The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1893-01-10


OF pArochial schools The statistics OF
the Missouri synod for 1891 give the
total number Of its psroChial schools as
1850. with 7SS teachers regularly em-
ployed and 572 Of our ministers teach-
ing their paFochial schools themselves.
Despite the heavy expense 10 our
churches necessitated by our paroChial
schools, We do not and will not cast any
sidelong Coyetous glances at the state
school fund, to which we must contrib
ute our taxes as well as anybody else.
For it is with US by no means an empty
figure OF speech, seized upon during the
political campaigns, that we recognize
the public schools as q necessity and Aa
an institution useful in certain way
for reasons which are plainly evident.
And therefore We pay our taxes Tor the
maintenance OF the same without
grumbling,' (Minutea Illinois District
Missouri synod, 1892.
zone OF the reasons why We reeog-
nige the public schools as q necessary
and useful institution ia that we must
render unto Cesar the things which
are C,Rsar's. Now the state, our Cesar,
has the duty to see that its citizens do
not grow up in ignorance OF the ele-
mentary branches Of learning, We're
it not for the public schools, thousands
OF children would be deprived OF oil
schooling. For mapy--countless par.
ents, even Lutherans, would not have
their children taught ut all II they had
to pay for their instruction, as is plain
ly evident from the instance here in
Baltimore, where, with the exception
OF tho Missouri synod churches, the
other Lutheran churches found 1T too
much Of u burden to maintain their
parochial schools.
"Butis it Just that we should pay for
the maintenance OF our parophial
schools and at the same time be made
to share the burden OF taxation for the
public school fund? Would it not be
fair on the part OF the state to assist us
from the school fund in proportion TO
the amount of taxes we pay aud to the
number Of children We instruct? an
swer; AS Lutherans and Christians we
are bound by our conscience to instruct
our children, not only'in the elementa-
ry branches OF learning, but also in re.
ligion. AS citizens, We arc to do what
tho state demands OF us, except IT en-
croaches on matters OF faith and con.
science. The state may enact good
many things which arc unjust Rccord-
ing to all equity. Take for instance our
law governing ground renta hero in
Maryland, which compels tho lease
holder OF a piece OF property to pay the
taxes thereon, and at tho same time his
ground rent to the supporter theholder
OF the same. That's none OF our concern
as long as 1t is law. The same holds
good OF the action OF the state in taxing
those for the public school fund who
maintain theirsparoGhial schools.
"But has the Missouri synod laid
down the line Of demarkation 1t wants
to be observed between the state and
its parochial schools? Why, certainly.
In tho minutea OF the twenty.drst gem
eral or delegate synod, which met in
Milwaukee in 1890, We find the follow.
ing resolution: 'Forasmuch as our
Lord Jesus Christ says. MY kingdom
is not OF this world and Render unto
Cesar the things which are Caesars,
and unto God the things that arc
Gods the separation Of church and
state is for all times to be acknowledged
as in accordance with the word OF God,
and since God has in this country
vouchsafed unto US the precious boon Of
religious liberty, We may not, as faith
full stewards, approve OF any legislation
which tends toward n confusion Of spir-
itual and secular affairs and endangers
our religious liberty
Even the pope mas Issued and pub.
lished the same opinion and rules
which we have laid down as to the sep
aration OF state and church. For in the
encyclical OF February s, 1884, he has
emphatically declared, The church,
which, as guardian and defender OF the
integrity OF faith, has the duty, by viz.
tue Of her God-given authority, to call
all nations unto Christian wisdom, hos
always openly condemned those schools
which are called mixed or neutral.
Further, We sit down and decree that q
parochial school shall be continually
erected and maintained by tho side OF
each church which yet lacks the same
within two years after the promulga-
ton OF this decree.
"The America, Of St. Louis, an out
and.out Catholic organ, has placed the
word continually three times in paren-
thesis, and adds the following remark:
From these rules Catholic fathers Of
families cannot be absolyed by any se-
cular power, nor through real or pre-
tended, badly translated or we'll rem
dered sayings OF prelates. For they do
not only root in the natural right, but
they have also been laid down by the
whole hierarchy OF the United States,
and have been sanctioned by the holy
chair. Nay, more than that the third
Baltimore plenary council has taken
them verbatim from an official en-
cyclical OF Pope Leo Mi, which no Sc.
cular power can wipe from the face Of
the earth.
"The summing up of our positions as
I.utherans OF the Missouri synod as to
the separation Of state and church, OF
state schools and parochial schools. is:
No state aid and state control and no
state interierence; no state interior
ence because we do not have and will
not accept state aid"
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