The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1875-05-02

| in extent the work done by these presses
of the devil, worked by fieDds from the
bottomless pit.
"Now then, with the Bible excluded
from our public schools-as it must be
| with religion ignored in them, az it must
| be with Christianity discarded as an old
| wife's fable, as it will be if the theory L
| am com batting prevail what will yonr
| secular education do for the masses, what
benefit will the three Rs confer on them
1 solemnly proclaim in the light of the
facts, and on the authority of Code word
that if the Bible ia to be a sealed book
| if the religion of Jesus ia to pass away,
better, far better. that knowledge should
pses away too. For he that increaseth
| knowledge, ipcreaseth sorrow"
| All this is confirmed by facts and statistics.
| The bulk of the Athenians in the days OF
| Socrates were by far the best educated
people, in the ordinary sense of that WORD,
| that the world ever saw. The average intel
| ligence and general diffusiOR Of knowledge
were very great. A vlsr set never breathed.
| The peasantry of France are profoundly
| ignorant, but honest, industrious and
| patriotic. They are to- day the prop and
| hope of their country. Had the men of
letters and the more intelligent citizens
of Paris and the great towns in France
been as honest. as self denying, az the
Provinces, possibly different story would
| have been recorded at Sedan.
| "According to the United States census
returns in June, 1870, of the whole school
population in Georgia, 40 per cent. were
! Nitrate. OF the native white population in
| Georgia 90 per cent. were illterate, while
in New York only ten per cent. were little
rate. Yet in Georgia of the whole popula-
ton only one out of every l,6O6 was in
prison. while in New York one out of
every 932 was in prison. Out of the native
white population in Georgia, only one out
of every 1887 was in prison, while in New
| Va rs in
In other words, common school education is
nearly ten times more extended in New York
than in Georgia, yet crime is more than
| twice as common in New York as in Georgia.
A similar comparison evinces the fact that
| while common school education, among the
native whites in Massachusetts, is nearly
thirty times more extended than in Virginia J;
crime is more extended among that class in
the former than in the latter State, and, not
srithstanding the desolations of the uar, the
same is true Of pauperism.
/" Here is plainest proof that common
school education does not secure either
prosperity or virtue; here is the strongest
confirmation of the foregoing argument,
that knowledge increases responsibility
without comforting moral power; renders
men dissatisfied with their condition with
out affording means of lettering it
familiarizes them with the records of sin,
while it tends to remove fear of punish
ment. Its effects are, therefore, rather to
increase than diminish beggary and crime
and so to increase misery.
.'What tn, ne Leave them ignorant
This we cannot, we must not do. Let III
educate wisely by-First. Giving indus.
trial training. Miss Nightingale said with
out this the three RS lead TO fourth-the
,, II of rascality. Second and chiefly En-
force the obligations of truth, industry aud
right by the sanctions of vital, practica
religion. The ten commandments and the
1 0f c,1 20 10 20 lynnr fbnvr
are wanted. 1t ia the function of religion
: to furnish these, especially the gospel o
Jesus Christ Under the benign influence
OF this religion we have emerged from tn.
barbarian of the German forests, at the
time when Arabia without it has sunk from
the pinnacle of learning and power 81
worthlessness and ruin.
" Sin is the cause of mans degradation
Man wants a Saviour. jesus Christ is tina
Saviour; He delivers the intellect from thu
bondage of error, the heart from the reigI
of passion, the will from the tyranny of bal
, habit, the soul from bondage to the fear o
death and the Judgment. To accomplish
this He instructs, He reveals God, Father
I ever ready to help; He vouehes for tn
doctrine of mans immortality He teache
the Importance of the individual man, ant
inculcates a sense of personal responsibility,
to God, as well as human law; He place
. the fabric of society on family government
as of divine right teaches subOrdination t
, authority as being, when voluntaril
= yielded, the only true liberty. He provide
u a remedy for guilt, and supplies the powe
: which releases from the tyranny of sin. A
Z mans redeemer, He reconciles us to Go
by the blood of His cross, and thus work
in us that "perfect love" which "castes
out fear"
"Jesus Christ, reconGiling the world unit
y Himself, is the power which regenerate
}, the world"
:. "The progress of Christianity, aud tina
alone, has been the progress of the world
o Under the Transforming power of the Cos
. pei of Jesus. under. the inspiration an
Y guidance of Gods spirit, this progress is
Z beautiful course, taking spiral form
l. Starting from earth, emerging from tn
y mire of Sin, it rises in grand proportions
making broader sweep at each successiv
). convolution. Irradiated with light fror
u the San of Righteousness, it brightens as
. expands, until lost in the effulgence {
Gods eternal glory. ~
Q "My hearers, would you contribute t
= the unfolding of this destiny; would yo
lend helping hand in this majestic deve
9 opment; would you yourself case on ths