The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1873-12-21

tl0n" In the struggle on the Continent to
trary, the battle which the Catholics are
fighting In Germany and in Switzerland
has for it's avowed and sole object the
maintenance of the statue quo ante, and If
Mr. Disraeli were to take any such part in
the struggle rs his "stand on the Reforma-
would be guilty of most distinct "usurpa-
tion," and of encroachment on the rights
of conscience, and on that civil equality,
of which he declared himself last week the
champion. He probably, however, did not
mean much more than thfsl-that he and
bis party were the real Protestants aud
ought to be supported by scothmen.
MR.. FOSTER ON sEcuLAR1sM.
Mr.. Forster, who, at the London dinner
in honoF of Lord Lawrence, was lees def
mite In his remarks-congratulati his
audience on the operation of the Act and
doings of the London School Board in par
ticular, has at Liverpool, in laying the
memorial stone" of the first school erected
by the Board of that city, given ntteranoe
to distinct expressions of his views with
regard to secularist education. He laid it
down as q fact which must be admitted
that 1t 10 the general wish of parents that
at the same school, and by the same teach
ers there should be instruction in religion
as well as in other matters and that as
they had decided that the State should
give this instruction, they must take the
consequence of having to deal with enor-
NOUS multitudes of their fellow citizens
who prefer that the two things should be
united together. He said that system Of
State education could be conducted on two
principles, one that of teaching everything
which they think it wrong to receive-this
being the principle of the Education Act
and the other the principle of teaching
nothing but that on which everybody is
agreed-which is the principle of the Lea
= - g. -
system nv. Forster distinctly declares that
40 an educational reformer he can never
assent. It would be to starve education, for
you cannot, he justly said, stop at instruc-
ton In Catechism, or even instruction in
the Bible. If it is to be carried out logi
cally, everything that effects religious
matters will have to 60. "aistory is pole
Dieal it cannot help being poemical."
''AIlusions, advice, exhortation, reproof.
during the time that the master or mistress
has to deal with the children, would come
under the Limitation for how is q master
not lie, and at the same time. to be obliged
to bold his or her tongue about what he or
shesmay consider to be the reason why that
child should tell q lie." Poetry and phil
osophy would go with the Bible, and you
would give merely 'the poorest kind of
teach them to read and write and cipher"
and nothing else. GAS Liberal politician"
he feels that it would be "most illiberal to
interfere with the wish of the enormous
majority to have the two subjects brought
together" And though he is willing that
try the experiment of separating them-in
which he does not think that they will
succeedAhe declares that, if the time
should come when the fathers and mothers
OF England wish that State education
should be purely secular, they must find
some other individual than himself to do
their business. This, with the assurance
that Lord Aberdare and Mr.. Forster will
work the Act on precisely the same princi-
pies as Lord Ripon and Mr.. Forster work
ed it's very satisfactory as far it goee,
though we should of course have to add
our own reservation as to the, non-exist
ence of "uusectarian" religious instruction.
Sectarianism may be evidenced by omis-
sions aS we'll as by positive statements.
THE PRUssIAN PERSECUTION.
The fresh Rnes inflicted on Arci,bishon
Ledochowski, and the fresh execution on
his personal property have been followed
up, according to a telegram from Posen, by
the last act of iniquity which the Govern
ment has been holding in reserve. The
stated, summoned the Arch bishop to resign
his see within eight days, threatening that
if he does not he will be cited before the
Ecclesiastical Court. Meanwhile, some of |
the prosecutions under the May Laws have |
been quashed in the Courts of First In. |
stance, but this is of little Importance, as
the Government can always obtain convic-
tions in the higher Courts. The +" Centre
fraction " is taking up two points, the
second being of direct interest to itself.
These are the repeal of the newspaper
stamp-which kills the Prussian press
and the substitution of equal suffrage for
the three categories Of electors. On these
questions it will obtain considerable sup
port outside its own ranks, but the Gov
organs are getting mp q strong
on the electoral question.
THE PERSECUTION IN THE JURA.
The sacrilegiols and violent installation
II foreign apOstate priests at Porrentruy /
las been followed by an exactly similar !
at Delemont. The practitioners
lad held meeting and ordered the ssnssil /
Ie fa6riqUe not to give mp the keys, on '
which the vice project, NJ. Gobat, frst i'm I
the chairman of the council, aud S
hen suspended the council and Transferred
10 functions to the Municipality. The 8
with one of his colleagues /
elegsted by the rest, then went to Bsrne n