The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1916-06-19
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SHOT AIMED At MAYOR
The Rev. Owen A. Hill Refers to City Administration
and Charities Inquiry in Sermon and Defines
Sphere of Church and State.

dethrone religion. morality and author
ity in the universe. A true socialist,
whether he likes II or not, u stand
for atheism. free love. hostility b
family and state, hatred Of the clergy.
contempt for Immortality. and the up
bringing Of children like cattle on the
plains.
"The State has no more right to say
what kind Of an education the child
shall get than to say what kind Of food
the child shall eat. 1t has . right to
keep unnatural parents from allowing
their children to grow up In Ignorance
but where parents are ready. able and
willing to educate their children the
State must not interfere.
The state has a right as we'll as a
duty to help Impoverished parents to
support and educate their children. but
atw avs with the provision that the child
shall not be robbed Of his religion. and
that the child shall get that brand Of
education his parents want him to
have"
Father Hill surprised his listeners
when he said
Our republic Is not yet committed
to the base system OF compulsory State
education, but We are rapidly drifting
In that direction. and unless Catholics
keep vigilant watch over our present
day legislation We will wake up some
morning to find our parochial schools,
Catholic colleges and seminaries shut
tight by state authorities, while our
teaching sisterhoods and brotherhoods
are robbed OF their occupation and ban
ished from the country. What happened
in France and Mexico can even more
easily happen In these United states
II we ever lose sight OF The fact that
education belongs to the parent and
not to the State, and that the church,
the sole arbiter Of religion. cannot be
eliminated from the question OF educa-
ton,
The Charity InvestigatiOn.
This recent investigation Of Catholic
charities was set on foot by the enemy
to discredit US with the public, to cut
of State aid. TO cripple our efficiency.
and II possible 20 close up our institu-
tons. The result would be that multi
tudes OF poor Catholic children would
find their way into State homes and
asylums to be robbed of their religion
and lose their immortal souls. The state
has a duty toward the Catholic poor
as well as others. Whatever the State
pays Catholic institutions .s due them
in strict Justice.
The man at the head n front OF
the investigation poses as a Catholic.
He was put In power largely by Catholic
votes, and the whole thing proves that
some Catholics here in New York are
Democrats and Republicans first and
Catholics afterward. As Boon as this
attitude becomes general the fate OF
the Catholic Church in France and
Mexico will inevitably overtake the
catholic Church In the United States.
'ttoSa n~l NlAr. Ia $500
within u church and do momentary
havoc: but when the tragedy happens
We Catholics are not panicky about the
result. The betrayal OF the Master b,
Judas did not disrupt the irfan, church
II did not break up the college o,
apostles. 1t tied the rope OF seif-murder
around the neck OF the traitor. and ir
the graphic language OF the Scriptur.
He went where he belonged"