Daily evening star. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1852-1854, 1853-11-22

association for educating the moor and
for giving them what we consider a nrore,
religious education. Education without
religion is worse than nothing: as Cath.
ollcS, we hold that religious training is
the foundation of all education. Knowl-
edge without religion. only renders
man more capable Of sin. and more oh.
noXlouS to society. Considering that re-
liGious training is the very essence of ed
ucatlon, this association is instituted for
the purpose of giving a proper religious
education. This object also appeals 70
you as citizens, although not Catholics, it
IS an object OF good for Society at large.
For what Is the pest Of society in our
days, which appears to threaten the liber-
ties ct the land 1t is the unrestrained
iIcentlousncSS of the youth of the coun.
try. 1t Is because young men and boys
arc allowed to DO as they pleasc-thev
have not been taught in infancy the first
OF all learning they have been taught in
the public schools nothing that will make
them citizens of heaven. Thus, they
manifest, by their conduct, that the liber-
ties of the land are in jeopardy. un-
less the youth are taught better princi-
pies Of religion. Here we are doing a
great benefit for the countrv-we are
teaching them the necessity of due submis
sion, otobeying God and his Representatives
upon earth, Of living as citizens should
live, submissive to the authorities that
have been placed over them to rule the land
In republic like this, unless the pcoplc
are affected byTeligicus motires. where
there is no physical power TO restrain
them, they are likely to fall into the same
errors as other republics have fallen
INTO. As Catholics, therefore, it is our
duty to labor for the institutions of the
country, by training up the youth of the
land, and giving them a proper religious
education. This object appeals to us all.
1t appeals TO Us as Christians, as Catho-
lies, as well as citizens of this Republic.
and citizens of Washington. Ifyou wish
to perpetuate the glorious institutions of
your country, and to save this city from
degradation and misery, give this Young
society the means of educating the poor,
who, If not educated, will be, thereafter,
the cause of the city. Rescue them from
the streets, from houses of Ill fame, from
all the miseries attending the incautious-
ness of this growing city, teach them their
duties, and you will be contributing
to the perpetuation of the glorious in
sttutlons under which YOU live
1t is an object Of pride to every American
heart to see the growing prosperity Of
this city, to see its monuments rising
around us. as if by magic, and all this
within few years, when the venerable
pastor Of this church was the only min
lister of his religion. But glorious as are
the monuments around us, glorious as
that Capitol may be, these are monuments
that on the great day of account will be
levelled with the dust from which they
are formed. Your wealth that YOU love
SO much will rust, your beauty will fade,
all the treasures that you have been Ia
boring for during thirty or forty years
will disappear, but one immortal soul
that you can save by this Society, to- day.
will live when that monument to the
Father Of his Country shall crumble into
dust, and draw benedictions upon you
that shall last as long as eternity.