The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1901-09-02
INTELLECT AND RELIGION
SHOULD GO HAND IN HAND

Father Kielty Says Spiritual and
Mental Training Are Best
Together.
The Reverend Father F; NJ; Kielty Of
yesterday morning on the theme. Intel
lectual and Moral Training Should Not Be
Separated" In substance he said:
In these our days nothing can be more
striking than the stir and earnest ardor Of
our instructors In their efforts to bring
their system OF education UP to the stand,
ards OF the day. Heads OF colleges and
converts and Government schools open their
schools on the morrow and instruct our
children. Our colleges and converts edu-
present. Government schools educate only
for this world. But civil virtues will not
admit US as citizens of heaven. A religious
training is absolutely required for that.
You parents have great responsibility
placed upon You in the procuring OF reli-
gious training and education Of your chill
dren. Man. besides his material and cor
poral being. which he has In common with
other animals, has received from his creator
a rational and an immortal soul destined
to tend to God as to his last end. Hence 1t
Is your duty to instruct and direct him to-
ward that end for which he has been Great
ed.
las to parental authority, the mother
partakes with the father III all the affec-
tons of the child. A pagan poet has written:
He who can govern a house well can gov
ern Il state To WHICH opinion Cato the
Censor would subscribe, who held that
there was more merit in being q good nus
band than a great Senator.
The ecclesiastical conjuSal law requires
Of parents that the family be lovingly
brought up. kindly nourished and relig-
iously educated. 1t Is from the Christian
mother that men may best learn how honor
Is acquired, how Coo IL loved, how one may
combine innocence and joy. and what Is
the direct road to heaven. =.
1.-The great duty imposed on parents IS
TO teach or have their children tausnt
Christian doctrine and how to incline their
hearts TOWARD God. You cannot SANCTION
that manner OF educating your children
which is apart from your faith and from
the power Of the church. Leo NIL.
Christ's representative on earth. teaches
that It is Of the utmost Importance that
the offspring OF a Christian marriage snoui1
be carefully educated In the prihctp.es !,
are instructed for the good OF n
shuld be Joined with religious training. 10
separate one from the other Is; IN feai, ~.
duties toward God be moved neither one
way nor the other; which training is faise'
and. especially in early youth, most per
and closes it against religion. Hence. the
same Pontir continues: The church mas
always openly condemned those schools
that are called IN ne ultra ;g nap'f la in a mat
ter of such moment they shouio DC y"
their guard.
..The human mind. my friends. may De re.
sarded from two principal points OF view:
a. intellectual and as moral. AS intellect
ual. it apprehends truth; as moral. IL ~
prehends duty. The perfection OF the ln,si-
fect is called ability and talent; the perIeG.
tion Of our moral nature is virtue. ana !.
is mans great misfortune here. ana ne
trial, that as thing are found In the worI1
each other; that where power OF intellect Is
there need not be virtue, and that where
right n goodness and moral greatness
are there need not be ia talent nat mas S nature
is essentially different from what IL was
when first created; but the cF ,,asf, h up'a a
it. rnrs s ne taSni e raised which II s'G blended isS together et r
with all its faculties. and made them cor,
spire into one whole. and act In common
towards one end. So that had the fatnet OF
the human race continued In that blessed
state of privilege there never would have
been rivalry. hostility. between one facuity
and another. Now 1t Is otherwise; and 50
much the worse for US that grace = gone
The soul cannot hold together, It falls TO
pieces. its elements strive with each otner:
Here. then. you observe that the object
OF the Catholic Church in insisting on re-
were in the beginning Joined together by
God, and have been put asunder by man
Yes. some say that in doing that the church
stunting the growth of the intellect by her
supervision. She has no ouch thought Nor
has she any thought OF a c9mpsom ana sc az
ence something. The Catholic Church wisnes
the intellect to range with the utmost Tree
dom, and religion to enjoy an eauai 1te zee.
and the same place, and exempNfied In the
..The church is opposed to Diversity OF
~centers, which puts everything into confu-
sion by creating a contrariety OF influences.
She wishes the same places and the same
individuals to be at once oracles OF PM.
- - r.1ttn VIZ On nnf
want religion here. and science there. and
Young men converse all day with. science
and lodge with religion in the evening. We
catholics want the same roof to contain
both the Intellectual n the moral disci-
pline. Devotion IL not a SORT OF nnlsn gwen
TO the sciences; nor Is science a sort OF
feather in the cap. II you VIII allow me me
expression, an ornament and seton TO de,,
.yotion. The church wants the intellectual
iayman to be religious. and the devout &C.
cies'astic to be intellectual.
on the mother Of the Twentieth Century as
well as it did in the Fifth: sr"a- 81;
Augustine. who in the Fifth Century was
a Victim to many heresies. never ceases &c.
peating that his marvellous and unhoped-
for conversion was due to the piety. ire
perserying faith, and the ardent prayers OF
the merits of his mother that he possesses
W PROCLAIM he says. 'tha: IT Is to the
prayers Of my mother. that God granted me
to prefer truth before all: to wish. to GEEK
nothing. to love nothing but ruth
"Again he states: If I have not perisnsd
tears of nv mother, her persevering faithful
tears. have obtained the grace for me-.
'There are hayward Ausuif.nes In every
Religious training has its influence: intel
iectuaI training has its influence; the In
fuence Of moral training is greater OH the
long run; the influence Of intellect Is greater
at the moment.
.The church wants both influences 10 act
freely, and then. as a general riic. no sys-
TEN OF mere religious guardianship. wnieh
succeed against the school. The CHURCH
iabors to educate for Gods glory, fer the
honor and good Of the Sta-e, ami also irr
the good Of man, that he may be Jealous
for all the better gifts and may excel in
intellect as well as in virtue"
MEN HELD RESPONSIBLE