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gan and required the education of
their children. Harvard College was
founded in 1886 and a normal school in
1859, practically in a wilderness, as
they arrived at Plymouth, Mass, in
1920.
The philosophy of old-world, civil,
and ecclesiastical monarchy and auto
cracy is that all inhabitants are sub
jects to the king and his officers of
state, and should do what the king
demands; that he has superior knowl-
edge and wisdom. 1t is not necessary
for the subjects to take the trouble to
study and learn. All that is needed
is to do what they are told by a SUI
perior social caste acquired by birth
and superior opportunities. All are
subjects to and swear allegiance to a
king.
The philosophy of the Roman eccles-
iasticism is that the child belongs to
the Church. The child nor parent
need not take the trouble to study and
learn. The Church fathers will tell
you all you need to know. Our au-
thority.
Rev. Thomas L. Kinkead in his Cat
echism of Christian Doctrine, No. 8,
page ITO, question $50, says:
at is evident that the Church is one
in government, for the faithful in the
parish are subject to their pastor, the
pastors are subject to the bishops of
their dioceses, the bishops of the
world are subjects to the Pope"
Page 112, answer to question SCI:
eve ourselves need not seek in the
Scriptures and Traditions for what we
are to believe. God has appointed
the Church to be our guide to saliva
ton and we must accept its teachings
as our infallible rule of faith"
What THE Church does not know is
not worth knowing and many believe
does not exist. Socrates was con-
demned to death by poisoning because
he preached a new doctrine. Gallileo
was put into prison because he declar-
ed the world moved. Joan of Arc "a
condemned to death as a hereto be-
cause she believed she was inspired of
God to free her country of an enemy.
Philosophy of DemOcrcy
The philosophy of Democracy is that
the knowledge of all the people is
greater than that known by the lead
ers in THE Church or all the
Churches. That God reveals his
truths and the mysteries of his Gre
alton to many people and not to any
particular sect. Hence we have a
G~allileo, a Copernicus, a Watt, a
Morse, an Edison, a Marconi, and a
Wright who discovered how to fly.
We get all our needed knowledge for
government from the Scriptures, as
well as an all sufficiency for faith and
morals.
When our Puritan F~orefathers set
tied in the American wilderness they
left old-world saints, traditions and
imperial laws behind and largely
adopted the Mosaic Code in civil law
as well as for faith and morals. That
is they decided to be governed by
Principles, statutes, ordinances and
judgments as the Jews lived under the
Judges, before their government fail
ed because of moral ~depravity and
they asked for a king like pagan ma
lions. Read the last chapter of
Judges and the first of Samuel.
A successful democracy can be
maintained only by an educated peo-
pie. Old world social caste, race ha-
tired and religious prejudices can only
be removed and all the nation become
one big family by all children attend
ing the public schools. All citizens
have a vote as to their board of direc-
tors. While only secular subjects are
taught, all the teachers by their con-
duct are living examples of the civil,
moral and conventional laws of the
State, Notwithstanding they
do not teach sectarian dogma nor
modes of ecclesiastical government.
The Patriotic Orders insist IN read
ing the Bible in the Public Schools and
believe all children should be given an
opportunity to learn enough to read it
and learn the moral codes for them
and not depend on only what
others desire them to know.
A free country, political and relig-
ious liberty means the free opportun-
to learn to read and think and be
governed by statutes, ordinances of
government as the first Jewish state,
and not by imperial authority in State
Church.
All who are good Americans and
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support and attend the public schools.
If they are not what is wished, any
who has a free mind to read
and think for himself has a right to
offer any suggestions and advocate
improvement.
The public schools are the founda-
ton of Americas greatness and the
only safeguard of a successful democ-
racy continuing on earth.
Free schools, open Bible, free
thought, free Americans, governed by
in statutes, ordinances and
judgments of organized socitey, is our
security of the Righteous State.