The Irish standard., 1906-11-17

the Eternal Word made Man, is en-
tering the pathway that will end in
now unseen but sure precipice or in
whirlpool where all is confusion,
anarchy and death to home ana civic
virtue. It is not folly to forego. to
cast away, aye to rebuke such guide?
She speaks to our noble republic,
that she loves SO well, warns the
great American people OF their awful
error, and bid her beware of the
certain wreck and ruin, that must
come from her refusal to admit God
and Our Lord within the school
rooms Of her rising generations. :,
The non-religious (sometimes call
ed non-sectarian) system Of elemen-
tary education has been tried and
measured and weighed, and, say It
openly, has ben found wanting.
1t was conceived and brought forth
and nurtured into mature life in our
Stats. and has been adopted more or
less in every State Of the. Union. Tor
there is national system of education,
and each state is free to makedts own.
The non-religious, or so-catled, but
misnamed, non-sectariat1, system was
adopted about 70 years ago, two or
more generations have been educated
under it. and with what results?
If we put the Catholics apart in a
group by themselves, the people, men
especially, Of the State and country
are no longer a church-golng people,
! more than one-half Of children never
go to church or Sunday school, un-
less there be minstrel show or can
dy distribution; the dislntegration Of
the home is going on rapidly, because
God is not consulted or present at
the marriage: Gods law Is ignored or
| spurned in those obligations of mar
ried people to create ana build up
home; divorce scandals are 80 num-
erous as hardly to excite passing com.
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| Where and when do legislators now
A., consult the rights Of God and Of re-
! 1igion, in making the capital laws Of
the land, unless the vision OF adverse
votes of constituents stirs their sell
fish interests? Is the Christian idea
of Sunday not fast disappearing from
/ the minds Of people, who worship the
newspapers, or some pleasure resort? ?
Who hestitates to sneer at the ma
jority Of the law or statute book or
in court, or in trade, unless the strong
armed hand is there to inspire fear
of transgression?
Why was the Bible thrown out Of
court recently from it's use in taking
the oath? Because the judge said
men now ara cheerful liars and per-
jurers.
Why do thoughtful, conservative.
far-seeing men OF today fear in a
future more or less distant anarchy
in the home and socialism in the
state as threatening whirlpool, to
swallow up in a few short hours the
benedcent work Of a hundred years OF
toll and Christian civilization?
Why will the fashionable church
soon to be the non-sectarian, colorless,
formless, sect without creed, without
ritual, without even the name Christ
ian, and founded upon broad unde-
finable; plausible, and non-purdensome
science?
In one word, why is the Christian
ity that required centuries Of teach.
ing and training and worship to fash
ion the individual conscience, then ths.
home, then the family, and thus In.
vigorate the body polite and social.
why has all this been oozlng out, been
evaporating faster and faster from the
minds and hearts Of men?
Oh! If the old Church had not kent
and held firm that corner 81 tone of old
Massachusetts, if that golden inscrlp-
ton had not been written over her