Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1878-07-31
NON-SECTARIAN SCHOOLS.
Answers to "vindex''-MoralItY. rs Ex.
empIifed by Religious Teachers
Earl. the Great Revivalist, on
the Efficacy iOf the
AtOnement.
Scientists. who Can Not Accept the
DOgmas or Creeds OF Christianity.
but who, in their Lives, are EX-
amples OF the Purest Life
and Living.


but with a certain class of men, who are little
addicted to thinking for themselves, receiving
their faiths and beliefs upon authority-those
included in the famous text, blessed are
they that have not seen and yet have be-
heved the assertions of "NindeX" may be
accepted as of more weight than they are en-
titled to, and thus prove preIudIcial to an en-
terprise of which he is evidently incapable of
any rational, consistent conception. At the
outset of MS communication your correspond
ent puts his foot In II" broadly and squarely
by asserting that there can be no foundation
for moral culture outside the christian re-
h.sioa-little thinking, apparently, that its
fundamental truths" were fully appreciated
and received long before the advent of chris
tianity; that there Is science of religion,
subject TO the same laws of evolution or de-
velopment as the other and exact sciences;
and he bitterly deprecAtes and laments over
the possibility that the. teacher in a
public school shall be prohibited from
" lMpgeSslng upon the minds of the
pupils the great and isspoFSassf truths OF the
Immortality Of the soul; thst there Is a heaven
and a hell, and the certainty Of eternal re-
wards and pGniShmsntS." No man who can.
in these days OF rapidly advancing rational
thought, thus boldly announce himself as
having unlimited faith in such diStaStsful and
stfste pySjU5Sces and chuUch 6oZm2S, Is en-
Osse0 10 attempt the direction Of public opln-
Soos not has he the moral night TO entertain
OPINIONS 50 utterly n conflict with and PCslO-
deal - q rational, pure and untrzmnlsled
religion. The exclusion u the fundamental
truths - christianity from any educational
institution q system. S3yS ~N,nGsx. Sl.l,
IN real fat result IN nothing GlOCs M les
tA&a n bringing NJ ~ q lnSIs.S- In
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&sSsSss,s> Il eScss lEssr1cs9o2 aud the social
cstSeSSoS q cur Youth are wisely
SN3 carefully directed and guarded.
there reed be No fear OF tie moral
essSSsS0ehs g smart coS0es, which the as
S3es lNlSa. q Wellington seems to SppcehS1I,
whcse lGSSmsas Gpoa reoral or Sociological
matters Is entitled @ about as much co1sf6-
sSstSoa IS Wo0l6 be >>NSeGsx'SN attempted
interpretation CT the EtSsan marbles, Bat
yo&C correspondent SvSxS toas AN education
Consisting q moral training In connection
WITH instruction IA al the necessary and USE
S0l branches ct the arts and SCIENCES, Is the
es(y SURE thing that can stern the great cur
rent o. la6Se6ey lwoSch cannot be StsmmsI I,
dishonesty, (aes0SS5ancS. Communism. IN
eSa8s3VfSG0 and the most shameful vice OF
(esp0gtty which ROW d(SSracsS society with
sSseA appalling frequency Moral
etllt0rs consists IN training the youthful
mind 10 right and correct use Of all seiea-
tSSe Se0wie8Ss. Moral culture Is bat an
Would >>Nin3sS" have Us believe that such
nasa as uelnaholtE. Huxley, fya6al, Darwin,
Spencer, 0aOa-eaen who have devoted their
hives b ScSentsSc ard phlloSophSc lnveStlSa-
Oo0 and rSSSarch-aNe lacking II good,
sound prtnelpls2N pCSS he Imagine that a
scientist must necessarily be irrshSicuS, or
without se6gIoa2 The religious concep-
tons and formulas Of al peoples are Of q
grade riSs6gy IN correlation or eorreSpcndence
with their sociological, moral and intellectual
development, From tssichlSra aud polythism
to moHothiSIn and the christian religion Is
eerealnlyS lOcS reach and wonderful advance,
but does '>Nindex" believe that even the re
6GSon Of humanity" Is to be the only religion
Of the t0t0re2 that religious development Is
now TO stand Ssoe&-stlll. fetsered and oppres-
Slvely b0r6eRe6 with sectarian prejudice,
rltuslIsm and SupeTStition2 Ii moral culture.
as "Nln6eN admits, consists In training the
youthful mind to s. correct use of all scientific
knowledge, then certainly the sooner this
basis Of scientific knowledge is established
the better for the pupil, the more consistent
and rational, and, as & necessary result, the
p0rsr and more sacred Will his religious con-
esptionS and standard become. The mere
opinions OF men upon moral and educational
culture are easily found and quoted. but SCI
snce demands something more than this,
riSidly refuses to accept faiths and beliefs
having only the sanction of human authority.
But hedged with anthropomorphiSm and
belief in hell and eternal rewards and punish
mentS, we are not surprised at the simplicity,
weakness and Inconsistency of his arguments
and conclusions. \ little scientific training
would do ''Nlndex" no harm.
QUADRATUS.