The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1889-04-08
.YHR ERHESGHO0LSYSERN
Bishop Kahn Explains why the
Catholic Church Opposes
PUBLIC EDUCATIONAL WORK
As uow Carried on in Amerlca-He
holds the Catholics Friends of
Education in all Agcs-His
View Of Education.

In his introduction to the fifth lecture
o fhis Lenten course yesterday afternoon,
Bishop Kain expressed surprise that the
charge OF hostility to education so often
made against the Catholic church, should
be for q moment entertained by any one
~cOnversaut with the history OF the
church or ~observant Of her present zeal
in the cause of education. In reiuting
this "false and absurd charge" he said,
he would RBt define what Catholics at
least understood by education-the de-
velopment and cultivation OF all the
powers, mental, moral and physical, In
the next place, he would briefly outline
the work Of the church in promoting
education from the very earliest days Of
the Christian era, Finally he would call
attention to the many evidences pre-
sentedin our own countrya al the present
time Of the Church's efforts in behalf Of
education, and then point out the main
objection which Catholics have to the
Public School system as established
amongst US,
/, Education, said the Bishop, is the
bringing out and cultivation OF all the
faculties, 80 as to 1T them TO attain the
best possible results, The body needs
training; and in proportion to the care
and skill with which It is trained will BIO
It's health, Its strength, its activity, It's
grace Of bearing etc.
The mind needs training; and the
power and ease with which it will grasp
truth and assimilate it, thereby adding
To It's own Wigor and enlarging and per-
fecting its own intellectual life, depends
great" on the process Of development
and culture through which II passes.
But the heart also needs training, that
the seeds Of virtue there implanted by
the Al.good Creator may, under the In.
tluenCe OF holy precepts and
THE GENIAL SUNSHINE OF GOO EXAMPLE,
bud forth and blossom into the rich,
ripe fruits OF full.grown, sturdy virtue,
AS the physical giant may be an intel.
lectual baby, SO the giant In intellect
may he q moral monster.
The moral nature must be cultivated,
and its cultivation Is the most important
element OF education. To mould that
nature into the christian life, every re.
fning, elevating and neutrality-suspicious.
should be constantly employed. The
child must not only be taught 10 be
good and virtuous, but the motives for
the practice OF christian virtue must be
explained, and these motives religion
alone can supply, Without the christian
religion there Gun be nc christian moral
ity. Hence religion must enter into the
training OF the christian church, and on
its principles must rest the reasons why
virtue must be loved and exercised; and
all this must be enforced by example,
which exerts 30 great power over the
young. II Is not every n who is fitted
Tor so responsible a position as that OF
training up the young, andthus bringing
TO the greatest perfection their mental,
physical and moral nature. The parent
has the first right and duty to educate
bis child and by education to make and
mould the child such as he believes the
full grown man should be. This natural
right the State dares not wrest from the
parent.
This view OF education, said the
Bishop, received the endorsement Of the
good and wise OF every age and country.
A long list Of authorities was cited, en-
phasizlng in the strongest terms the
necessity OF