The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1903-07-11
A NEW MOVEMENT.


1t is wonderful to contemplate how
exact nature and all laws governing
it, as well as all laws governing each
part of creation are perfectly bal
anced. Everything that emanates
from the Creator bears the same un-
mistakable seal. In our human indi-
vidual lives it is the same thing, and
equally so in regard to that great as
sociation, or organization, the church.
There is a perpetual law of compen-
sations at work.
Today we have in France a steady,
drifting away from the old Catholic
moarings, and in Germany return,
just as visible to the same. In Eu-
rope untold efforts are being made
to efface all religious education, and
in America, while the student voices
of a rising generation are raised in
protest, we find older and more ex-
perienced heads, but of different
creeds, devising means for the res
toration and propagation of a sys-
TEN of religious education. An eX-
ample of this we have had during
the closing weeks of last month in
Chicago. With the avOwed purpose
of maintaining a position in the field
of religious education, corresponding
to that of the National Teachers
association in the field of education
In general, the Religious association
has been incorporated by William R.
Harper, president of the University
of Chicago; Charles L. Hutchinson,
vice-president of the Corn Exchange
National bank; Professor George A. |
Coe of Northwestern university: L. |
Wilbur, secretary of the State Y. NJ.
C. A, and George L. Robinson, of |
Mccormick Theological Seminary.
Dean Frank Knight Sanders of Yale
Divinity school is president, and
the vice-presidents, sixteen in num-
ber, represent the leading religious
educational institutions of the United
States, regardless of creed. The OBJ
jects of the association, as stated in
the official handbook, will be:
"1. To unity the efforts of the
different agencies already engaged in
various lines of work and to CORE
late the work of these agencies to
the end that they may accomplish ,
wider results.
%. To stimulate, through the !
of the information con- :
,erning the work, and by conference, !
he efforts of present agencies.
"33. To create new agencies where
1T present no agencies exist and for {
special lines of work in which as yet :
10 united effort has been exerted. :
This last point would include, it :
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md architecture and church music. =
Efforts will also be made from a :
lew standpoint to secure religious .
nd moral education in the public .
chools." Z
While this association is declared u
D be regardless of creeds," it is
ute evident that the Catholic b
hurch is not included in the vari- % o
us branches of Christianity that are q
in the association. Still -
lat does not prevent us from feel q p
ent on foot. The Catholic church
all sufficient to herself in this re-
ard and she has ever and will
yer consider religious and moral
lucation as primary requisites in
/ institutions for the training of CT
e young. But, of late it has been tic
herwise with the divers branches so
Professionalism. They have, through nj
e system of state education, the in
of schools, and the ia
eady growth of antipathy towards of
religious teaching in such estab- tn
hments, been drifting rapidly into re-
'eligion and all the sad conse- 81
ences of that hopeless social state. thi
This movement is but the prac- Pc
al result-as a stern necessity for Ca
otestant Christianity the atti- ma
ie of the Catholic church In the the
rerse ratio of her advancement en-
ng the pathway of religious in exl
uction do we behold the other an.
ristian elements falling behind bo;
me effort must be made if they jec
| not be eventually effaced as far anC
any educational influence of a re- the
GUS character is concerned. This ins
vement will fan the smoldering of
bers into a new life; and that is INC
city the life that is calculated to tex
/ on towards final 'Catholicity. 1t can
thus that compensation operates pov
in the end the church triumphs, was
all the powers of either direct 1t
mics or of opponents combine in tax
1ring her ultimate victory-the sup
ory of truth-The True Witness. not
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