The Washington herald., 1911-06-11

the relation Of seminaries to other edu-
cGtional work. and the courses of study
In Catholic high schools. During the
past year, under the direction Of the
association and with the cooperation
Of bishops, a study has been made of
these high school courses. looking to-
ward their improvement The Catholic
Church in the United States has eighty
two seminaries for the training of future
priests, and there are 1000 young men
In them at this moment. There are 225
colleges for boys and 696 academies for
girls, showing the Importance of the
question of secondary schools. Parish
schools number 4,s72, and there are
seventy-stx high schools Of the first
rank.
Father Archibald Shaw, missionary Of
the Sacred Heart. wireless expert, en-
sineer, artist, and man of many parts,
was the first person to give practical
aid to the expedition sent to search for
the long missing Staniforth Smith ex-
ploration party which was lost in the
wilds Of far on Papua. Father Shaw
has spent years among the brown men
of New Guinea. that cannibal land, full
Of mystery and practically unexplored.
Not only does he know the ways Of the
primitive Papuans, but he also knows
the language, of the natives. Of whom
there are mahy tribes, often unlike in
physical type and generally speaking
different tongues. For the past thirty
years, the missionaries Of theV Sacred
Heart have been intrusted with the
evangelization of Papua and the ad-
jacent archipelago. Flourishing Chris
tian settlements may now be seen where
quarter of a century ago murder and
cannibalism reigned; some of them like
Malagouna and VIavola, in New Britain,
with a Catholic population Of a thou
sand souls, where the happy missionary
Of to-day can count his weekly and
monthly communions by the hundreds.
These results have not been obtained
without sacrifice, as may be seen by a
visit to the mission cemeteries. The
lonely graves marked with their plain
crosses. on which may be read the name
and age of fifty-two missionaries. most
Of them in the flower Of their youth,
who in a few years have fallen on the
field victims Of their zeal. Not few
have been slain by those whom they
would civilize and wean away from
paganism and sorcery in its worst form.
Even as late as August Is, 1904, two
priests, three brothers, and hve nuns
all OF the Sacred Heart Order, were mas
sacred by natives at the mission OF the
Gazelle Peninsula In New Britain.
A new Catholic weekly, known as the
American Catholic, has been established
in Washington. The clergy and laity OF
Washington will welcome the yirile Cath
olic tone in this enterprising little jour-
nal, and 1t is hoped that the American
Catholic Company will meet with con-
tinued success.
At the Methodist conference held in
Sydney, n. s. W., in an address the Rev.
]. c. ]. Prescott protested against the
education which is divorcing the rising
generation Of Australians from the Chris
tian faith. Valuable as our state edu-
cation system is" DR.. Prescott said, IT
have been forced to believe for some
years that 1t is only a partial solution OF
the problem and that whatever be our
mind to-day our state has not said its last
word on the subject. Even those Chris
tians who are willing to acquiesce In a
purely secular system do so with the
opinion that religious training must be
provided in some way apart. But the
connection between the church and edu-
cation has been so close for ages that n
fs idle to think she can be content to
have nothing to say. Apart from her OBJ
legation to Instruct her children in re-
ligious truth, she insists that morality
must be based upon religion. All are
agreed that IN some way morals must be
taught, and It Is better for them to be
taught on a questionable basis than not
taught at all. I am not so much con-
cerned with policies as with those big
ideas, sometimes clear and luminous, but
sometimes nebulous, vague, ill-defned.
but in both cases influential, that haunt
the human soul, and the church would be
untrue to its history and its traditions
If it did not watch for opportunities of
giving religious and moral training. It