The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1875-08-02

was educatioR among the ancient pagans.
There was high degree Of education
among them. The monuments OF art
and the productions of literature which
they have left show that there was
among them high degree Of such
education as is priced by the
advocates of the American system, but
they had not God in their knowledge.
The consequence was that they yielded
themselves up to the commission of all
sins that degrade man and offend God.
Apart, however, from experience any
sound intelligence could foretell that such
would likely be the result of mere secular
education. For pray, what is there in the
knowledge of profane things that directly
tend to make its possessor yirtuous'
What can u scholar find in mathematics,
geography, grammar, penmanship, &c,
that Will dispose him to observe the ten
commandments? If Il scholar gets any
moral improvement out of them, 1t Is be
cause he has had some previous moral
directions about turning to profit IN this
way, but Independently, OF themselves,
they furnish him with none. Let boy
study dynamics, and understand lhe en-
tire theory OF the steam engine, morally
how much better will he be than the boy
VINO knows nothing more than that lis
hot water makes the thing GO?
1t is more important for child to
know that there are three persons in God
than to know that the sum Of the angles
formed by the intersection of two lines is
equal to two right angles. 1t is more
important for him to know that one NOR
tai sin kills the soul than 10 know that no
animate creature can live in a perfect
vacuum. 1t is more important for him
to know tho ten commandments than the
names of the eighteen Presidents. Yet
these are things which do not enter into
secular education. SO far then as the
understanding is concerned, there are
truths not insisted upon in the American
system of education which ought to be
insisted upon before all Others, because
they alone can secure the chIld's eternal
destiny.
But this Withholding supernatural
truths from the understanding is not the
only fatal flaw in such an education;
there is slso the will which is not directed
ne a'U,,o . -, ' s- " . iu'ns "iI"
purposeS-l. The pleasing of God. =.
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religious education must go together
The blending of religious with secular
institutions, beginning with the inculcat-
ing of positive doctrinal truths rs they
are set forth in the Catholic catechIsm can
alone answer to this necessity for the
trsining and direction of the moral ma
ture An knowledge which has not God
in it will end IN the moral degradation
bv St Paul in the Fpistle to
tho Romans Recoopizing this import
ant fact. YOU have built the school house.
But it is not only the absolute impossi-
bility of rearing good citizens for the
state and good Christians for the Church.
,b.t hos driven YOU TO this great enter
nriso hrt Won have been compellcd to do
!, - o,nard vour children aroinst the
Jong,T NJ LOSING their dear old Catholic
c'i.S mo sncHI,rist. ard bcrntics want
~ Lnow what objection we can find to
t5e;r nuhlic schools since in them rclig.
ION of no kind is taught? say that we
are compelled to build separate for our
children J." uF.t"io u tbo ~" s.a,o "ho To-
Kind Of religion is taught. III grant
that there can hardly be any difference
between Catholc ana non, "'n"''c
tllStny,n", ,Soro nav md in some there
must come in bias for or against Cath
But one word to my German friends.