The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1873-08-16
THE CATHOLIC SCHOOL.

The Catholic school, for boys and girls,
will be re opened on the first Monday of
September. Catholics aud non Catholics
will be received, as heretofore, without any
distinction of creed. Fully one half of
the pupils last year, were non Catholics,
and all appear to be perfectly satisfied
with the progress made in their studies.
The non Catholic pupils arc not required
to receive any religious instruction what
ever; their own, or the religious convc-
tions of their parents, are respected on the
ground that we should all worship God
according to the dictate of our own con-
science. Any tampering with ones faith,
or sincere and honest belief, is british
and tyrannical and should not be tolerated
in Christian community. Christianity
implies civilization, law and order; and
St. Paul, unfolding this Christianity to
nations, says, in his Epistle to the Romans,
that man who does not live according to
his honest conviction is living in state of
mortal sin.
The teaching of tho Catholic Church,
on the subject of education may be sum-
med up in few words: Our life is two
fold-the life of the body and the life of
the SOUL These two lives are SO inter-
twined that they cannot be separated even
in thought. The education Of both must,
therefore, 90 hand in hand; for although
the body is here only the jeweled casket
of he rfn 1 10
God to share with the soul happiness un-
speakable through the endless years Of
Heaven, when this round earth will have
rolled up like scroll and, like piece of
burning paper, vanish like smoke in the
glance of God.
We are taught by st. Paul that Reason
is only the Handmade of Faith and, there
fore, whenever a so-called science contra
diets the teachings of the Church of Christ
We must necessarily conclude that there is
something rotten in that science or, in
other words, that it is not science at all.
The command to blend the education of
soul and body together is as old as Revela-
ton; for almost every page Of the Holy
member our Creator in the days of our
youth, before the days Of af1liction come
St. Peter tells us that the inspired Script
ures we're written for our instruction, and,
therefore, the awful punishment visited on
He'll for not having taught his sons to keep
the Commandments of God in their youth,
must convey serious lesson to those who
have charge of youth-how they
"-should rear the tender thought
And teach the young idea how to shoot,
And pour the fresh instruction DER the
mind.''
The Catholic Church holds (and, it must
be confessed, holds with terrible logic
too) that divorce of religion from educa-
ton thwarts our destiny, or end and drags
us back to the Paganism of old Rome,
whose sons and daughters learned their
catechism at the feet of Horace, the poet
telling them to seat, drink and make
merry, to-day, for to morrow we e.
Such system could not he healthy-there
is wall of despair mingled with its revel-
ry. And yet this is the philosophy taught
by the great masters of fiction, especially
the novelists of this and the last century
The Catholic objects to send his child
to public school because of the conscien-
tious conviction that he owes the child a
moral as we'll as secular training; and
hence the deep interest which Catholics
take in UNCONVENTIONAL schools
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