The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1869-07-20

day oy day and increasing the respect felt for them
by the common rabble.
well selected to his peculiar styles-ior ne mas
several-ls at present on exhibition mere, anu
Snaar S gallery Is soon 10 NJ Mr. r. Ause the
artist. There was report last winter tnat Tue Dore
pictures had been shipped but tnal on their arrival
In New York difficulty nad arisen In regard TO the
payment OF duty. THIS was incorrect as, though
the enterprise was then contemplated, 1t was
not carried into execution. The large painting by
bore representing gambling at Baden Baden, has
been bought back by Its author and destroyed. The
for this was that the faces represented around
the gambling table were all portraits OF well known
persons OF both sexes and Dore was threatened
in all sorts OF dreadful ways, # he suffered the pic
ture TO remain In existence. There are, however.
FEW prints from the original still aoat and the like,
nesses are well preserved.
Archbishop Mannina;s Pastoral on National
Education.
Archbishop Manning has recently Issued pasto-
raj on the subject OF National Education" from
which the following passage is extracted
Water cannot rise above its source. The State has
no rights, therefore no duties, higher than those OF
the parents. Sacerdotalism claims no such rights
against the natural rights OF parents. The Church
TO direct, and by all moral power TO constrain, Its
members 10 educate their children as Christians
and, further to protect them In these rights and du-
from Julian 10 Votar9 the state, when it exceeds
u rights, is the worst A Christian clvil power
escng BY yonn6 ~ a9i acs9a se
most perfect example Of the moral character
OF the State. civil power holding the balance
OF Justice even in a firm neutrality among the
religious sections OF q divided people, assisting
them TO educate their children partly by private
and partly by public means, III schools proper 10
their respective religious CONVICTIONS is the less per-
feet, but the inevitable, conditions OF state whcn
has forfeited It's religious unity. civil power re-
jectlng all religion from Its pubic action, ana eX-
Guiding it from Its popular education, ana neverne-
less meddhng with teachers, schools and books,
OF Dureaux and pedants. In such system the
State has not only got rid OF sacerdetalism. but
has usurped the parental rights OF the people.
Its usurpation upon the office or the Church Is
an usurpation also upon the authority OF every
father and mother IN the land. We cannot be
conflict into which We may be entering. IL is no
less than trial OF strength between the traditions
OF Christian England and the demands or those
who, while they strip the State or all Christianity,
claim for 1t supreme control over the education OF
the people. They tell us that the time Is come for
enlarging our conceptions or the State by claiming
for II right TO exercise those functions which the
clergy have hitherto regarded as their own. But
those functions are essentially and exclusively re-
hgl0us and the clergy claim direction OF education,
nation OF children by the law OF Christian faith and
morals. This claim, Them OF the State Is equivalent
to q State supremacy over the conscience. " nat
was once Claimed for kings Is now claimed FOR
States. But kings claimed q supremacy to direct
their people IN matters Of religiOn the State is now
people OF ChrstlaQlty and TO exclude their pastors
and clergy from directing the education OF children.
Now FMS Is nothing else than the dedication OF the
civil power, which Christianity overthrow IL Is the
Ie1 regso OF ancient Rome, III which the emperors
were pontiifs--a true tyranny over body and soul.