Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-08-20

priest in the schools. and though he has
been solemnly put out of the door by the
will of the vast majority of the people,
they have endeavored to send him back
through the window, or even an aperture
so small as key-hole. They profess a
conviction that the priest, being the direct
agent of the Supreme Being, his absence
from the school-room would be a cordial
invitation to the devil to enter, who would
of course Immediately seize upon the in
FAINT souls. 1t was at last decided that on
one day of the week the different ministers
of the Gospel and the rabbi, as well as the
priests, would be allowed to give religious
instruction to such children as the parents
should desire The Munster of Public In
structiG. endeavored to have this instruc-
ton given outside of the school building,
but the Senate proved obstinate, and one
may be prepared for just such scenes as
occur in Switzerland, where the priest and
Protestant minister occupy the same church
and
oUARRELs AND FIGHTS
Continually take place. Imagine priest,
Protestant and rabbi, all meeting on the
door-steps, where they spend their time in
theological discussions at the expense of
their young focks' souls, and it will be
fortunate if they do not end In rapping
each other over the head as in days gone
by, for the glory of God. Since the cate.
chism is henceforth to be excluded from
the public schools, all good Catholics term
them schools sans Dieu whereas the Gov
eminent considers that if g child Is taught
morality by the professor, his duty to his
neighbor and love of country, GOD cannot
be very badly served but to appease those
good Christians who cling with peculiar
tenacity to form and the letter,
Jules Simon (now called the apos.
tate) proposed an amendment, stating
that the professor should instruct the
children in love of country aud duty to
God. But the question is what God and
whose God, for each one has his own,
without speaking of the Mohamedans and
that of the Chinese, and it is easy to sup
pose that if one searched in the deepest
recess of each Senator's conscience he
would find God differing in one or an
other particular, and the reactionnaires
ask themselves what is going to become of
Jules Simons amendment in everyday
practice, their anxiety going SO far as to
regret that the amendment has passed.
The idea of giving
HIGHER EDUCATION TO WOMEN
Does cause some of the pious Senators to
groan in most pitiful manner. Mr.. de
Gavardie is without doubt the most ardent
of the religious members, and were he to
represent the republic as she invariably
appears to his eyes and imagination, in
stead of the conventional drapery and
Phrygian bonnet she would be rcbed in
scales with great horns ON her head
and long tail trailing after her, as APP
peared the veritable Satan to Luther in
the good old days. When one of
the speakers mentioned women professors
Mr.. de Gavardie called out, 81 don't
know the beast" Perhaps" said the
speaker, "you would recognize her better
under the title of female professor. While
they acknowledge that women must be
taught to teach others, they think instruc-
ton in sciences by ordinary methods is Lot
only superfluous but ungodly, and that a
young woman can be properly prepared to
impart knowledge to the young only when
provided with breret de capacte, con-
ferred by the bishop who judges of her
religious capacity and leaves the acquisi-
ton of other knowledge to the working of
miracles. VAL.