The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-08-29
BY HIS EMINENCE CARDINAL FARLEY.

school and the home are appropriate
places Tor this instruction. and the day
school is by no means intended to usurp
the place or parent or priest. On the
contrary. as far as the priest In con-
eefned, 1t Is always the desire to have
MIN take as personal a share in tho
lmparting Of religious instruction as tho
pressure Of his p~arochlal duties will
permit. But experience has shown that
many parents ave not the time, many
have not the ability, and Of those who
nave both time and ability many have
not the inclination. Therefore, IL We
were TO depend entirely on the Sunday
school. we should not only be fostering
in the hide mind that very notion
or the chasm between God and this
world against which the parochial
school is a living protest. but we should
also be attempting TO accomplish a
sheer impossibility-the work simply
cannot be done. How much arithmetic
would n child learn IL he had lessons
IN II only one hour n week? Now the
work OF !mparting religious instruction
calls for a great deal of time and no
little skill, II 1t is going to be lone
lightly. 1t liz really a matter OF so
surrounding the child with the SUPER
natural that he will gradually come 10
assimilate 1t as the seed assimilates it's
nourishment from the soil in which
1t Is planted. And this means that
God shall be remembered every day and
all day.
Another objection. less frequent now
IMAM II used to be. but still some
times heard, is that the time given over
TO religious instruction must be taken
from the other studies, and that these
latter necessarily suffer Ia consequence.
The best refutation Of this charge In to
he found in the records Of examinations
where p%arochial school children sat
side by side with oth er children. or in
the reports OF those Catholic schools,
now somewhat NUMEROUS. which are
under the Regents. III these tests there
can be no suspicion OF favoritisin. And
any one who doubts the efficiency of
the sisters or the brothers need only at
tend the annual meetings of the Catholic
Educational Association, or the summer
sessions At the Catholic University in
Washington, where he will meet teach
ers from Catholic primary and secondary
schools In large numbers discussing the
latest methods or engaged in special
postgraduate work-all for the sake OF
keeping Catholic education on the high
est possible plane. And lastly. the
Catholic schools. having behind them the
sound traditions OF centuries, have been
notably free from those hasty expert
ments with novelties that have done 80
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educational establishments. Not all
movement is progress, and while We
are glad to improve in every possible
way. n are not welded TO a blind con-
servatism. We have never suffered our
schools to Ice converted into experiment
stations for inficting on the bewildcred
and mystihcd children the --latest peda-
gogical fads.
And now. before concluding. ! would
lilo IN tplf.afa npAtber i,|l ga uhIph
the rarochial school has wrought r
blessing. II has frequently hal pcnod
that a pastor sets up a school in a dis
trict where poverty and ignorance walk
hand in hand. The children are gathered
in and gradually through them there is
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true culture which could not otherwise
have been impaired. Without any OFF
cious meddling with the private lives
of these people the church becomes a
source Of hettorment even In the things
OF this life, the parents benentins as
well as the children, and an acute OIL
server might after a few years recog-
nize the Catholic Church at her Old
but never abandoned task Of healing the
nations, as though the ancient days
were come again. when GOth and Saxon
and Celt were christianized and civilized
10y the missioners that went out from
rome. ms IL no 1anclfOl picture nut
a fact ~ actual experience.
Such il In brief the principle on which
the parochial school Is based. II rests
on the firm foundation OF Christ's com
mand, which the Church through long
has ever striven to fuliil until she
has accumulated a store of experience
that places her far beyond all possible
rivals. She knows the human nature
with which she is dealing, its e. pacities
and its limitations. And with these IN
mind she knows that the only way 10
train mp good citizens, good fathers and
mothers is through the teaching Of the
'aitn once delivered to the saints MI
other methods are sadly inIduglate.
For man needs to learn to bear the yoke
from hIs youth II be is 10 grow W. "A
useful and law abiding member of So
rl''N; ana that process Of suhj,r'ing
the intellect and the will 20 thu higher
law cannot be accomplished hy any
means chat has not hack Of il the sane
l'uu and authority Of religion. Ia the
words Of Cardinal Newman. QUARRY
the granite rock with razors or moor
the vessel with a thread Of silk then
may you hope Wit sIch keen and DELE