The San Francisco call., 1908-12-20

moral educator, but that of the moral
educator, as commonly stated, excludes
the religious. OF the fact OF this ex-
clusion there can be no doubt from the
total omission in programs OF moral
education OF all reference TO Christ, to
conscience. Such omission IS exclusion
and nothing less, and the result of ex-
clusion must be the dissolution of re-
ligious sanctions for morality.
The Belgian delegates defended the
thesis. They said:
We are in the presence Of two
The first desires religion in education !:
the ether does not desire 1t. but de-
sires to exclude it. This is the conse-
a.ussnce of the two currents which di-
be. solved? Are you going to render
religious instruction obligatory. and
thus violate the liberty. Of non-Chrlstian
render nationalist instruction obi7ga-
tory, and thus violate the liberty of
Christian fathers of families? The
not a third Belgian solution. which
coneists n respecting end subsidizine.
liberty. Let families give their chill
dren the moral education which those
families prefer or desire, tho state
awarding the subsidies according to the
pedagogical value of the schools.
NJ. Buisson lauded the present athe-
istic education in France; but Profess
sor Adler. delegate Of the American
universities. declared:
|. After 80 years experience in teach
Ing morals, haze become cony yinced
of two things: that rlptai edncatioa is
Einseparable from religion and that it
can not be given solely by oraf instruc-
the teacher. Tt is for this reason that
/ believe that moral education can
with difficulty be .int intrussed TO the
of moral education can better be in
trusted in the hands of associations
free. pllilanthropic or confessional. A
duty OF primordial justice requires the
state to respect their existence and
lactivity.
It has been pointed out that, OF the
many discoveries of biblical manu-
scripts in the nineteenth century. none
was more important. whether for the
study of photography or for the his
tory of the text, than that of the great
eodex of the fourth century which
Constantine Tischendorf discovered in
1874 in the monastery OF St. Catherine,
on Mount Sinai. A set of full size neg
atives have now been taken of the
New Testament portion of this codex.
These will be published in 1909, by the
collotype process, with preface by
Professor Lake, stating the palace
graphical problems. The chief of the
section of theology in the Imperial IL
brary, the New Testament part of the
manuscript, including the Epistie of ST
Barnabas, and the remaining leaves of
the Shepherd of Hermas, Will occupy
296 pages of facsimile
The editor Of Rome declares that
Mr.. Taft won golden opinions among
the statesmen of the Holy See during
the closing years of the reign of Leo
XIII. when he went to Rome fo freat
with them concerning the politico-ec-
clesiastical affairs of the Philippines
and that he has not belied his reputa-
tion for impartiality since then.
The editor also states that lie had
the honor of accompanying Mr. Bryan
TO a private audience with Plus X, and
that he remembers Mr.. Bryan's ex-
pressions of admiration for the pontiff
after the audience, and his entirely
sympathetic references to the Cath
olic church.