Luxemburger gazette. [volume] (Dubuque, Iowa) 1871-1918, 1893-11-21

what he is; it is to deny practically the
immortality of the soul and the super
natural or0er; and to treat him as an
animal. This is sheer materialism. From
the contagion of such a view Of educa-
!ion and its consequences may God pre-.
serve the country.
EDUCATION is TwoFoLD, AND
SECULAR,
it fits man at once for this life and for
that which is to come. The religious is
the doninent, the essential element in
education, it is it's soul. The two ele-
ments, which, like the soul and BODY,
are he, can and should mutually aid
each other. The religious element en-
mobiles, elevates, purifies, inspires, di-
reefs the secular or scientific element,
and the secular furnishes it in turn with
basis for greater growth. They should
not be divorced, and cannot be without
detriment to both. God and nature,
with whom they are busy, cannot be
separated. AS the separation OF soul
and body means death and dissolution,
so the separation or divorce of religion
and science will inevitably result in the
corruption OF the latter.
The nature of the child to be educated
is fallen. The sad consequences of the
fall are traceable in body, in soul, in all
the sources of one, in all the faculties OF
the other. The intellect is dark, the
will weak, imagination defled, the mem
DRY leaky, treacherous, the lower appe-
tiles insubordinate. The soul is a feeble
government in a state of anarchy. HUI
nan nature is like the man who fell
among robbers on his way to Jericho,
stripped, wounded, crippled. 1t is the
theater of all the woes that lead up to
/ death.
The intellect made for truth is the hos
pitable home of errors of all kinds and
the will which should be at one with that
OF God is the very womb of vice Errors
of all kinds cover the field OF human ma
ture, ever active, ever spreading, ever
growing with amazing rapidity. Vice is
behind and before and all around them
eating it's way like a cancer, spreading
c%ontagion and corruption on all sides.
These evils are
LIKE A DELUGE WHO'S FOUNTAINS CAN
NOT BE CLOSED.
Evil spirits without number foster and
propagate these curses necessarily with
all their might and all their venom. HUI
man nature is like a field overgrown with
thorns and thistles of the rankest growth,
and these spirits are the enemy who
never cease night or day to SOW it with
cookie.
There is an alliance between the evil
one and men. There is a triple alliance
between the world, the flesh and the
devil. No such alliance has ever cursed
the earth or polluted with its abomina-
tons the historic page. 1t is an alliance
strong as hell, everlasting, aggressive,
irrepressible death, desolation and ruin
track its course. 1t is not, | know, pop.
ular to expose it, brand it and raise q
warning voice against it. The world
and the flesh cannot bear it, will not
bear it-and they have some influence.
They regard it rude, retrogressive,
shocking and offensive to the refined.
1t is, | know, the fashion to pass it over,
keep it in the background, and though
dealing death around like a masked bat
terry, to wink at it and call attention to
more pleasing subjects such as history,
science, philosophy, social, economic
and political questions, but | know also
that this fashion is pernicious and fatal
and responsible for many scandals that
thwart the true progress OF our race, our
age and country.
Before making light of this alliance,
pause, reflect, look around you. Gods
Son died for the human race, to raise,
sanctify. defy it. He left the race OF
men His merits for that purpose. He
instituted the Church to teach the ma
tons the whole Gospel which He has
pledged Himself to ever preserve on her
lips in its purity and integrity. He has
opened fountains in her
FOR THE HEALING OF THE NATIONS.
He has perpetuated the sacrifice hat
redeemed the world. The Church is
His body; she is the dwelling place of
the Holy Ghost. He is here below, the
embodiment Of omnipotence and mercy,
to raise man, guide him and help him
on his way, and yet, though she has
worked in the name of God, with the
aid of God, and the riches OF His mercy
throughout the world for nearly 1900
years, she has not succeeded in bring
ing one-sixth of the human race under
her direct influence, while the other FIVE
sixths stand outside her pale with the en-
envy in al attitude of independence and
unbelief. And of the one-sixth who are
hers and bear her name, how many are
there who have their own views and
their own ways, and though of the fold
pay little attention to the voice of the
Shepherd. Again, God has become the
teacher of mankind to unite all intel
lects in faith in His teaching, He has
turned torrents of grace on human wills
and hearts to unite them to the will and
heart of God. He has exhausted, as it
were, omnipotence to unite men in mind
and heart. All men belong to Him,
their bodies are His, their souls are His,
their intellects and their wills are His
They should be one with Him and in
Him. He is Father OF all. His family
should be one and wholly under His au-
thority. Now go, attend the congress of
religions see there the children of God
divided, distracted; listen to the vaga-
ries about God and man, which they
call doctrines, the Babel Of tongues and
the conflict of thoughts. See the temple
not built with hands, in which God
should be adored and served, in ruins.
ruins which were under the eyes of
Christ, as He wept and sobbed and
stammered on the slope OF Mount Oil
vet, and as you turn away in sadness
rejecting on what they might and should
have been, as you turn away from ruins
that may never may be repaired, GER
tainly not 10y congresses, think lightly,
if you can, of the triple alliance and
keep it out of the discussion of the ques-
ton of education. But do what you will
the triple alliance and education cannot
be kept apart. They are in the field in
conflict, and will so continue
TILL THE DAY DIS OUT AND THE FIGHT IS
YER
The work of education is an effort to
make a man under the light and by the
aid of Heaven according to the model