The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1874-02-15
Protestant Opponents of Goddess Schools.

research to place in the hands of our reader
the following enunciations of Protestant
rs to the necessity of religious INSTRUCTION
in connection with secular education. W.
beg of our readers to preserve these ex
tracts, in order to meet the objections o.
the goddess school advocates. 1t will be
wise in our friends to cut and put in theii
pocket books these utterances of nop-Ca.
tholics. There is not an argument ad
vanced in opposition to tho Catholic view
that we cannot answer by referring to Pro
testant authorities erclusirely. The fol-
lowing will do for the present. Hereafter
we will give more. Read thoroughly and
preserrc these extracts:
GEORGE WASHINGTON.
"Of all the dispositions and habits which
lead to political prosperity, religion and
morality are Indispensable supports. In
vain would that man claim the tribute of
patriotism who should labor to subvert
these great pillars of human happin ess-
these tirmest props of the duties of men
and citizens. The mere politician, equally
with the pious man, ought to respect and
to cherish them. A volume could not trace
all their connection with private and public
felicity. Let it simply be asked where is
the security for property, for reputation,
for life, if the sense of religious obliga-
ton desert the oaths, which are the in
struments of investigation in courts of
the superstition that morality can be main
tanned without religion. Whatever may
be conceded to the influence of refined
education on minds of peculiar structure,
reason and experience both forbid as to
expect that national morality can prevail
in the aeclusion of religious principles."-
FdreweU Address Of George Washington.
HoRATIo SEYMOUR.
"There is prevailing idea in our coun-
try that the spread of knowledge will
check crime. No one values learning more
ality or vice. Without moral and religious
it frequently becomes an aid to
crime. Science, mechanical skill, knowl-
edge of business, and the refnements and
of life are used by offend
ers against the law. Learning by itself
only changes the aspect of immortality ;
virtue is frequently found with the simple |
and uneducated. We must look beyond
the accidents of knowledge or ignorance III
we wish to learn the springs of action. TO
check vice there must be high M oral
standards in the public mind."-Address Of
er. Governor Uorati0 Seymour, before the |
National Prison association in Baltimore,
Jdn., 1873.
ALLISON.
" Secular education, worldly science, or
mere intellectual cultivation has no effect
n arrestng the sources of evil in the
human heart. 1t may alter the direction
If crime, but it does not lesson the amount.
education and civilization generally diff
used have powerful influence in check
ng the crimes of violence, but they tend
ather to increase those of fraud and gain.
thus is indeed experienced the truth of
he saying of Holy Writ that the love Of
money ID the root of all evil. '"-AUison's
History Of Europe.
PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL BISHOP POTTER.
al fear we shall be constrained to ack-
ow'edge that the last fifty years have not
cen us gaining in soundness of moral tone,
dvancing in public and private virtue, as
hey have seen Us advancing in wealth
nd power and enlarging our material ad-
antages. In very considerable portion
t our population, at least, it ia quite the
Where, then. shall we find a
emcdy for these growing evils 7 I will
enture to tell you where we shall not find
remedy for that unsound and inferior
,tlexible integrity. We shall not find :
'medy in mere secular education. We
lall not find cure for moral weakness =
nd moral obliquity in that instruction and ,
which quickens and streug- =
lens the intellect without educating the :
'drt or the conscience. If, as a nation, we i
ust mainly to a common school system :
hich is nearly or quite destitute of reli- d.
ous character, which haa no definite !;
oral and religious instruction and train {,
g, which scarcely bestows thought on '
,ything save the imparting a certain am
Int of secular knowledge and the devel- :
'ment of certain measure of mental =
lickness and vigor, !.
EN- it requires no spirit of prophecy to +
retell the result. We shall have our re- =
ard. We shall attain che object for !.
hich we labored, but we shall not find y
Irselves in possession of the estimable =
essins for which we did not labor. With q,
great many noble individual exceptions, "
shall find that we are just such ma u
IN, and only such a nation, as nero secu-
{ education tends to create-quick- head
-, energetic, versatile, full of resources 81
sharp struggle after temporal advan- II
ges, but to lamentable extent with u
OF tenderness and discrimina- IL
IN OF conscience, with a lack of that
'adtastness of moral tone and moral A
lnclPle which is the only security for n,
tons well being, and which can only r.
me from commanding and moral reli- m
)u6 influence. hapnpin in @bo