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 take away his part out of the Book of Life 1 "— Rkv. xxii. 19. 
 
 In spite of special legislation granting the Boman Catholics the privilege 
 of estabUshing and maintaining Separate Schools, and in spite of special 
 legislation giving them unfair advantage over Protestant tax-payers, the 
 Mowat-Fraser Government has bartered for political support the Holy Book 
 itself, and has placed in the Public Schools of the Province an excised and 
 mutilated copy of the Scriptures prepared under Archbishop Lynch's personal 
 supervision. Though under the Constitution the Roman Catholics enjoy the 
 right to teach what they like in their own exclusive schools, it is now for the 
 Electors of Ontario to say whether the Romish hierarchy are to be permitted, 
 as under the present Minister of Education it does, to interfere with, control 
 and dictate the course of study in the Public Schools of this Protestant 
 Province. 
 
 The Rev. Canon Dumoulin, of St. James' Cathedral, Toronto, in his 
 sermon delivered in this connection, on Sunday, December 12th, spoke out in 
 bold and manful tones, and his words recall the famous and historic days of 
 John Knox : 
 
 WHAT REV. OANON DUMOULIN SAYS ! 
 
 " He meant to say something additional on the subject, and also to maintain 
 his right as a Protestant minister to express his views on the subject without 
 being abused for doing so by any of his fellow- townsmen. When at his ordination 
 the Bible was presented to him, and still later when he v/as inducted into tliat 
 Church with a copy of the Bible in his hand, it meant that, he wa* to preach 
 It, to guard It and to maintain It. He was determined that it was hin 
 bounden duty to maintain the Bible, uphold it and ijU'ird it in the face of all the abuse 
 the world could heap upon htm. This was a question on which those Protestants 
 who were put out by questions of ritual and the cut of a vestment should sink 
 their differences and stand shoulder to shoulder together. It was the duty of parents 
 to teach their children the Holy Scriptures. " 1 rain up a child in the way he 
 should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it." If it was the duty of 
 parents to instruct children in the Word of God, it followed that it was the 
 children's duty to read the Word of God. The place to teach a child was in the 
 Public Schools, and therefore . .., 
 
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 THE BIBLE SHOULD BE TAUGHT 
 
 ' in the Public Schools. He then referred to the book of Scripture selections 
 ' (now known as the " Hos$ Bible") which is being substituted for the Bible in 
 ' the Public Schools. 'I'his hook uas submitted to the Romnn Catholic Church in 
 
 • the Jint place for their endorsation and approval,a,n6i then secondly to the Protestants. 
 ' No man had the right to chop and ijarble and cut up the Word of O'od to suit his 
 ' own particular Tlcivs or purposes. The order of the Bible in the book of 
 ' selections was completely destroyed, so that it was quite impossible for anyone hold 
 ' ing a Bible in his hand to follow the teacher as he read to the children. The great 
 ' stain on the matter was that the 
 
 WORD OF COD WAS GARBLED AND DISHONORED. 
 
 '' Those chapters in the Epistle to the Romans in reference to the 
 •• fall and the depravity of man and \\\s justification by faith were cut out, and were 
 " nowhere to be found in the book of selections. ' Here it is,' he said, holding 
 " up the book, ' here is the little volume within these covers, one-sixth the size of 
 " an ordinary Bible.' Proceeding, he said that those parts in the Epistle to the 
 " Hebrews where the subject of sacrifices was referred to and reflections made 
 " upon the erroneous teaching of a eorrupt church were left out. Again, in Corinth- 
 " ians omissions were made, tlie effect of which was to 
 
 DESTROY THE PROTESTANT TEACHING ' ><' 
 
 < of the Christian Church. In reference to the sin of David the selec- 
 
 • tion was so manipulated that the reader could make no sense out of it. Certain 
 
 < parts of the Scripture were passed over which had a bearing on the doctrinal 
 
 • teaching of the Christian Church an against the Roman Catholic Church. Tlie 
 > flindameictal doctriiieN of their religion were garbled and hewed 
 ' and haclted so that It ivas Impossible to get at the sense of the 
 '.Seriptures as set forth In the Bible. He then dealt with the fifty-first 
 •chapter of Isaiah, and showed with what care the knife had been used to 
 
 • eliminate certain passages. Referring to the story of Joseph, he stated that 
 
 IT WAS TH!^ BEACON LIGHT 
 
 for the young to guard thera against the machinations of the evil-disposed. 
 There were those who said that portions of the Bible were not fit to be read to 
 the young, and that it was an unsafe guide to put in their hands, bat when the 
 caution light was set up no one should find fault with the man who had set up 
 that light to warn them of danger ahead. In the story of Joseph and the wife of 
 Potiphar, who had tried to seduce that holy man, the compiler of the book of 
 selectionshadinssrtada iliMand ahalf of arlginai matter inataad of ton vor- 
 aos. Those words really endeavored to exonerate Mrs. Potiphar, and said she had 
 accused Joseph of mocking her, leaving the reader to infer that she was a 
 virtuous woman and that Joseph might have been simply making fun of her. 
 Everything with reference to the honor and fidelity of Joseph was omitted, and 
 the beauty of the whole story was so mangled that no one could gather the 
 meaning. The minority in this Province were very ivell cared for. They 
 were highly privileged. They had Separate schools of their own ; and they could 
 teach whatever they liked in those schools." 
 
 It may be that partyism has obtained such a hold on some of the people of 
 
 this Province that they are prepared to sacrifice not only their civil but also 
 
 their religious liberties, sooner than be thought to abandon their political 
 
 jeaders. But it cannot be that all are so dead to the true interests of their country, 
 
 their homes and their children's welfare. 
 
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 And if the noble words of the Rev. Canon Dunioulln, already quoted, 
 are not sufficient to awaken the slumbering but not, it is trusted, extinct spirit 
 of freedom, let the following additional extract be read. The rev. gentleman 
 proceeds to say : 
 
 " He would repeat what he had said the previous Sunday, that the Roman 
 Cafholle Chnrch should not be allowed to touch our Bible and Public 
 Schools with their little finger. Whirever the Honum Catholic Church was in the 
 ascendancy the Bible irns kept from the people. He could not be accused of being 
 a politician. He did not speak to them as a politician, but he cautioned them, 
 and he admonished them, and he advised them that this was the burning 
 question of the day. With their Protefltantisni and their Bible so 
 111 danger, notwithstanding all that was said to the contrary, all those who 
 loved their Bible and their Church should stand up manfkilly for the 
 whole Bible &nd 
 
 NOTHINC BUT THE WHOLE BIBLE 
 
 in the Public Schools. It had been asserted in support of the 
 Scripture selections that the Church of England had done the same 
 thing in her Prayer Book. Now this did not hold good for two 
 reasons. In the first place the selections in the Book of Common 
 Prayer are not mutilated. They are complete selections and do not destroy 
 the harmony and sense of the Scripture. They are portions of the Word of 
 God. In the second place the Prayer Book does not place these selections 
 instead of or in place of the Bible. ' Were I,' said he, ' to understand that the 
 Church did place these selections in our Prayer Book instead of, or as a 
 
 " substitute for, the whole Bible, much as I value our grand Prayer Book I 
 
 "would say, 
 
 AWAY WITH IT, 
 
 *' away with it ! Don't talk to me of the Bible not being fit to be placed in the 
 •< hands of the children in our schools on account of alleged immorality. These 
 *' very children, on their way from school, at any corner of the streets, for 
 "one cent can buy a paper containing the worst immorality, disgraceful to 
 ••' be read by anybody.' " 
 
 REFERENCES ERASED FROM THE PROOF SHEETS 
 
 No well-informed person now doubts that the compilation or rather mutila- 
 tion of the Scriptures used in our Public Schools was the direct result of a com- 
 pact made between the monrat - Fraser Government and the Romish 
 Hierarchy of this province. 
 
 The Minister of Education does not deny that he sent the proof-sheets 
 to ilrchblshop Lynch for his examination and approval. The result is the 
 expurgated edition that is taught in the Public Schools of our Province. 
 
 It is a difficult thing to make a comparison of the Ross Bible with the true 
 Bible, for the reason that the chapters and verses are not given in Mr. Ross's 
 edition. These references were left out, although given in the proof- sliee. i. 
 Who ordered the>ii to be left out is no longer one of the mysteriis o/this mysterious 
 business, but it needs only that the Readings be carefully examined to satisfy 
 every impartial minded person for whose special edification they were prepared. 
 
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 ESSENTIAL PORTIONS OF BIBLE MUTILATED 
 
 Intrinsic evidence is to be found in the book itself that the susceptibilities of 
 the Romis]i Church have been very carefully considered, while the leading 
 passages upon which the distinctive dogmas of the Protestant faith rests as 
 distinguished from Romish precepts are excised, and the Bible mutilated in the 
 most essential portions of it, viewed from the Protestant standpoint. 
 
 Let this be proved. The Ross Bible jumps (Lessons 12 and 18, part 6, p. 
 848) from the First of Thessalonians, 6th chapter, 24th verse, to the Second of 
 Timothy, 2nd chapter, Ist verse. It so happens that the portion of the Bible 
 thus passed over contains the following text, First of Timothy, 2nd chapter and 
 5th verse : " For there is one God, and one mediator between God and man, 
 the man Christ JesuB." i -• • 
 
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 This is the very kernel of the Protestant fatth as contradistinguished 
 from that of the Church of Rome. Why was it omitted from a book of selections 
 intended for the Public Schools and not for the Separate Schools ; and for Protes- 
 tant children and for them chiefly, seeing that the Roman Catholic children who 
 may still, in defiance of the recent coercive amendment, frequent the Public 
 Schools, are not compelled to hear the book of selections read, but are at liberty, 
 as before, to leave during the reading ? 
 
 Again, Lesson 21, page 852, of the Ross Bible, contains seventeen verses. 
 The first twelve verses are the first twelve verses of First of Peter, 2nd chapter, 
 as follows : 
 
 " 1. Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and 
 envies, and all evil speakings, 
 
 " 2. As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may 
 grow thereby : 
 
 "8. If so be ye have tasted that the Lord is gracious. ,- - __.._.,- 
 
 " 4. To whom coming, as unto a living stone, disallowed indeed of men, but 
 chosen of God, and precious. 
 
 "5. Ye also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, an holy priest- 
 hood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ. 
 
 " 6. Wherefore also it is contained in the scripture. Behold, I lay in Zion a 
 chief corner stone, elect, precious : and he that believeth on him shall not be 
 confounded. 
 
 " 7. Unto you, therefore, which believe he is precious : but unto them 
 which be disobedient, the stone which the builders disallowed, the same is 
 made the head of the corner, 
 
 *' 8. And a stone of stumbling, and a rock of offence, even to them which 
 stumble at the word, being disobedient : whereunto also they were appointed. 
 
 '* 9. But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a 
 peculiar people ; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called 
 you out of darkness into his marvellous light ; 
 
 
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 " 10. "Which in time past were not a i)eople, but are now the people of 
 God : which had not obtained mercy, bat now have obtained mercy. 
 
 " 11. Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from 
 fleshly lusts, which war against the sonl ; 
 
 " 12. Having your conversation honest among the (ientilcs : that, whereas 
 they speak against you as evil doers, they may by your good works, which they 
 shall behold, glorify God in the day of visitation." 
 
 But at this twelfth verse the Ross Bible Kiiddeiily Jumpn to the twenty- 
 first verse of the same chapter, eight verses being passed over. These eight 
 verses read as follows, numbered as they appear in the true Bible : 
 
 " 18. Submit yourself to every ordinance of man for the Lord's sake 
 whether it be to the king, as supreme : 
 
 " 14. Or unto governors, or unto them that are sent by him for the punish- 
 ment of evildoers, and for the praise of them that do well . 
 
 " 15. For so is the will of God, that with well-doing ye may put to silence 
 the ignorance of foolish men : 
 
 " 16. As free, and not asing your liberty for a cloke of maliciousness, but as 
 the servants of God. 
 
 " 17. Honor all men. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honor the 
 King. 
 
 '• 18. Servants, be subject to your masters, with all fear : not only to the 
 good and gentle, but also to the froward. 
 
 " 19. For this is thankworthy, if a man for conscience toward God endure 
 grief, suffering wrongfully. 
 
 •' 20. For what glorv is it, if, when ye be buffeted for your faults, ye sliall 
 take it patiently ? but if, when ye do well, and suffer for it, ye tak© it patiently 
 this is acceptable with God." 
 
 LOYALTY.TO RULERS NOT ENCOURAGED. 
 
 Wliy are these eight verscM omitted i It will be seen by reference 
 to the twenty-first verse, to which the Ross Bible jumps, that the connection is 
 entirely broken by Mr. Ross, the twenty-first verse reading, " For even 
 hereunto were ye called ; because Christ also suffered for as, leaving ns an 
 example, that ye follow his steps." The sense is completely destroyed by the 
 excision. And let the reader look again at the eight verses excised. They are 
 amongst the most beaatiful in the New Testament. Why should our children 
 not be taught to be loyal to their rulers ? Is it contrary to Archbishop Lynch's 
 doctrine, or to the doctrine of his Church, that our children should be taught 
 to honor the king? In short, are the Public School children to be kept in the 
 dark as to their duty to the sovereign and the civil power, whilst his Grace in 
 his Separate Schools freely inculcates the doctrine that his Church is above the 
 State, and that the Pope has the first claim upon the allegiance of mankind ? 
 
 These are questions of the very first importance to every man, no matter 
 what political party he may serve ; and they demand a straightforward answer. 
 
 These extracts are abundantly sufficient to establish the position that the 
 Bible readings have been compiled to placate Hit* Grace, Archbishop 
 
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 Lynch, who in the power behind the throne that has for some time past l)oen 
 the real, ruler of the Province — Jflowat may rclgii, but Lynch gOTerim I 
 
 WHAT NEXT? 
 
 What is the outcome of this " deal" with the infallible Churuh? 
 
 Ist. The cardinal doctrine that there is " but one mediator between Ood 
 and man, the man Christ Jesus," is ignored. It clashes with the Popish 
 doctrines of intercession between man and his God by saints of the Church. 
 
 2nd. It repudiates the duty of loyalty to the Sovereign or the State, for 
 that conflicts with the allegiance to the pontiff at Rome, which, according to 
 the Roman Catholics, Ih a higher duty than loyalty to the civil rulers of the 
 Province. 
 
 Enough has been said to satisfy everyone that has any interest in the 
 future welfare of the Province that there is danger ahead ; that the o«a««l«s« 
 and untiring foes of fraadom are on the war path, quietly but surely sapping 
 at the foundations of those institutions we cherish most dearly, and in our 
 schools among our children are seeking to sap the great truths upon which 
 Protestantism depends. 
 
 Extracts have been taken from the sermons of Rev. Canon Duinoulln, 
 and no more noble words were ever uttered in a Protestant Church. But it is 
 perhaps more to the Rev. Dr. Lalng, Presbyterian Minister at Dundas, the 
 Rev. Ci. m. IWilllgan, of Old St. Andrews, the Rev. Dr. Wild, of the Bond 
 Street Congregational Church, and Rev. Dr. Langtry, of St. Luke's Church, 
 Toronto, who were the first to call attention to the encroachments of the Roman 
 Catholic power upon the rights and privileges of the majority in this Province, 
 that credit is due. The bold attempt, which almost succeeded, to drive Mr. 
 Massie, Warden of the Central Prison, from his position because he had 
 properly refused to allow the Roman Catholic priests to interfere in the manage- 
 ment of the prison, is known to every reader in the Province. The encroach- 
 ments that have been made on the school system are thus summarized in The 
 Presbyterian Revtew, a journal started for the purpose of resisting the 
 aggressions of the 
 
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 as follows : 
 
 "1. Whereas in 1863 only such Roman Catholics as gave notice and desired 
 it were accounted Separate School supporters, those who did not give notice 
 supported Public Schools. Now (by section 49) every Roman Catholic is such 
 prima f licit' ; 
 
 "2. Whereas formerly they were able to withdraw from being Separate 
 School supporters, now it is most difficult to do so, if at all possible, according to 
 the letter of the law (clause 48 requires the application to be made in writing, 
 that is before the name is put on the roll). This is surely against Public Schools; 
 
 " 3. All Roman Catholic property occupied by owner or tenant (section 49), 
 unoccupied (section 47), Jwld hy a company nf irhoin one or iiiorc are Eonum 
 Catholics (section 53), within three mi leu of a Separate School, may be assessed 
 
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 in whole or part for Separate School purpoHos. Thi» i»a ijreat ' advance,' and in 
 many places aH a fact has cripnlo^l I'uhlic Schoola or led to the employment of a 
 Roman Catholic teacher even where I^utestautH are most numerous ; 
 
 " 4. All ProteHtant property tenanted by Roman Catholics mast or may bo 
 taxed for Separate Schools and the owner cannot prevent it (section 52). We 
 cannot deny that this ia a great advance on 1803 and at the expense of Public 
 Schools ; 
 
 *' 5. Roman Catholics may have Separate Model Schools, while at the same 
 time they have equal rights with Protestants in the County Model Schoola. 
 What the effects of this may be we cannot as yet conjecture. This ia one great 
 advance surely ; 
 
 " 6. Roman Catholic Separate School Boards ma^y^ appoint a m»ml)er on 
 the High School Hoard. Can this be defended on principles of justice '? 
 
 These are by no means unimportant advantages which have been already ob- 
 tained by " the Palace," and no one can feel astonished that men who have been 
 Liberals all tlieir lives, who have given to Sir. Monrat — at one time the 
 blatant champion of extreme I'rotestantism — their heartiest support, who have 
 never swerved from their party allegiance, should be found now openly arrayed 
 against the provincial premier and working by every legitimate means for his 
 overthrow. The Preobyteriun Revle^v (controlled by ministers and laymen 
 of that church who are Protestants and Presbyterians first and polittcians after- 
 wards), thus justifies the right and duty of all to take part in the strife : 
 
 *' But probably even these changes would have remained unchallenged had 
 not the Archbishop put forth the claim of a right, jwr? dv'ino (a divine right), to 
 interfere with our Public Schools ; or had the Government refused to recognize 
 that right. But when the Government acknowledges and, obeying the respectiul 
 suggestion of tlie head of the Church, puts our 
 
 POETS AND Historians out of our schools 
 
 because they state some things that reflect upon the Church of Rome, 
 while at the same time things most ofreiiNlvo to Proteitants are taught 
 in Roman Catholic schools ; when for the whole Bible is substituted 
 selections from which is carefully excluded every passage that offends the 
 Roman Catholic, while Butler's Catechism is taught in Roman Catholic schools, 
 surely it is time for the ' able and vigilant champions ' to speak out even if they 
 should notbeM.P.P.'s, but merely ' clerics.' We all know what Scotland owed 
 to her ministers even in matters of State administration. Scotland's sons have 
 still a little of the spirit of* Knox and irendemon, and rather than submit 
 to spiritual despotism or be deprived of civil liberty, are ready for a struggle no 
 matter how long or how bitter," 
 
 The Rev. Idr. MillijBran, in his open letter to Mr. Mowat, thus, in 
 temperate language, writes of these encroachments : 
 
 " I presume no one will deny that it is the policy of the Jloman Catholic 
 ' Church to make the institutions of any country where it has a footing as cnhcii- 
 tially Ronilsli as possible, and at the same time do all it can to hinder the 
 operation of Protestant agencies and influences. In this the Church of Rome, 
 from its standpoint, is consistent and dutiful. It has been true to its convic- 
 tions of duty in this respect in connection with the educational interests of this 
 Province. It is 
 
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 " in coDnectioD with Separate Schools. Teachers and teaching therein must bo 
 "Romish. These schools are under the control of the Eomish clergy. Origin- 
 " ally Roman Catholics were regarded as belonging to Public Schools, unless 
 "they expressed a wish to connect themselves with Separate Schools. 
 "Roman Catholics, where there is a Separate School as the law now stands, 
 "are set down as belonging to it, unUss th«y tak« th« stsps th«ma«lv«s 
 •*of outting themselves off from It and becoming supporters of Public 
 " Schools. This regulation involves putting themselves in antagonism to their 
 " Church, a position, as you know, which they will think of twice before taking. 
 " This change in the law, from whatever motive effected, is obviously conducive 
 "to priestly ends and interests, placing, as it does, Roman Catholic citizens, 
 "who may desire to avail themselves of our Public Schools, more thoroughly 
 " under the dictation of their priests in their choice of how their children 
 " shall be educated, 
 
 "Roman Catholics having been granted Separate Schools, and changes 
 "having been made in the law from time to time giving them power to make 
 "their schools more widely and intensely Romish, surely, on the principle of 
 " equal rights to all, their interference in Public School matters should be propor- 
 " tionately less and less." 
 
 RELIGIOUS EDUCATION IN DAY SCHOOLS 
 
 And again the rev. gentleman says : 
 
 " Roman Catholics believe that education should be distinctively and 
 positively religious in day schools. I believe the same. Protestants gave them 
 their Separate Schools that we might have our Public Schools left us to carry 
 out therein our conceptions of duty to our children. I fear if Roman Catholics 
 go on secularizing our Public Schools that we shall have to rise up and 
 secularize all round. If the home and Church only are allowed to give 
 religions instruction to Protestant children and the State simply that which is 
 secular, then Roman Catholics must be ready for a similar fatie. Perhaps with 
 their interferences no other issue can be left our statesmen for their adoption. 
 2 kings cannot remain for eyjer in our Province ns they are, where probably seven or 
 more children are Protestants to one who is Roman Catholic. We are not only 
 denied th J rights of Proteiitaiits in education in a Protestant Pro- 
 vince, but that of Britons. Much that is gloriously characteristic in 
 Britain's history is distasteful to a Church which never acknowledges that it ha& 
 been wrong. 
 
 ' HISTORY FALSIFIED 
 
 "To gratify the childish sensitiveness of Romanists Marmion 'must go.' 
 To meet their intolerance of truth, if it tells against them, history must be 
 falsified, and so Collier's ' must go.' And what, if things are thus to go on, is 
 to be on the morrow ? You know, sir, the history of the Papacy in Europe.^ 
 It gained an ascendancy there (of cour.ie it took centuries to do it, but centuries 
 are nothing to its projects) against which men rose and wliich they threw off, 
 and that too where there was no Protestant instigation existing. Are we ta 
 allow this tragic history to repeat itself here ? 
 
 OPPOSITION HITHERTO RESTRAINED 
 
 " It is said no special opposition has been shown in Parliament or out of 
 it as to your Government favoring Romanists. In Parliament is not the first 
 place to look for such opposition wlien a <*or|»oratc v«»te is involved. We 
 must not, such is the pass to which affairs have come, stand back from doing our 
 
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 has 
 
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 duty because earthites will be found on our track ready to pick up what may 
 serve their end. Out of Parliament as much opposition to the educational 
 policy of the Province has not been shown as ought, for various reasons. Men 
 are pounced upon when they say a word in this direction ' as bigots,' as raising 
 the * No Popery cry,' as riding the Protestant horse, and as hating Roman 
 Catholics rather than their system, and are assailed as if they were miscreants 
 or fools by the prest of the party whose interests for the time might be jeopardized by 
 the diseusnion." 
 
 I>r. Laing) of Dundas, has for months with vigorous pen and undaunted 
 courage waged war on the Government who have made these surrenders, and 
 has done much — perhaps more than any other man — to arouse the country to a 
 sense of its danger. 
 
 It may be asked why should the IMoMrat-Fraiicr Government be assailed 
 because of these encroachments ? The question hardly needs a reply. Since 
 1872 Mr. Mowat has controlled the Legislature of the Province, and is to be 
 credited with, and held responsible for, the enactments which during that period 
 have been made. No argument is needed to sustain so self-evident a proposi- 
 tion. But his respon£(ibility does not rest on theoretic grounds alone. 
 
 There is ample evidence, judging as well from the action of the Archbishop 
 on the one hand and the exceptional legislative privileges which he has obtained 
 from the l!(I<»%irat-FraBcr Government on the other, to prove that a 
 
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 SECRET CONCORDAT 
 
 was made between the Local Adnilnl§trailon and the Romisli Hier- 
 archy of Ontario. 
 
 Let it be considered whether the evidence warrants this conclusion. It 
 may be premised and cannot be disputed that the interests which Archbliiliop 
 liynch champions and supports are those of the Roman Catholic Church, of 
 which he is the head in this Province. 
 
 It will not be gainsaid that when he actively and energetically exerts his 
 enormous powers and directs the manner in which " the corporate vote " of the 
 members of his Church is to be cast, that he is not doing so without a definite 
 bargain, the terms of which — although kept secret — may be known from the 
 fruit it has borne and has yet to bear. 
 
 Now in 1882 the following letter was written by the Archbisliop to be used 
 in the bye election in East Siracoe on behalf of 1/Cr. Driiry, the Government 
 candidate. Bearing in mind that Dr. Haven was a Roman Catholic of good 
 standing and a man personally of unblemished reputation, it will be the more 
 manifest that the Archbishop's intervention was not without a solid " consider- 
 ation." His Grace indites the following epistle : 
 
 \\. 
 
 We 
 our 
 
 , _ IN MB. DRURY'S behalf. 
 
 ■ *■ "Dec. 9, 1882. 
 
 "My Dear Mr. Higgins, — We are now anxious to sustain the Mowat 
 Government. If it go, then we shall have Orange rampant, and we may as well 
 
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 quit the country. The first act of the new Government will be to incorporate 
 the Orange order, and then, indeed, the Catholics will suffer. If Catholics do 
 not wish to vote for Mr. Drury, then they need not vote at all. 1 would be 
 ashamed of the Catholics changing politics for mean purposes, and some so- 
 called Catholics are doing so, and playing into the hands of the Orangemen. 
 Alas, there will always be traitors ! You, I know, Mr. Higgins, will keep 
 staunch. 
 
 •• Yours faithfully, 
 •I ' " (Signed) f John Joskph Lynch, 
 
 " ■' " Archbishop of Toronto." 
 
 This letter was carried round by Mr. Higgins, then of Whitby, to whom it 
 was addressed, and exhibited to the Roman Catholic electors of the riding, with 
 the result of mr. Drury's election ! ! ! More evidence may not be called 
 for, but the proof of a bargain with the Government at the time when Mr. Ros^ 
 (who, it cannot be denied, has honestly kept the compact on his part) wa^ 
 running in West Middlesex must not be omitted. 
 
 It is probable that at this crisis in the history of the Mowat-Fra««r 
 Administration, which had been shaken at the preceding general election, its 
 majority being much reduced, tliat the Arehblshop, seeing his opportunity, 
 demanded, as the price of his support, that the management of the Public 
 Schools of the Province should be •nfrustcd to his tender oar*. 
 
 So, on behalf of ]VIr« Ross, the following very explicit letter was written 
 
 " It would be a severe blow to the Catholics to lose the Moicat Government 
 that has done all In Its poiver for us. I hope the Catholics of West 
 Middlesex will see to their own Interest and return Mr. Ross. 
 
 '* f John Joseph, 
 
 '* Archbishop of Toronto. 
 " Toronto, Dec. 5, 1883." 
 
 The words should not be forgotten ; " It ^vonld be a severe blow to 
 the Catholics to lose " — His Grace admits in these words that he has the 
 << Mowat Government ! " 
 
 Why? ^ 
 
 Because 
 
 ''It has done AL.1. in Its power for lis." 
 
 At that time, in comparison with subsequent concessions, but little had 
 been granted to the Roman Catholics beyond, so far as is known, the appoint- 
 ment of Roman Catholics because of their religious belief — not of their fitness 
 for oflftce — to offices in the public service, and " Marmion," it is true, had been 
 banished from the High schools. 
 
 SURRENDER TO ROME OF ALL IT CLAIMS 
 
 But the I^yncli-lVIow^at-FraBer combination, emboldened by the apathy 
 with which the people seemed to view the unholy alliance, have since almost 
 openly surrendered to the Roman Catholic wing all it claims. 
 
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 13 
 
 It may not be nuimportaut further to ootice, as corroborative of the view 
 contended for in this writing of the unfair privileges that the Roman Catholics 
 have obtained by means of the alliance between the hierarchy and the 
 Mowat-Fraser Government, that the grants FOB CHARITABLE 
 ISfSTITlJTIOWS are distribnted as follows: 
 
 Non-sectarian 
 Protestant Institutions 
 Roman Catholic Institutions 
 
 Total 
 
 944,382 60 
 17,887 62 
 34,487 29 
 
 $96,207 51 
 
 ,pathy 
 ilmost 
 
 The Roman Catholic population is but 16 per cent., vih.\\s,i they thus receive 
 about 66 per cent, of the sum ($51,824.91) granted to sectarian institutions. 
 
 No greater proof could be adduced of the truth of the saying that " Eternal 
 vigilance is the price of liberty I " 
 
 NOW LET MR. MOWAT SPEAK 
 
 In his open letter to Rev. Mr. 3Iilligan he thus boasts of the snpoprt which 
 his Government have received from the Roman Catholic electorate : 
 
 " As a- Liberal leader I am glad that he (referring to the Archbishop) is 
 " friendly to us * * I am glad to know that bin Grace has always been 
 
 " friendly to us ; and who doubts that nothing would better please those Con - 
 " servatives who are trying to raise the ' No popery cry ' than to get all Roman 
 •'Catholics, bishops — priests and laymen — to give their support to the Conser- 
 •• vative party." 
 
 And again Mr. Mowat wrote, " 1 have no ground for doubting that one 
 " principal reason why any of the Roman Catholic bishops and clergy desire 
 " the success of the present Ontario Government is that •* * * they believe 
 " the present Ontario Government to be a good Government." 
 
 And again, Mr. Mowat tacitly admits that he expects to have a larger 
 measure of support from the Roman Catholic electors; " because," he says, '* if 
 " we are to have an increased number of Roman Catholic supporters at the 
 " approaching elections, it is quite certain that we are not to have the support 
 " of all; " and again, "a little reflection will convince my friends that the fact 
 " of an increased number of Roman Catliolic voters purposing to support our 
 " candidates at the next election," etc., etc. 
 
 Remembering that this letter was published on 80th October last, it is quite 
 evident that Mr. Mowat then had some understanding that even the great 
 number of Roman Catholics that have hitherto supported him was to be very 
 largely increased. 
 
 This grave question has not been forced upon public attention by politicians 
 or party men, but, it may truthfully be said, in spite of them. Mr. IWcredith 
 disclaims all desire to raise sectarian issues, while demanding that interference 
 by Separate School supporters with the Public Schools of the| Province should 
 
 cease. 
 
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 A GREAT ISSUE 
 
 is now, therefore, presented to the people of Ontario, which, when once fully 
 understood, can meet with only one response. It is this : When Roman 
 Catholics are permitted to have Separate Schools in which the religion of that 
 Church is taught without interference or control by the State, is the Archbishop 
 or any other Roman Catholic ecclesiastic to be permitted to dictate or supervise 
 the nature of the religious teaching which is to be given in the Public Schools, 
 even to the extent of mutilating and garbling the Bible t 
 
 Some who are Protestants, but probably more swayed by political than 
 religious convictions, argue that as some Roman Catholic children in places 
 where there are no Separate Schools have to attend the Public Schools, it is only 
 .proper that tlie Bible should be distorted so as not to offend the susceptibilities 
 of their parents. 
 
 Those who thus argue forget or ignore the fact that Wr. Ro§s — doubtless 
 under the direction of Archbishop Lyneh — issued an order by a circular to 
 the Public School Inspectors, under date " March, 1885," as to the Scripture 
 readings, in which the following authoritative instruction is to be found : 
 
 " The right conceded to the pupil of absenting himself from the religious 
 '* exercises of the school, as provided in paragraph 4 of the regulation^, requires 
 " the most careful attention of every teacher. 
 
 " In order that the parents and ^ardians of Roman Catholic pupils may 
 " be saved unnecessary trouble in giving notice to teachers, under this regula- 
 " tion, it i« to hm ■•SMin«d that th« parent or guardian of a Roman Oatho- 
 '• lio pupil has notif iod his wish to tho toaohor, as by this ruls rsqulrsd, 
 " unless such parent expressly notifies such teacher in writing that he desires 
 " Uie pu^il of which he is such parent or guardian to attend and be present at 
 " the rehgiouh exercises prescribed. Bsfors sntsring upon tho oloslng oxsr- 
 •' olsss of tho sohool, tno toaohor sliould thorof oro allow a short Intorval 
 •• to olapss, during whioh suoh pupils might rotlro, and in this way remove 
 "all doubts as to the faithful observance of the regulations." 
 
 It is not admitted that even if the plea put forward was true in fact it 
 would be a justification ; but regard being had to the order just quoted, from 
 which it appears that before the Scriptures are read an opportunity is to be afforded 
 for Roman Catholic pupils to withdraw so that they shall not hear even from Mr, 
 Ross's expurgated edition, that it is nothing short of an outrage that the Roman 
 Catholic Church dignitaries shoi^^ ~ ^ "^ consulted in the matter I ' ' .' 
 
 No ! Noiv is the time l * .. electors of Ontario to insist, in the noble 
 words of Dr. Chalmers, that " we mean to have the Bible the regular and daily 
 ^' school book ; it shall be taught openly and fearlessly, not dealt Avith as a 
 " contraband article ; not smuggled into a mere hole or corner of our establish- 
 " ment ; not mended or n: itilated by human hands, that the message of the 
 " Eternal may be shaped ^o the taste and prejudices of men ; not made to 
 '* skulk from observation lust the priests of an intolerant faith should be offend- 
 "ed — No I God helping us, we will place His Word in the forefront of our 
 "" system of education, and we will render it the unequivocal, the public, the 
 -" conspicuous object that is becoming a Christian and Protestant nation." 
 
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 ALL PARTIES AWAKENED AND AROUSED 
 
 But the public conscience hasbeen awakened, and men of all parties without 
 
 Its overthrow means that while the Protestant majority of Le firProv n- 
 
 r^h*tl'T.t""lir'*^"'"^' ''''"^ ^°°^- Catholic^ellowlulen to ;^^^^^^^ 
 right which they themselves enjoy, they are determined that for no m!n or 
 
 rental '^,'>, --^^^'^-tion and under no circumstance , ZlltCJr 
 
 render their own liberties or allow the truths of Protestantism rUelled in God's 
 
 28tho^DeV f 'h'^ «^-credite.l or dishonored. Such befng thets„^^^^^^^^^^ 
 28th of December, the result cannot be doubtful.