The Evansville journal., 1866-11-13
The Roman Catholic Council on Edn-.
cation and Ref0rmatOries.
The Pastoral Letter Of the Roman

Catholic Council nj Baltimore says.
We roeur 10 tho subject Of the edn
cation of youth, 10 which, 10 the
former Plenary Council, we already
directed your attention, for the pur-
nose Of reiterating the admonition we
then gave, ia regard 10 the establish
ment aud support Of Parochial
Schools, aud of renewing tle expires
sion of8our conviction that religious
teaching and religious training should
form part OF every system Of school
education. Every days experience
renders il evident that 10 develop the
intellect and store il with knowledge,
while the heart aud the affections are
left without the control OF RELIGIOUS
principle, sustained by religious prae-
tices, iii il 20 mistake the nature and
object 6f education, as we'll as 70 pre-
pare for parent and child the most
bitter disappointment in tie future,
and forsoeiety the most disastrous re-
suits. We wish also 10 call attention
10 prevalent error on the subject O.
the education Of youth, from whieh
parents OF the best principles are !. dnot
always exempt. Naturally deslring
the advancement Of their children, 4,
determining the education they WI
give them. they not unirequent-
" consult their wishes, rather
than tlieir meals, and pFobaihe posi-
ton of their children in mature age,
Education. 90 be good, need not nee
essarily be either high or ornamental,
in theetudios or accomplishments ~
embraces. These thing. are IN them
selves tinobjcctiondble, and they may
bo suitable and advantageous or
otherwise, according TO circumstances,
Prepare your children for the duties
Of the state or condition of life they
are likely to be. engaged in; do. not
exhaust your means~ih bestowlng or
them In education which may unfit
them for these duties. This would be
a sure source Of disappointment and
dissatisfaction, both for yourself and
for them. Accustom them from their
earliest years to habits Of obedience,
industry Iand . thrift, and deeply. inn
press on their minds the great princi-
pie that happiness and success III life,
as we'll as acceptance with God, do
not 80 much depend upon the station
we fill rs ON the fidelity with which
we discharge It's duties. Teach them.
that tic groundwork of true happi-
ness must be placed in habitual and
cheerful submission. of our wills to
the diapensations Of Providence, who
has whely consulted for the. happis
ness Of oil, without, however, best0w-i
ing on slll ap equal share Of the goods
OF t0rtnno. aaifef .afk aaifiaa 8sg ssp
Connected with this subject OF edua
cation Ia the establishment. of pro-
tectories and industrial schools for the
correcbon or proper training Of youth,
which has of late years attracted uni
versal attention. It is a melancholy
fact, and "a very humiliatinG avowal
for ns TO make, that a very large pro-
portion of the idle and vicious youth
Of our principal cities are the. child
rem of Catholic parents. Whether
from poverty or neglect, the innocence
of which SO many parents are involved
an 10 the true nature Of education,
and Of their duties as Christian pa
rents, or the associations which our
youth so easilyform with those who
encourage them to disregard parental
admonitions certain il is, that Q large,
number Of Catholic parents either ap-
pear TO have no. idea Of the sanotity
OF the Christian family, and Of the
responsibility imposed on them Of
providing for the moral trimming of
their offspring, or fulfill this duty in a
very imperfect manner. Day after
day, these unhappy children are
caught.ain the commission of petty
crimes which render them amenable
60 the public authorities; and, day
after day, they are transferred
by hundreds from thosectarian .refor-
matories in which they have been
placed by the courts, to distant locali-
ties, where they are brought up in ig-
norance OF and most commonly in hos
tility to the religion in which they
have been baptized. The only RENE
dy for this great and daily augmenting
evil is, tosprovide Catholic protector.
les or. industrial schools, to which
such children may be sent; and
where, under the only influence that
is known TO. have really reached the
roots OF. vice. the youthful culprit NAV
cease 10 do evil and learn 10 do good
We rejoice that in some Of our dio,
ceses-would-that. we. conld say in all
Ia beginning has been made in this
good work; and we cannot too earn.
cstly exhort our venerable bretherr
of the clergy tobring this matter be.
fore their respective hocks, to en-
deayor to impress on Christian pa
rents1 the duty Of guarding their chill
dren from the evils above referred to
and invite them to make perseveriny
efforts for the establishment of insti
tutions wherein, under the infiuenc
Of ofreligious teachers, the waywardpes
of youth may be corrected, and goo
seed planted in the soil in which
while men slept, the enemy had sowe'
tares. iA7 Nih@ 20 .a% 81