The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1875-06-16

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Prince Cardinal Of the Church has been Great
ed in the city Of New FORK, while q portion
of the press, led on by the N z. Herald,
sounds his fame and honor far and wide And
it is this powerful organization or system Of
organizations that has fixed its eye upon this
country and proposes to Ronanize it within
the next hundred years.
In carving out this design, one of the
grand objects is to gain the children of the
next two or three generations, to gather them
into Roman Catholic parochial schools, and
educate them in the Papal religion. For this
purpose it became necessary, many years ago,
to make an attack on the system of common
schools prevailing in this land. Their first
outcry was against the Bible In use in these
schools as Protestant or sectarian book
The object was to drive this volume out of
the schools, and then, as they are already be-
ginang to do, to denounce these schools as ir-
religious and infidel. Under many specious
and plausible pretexts this warfare has been
carried on, until at length they boldly claim
that the legislatures shall give them their
share of the public funds for the establish
ment Of their own system of sectarian schools
and for the education of their children, and if
possible, of all children, in their exclusive re-
ligious creed
Such is the State of the controversy at the
present time. The Romanists are providing,
and it is their fixed intention to provide, for q
free school in every parish in the land. In the
diocese Of New York, there are already sixty
one of these parochial schools where some
twenty-five Thousand children are daily imbu-
ed with Romisl sentiments, principles and
doctrines. The religious instruction of these
schools we are old, consists of lesson in the
catechism, the repetition of Romish prayers,
the reading Of the gospel of the day and a
short exhortation. Yet the Romish priest
hood denounee the reading of the Bible in our
common schools as a sectarian book, and the
prayers of the Professionals as the mockery of
heretics doomed to destruction.
TO exhibit the animus of the Romish priest
hood on this subject, we cite from sermon
of the Jesuit, Walker, delivered in the city of
New York, but short time since, on the sub
ject of the public schools. "Woe be to the
parents,'' he cried, "who send their children
to these public schools woe be to those who
secretly favor them in their hearts would
not like to be in their places on the day of
Judgment. The public schools are the nur-
series of vi e. They are goddess schools, and
they who send their children to them can not
expect the mercy of God. They ought not to
expect the sacraments of the church in their
dying moments. hope you and will live
to see the day when they Who commit this
great sin will be refused the sacrements of the
church. What let them die without the
sacraments of the church, you will ask Yes,
say so. would as soon administer the sac
raments to dog as to such Catholics" And
so he continued in the same frantic strain
he went on to state that there were million
of Catholics in New York and Brooklyn, and
hundreds of thousands more in the State, pow
erful enough to demand and obtain their
rights. This is the. style of address which
the Jesuit priest now assumes, and his mode
of attack on one Of the favored and popular
institutions of the land.
About the same time committee on behalf
Of the Roman Catholic free schools of the
city Of New York, has applied to the Board
of Education to know on what terms the said
parochial schools may be admitted to the ben
efts of the common school system, subject to
its laws, &C., in such manner as may be
agreed upon. A similar proposition has been
made in Buffalo Those who urged it said,
Adopt our present schools and allow US
to teach our religion in them and we shall be
satisfied" 1t is likewise stated that the plan
proposed had been virtually arranged in
Poughkeepsie and some other parts of the
State. According to this plan the priest let's
at a nominal rent, and with the provision that
he may cancel the lease at two months notice
and the priest appoints the teachers Thus
the public is taxed to support schools in which
Roman Catholicism is taught Such an ar
rangement etfectually destroys the American
school system. Upon this state of things q
recent writer offers the following timely COM
ments -
"That the proposition should be openly
and graveIy made shows how bold the Ro-
man assault upon the schools has become, and
laow culpably Indifferent public opinion is. 1t
must be remembered that the primary object
Of the Roman party is not the education of
the children, but the maintenance and extern
sion Of the Roman sect. The plan is to make
the schools nurseries Of Roman Catholicism
q plan which every good citizen should siren
uously oppose. 1t 10 the duty Of the State
which it confesses and discharges-@to provide
for the instruction Of all the children, and
the American School System Is not to be over
thrown upon the himsy pretexts which the
friends Of Romanism allege." The assertion
on which the attack is carried on must not be