The Morning herald., 1878-11-16

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The teachers institute gathered the
teachers of New Castle county together, In
. church in Newport, o. Thursdsy last,
The proceedings were quite interesting, the
religious feature being quite marked. The
event of the day was the address, OF
clergyman named J. 8. willis of New York
the subjec, being "Ths bible In the schools.
The lecture Ia spoken Of BY Every Evenings
correspondent, ss "being received With de-
eided approval" It is only Just to the
editor of that journal TO say, that be sharp
ly csnsurss the lecturer. Now let us SEE
what 1t was, which met with such decided
approval. When speaking of the Roman
Catholic church the lecturer says: "You
cannot reform Romanism, 1t Is incapable
of reform. It must be laid away tn the
mummy rags OF universal disapproval and
kept only as curiosity. II 10 not ht for
life. Il cannot live. It Is the SYMBOL Of
corruption. The sign Of moral death. The
sepulchre of dead mems bones"
It is an Infamous insult to the entire body
Of Catholic tax payers, to haye their church
slsDb cred In this vile, and false manner.
The men. and women paid by means Of
mopey-applaud ibe clerical calumniator,
and on their return to their schools ask to
be respected, and trusted as the teachers OF
Catholic children. A teacher capable of
approving" of picture 90 false a. his
torical fact, and 20 obnoxious to their every
day experience, is ignorant of the past, and
blind to the present, or a virulent fanatic
incapable of receiving the glory Of Christ
ain charity, or impartiDg to a child the
spirit Of the command "you shalt love thy
neighbor as thyself." .' "
The speaker shows such marked and
manifest ignorance, Of the subject he spoke
upon, that as an historical sketch It was dis
graceful. We select the following.
THE Bible correlates with the da1ning
progress of civilization. 1t 10, and always
has been, the test of popular intelligence
and civil force: the complement of the att.
tude of society. sd All 5..l-.
Germany ia strong and Intelligent and
united among the foremost Of nations
She has had the Bible for three centuries. ).
France Is confused, fashionable, supersti.
tious, corrupt. She has not had the Bible
England 10 still the mistress of the seas;
the peerless votsry of science; tbe most
powerful empire of the wo'ld. She is
Bible land. Spain was once the mistress OF
the seas, and Csstilian prowess and culture
were the boast of half the world. But look
to-day at that disgusting mother Of hsrlots,
torn with fac ions and raled by petty
tyrapts, the by-word OF the age; the scor
Of the world. Spain has not the Bibh.
Italy and Russia, Switzerland and Ireland
The comparison might be continued in
definitely"
It,wers difficult to put together 80 many
lies in the same space az are 20 be found IN
the above extract. Our respect for the
Bible, and probably our knowledge Of the
holy book are quite equal 10 thst of the
reverend gentlemen, and here let US state
broadly, that there 10 hardly 3 Catholic
family you can and without Bible; that
the knowledge of the word of God 10 quite
as general among Catholics as Protestants:
that Catholics have no hostility to the
scriptures,-quite the contrary; and he thai
says that they have, either deliberately lies
or ID inviDcibly ignorant Of known fact
Let ius 90 back to the extract. .r.
First. The Bible had nothing whatever
to do with the dawning or growth of civili-
zation. Poetry. music, the drama, elo.
queBce, sculpture, painting, government, oil
reached their highest development, before
the apostles were commissioned to teach by
our Divine Lord. Any teacher who cap
proves" the contrary doctrine 10 not ct to
teach because Of the gross ignorance.
Second. The moral and maternal coud.
tion Of Germany is below that of France.
Germany 10 q standing menace to free insti,
tutions, with discontented and impover.
isbed people. France is prosperous, honest
industrious, and content. The least that ID
said of England the better. There 10 more
ignorance, crime, and psuperisu in Eng
land than in any other country In Christen.
dom to-day. spain mas never changed her
faith. II she was once mistress OF the seas
conaueror Of the Moors, was the mother o.
arts, navigation, poetry, and literature, she
was then, a. now, Catholic, and we must
look to other causes for her political decline
Her social condition Is better at this hour
thap either Germany or England. No mar
ever heard Of q Spanish famine-no man'e
gold or bread ever went to relieve or feed
her starving people, as that of America
has been sent to tsed the subjects of Eng
land. .r.o .ea 'r-.r p.
Recently Archbishop Purcell, OF Ohio
has secured an act giving all prisons Of
the State into the hands of priests on the
assumption that nlne-tehths Of all the con-
vfets belong to the Romish Church"
The reverend gentlemen might be ex.
cusei for his ignorance of questions affect
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