FATHER HAYS AT SUNDERLAND.

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVII, Issue 43114, 6 July 1907, Page 1

FATHER HAYS AT SUNDERLAND.

The Very Rev. Father Hays, President of the Catholic Terns jerauce Crusade, visited Suuderand, and preached in St. Pat'ick's Roman Catholic Church.

Long before the hour announced for the proceedings to commence the building was packed to the doors, every inch of available standing space being occupied , by an audience of over 1,503. C l sections of the community ! ore represented, and the people | o ih ; ; district evinced the deep* vsi interest in the event, the reputation of the rev. visitor having preceded him. Father Hays preached from file chancel steps a deeply impressive discourse on the evils —temporal and spiritual— re* suiting from intemperance, illustrating his words with examples from the range of his own experience. He stated that the Catholic people of that povertystricken district, where multi* Indus of children were without food and without clothes, spept over £IO,OOO a year in drink. Those victims of alcohol were anxious to give it up. Porn with physical weakness and th • craving within then bloo 1, an i surrounded by a multitude of !■ mi aliens, what were they to d--> ? Surely the State must do l its n irt and support the efforts of (he Christian Church and of ! philanthropists and social workers and protect the people front I heir greatest enemy, and ilia foul destroyer of their homes and their happiness. He urged the peiple to pray often and frequently, to practice their religion, and amidst the tria’s and sorrows of life to fiud their comfort and refuge in God*