The morning star and Catholic messenger., 1870-04-03
Morning Star and Catholic Messenger.
NEW ORLEANS. SUNDAY, APRIL 3. 1870
fCommunicated.I
Religion and Education Combined.

Ii In the whole scope of letters there be one
exhausted subject, it must be that of educa-
hon, which has been discussed by all the great
minds that have enlightened the world from.
ths. earliest down to our own day.
That education may properly receive that
name it ought TO be, as Bacon says, rich
storehouse, for tho glory of God and the relief
OF mans estate: for in truth, we may we'll
say we have edifice without q foundation
as Imagine we have an education where we
lack its very essence, nay its 1ife-blood, which
is religion.
Yet, nevertheless, our own wealth seeking
rulers are not ashamed to cry out that an educa-
the youth of the Republic. In their stump
speeches they designate us by the pane of ia
natics, and say that we are 80 blinded by pre-
2n,ce as to be unable to see the many advan
sesses, and that they have made every conces-
sion in order to make us satisfied. The Church,
however, refuses to make q compromise with
error, and surrender the souls of her children
This she has never done and never will do, and
for this reason do we find Mt this moment our
old and sainted Pontif, together with all the
the infidel influence of irreligious education.
The defenders of such an education tell us
that religion is never taught in their classes
and that none can therefore complain; never
theless, their school books, written by New
England authors, are redolent with purit itanical
doctrine and hatred towards the Catholic reli-
gion. Every circumstance relating to Catho-
licity is cure to be ridiculed, while Catholic
child will never find in those books mention of
the absurdities Of the Blue Code by which a
mother was not permitted to kiss her babe on
Sunday, nor husband his wife; nor Of the
hanging OF the witches of Salem, where every
woman who had any signs of old age, which
was even respected by Pagans, was dragged
from her home and hanged on suspicion of be-
ing witch. The education received in those
public schools is by no means superior to that
of our Catholic institutions, where everything
ls taught progressively, and where the pupil is
fully prepared before entering into a new
science. 1t is not unfrequently that We see
youth of ten or eleven summers studying in
those other schools, OF at least trying tn study,
the most abstruse sciences, which in some Of
the first universities form the last years course.
How often have we heard a mere child speak
of light, when he should be learning the
names of the continents; carrying to school
volumes on mental philosophy, chemistry, the
higher mathematics, etc., being totally incapa-
BILE of undertaking such studies, or at most
being able to learn a few technical TERMS with
out attaching to them any signifcation. Let
us send our children; then, to the schools in
which they will receive a sound education;
where our sons will be saved from falling down
the precipice of religious indifferenceDaud inf
delity where our daughters will continue to be
chaste and unassuming, and not outstep the
bounds of female modesty. Then We need not
fear they will strut the streets in mans apparel
Or go about stump speaking for woman's rights,
nor try to make of this country Ii nation of
pigmy Amazons as those semi=masculine wo- |
men, drunk with New England irreligious edu-
cation, are attempting to do.
Then let us educate our children religicusly, |
these in turn will educate theirs and thus we |
will perpetuate pous family, of which we
will be the first link, and the Chain will go on
until the end of time. Happy wVhld it be for
us when we must leave the world with moth
ing but our good works to accompany us, could
We say with the sage of antiquity, "porto omnia
mccum," i carry all my wealth with me,
which is life in accordance with good re-
lgious education. Let then say to those
VINO would force upon us their earth groveling
education, what Cicero said of those false phi
iOSODlCra of his day. who wanted dc
friendship, "Solem enim 9 mundo tollere WIDEN
tur qui amicitiam tolunt qua nihil melius a
Des imnl0rtalibus habemurs nihil jucundus."
Those seem to take the out of the world |
who remove friendship, than which the immor-
tai gods have conferred upon us nothing bet
ter more pleasant. NJ. |