The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1895-07-20
PAN-AMERIoAx CONGRESS.
The Two Nrightiest Forces In the Worl
Are the Church and the school.

Are the Church and the school.
Toronto, July 19,-At the meeting of
the Pan-Amerdcan congress this fore
noon Rev. DR.. Smith presided and the
devotional exercises We're conducted by
Rev. r. H. Craig of Duluth.
The first item on the program was an
address by Hon. H. Wade Rogers, LII.
D., president of the Northwestern uni
versity, on christianity and Educa-
tion." In opening he declared that the
two mightiest forces in the world were
the church and the school, Whatever
might pass away, these would remain.
The one made man virtuous, the other
intelligent. He placed before his hear
ers a picture of the close connection
between the church and the school In
! the Middle ages. Luther's axiom,
Where schools are established the
church prospers," was quoted as giving
the key to the greatest increase of edu-
cation after the reformation. Turning
| to the present rela donshlp Of the church
| to education, he quoted from the pro-
ceedlngs Of the Baltimore council of the
| Roman Catholic church to prove thai
| that church was absolutely opposed tC
the cutting apart of religion and educa-
| tion, The Methodist Episcopal and 9TH
er churches had expressed tn eview also
that religious instruction or exercises
should not be taken out of the schools
Rev. D, N. Beach of Cambridge, Mass
spoke on Municipal Reform showing
| in a few graphic words how ini 1885,
Cambridge with 10000 people had 12.
saloons, while to-day with $4,000 populat
tion there was no saloon there. Fol-
| nine years in succession at the Deem
| ber elections the saloon element hao
| been voted down. AS q, consequence
| the city stood to-day in the forefront Of
| governing cities of the continent.
What Does America Owe to Public
| Schools ?" was the question asked by
| Mr.. Charles r. Skinner, state superin.
tendent of New York public schools, ir
opening his address ON the school sys-
tenn of the United States. He said thai
| considering America as the United
States and Canada, people of common
| origin, there should be no doubt thai
| public schools had been the great force
In the advancement of civilization, The
Canadian system was modelled largely
after the ideas of the English educa
| tioilists of the early part of the present
| century, while the system of the United
States was patterned chiefly after thu
| educational methods hi foduced by tn,
Presbyterian settlers, who came to New
| England In the seventeenth century
l A ,,i1 Il nffr n4r .Nf ,A1
| ucation on religious life. Morality anC
| religion had nothing to lose and every
thing to gain by the spread of educa
ton.
| In his closing words the speaker de
| clared emphatically that the school
should be placed beyond the control o
| partisan and sectarian influences. Tha
| did not mean the taking of religion ou
lof the schools. 1t simply meant that th
public schools should not be the means
| Of conveying Baptist, Presbyterian
| Church of England or Roman Catholic
| doctrines. Anything other than unsec
| tartan education was impossible in {
| country where all religious sects haC
| equal rights Americans did not wan
! and would not have sectarianism II
their public schools. The church woult
always find means to provide a suffi
| cient religious training.
| The audiences at the section meeting
| this afternoon were rather small. Their
were three sections in session, the edu
| cational, the young peoples and tn
philanthropic. At the educational gath
| ering a paper by Rev. DR.. c. f. Eth
| wing. president Of the Western Reserv