The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1873-04-20

Iit; but that Q body Of men protesting TO be
teachers and Interpreters Of revelation 10 9
aud this most especially in edncstion. New
bears closely on the subject Mr.. Witty has re
ferred to tho education Of DOR poor little obi
dren. am now tsikisg university eascstior
but am going to pass from that to sometsans
simpler. You arc we'll aware that when Oxford
and Cambridge threw their gates open and IN.
yitsd the Catholic youth 70 enter for degrees 10
| those ancient and honored universities, the no.
| ly See said, No; into the heterodox culture OF
England NO Catholic can set his foot: Now, the
to be admonished by their Bishops that If they
send their sons to tbese universities they OK.
pose them to the risk Of losipg their faith, and
that to expose son 70 the risk losing hss las,n
its name. But where are We about our little
children ? We have q statute which lament
the statute of 1870. believe the statutes were
made under q momentary terror, got up ny .
able, and others very pertinacious-men who
alarmed Parliament, and, think, worked nm
duly on the nerves Of the Governments. They
set up school boards, and they sacrificed the
integrity of the denominational system. Il
must use the word deuominational educa tion
because 1t is ineligible. In sacrifcing that,
ucation Of English children on an inclined
plane. We have descended far and am
afraid there 10 no check in that descent
will tell you what mean. During the four
ective school-time-seculars instruction ealOne
can DO taught. The children may be instruct
ed IN religion In the half hour precedinfs
which Is not school.time, aud'shas So the hsif
DO got to attend with ,punctuality-or in the
half hour following the hours of scheel-eims
that 70, when these poor little ones are ex.
tss
Bot worse than this, che books retained dur
ing the four hours, though they contain no
essechetical or doctrinsl construction, contain
ian history, so chat children using them in
sensibly imbibe great deal of religion. What
is our present state The other day, Govern
ment inspector objected to hymn in q Church
of England school. because it contained the
name of the Saviour of the world. Within the
last three days have had letter from CO..
tholic Bishop telling me that an inspector ut
book becapso itspoks Of the goodness Of God.
Why, Seneca weuld hsve passed 1t, and Cicero
would have taught it. have said this much,
because promised you Iwould talk politics.
the kingdom wiIlbe taken upon an issue. not
of import or export, or OF inconse.tax,
or extension of the suffrage, but on the
question of religious education. Never in the
days of my life have I mixed in q political
election, except the one instance have given
you. Never since became q priest have
spoken word or done an act to influence q,
political election. Since have held the office
have refused over and over again TO write
even note to any electoral body in the king
dom. have said am bound to be the pastor
Of q deck divided int Wings and Tories, Con-
servatives and Lberals-divided in politics
and they constantly come to me with their
complaints and say, You are too much of O
Liberal, or too much of Whig,' and say
am not o1e or the other; Lot us sweep al
,chsn euery Catholic, be ksIaywan, priest or Bish
op Is bound to exercise the utmost e HE o,cer by
ord and by act 10 influence the merit general stctiOs
ID In my power 1 will be wanting in nothing.
So far as can publicly declare it, by word
and by writing, will do it. You have made
the occasion for mo tonight in Liverpool for
me to say SO, and bave taken the occasion to
say 80. Now. gentlemen, before I sit down I
must answer tho Bishop. He has provoked me
beyond endurance. He has told nae must
come down to Liverpool to see what Catholics
are, and to see how the laity are attached to
their Bishop and their clergy. acknowledge
that hnd noble example of that which is to
be found nowhere in England but in the Cath
olic Church. There is disntegration, dissoius5
ton, dissensioa. separation, crumbling, mould
ering on every side; but in the Catholic
Church there is unity more tenacious, more
SOLID more vigorous, more fruitful, moro ex-
pansive every day. am bound to say that,
noble az Is your unity, we have some of it in
London. You took away our commerce, and
the clyde hastaken away our ship bnildipg,
and Nottingham took away the knitting
frames from Westminster, and do not, know
what we have got lift. . Spital6elds has lost
its silk TO great extend but a&ill we have
got on 10 London. We make laws and some
times they are not good ones. We are the i'm
perial city after ALL and in that imperial city of
5000 600 IRE 200 900 Catholics knit together by
the iite and the love of tho Faith. Generous and
liberal, as your Bishop has testified, they are
doing great and neble works. In Eve years
they have added some sixty seven new schools
to the diocese, and in the last seven years they
have added, think, seme eighteen or twenty
chnrohes, and they are building four more
Therefore, am bound to say that, though /
have learned much from You in Liverpool,
have learned my lesson already. And now, my
lords aud gentlemen, thank you with ali my
heart, and shall go back to London bearing
with me- Unjust say, . very fervent recolleo-
ton of your afectonate welcome, and
the perfect confidence that IL 1 have again
the happiness of being in Liverpool l
shall not only iud myself surrounded
with intelligence, zeal, and industry, but
with the faith, and charity, and piety which
animates yoR all, and shall find myself
once more in the midst of the Catholic
CLUB knowing what it is. Let us then take up
M the results of the too many words l have
spoken, irm resolution to appeal to the peo-
pie OF England in the next election. L think
1t noble thing that the Bishops of Ireland
nave ralsed their voices for Christian educa-
tion "A these three kingdoms. Standing In the
breach, and at the head of the column, let us
be with them. Let ia annual In he EooI;.h