The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1870-08-21
Christian Schools.

| o'J "aue an advance stem in II,
sne direction, and before that severa, =
W.. o'a.es In this Union had adopted lep;s
iaeion decidedly subversive of the nae,
SCHOOL system at one time 90 ponu1o,
H'en mere in New Orleans We A,d +h
rfesoyterians, the Jews, and perbaps othe
making strenuous efforts to educat.
Oue'r children in their own faith, and com.
.nencing to wake up from the infatuat;or
as 70 public schools that. once rn1ed III,
hour. WIZ ieieo Tue
England henceforth sectarian schools
oven II Catholic, can obtain a certain sbor.
VI tne tax income devoted to education
s'nu the rest of the Protestant world poer.'
" wants the sanction of England to adon+
inc same policy, and acknowledges the mn
oias",ng injustice that has SO long robbed
oa'nohcs under a specious pretence If
PUBIC good. Thus the good work hoe
.'Ienced In earnest, and soon the paoan
Vi innoel public school will be numhered
among the exploded decisions of q mast
age. " pas1
is surprising with what gullibilitv an |
innocent public accepted this skilfnl ;nven
ton of the devil as a perfect soo;o,
'nefe was moral nostrum that
fe'gned with as despotic sway as tho
"ose popular patent medicine that ever
'"ne" inc ignorant, that nostrnm was the
'"oiic scnool system. Certain good folks
'noly anticipated that it would work
e'oiAnatlon Tar more thorough than Chris.
"ni'y had been able to accomplish and =
rove the main pillar in the fabric of civil .
ovefnment.. 1t was to create and ;,.,7za v
OF only intelligent people but good c;ti
IL reality 1t gave mere smatteripp
euucation to those who would have got =,
- more without it, and produced a bale =,
! crop OF lnhdelity to God, to the family =.
~ 10 ene country. dim glimmerine of y.
rum IN this respect has probably had ~
hething to do with the sober secopd
ought that now promises to prevail, -,
&c was in vain to argue with the m,ior;.,- 'H
mefe principle; that principle had to ~ ~
II us fruits before they could see #
ere could be nothing moro unjust than f'
lnhdel school system. 1t was in fact
aole religious persecution. 1t did not
's Catholic to the stake or the cross w.
IL prosecuted him by fines and penal. ~
, ana the ingenuity with which this was
oio not destroy its reality. He was :.
taxed like everybody else. bnt then VIII
revenue arising was so bestowed tho. moi
oold not possibly avail himself of its p %.
that use had been to build Pro- 49,
'n' churches and endow them for reli-
service, OF course it would have heen -
entiy a thing in which he could not he
eeeo to participate and to which w
led. If the mone1 b., w lave oeen tionl
70 building and maintaininga system on.a
eemason lodges, it might have been s a..n
Gnu also that he could not profit ~ ""
ny IN any respect. What then mnst W.
ne with bis money, SO that it con1d so
ldow a svstem of aat "ny' SIM religi
ence won1a eo.,,., WHICH count
en-. ''-' 'enuing his Magu
s WAS Tho o,.,,,, ,--.--- they I
pisned. At first the schools were 6o -.
bpt soon +ho+ '''io W LIS plish
1rage for the spirit of the time. and W.
hey were made infde5. To these. as ''.u.a
TO the Others, his conscience nro. unio
hlm from sending his children. but 'no "
10 Justice of his cause was not an .. a'ton
TO the public. The prime instipa- 'ion "
the movement understood it. Thew -
nat such an education must arenken Jeo's,
'tn OF Catholic children, PERTAINS onn
1t entirely, but what of that9 Bet on"i
q them lnfidels than Catholics, ..' &c
lin the earnest Catholic proclaimed 'u' III
lese schools, too, were unfair. that 'u'Jec'
nscience still prevented him from, any oi'
hem. The nntl;. iioni trary
factions and -: oppo- Theref
. spirits in tho oo.e.: "niio 'ne the ap
sleeves Mt +bo;n ""ohieo countr,
pit and the public press with pane ny ino'
d the glorious public school system ADJ
e1 anchor of liberty and publ;c wal, it must
ne persecution was successful. and 1, omen
cs had agoin to submit in the nine- HARM,
century to be robbed of their goods chief O
sciences sake. has bee
'nough reason and argument NAV tha VII,
iShty KNOWS how to touch the resourc
OF men, and when his good time into the
ne makes every persecution cease. G qeiaIre
and gratitude were not strong ito finaj
with the Egyptian to release the Council
ON bondage, but the nlapues ,,-o, has nov