The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1893-03-23
STATE secTARIAN SCHOOL


AS they spake unto the people, the priests
came upon them, being sore troubled because
they taught the people.-Acts iv, i, 2.
1t is an old fight, this fight between the
priest and the light, between priestcraft
and knowledge, between intelligence and
superstition, between real faith and a
spurious faith. In the days Of Jesus
Christ the same forces antagonized him
which antagonize the spread of light and
truth today. The orthodox church In
bis day cast him out because he was an
introducer of new light into the church.
And the priests, whose power rested not
on their power to prophesy or ordination
of God primal, but upon some mere mat
ter of ecclesiastical machinery-they
killed and stoned and cast out the proph-
cts, and it was done In and through the
ecclesiastical machinery of the orthodox
church always. So this old fight has
ever been
These men have always endeavored to
bind the people, to control the teaching
of the people, that they may know moth
ing but what they choose to inform
them. Therefore In the past they have
disgraced the church wherever they
have had the power to do it In their ef-
forts to suppress knowledge. These are
the men who In the Catholic church
tortured and burned men of science.
These are the men who in Protestant
Christianity. when they had power,
burned Servetus at the stake with the
same JUNCTION As the Catholics burned
Bruno In the public square. It is the
old fight Of priest and ecclesiastical ma,
chinery in battle with light and knowl.
edge and intelligence.
30 the solemn synod Of South Carolina
met together and expelled Professor
Woodruff for teaching evolution in the
seminary and decided that the truth
had been discovered long ago, and that
any innovation was detrimental to 1t.
The same old fight. So In latter times
there have risen the teachers who have
expoundsd to n the word Of God-called
higher criticism-and this little genera.
ton Of ecciesiasttcs rise and say thu
whole foundations are being attacked.
The trouble II that the people are beina
taught. and the priests are sore troubled
that Is. the little ecclesiastical ma
cdneA Ibeleve that all such method.
are simply tricks of priestcraft and hay,
nothing In the world to do with the rea
questions Of true religion.
THE FREH SCHOOL FUND.
| We have cur school questions con
fronting ia Tho pope Of Rome has sen
his delegate to this great nation, and il
q most remarkably wise manner AMI
with patriotic breadth of view, whicl
/ seems to me impossible to such q man
has decided that problem and In the onl,
possible way It ever will be decided
that Is, In favor Of the free school sys
tenn that there shall be nd interior
ence with the building up of the publ
school system of America. 1t carrie,
dismay into the hearts of this miserabl
faction who have plotted to overtur,
the American free school system. Wit
the cunning OF true Jesuit. these me,
have introduced into the legislature
measure proposing to divide the schoo
fund and Mah1tain parochial schools 4
public expense. The proposition nro
poses ostensibly to be exceedingly patrj
otic. p-s1
1t II Jesuit undsrtow from the or3a
OF the pope undoing what the nona n
aaEeady done in the first edict he ;ssued
Inc men who are fathering 1t are simnl,
the unconscious tools in the hands 3
! shrewder men. who. back Of them s.