dedication voices, there-
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to explain with the charity of Christ, our faith, which we 
love even as we love Christ Himself. May it serve to make 
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the pathway to heaven: a strength, and a power divine 
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our common every-day duties and joys, bringing not only 
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