The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1880-07-15
the isms which it is proposed to incul-
cate therein.
But we get the gist OF the article in
the AdUance in the following:

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But we get the gist OF the article il
the AdUdnce in the following:
/ The Roman Catholic Church is right in IL,
theory Of churchly education for the Young
II the clergy are 10 influence the communit,
otherwise than by their lives and their officIa
ministrations; ifthey are 10 retain their hold
upon the masses, they must fashion the mindi
OF the rising generation.
Cardinal MeCloskey or the Pope him.
self would scarcely have written differ.
ent from that. It is a bold, bad asser.
tion. So, then, justice requires that the
rising generation be given over into the
hands Of the clergy, does it? This
would soon give the Government also
into their hands, and we should have q
union of Church aud State with all the
sad consequences which history tells for
our warning. Does the AdUdnce desire
this? Will the AdUance allow me to
tell it, and the clergy generally, that if
the free school system be maintained
and continually improved in the future
as it has been in the past, cultured in
telleets, pure lives, and the plain simple
truth will alone enable the clergy ito
retain their hold upon the masses" Is
it because they lack these things that
they claim the training of our children ?
Truth needs no such OZARK Ways to
render it gladly acceptable to the un-
trammeled mind. No, gentlemen, the
youth Of America are not to be handed
over to your tender mercies. Their
minds are to be strengthened by culture
and left free to search for and accept
truth "wherever found, on Christian or
on heather ground"
As an endeavor to sugar-coat this
nauseous compound in the AdUdnce, the
writer says:
Our public school system should never be
wholly abandoned. But it has far outgrowu
its legitimate sphere.
Ye gods then save US from the legIt.
innate sphere OF parochial schools sup
ported by public fund
Says the AdUdnce again:
The time has come when our Protestant
churches must resume the responsibiIitie.
which they have resigned. By the side o.
every church should stand the paroehia
schooI-house. Then the unjust system o
school taxation which now disgraces on
civilization would soon become thing o
the past.
| notwithstanding the above appear
in a leading paper of one of the mos
liberal branches of the PrOtestan
Church, cannot believe it will be en-
dOrsed by a majority OF Protestants. L
savors too strongly of the Catholic plan
which, indeed, the writer Of it pro
nOunees wiser than the Protestant
Take away the support of our free
schools, aud you destroy the school:
themselves. Destroy the free schools
and you destroy the Government, o
which they are the chief bulwark.
cannot yet bring myself to believe thai
a majority Of Protestants will lend theil
aid and influence to DO this thing.
VIII not a wise love Of truth, # hu
Danity, Of all inspiration, induce Us tC
perpetuate our free institutions, give
physical, mental and spiritual culture
TO our youth, and leave them untram-
meied by this or that dogma of sectari.
anism, aud free to reverently and Low.
ingly explore every department Of God:
great temple, and wisely employ whai
fhau shou Obtain tborafr 80 tbo M
building Of divine humanity on earth