The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-01-02
PRIEST DE|VOUNCES
ADVICE Of EDUCATOR
Father Ryan Scores DR.. Cook of
the Northern Illinois Nor
NAL School.
HAD EULOGIZED INFIDELS
Pastor Takes Exceptions to This
Utterance and Gives His
View in Sermon.
HAD EULOGIZED INFIDELS

During the session of the Utah State
Teachers association in this city last
week, DR.. Cook of the Northern State
normal school of Illinois at De Kalb
cited Rousseau and Voltairc AS exam
pies for the world TO admire, This utter
ance of this educator incensed the
Catholic clergy Of this community and
In st. Mary's cathedral on Sunday
Father w. *. Ryan, who preached at
the IL o'clock mass, took occasion to
denounce the advice Of DR.. Cook as
dangerous for both teacher and chill
dren, Dr. Cook, in his address, declared
that Rouss All and Voltaire were "Her-
aids of new day. Father RYAN S
theme was "The Duties of Parents to
Children and the Absolute Necessity Of
religious Education From Early Child
hood Father Ryan said in part:
Laxity in Raising Children.
'.At no time in the history of the
nations has there been such a lax ten
dency as to the raising Of children as
in the present age. Parents will make
every sacrifice to give them fine
secular education, will slave to endow
them with worldly goods, money and
accomplishments. but when it comes TO
the private moral religious education
Of the children, they appear TO be in
different. -
Then he addressed himself to the
fathers. asking chow do you expect
your sons to attend church, 10 care for
religious training, to not blaspheme,
to remain sober, when you yourselves
darken church doors only when
there is a funeral, when the atmosphere
Of the home reeks with profanity, drink
and its attendant evils?
Mothers Likewise Questioned.
"You mothers Of family to whom
the little ones look for example and
have the love and fear of God in their
hearts when the night and morning
prayers are neglected, when the Sun
day church is not attended by the
mothers, when on Sunday the little
ones are allowed to remain at home
because it Is too early to get them up
TO Sunday school, forgetting that six
days of the week are just AS early!
When you do not frequent the sacra
boys and girls to love the precepts of
their religion! Do YOU forget that in
their young minds, SO fast developing,
often como the thought why do not
father and mother go to the sacrament?
Scores an Educator.
HThcn, again my brethren, I wish to
reiterate my statement that the ten
dency of the age is Goddess and world
~ one Only last week here in our
beautiful and growing city, at what
consider so-called educational meet
ing Of the teachers of this state, a
distinguished gentleman selected to ad
dress the body boldly and impudently
asserted that Rousseau and Voltaire, the
notorious French infidels, were exam
plies for the teachers and the people to
admire. This man also stated that in
his opinion this nation is rapidly be-
coming like France and other infidel
countries, and thus leaving the impress
sion upon the minds of his audience
and of those who read the statement,
that these men were examples worthy
OF emulation
AS to Public Schools.
Then the speaker, in an impassioned
manner and voice, said: Brethren.
wish TO say TO you fearlessly from the
pulpit. that il this be the attitude of
the future public schools, they are not
fit for the education Of Catholic chill.
dren because Catholic parents should
know their duty towards the souls of
their children.
"Bcfore receiving the sacrament Of
matrimouy, their duties are explained,
promises arc demanded from the con.
tracing parties that the children of
such union are to be regarded as q
sacred trust from the hands Of the God
who died for us. The souls of the chill
dren must be saved, even at the loss of
worldly gain, - and concluded by quot.
| ing the Words of Christ, 'What doth 1T
profit mau if he doth gain the whole
world and lose his OWL soul. -