Daily Republican., 1880-10-04
DEFEnDIss QUE SCHOOLS.
Rev. BGr. Miller speaks I'm no Un.
eertaia Way Upon she Qsestt0s
In Grace Cb uFch Last Might.

| AA 2fnc& ObufGm HEEL 1ikmt'
The announcement In the papers that
the Rev. Mr.. Miller, pastor Of Grace NJ.
L church, would at the service last
evening discuss the demand for the re-.
moval Of the Bible from our public
schools, was sufficient to send hundreds
Of people iocking to the church early
In the evening. At 7.30 o'clock the
church was well-fllsd and many were
turned away. In opening the services
the pastor prayed eloquently for the
preservation Of our public school sys.
tenn. He chose as his text the 18th
verse Of the l44th Psalm, "That our
sons may be as plants grown up In
their youth; that our daughters may
bs as corner stones polished after the
similitude Of palace"
The State Is divine institution, COM
ing between the family and the church.
Religious and State affairs are intimate
ly connected because God is the creator
and governor of all things, because He
has made man and enjoins upon him
religious duties, because His. ALIEN.
brscing moral law necessarily requires
all that is morally right and prohibits
all that is morally wrong, because He
has made man superior being and Set
him in families and communities, be.
cause He uses the State as an agent for
accomplishing His own designs and aid
ing His own work.
Is 1t the duty Of the State to educate ita
childhood It is not only mere duty
but 1t is q duty which is imperativsly
necessary. II means more than
a simple duty to levy taxes to
maintain the schools. 1t should
regulate and control the education, it
should have system which would en-
brace the ends and methods, mere
secular education would be inadequate
TO this. There should be moral stand
ing, and the text book OF the school
should be the word OF God. There are
them methods by which the present
system might changed; lst, by ban
ishing the Bible and religious ceremo-
MES from the schools. End, by allow
ing moral aud non-moral parents to
vote whether the school shall be a
moral educator or q mere tax COL
lector. 3rd, It may say there can be
an open Bible, (by this not an in
terpreted Bible Is meant, and that
moral education il necessary. We are
told that this is opposed to the rights
Of the individual, but mans individ-
ual political rights must bend to those
Of society and SO must the rights OF
persons yield to the rights ct the State.
To this We find great opposition and
We must be careful lest our civil and
religious right are over thrown. Amer
lea was foundered by Protestants, and
the Bible was in authority in the Colo
MES before the constitution was written.
Who shall have the right to take away
this right which God has given 7 Who
has right to demand the exclusion Of
the Bible from the Public schools II
they have right to demand and they
can demand the repeal Of all laws pro-
hibiting the desecration Of the Sabbath,
aud turn the land bound hand and
foot over to Atheism.
Infdels, Atheist and Roman Catho-
lies are all united in opposition to our
schools and our civil and religious lib
erty. Thank God that no church
dominates over the State and that we
are in a free Republic. voice,
"Halleluah.") We can make no
concessions TO men with regard to
the universally Of our education
neither to Roman Catholics, atheists
or intidels. 1t is their aim TO overthrow
our school system. The Reverend
speaker here read extracts from Car
dinal McCloskey, Bishop 0 Conner, the
Boston Pilot and many others showing
that the Catholics were expectant Of
securing control of the country and its
institutions. Judge by these uttersn-
oes What they mean. We are told that
our schools are an offense to the Catho.
lilo conscience, and the Irish Catholic
Benevolent Convention which recently
met in Wilmington had the imperti-
nence and the mendaoity to declare
falsely that the present school system
is Goddess and offensive to Catholic con-
science. The speaker here read the
resolutions as follows:
Resolved, That the law which forces the
Catholics OF this United States to support q
system of public education-education from
which God and religion are excluded-is one
that should be abolished as opposed to the
rights Of Catholic conscience.
That we call upon the individual societies
composing this Onion to agitate this ques-
~ hiatt nv n1tifi0n and
every other means In their power, the justice
OF the Catholic demand toretuCation tot Oath
0lic children In accordance with the rlghW OF
Catholic conscience.
If they mean when they say this
that that Old Man, who sits in the va
tioan at Rome, exslting himself as God.
is God, then the school system has no
religion in 1t. They are opposed to 1t,
on account OF conscience. The State
does with human conscience as God
made it and not the Pope moulded 1t.
What tender thing Is Catholic con-
science-what fine rare thing! Let
me set it on pedestal here and depict
it for you. 1t kindled the fires of Smith
field, it strewed the Alpine passes with
the bones of the Weaknesses, 1t made
SC, ,OOO marty yrs graves in Enrope--ab,
yes,' rare thing is Catholic conscience!
The State has nothing to do with Cath
olic conscience no more than for Meth.
odist conscience-the State does with
human conscience.
Those people who come here from
other lands do not want popular educa-
lion. Their own land was always poor
and priest-ridden. They always need
ed fewer priests and more potatoes.
naughter Irish Carholics must keep
their hands off our public school sys,
tenn. (Applause) Let them educate
their children as they please. Let them
have their own schools and support
IT,, o,d M faxas the same as people 1