The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1915-07-03

University in the Capital City of the
Nation, with a studentship reaching
into the fifteen hundred. This much
to-day: and the work is in its be-
ginnings. The triumph of the Catho-
lie Church is not so much the number
of schools already in active operation,
or the number of pupils ,crowding into
their halls: rather it is the holder
consciousness, which is hers of the
righteousness of her cause, her firm
ness of resolve to go forward to
further and higher achievements, her
time means continued victory, until
the absence of Catholic child from
Catholic school will be the rare ex-
ception to be excused only by most
exceptionable situations. This morn
ing, we chant the victories of Catholic
education in America.
Efficiency. of Catholic Schools-Muni-
ficence Of Catholics Towards
Catholic Education.
1t was wont to be said that, what
ever the good will and the effort,
Catholic schools could never rival the
schools of the State in their efficiency
to impart secular knowledge, that. in
consequence, Catholics would be de-
tered from patronizing them. No fear
| is to-day admissible. The Catholic
school is it's own argument. It's eff
cheney is proven. The Catholic
school challenges superiority. Wher-
ever comparative examinations are
had, our Catholic boys and girls rank
high in markings: wherever in the
several callings of later life ability,
together with punctuality, honor and
honesty, is at a premium, our youths,
former pupils of Catholic schools,
command and obtain favor. No longer
is there dispute as to the efficiency OF
our Catholic schools in matters OF
secular knowledge: their efficiency is
patent, incontrovertible fact.
1t was wont to be said, that the
Catholic people would deem the tinan-
cial burden of supporting their own
schools too heavy to be borne, and
quickly would grow impatient of it
Apparently there was much reason
| for this assertion. The Catholic peo
pie as a class, are not the possessors
of wealth; they are compelled by the
law of the land, while supporting their
own schools, to do their share to aid
/ the schools of the State. But those
who spoke of peril on this score, did
not know the Catholics of America
did not measure Alright the strength
of their faith, and their power of sacri
/ flee in it's defence. Few things in the
history of Christian generosity, the
world over, parallel the munificence Of
the Catholics of America on behalf o.
their schools, their colleges and theil
university. They rose to the full in
telligence of the need there is fol
i Catholic schools: they were deter
mined to be equal to all demands tina
this need should impose upon them
No longer is there fear lest the
Church may not safely count upon hel
people in all that she undertakes tt
save the faith of her children, to pu
into plenary execution her commission
to teach the Gospel of supernatura
truth, to all nations, in all ages
Magnificent they are, the Catholic
people of America, a spectacle il
which man and angels must take de
light.
i American Public Opinion Disarmed.
| In America the position of the Cath
Ollie Church on the question of school;
was misunderstood. Time has justi
fed her in the eyes of American pub
lie opinion.
i Our shrinkage from contact with the
secularized school was interpreted az
opposition to knowledge itself, as {
covert effort on the part of the Church
to hold her people in the darkness O
servitude. Catholic schools amon&
the most efficient in the land, priests
and people eager to uphold and mul
tiply them, unlimited sacrifices tina
all our children be educated and rist
high in scholarship, have made cleal
that the Church in America is the
friend and abettor of education, from
the lowest primary school-room, to thu
most learned university. He who runs
may read: he who still in Americ;
prattles of the Catholic Church as thu
fosterer of mental ignorance is in
capable of seeing the sun in TIT
splendor of its MONDAY rays.
1t was said that the secularizet
school-room is the great American in
stitution, that in stunning it Catho
lies show lack of patriotism to Amer
lea. The school-room, if you will, i
the great American institution. T,
the school-room Catholics aceor,
whole-hearted devotion. In this de
votion they yield to none among thei
fellow citizens. Farther do they g
than others. of their fellow Americans
To have the school-room, to whicl
their children may repair, they Ia
, themselves doubly: they share in tn
! maintenance of the secularized schoo
from which; others draw benefits, an
then pour out lavishly of their none
: to create for themselves the schoo
room where their faith is in safet.
The schoolroom is the American il
stitution: the exclusion of sreligio
from the school-room is not the Amer
i can institution: to this exclusion onl
D do Catholics make objection. He