Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1859-04-01

TO have that ts7ltTHs version OF Ooo ;
word. 30 offensive to Catholic conscience I
and belief, read daily 10 bis flock BY their
hereto teachers? 10, if it is intolerant
to ask the children to read or recite that
Bible. it is intolerant to read it TO Them
In it is intolerant to ask them to reeite
the Ten Commandments, il is intolerant
to teach 1t 70 them. If to ask the Cath
ole children TO join in repeating the pure
religion, the simple and pathetic suppl
cations ofthe Lords Prayer,ofeuds their
conscienees, then any instruction in pieiy /
iron a Protestant is offensive, and the
Bible must be banished forever from our
schools. I appeal from Bishop and priest
to the unfettered intelligence Of our
adopted citizens-I appeal to the conn-
itrymen Of Burke, and Sheridan, and
/ Grauan. and Curran. Do you,who wish
Ito become American citizens, you who
wish to draw closer the bonds Of COM
mon country and a common freedom, fear
that your children will suffer because
they, with united hands and hearts, lift
up their tender voices in common prayer
10 that God who is the Father ofall, whose
rain falls alike upon the just and the IN
Just, who is the God of all nations, of all
races, all climes?
1 repeat once and forever, that there Is
not any sectarisnism intended or taught
by the use of the Bible. We do not ask
your children TO adopt our translation As
the true one. If any point Of doctrine
arises upon any text of our Bible or
theirs, they are free in their faith as We
are in ours. They are Instructed to in
terpret the second commandment in one
way, AMI we in another. No one wishes
4 or seeks TO disturb their faith; we do not
= ask them TO say or believe that ours is the
: true word Of God, or the best translation
J, of the tables of the law which God de-
liyered to Moses. Our teachers. in their
e great duty. teach lessons of piety from
q the only source from which it can be
o taught, and the children are free to be-
g lieve or diSbelieve them.
h Irepel altogether the specious pretense
,hat our Bible is not the Bible, because
S the translation differs in some particulars
h from the Douay Bible. Every transla-
IS ton from the original Hebrew and Greek
Il must Of necessity vary-must Of uecess-
:, ity be more or less perfect, according t.
II the accuracy and perfection of the Ian
ID guage into which it is translated, and th,
re learning and skill of the translator. Th,
4 Holy Scriptures have been translated in
& to over one hundred and fifty differen
lr languages; but they are always the Bi
pc bic Not the Bible of the Catholic 0
Il the Calginist-not the Bible Of the Meth
e odist, or the Episcopalian, but the Chris
so Itian Bible.
Or As well may we be told that God
Ie. eternal sky is not the same. It cIothe
O. itselfwith vanishing. ever-changing beau
Is ty from season to season, from hour I
lat hour. 1t robes itself in the violet hue
of of spring, the deep cloudless Transporter
lily cy Of midsummer, and the dark ste,
.es blue of northern winter. Il arrays i
an self equally in the delicate rose and ops
aal hnes OF dawn-the purple and gold (
is sunset, aud at midnight it wears its roy;
ed robes. all fecked with countless stars; b,
ID in all changes-in all climes-it Is alwal
he Gods eternal SKY, the same sublime in
an aye Of that wondrous eternity which Ii,
he behind Us, and before us-the same hol
nj symbol Of the all-embracing love Of Q,
nd Heavenly Father.
'od And now nay it please the Court,
lsi have butte sum up my argument IN a fe
ieh words.
er- They say that the regulations of Il
md School Committee violate the Constif
ag- lion, which protects all citizens in the
Iig- liberty of conscience. I answer til
og- their conscience is left free-they are n
-es. called upon to believe ordisbelieve an
are thing. Their faith Is their own-we
ON not ask them to yield one iofa Of it,
sun They may fnd offense in cur laws. and
ars our customs. That is always the cons
.ne. quenee Of general laws. They found
her with these inslitutions-,hey have .
our cePted the benefits of them-they mt
will bear with the iaconrenienees also. IA
ent | say it in all kindness. but it Is proper
he'd should be said, there are many causes
Bot offense which Protestant parents also fl
nd N the laws, which compel their childr
Die. to mingle with the children Of the Cat
/ in die. Let Us hepe for mutual forbearan
be and mutual submission to the laws.
We May it please your Honor, cam
raj admit that the pretended objections rli-
adj by the Catholic pupils are not nj
/. 81 fetcbss and prefeoses devised for the. ri