The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1894-02-06

needs be. With the sword" .-The order
has evidently gone forth from Rome"
declared another Presbyterian preacher.
TO fght for > division of the public school
fund IA America
There Is not the slightest justification
for these pulpit denuncistiona The pre-
sent pore is a great statesman: he has
more than once urged the Catholics Of
France, who are oid-.ine raonarehists. 10
stand By the Fresch republic: TO uphold its
flag: 20 pay cheerful obedience 10 Its laws,
since IL was inevitable that republican. not
nnonarehicai. ideas we're sure 20 rule France
and ultimately all Europe. The pope has
sided with the progressive Catholic bIsh-
OPS in this country and urged uron ali
Catholics their duty 10 be loyal American
citizens. and has forbidden the infection
Of any ecclesiastical punishment or febnke
upon any Catholic who prefers the public
20 the parochial school.
IL Is true that the Roman Catholic the
orr Of educaiion Is that il should be
founded on religion. bat that belief Is not
peculiar 10 Catholics: ID prevails among
many devout Protestants. The Rev. DR..
Ralassord. of the Protestant Episcopal
church. in recent sermon said: II would
far sooner that such moral teaching were
given by the Ronan Catholic priesthood
than that no teaching of that sort were
given.' In his opinion the present teach
ing in these schools docs not properly
edueate," for "you can not teach duty to
man except as il Is based on duty to God"
lie said he was not in favor OF the division
OF the school fund. but really he advocated
the essential principle of the Speiilssy
bill, for he saw mo insuperable objection
10 having the children taught by clergy Of
the Christian bodies to which their parents
belong"
Dr. Rainsford is an Englishman and
many Eugiishmen. who are Protestants,
like Gladstone. have frequently voted to
grant public money in support of denomi-
national schools and colleges. But under
our form of government no political party
can take the responsibility of any such
bill. because It is not possible for the state
to provide religious education consistently
with our fundamental separation of church
and state. The drift of our day is not
toward making the public schools moro
religious, but 10 make them more COM
lies and Jews are opposed to the reading
Of the Bible In our public schools, and
Rabbi SiIverman, of New York city, re-
Gently demanded that the offering of
prayers should cease also. because while
the Jew recognizes the Jehovah of the Old
Testament he does not recognize the Jesus
of the New Testament as any more worthy
of reverence than Socrates; to the Jew
Christ Is not God. nor the Son of God ex-
cept in the sense that all men born of
woman are sons of God. So Protestant
DIR. Rainsford's scheme is as hostile and
impracticabe proposition as the Spellissy
bill to divide the public money among the
denominational schools.
Any effort to introduce religious educa-
ton into the schools, whether it came
from Professionals or Catholics. would be
fatal TO them. They cannot exist unless
they keep out religion altogether; they
must be secular only, or the whole system
wiz 90 sofn 70 pieces ny fciiSious contro-
versy. The American people will never
consent to appropriations Of public money
for either Catholic or Protestant schools.
because both are sectarian schools. If,
says the New York Erening Post, the
public money may be divided among
Catholic and Protestant schools, it may be
divided among the Jews, the agnostics,
the Christian scientists and the theos-
onhistS