Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1896-08-24

and you make them clever devils. he
showed the infinite folly of the idea
that knowledge is good for a man re-
gardless OF the use ne is likely 10 make
of It, and in this connection he made
reference to the book recently published
by Hon. NJ. D. Post, of this city, and
gave illustrations from recent newspa-
per history He asserted that the reac-
ton is coming, and that great minds are
beginning to realize that religious and
secular education should NOT be di-
vOrced. He quoted Archbishop Ireland
The salvation of America is the rec
ognition of God and OF His Church
and commenting said:
THE CHURCH AND EDUCATION.
DO you begin to see why the Catholic
! church has fought for the principle that
the moral education of the children must
go hand in hand with the intellectual?
10 you understand at last why she has
! carried that banner 10 the front through
, good report and through evil report? She
; has been falsely charged with being the
enemy OF the nations schools because like
a true physician she has laid her finger
on the cenker that threatens 10 destroy
the life of their usefulness TO the nation
she has been charged with being in league
with the enemy, because like a faithful
z
pointed out the way through which the
enemy Is seeking TO make an attack
But, like the true mother that she Is, she
does what she can to ward on the eVll
herself. crying out: 'Revile me II you WILL
only spare my little ones So long as the
nations schools are built on the slipping
sands Of a false philosophy, she VIII con-
tinue to build her own schools on the
adamantlne rock of the great truths
which alone can bear them up. She Will
continue to cry out that the ilrst lesson
the child should be taught IS the lesson
of the catechism; God made US and grants
us knowledge that we may know HIM;
love Him and serve Him In this world ana
be happy with him forever in the next:
To her mind that is the Summa of all
knowledge. Who has not learned that has
wasted his life even If he has absorbed all
the learning of all the scholars ana OF all
the schools of all the world. knowledge
cannot be rightly used except in the light
of that great truth. Religion, Whlch
means the relation that man bears 10
God. is the corner stone of true education.
The growing child must be STEPPED IN the
wisdom of God and the things OF God.
The speaker answered the statement
frequently made, that religious education
can be properly impaired at home, by
showing its fallacy. On this subject he
said:
AN ELOQUENT APPEAL.
90 mothers. if there is in you a spark Of
the fire Of mOther-lONe, as you recall the
fond yearnlng with which you waited the
coming into the world of the promised
one; as you recall that great peace ana
joy that came over you when you heard
the thrilling first cry of the new porn
babe; as YOU recall those tears OF JOY that
you shed when clasping the little todqler
10 your bosom after some wild peril had
been escaped, as you recall the anguish
with which you gaZcd on the plnched
baby face during some spell Of bliShting
illness, or that glad comfort with which
YOU welcomed the laughing caresSes IN
the happy days when all went well, as
you recall all these things that help you
to realize how dear your little ones are 10
you tell me if you think their peace OF
Il ind In this world and their enternal
happiness in world to come are so triv-
ial as to be left to the chance OF their
picking up somehow and somewhere and
from somebody the knowledge that should
be your chief solctude?
And you. . fathers. who glory IN the
growing strength Of your sons and the
budding beauty of your daughters, as you
recall the complacent pride with which
you watched the tokens OF sturdy maHl-
ness and intelligence and courage IN the
one. or the charming traits Of sweet wo-
manlineSS in the other. tell me. would you
not scCrn TO leave their greatest happl-
ness on the hazard Of die? ANA YET
what else are you doing If you leave these
tender buds of men and women TO grow
up. unsheltered from the biightlng Wlnds
Of ir-religion. unprotected from the
caudy. whitening immortality that beats
upon them from every side? DO you
think that they are absorbing religion on
the street corners from the tempting
book-stalls in the gaiety of the dance ha!l;
from the modern theatre? If you would
have your brave boys grow into men VINO
fear God and are not afraid OF cannon
then look to IT, that they are taught Goa.
If YOU would have your daughters dos
som into the flowers OF true womanhood,
crowned with that lily virtue without
which their honor and your own llNes
will be blasted then look 10 II. that re-
ligion and morality are taught tnem
every day. not once week; see 10 II lIat
they be taught in the schools, where tne
training of the heart IS deemed as import
ant as the training of the mind; WheIe re-
ligion and moral education are as much Il
part of the curriculum as the intellectual.
And you. my fellows all, who love your
country as you do your lives. ana WISH 10
see il continue to hold its place as the
highest tvpe of government that man mas
vet evolved. IA you think OF TINS corner
stone that has been laid to-day, remem-
her that the education which II typihes'
the education which alone can assure prl-
vate and public virtue is the corner stone
If tbe renublic. Take that away ana the
Commonwealth will crumble down upon
you
In conclusion, DR.. Wingerter pointed
out the duty CT the present hour-to help
>be cause of true education, by aiding
in the erection Of the school building.