Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1889-07-18
CHURCH AND SCHOOL.
THR ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH ASSAlLBD
AND DEPENDED
At the Meeting Of the National Educational Assoca-
6on-Oardinal Gibbons aud Bishop Ksane
Have Strong Papers - The Safes
Share in Education.

NASHVILLE, TENN, July 1.-THE sec
ond days session of the National Educa-
tional Association was called to order at 8
o'clock this morning by President Marble,
with a very large attendance of teachers
and educators. Hekry S. Wise, Of Balti-
more, read paper upon the introduction
Of manual training at the present time
into the public schools. The question Of
denominational schools was taken up, and
Bishop John ]. Keane, of Washington,
was introduced to the audience. He ex-
tended the regrets of Cardinal Gibbons at
his inability to be present aud read q
paper prepared by the Cardinal upon this
question: should Americans educate
their children in denominatioDal schools. "
Bishop Keane followed in an able paper
on the same subject, taking the position
that Christianity was the basis of all true
government and should be inculcated dur
ing the period when children were attend
ipg school. If the influence of the church
was beneficial in the family it was also 10
the school.
CARDINAL Gibbons ASSAlLED.
Mr.. Edwin D. Mead, of Boston, follow
ed in lengthy paper, in which he said
that the arguments advanced by Cardinal
Gibbons in favor OF non-interference of
the State with the family in the
matter of education was only de-
vice to damage the States authority in
public opinion, to the end that the Roman
Catholic church especially could take
charge when possible. He said the plan OF
the Romish church was to compel all Cath
olics to withdraw their children from the
public schools to parochial schools, where
they would be taught the doctrines Of the
church. Such a system, ne SAID, would
not be tolerated in America.
Bishop Keane replied, and denied Mr.
Mead's assertion that the Pope or the Ro-
man Catholic church was seeking temporal
mower and the control Of the government.
Roth add.esses were fOrcible and were
heartily applauded.
BISHOP KEANE's ADDRESS.
Bishop Keane said: 'The Glory OF
Christ,s Nation is not in it's ability to sur
mass all around it iu martial proves and
ia the returns of trade, but in the intelll-
pence. the marality, the comfort and con-
tentment ef it's people. A school is not
made a Christian school by taking
up great deal of time in
dOctrinal instruction, or in devotional ex-
ercise which would otherwise be spent in
acquiring secular knowledge. What,
above ali, makes it a Christian school are
the moral atmosphere, the general tone OF
the surrounding objects, the character OF
the teachers, the constant endeavor, the
loving tsot, the gentle skill by which the
light and the spirit Of Christianity, its les
cons for the head, fer the heart, for the
whole character, are made to pervade and
and animate the whole school life Of the
child. The intelligent Christian knows
we'll what ought to be true of
every nationality within the pale
of Christian civilization is
pre-eminently true OF ours, that the best
Christian is sure to be the best American,
and that the school which aims at sending
forth his child model Christian in equal
degree, tends to send him forth a model
American.
ME-. MEADE's CRITICISMS.
Edward ID. Meade, OF Boston, repled 10
Bishop Keane and stated that the parochial
school has no proper plsce in the system OF
American institutions.
It was not bold, not honest in Cardinal
Manning, in his recent article, to repre-
sen. the conflict as between the State and
family. The speaker quoted largely from
Cardinal Msnning's article, which he said
attempted 20 represent the public school as
a coercion and an interference with family
rights and liberty of conscience. The
whole policy of the Roman Catholic Church
in establishing parochisl schools In the
country rests upon this coercion.