The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1911-05-30

1t is carefully eschewed from the cur
rtculum of his studies for five days of
the week, he will naturally and logi-
cally conclude that religion cannot be
so very important after all and will
very quickly cease to consider it as
worthy of any serious attention. Ny
dear brethren, this topic is mex
haustible, as inexhaustible as truth it
self. might go on indefinitely had I
the time and you the patience. 1 feel,
however, that / have said enough to
show you that the Catholic church has
always been the warmest friend that
education ever had. and that her views
only philosophically true but are also
indicated by the trend of actual ex-
perience. A few words more and
am done. Catholic parents, the two
great dangers that threaten the sta
bility Of our republic are the infiam-
matory agencies Of self styled social
istic and anarchial reform. Do you
wish to give your country citizens
who VIII be unwavering foes to the
disturbers of its peace and glory, send
your children to a Catholic school :?
Do you. above all things, hope to give
those gifts Of God, your children, back
to Him radiant with the extremity of
happiness for which they were created
send them to Catholic school :?
to become respected men and women
OF the world, successful workers in the
vineyard Of the Lord, loved and ad-
mired for their strict integrity, that
chance Will be secured only under the
refining process of religion. The very
instance that some children brought
up under strictly Catholic auspices are
by no means a credit to the training
they received Is merely an insistent
additional testimony to the necessity
of religious education. If men and
women go wrong in spite of religious
education with all it's promptings to
the better, higher life, what would hui
mainly come to without any religious
education at all? Catholic parents,
yours is an awful responsibility, and
do not fear to tell you that you are
juggling your children's souls over a
fearful precipfce by refusing to send
them to your own schools. The dan
gers that surround your children are
so many and so alluring that every
safeguard must be availed of to keep
your children from the path to ruin.
If you neglect the opportunities for
protection afforded by the Catholic
school you not only do not do your
duty as Catholics but you are taking
desperate chances on your own sal
walton as well as on the salvation Of
the children committed to your care
ana BuaTO1dnSn1p Dy CIOQ. one Gay
you and I shall stand before the throne
Of the Eternal Judge to render to Him
strict account. I pray with all my
heart that no child of yours shall
stand up in our presence ON that dread
day and curse you for its everlasting
and frremediable damnation. We love
your children just as much as you do
and we long to see the seed Of virtue
blossom into the glistening lily under
our devoted care. Give us your chill
dren then that we may make them
your pride, your joy, your consolation
Here in this school and convent of the
Sacred Heart you will find conditions
particularly conducive to the complete
and proper education of the child-a
building planned along the lines OF the
latest architectural progress and with
all modern conveniences, erected, too,
without a cent OF expenditure on your
part or the part of any inhabitant Of
this city-a building with a director in
your esteemed pastor, who is unfver-
sally and favorably known as a very
able, jealous and intellectual leader in
the priesthood-a building immediate
ly presided over by we'll trained, grace
full, curtured ladies,=whose devout an
gelic ministrations are always inspira
tions-a building permeated with the
presence of Him who longs to throw
the mantle Of HIS protection around
the child and says to him in the words
Of the prophet Isaias, Even to your
old age I am the same, and to your
gray hairs I will carry you: have
made you and I win bear: will carry
and win save Us. 46:41.