Loyola University of Los Angeles - Lair Yearbook (Los Angeles, CA)

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Bishop ' s Message T. lUXATRS, ill another day and in an anxious hour, was the champion of God ' s ark. His sons, the ivorld over, have striven to perpetuate the traditions of their Father in God. The young men icho graduate from our Jesuit Schools should have their lives characterized by the virtues ivhich shone out in the life of St. Ignatius — Christian scholarship and Christian gallantry. We need such young men in the ivorld today. Civilization, unhappily, has been drifting from its Christian moorings. The lights in heaven have groivn dim and the Face of God is hidden. Men, forgetful that they cannot enjoy the fruits of Christianity if they kill the Tree, are astonished at the restlessness that is evidenced all around them. All knoivledge is acquired best in a school. We are teaching many things in our schools. We are not teaching religion which, in spite of the opinion of some men, is the most essential of all sub- jects. The relation that man bears to God is more important than the relation one man bears to another. For many years God has been put out of our schools. It has grown more evident day after day, that if our civilization is to endure, God must be put back into the school, and children must be brought to the Feet of Christ. Young men, graduating from a great Catholic University should bring into the ecnomic, domestic, and social life of the com- munity in which they live, the finest traditions of their faith. They should show their fellow-citizens that man cannot serve God and Mammon, and that to know and to serve the one true God and Jesus Christ Whom He had sent, means everlasting life. JOHN J. CANTWELL, D.D., Bishop of Los Angeles and San Diego.