The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1874-04-19

- 1t fills Us with admiration when we see yor
venerable Brethren of the Sacred Priesthood
proving yourselves good shepherds by you
le iabors to provide the lambs of your fiocks wit
y The wholesome pastures of sound teaching, an
to shelter them from the chilling blasts of un
belief and Indifference. We see Won ofte,
denying yourselves the comforts and almos
the necessaries of life, that out of your scant,
- means you may spare something to provid,
your congregations with Catholic schools
. Great consolation also do We feel in know
ing how many of you, Beloved of the Laity
cooperate generously with your selfsacriicing
, pastors to obtain this blessing for your chill
dren. May your example awaken all your
ieilow Catholics to sense of their duty and
save them from the terrible sentence of the
Apostle: If any man have not care of his
own, and especially of those of his family. he
hath denied the faith, and is worse than an
| lnfsel." Ct. Tim. V. 81
ERRORS OF THE PREVAILING SYSTEM or EDt--
| CATION.
! We must not abandon our hope that orr
ieilow citizens will sometime open their ewes
10 the 1ntal error they are pursuing p-ti;eir
iaise system OF education. 1t is melancholy
10 see among Christian people and in this
nineteenth century, that the children who are
hereafter to be the rulers of the country are
80 trained that during all the hours that til cir
minds are being stored and developed, thew
are kept systematically excluded from all the |
truths and practices of religion; from all that !
could bring out clear in their sous the image
and likeness of God, in which consists the very
excellence of our manhood
IL Is the more astonishing because we claim
TO be free people, and yet this unhappy sys
tenn Oh teaching sets aside the dearest of lib.
ertles-the liberty of parents to train according
TO their own conscience the children God has
given them and Of whose training he Will
demand rigorous account.
God grant that our fellow citizens NAV Sc
before 1T is too late, how this method of rear
ing children is bringing them up without the
ear OF God, and is helping the desolatipp
march OF dishonesty and every immortality
through the land.
Even in financial point of view this svstau 8
eems 10 pc no great success. 1t would be @
'ofth the time of q Tax Payers League or of a
NY other friends of public economy, to esti- +
nate all the public money assigned to purposes q
EDUCATION, taxes, fines, licenses, revenues h
rom pubic lands, ETC., and then compare the +
mount with the quantity and quality of the n
eachlng actually received. Let them notice n
specially how much of this education reaches n
10 chliaren OF the poor, and how much of this q
oney comes into the hands of the hard work II
- teachers. 10 obtain this last item LET y,
ieih consider not only the monthly salaries r,
ID inc number OF months in year that these n
'iaries are PAID, and the amount of actuol
ISL inc teachers get for the warrants or other :,
'Per that they have to accept. We fear there 4,
Ill DC good reason to initiate the famous ex or
ahiatlon about liberty, 90 education, HOW. -
nch money, speculation and party interest u,
g cloaked unGler thy beautiful na,nen 81,
certainly II men would lay aside all selfish III
III party considerations, aud all preiudices 90
sisotFy, there is wisdom enough among our A,
ople 10 devise methods of education a great w.
"l loss costly and more ef1cacious for the N,
bllo good, and in which all fair minded citi-
MS could heartily work together.
LAWFUL soCIETIES-MARKs TO KNOW THEA,
we are often asked concerning new societies ue'
ne''neS very popular, and engaged in pro- 90
'ins PuoLlc good, but of which Catholics y.
We reason to doubt whether it is lawful 70 pa
n them not.
mere are some characters that make a So -
W justly liable to suspicion, and others that Va
wv it to be plainly unlawful 70
of
,lics looking on j. ,,-ith 'l % "a tax
es the societies condemned by the Church, in 90
forms aud practices, such as W
ret signs, passwords, mysterious limitations
), etc. ~
Though these things are not necessarily reg
ni' yet they give strong presumption that spi,
leaders of the association are members of svst
,e' societies, and are animated by their nun
III ana II an earnest, practical Catholic. A
who really sets his religion above all tenn, oss;
Al interests should get into such a society men
u probably if he is a sharp observer he inc.
ma that whatever high STANDING tbov The
appear to give him, he is not admittod 70 Sx,
hidden councils or rings" which practi s.
direct its workings. For it is one of the bav,
Its OF these secret forms, that with them Dioc
) easy for society to be guided by m rend
Nh hands, and made to advance objects dist
N many of its members do not susnec+ F.
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