The Northwestern standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1885-1886, 1886-02-20
What Experience Shows.

What Experience Shows.
Experience shows says the New
York Sun, ssthat education cannot be
relied on as preventive of crime, a
large part Of our young criminals hay
ing enjoyed the advantages of the pub
Tic schools"
| This is truth that needs to be repeat
| ed over and over, again again until the
people understand it thoroughly.
There is a prevalent belief that educa-
tion--in the sense of book knowledge,
ETC. keep men from evil and pre-
serve society liz this belief were we'll
founded, tbs learning and culture OF
the ancient world would have saved it.
The death of q God would not have
been needed. -,
| That mans mental attachments
cannot keep him from evil ought to be
repeated until it is ground into the
minds of the people. Men find new
means of gratifying their passions in
/ proportion to their cultivation and re-
|tinement. Culture and refinement may
exist with the most depraved appetites,
and by no means prevent their profess
or from practicing the most horrible
vicey Plato, III hia Dioi i les, con-
fesses this; JuYenal and Suetonius,
| who satirized and chronicled Roman
society, prove it.
To come down, to our own times. let
US take the average boy His parents
are too much absorbed in their daily at
fairs to teach him the principles and
practice Of Christian morality If they
catch him stealing or lying, they whip
him, perhaps, on their part he learns
that he may steal or lie with impnnity,
provided he be not caught. lie is sent
to a public school. lie learns there,
| too, that if he be caught in the act Of
breaking the rules, he shall receive pun
| ishment. But he does not learn that
| sin offends God, nor does he learn, ex-
| cept in the hazy fashion of the Sunday
school he may perchance attend, the
nature Of sin, Such boy may be out
| wardly respectable, but his mind can
not escape corruption, even though he
can solve the hardest problem of the
combined arithmetic books, cross E,l-
clid's Asses Bridge in the most APP
| proved manner and name AL the towns
and rivers On the globe. Is such q boy
!sducated2' Is he "Ohristianized?'
LIZ he not rather Paganized by this big
State usurpation, which assumes to
teach all nations
| Around US we see plain evidences OF
education, Is it is called, falling to
make men good and pure. Smart
men are not necessarily good men
There are mothers who, with Blanche
Of CASTLE, would rather see their chill
dren dead than stained by mortal sin
Can any such mothers, who are honest
and sincere, permit their Cons 10 be
sent to 'scolorless schools, in which no
sin is acknowledged to exist except that
of impeding the daily routine of the
education mill2
He was man Of education, too is
the surprised remark, when some new
scandal is made public a man Of edu-
cation--yesI-bu1 not Of the education
which. first Of all, teaches man to loys
God, and his neighbor ais HIMSELF
n. x. Freeman's Journal.
Miss Carrie G. Logue, Of Logue, en-
tered the Convent Of the Visitation at
OttumWa. ILL.,, last month. Sis vii. he
known hereafter as Sister NJ Clotilde.
Rev. Father William Fennsliy, pastor
OF st. Patrick's Church, Oneida, N. X,
was struck by the cars at that place last
Sunday morning, and died within half
an hour He was So years old.
1t is rumored that an influential depu-
tattoo Of Catholics from Russian Fo-
land will visit the Pope for tho purpose
Of consulting with him in regard to the
proposed German action against Pc.
land.
The grand cross OF the Order Of
Christ, in briiliants, conferred By the
Holy Father on Prince Bismarck, is an
honor Of the highest order and one /
which is usually given only to soyer-
eigns The work on 1T cost $500
j Its said that Cardinal Manning Is
DESTROYS Of resigning his diocese on &C.
count OF his advancing rye and the
heavy duties OF his Office. The Pope
1t is understood, will ssnd Monsignor
!5tonor to london to confer with Cafili-
nal Manning