Year: 1875

One bloody war ensued mainly growth out of this important subject, and finall a compromise has been effected by whic a Mahomedanr is intrusted with the ke and sits there all day long to- kee peace between the various Christia1 sec who go there to. worship at the shrine and it is said as one sect passes in aI another passes out, jeers, grimaees ai other unfriendly demonstrations are oft made by ons to the other. Still 1t

 proposed to, turn over to these vario creeds the education of our youth,

 grow up. and enter upon this kind

 strife It is evident with such materi our Republic would soon be mergd under the influence of one Church or t

 other when. the same bloody strifes wou

 be enacted as in days gone by. So loI as churches oonfine their duties to re giOus instruction. we believe they all q good. and to that extent we approve a1 support thena,> but when they commend the strife for political power as the lectuH CT intimates they intend to do with u "silent ballot ,'|then they are deserving proportion to the hand they :ake in pol tics, to the same criticism as any othd political organization.

 Our government is founded on the oas of complete separation of Church an State This is one of the fundamental pri ciples upon which the whole structure res and we may say no other principle is dear to the American people as. thls.

 is as evident as the sun at monday that

 we wish to perpetuate this glorious her tage and keep this country free froH religious intolerance we must send 10 Il councils of the nation men of hberali who have been educated with tolerand and forbearance towards, those of eve religious faith. Any one who does n believe that Church and State would

 united as soon as any ore church obtaind complete and absolute contref has red history to very poor purpose.

 Now we say that it is essential to | peace, security and peFpetuity

 the government of the United States

 keep up our present system of educatio able right to do ali necessary things

 preserve good order and its own existenG We have made as you admit every reaso able concession, and all we can make, Q cept to levy taxes and pay them over | the bereft of educating children in pa ticnlar creeds.

 We will now refer to some of the detai of the lecture. The lecturer says th3 "most of you will probably tell me thd you agree with all say about the nece sity of religious instruction, but that u only difference between us upon thd point is as to where it shall be given that in your opinion this religious iI strnction can be given sufficiently well home and once week in special schoO organized for that purpose commonl called Sunday schools, and that the etied of this home and Sunday teaching wi not be seriously interfered with by send Ing the child six days out of seven { schools, (the lecturer evidently knows ths public schools are only taught five day during the week, ) where religious teachin4 is ignored Is not that a very perfunctoI \ ry manner of disposing of 80 import ant subject? Has not the moral ton of our community, under the operatiol| of this theory, already fallen below thai standard at which nation is safe even iE the hands of its own people Do we nai need more morality in the community more people who believe in God?" and again the lecturer says: Gan we main1 tain our social organization without a| high standard of morality, aud do you| think we shall get it from a system of Goddess education?"

 We believe the world is constantly grow Ing better; men are more honest and more kind to their fellow men; our con- tact with humanity has convinced us that honesty and fair dealing is quite as sure to be found outside as inside of creeds; we have been cheated a dozen times by men protesting to belong to churches to one by the other class; of public men " ho have been found corrupt according to our observation a majority have be- longed to Churches. Boss Tweed was ,,o,+ ,n ,ff;oa vaars .fter it WAS known