Los Angeles herald., 1906-09-17
CONSCIENCE ALSO
NEEDS TRAINING
PRESIDENT GLASS TALKS TO
ST. VINCENT'S COLLEGE
1--WE Place the Hopes We Have in
the Future In Our Schools"
Said the Reverend
Speaker

solemn mass of invocation yesterday
morning, at which Rev. II. M. Muir
taugh, G.. M. was celebrant; Rev. H.
|O'Connor, G. M, deacon, and Rev. Carl
Osthoff, G. M, sub-deacon. Edward
Callahan acted as master Of ceremo-
MES.
Very Rev. DR.. Joseph S. GLASS; c. M,
president Of the college, preached an
eloquent sermon on 1.-The Need of Chris
tian Education" DIR. Glass dwelt at
length upon the training Of the con-
science and accountability to God with
t.lat of the intellect. He said in part:
1--WE are upon the threshold of an
other scholastic year. Our schools have
just opened. ~.
1--WE believe in the school and we
place the hopes we have in the future
in our schools. For them we permit
ourselves to be taxed and are willing
to make the sacrifice for that genera
tion which, after a while, will take
our places.
Cry of the Century
Education is what we hear on all
sides.
"Education has been the cry of the
last century and it is the cry of to-
day. We Americans look down in pity
upon those who have not had the OPP
portunities we have in this great coun-
try of ours.
that character of our citizenship shall
be elevated.
sour men and women who are to
realize the destiny of our city, state
and country shall be of high ideals,
believing in God as well as men, They
shall be a benefit not only to them
selves but to fellow-men, to society and
to, the state.
1--WE have had time to study our
schools and what do we behold?
"In a recent number of the Advance,
a prominent Congregational paper, the
writer of an article asks the question
why it is that although our schools
are increasing, crime is also 1ncreas-
ing? Why it is that the character of
our citizenship, even though our schools
are more numerous, is not higher? Are
the schools teaching crime and trans
gression of the law? No.
Neglect the Conscience
"The writer answers that we insist
on mental culture and we neglect the
culture of conscience. We are long on
head and short on conscience. 1t there
not some truth in this?
"Are we not crying for education
and mean only a partial education?
"Are we not crying for mental Gull
ture, leaving out heart, conscience and
personal accountability? ,-,
"There, 1 think, is the great fault in
a, purely secular education, where the
conscience is not an element, nelther
the heart. Only the mental power is
to be blessed with knowledge.
"A child goes to the purely secular
school: he is taught arithmetic, sci
ences and to read and write. They
can and do teach these well. But what
else is there? Where do we find the
thing that points to the standard that
is to give a guide to conscience? Where
do we find the teaching of personal re-
sponsibility?
mot long ago a prisoner, condemned
IN death. was given some books on re-
ligion. He said to his jailer: This is
the first time have had the chance to
know of God, conscience and the truth
Something Wanting"
every often, too commonly, the poor
fellow that goes to prison is not lg-
norant. The man who robs you, the
banker who takes your money by the
thousands and hundreds of thousands,
| is not ignorant. The man who tres
! passes the moral law is not Ignorant.
| His mental culture may be of the first
| class There is something wanting.
IT is that training of conscience, not
merely of the mind, but of the VIII and
the heart.
$50 we contemplate today a state
of affairs that is well nigh appalling.
The figures of crime are terrible. We
are leading the world in many things,
even in crime. Year before last the
| statistics for murder in Europe and
"a nada made us suffer by comparison.
In Canada to three murders there were
one hundred and twenty-nine in our
country. This is merely an ind1catlon
of a general condition OF our country
Yet we are not powerless. We can help
this state of affairs.
at sneak especially to you as Catho-
lies who know the truth. In Judea,
Christ didn't teach science only. He
smoke of conscience and the heart. He
nrouised them a hundredfold IN this
world and everlasting happiness IN the
world to come, and his doctrine was
of the heart.
Parental Duty
"The church, the mother of the peo-
nile will save the people if they VIII
follow. 1t is the duty of the Cathollc
parents to see that their sons and
daughters attend Catholic school and,
thanks be to God, there are Catholic
schools to teach not merely the SCI
ences but the conscience and the rela-
tion of the students to God and Where
they are not ashamed of the name OF
God.
1--WE are Gods creatures, and can we
say at any moment that we are not
dependent absolutely on HimY Can we
saw God rests there and 1 will go and
attend to my business?
1--WE. do not need to be ashamed OF
our church. or her history. From the
time Of Christ his church has stood
as a leader among mankind. When
sciences and, art were driven out by
the barbarians it was the church which
saved them and today il you have the
classics she it was who saved them
and gave them not only to her own
children but to all men who came and
asked for them"
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