The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1915-10-02
POPULAR APoLoeETIcs.
Adapted from the German Of Rev.
Peter Mikes, S. j., by Rev.
James Watcher.
x. Relation and School.

Nls nShSiOH anu 1GUOOts
Objections: Thorough school edu-
cation takes the place of religious
education. If children are thoroughly
enlightened and educated by moral
suasion they need no religious in
struction to become decent men and
women.
Answer: We see that plainly in
France, where, as the fruit of their
goddess and anti-religious schools, a
generation of criminals is growing up.
Bonjean, a judge of the Seine
tribunal, writes: France is going
headlong to ruin. The princi-
pal cause of it's Generalization and
degeneration is evidently to be
attributed to irreligious education"
Guillot, the Paris judge of instruc-
ton, says: The lay schools have
declared dreadful bankruptcy; with
the religious ideal every other ideal
has disappeared; the unpatriotic grow
on the same wood as the goddess"
The Protestant Buisson, who worked
for twenty years to Danish religion
from the schools, says: 'The moral
bankruptcy is admitted by all"
Suicides and crimes of every kind
among the young has increased to a
fearful extent. In Paris moral cor
ruption among the young that have
attended the public schools is terrible.
Shameful deeds that we're formerly I'M
known are now of everyday occur
Tho 1c Of CnInr,
mon among the young.
The Revue Scientifique, which is
anything but religious, says on this
subject: Our present system of edu-
cation rears the majority of the
pupils as the enemies of society and
makes many adherents of socialism in
it's worst form
To great extent the same holds
good in our country.
XII. Religion and Farming.
Objection: My neighbor prays and
don't; he goes to church and
don't. Still l have as nice grain il
my field as he. Where is the differ
ense? Religion and prayer don't help;
we need work and fertilizer.
Answer: Here is the difference:
H. You are very impolite towards
God; your neighbor, with his prayer:
of petition and thanks, is polite
towards God, the highest Lord.
81 Your neighbor accepts the
gifts of the heavenly Father like {
good child with peace and joy; you
on the contrary, remind me of g
saucy boy who eats at his fathers
table but never so much as greets
him.
81 The third difference comes
later. Your neighbor gets in add
ton to his crops heavenly reward
You will hardly expect that for you
blasphemies.
The infidel Professor Schneider,
pupil of the notorious Haeckel, say
with the same smartness as our un
believing farmer: 1.-THE farmer of on
times knows that the growth of hi
crops depends on the treatment o
the soil, the fertilizer and other ciI
cumstances, and that prayer will no
make a barren soil yield more" (De
tierische Willie, p. 1881
AS though fetilizer were an inven
tion of our times, perhaps of som,
materialist! Did, perhaps, the He
meric farmers not fertilize their fields
But the farmers with their SCUM
minds know more than our professor
They know that all nature and it
forces, the weather and other Gil
cumstances, are not the product O
blind chance, but are ruled by wis
and loving Creator. Our professo
is badly mistaken if he thinks tina
the majority of our farmers do no
consider prayer of Importance. /
farmer of sound mind and heart CO
operates with God-works and prays
He knows that all depends on God
blessing.