The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1872-01-07

CHRISTIAN EDUCATION.

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!. to give our readers tho translation Of /,
highly important and most interesting Mes
sage Of the President Of the Republic o
Ecuador publisbed several weeks ago in oul
t foreign Catholic exchanges. Would tha
all rulers wero actusted by the same Chris
tian spirit as the President Of Ecuador
whom may God bless and protect accord.
Ing to his deserts! The following extracts
will give the gfst Of this noble address Of a
Catholic rulcr TO the Catholic people who
have called him to their highest place Of
honor III
Honorable Senator's and Deputies-
Humbly PROSTATE before God, we render
thanks 10 Him for the blessings He hath
INCREASINGLY poured forth on this country Of
! Ecuador, from the moment when, in obedi-
ence to our belief, we gave to the reform of
our institutions the solid basis Of the Catho-
Although I was convinced that We
tious policy which beAts rising and still
weak State. had to discharge the impera-
tive duty Of Catholic chief m agistrate, OF a
people essentially Catholic when I learned
that the Italian troops had taken possession
OF Rome. If the lowest of the Ecnadorians
had been wronged in his person or in his
goods by the most powerful of Govern
ments, We should have loudly protested
against such an abuse of force; it 10 the
only means left to small States not to au-
thorize injustice by the humiliating COM
lent when, by the usurpation Of the tempo
raj dominion Of the Holy See, and the con-
seQuent destruction Of it's liberty and indie.
pendence In the exercise of it's divine mis-
sion, the rights Of not one, but Of all Ecua-
dorians, their highest and most precious |
nd
faith, were violated. doubt mot but You |
approve the protest Of this Government |
against the unjust occupation of Rome, o |
protest which has already obtained the ap- |
probation Of our august Ponti6 and of all |
true Catholics throughout the world
The President goes on to show what has
been done for the improvement of morals
in the Republic Of Ecuador. He refers, in
this connection, as an indisputable proof,
to the decrease Of drinking habits, and the
almost entire disappearance of crime. The
honor Of this he refers to the Episcopate
and the reform it has effected in the clergy.
He announces that the missions, confided
to the Jesuit Fathers, are beginning to in
troduce civilization amongst the savage
hordes who occupy one of the richest parts
of the territory of the Republic. He ex-
cepts only the Jibaros, anthropophagi who
still resist the zeal and charity of the holy
Religious. He then gives some details as
to the state Of public instruction, to which
We earnestly invite the attention of our
readers
" Public instruction, an essential copdi.
lion OF the civilization and freedom of the
continues to be the sweetest and
most constant object of our aspirations.
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because 1t concerns all, and serves ne the :
preparation for secondary and superior in. .
'truction, has received the special protec-
ion OF the Government, although actual :
legislation leaves it absolutely without :
means OF action for giving life and impulse :.
avail is it that some new free schools for +
children have been opened under the excel =
emit directions of the Brothers of the Chris .
ian schools that costly edifices are now
'eing constructed for the establishment of
1harity and the Religious Of the Sacred W
Heart also conduct free schools in some a.
.ouses which they have established in our th
Republic So long as the other schools are W
dependent on the inactive Academical "
OF the provinces, in regard to ri
endowment, the scandslous sight will be an
cen, of several parishes wanting schools, OF
many that are now in existence disap. 70
suppressed by the municipal coun- ny
Lie, on the pretence Of o false and mean +
economy, and that salaries are so email 4,
hat it is generally only the most incapable m.
ersons, and the least fitted for their task ms
ersons, in short, who cannot mako Hv- s sp
10 at anything else, who are willing to ~
nbrace the arduous aud laborious profes- sshS *;
on of teacher. Primary teaching has rec
rus come to be, amongst us, the career OF Ito
lose wEo have no other; and the neces- els els
Try result Of this deplorabe situation In. rrr
at, after some years, irreparably lost, s saS
'ildren leave these schools, which might dec
aptly styled schools Of ignorance, and, me
it'll heads void of all useful ideas and IN
ARTS spoiled by pernicious example, at VT
Q same time that fully one-third, or per- OR,
ps even one half of the children, remain We We
prived Of all teaching, either for want of Flo
achors, OF tnrOugn Tue incredible oppoei- Car
N of their guilty parents. It is not sur thi,
ising, therefore, that ignorance and the RI RI
mt of even honorable sentiment are 80 CON
an transmitted aa n fatal baritaca uar bus
kuatiQp the ipdalant idlaness MI ..