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8 The following remarkably pointed ana
brilliant address was delivered by Rev.
DIR Brann, rector Of st. Agnes Church,
I New York, in the Brooklyn Academy Of
Music On June Is. says the Catholic Times.
OF Philadelphia. The occasion was the an
nual commencement of st. Francis Co.'s
lege. DR.. Brann's words addressed to the
graduates are worthy the attention . OF
every intelligent person The able speak
er's argument places the friends Of Christ
ian education in an impregnable position
IA position which the willy intidel Will
! ind it impossible to successfully assailj
Rev. DE-. Brann said: Sr u
Ss 81 ....Y Dung Gentleman: You stand here
{ the product of system that is bitterly
1 assailed by the enemies of Christianity.
4 throughout the world. You are the grad
yates Of a Christian school. Upon that
school infdelity, whether it be the result
Of education or of apostasy, in the press,
& from the rostrum, from the professors
chair, III the halls of legislation and even
I from the pulpit, wages unremitang and
unjustffable warfare. Fear and impoten-
cy, It Is true, limit modern infidel hatred.
But it goes as far as 1t can with impunlty
it has the cunning and cowardice as well
as the malice of Julian, the apostate Cd
who, was afraid to put the Christians or
his time to death, but nevertheless ex-
cluded them from all civil and military
Offices and forbade them to teach in the
public schools or to establish schools OF
their own. Denying the divinity Of Christ,
infidelity, with hatred so superhumanly
malicious as to a proof OF the existence
OF a personal devil, still strives, as 1t
has striyen since the cruciflxion, to de-
stroy Christ and whatever tends to pro-
mote or propagate His doctrines. Infidel-
4ty never builds UP. It's purpose Is to-
ruin, and Apollyon, the destroyer, Is It's
idol. - ~
Il eve are not astopished, therefore, at
infidel hatred of Christian education; but
we are surprised at the hostility OF Ger
tain so-caIled Christians. Why should
they oppose Christian schools? They be-
lieve, as Catholics do, in the inspiration
Of the Bible, in the divine origin OF the
Ten Commandments, in the divinity OF
Christ, in the necessity OF Christian faltn
and morality for the salvation Of mankind.
as we'll as for the temporal happiness OF
the individual and Of the family. They
Il know also that national prosperity and
stability depend on respect for the laws,
for the rights of persons and property and
for the sanctity of oaths. If there be a.
general contempt of the laws of the land
anarchy must follow. If there be no re-
spect for individual rights, the worst
forms Of socialism and communism will
ensue; if there be a general disregard
for the sanctity of an oath, universal dis
J trust and perjury will entail the destruc-
tion Of. commerce and trade and the I'M
possibility OF. obtaining justice in the
courts Of law. But without God and re-
#ligion how can there be any obligation or
sanction to law, to right or to an oath?
God Is the sole source of this obligation
and religion its greatest sanction. How
can any Christian, therefore, believe this
as every Christian husband not favor
u the inculcation OF Christian principles!
How can any Christian patriot Insist, as
4 60 many pretended patriots do, in putting
God into the Constitution Of the State
while putting Him out of the school? Or
how can any Christian hold the extraor-
binary opinion reached even by CHRIST
Ian clergymen, that religious teaching is
tIr and
burt unn necessary in the primary school?---
as ii religion were good for the rich, but
useless to the peer-necessary for the
classes. but unnecessary for the masses!
These Christians know that whatever
tends to check or diminish crime is
safeguard of the family and the State.
Thev know that no one who believes the
doctrines and practices the precepts OF
4 Christianity can be a criminal; that crime
among Christians is an anomaly, an ABUSE
OF free Will--tlle sad result OF human
passions rebelling against the law, and
that the teaching and the influence Of the
Church are opposed to every species OF
crime. Why then deprive the growing
generation of the restraining and elevat-
ing influence Of religion at the most sus-
ceptihle period Of their lives?
s "A few years ago the director general OF
!. the prisons of France said that the pro-
eress of crime was in direct proportion
with that Of irreligious education. Rava-
chol. who a few months made Paris trem-
Sbse with dynamite outrages, when asked
Nv The Judge who tried him if he believed
ia God. answered: If believed in Him
do YOU think l would do what / have
done?' valiant, who lately threw the
nuab in the halls Of the Legislative AS
assr,bly of France, refused the services OF
religion before his execution. Henry, who
\ isilled the inmates Of the Cafe Terminus,
declared that he repudiated the principle
N authority as an old remnant OF faith
IN a Supreme Being, and added, i recog-
nize only one tribuna!--my conscience
Easerio, the Murderer Of Garnet, and Lee
ga. the wouli-be murderer of Crispi, be-
came anarchists and assassins after throw
ing away their Christian faith. In these
and LII all other cases the crimes Of inf
sdsis are the logical consequence Of their
infidelity, while the crimes committed by
+ christians ere contrary to their sconvic-
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sssThe position, therefore. OF any Christ;
& 4 al who opposes the Christian school is
4inexplicable To oppose it on the ground
"a patri otisTn betrays ignorance of Christ
I'm teaching and Of history. The greatest
E patrlots. the best soldiers and sailors that
ever lived were trained ilr Christian
4 schools. In them they learned the sacred
character of duty. In them they were,
sfaIl ght that IL false to their country they
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