The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1895-07-24
is AN AGE OF EDUCATION
ABLE ADDRESS GIVEN ON THE Ro-
MAN CATHOLIC SCHOOLS.
Rev. Father Conaty Says That for Fifteen
Hundred Years the Church Had Gov
erned the World-Paroohial Schools, He
Claimed, Were Very Effioient.

Rev. Father Conaty Says That for Fifteen
Hundred Years the Church Had Gov
erned the World-Paroohial Schools, He
Claimed, Were Very Efioient.
Toronto, July 2S.-The pavilion was
fairly well filled this morning when the
last days Session of the Pan-American
congress began. The first speaker was
Rev. T. j. Conaty of Worcester, Mass,
who addressed the meeting on Roman
Catholic Schools" He said in opening:
IF religion be left out of the schools
ut will mot he long before 1t is left out
of the house and out of the churches"
He then mapped out the position
which his church takes on the whole
question Of education and told his hear
.ars how much the world owed to Ro-
man Catholicism for preserving and de-
veloping i'm dark ages the light of
knowledge. This, he said, was an age
of education, but the age did not owe
everything to science. There was a
great debt of gratitude to the past,
which could not be forgotten or over
looked. He strongly comba tied the con-
tention that the Roman Catholic church
was opposed to mental development
GIistory during the past one hundred
years had been written with the purpose
of proving that churches were despotic,
but it had failed. The great moving
powers for good in the education of the
Roman Catholic church had been over
looked or had been made light Of. The
church had stood for education in every
age and had ever been the friend Of
development. For fifteen hundred years
the church had governed the world, and
had been solely instrumental in pre-
serving the spark Of knowledge. Monsk
taught mankind under the shadow Of
the church and thousands drank learn
ing from them in Alexandria, Jerusa-
lem, Odessa and other cities. Ireland
and England owed their standing as
educational countries in the middle ages
to the church, and it was through the
efforts of the church that the great
universities of Oxford, Paris, Padua,
Bologna and others had risen.
The speaker pointed to the fact that
many of the brightest names of mediae-
val literature were the names of priests
of the church. Touching on the ques-
tion Of parochial schools the speaker
contended that they were very efficient
under the direction of the Christian
brothers, and that the education receiv-
ed in them was of as high an order
as in any other school, The attitude
of the church to education was the
same as its attitude to all other ques-
tions. 1t must serve to plant the
kingdom of God in the heart Of man.
That must be it's first and chiefest OBJ
ject.
Rev. A. Lazarus, Jewish rabbi of
Toronto, followed in briee speech.
The closing meeting was held to-
night, Rev. DR.. Smith of St. Paul,
Mimi, presiding. Rev. DR.. Carroll, edi-
tor of the New York Independent, was
tn first speaker and discussed religious
development in the United States.
DR.. HI. w. Rogers Of the North West
ern university, moved a resolution of
thanks to the different committees and
to the citizns of Toronto for their
hospitalities. Toronto newspapers were
omitted from the vote. The chairman
made no remarks on the subject, but
he had intimated previously that he
had pretty poor opinion of the local
press, the reasons being the meagre
reports which, in his view, they have
given Of the congress and their criti-
cism Of it as being fraud
The leaders of the convention, while
admitting that the attendance was far
less than was expected insisted that
the congress has been a reasonable sue
cess.