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

eFn IT'S SuDJeCCSs uHlSSS ~ EecuG-
nizes God, the author OF authority and
that all rightful authority proceeds
from God, the Supreme Lawgiver.
Whether mortals will it or not, God
will have His place both on earth and
in heaven. Evil will not go unpun-
ished, nor virtue unrewarded.
The Home, the Church and the School.
The home, the Church and the
school constitute the fundamental edu-
cational agencies. These mould men,
form their intellectual and moral
character and shape society. The
home the primary school of religion
and morality, makes lasting impress
sions on youth. Home training must
precede all other trainings. The
childs life is Influenced by the lives
of father and mother, their example
making deep imprint on its mind.
Sound principles of morality must be
strongly and frequently inculcated at
1.-The mothers knee. No school can
replace the home school, no teacher
the mother. The home has been just
ly designated as the cradle of the ma
ton. TIL more solid the foundation
of the family, the more solid the sup
erstructure of the nation. A good
home training helps to preserve the
future man from evil to keep him in
the path of rectitude and to give
strength to the future efforts of the
child. The thought of home and
moher smoOthes over the asperities of
life in recalling motherly sympathy
and advices and the sweetness Of
home surroundings. Next to the
! thought of God, His Holy Mother, His
Angels and His Saints, no thought is
so salutary, and consoling as that Of
mother.
The Home Not Sufficient for True
| Education.
That the home is sufficient for true
education is the vain statement of in
dividuals totally ignorant of the neces-
sity of religious education, or unpar-
donably Indifferent to the essential of
religion as factor in education. The
family is generally so occupied that
little opportunity remains for relig
ious instruction. The wealthy whose
time is their own appear to find no
occasion for this paramount duty. As
for the poor, who toll from twilight to
twilight, for daily bread, fatigue or
inability prevents them from teach
ing, at night, their children the truths
of our holy religion and the practice
of our holy faith. The father comes
home in the evening, tired both in
head and heart; the mother, broken
with care, oyerburdened with house
hold duties, or forced to seek employ
ment outside, finds no time to prop
erly train the character, heart and in
tellect of her children.
The Church Not Sufficient for ReIig-
ious instructions.
The Church's formal teaching is
! limited to a short period on Sunday.
Religious instruction must not be rele-
: gated to the Sunday school. A lesson
j in catechism once or twice a week
/ does not suffice to infuse a religious
: spirit into the minds Of the youth.
: One day in the week for religious cul-
| ture and six days for secular culture,
I one day in the week for the knowledge
) of God and six for secular knowledge.
E The Sunday school work may be par
: alysed by the daily secular impression
on the malleable mind of the children.
r How will the work of the Sunday
: school be able to counteract the I'M
, christian tone of the goddess school
: and the baneful influence of teachers,
j unfavorable to Catholic principles and
i Catholic ideas and oftimes misrepre-
senting our holy doctrine, though no
] person has a moral right to teach
falsehood? What Will it avail to
], prove on Sunday that Christianity is
g a divine institution, If the secular
: teacher stigmatizes it as a myth?
t What will it avail to explain on Sun
? day the redemption of Christ, of man
f kind, the divine institution of the
f Church and her Sacramento, the su.
d premacy and the infallibility of the
Y Pope and other essential truths of the
/ teaching of the Church If the secular
: teacher denies and laughs them to
e scorn? What will it avail to teach
t morality on Sunday, if the secular
:, teacher denies the existence of future
f lreward and punishment, the doctrine
e of heaven and hell and the immortal.
] Il ty of the soul? What will it avail on
: Sunday to teach the holy tenets OF our
+ Church, if the secular, teacher ridi-
q cules and styles them superstitious
practices?
Public Schools.
), The Catholic Church has no designs
Q on Public schools as such, but op-
: Iposes the manner in which they are
t conducted. Let the people, who are
e satisfied with them in their present
? condition, have them. The legitimate
t pride are they of our common coun.
d try, excellent indeed as far as they
0 Il go, but as morality is absolutely nee.
: essary in making our children pure
i men and pure women. good Catholic
Y and trustworthy citizens, and as NOR.
S atty cannot be taught without relig.
J, ion, which is lacking in the Public
: schools, we want our children to fire.
b lquent Catholic schools, where our
t Holy Religion is taught. The Church
l. does not want her children to be
robbed of the principles of morality
2 and their religion. The three plen.
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