The Irish standard., 1908-10-03

tells us that Lutherans have paro-
clllal schools in which. 234.175 chill
dren are educated in North America.
And the Episcopal Almanac for 1901
says that 1886 pupils are being
taught i'll their parochal schools.
DR.. Rainsford (EpiscopaD said il,
New York City, 1899: You have got
to give religious teaching in this
schools
DR.. Wallace Radcliffe (Presbetcrian)
said in Washington in 1900: LET US
establish schools and teach our ,e-
ligious convictions"
A professor i'll the Gettysburg Theo-
logical Seminary. DR.. Wulf, said, 1901:
every faculty except tho highest is
exercised and invigorated Gin our pub
lie schools), but the crowning faculty
that which is designed to animate
all others-is contemptuously ignored:
and, unless its education can be se-
cured, our youiig men and women will
be graduated from our, schools as
moral imbeciles'
The Rev. Henry Minton, (Presbyte-
rian), Moderator of the General AS
sembly, said at Philadelphia, 1901.
Our school system is not an organ.
lied skepticisn, but a. God -forsaken
secularism.'
DR.. Greer Of New York (Episcopal)
said to the General Episcopal conven-
| tlon, Washington, D. c., 1898: "The
Episcopal church is not satisfied with
! the present system of public schools,
| because religion is not taught il.
them.''
President Hyde of Bowdoin College
| said before the Massachusetts Teach
ers' Association Of Boston, 1896: '1he
public school must do more than it
has been doing il it is to be real
educator of youth and an effective
supporter of the State" (Newark
Monitor, Sept 22, 1906)
Like the seer that he uas, all this
was forcibly declared in the words of
England's grand old man, Mr.. Glad
stone, when he said: EVERY system
of education which leaves out re:lg
ious instruction is dangerous sys-
tenn"
Therefore catholics and Protestants,
great thinkers of foreign lands-Eng-
land, France, Germany, our own his
tory, sound cthics-all force us to de.
clare that religion in our schools is
a necessity
But how can this be brought about?
answer, let the State appropriate
funds, so much per capita to support
the parochial and other schools al
ready built, equipped and operated by
Catholics Protestants, Jews, or those
Of any other religious belief. Let the
State send the same examiners, SUI
pervisors, inspectors, etc, to look after
see if the teachers are competent and
efficient. Let the examinations, -ests.
etc., and the textbooks on all non n-re-
ligious matters be identical with those
of the other public schools. Then the
Catholic, Protestant, Jewish and other
children may be instructed in the re-
spective religions by teachers of their
own faith. This proposed plan is no:
to interfere with the operation Of tlia
public school as now organized, ex-
cept in SO far as regards those chill
dren whose parents might wish t;,cEl
to receive the advantages Of a re:;g.
ious training.
BY this system there would be no
taxation without representation, but
each would get the. just return from
his taxes in accordance with the tr,les,
principles of our American or arg
other just government, which exists
not for the sake Of the government bu!
for the sake OF the governed. Fol
until all that can be is done by tie
government to satisfy the just caims