The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-06-27
DIR. R.F. MOORE
 COUNSELSlS N. s.
 GRADUATE CLASS
Tells Them Their Training Is Good Foundation for
 Future Success.

ssIhe Culture of the Catholic Schools is the title of interesting. address delivered Sunday by Rev. Richard F. Mooore, LL,D., pastor of Sacred Heart church, in talking to thesT4 graduates of the Sacred Heart parochiaI school. Dr. Moore congrat- ulated the pupils for their good work and gave. them advice as to their My Dear Friends:
 i've rejoice to-day with th who should rejoice-with pupils and teach CTS and graduates-in AavinE finished another year of succsssful school work. There is an added circumstance that heightens our happiness in the fact that our graduation class, mum bering "A, is the largest in the history of ollr parish And we are proud to be able to say that their final eXamin- ations found them all fit to enter high school.
 saTheir number is but a small frac- i ton Of that vast army of Catholic boys and girls whom the Catholic church has educated and trained, with no ex-3 pensg to the country. to be the future defenders of our country and the church.
 "It is for conscience sake that the Catholic church is compelled to edu- cate her own children. This is her | dnalienabIe right as it is her bounden i duty She received from Jesus Christ the power and Jurisdiction to preach and to teach the young whom He re- deemed by His precious blood Feed { my Lambs+C1o forth preach the Gosr f pei to every creature and teach all Ila- tionss Suffer all the children to come unto me and forbid them not Ever since this power of teaching the youth f had been given to her, she has faith fully and with the greatest sacrifices fu1fi1Ied her mission The blood stained pages of her chequered history will best attest the fidelity with which fshe discharged that trust. At the very i opening of her divine mission, we find St Mary establishing a school at Alex handria which was then one of the most distinguished centers of mental AbiIffy in the world, Tn the second and third centuries the Christian 4 Schools Of that city were served by such famous teachers as Pantaenus' Origin and Clement, who Were the representatives of the highest culture of their age. As the church. spread ! in Asia and Southern Europe schools for children were serected in connec- tion with Episcopal residences, mon asteFies and Factories of priests. When < the barbarian in the fifth and sixth centuries and again In the tenth swooped down from She rTTrth and I swept away every vestige Of civiliza- tion=it was then that the church proved her love, of learning and re- 16aTleSSlY cohsequenBes and, w1th4 the sword of truth, converted and civilized them. In the schools that she erected upon the ruins of their invasion, she trained them in the faith of Christ and in the f11sefu1 arts of life Needless to speak all parts or fhe world hat had become famous for the deptN and 3readth of secular leafhing. They were hives of industry and homes of piety and God like charity
 ITO pass on the schools of England, Italy, F'rance and Germany, history loves to emphasize the schools of Ire llands for Ireland had become the mecca of learning for the world. And she Asent forth from her Catholic schools the most erudite teachers to SOW the seeds of faith and science upon the entire continent of Ehrope.
 America.
 e.The same burning zeal for the ed ucation of youth which Europe had Witnessed for untold centuries blazed forth anew. on the virgin soil of Amer ica@ Commenting upon this fact Bishop Spalding says: The greatest religious fact in the United States to- 1naintained without any aid except from the pupils who love it. The ibeginning of this great system in the United States takes us back some two Hundred and fifty years to the Mary land colony. Of it's growth and devel- ioptnent during the pioneer days we have very scant records. Still suffi- cient evidence has been presented to prove that the church in those days f1nade the best use of the means and ,. opportunities then at their command for school purposes With the growtf lof the church kept pace the estab t1ishment of our schools. The schoo became the adjunct and complement of the church. After a hundred years < of experience in America the churcT has witnessed her pafochia1 schoo ichiIdren increase and multiply. Ovel 2,0OO,0O0 children are being educated lin our. schools by our. 2,000 teachers In the diocese of Hartford we number over 8O,00o children in 86 parochia schools. which will graduate this year l1,45O pupils.
 Economic Phase.
 we are carrying on this great sys tenn of education at a great fnancia sacriAce-the sacrifice of parents whs pay their tax besides that for the sup port of our public schoo1s4-tfle sac lrifices of teachers who have left home. and the valued opportunities of life tC train, at the smallest salary, the ctiI dren to be- good Christians and citi- have added to the church burdens the additional expense of upbuiIding an6 maintaining schools in which theil children can be taught the valuable lessons of religion and morality.
 tThe Sacred Heart parish alone, by educating her 300 children saves the city of Bridgeport annually $20, 1000 when we consider the average cos per pupil and our property investmen and maintenance.
 Triple Alliance.
 ''Tne home, the scnoo1 ana to chUrcl1-these are the great factor in the true education of our youth All three are necessary and mutual. Independent. The home is a schoo when the mother teacher the first les sons of piefY. The school is a. hon1