Los Angeles herald., 1890-03-31

moral entity is at zero while their in
tellectual stands high in the social
thermometer.
On the other hand the moral being in
man may receive its due portion of at
tention and the intellectual be neglected.
Here again is defect the remedy of
which is necessary If education truly so
called would be impaired. Many are
wont to ignore the fact that the moral be-
ing in man can be developed and the
Intellectual being neglected. But if we
penetrate the true inwardness of scrup-
ulosity its handspring will be found in
want of proper Intellectual development.
This not unfrequently leads to insanity,
and consequently is most disastrous in
its results.
What | have said is, | think,
sufficient to convey to you IN idea
OF what is meant by education in
the true sense of the term. What l
have said is likewise sufficient to give
YOU an idea of the qualifications re-
ouired in a teacher in order to impart
an education, properly so-called. A
teacher in order to impart an educa-
ton, ought to be educated in the true
sense OF the word Consequently a
teacher well informed in the secular
sciences, but below par in morality, is
not qualified to give an education. On
the other hand, teacher below par in
the secular sciences, but well informed
in the science of the saints, is unfit to
educate others. Secular knowledge and
morality must be combined in order to
render the educator competent. For
how can he who does not possess knowl-
edge impart what he does not possess?
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not actually despise Gods law for himself
inculcate its due observance by others?
The great fault that the Catholic
Church finds with the so-called educa-
tonal system of this country is that it
ignores the moral entity, and does moth
ing, consequently, for its development.
The church desires that the develop
ment of the head and heart go hand in
hand; and where the one is prosecuted
to the detriment of the other here the
church of God cries halt.
Within the walls which now enclose
you there is no danger that the voice of
the church will be heard bidding the
good sisters to stop their work. While
they are doubtless competent to draw
forth-e-ducere-th moral being in
Youth, they are no less competent to
draw forth the intellectual, and thus fit
Young ladies for the proper discharge of
their duties as members of society. That
the due accomplishment of the work
which the Sisters of the Immaculate
Heart propose, and for which this insti-
tuition, beautiful in all its parts, is i'm
portant no one will deny. Indeed, if the
power which the Christian mother
wields be duly considered, it cannot be
denied that the proper development,
intellectual and moral, of young ladies is
matter of the greatest moment. Who,
after God, rules the destinies OF nations
but statesmen? And who moulds
the statesman? Whose impress
is upon him? The impress of
mother. Find an intellectual
and moral man and for the most part
you can conclude as to the probity of
her who gave him birth. More than
this, you can conclude that he received
his education in Christian home and
that its development was not neglected
in his maturer years. The well-being
of society, therefore, demands that the
young lady-the future mother-be COM
petent to mould her child so that he
may grow up truly educated-an honor
to friends and acquaintances and a boon
to society. Morality and intellectually
combined form the greatest barrier of
one and the total, or almost total neglect
of the other reminds one of the process
OF. inoculation by which are sown the
germs of a disease which in due course
OF time must prove fatal.
We then who are here assembled,
realizing the Importance OF the work
which you begin today in more elab-
crate style, as it were, than heretofore,
bid you God speed, and sincerely hope
that 1t may be pleasing to Our Heavenly
Father to spare you all for many a year
to continue in your new home the work
OF education. When we look around us
and see the beautiful edifice which will
be lasting monument to your zeal and
energy, we are forced to congratulate
you, and to express the hope that
your new institution beautiful in its
symmetry, beautiful in its location,
beautiful in the evening zephyrs waited
from the Pacific ocean, may be extern
sively patronized by those who seek
good and truly christian education. We
congratulate you, moreover, in having
had the good fortune of being able to
secure for chaplain one whose sanctitv is
a by-word, one whose prudent counsel
Will be your safeguard, one whose zeal is
unbounded, one who will not grow
weary in Gods service till he has thor
oughly imbued others with that love of
God and christian charity which char
acterize himself-the good and SANITY
Bishop O'Connell.