The record-union., 1896-03-27
MAJOR RYAN'S LECTURE.
l'Tho League Of Death Was His Subject
Last Evening.
He is Opposed to Sectarian Religious
Teaching in the Public Schools. No
Matter of What Sect.

Major T. c. Ryan lectured last night
| at the Congregational Church to a
good-sized assembly in spite of the in
clement weather, his subject being
THE League of Death"
| He said he was not going to talk on a
religious subject. AS a Methodist, Pres
byterfan, Baptist, Congregationalist or
Romanist he or any other citizen had
a right to attend his own church and
practice its religious rites, and no good
American citizen would have a right
or a wish to interfere with him. But
| if member of any of those sects
stretches out his hand to take a single
star from the flag that is another mat
ter. He believed that great wrong
| had been done in Philadelphia. A
Young Mems Christian Association has
been formed in the High School there,
in which distinctly religious, sectarian
| doctrines have been taught. He was
opposed to this, no matter what secta-
rian doctrine was taught, for our
| schools are not the place for that kind
of instruction, which should be con-
fined to the church, the Sunday school
and the home.
He sketched the scene at the Column
bian Exposition in the Catholic Con-
gress, when Ablegate Satoli delivered
his address. and, holding in one hand
the Bible and in the other the Consti-
tuition, told his audience to go forward,
carrying in their progress the Bible and
the Constitution of their country. He
could not believe him sincere, however,
when he contrasted his sentiment with
that expressed by Pope Leo, when he
said that modern liberty is leading to
destruction. He knew that Satolli be-
lieved as Leo did.
He recited the magnificent tTiumphs
of science and the strides of progress
in our country under the fostering care
of modern liberty, from the discovery
of Franklin to the present day. We
have builded, he said, the little red
schoolhouses all over our land, and are
training our children up to knowledge
that will make them good and useful
citizens. Contrast this with ITALY, with
its lack of progress and its almost en-
tire population that can neither read
nor write. He referred to the portion of
Pope Leo's letter in which he called on
good Catholics to take an interest in
politics and strive to mold the Consti-
tuition for the interests of the Catholic
Church.
He denounced any man that would go
to the primary or the election to strive
for the ACKNOWLEDGEMENT of his particu-
lar church. He read from various en-
cyclicals the doctrine enunciated that
good Catholics should obey the orders
given by the authorities of the church.
He quoted from Archbishop Phelan's
statement that no Catholic should be
compelled to contribute to the support
of both the public and parochial schools,
and said he agreed with It, as the public
schools should be the only ones sup
ported He read the Jesuits' oath as
made public in France by an order Of
the Council at the trial of Lavallette.
which makes the Pope's authority SUI
perior to that of any ruler in the civ
| ilized world and said that if there were
no Jesuits in America there would be
no need of this great excitement in our
country, that he hoped would result in
their expulsion, as has been done in al
most all the Christian countries of the
world.
Romanism, he said, destroys a mans
will power, and seeks to do so in this
country by entering into the field of
labor. At the Minneapolis Labor Con-
vention a few years ago letter was
read from a certain Cardinal, advising
that the labor organizations keep them
selves differed by members of the Cath
Ollie Church, and when William t. Lewis
asked by what authority any church
projected itself into labor association
he was howled down and has ever since
been a marked man and driven to the
wall