The record-union., 1894-09-01

ana potent than that of an institution
Where opinion, conduct and aim must of
necessity be so varied and inharmonious.
IL Is, moreover, in small colleges that re-
ngion can more easily become deep,
predomlnating and consentaneous infiu-
ehce. ar more important In the educa-
tlon OF the young than either tincture
OF literature and science or refined and
lperal demeanor, is the cultivation Of a
spirit of reverence"
Two reforms are sorely needed in the
American public school SYSTEM" OBJ
serves the New York Outlook, complete
separation OF the management OF the
| schoois from politics, and a clear and
dehnlte recognition OF teaching as pro-
iesslon OF very high rank, with provis-
ion Tor permanency, for advancement
ano increase of salary as result Of work
accomplished, and some form of proyis-
Ion Tor aged or disabled teachers. Teach
ers IN our public schools are altogether
TOO much at the mercy OF politicians who
nave no clearer ideas of education than
they have OF public duties and interests;
they are, as class, underpaid; their ten
uTe OF position Is insecure; they lack the
stimulus of steady and Intelligent pro-
motion. They must be liberated from
The control of the politician, and they
must be stimulated by generous recogni-
tIon oil their services, both in the matter
OF pay and OF position. 1t is impossible
to attach too much honor to the profess
sion OF teaching, to guard it too carefully,
or TO reward those who practice it nobly
with too liberal a hand. We have
much to learn in this country, not only
regarding methods of teaching, but re-
specting the development OF the teacher"
THE press is under exactly the same
moral obligation to be completely Chris
both a that
pulpit is" says the AdUdnce (Cong.) OF
chicago. ''It is the duty OF the one, the
same as of the other, to 90 all in its
| power to get the Ten Commandments
and the Sermon on the Mount enacted
into lie all around. Ought the preacher
IN his pulpit and in his parish 10 be
man of God? So ought the journalist.
DO the men OF the press strive TO see and
| 10 show how the world is going on? but
who has right to be more keenly con-
| cerned as to how the world is really
| coming on, than the men of the pulpit
and the church, And these are facts that
cannot be too strongly insisted upon. The
old-tlme curtain has been rent in twain;
! there are no longer any middle walls OF
partition to divide men Oft one from an
other IN respect TO the obligations that
rest on each other to do all in his power,
ana within the range OF opportunity, to
| save the lost, to ease every yoke and to
tighten every burden. And with what
one sees to-day going on in the world, all
| the way between the Congress of the
| United States and Corea and Japan and
China, it is plain there is enough TOR all
! good people, whatever their special voca-
tlons, TO be up and doing"
Neither Mgr. SatolIi nor Bishop Wat
| terson is a Prohibitionist," says the New
\ ork F'reelaa1'S journal (R. C.). "'But
both stand for temperance. Both know
what loss OF souls can be set down to the
rum shop, and therefore both raise their
voices in condemnation Of Catholics en-
gagged in the liquor traffic who conduct
the business in way that sets at deti-
ance all law, human and divine. Both
! say to the saloon keeper, You shall not
| tempt others to violate the sanctity of the
Lords Day. Both say to Catholic socie-
ties, You owe it to yourselves as well as
to the church not to place yourselves un-
der the direction of men who are con-
nected with the business which is the
source of many of the moral evils the
church is battling against Such is the
attitude of Mgr. Satolii and of Bishop
| Watterson. 1t is one that has the hearty
| Endorsement of every one who recog-
nizes the need there is of destroying the
malignant influence of the rum power.
1t is the beginning of crusade which,
under the blessing of God, may end in
mastering the demon of drink"