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PERTH, WEDNESDAY, MAY 31,
1944.
SEVENTY-FIRST TILE.
PRICE THREEPENCE.
The Society in which we Live is Badly
Mentally Defective . . me about rocks; I an a sailor, not a Yo-i wou:d know he was geologist." mad. The rock is not only a fact of geology; it is a fact, amt whether you Lave studied geology or not, if you hit a rock you will get smashed. You don't need geology to get smashed by If you overGod is a fact. a rock. look that fact, you are living in an unreal world.
What is Christian Culture? The Vast Mass of Human Beings Need to be reintroduced to Reality The Fourth Annual Christian Cul- suggestion that the society in which ture Award of Assumption College, we live is badly mentally defective; Windsor, Ontario, was presented to that you and I are somewhat mentalFrank Sheed, publisher, author and ly detective and society totally so; we Catholic Evidence Guild speaker, early fail to see what the Church sees when (1) The this year. We are happy to be able it looks upon the_universe. to publish part of Mr. Sheed's address Church sees the texture of things and of shape the (2) the Church sees of acceptance, which we regard a- a remarkably trenchant statement of the things. What I propose to do by way of basis of Christian Culture: What is the Christian intellect, dis- making clear this first element of clear the universe as the making tinct as this is between that, and the will? You have the Christian will if Church sees it is to tell some of my You own autobiography. About ten years you do what the Church says. have the Christian intellect if you see ago I suddenly heard myself saying something I had been saying all my more is far It what the Church sees. important to do what the Church says life but I never had heard what I was Suddenly I heard myself say than to see what the Church sees, but saying. there is no earthly reason why you it. The shock of hearing what I was should not do both. Doing what the saying was so great I really believe Church says will not give you a Chris- I have never since that day made a tion intellect; merely doing does not speech without bringing it in. I canmean seeing. What the world or the not keep it out. The thing which I Church needs of us is that we should heard myself saying at that advanced see because we are in the midst of a age which I reached ten years ago vast mass of human beings who need was: "God made us out of nothing." to be re-introduced to reality. They "God made us and all things out of cannot be re -introduced by virtues nothing." I learned it as a small boy I said it alone, no matter how shining these in catechism in Australia. I went on for a virtues may be, at least on the first quite truthfully. Friday morning; they can only be re- great many years and then suddenly introduced to the reality of God and heard what I waS saying. I suddenman if we. ourselves, see that reality ly realised I was made of nothing. There is nothing less you can be made sufficiently to be able to say it. If one is made of nothing, then of. I repeat the Christian intellect is there must be something of nothing seeing what the Church sees. When about one still. It gives one a sense we look upon the universe we see the I looked around for same universe the Church sees and of insecurity. one advantage of that is that thereby something to clutch. Then I realisI clutched was made anything ed that is that universe we are seeing the I never got over the there. It is always an advantage to of nothing. That is a defini- shock of that discovery and have see what is there. tion of sanity. Consider for a while ever thought of that since. To come what insanity is. It means seeing hack to this horrifying discovery. If what is not there or not seeing what I am made of nothing and you are, if I, unfortunately, sat with we are all made of nothing, God has to is there. top of a 5th. keep hold of us if we are to stay in a man once on the Take as an instance this Avenue bus in New York who sud- existence. It is a real one, made by denly shouted that his fingers were platform. where he is I don't know. I bus. a carpenter; on fire. He dashed off the It is followed because I thought he might It 'does not move: there it is. surviving the carpenter because of need help. He asked to be taken to made He it of. made he a faucet, stuck his fingers into the the material water and said, "They are out." He it of wood. Wood has the quality of was seeing what was not there. Not rigidity by which it keeps its shape. to see that the universe is there is to If God made me I too would have to be mentally defective. It is my mild rely for continued existence on what
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I say without hesitation that your country and my country are overlooking the principal point of reality; living in the world without seeing God holding it there and them there. They don't see the point of the conThat it the first tinuing will of God. point in the Christian mind. That is the first thing the Church sees when it looks on the universe. Not only does the world outside fail to see that. You and I who are Catholics fail to see it. We can tell We know it is a fact. people that God made us of nothing. can say. we Under further prodding "God is holding us here," but it Is not part of our mental landscape. We have it as knowledge in the files; in SHEED, FRANK J. the back of our minds. We can refer MR. to the files if anybody asks us for it, well known publisher, and winner of the Fourth Chri,'an Culture award but it is not part of us. Until we get of Assumption Jallege, Ontario, who in tnat condition we never see anyUntil we see God to that exthing. has lately been lecturing in Australia tent, we are not living in the real To know is not enough; if In other world. God made me of nothing! we do not realise I certainly am failwords, God has to hold me or I won't you are. Only His continuing will ing and be there. (2) I have taken the texture of to hold me keeps me above the surface The shape of things after Everything things. of native nothingness. changes if you realise the: God hat to you realise the principle is very simple. You will never understand anyhold you; everything changes. When Unless you I was a small boy it -v.:. a great op- thing out of its context. pression to realise that the eye of God can see it in totality so that it beit understand was always on me. I wished he would longs to you, you won't I felt at all. If you take a letter of the altake it off for five minutes. It is Now I phabet-take the letter "G." I could use five minutes. Now I have a pronounced "g" in the word "give" and should need longer. the in and "George" in the word theoretical nightmare in the terror "j" that He may take His eyet off. Bad word "gnaw" it is not pronounced at Until you know what the word as it is to have it always on me, it all. would be immeasurably worse if He is you don't know what the letter is. note of music will be a same The took His eyes off me. If you ever see anybody or any- very different matter, according to the thing in that same act being unaware composition; or the same chord acof God holding it there, you see it cording to whether it comes in "Yanwrong; you are not living in a real kee Doodle" or a Beethoven Symworld: the world in which things are phony. Merely to hear the notes and If you don't see that not know the melody means you do held by God. Pictures mean you are not living in the real world. not know the notes. You are not entirely sane. It is not nothing apart from the face, Once It is a ques- take the nose off a face there is nothing a question of sanctity. tion of sanity. Not to see what is much you can do with the nose. You God is can get down to study of that nose if defect. mental there is a you are of a lower type who nee As a rough illuThat is all. there. It has lost most of stration: Supposing you were in a ship studying noses. to a its beauty and all of its utility once straight and you saw it drive rock and you said to the Captain, it is off the face. You cannot breathe "Look out, don't you see that rock?" through it or smell the loveliest per(Continued on Back Cover.) and he replied, "It is no use talking to -
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