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THE BIBLE
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P(TBLIC SCHOOLS.
POitestant and Catholic
Views af the Question,
SERMON BY REV. JOHN
,DOUGLA D. D. =
Leetiirelw
- 7 Father Hickey-.
LMcr night two impOrtant sermons were
Breached on the woo subject—the “iiilde
in'thntommon 'Schools," and comidg from
leirtied and einolnetit ministers; whielt
separated from each other in their clews
nn that as well !lei: other doCt„rinal :goes
lions, • will attract • 'much' attention.
This morning we lay before
our readers both sermons, in full, opening
with that delivered by Rev. JOhn Douglas,
D. tl„ ln,the First Reformed Presbyterian
h•aiir, or
l'ery .Ih;c. Father Hickey, in St. l'aure
tlathetiMi. • Both will am plYrePay is rmit&
They u 4 and fairly set forth the an3rma
tice and negativearguments of the quo:-
don, and we leave our senders to draw
their own conclusions.
6f ! v.,40a... DorimAre, szakitos
The Rev. Dr , Douglas' church 'elm
crowded u) Its utinosx capacity. a the
word had been given out that he would
oci -.Bildt. in JIM' ScItools,1: and
trierillsirs Of all t he
. racking chiirclicii of
the ilty flimktid 'to hear him subject
which now enlists the attention - or the
whole country, lie sonounced his text
to he . •
twinge,*6ibr: d t—tvi. And time irorde.
which I command thee, this day. shall be In
thine heart: And thou shalt teach them dIIF.
rently w h en
thouhildre nd shalt talk of
them when &West t othine house, and
when thou walkest by the way. and when
thou Hest down, and when thou riaest up.
Mating the Ifebrews_great care wan be.
Mowed open the education of . eitikheii.
The precepts oil the:-divine law were in-
stilled into, thdir young minds. They
"were carefully instructed in the science of
civil polity,' and thotoukhly' educated in
all *the laws And - tinitlttitiona Of the 'Com
• monwealth. In the .training of their
children the Jews combined religiouswith
!scalar-Instruction. .
The command contained in the text wan
not given to the pattern RA such. The.
injunction to impart religious inottni,
tion to the ydung and rising genera
' lion. - was laid upon the nation in
Its organic capacity. • Thia .appeani evi
--sematenxiunr mai:me - and PR IY from
_the fourth chapter; whet
ethers. the following words t ..''So; there
fore hearken, tt Israel, unto the statutes
and unto the judgments which 1 teach
you, for to do them that rou may live, and
gain and renews" the knit which the Lord
God of your fathera gireth you. a a
Behold, I have taught you statutes and
judgments, even as the Lord mr God com
mended me, that ye should di, so in the
land whither ye gate possess it. • • a
And what nation is there so great, that
bath statutes and judgments so righteous
as all this law, which. I set before you this
der? • • • But teach them thr sons,
and thy sons' sons."
The moral and religious instruction of
children Is of such pdiemount iniporumer
that the command is,- "Teach them dilli.
gently:`' They were - to be taught when
they sat in the house, and walked by the
way; when they lay down at night and
rase up In the, morning, . They .were to be
taught conetantli and in all places. -
The nation thatneglects to give a sound
literai7 and religious education to its
chlidien, or instill into their minds the
principles of virtue, is guilty of a most
- suicidal act. The perpetuity of the life,
institutions and glory of a nation depends,
as all history attests, on the' virtue and
intelligence of the Irian who compose it.
•• Learning and religion are the two guar.
dim angels of the nation."
tied speaks to us an certainly as he
spoke to the Hebrews, and enjoins on no.
on peril of losing our national life, not to
• neglect to teach bur children all the words
he has commanded. Is it not strange,
then; la it not almost unaccountable,
that there are Nome in, this erdightened
age—in these free, United States, which
are so largely indebted to the Bible, who
would not only legislate the words of the
living God—the Supreme governor of the
ttnitierse--out of the Comnion Schools,
but out of the nation, and consign them to
eternal oblivion and eternal Infrimy ? •
is the Bible a dangerous book? Is it
-an Illiterate hook? Beet the reading of
It tend to corrupt the morals of our youth?
Has It done harm or injury to any ? Does
It in any way impede or retard our Nation
- al promas t Dyes it foster and encour-
age crime?-- Does It scorch the wheels of
coiumeree? Does it discourage industry?
Haa it dope, or is it likely to do, any
evil t If it has, or if there is the most
'distant prospect-that It will work evil to
• any, let It be sent at once Into perpet ual exile. But if, on the other hand, It is a safe
book; if It poeeeesea literary merit; if it purl
flee the public morals; if it stimulates to so.
vial and national industry; if it In • preven
tive to crime; If It - is the sourer of the
nation's organic life, then let it be retain.
• etl and sacredly and heroically guarded.
Let It be read•ln the common !seheols and
colleges of the land, on the house rope, on
the streets, in the counting • room; in
courts of judicature. in I the halls
of legialation, In the workshop, every
where. The ' true, patriotic! Ameri. '
. can Will never allow the I Bible. to be
dishonored by expulekrn from schools,
ari
colleges or any . other It - Button In
the land.. It is a lilt honk.
It is - the' foundation u which I
the nation Is broil, It is, ,everywhere
visible in Its superstructure.. So far as It
has as yet progressed.
The following considerations show that
It is worthy of being retained and hoe.
ored :
1: R powerees literary merit ,of the high.
ear eater. It in the only. histotv that we
ham of the creltlon of the world.; Were
It not for the revelations which it con.
tains, thern,are many moral and natural
phenomena which would have remained
inexplleable forever. The creation of the
workl, the formation of man, the intro
dact.ket of Bporal evil, and many other
;things - which we cannot - wait to ennmer.
ate. entiktnem - 'ltam been satisfactorily
accounted for, but for that accurate, mi.
nuts andble. unerring llistory contained in
the Bi
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Lord Mouboddo declares that the --Eng.
Bah Hibbs. la "the best standard of the
English lILDFLIgo we have rat this day."
It is admitted by the best philologists;
that it is both a lexieen, and a translation
of the Hebrew language. It is the model
of moral, spiritual and intellectual life.
Without it, Cowper could never have ac
complished his "Task;" Milton ullauld
never have sung of Paradise lost, or Para
dise regained and Shakeripeare mould be
destitute of Its most sublime thoughts,
majestic diction, brilliant imagery and
=emh The immortal
attributed all his success In let
terseeloquence and etatesmanship .to the
daily and attentive perusal of the Sacred
Sures, which he de clared , to be "the
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source'of all true poetry and eloquence, no
well as of all good and of nil comfort:*
Although there are many things in it
which the superior intellect of angels caw
not unravel and expirrin, and the capacious
mind of im archangel cannot comprehend.
nevenlieless the Bible is adminiblyndapusi
'to the understanding and wants of a child.
Jt contains milk for babes, and strong
meat for those of riper years. It is the
child'reprimer, the philosopher's murder
pie.% and the mathematician's raleulua, _
So far fla variety afid matter, such as
would interest children are coniatrued,
there is- no better scholastic text-hook.
Turn fora moment to the opening chap.
tern of Genesis, and you will at once be
convinced of the trutlifulnefts of the
assertion we have made. Here we hisve
an account of !'lleoxen." "earth," "dark
ness," "night." "waters."
"piens," "I;rue." j herba," "trees." the
"sun," "union," "stars." and many other
things In which, from the first , !awnings
of intellect, children take a deep interest.
:Host of the names of things contained in
'the first chapters of rienexis are mono.
syllables or dissylables, which are easily
spelled and pmnounced. In no other
book, with which we are acquainted, can
there be found such an interesting variety
of juvenile literature as that which is
contain.' in the Word of God.
Sir Jones, a man of no moan
authority, wrote the following on a blank
leaf in his Bible: "I have regularly And
,attentively perwied these Holy Scriptures,
and end Of opinion that this volume, inde•
pendently of its divine - origin, contains
mom tree sublimity, tonne exquisite heart.
ty, more pure- morality, more important
hiatory, and finer strains rif poetry and do-
quence, than ran be collected from all
other books, in whatever age or language
they may have been written. The im
strained application of their events whirl,
trek place" long after the pailliSallol l / 4 , is a
solid grouild for belief that they are genu.
nine productions, and' einniequently in
.
Worildvote you or' legislate a work of
such literary merit 001 that out of institu.
Lions of learning, however humble or din.
tinguished? If you would, yon would
cam away the great and unerring stand--
ant of all literature. You would blot out
the : great intellectual sun, which has il.
luminod the
Parkedned understanding of
men' with its brilliant and superior
light, in altagesof the world.
2. If is a prirentire of crime. This is
proved- conclusively by n compar
ison .of those countries in which . '
it is freely circulated with those in which
its circulation is more or lean restricted,
In England, four peniona out -oLthe mil
lion are annually eommitteri for murder;
in France thirtyone; in Austria thirty-
RiS; in Sardinia twenty; in Bowe one litinz
dred and thirteen-semi in Naples one hun.
-dred and seventy-font to two hundred.
Licentiousness seems to he unbridled
where the Bible is not circulated and read.
Out of seventv.five thousand births in
London. three (houseMl were illegitimate;
in Paris, out of twenty-nine thousand there
were nineteen thousand that were illegit-
In' out of four thousand
births thiee thousand were foundlings,
three.fouLthft of whom diet in theasylum"
We ilea net. pursue this subject fur
ther. Enough lias been said to show the
power- which the Nl'ord of nod exerts
ver the montls of nfw . Would It be
safe, then, to take ouch rebook out of the
hands of children? Would we be-doing a
gond work] if we were to ram it out es an
unclean spirit, when we witness the sand,
tifying and restraining power which it
exercises over those nations where it Is
freely circulated? Every lover of pure
morals will say, "Ih.troy it not, remove'
it not, for there is a blessing in it."
:t. if secure,' civil liberty. , It is the elm--
ter of ion- liberties. It is the pallediur
of our CiVii rights. True liberty ha
never been enjoyed by env nation that tin
not had the Bible for its charter, and mad,
it its supreme law. It is the World's Bi
of 'tights." It la the fundamental law
all the nations on the face of the cart]
Impress of the legislative authority uT
Him by whom: Ring. relgu.and princes
decree' . justice. There is not, end
never can • I*, • • higher law.
Abolish it, and our civil liber
ties are gone—hopelessly- gone. -Itemove
it front .thcrichoahyandthen you will. ham
to remove It from courts of civil Mal trim
inaljuriaprudence„ The Bibles which are
used In our coons oflaw UP purchased at
the public expense . A tax in levied upon
those who are "conseientionsly" opposed
to the use of the Word of trod, to pun
chase tire*: Bibles upon which. certain
classeit of our citizen"; are adjured before.
Courtirof jiiirtire. If it hi *raw to allow
our children to carry - their own Bibles to
the common school and read them there;
it is. Certainly; a more grievonn wrong to
impose a tax upon those who Sr.. conscien.
tirmsly opponed• to the principles of the
Scriptures, to purchase Mien for such a
purpose. If it in a "sectarian book," the
tiatlut administered upon it taunt also be
sectarian. If it must ho twat out of the
schools becaww. of its sectarian character,
then it must be cast Out of ("unarms, our
Prosidents must not be sworn alma
it, and the inmates of our charitable
institutions, which are supported
out of the public funds, must not Ira al.
lowed to read it. When all this shall have
'been done, an it must Inc if the first step
in taken. where Audi we find protection!
An oath is an appeal to God, the Author
of the Bible, to attest the truth of what
in swornto. Destroy the authority of the
Bible. which •:fonnal vote of expulsion
would at leant have the tendency, CO do, to
far. Ss: many are concerned; and then you
Ignore IN great Author, and leave no
ntandnrd of appeal. Theltible alone can
teach man "he responsibility he owes to
God and the State.
When i the lion. Francis. Allen was
driving out in Par*, on, a certain 'Gera
, stun, with General Lafayette, he made use
I
of the following language: "General, the
Frencli • people are not in a state of Pre
paration fora republican form of govern
' merit Beton/ any nation is fit for the
enjoyment of 'civil liberty, it must have
religious freedom, for the. Bible alone
cau teach man his torn' indi•
vidital responsibility." The General
grasped bin band firbily, and then
Them
Is
to the following wonby "There
Is much truth in that remark of yours,
my Young friend." But a greater than
either has told, "Where the Spirit ,tif the
Lord is, there is liberty.", -Take swat the
Bible, and you raze the very foundation
upon Which the stately and beautiful
temple - of our Republican liberty_ Inns
been reared, you revolutionize tlte
system of our government.
”Tbey are the freemen whom the truth makes
free,
And all are slaves beside."
4. .R is Me only rharl which guides the
ehritlian seer the Sea of life lo ahotherand
a better world. If you would send the
young to 'ilea without Compass, chart or
rudderiabolinh the Bibe from the *lmola
at Muni.
We do not, by any Imeans, hold the
opinion that our• common schools should
ho tmusfornied into theological seinina
rico, nor tion•doginatic or sectarian theolo
gy should be taught in them. We do not
believe • in an established religion, is
it is called, that Is, a State religlomor a
religion established by law, where one
sect enjoys the fostering care of the gov
ernment, and is supported out of the pub
lie. funds, to the • exclusion of all others.
We do not believe, either, that children
should be compelled to road the Bible con:
nary to the will of their parents. We
would not do riolence to any man's tan
science, If we could avoid it. Sometime,.
our government may do violence to the
consciences of men, I'M It'll, not her fault.
When site does it, she only carries out the
principles which she had clearly cnuncia.
ted.and which were thoroughly understood
be those who May be aggrieved, when
tliey acceded to her terms of citizenship.
The Jew is croupollai to close •his me e t,.
lishment on the firm day of the week, al.
though lie believes that tho seventh day
hi sacred to the worship of the UM of
fathers. .There are other rases to which
we need not refer here, as the subject may
come up for consideration at n subsequent
static in this discussion. But our aorrni
merit, based as It is on the christian re.
igloo, could not do otherwise. .
We do not bellevclltat we should r equ i re
even practical or experimental religion to
be taught in our schools. But we do hold,
that as this, Is a christian nation, and re c .
ng a sectarian, but a Bible Chris.
tiannieizn-1 oa t
—tliis, and nothing but this--our
children should be dllowed,.wlthout let or
MIEMES
hindrance, to read the Word of find in
the public schools, when it is the desire of
their paivais that they shonld do so.
There can he no injury done to any on., by
this valise. No that professes' chris,
tlanity, in inky' folin, should object to this;
If the Bible Is alloWed to be its own inter
preter, inasmuch ris it Is the common stand
ard of appeal of' all christian sects. In
fact, if each sect hie perfect faith in that
form of Christianity to which it adheres,
and is fully convinced that it in founded
upon the unerring Word' of (lod, it should
rather rejoice tlmt such privilege Is
granted; for, If their faith is well ground
ed, they will ho filled with hope, that it
will he thelneans of converting Miwy to
the same form of christbusity which they.
profess:
If' they believe that the entrance :of
(lad's %S gives light. and makes wise
the simple; that it is the only guide to
eternal happiness and life, why should
they interpose any objection to its being
read at any time or in any place? Experi
ence haft taught us all that children 11%.
quire to have every available. . restraint of
morality thrown around them, and if the
Word of Um( is possess e d of sanctifying
efficacy and virtue; if it is the only true
standard of morals, and reveals to the sin
ner the only way of hope and salvation,
why should it be excluded from our
schools, and the children deprived of Om
salutary lessons It Imparts?
It is Uod's own book, lie intends all,
without distinction, shall enjoy it. Then
let it be given to &IL Clive itro the blind,
it is their sight ; to the naked, it is their
clothing; to the hungry, it is their food ;
to the thirsty it in their drink ; to Sinner.,
it is their salvation; to the dying, frir It is
the song of their triumph and their only
connotation; 'to the unlearned, for It is
their wisdom; to the - worldly:who% that in
It the; - may Wee their folly, for in the lan
guage of another, - .There is more of
grandeur in the lofty warnings of Isaiah,.
than in the - sublime arrogance of alfiyaehy-
Ins; the nothingnifai of Linnet' visitant is
liettei taught by the Psalmist than by the
CEilipua of §ophocles the sitnple story of
Ruth shines with a lovelier light then all
the meretricious splendors of Aspasitite
- court • and.the, hook, . under Felix
A/grippe' wiiVereft appeal
more eloquently to the lieattof Man, than
all the persuasion of ('icero or the thun
der of Demoathenee.-
OttOht such a book to_ be voted out 0
the schools? you admit . just ua won tot
out . G reat God himself. We` tank
this assertion with nil due reaped to th
many very good men who eniertoin a di
(crest opinion on this subject.
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Let us. notice now a few objecthms
which hive been urged against retaining
.the Bible in the public schools.
I. It ur vrgfd that the Stair-should parr
nothing to do trill •religion. have al
readysnated that we have 'no sympathy
with n religion established by law. ittit
th.r.who maintain that governments or
nations have nothing to do with religion,
that they are, not, in other words, respon.
sible to tiod, have not read the history of
the past with profit. Why, have the
mightiest empires of antiquity been
defsroyed? Why have the most mg,
nifieent cities of antiquity been reduced to
heaps of ruins! Because they reverenced
not lint nor hiswonl.'l'lae prolifict declares.
under the direction of the Divine Spirit,
"For the nation and kingdom that will not
serve Thee shall perish; yea, those nations
shall be utterly detttroyed. -
Did yon ever read of a nation that did
not claim stone being, whether real or
imaginary, as its god or superintending
divinity? The Africans worshipped the
heavens; the Pendans adored fire, water
anti the winds; the Lybians the SUZI and
1110011; the l'hebans sheep and Weasels; the
Babyltmlans a. shale; the Eg y ptians dogs.
eats, rrueialiles. reptile., hawks. leek, and
onions.
Sow, what in religion': It is de
tined to lie - that obligation which we feel
on our inindn from the relation in whis.L
-wlnerinala wrimr - upertni Wing - dr pow
ef." lt belief in the ertatence of find and
the divine authority of ilin holy Word in
the foundation of the. Christina religion:
Wirrdid the heathen 'stations. why do
they still. pay religious - adoration to their
imaginary (habil Because they feel they
Bowe au uLligation to them, and that any
ate under their superinksiding frninitan.
slip and protection.
Thus it appears that no nation has ever
yet esinted without some religion. Eve,
nation, so tar as we know, La; ack
- - - - .
edged its obligations to, a n d lirOpetill•
epee • upon, issue superior being. All
Governments have been based upon this
Idea. that religion is indispensable to their
perpetuation. This is the 'basis upon
which the Government of the United
States Is founded, ea is evinced both in tier
common and statute laws.
Let us follow up this idea of,. religion in
the State, And lei; will see that it runs,
like a golden thread. through our whole
history.
It will hot be -denied that the
Pilgrims when • they, landed on Ply,
mouth Bock constituted themselves, 'in
the presence of God and one another, into
a body politic. "This." says Bancroft.
"was the birth of constitutional liberty.
In the cabin of the May Flower-humanity
recovered its rights and instituted go - vern•
ments, on the basis of equal rigllls far the
general good. As - the' Pilgrims landed,
their institutions were 'already Nlfected.
Democratic liberty, and independent Chef..
Han triorsh at once . prided ill.4gner-im."
In 1716 t he DiivlaratiMa of IndePendenee
was adopted. In that instrument there is
a distinct in-cognition of:' . natnre'e God--
the SupreMe Judge of the world." The
aliniera 'of that. immortal document pro
claim to the. world that "for the support
Of this declaration, with n firm re
lianee on the prateetion Mein,
Proridenee, we mutually pledge to
earl, - other our lives, our 'fortunei
and our sacred' honor." An• our
children likely to exercise a firm reliance
on Divine Provideose, if they are told that
the (HAY revelation which • Ile las , beim
pleased to make of His will, End which
displays the watchful care of his Pmvi.
deuce over individuals and nations that
serve and obey him, is a dangerous IsAk
to be placed iii the hands of the youth of
the land? •
Carrying nut Gdns.:true - Wei of nature'e
God presiding over the _destinies of the
nation, and believing that the religion
which the Bible Inculcates was Ito only
safeguard, the Continental Congress. on
.the eleventh of September. 1777, ordered
the importatimi of twenty thousand copies
of the. Bible from Europe, for the. use of
the people, Vet, we do not read that
the conscience of any one Was wound.
ed. The - people did not rise up
In _indignation- and ask, "What has
- the State' to do with religion?"
No one complained even of having to pair
for Bibles which he could not, and would
not read. •
Let us turn now to the Articles of Alon.
federation. Here nod Is acknowledged as
"the (treat tlovernor of the world. whom
it pleased 'to incline the hearts of the leg
islatures to approve of, and to authorize'
the mtifiaktioviof the articles of coofeder.•
aticm and
_perpetual union."
In the - third article it is said that the
States severally mitered Into aOm league of friendship, • * • to assist each other
against all force uttered to, or attacks
made upon them, or any of them, on ac.
count of RELIGION, sovereignty, trade, or
any other pretence whatever." What re
ligion is referred to here? I might say
the Prohotont religion. But It ha sufficient
for any purpose to say, It is the religion of
the Bible. And as there can be no true
religion without the Bible, It becomes all
to enter Into a firm league of friendship,
who profess the religion it inculcates,
to assist each other against all. foriu
that may be used to exclude it from the
Public Schools, hr. an I have said bi•foro,
those who wink to see it banished from
Institutions of learning, will never rent
Nullified until it in excluded froni evert'
place . in the nation. If such au ?event
should ever take placm'rellgion mutt go
with it.
On this subject the ordinance of 1787
Kites no uncertain sound. The third ar
tide of that famous charter rends as
follows:
"Itr!igloo , morality and knoirledyr, bring
neecistary to good government and the
happiness of mankind, schools, and the
meant of education, shall for eve% be en
couraged," -
Let h- be remembered that the ordin
ance from which we have made We- imo
tatlon la said to embrace "articles of
compact Is•tueen the drug:mil •tak “
and the people of tile north stein
ern territory, which stall for ever
remain, unalterable, unitise In tom
!non consent ' Acconllng to thin compact,
So local hoard has ant right to interfere
with any arrangt ment thathan been mad.
for the encounigement of religion , moral
its and ',now ledge in the schools under
their_ jurisdletirm ' If • anything. is to lie
done, It moot be by common consent, In
this r, spect,- the inculcation of religion,
mornlits and knowledge ' l the echools,—
an In every other, the, nation is a unit. It
is not animated by one life in one locality,
and by a thilerent life in another. Then.
Is a common respotudbility renting upon
all to Maw general lawn The quiches
cannot, co nstitutionally ; he localized .
BeSideil, It ix expressly /fated that the
object ril the cotnpaet Mix Sh rutted "the
funthunentel principles, of civil and reit
gloua liberty. tehtehjhryi the bows iiherro a ,
Mem , republic's their hurl and emiclattlionn
are meted" -
'Moire could not he ih i tisinir or more in
ollligible lapguage tha this It plainly
tows find the patriotic fore fathom of
the nation, held that ridigion, es taught in
the Bible , in indinpennahlo to the ndmants
trauma of the government . of the Re .
publlc
It will be obserst LI that it I. not mut,
that religion being necessary to good got
ornment, chorale* of diforent ' , cent shell
be protected and enconsigi•a Ra w .. in
not mentioned in connection unit churches
at all Beyond doubt, the meaning la that
religion shall be inculcated In tho athoolx
But what were the mews of the Father
of his country on this subject? In his
Farewell Address he makes use of the
folios, ing language; "Of all the dispose;
Bons end helots which lead to pellucid
prospent, , relit/ion and stolidity ore in
dmpensoli . le aupports In rain would
that 114.1 liftlill the itrallde if pots - Winn
who .1.41 hibq 4. G, ',,
obrrrt (441 / 4
gnat • pilhoh nil AMAMI\ Aappilirnr
these fn rnirM propii of the dtitud 0.1 men and
citizens: • ... Lot it simply be nuked, where
in the sorority for property for reputatiOn
for life. if the sense of religlous oblige
Lions deniwt the oaths, st loth lam/the in
strum(•nte .of imr"stairation ii. courts of
justice , ••Can it he that lZi ;: ilidr•nen he
not connected the pertuane e he.. ln_d) of a
nation with Its virtue' "
Daniel Woleder declar, d at one time
that ' tee religion of the New Testament
—that religion which in founded on th,
teething* of Jesus (Christ and his Apostles
—let Baehr* aqrtinte to duty in Poppies awl
I..ondtajon t ai
,it tor courfirn in life: r
If has' been divided, again ond *gain/
that the Christian religion is a patt of dot
emotion lam of Peonsy !Agent This dr
cision han been endorsed by the Nowell.
e
Court of the Crime Staten, in the east• of
Vida/ ?t of. el 6111144 r N F'..recul ,f . and
in others. If religion is It part of the cow,
mo4Lterr Ll , Dlostill the Bibb which mintage;
ralrA"frx 0 -, i'rnni, o onn„i 4 ;o7,..e,l'orol..b . ,. ~x,
thin: „o think there is not much danger.
But some may nay ' tho word religion in
dime documents from u•lath von he,.
quoted Is indefinite. It means any form
of worship, trite or fall." Story. In lee
comrhrntarr on the Como/tube ferring
to th e arm • ndruent Int nnhierd n ndation
to an establishment of mlig e l myx
' , The r, sl object of the ante mina was
not to count, name much Ices t adieus
Moltemniedmilon or Judaism .. r hind, li
ts ,by prostrating ,111190 Illny. 1,14 (.t i x
dude till riralry among r, ligi o , , Sects.`
Read in the light of the lost, tie her.
produrami, this toast be its true • waning.
The statute Int, of Penneyban a mould
not permit the practice of the bildl ritn.
of H 11141041114144, or Buddhittin wt within the
ii r.
Commonw ealtht The Iltmlon pen• t
not , be, !stigm
a' to adunge h e r 'Mild
beneath•the rolling floestof the A r • }Ng!'
or the idle. The Chinese modish would
Ll l would
not he allowed to rant her tonal. intent
into the Mt, t 9 of Pittalnir.4ll •.4 P 1.11.9.1 1
pion - to 1 a th tour, .1 In rut.•n.'"u9 1..1919
Ail the laity. rs in the ( conmonn.•all).
might 1.4 . 1nit1.4,4,1 tti'phaii iq 914.6.9.
lion, it either of these Glue, tin rikht td
conscience, or the prohibition of religi o n '
tests, but thtir pl, a would be utterly una
visiting Tim ustionel religion of the
Cnitcsi ntatea is Chrisimulty This is the
great sinermattre poorer of the nation It
in the principal el, unlit in AN orgnll.lC Ilk
'lf It were ix ginned ace mead becomea
notion of barbarians
If the State has nothing to do with re
bison. the founders of this Rtpublic flied.
a grand mistake. Ev,•r, islien , they di
glared the contrary .
To remote the Bible would la: 1,
retolutiourre the whole nystrin or our
Republican intrtituttonn 110 must
dinmlim our chaplains front conirrem
although, we hate never beard of
any one objecting to repri .... lit a dis
triet in the moused legislature , lentos,
chaplains -other nit s, ctarian or Christine
prayers within ite halls 11e Taunt have
no store chaplain', it, the tinny nr nary
lien punt be allowed to idasphc•Ml Iliv
name of Oral or J. 4.U9 Chris( or the Holt
Wiest No outlet must he ass longer 4
niim.u.nd on the 111,1, Frangeleits n
mode of nwentnig to w idch is. hate con
maentloll4 obi. curie% massive., Eters
thing that tutu hints at the dalsteuiee of .
C brietianity in the Lumen moot be re
nouneed and abandoned for ever. Will it
come to this , We hope net.
Jf rellghs imitrtglitet from the Bb le
is to be excl io uded, then thi • re is namel i y a
text Inntk in use but met be thrown out,
•for ell of them leach, more or less, the
the science of Chrintiernty
.ll all religion in In to • a • :chided nil
/Ewa an tour statute "stokes reltALSig 'to th,
nanctificason of it,,. Sabbath' must be at, .
roomed In this rtgard, let the action of
the French nation in the close of the lent
century nerve as a Warning .
2 it is duetted flag the rending ,ff the
Ilthre is the Common &lands interfere{
with the right, of enh4cietiee \Pe bate al
•
ready men that no plea hexed upon cont
science__ weal thief(' the mother front
India, lir Chine. that would be Rath/ of
infanticide. Liberal as it ix, careful an it
ix of the rights of the people, our go, ern
•
ntent does net, no gaVnrnnient maid tel.
erate every thing that may is , claimed
ascii "pun the ground of cocuscience May
the car of Juggernaut be rolled over our
streets to crash our - people , and wind
Udall to powder' Will the Infidel bard
lowed to give teetimony in a court ofsjun
lice, when he renounces a belief in the en-
Wynne of On, and declares there in no
place of reward , and puniehment in the
world to tome' a
But can any one who professes - Chris.
tin dty object, mumdpnlimaiy, to the read
ing of the, Bible without note or comment,
the only way, in justice to all sects that it
minutia be read intim public schools, since
It la the common standard to which All ap
peal?
•
Thom who believe that the n•d
, Pullen of Seripture only should Le p
used
in the Wenthip of God have far greater
muse to complain that uninapired emni.•
. anions are sometimes Rung at the opening
of the school, but we ;hove not heard of
ttny,warfam ha vtan.lrTlT.been waged on
• - • ,
The right of the Sakti or 'nociety in par
amount to that of the Individual. \Jlut
Jeel, as we have already 'dated, belle tea
that the NeFenth day alunald be tilwotedlo
sacred rest. bat State and national goveni•
menu+ declare that the first day must be
olmerved. Quaker!. .ere required to bear
afnut, although they have ermacientioutt
objections against doing no. Tbej• ere
ditupralified from eserelning judicial func
tion's, because they cannot eonseientiounly
adminixter oaths. •
We roped the ronneieneen of Ito
ms" Us timlies and •Otliera, hope
they will respect ours, • In thin
country there are, it • prettent, about
forty. of people. Seven- • mil.
lions of these are Homan Catholias.
Five millions may be nupposed to be inn.
del, or Imlllierent to any religion. it may
be reasonably eel dawn that the.retu
ing twine-night milliona are in favor of
the Bible being read In the Reboots. lint
if there is only the onahalf of the inhab
itants of the
.land in favor• of the
word of (led being read, their conneiences
are certainly entitled to some' rempect.
-it to Catilllided that them are some snail ,
five thousand common Reboot+ in the
:United States, In which there arc, seven
millions of pupils. These schools are
maintained at an annual cost of eight mil
lions of dollars, onwtenth of whirl, only
brimid by Itotnan Catholice,erlutpa lesa,
than that.' The nine-tent h,, of:tin
whole mat is paid bir Protentautn. Surely.
the latter have setue.rights that are won.
•
•
• •
-
. .
thy of respect. rln j • Ice, however, It
should 1m said. that wails the priests do
desire the eieluslori of the Bible
from the achoolN the 'bole of the Cathz
odic population do not, which shows that
there is [4dlfretolappitil4dr coneckeitimis
conviction... We now same goof Patint
lice whose conscienKst are not troubled.
in the least • 'abater-the Bible -in • the
sehools. ' •
Nl:hen the *rut/vie told, the, conscience
is troubled lecauau of the existence of the
sehools. There are many people who
bate nil light. They neither denim .to
havelhe conscience nor the understand
log enlightened. Archbishop If ccnoskey
Rayi:'" So far as our Catholic 'children art,
concerned, the, workings . of the , public
school...yet...in hat proved; and do prove:
highly ttetrimMta! to their ' faith and
?Introits." The Reeetnan'a Journal, which
is edited, I belle - me: by Ow son of a min
~ who has frequently occupied pulpit,
,
mikes use of the - following
"The Catholle soltition of this muddle
about Bildh. no Bible in sc ools Is,
'hands off!' Xa .Ntate 'taxation or dona
tions for any schools. You look to your
children:and we' Will look to otim. We
don't want you to . . 1M 'taxed for . 'catholic
Schap's. --We-dohat want to . be taxed for
Protestant, or fiir .trOdlese schooli. Let
the. public *Moof system go. to where it
came from—the deiril. We want Chris.
tian echools, nod State cannot tell no
what Christitinttt It If the devil has in
vented the munition school system,' ho is
entitled to mOreciallt than ht generally
.receives. If he Us a few more inven
thine as good, It hi he hoped ho will
soon register them in the Patent . Office in
S. II k said 114 Jake ;;:a
and shattld - n4-tkiiiiedla tht "tichtmle..- . ; At
least this objection Is urged agaitult the
tae of the " Protestant 1.11 t," RR) 14! 11
called. Sir Waiter *eat des rest do
death bed, " Therein hat MS bush,"
then recmested the Bible-to be read to
him. 'I here is but one Bible. It is tiod's
Bibleflud-mtnnotkil sectarian. 'there is
a Catholic e But them' Is an little
tilifolrenctibetteeei t t.! . and what B called
" James' Vetsion" that it might be read
In the schools Without &low-much, if
any detriment..
Ur:' choovir..", sap. , !he ease:Rhin that
"there ion Prote.stant version of the Bible,"
is artier° Illgmeut, used to never the
against the Word of (led. There' is
lioluish version 0 t. there is no Pouter
`iiufa vets(on. Thee work was begun by
WicklitTi in the Burnish Church, before
tun art of Printing was invented. It was
revived and continued hy.'fyridsle, Cover.
dale. Xfatthew and othees;:in • the Sarno
Itoutish Church, before the public pn.tes
tations agninst the errors of that Church.
It Wail printell.i published and: circulated
by tie anthoiite of a Rota's). king. This
very translation, which. In the main, was
that of Tyndale. woo taken. subetantially,
RP the 114144 of the translation issued - un
tier FIZO ' g Janice.. It wan in effect adopt
bv.the fortyaseen translators eruployod by'
him. so that our present Inwunparshle Eng- .
I ish . translationof the Scriptures cannot be:
called a Protestant translation. The learn
rel celled the English translation
the best version In the world."
• No one can. Object to its use, then, au
the ground thlitit Is a sectarian honk.
Something else what be behind this laser.
=I
A division of t et school fund is asked .
tr. For what mdabliall•
retarinn schools. his I comment can
.never fusser sediarlan ri
" valry. z - Every
'thing mull bsvitatlunialixed.Alnericsuized.
acoonting to the. Lynn and origimd Amen.
eau idea ,. To. divhie the school fund
wonhi be to prdduce,titherchy, and destroy
our ornanit lite; •
.If the school toad is partition.' among
the did , ,rent - sects ha , the country, those
who have soeltildren'ln edneate most, in
ju.tice.te exempted Oren all, taxation for,
cdocationaipurposes. &tra - mete ace to
be, „taxed . male those who derive
irentediate - benefit feint the lelienia,
we will soon hat., no ;schools -al
all. liar Republic is based on the princi
pleOf greens,: good to the greatest
number."' If the rich. Who - have no chil
dren to educate. nrxvho prefer to educate
them at their own private expense, are ex.
muted from taxation for school purposes,
where will the - poor man's ;college - be I
Ills children must grow up is ignorasce,
to the great detriment rif the public safety,
The Government fosters schools. that it
may be fostered in return. •by those who
are educated in theca. All diirive benefit
from a public aratem of education, whether
they have children of their own to edu
caw or tot , lit thelnereased security which
it gives to life, property and national ex,
1911011 C, To divide the school fend, would
In our humble opinion.. he fraught -with
great calamity. But if it. is to be done,
let it not be clone nu the bottle Of numeri
cal strength, but of the Celle-run , . dupli,
cote. In ,any event. let the iFlioole be
itudntaltuxl.
- There are ntany other subjects involved
in this question upon which we rennet
now- enter. We have merely given an
outline of the argument.
Lot no beware-that we Tate no fatal
step, lent it may be written of us as it le
of the F . rench 1114i011 :
"Opet air 11011111iN ot IseFronch 'nation,"
118,t lAmartine, "and Rotten to the last
word. of the pen Oral actor. of the drama
of our liberty. One would Wink that
flod was erlipeed from the mehool--that
his name stas unitnovin !In the language.
The Republic of men without a I fol. has
been quickly stranded. Lille liberty won
be on much heroine. and so ranch geniuk.
Vas not ('stud In France a
,ionscienee to
libeller Jr. a find to avenge it. a pSoplo to
defend It against the athelant which in
called glory. All ended ins soldier. An
atheistic republic cannot be berole" • And
we may odd. that as atheistic republic
that refuses to recognize the aupetintend
big care or Divine Providence, and ex
cludes the Vt'ord of Life bum any of her
institutional on the ground that It In a
dangerous book, cannot long maintain a
national exiatenee.)
EMS
==MTI
I”f.V. IR,IIIIIIKIi
=1
, .
amustudeineat that Artlidr. Bishop
flicker Vicar General of this Catholic dia.
now, mould deliver a lecture on the
"Church 'and common Soho°le," canted
quite an audience to Resemble In St. Paull'
Cathedral laid night„notwithntinding the
fart that fifty cent* admission wan charged,
the procetile going to the poor. After the
evening venison had been clouded,. Fetter
hickey ancentled the pulpit, nod Reid .
• Dfisn FRIENMI:—Not long three I was
invited he the members, of the St. Vin-•
cent to i'aul Society, attached to the
cethedral, to delivers Jeri Ure ler the'bea.
cult of the -poor of, the cite; My duties
were such at thotinke ae to induce me to
:hesitate, or rather to decline to accept the
* invitation. Yielding, however, at length
to Persistent importunities, I hunt.
tally collected some Items on the school
qrstien. These I now purp.oso to lay be
fore you. The, subject. chonep in one of
the deepest Interest to all chutney of our
citizens, It Is discussed in priyatri nal in
public; by the pions and in' the pulpit.. It
rimy not, then, be amine In um to elate
briefly our Views on the matter. This we
do the More willingly an In vur own day
the Supreme .Poittitf end Head of the
Church has spoken very dogmatically on
thin and other questione affecting the edu
cation of youth and the well being of no.
ciety. In the famous Syllabus of 1564 we
Qml the follaningpmpoeitioun condenineel
en contrary to catholic faith. \Ve quoto
iLV. The entire direction of puilleschoole.
in which the youth of Christian State. ere ed
cated;except (to a certain extent) In the cute
of Episcopal Pernineries, may and must apper
tain to the civil power, and belong to It so far,
that no other authority whatsoever shall be
recognized on having any right to Interfere In
the discipline of the schools, the arrangement
of the studies, the taking of degrees, or the
choice and approval of teacher*.
XIX'. Much more, even in Clerical Bernina
rielthe method' of studies to be adopted is
sub
sect to the civil authority.
. X VII. The best theory of civil sOcicty re
quires. that popular schools Open to the ehil-•
dren of all classeS, and. : generally, all nubile
Institutes Intended for instruction in letters
and philosophy, and for conducting the edu
cation of the YOung, should be freed from all
ecclesiastical authority, Roverament, and In
terference. and should be fully tub acted to
w th i e t
h e Itrhlel will
° po t
enlittiA.V.poduthero.m.„.iin coeiinfotnnopiiti
lone of the age
Thin system of Itestmetlag youth.
which conslst fromparating ft from the Cath
olic faith and he power or the Chnreb.
and In teaching exclusively, or at leant prl
fib', the knowledge of natural things and the
, .
eart hit- ends of social life alone, maybe nen* ,
red by Catholics.
Taught then, an we are, the mind of the
Church by the Vicar of Christ himself, as
well an actuated by a desire to obey the
adttortitioneof our , plenary Councilt, we
veuture a few worth. on the ettbject of
Ira di education.
• With us there is no diversity of , opinion,
therein no depute about the iaiyasgy of
popular education: on it, me on it, chief cor
ner stone, rest the fundamental principles
of our social system. • We hold that the
Government derires all of its power, under
Otnl, - term the will and consent of the
govt ned. Hence, public officers leant be
rega ed only as public servants; our Eon.
elite inn and laws are only expressive of
the Public will and are binding alike on all
citizens unless when the popular desire is
against that's lam,. and then it binds no
man's c o nscience. The revolution of '7ll
changed the form of our government but
failed to any great extent to remodel
American civilization. Our present politi.
eat situation Is therefore traceable to the
day, of King Alfred anti Edward the Con.
feasts, Catholic rulers. The principles
involved-In the fmnoun "Mag n a Charts,"
by the WM - a Catholic instrument, by the
german king we .have only carried to
their-extreme conclumions. We hare gone
back to the original hypotheein that seri.
sty is anassoCiation for the maintenance
of equal' right. , and mutual protection:.
that power immediately belongs to the
multitude . . From these promises we
wisely and pmetically conclude that there
eon be 710 JU admittiatrution of potter with.
out knorktlgi. A tuition then must be ed.
unated.—eeducated in the infanei and
childhood of its individual nowhere.'
''Knowledge it must have, That this lathe
!want, the necessity of a Makin all admit.
But noW lite question mines Whet knowl
edge? What' sort of education is re
! quire:ll If the education adopted
,be POPULAR, as exmnplifirel in our
Common School nyeterm, It ;is bemuse
it leads to the stability of our Govern.
went, the perfectia of our citizerut in the
temporal order, or their happiness In the
hereafter, or to both alike. E'er, if a nye
tem of education be good for aught, ii
must shape and grace the destine of man
—in thin- and for eternity. Nei our pop..
Mar or public wheel system of education
reach thin only Quietist; and 4utgilificent
n•alization of :life's noblest aimimtiene ?
We learnt*, Its tendency from the out
set is not to make men mints, ;but whal
ers ; not Christians, not politicians;
'it educates Man for earth: but not
for heaven, it fondles the Intellectual
I man with his animal and lees noble mem
cal power., and sacrifices. through neglect
the spiritual man, or man's 'soul. Can
knowledge, withers a moral and strictly
1 religions training, are a nation from
ruin? If It can, then our school system
is essential to the happiness of the RI , I
public-, the perpetuity anti security of our
tiovernment, and should 114 e supported and
utuntained at every expense and at every
rink. -If It can not, It is Our bolo - eh:a
duty to abandon and condemn the system--
a. lunatie to our present interests and
ultimately to the future of our insti• 1
tutione lien, is a dilemma on either
horn of which our argument must I
neceroutrily hens. Now, -we bold and
are prereired to sustain the position by
!thumb- facts, that the mere schooling of
I men, . men,.in the arts -and se - knee-a is 1
practised in our public schools, will never,
' one a nation or perpetuate a government,
or render a people prosperous and happy.
I Do you doubt what we have here advan
ced I Inaa the declaration • sound , pant
, tioxical 1 If so, then open the pages
of the earliest history of the olden world.
Did the fine arts, the painting and Wtalle
taring of a Piddles and PI-exit:les rave
l'Oreece ? No. Did literature? No. 'Those'
who are convenient with Oreece'e•noblest ;
writers 11111 V remember bow the choreal
mongol of SoPlurcle., Auschylra. aid Euri,
pide. give expression to the ,eat mailings •
of the old Pagan heart for. a , 'taint.'
derl degree of , rinse than might I
found in the ataidinated. • snot..
mette.. twee, • fireece: i
No. I . :whine* and Demosthenes still live
! in their writing. as witnesses of
...five
010111WOOR worse. than wanted on their now'
and country. Did political wisdom 1
lor atatesmannhip ? No, no. The annals
of Athens and Sparta proclaim aloud to
day to all surviving nations bow the mi.!
doom of Solon and statesmanship of Lycur.
gun failed to rescue the polished and, even
war-like State, from utter, ruin. Lid''
philmtophy? No. Socrates and Plato in I
their travels through•Pal.Une and tem
ra
pory sojourn, It may have Leen among
I the Jews, had learned to thole 411filw no.
permititem of Paganism and on their re-
I turn announced in their Lycie and aced
; emic hall*. the unity anti eternity of Sod
and the immortality of the soul. , They
taught their diecipka the sanctity of the
natural yin ues--temperance, industry, pc.,
Settee, courage, honesty, benevolence and
patriotism, filial duty. Yell, my - friends,
vainly more of virtue than Is taught by
the modem Socrates and Plates of our
high and normal schools, our private and
public colleges tlaroughont our land. But
did the plaileeophy of theses men nave
(hewer*? ilietory answent. no. • The HO
man conquerors as time went on seized
the treasure. of their knowledge. 'and we
are told that the Roman Senate. hung In
rapture on the lipet of Cicero as he gave a
latinized PlinVlßiliOß to the ideas of the
Hellenic
. sages.. Virgil anti Horace- Liv e . and Tacoma poets and historians of
their day and country nought to in
,spirit, to arouse. to awaken the Roman
heart by lemannt, borrowed from the Greek
Masten, in chilization, polity, religion
and morality. And to what end? The
Roman, like the Grecian Republic, as
every scholar known, had practised the
natural virtues presetninentlY, as far at
haat as unreginerated man Is able to do
on by the power of a vigoroue and cab
tuned reason, and yet bee 'mighty eagles,
after ages of continent, sure trailed in the
dust, and Rome,—pagan' and'.political
Rome, Rome the Itlirdretss of the World—
'learned and refined as she was, Yell into
the tenth of the dead and tUsinherited na.
(ions of the earth. t
It is evident, hence, that popular educe.
lion or Intellectual culler* in its highest
development does not subdue men's pen
sions, make good citizens or preserve alv
ilixation. It is not poesy - or (oratory,
physiology Or history, the Arta or kience.
that teach man to know hitneelf. his final
Mutiny. his relations to earth and time, to
(led and eternity, else he could so have
learned fourthourand years ago and might
have felt no necessity for and' 'dispensed
for nil time with divine revelation. It re
quired a Christ, our Lord, to teach- man
Ito% to know-himself , and in this grand
lemon of Christian ethics Is contaliaed tiro
spring of all knowledge for men -and na
thane.
-Amd,when men fail to recognize this
princiNtif human and divine knowledge
when they turn their backs on Chrint, and
place the fullest confidence Ih the devel
opment of science and the natural virtues,
then we have a something worse than Pa.
ganlent in religion; a something worse
than Paganism In morality. We behold,
an we did; in the French Revolution, an en
lightened nation deifying humanity—the
spectacle of men, adoring and' woraldp
ping tnan In the desecrated temple of Rem
son. We have seen, and Meal that Math
ry should record She fact, an autiChriatian
conspiracy in Italy. carried forward
by .the most learned, eloquent, witty I
anti fascinating men of - modern i
Europe, who exerted •the highest arts of I
gentile—to do what! Not no much to rem
der?the work of the present lEcumenical
Council as to blot nut the chriatian name ;
striving to re-Paganize .the world. We
.„(
have sewn science widely serer d, in a
word, from religion,. and magi an use. I
less war against the family --a g lest no
ciety—againetreeelaticm—againe God—
and to cap th e climax of man's It ligioun
but educated Insanity, we have seen only
a few yearn ago—n tipple erected and
dedicated to MA satanic majesty, in New
York city, the metropolhee-the London of
the Western Continent. Indeed, were we
to believe the utterings of the preen,
the !multi° of paganism would seem to
have faller , and to have been adjusted
1 .
with much morefashion, taste and yo- finement .0 n the shoulders of out yet.
youthful Republic. , -
The evils which were the heritage of
Europe ore fast becoming MM. e.OOO
- navigation and electricity bind to
together as members of one 11114
peen family. We are most of us of EOM.
peen blood and chilization—our laws and
religion are even thence.
..140„ too; are our
sciences and literature. From Europe; in
a word, we have all else that constitutes
the intellectual life of man. We may
not disptse the lemons of experience
taught no by— its history. . Our youth
should read and study it, for on them will
devolve the tank of perpetuating our in
etitutions 'as they were fashioned hy the
Fathers of the Republic.
Accordingly they must be educated.
They must Imoneri of seience, but not of
neience ahnie, Mir chiefly. "The beginning
of wisdom is the fear of the Lord. , '
This brings us' now to the practical part
of our lecture. We have maintained that
popular education, or our present publii
school system; is defective and unsound,
because based upon a Pagan idea, namely,
holding the sciences, and the natural vir
tees. to be all that is necessary for the
welfare of society and government of man.
The experiment was tried before and since
the Christian era, and flailed. 'The wisest
of rulers are trying to educate the masses
of the poi le, and wish such education to
be distinctly ehriatia h, and not simply
moral. Prussia, the enthodlinent of Pro
testantimin in Europe, admits this fact.
She now holds that education must be
christian; that as, all her subjects could
not, or would not believe alike, each
should hate full opportunity to be brought
up In Ide faith, to learn its doctrines and
fulfil its duties. Hence, this enlightened
Govenuneut .itablished..the denominsi - -
tional veto= of schools,-giving each creed
practical equality before the law, in a
separate school organization where =fi
bers make It practical and a pro rata
share of the school fund; The 'Govern
meld, of coarse, resertais to itself the
right of fiumwvision so as to „secure. the
faithful applleatron "-of "' the public
moneys, and a proper aampliarice With the
educational menden'. Each citizen thus
obtains the complete education of hie child
In the faith and practice of his religon.
In France, out of a population of
thirty-seven millions, thirty.aix mil
lions are nominally or practically Cath
olics; the remaining million - are
Jews. t'aliinists, Lutherans, afc. Here.
too, the government provides, at the pule
lieexpense, primary schools, where each
sett is at liberty to teach its own doc-
Catholic Auetria also 'supports
schools, colleges, and universitiealler
Protestant minority of Ler people.
Thus, all the most powerful and
enlightened nations of . modern Ete
rope have decided that civilization
cannot be based on Pagan Ideas, and that
the safety of •,Commonwealth depends
' upon the christian education of the peopl4.
However greatly the christian denumina
time may titter from each other, in their
belief, it Is much better for society that
their youth he instructed in some form of
chrietian doctrine, than be left to lice and
wander amid the mazes:of error, especially
when young hearts must battle daily
against the pen and brains of the followers
of ouch men as Hume, gibbon and Vol.
taire. The experience of wise. govern
mental is this: that morals moat he balled
u faith, and only on a faith that Is efficient
in de edsof practical airtime for faith work
eth by charity.
Another experience is this, best given
in the words of the eminent Protestant
statesnuin and historian, M. Guizot. "In
order to make popular education truly
good and socially useful, It must he fun
damentally religious; it is 'necessary that
national education should be given and
received in the midst of a religious atcnos
phere, and that religious olenervances and
impressions should penetrate Into all its
parts. Religion is note study or an exer
cise to be . strieted to a certain place, and
acertain hour; it is ,n faith and a law
which,ou,ght to he felt everywhere, and
which, after this manner can exercise all
its • beneficial influence upon our minds
and our lives."
M. Oulxot means that no luau:mut of
the school day shall be left without semi;
religious influence. • It is the constant in
halation of the air which preserves our
physical vitality, and no in a like manner
ut Is the "religions itmosphero" thatsup
portethe young soul.
made "an exercise or study to be restrict- I
ed to a certain place or a certain hour"
It will not do to devote six days in the
week to science; and to depend - .upon the.
Sufiday-schoola for the religions training
of the child. •
' Now the "Catholics of the United States
endorse the sentiments of M. tiuiaot. Yet
a ;Oki cry of anger has been raised against
them at intervals, as though they are the
enemies of popular allocation. They miv
their full quota of -the taxes to the use of
the school fund, and yet they Lave to-day,
In prefsirtion to their numbers and means,
more school., wileges , seminarifas_and
universities, sustained exclusivelyby their
own private resources, than any one sect
or denomination in the land. This, truly,
le no evidence on their port of hostility to
popular education, 'I'M, is enough. W'
need not „here appeal to history to prove
that education, solid learning like the
Bible, are the heritage - of the Catholic
(lurch Every educational census, every
unbiased - book of travels, la a living
witness of • the educational spirit of the
church,and her sons in every clime and in
everrage have been awarded the - palm 'of
excellence in every . department Of the fine
arts' and sciences. Although dead in the
body they yet lire in their works; and for
centuries past and for centuries to come,
yea, to the consummation of time, the.
world, in its- jtuft verdict; has and ever
_will crown their brawn • with the ivy
wreath of, a well-merited prominence;
andaurround their fumes and their deeds
with the aureola 'of an enduring Immor
tality, -
But why have Catholks made these ex
-Itmordinary sacrifices to uphold education
and suppmi thin our schools independent
li cif:kale taxation? it is because they
lielleve with M. Galata, that education"to
be truly good and useful to society must
be fundamentally religious ;" it is because
- they believe that "national education
should be given and received in the midst
of - religious atmosphere and 'that
religion. observances and impres
sions, should penetrate, into • all its
parts;" that religion la not A mere
sfudy, like Latin and Greek; or a school
bow exercise to he restricted to a certain
class loom at a certain lour—it is a living
faith=a divine lap' destined to be felt
everywhere and by every individual with
the view of exereciting a beneficial influ
ence over hie mind and life. "Edema;
tlon Is indegenons to. Catholic faith and
the Catholic Church, and If in "^- •
apots of Bumf.. t`.••, .• . -
to thiq ;eh; .::.• • e'.
=ME
.Turf
Icen,u4.: h. 7.11: :the
btro tut. ustionai life itself is
crtpluu..l mit by a worse - than - Moslem
power, and has bden trodden down for
ages under the iron heel of English in
justice and tyranny. .
Catholics make these sacrifices because
they believe in the truth established by
all history that more secular education u•
net and nerer eon be the basis et true ciy.
libation; and on this point all the more
powerful and enlightened nations of En
rol.' as we have seen agree with them..
They believe that religion is. to science
what eternity is to time, the latter being .
only the lomdmaid;—the complement, the
frultion of the former. They believe
that the salvation of souls is more pre
cious to Christ, than the knowledge of all
Gleans and sciences, and their faith is
based upon the infallible words of the
Gospel "what doth it profit a man if he
gain the whole world and lose his own
soul." if, in the end, lie loose his own soul.
They believe that the welfare of nations
impossible without God. From this
standpoint the Catholics are more than
juirtilitel in the establishment - of Catholic
schools for Catholic children.and persist
ently rfusing to patronage State schools
or systems of State education, since these
' latter are unfitted to teach even theltlphs,
bet of Christianity.
In the olden - times the relation of the-
State to the family marked the distinction
between Pagan and Christian society.
The Greek historian, Xenophen, in his
work entitled "Cy - ropedrioo," or •Tistory
of the Education of Cetus," a book known
to every classical Bawler, • gives us a
Sketch of State. education in the Russian
and not - empires.. Farm his
Pages -we gather that at a certain age
slaty child was wised upon by the State
—Leanne . 4he mbperty of the State
--soul and - body. The . State be
came father and mother to the
i The right of the parent - to the child
1 WAR usurped by the Suit e •
rhe recipro
- cal duties of child and ,parent, end Ciro
Verna, were ignored. The children were
aelmoled and fed and clothes] at the to.
pence of the State.. They were orphans
while yet their parents lived, and parentB
were childleas in the eye of the Sta
i e
while having eight or ten little urchin* n
some distant '• Hedeia." I So was it to the
Christian dispensation. Christ restored
the family as it was ire Adam and Eve.
Accordingly Christian civilization denies
that the . State ton destroy or twit
interfere. with the exercise of the family
rights and duties. A Christian State
has, therefore, no authoiity to coerce con
science, or to dictate the' education of it.
The framers of oar own Constitution held
and acted by this doctrine of civil and re
ligious Miens-, and what they conceded
to conscience in religion, they must, to be
consistent, concede also to conscience In
education, for One 8 the handmaid of 'the
other, and as soul and body united form
man, physically a d morally, so religion
and education mus unite to farm man in
tellectually and Rpiritually. Man is fret',
and proterysl by the State in the practice
of his religion, man must also
fie free and protected by the State
in the matter of education. It is true
that man does not pay tax to the Govern
meat for the privilege of being Jew 'or
Gentile, Mormon or Christian. He does,
however, pay tai for the privilege of
learning how to apell and read, and our
Government guatantemi to man the free
dom of conscience, the State, logically, is
held to non-interference in education, as
in religion. The people of the State,
form,hy submitting to taxation veduntarylt.
Mutual Educational Aid Society, with a
Common School Treasitiv Department.
The fund this accumulated does not be-
long to the governing 'but the governed;
It belongs to the people: The plan, in
some sort, is like that adopted by brother
hoods and charitable organizations where
something is paid In. That somethingmay
be paid out when need, be, either to any
individual or number of individuals of the
organization. No distinction is made or
allowed between members, all are treated
justly and alike. One this plan each tax.
payer has a right under the- law, to a
ratable Aare of the school funds. Since
all pay alike in proportion to the assess.
meat so all should receive alike in propor
tlon to their educational wants. As the
ease note stands there is no justice in it.
The State whiclt ought to deal impar
tially with her citizns, has her favorites.
She gives to the majority, in defiance of
honesty, right; junta 'e anti in despite of
the Constitution its f , a- large amount of
funds from the Rch.,, I treasury which of
right belong to a I .. rge minority of her
most faithful citiz mit and "defenders.
Shall the majority di this point con
tinue in the ascen aid ? Who .gave
the majority any rig t or power to con:
trot the educational fund, or disburse
it only in aid of say tl reaquarteis of
' all,
taxable citizens. You {;ay the State did
it. 'The State cannot delegate' a power
which it does not enjoy itself.. The State.
under the Constitution leas no more right
to interfere with educat on than it has with
religion, for one Is jul as ranched con
science as the other. The State, there
fore. exercises an authority to which she
has no claim; and.consequently may be re
gulled in the light of an usurper. Does
this instance that bill of equal rights and
equal taxation for. which the patriour of
lti fought and bled and' died to secure?
Alt, no. Could their shades rise from the
tombs now well nigh a century old, their
voices of disapprobation would ring out in
no uncertain manner from the Atlantic to
the Pacific, from Maine to California.
Only suppose for one moment the cell.
olio, In the. United States were in the ma..
jority what then, think you would be the
issue? Would the Protestant minority
submit as the Catholic minuiity are note
compelled to do to such injustice? Oh, no.
The cry of "oppression" would- be heard
all over the Continent. Our Protestant
brother would appeal to the wise and lib
eral example of Prussia, Austria. Spain
and Trance. It is not only unwise but un
just therefore to make the minorities taste
the bitterness of oppression. It is well tore.
member that majorities oftentime change
aides, and very rapidly, too. The , strong.
of one generation may be the weak party .
of the next. We see this recurring with
political parties within the brief span of
Presidential terms. And this oscillation
of politics forms a strong argument in
favor of moderation and. justice in politi
cal or religious majorities. It 'is better
that all institutions interested for the
educational welfare of the people be
based accordingly upon exact and equal,
evstice. The golden motto 'Mould
e ned on the political capitol of
State and imprinted on the heart
of 'e very patriot Statesmen in: House and
Senate: " Do' unto others -- as—vtiu would
wish others to do untoyoul- Equal lawn,
equal rights, equal taxation, and a. jaw
disbursement of that taxation.
I turn, now, to the more serious be
muse directly religions aspect of the edu
cational 'question. You knoir that be
tween the creed of the Catholic Church
and all other creeds there is essentially
the widest and most irreconcilable differ
ences; there is a gulf watch cannot be
luidgtsi 'in time only : after much self
denial and universal admission of truth—
s gulf which may not if we would lk
bridged in eternity; for this is the gulf.
the deep abyss, that separated long ago
Dives and Lamina.. It would, therefore.
be simply impossible to adopt any system
of religious teaching in mixed schools
that would not, offend the Catholic con.
sitience. Yes, the Protestant conscience.
In our public schools no suck system, as a
general rule, is attempted. The Bible - , it
is true, is introduced, and the teachers re
gaited to read a portion of it each day
without note or comment. This, however.
Is time lust, and a wortui 'than Useless ex
ercise from a Protestant standpoint. It
does no good, and much Itartu. In the
first place, the younger. -children do
not understand it. • To them
tho exercise is productive of no
good. In the second pplace, such reading 1.13
provocative of much harm, aye.great'evils .
to the. older and more intelligent pupils.
It is not only an infringement on their
conscientious opinions, but opens out a
,troy between parent and parent, and punt) ,
and pupil—a religious u-ar . 7 .
others is the tarot
mit :••• Yac
it,
rta•
ME
EMS
lEEE
I Liu very leit of
i - ,4!tac0..• mtnister the Sund before!
-on Tuesday morning, the goo dteacher
reads the words: "The Father is greater
than I." irldeliarelrtibta to 'favor of the
Trinitarian doctrine., Here you have the
members of two churches at a dead lock
with each other—the Unitariatui on the one
side and the Trinitariana on the- other.
Their religious opinions are insult
ed, and the rights of conscience
violated by the school teacher in the read.
lag of the Bible. Again the teacher
reads: " Unless a man he-born again of
water and the Holy Ghost he cannot enter
the Kingdom of God." Here we have the
Baptists, psondoltaptists, Quakers, and a
host of other denominations pitted against
each other on the subject of Baptism, its
necessity, matter and mode of being. ad
minlatered- If the sects were logical and
consistent they would oppose more pars.'
singly than the Catholic Church, or as
much so at least, the use of the Bible In
the schools as a text book.
But does the Catholic Church oppose
the public school systent as now organis
ed? Thin is the question on and about whch
Retouch Is said and written. We think we
hear you say "yes, give ns a fair and
square answer on that point:: We will
endeavor so to do. The Church is set op.
posed to the public school system,
nor does She desire to interfere with
it as it seems to meet the wants, or
.at least the, views • of no
many of Our Protestant
Catholics are willing and ready to concede
to others what they deairo,others to con.
cede them. If the majority will organize
such schools, and pay for them, they -Are
certainly free so to do, if/Ith their own
money or their own portion of taxes, but
not at the expense of their neighbors, the
minority. We hope, then, once for all,
that we are understood as stating that'
the Church Is not onweed, for the rec
edes given, to the common school. 'The
Church, Layover, Is opposed to patron-
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PENNIMAN, REED dr CO..
, , pnorßizzots.
.
firing such schools on the ground
that there is too little religion
In them. and - tori - Mimic immorality.
The arch wishes her children
to be educated air Catholics, not as
..protee
tams,
•Th ey
cannot be 'edricated no Catholics iu the
public schools, as is manifest, inasmuch as
these schools Were utit intended for Catho
lics.* gotten tip to prinnOMtlie interests of
their church.
What do Catholics then demand r' Cer
tainly not the overthrow of the comm o n
educational system of the country-•'
would beau overt, net end an attempt to
infringe on the' liberty of cerrscience of a
majority of our countryruen. It is not
for Catholics to art thus tuiressonably
and unjustly. All they ask 'is a ratable
share of thin funds In aid of their existing
Reboots, and of such others as their niun
berm in 'any given locality may collide
than to eatahh~h
Again, yon ask, Is the ClMrch oils - tired
tit the Bible being ivied As a text book in
our public school*? I answer emphatically
on, and for the simple, reason that ale is net
°riveted, as I bare stated, to the school
system itself. First, a school implies the
use of school books, and if Protestantism
lir ready tit — xittrifico - fts•- Christian
honor and progress by desecrating the
Bible. be .throwing pearls before
swine, sy - making the Bible- a
text book for boys that cannot be.eon
plaiood by-scholarii,'• byputting tho word
of (furl, as they believe the Bible to he, on
a par with the works of Smith, Ray, Pater
Parley, Osgood or )fitchell,. it may do so.
It is not oursitt wbridgeetitunnor liberty
even In the :wrong. A greater than we
did not abridge the will or liberty of a
Judas when lie 'betrayed the Quist With -
a kiss. All the while the Catholic cLiureir
pities, but may :Mt prudentially -exercise .
a prohibiting influence. • .
The speaker concluded with an eloquent
peroration. -During the coarse of hislee-
titre ho reviewed in strong mondeumatpry
terms the resolutintia...9ll
lion, which lie- read from the Oszxrrx,
recently adopted by the Allegheny Roan!
of Control of Allegheny. LIO 4160 read
from the tiAznrrE the action 'of the Cen
tral Bound id liklueition of this city, in re- •
fusing to recognize flood Friday as a hill.
day and their subsequent . coarse - in pro
claiming the day of • Jubilee so one
worthy of marked consideration.
The 'lecture netted nearly floe hundred
dollars to the • Society of St. Vincent de
•Fitul, nod will be erred in supplying.the
wants of the 4xicirottlio.oty.... .. •
BRIEF TELEGRAMS
—Over ten thousaud 'lmmigrants arrived at
New York last week. .
. .
—The cigar makers now on a strike In New
York number three hundred men. -
. —Contributions le New York for the Rich
mond, Va., sufferers aggregate 1.4,091.1.
—The steamer City of Dublin, from Liver
pool. arrived at New York yesterday.:
• —The excise law was rigidly enforced in
Brooklyn yesterday by the Chief of Police.
—The Seventh*New York Regnant are con:
sldering . InvitAthiotorlsß.Chicago In July.
• —The Boston police on Saturday night ar
rested one hundred and fifty female street
walkers.
..An Illicit distillery was seiz aidedrooklyn
on Saturday by rerenue 'officer by ma
rines .d the police.
—The corner-stone of a monument to Con
federate dead was laid at Memphis on Suter
, day with ceremonies.
—A raffle for ft,' OM worth oftdbunonds and'
plate will given be in Brooklyn entire 30th
Inst. for the Cuban cause.
Ford's ."benefit" given Richmond sufferers
at theatre, lialtimore, -Saturday, the
sum of $4,000 was realized. .
. .
—Admiral Fa As been re-clected
President of the Wiry has
of the Bolted -
States for the ensuing year.
Arthur K. Vaughan. a New Yok •
office clerk, has-Seem tretd - for-trial. c h arged
with embezzling money letters.
—The strike at Clark'it bread mills. Newark,
N. J., continues. Endeavors to obtain other
workmen have been unsuccessful. '
— Vice-President . Colfax will deliver an ad.'
dre. at tlut dedication of an Odd. Fellows.
Hall nt Columbus, Ohio, to -motive.: • •
—At New York, Saturday night. Richard'
Behan gave a digger to ,llen. B. F. Buller altl. •
the House Ways and Means Committee. •
—The New York City Arlon Singing Society
.have bought two bongos on St.. Mark s plies.
on the !lite of which they will erect a large
• —Wiera furniture manufactory. at San
Francisco, the largest on the Pacific coast,
was Mimed Friday night last. Loss about
1.100,000.
—Rokrt C. Cutting. formerly captain of the
steamship Idaho, of the Willlame and Onion
line. committed suicide at Liverpool. England,
last week.
-- Robert Decker, formerly door-keeper to
the New York State Assembly, and two sons,
were drowned in the Rudson.nt Oak Rill sta
tion. on Saturday.-...... .„
--Eighty grand children of William Innis,
residing la New Jersey and Bradford county,
P., Rave fallen heirs to an estate worth ta),-
0011.000 to Scotland. . "
—ln addition to the statement previously
made, the New York Chamber of Commerce
has collected font thousand dollars for the
Richmond sufferers.
—Daulel Drew proposes to give mother mil
lion dollars to the Drew - 'Theological Semi
nary. to establish a literary department, and
make it a university.
--Geo. S. Eddons, pugilist, has been retura
ed to Boston from St. Louis on a requisition,
to answer on old Indictment for leaving the
State to engage Ina prise fight.
—George Vanderpool, lately oonvicted at
Manistee, -Michigan , of the murder of Robert
Field, has been granted a new trial tea the
venue changed to the Catawissa circuit.
—Gen. Jordan brought from Cuba a procla
mation of President Cespedes to Cubans re
siding abroad. It Is dated Feb. MM, and can.
tales nothing new, Important or significant.
—The Government has purchased Gen. Hat
meful's W.P.M. boat, built at Mystic, Colam,
during the war, ate cost of $lOO,OOO. It weighs
twenty-nye tone, and ten men can manage It.
—There are over eleven trallllon dollars la
the city, State nod Federal treasuries at San
Francisco. Money- Is tight and complaint
made of the locking up of so large an ammaht.
—Manager Grau has concluded an engage,.
Meet with Madame Zebrach, the German tra
gedienne.' She will play one bnadiud night.
in America. commencing la New York in Sep-
House.tm xt
proprietor of the Platter'.
Chicago, attempted suicide on Satur
day morning by shooting himself through the
left breast. Re was a critical condition at
last accounts.
—The Mals6ns of Washington Cityhave com
pleted the ettabellishment and furnishment Of
the Blue Lodge room In their Temple. 'Visitors
any It Is the most magnificent lodge room la
the United States.
— The Chicago "White Stockily"' base bat
club beat the Atlantic, at New 0r10n... ,
Rh by the extraordinary , •
nothing. the Atha—ll
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dealers. lindfthe
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R. W. Sampson , chief clerk of ...be Slate
Treamiy, r.C.thunid...B.,C.,lma been arrested
for mecintrtnarfultkos..biLatemettundl.ntryron,oarthitel,
counterfeiting done at Auburn; f
N. r, and who
has ales been aneated. The coupons were -
destrored. none of them haring gone in
—The storm hi the Nortbrerest Tharadag
night of last week was very severe. -Hail
stones as large as chestnuts fell, In . many ,
places and the lightning did considerable Men
age. The telegraph °Mee at Milbourno•City,
lowa, was Unit]. and set on fire and the oPe
rator and night watchman knocked down b y
the concussion. -
d 10,7 n t t a l m a rfri gaud
where inConwado. recently published in east-
ern Pape . a dispatch from Deurerstates aro
entirely groundless. There base been no In
dian troubles hi that tenitoryduring the pant
Tear, and Coe. McCook Ls couddent none need
be antkipated within its limits. • •
; —The Governor Menem] of Canada commu
nicated to thellouse of Commons at Otta.ru s
Saturday, a dispatch. ss follows: ..Downing
street. let ti With reference to
pre
He wno . r m r f er:ang e a y . i , lg i l hes respect to the =e Inform you that the hoard :7 Ade
miralty bare been requested to send to Cana- .
dine waters a force anMcienato protect the -
Clnedieur Bennie, and maintain o .tner "
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fly Telegraph to the Pittsburgh Gazette.]
N.....r0pg, May S.—lnteresting services
were held this evening at the Fifth Avenue
Presbyterian church, Rev. Jno. Half,, in
referenerterandler the meeting
of the World's nsangelleal Alliance in this
city, September Mt to October 3d. Addresses
were mad i e ti ty e tz . Dr. Ha l l, ScilitfwaintJilk?,;
objects of the Alliance, and the psospects and
purposes of Its neat meeting. The European
delegation will . 'number one In:warred
and . fifty, Metalling twenty or ' thirty
of the most eminent echelon . and
divines. cm the confluent,. and a number ofmember, members of the English Parliament. Ptesi•
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