The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1915-02-06

practiSed in our schools OF daily assist
ance at Holy Mass and the beautiful
doctrine of daily Holy Communion
render our children more and more
virtuous and make discipline easier.
Pure and disciplined minds drink in,
far better, knowledge than contain
mated minds. Virtue preserves men
tai as well as physical strength. Who
will dare gainsay the modesty, the
politeness, the respect, and the gen.
eral good behavior of children taught
in our schools?
Catholic Teachers.
Catholic teachers are ideal instruc-
tors for youth, possessing noble hearts
and souls obeying divine laws, truly
sympathetic and vigilant for the pu-
pills welfare. Catholic teachers lead
their pupils lovingly and gently to-
eternal truths and to God. Our broth
erhoods and our. sisterhoods are mod
els for the pupils, men and women of
God, of learning and sanctity, whose
lives are consecrated to Gods best in
terests and humanity's best welfare.
Their example enforces the words of
their mouth. Hearts are sWayed more
by deeds than by words. Should the
teachers life contradict the truths of
his teaching, then his labors are
worthless. Teachers are the main
obiect-lesson in the school:room.
Our Catholic teachers are principal
ly character builders, instilling into
the mind of the child duty to God, to
neighbor and to self, respect for indi-
vidual rights, observance of the laws
of God and of civil laws, to be just to
God and just to man. Well aware are
they that the foundation of character
is morality and the basis thereof re-
ligion. Moral training is the most i'm
portant factor that goes to make up
character. Without religion the de-
velopment of character is impossible.
Religion must enter into daily life, be
the motive of thoughts and deeds.
Character is the outgrowth of the will
trained by religion. Character is vir-
tue, truth, moral strength and spirit
ual courage. Our teachers are OF a
pure Christian life, SQUAD moral char
acter and possessing the gift of i'm
parting wisdom. They take great in
terest in their pupils, not only in the
school room but also outside of it,
even when the school days are finish
ed. That the child be honorable, a
good, pious and staanch Catholic, a
Iaw.abiding and intelligent citizen, is
the paramount object Of Catholic
teachers. The very habit they wear,
impresses the pupils with. the vanity
of, earthly things and inspires them to
seek better things. Every effort to
educate, apart from religion, will be
sterile, producing dishonest and dan
gerous citizens and eventually moral
wrecks. The habit of life followed by
our Brothers and Sisters give them
the character that the Office of an edu-
Gator demands, their memory, intel
lect, and will being fully exercised by
their religious morning meditations.
Having consecrated their lives to this
sacred profession, they consider as a
matter of conscience the strict per-
Torrance of their duty. Not consid-
ering their profession as something
temporary. but as means of eternal
salvation, they endeavor to do all
things well, their mind being i'm.
pressed that perfection consists in
performing ordinary things with ex-
traordinary perfection. Feeling the
great importance of their work, they
do not act as mere teachers impart.
ing knowledge, but seek to develop
the noblest and suppress the danger.
Gus qualities of their pupils.
| Where Catholic schools, for grave
reasons, do not exist, parents should
not neglect their most serious duty,
nor pastors fail to put forth every eff
fort to instruct the children in Catho-
lie faith and Catholic worship. The
pastor should teach cateehism one-half
hour twice a week, besides Sunday
school, to children not attending
Catholic schools in addition to the
regular course OF catechetical in
structions in the Catholic schools and
Academies existing IN the parish.
| Academies.
Our Catholic academies are schools
of learning and virtue, conducted by
religious women, who serve. in man
ner not understood by the world, the
cause of God, the cause Of the
Church and the cause OF Country, by
blending science with religion. Every
subject taught and studied within the
convent walls, is perrneated with the
spirit of religion Academies should
not fail to be most circumspect and
Ivigilant in admitting as pupils Catho-
lie girls, incapable of being kept at
home for serious reasons; and nom
Catholic girls, whose example in re-
ligion and otherwise ofttimes leads to
regrettable effects and to religious
indifference. The companionship of
such pupils frequently produces sad
consequences. The detestable evil of
mixed marriages not rarely ensues
| from friendship formed In academies.