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 ROME 
 
 AND 
 
 EDUCATION. 
 
 BY 
 
 PASTOR CHINIQUY, 
 
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 Mission to Roman Cat/io/ics in America. 
 
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 ROME AND EDUCATION. 
 
 PASTOJl CIIINIQIY DELIVEIIED THIS LKCTUHE AT MANCIIESTEH, 
 
 N. II.. DECEMHEU 2, 1880. 
 
 My CnKisTiAN Fkiendh. — I liavc never 
 felt the responsibility of my position more 
 than this evening. Tiie sut>ject on which I 
 am requested to spcal< is of vital import- 
 an(;e: "Education in tlie (-"hurcii of Home 
 Compared with Education Among Protest- 
 ants," or "Wliy do the Priests of Home 
 Mate our Schwils?" This suhject is vjwt 
 as the great ocean which waslies your 
 shf)re8; it is more profound than tiie miglity 
 Pacific; it is limitless in its extent. My 
 regret in that it is impossible to (Jo justice 
 to it in a single lecture. However, relying 
 on the help of our great and merciful (»<Mi. 
 wliose holy name lias just l)cen invoked 
 through our Saviour, Jesus Christ, and re- 
 meml)ering that I am not among strangers 
 who will judge me with severity, but among 
 brethren on the kind feelings of whom I can 
 rely, 1 will do all I can to throw some new 
 light on that momentous quest ion which, to- 
 day more than ever, does cwcupy the minds 
 of the civilized world. 
 
 The word EorcATios is a beautiful word. 
 It comes from the Latin edurare, which 
 means to raise up, to take from the lowest 
 degrees to the highest spheres of knowledge. 
 The object of education is. then, to feed, 
 expand, raise, enlighten, and strengthen the 
 intelligence. 
 
 You hear the Komati Catholic priests 
 making use of that beautiful word edueatio?i 
 as often, if not more often than the Prot- 
 estant. But that word "education" has a 
 very difTerent meaning among the followers 
 of tlie Pope, than among the disciples of 
 the Gospel. And that diflFerence. which 
 you Protestants ignore, is the cause of the 
 strange blunders you make every time you 
 ti'y to legislate on that question, her.'', as 
 well as in Enjijlnnd or in Canada. 
 
 The meaning of the word education 
 among you Protestants is as far from the 
 meaning of that same word among Roman 
 Catholics as the southern pole is fnmi the 
 northern one. When a Protestant speaks 
 
 of education, that word is used and iinder- 
 st«MMl in its true sense. Wlien you send 
 your little boy to a Protestant school, you 
 honestly desire that he should be reared 
 up in the spheres of knowledge as mticti 
 as his intelligence will allow it. When 
 that little boy is going to school, he s(!on 
 feels that he has been raised up to some 
 extent, and he experiences a sincere joy. a 
 noble pride, for this new, though at first very 
 nuxlest raising; but he naturally under- 
 stands that this new and modest upheaval 
 is only a stone to step oii. and raise himself 
 to a higher degree of knowledge, and he 
 quickly makes that .second step with an un- 
 speakable pleasure. When tlus son ot a 
 Protestant has ac(|uired a little knowledge. 
 he wants to aecpiire more. When he has 
 learned what t/iin means, he wants to know 
 what tfint means also. Like the young 
 eagle, he trims his wings for a higher Hight, 
 and turns his head upward to go farther 
 up in the atmosphere of knowledge;. A 
 noble and mysterious ambition has suddenly 
 seized his young soul. Then Ik; begins to 
 feel something of that unquenchable thirst 
 for knowledge, which God himself has put 
 in the breast of every child of Adam, » 
 thirst of knowledge, however, which will 
 never be perfectly realized except in heaven. 
 When (4od created man in His own image. 
 He endowed him with an intelligetice aiul 
 moral faculties worthy of the high, I was 
 going to .say the divine, dignity of His own 
 beloved children. He Himself put in us 
 aspirations and instincts by which we were 
 to be constantly longing after the oceans of 
 light, truth, and knowledge, whose waves 
 wash His eternal throne. It is that thirst 
 after more knowledge, that Constant lonu,- 
 ing after more light which constitutes liie 
 diuerence between man and brute. Man 
 has received from Gtxi an intelligence 
 which, though clouded now, by sin, is to 
 him what the helm is to the noble ship 
 which crosses your boundless ocean ; he 
 
hnfl a rDnHcionrr, an iniinortal m\\\ which 
 buKlH liiin to ()()(I, and lie tV'clH it. lliH 
 (IcHlinicH arc ftiorioiiH. liicy arc iiic.niiincn- 
 Hiiral>ic. tiicy arc intinitc, and lie knoWH it. 
 Tlioiijiii ii dethroned kin^, lie fccLsthat he iH 
 Hliil a kinu;. The <>,0()0 years wiiicii have 
 im'<Hcd over him liavc not yet elTaccd the 
 kingly title wliicli (tod lliniHclf wrote on 
 his forclicad wlicn lie told him ' .Mnltijily, 
 and repleiiish the earth, and .subdue it." 
 ((Jen., I 'iH.j With that jrloriouH. that 
 divine misHioii of suhduiiig the air and 
 till' light, the wind and the waves, tlic 
 Hcas a)id the earth, the roaring thunder and 
 the ilashing lightning, conHtaiilly het'ore his 
 cy.s. man marches to the eon(|Uest of the 
 v,orlii. with the calm certitude of his power, 
 ind the gloriouH aspirations of his royal 
 dignity. 
 
 The otiject of education, then, is to en- 
 ahh; man to fulfill that kingly miftsiun of 
 ruling, Hubduing the world, under the eyes 
 of his Oreator. Let us remember that it 
 is not from himself, nor from any angel, but 
 it is from God Himself that inan has re- 
 ceived that sublime mi.ssion. Ye.s, it is God 
 himself who has im|)lanted in the bosom 
 of liumanity the knowledge and aspirations 
 of those .splendid destinies which vaw be 
 attained only by ''Education." 
 
 What a glorious'imi)ul8e is tliis that .seizes 
 hold of the newly awakened mind, and leads 
 the youn.? intelligence to rise higher and 
 pierce the clouds that hide from his gaze, 
 the splendors of knowledge that lies con- 
 ceale(l beyond the gloom of this nether 
 sphere? That impulse is a noble ambition : 
 it is that part of humanity that assimilates 
 itself to the likeness of the great (Creator: 
 that impulse which education has for its 
 mission to direct in its onward and upward 
 march, is one of the mo.st preciosis gifts of 
 God to man. Once more, the glorious mis- 
 sion of education is to foster these thirst ings 
 after knowledge and lead man to accomplish 
 his high destiny. 
 
 It ought to lie a duty with both Roman 
 Catholics and Protestants to as.sist the pui)il 
 in his tlight toward the regions of science 
 and learning. But is it so? No. When 
 you, Protestants, sfiiid your children to 
 school, you put no fetters to their intelli- 
 gence ; they rise with Huttering wings day 
 after day. Though their thgiit, at first, is 
 slow and timid, how they feel happy at every 
 new a.sp(?ct of their intellectual horizon ! 
 How their hearts beat with an unspeakable 
 joy, when they begin to hear voices of ap- 
 plause and encouragement fron» every .side 
 saying to them; "higher, higher, higher I" 
 when they shake their young wings to take 
 a still higher fiight. who can ex|)ress their 
 joy, when they distinctly hear again the 
 voices of a beloved mother, of a dear 
 
 father, (>> :; ''•;neral)Ie pastor, cheering them 
 and saying: "Well vlone.' higher yet my 
 child, higher:" 
 
 liaising themselves with more confidence 
 on their wings, they, then, .soar still higher, 
 in the midst of the unanimous concert of 
 the voices of their whole country encourag- 
 ing them to the highest fiight. it is then 
 that the young man feels liis intellectual 
 strength tenlold multiplied. He lifts liim.self 
 on his eagle wings, with a renewed confi- 
 dence and |)iiwer, and .soars up still higher 
 with his heart heating with a noble and 
 holy joy. For from tlie south and north, 
 from the east and the west the echoes bring 
 to his ears the voices of the aiimiring nnil- 
 titudes- "Uise higher, Iiigher yet!" 
 
 He has, now. reached what he thought, 
 at first, to lie the highest regions of thought 
 and knowledge; but he hears again the same 
 stimulating «'ries from below, encouraging 
 him to a still higher fiight toward the loftiest 
 dominion to knowhnlge and philoso])hy, till 
 he enters the regions where lies the source 
 of all truth, and ligiit and life. For he has 
 also heard the voic(! of his God speaking 
 through His Son .lesus (Jjiirst, crying: 
 "Come unto me! Fear not I ('ome unto 
 me I I am the light, the way I (^ome to 
 tliis higher region wliere the Father, with 
 till' Son, and the Spirit reign in endless 
 light!" 
 
 Thus, my friends, does the Protestant 
 scholar, making use of his intelligence as 
 the eagle of his wing, go on from weakness 
 unto strength, from tlie timid fiutter, to the 
 bold, (tonrident fiight, from one degree to 
 another, still higher ; from one region of 
 knowledge to another still higher, till he 
 loses himself in that ocean of light and truth 
 and life which is God. 
 
 In the Protestant schools no fetters are 
 put on the young eagle's wings, there is 
 nothing to stop him in his progress, or par- 
 alyse his movements and upward llights. It 
 is the contrary— he receives every kind of 
 encouragement in his fiight. 
 
 Thus it is that the only truly s^/'m^ nations 
 in the world are l^rotestants. Thus it is 
 the truly potrerjul nations in the world are 
 Protestants! Thus it is that the only jree 
 nations in the world are Protestants! The 
 Protestant nations are the only ones that 
 acquit them.selves like nien in the arena of 
 this world : Protestant nations only, march 
 as giants at the head of the civilized world. 
 Everywhere they are the advanced guard in 
 the ranks of progres.s, science, and liberty; 
 leaving far behind the unfortunate nations 
 whose hands and feet are tied by the igno- 
 minious iron chains of Popery. 
 
 After wi' have seen the Protestant 
 scholar raising himself, on his eagle wings, 
 to the highest spheres of intelligence. 
 
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 liiip|>in(>88, and liplit, and innrcliiu^ uniin- 
 pi-dfd towvrd IiIh Hplciidid dcHtinic?, let lis 
 turn our cyi'H toward the Uonian Catliolif 
 student, and let us coiiHidcr and pity liini in 
 tlu* Hupriinc dc^nidation to whirl) lie is huI)- 
 jectt'd. 
 
 Tiiat younjif ]{c)n)an Catiiolio sciiolar \h 
 liorii with the saini' brij^ht intcliifjciirc as 
 tlie I'rolfHtant one; h(! is endowed Ity his 
 Creator witliliie same powers of mind as liis 
 I'rotesiant neii,dihor; he has tlie same im- 
 puises. th(! same noble aspirations, implanted 
 by tlie hand of (iod, in his breast. He 
 is sent to school, apparently, like the Prot- 
 estant boy. to receive what is called 
 •'E<iucali()ii." lie, at first understands 
 that word in its true sense, he noes lo 
 school witli the hope of beiiif? rained, ele- 
 vated as high as his intelligence and his 
 personal eflorts will allow. His heart beats 
 with joy, when at (»nee, the first rays of 
 light and knowledge comes to him ; he feels 
 a lioly, a noble pride at every lunv stej) he 
 makes in his upward progress; he longs to 
 learn more, he wants to raise higher: — lie, 
 also, takes up his wings, like the young 
 eagle, and soars up higher. 
 
 Hut, here begin the disappointments and 
 trilmlations of the Roman ("atholic student : 
 for he Is allowed to raise himself, yes, — but 
 when he has raised himself high enough to 
 lie on a level with the liig toes of the pope, 
 he hears piercing, angry, threatening cries 
 coming from every side: — "Stop! stop! 
 Do not raise yourself higher than the toes 
 of the holy pope! . . . Kiss those holy 
 toes, . . and stop yrmr upward flight ! 
 Remember that the pop(! is the only source 
 of science, knowledge and truth I . . . . 
 The knowledge of the I\)pe is the ultimate 
 liiidt of learning and light to which hu- 
 manity can attain. . . . You are not 
 allowed to know and belit've what his 
 holiness does not know and believe. Stop! 
 —Stop ! Do not go an Inch higher than the 
 intellectual horizon of the supreme Pontiff 
 of Rome, in whom only is the plenitude of 
 the true science which will save the world." 
 
 Some will perhaps answer me here: \ 
 "Has not Rome produced great men in 
 every department of science?" I answer 
 yes. Rome can show us a long list of names 
 which shine among the lirightest lights of 
 the firmament of science and ithilosophy. 
 She can show us her C'operniccs. her (talileos, 
 her Paschals, her Rossuets, her Lanicpnis, 
 etc.. etc. But it is at their risk and peril j 
 that those giants of intelligence have raised ; 
 themselves into the high<>st regions of phi- 1 
 losophy and .science, it is in spite of Rome i 
 that those eagles have soared up above the 
 damp and obscure horizon where the pope 
 offers his big toes to be kissed and wor- ' 
 shipped as the nee plus ultra of human i 
 
 ' intelligenre; and tlwy have invariably been 
 punisiied for their temeritv. 
 
 On the l>:Jd of .liine. lVi<;8, (;aHil*>o was 
 oliliged to fall on liis knees in order to escape 
 the cruel death to wiiicli he was to Ite con- 
 deiiined by the order of the pope; and he 
 signed with his own hand the following re- 
 tractation: "I abjure, curse, anil (h'le.st 
 the error and heresy of the motion of the 
 earth," etc., etc. 
 
 That learned man had to (h'grade himself 
 liy swearing a most egregi(iu.s lie, namely, 
 that he would never say any more that the 
 earth moved around the sun. Thus it is 
 that the wings of that giant eagle of Rome 
 were clipped by the scisiors of the pope. 
 That mighty intelligence was bruised, fet- 
 tered, and, as much as it was possible to the 
 ("hiireh of Home, degraded, silenced, and 
 killed. Hut (iod would not allow that such 
 a giant intellect should be entin^ly strangled 
 by the bloody hands of that iinplacal)le 
 enemy of light and truth- the pope. Siiltl- 
 cient strength and life had remaiiuul in 
 (Jallileo to enable him to say, when rising 
 up. "This will not prevent tlieearih from 
 moving!" 
 
 The infallilile decree of the infallible pope, 
 Urban VIIl, agaiii.st the motion of the earth, 
 is signed by the Cardinals Felia, (luido, 
 Desiderio, Antonio, Hellingero, and Fabri- 
 cicio. It says, "In the name and by the 
 authority of .le.sus Christ, the iileiiitude of 
 which resi(U!s in His vicar, tiie pope, that 
 the proi>osition that the earth is not the 
 center of the world, and that it moves with 
 a diurnal motion is absurd, philosophically 
 false, and erroneous in faith." 
 
 What a glorious thing for the Pope of 
 Rome to lie infidlibli! ! He infallibly 
 knows that the earth does not move around 
 the sun! And what a bk'S.sed thing for the 
 lioman Catholics to be governed and taught 
 by such an infdilihlf being! In con.se- 
 (pieiKC of that infallible decree, you will 
 admire the following act of humlile sub- 
 mission of two celebrated Jesuit astronomers, 
 Lesiieur and .laccpiier: "Newton a-ssunies 
 in his third book the hypothesis of Ihe earth 
 moving aroimd the sun. The projiosition 
 of that author could not b<; explained, ex- 
 C('i>l through the same hypothesis: we have, 
 therefore, been forced to act a character not 
 our own. Hut ire ikclare our entire xuhmia- 
 nion to the derrern of the supreme, I'ontijfa 
 of Jiome, (Ufdinxt the motion of the enrth.''' — 
 i\eirf,(mi\t /'rincipia, vol. ill, p. 4~i(). 
 
 xS'ow. please tell me if the world has 
 ever witnessed any degredation like that of 
 Roman Catholics? I do not speak of the 
 ignorant and unlearned, but I speak of 
 the learned— the intelligent ones. There, 
 you see Galileo condemned to gaol because 
 he liad proved that the earth moved anniud 
 
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 ilic HUH, 1111(1 to iiviiid tlic cnicl ilnitli (»ti the 
 rack oi' till- IkiI} IiKiuiHition. ir he dncM not 
 rclnu'l, lie fjillH (111 Ills kmcM. niid swciiis 
 rliat lie will iH'Vcr Itilicvc it iti tlic vrrv 
 iniiiiictif lliat lie hclicvcs it : He jiMmiscH. 
 uinU-r a hoIcimii oalli. tiiat lie will never Hay 
 it liny more, wlii'ii lie is iletermiiied In |»r<»- 
 rliiiin it anaiii. Ilie very first (ipjKiitiiniiy I 
 And here yoii see two oilier learned Jesiiiis. 
 wl'ii liiive wrilli'ii a very a'de work lo prove 
 that the eaitli moves around the sun: iiiil. 
 trenhiini; at the tiiunders of llie \atiean, 
 which are roariti!; on their heads, and 
 threaten to kil' them, they say that they suit- 
 mil to t)ie decrees of the l'n|)(siit i{onie, 
 auaiiiHt the motion of Ihe eailli . tlicy lell a 
 most contemptilileand ridiculous lie to .save 
 llieiiiHelveH from the implaciilile 'vralh of 
 that j;nat liirht extiiiL'uisher whose llir;ine \n 
 in Ihe city of the seven hills. 
 
 Iyamenai.<'. ii iioinaii ('athdlic priest, who 
 liv((l in this very century, was one ot tlie 
 most profound pIiiloso|)heis. and elocpient 
 writers, winch Fraiuc has ever had. Hut 
 I jimenias was pulilicly excoiniminiciled, for 
 liaviiifr raised himself hiirh eiiouiili in the 
 rei^ionsof <tospel liLdil losi'c that ••lilierty of 
 conscience" was one of the i^nat piivilcires 
 which Christ has liroujfht from heaven for 
 all th(> nations, ami which lie has .sealed 
 with JlijJilood: No man has ever raised 
 himself hijjher in th»' regions of lliouirht 
 and philcHoitliy than I'aschal : i)iit Ihe winirs 
 of Ihaf tjiani ea^le wereclippid by the pope. 
 I'aschal was an outcast in Ihe Church of 
 HouK!. lie lived and died an excommuni- 
 cated ntan. Uosaiict is the most elo(iucnt 
 «trat(a' which iioine has irivci' to the world. 
 Hut Veuillol. the editor of the rniirr.s {\\w 
 oUicial Journal of the Komaii ( 'atliolic clcrnry 
 of France), assures us that Bossuet was a 
 <listruised I'rolcvstnnt. 
 
 If, at any step made l>y the Protestant 
 throui^h the rcirions of science mikI learniiiir, 
 he iisks (tod or man to tell him how he ( an 
 p,(>c<'ed any further without any fear of fall- 
 int: into some unknown and unsuspected 
 a >y.s8, both (tod and man tell him what 
 CliriBt said to His apostles that he has 
 t'yi's tf> see. ears to liear. and an iiitelli<i(Mice 
 to understand : he is reminded that it is 
 with his own eyes, and not his neiirhboi's 
 eyes, he imist look: that it is with his own 
 cars, and not with another one'.s ears ho 
 iiiiLst hear: and that it is with his (uvn in- 
 telliirence, and not another's iiitelliirenc<'. he 
 must understand. And when the Protestant 
 has madn nso of his own eyes to sec, and 
 his own ears to hear, and ids own intelli- 
 gence to understand, he, nevertheless feels 
 ngain his feet uncertain on the trembliiip 
 v.aves of the mysterious and unexplored 
 rejrionsof science and l(>arniiig which spread 
 liefore him as a boundless ocean, all the 
 
 echos of heaven and earth brim; to his cars 
 Ihe .simple but sublime words of the Son of 
 (iod: "If a son shall ask bread of any of 
 you that is a father, will lie irivc liiiii a 
 stone? Or if he ask a fish, will he, for a 
 tisli, ^ive iiim a ser|)rnl '.- Or if he shall ask 
 an eifiT, will he olTerhitii n scorpion 'f If ye 
 then, beiiiff evil, know how tu i,'ive -rood 
 >;ifls unto your childreu : how imieh shall 
 your heavenly Father irive liie Holy Spirit 
 to them that ask him ?" 
 
 Kinboldeiied with this infallible promise of 
 the Saviour which has < nobled. and almost 
 divini/ed him, ihe I'rotcslanI student c<-iised 
 to treii.ble and bar : a new strciii^th has iicen 
 !j;iven to his feel, a new power to his mind. 
 For he has uoiic to his Father for more liirhl 
 and strenuth. .Nay I he has boldly asked, 
 not only the assistance and the help of the 
 Spirit of (iod, iiiil the very presence of His 
 Spirit in his soul to ixuirle and sireiiirllicn 
 him. The assurance that theOrciit (iod who 
 hascnated heaven and earth is his Father, 
 his lovini? Father, has absolutely rai.sed him 
 above himself: it has iriven a new. I dare 
 say. u divine iiiipiil.se to all his aspirations 
 fo.' truth and knowledge. It has ])ut in his 
 breast Ihe assurance that, sustained by the 
 love, and the liirht, and the help of that 
 ^reat intinite eternal (>od, he feels him.self 
 as iis ii irianl able to cope with any obstacle. 
 lie does not any more walk, on his way to 
 clernity. as a worm of the dust : a voice 
 from iieaven has told him that he was the 
 child of (iod ! Kternity, and not lime, then, 
 becomes the limits of his existence, he is no 
 more satisfied with touchini; with his liamls 
 and studyinj; with his eyes the few objects 
 which are within the limited horizon of his 
 eyilid-vision. He stretches his jriaiit hands 
 to the boundless limits of the inlinitc!. he 
 boldly raised his feet and eyes from Ihe d'lsl 
 of this earth, to launch himself into the 
 i)oundle.ss oceans of the unknown worlds. 
 He feels as if there was almost 'lothiiiir be- 
 yond the reach of his intelliifcnce, nothing 
 to resist the power of his arms, notliiiitr to 
 stop his onward proiire.ss toward the infi- 
 nite, so loiiL'^as the infallible words of Christ 
 will be his compa.-'S, his litrht, and his 
 streiijrtli. He will then touch the mountains 
 and they will melt and bow down before 
 him to let his iron and fiery chariot jiassover 
 the rocky iiiouiitaiiis, 8,000 feci above the 
 level of the sea. I Ic will boldly ascend to the 
 regions where the liirlitninjj: and the storms 
 reign, and. there, he will plunsrc his daring 
 liauds into llio roaring clouds, and wrench 
 the sparkle of lifthlniiia; which will carry his 
 message from one end lo the other of ihis 
 world. He will force the oceans to tremble 
 and submit, as humble slaves, before those 
 marvelous steam-engines which, like giants, 
 carry " floating cities ' over all the seas in 
 
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 spite of the 'TindH and the wiivnH. Had the 
 NpwIoiir, the Pninklins, the Kiiltniifl. the 
 MorMCH been Konmnims, their nunieii woiild 
 have been loMt in the obscurity, which ih iho | 
 natural heritage of the ahjeut hIiivps of thej 
 pope!). Being told from their infancy thai { 
 no one had any ri^ht to miikc uhc of liiM | 
 " private judgment " inlelli(^cnce an<l con-' 
 science in the renearch of truth, they would 
 have remninod mule and niniioiileMH at the 
 feet of the nuxlcrn and terrible Qod of llonif, I 
 the Pope. But they were I'rotestantM ! In i 
 that great and glorious word "Protestant"! 
 is the Hscrct of the niarvclouH diHcovcric!* ' 
 with which they have changed the face of! 
 the world. They wee I'roteHlant.s ! yes, 
 they had passed their young years in I'rot- 
 entatit scliools, where they had read a' 
 book which loM them tiiat they were cre- 
 ated in the image of (lod, and rhat that 
 great Ood had sent His eternal Son Jesus, to 
 make them free from the bondage of man. 
 They hail read in thai Protestant book (for 
 the Bible is the most Protestant book which 
 exists in the world) that mnn had not only a 
 conscience, but an intelli^rence to guide him ; 
 they had learned thai that intelligence and 
 conscience had no other master but Ood ; no 
 other guide but (iod ; no other light hut God. 
 On the walls of their Protestant .schools the 
 Son of (»o<l had written the marTolous words : 
 " (7ome unto me, I am the Light, the Way, 
 the Life." But when the Protestant nations 
 are marching with such giant strides to the 
 conquest of the world, why is it that the 
 Komnn (Jalholic nations not only remain sta- 
 tionary, but give evidence of a decadence 
 which is, day after day, more and more ap- 
 palling and remediless'.' <io to their schools 
 and give a moment of attention to the prin- 
 ciples which are sown in the young intelli- 
 gences of their unfortunate slaves, and you 
 will have the key to that sad mystery. 
 
 What is not only the first, but the daily school 
 lesson taught to the Roman Catholic? Is it 
 not that one of the greatest crimes which a 
 man can commit is to follow his "private 
 judgment?" which means that he has eyes, 
 but he cannot see, ears, but he cannot hear, 
 and intelligence, but he cannot make use of 
 it in the research of »;uth and light and 
 knowledge without danger to be eternally 
 damned. His superiors — which means the 
 priest and the pope — must see for him, hear 
 for him, and think for him. Yes, the Ro- 
 man Catholic is constantly told in his school 
 that the most unpardonable and damna- 
 ble crime is to make use of his own intel- 
 ligence and follow hii private Judi/ment in the 
 research of truth. He is conllantly re- 
 minded that roan's own private judgment is 
 his greatest enemy. Hence, ail his intellect- 
 ual and conscientious efforts must be brought 
 
 to fight down, sileiHse, kill his ■■ private 
 judgment." It is by the judgment of his 
 superiors — the priest, the bishop and the 
 pope — that he must be guided in everything. 
 
 Now, what is a man who cannot make use 
 of his " private personal judgment." Is he 
 not a slave, an idioi, an ass ? And what is a 
 nation composed of mci who d» not make 
 use of their private personal judgment in the 
 re-earch of truth and happiness, if not a 
 nation of brutes, slaves and contemptible 
 idiots ? 
 
 But as this will look like an exaggeration 
 on my part, allow me to force the Church of 
 Rome to come here and speak for herself. 
 Please pay attention to what she has to say 
 about the intellectual faculties of men. Here 
 are the very words of the so-called Saint 
 Ignatius Loyola, the founder of the .lesuit 
 Society. 
 
 "As for holy obedience, this virtue must be 
 periect in every point, in execution, in will, 
 in intellect ; doing which is enjoined with all 
 celerity, spiritual joy and perseverance ; per- 
 suading ourselves that everything is just ; 
 suppressing every repugnant thought and 
 judgment of one's own, in a certain obedi- 
 ence ; and let every one persuade himself 
 that he who lives under obedience, should be 
 moved and directed under Divine Providence, 
 by his superior, .iii.st as if iik wkiie a conpsii 
 (ptrinde aesi rudaver es$et) which allows itself 
 to be moved ami led in every direction." 
 
 Ves ! Protestants, when you send your 
 child to school it is that he may more and 
 more understand the dignity of man. Your 
 object is to enlighten, expau*!, and raise his 
 intelligenc!. You want to give more light, 
 more strength, more food, more life to that 
 intelligence. But know it well, not from my 
 lips, but from the solemn declaration of 
 Rome. The young Roman Catholic goes to 
 school not only that liis intelligence may be 
 fettered, clouded and paralyzed, but that it 
 may be killed. (You have heard it). It is 
 only when he will be like a corpse before his 
 superior that the young Roman Catholic will 
 have attained to the highest degree of perfect 
 manhood ! Is not such a doctrine absolutely 
 anti-Christian and anti-social? Is it not dia- 
 bolical ? Would not mankind become a Hock 
 of brute beasts if the Church of Rome could 
 succeed in her plans of persuading every one 
 of her hundred of millions of slaves to con- 
 sider themselves as cadavers — corpses in the 
 presence of their superiors? 
 
 Some one will, perhaps, ask me what can 
 be the object of the popes and the priests of 
 Rome in degrading the Roman Catholics in 
 such a strange way that they turn them into 
 moral corpses ? What can be the use of those 
 hundred of millions of corpses? Why not 
 let them live ? The answer is a very easy 
 
one: The grrat, the only objc;! of the 
 thought! and workings of the piieats ami 
 the pope, is to raUo theuiHelves above the 
 reHt of the world. They want to he high ! 
 high ! high above the heiida not onlj of the 
 oouimon people, but of the kingH and emper- 
 ors of the world. They want to be not only 
 at high, but higher than God. It is when 
 speaking of the pope that the Holy Ohost 
 says : " He oppoaeth and exalteth himself 
 above all that i8 called (lod, or that ia wor- 
 shiped ; BO that he, aa Ood, sitteth in the 
 temple of God, shewing himself that he is 
 God."— 2 Thes., ii. 4. Tu attain their ob- 
 ject, the priests have persuaded thcirmilliuns 
 and millions of slaves that they were mere 
 corpses ; that they had no will, no conscience, 
 no intelligence of their own, just "as corpses 
 which allow themselves to be moved and led 
 in any way, without any resistance." When 
 this has been once gained, they have made a 
 pyramid of all those motionless, inert corpsnH 
 which is so high, that though its feet art on 
 the earth, the top goes to the skies, in the 
 very abode of the old divinities of the Pagan 
 world, and putting themselves and their 
 popes at the top of that marvelous pyramid, 
 the priests say to the rest of the world : 
 "Who among you are as high as we are? 
 Who has ever been raised by (iiod as a priest 
 and a pope? Where are the kings and the 
 emperors whose thrones are as elevated as 
 ours ? Are we not at the very top of hu- 
 manity?" Ves ! yes! I answer to the popes 
 and the priests of Rome, you are high, very 
 high indeed ! No throne on earth has ever 
 been so sublime, so exalted as yours. Since 
 the days of the towers of Babel, the world 
 has not seen such a huge fabric. Your throne 
 is higher than anything we know. But it is 
 a throne of corpses ! ! ! 
 
 And if you want to 'tnow what other use 
 is made of those millions and millions of 
 corpses, I will tell it to you. There is no 
 manure so rich as dead carcasses. Those 
 millions of corpses serve to manure the gar- 
 dens of the priests, the bishops and the 
 popes, and make their cabbages grow ! And 
 what fine cabbages grow in the pope's garden ? 
 
 Is it not a lucky thing for the world in 
 general, and for the Roman Catholics in par- 
 ticular, that though they are taught to be- 
 come like corpses, to have no will, no under- 
 standing, no judgment of their own, in the 
 presence of their superiors there are many 
 who can never attain to that perfection of 
 intellectual degradation and death ! Yes, in 
 spite of the efforts, in spite of the teachings 
 of their Church, a few Roman Catholics re- 
 tain some life, some will, some intelligence, 
 some judgment of their own which prevents 
 them from becoming complete brutes. They 
 now and then refuse to descend to the damp. 
 
 dark and putrid abode of the corpses. They 
 want to breathe the fresh and pure air of lib- 
 erty which God has given to man. They 
 raise their humiliated forehead fmm the 
 ignominious tomb which their Church has 
 dug for them, and they give some xigns of 
 life. Hut at every such signs of life given 
 ly an individual, or by a people in the 
 Church of Rome, be sure tlial you will see 
 the tiashing light and hear the roaring tliun- 
 ders of the Vatican directed against the rebel 
 wijo dares to refuse to become a corfiKe before 
 his superiors. It is tor having shown such 
 signs of life and independence of mind that 
 Galileo wiis sent to gaol and threatened to be 
 cruelly tortured on the racks of the Inquisi- 
 tion in Italy, three hundred years ago. It is 
 for having shown those symptoms of life, 
 that only a few days ago, the honest Kenna, 
 one of the most respected Roman Cntiiolics 
 of Bathurst, N. S. Wales, was excommuni- 
 cated the day before his death, and hud to 
 be buried as a dog in his own field, for hav- 
 ing refused to take away his childreu from 
 an excellent grammar school to obey the 
 priest. It is for having dared to think for 
 himself a few days before his death, that the 
 amiable and learned Montalambert was con- 
 sidered as an outcast by the pope, who re- 
 fused him the honor of public prayers in 
 Rome after his death. 
 
 But that you may better understand the 
 degrading tendencies of the principles which 
 are as the fundamental stone of the moral 
 and intellectual education of Rome, let mc 
 put before your eyes another extract of the 
 Jesuit teachings, which I take again from the 
 "Spiritual Exercise," as laid down by their 
 founder, I^rnatius Loyola: "That we may 
 in all things attain the truth, that we may 
 not err in anything, we ought ever to hold as 
 a fixed principle that what I see while I be- 
 lieve to be black, if the superior authorities 
 of the Church define it to be so." Vou all 
 know that it is the avowed desire of Rome to 
 have public education in the hands of the 
 Jesuits. She says everywhere that, they are 
 the best, the model teachers. Why so? Be- 
 cause they more boldly and more successfully 
 than any other of her teachers aim at the 
 destruction of the intelligence and con- 
 science of their pupils. Rome proclaims 
 everywhere that the Jesuits are the most de- 
 voted, the most reliable of her teachers, and 
 she is right, for when a man has been trained 
 a sufficient time by them, he most perfectly 
 becomes a moral corpse. His superiors can 
 do what they please with him. When he 
 knows that a thing is white as snow, he is 
 ready to swear that it is black as ink if his 
 superior tells him so. But some among you 
 may be tempted to think that these degrad- 
 ing principles are ezolusively taught by the 
 
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 JesuilH; that iliey arc not ilie teachlnRH of 
 the Church, and tliiit I do an injiiHliue to t!ie 
 Koninii Catholics when I givi*, aH a Keiiornl 
 iniquity, what in tiiP guilt of the .InHuitH only. 
 LiHton to the wor>la of that infallihlc I'ope 
 Oregory XVI, in Imh celubraletl Kncyclical of 
 the 16lh of AngUHt, WV2. " If the holy 
 church HO requireH, let U8 sacrifice our own 
 opinions, our knowledge, our tntflliiffncf, the 
 iiplendid dreams of our imagination, and the 
 mo^t Buhlime atliiinnientH of the human un- 
 derstanding. " It Ih when considering those 
 anti-social principlcHof Rome that our learned 
 and profound thinker, Oladslon'', wrote, not 
 long ago: ** No more cunning plot wa.>« ever 
 devisod against tlie freedom, the happiness 
 and the virtue of mankind than RomaniHm." 
 (Lettfr to Earl Afjeriiffti.) Now, Protestants, 
 do you begin to see the difference of the 
 object of education between a i'roteslant and 
 a Iloman Catholic school? Do you begin to 
 understand the truth of what I said, at the 
 beginning of this address, that there is as 
 great a distance between the word Kducatinn 
 among you, and the meaning of the same 
 word in the Church of Rome, than between 
 the southern and the northern poles! By 
 education ynu ,im, i to vaise man to the high- 
 est sphere of manhood. Pome means to 
 lower .1,1 below the most stupid brutes. By 
 education you mean to teach man that he is 
 a free agent, that liberty within the limits of 
 the laws of God, and of his country, is agift 
 secured to every one ; you want to impress 
 every man with th^ noble thought that it is 
 better to die a free man than to live a slave. 
 Rome wants to teach that there is only one 
 man who is free, the pope, and that all the 
 rest are born to be his abject slaves in 
 thought, will and action. 
 
 Now, that you may still more understand 
 to what bottomless abyss of human degrada- 
 tion and moral depravity these anti-Christian 
 and anti-social principles of Rome lead her 
 poor blind slaves — hear what Liguori says in 
 his book "The Nun Sanctified:" "The 
 principal and most efficacious means of prac- 
 ticing obedience due to superiors, and of 
 rendering it meritorious before God, is to 
 consider that in obeying them we obey God 
 Himself, and that by despising their com- 
 mands, we despi-se the authority of our di- 
 vine Master. When, thus, a religious re- 
 ceives a precept from her prelate, superior 
 or confessor, she should immediately execute 
 it, not only to pleaae them but principally to 
 please God, whose will is made known to her 
 by their command. In obeying their com- 
 mand, in obeying their directions, she is 
 more certainly obeying the will of God than 
 if an angel came down from heaven to mani- i 
 fest his will to her. Bear this always in ' 
 your mind, oh ! blessed sister, that the obe- 
 
 dience which yon practice to your sHperior 
 is paid to Gild. If, then, you receiv(> li cum- 
 mand from one wIidIum Is tlic place oftio'l, you 
 should observe it with the same diligence iis 
 if it came from God Himself. BlesMed Kgi- 
 lius used to say that it is more meriiorioii.t to 
 obey man for the love of (Jod than (lud Him- 
 self. It may be added thai there in more 
 certainty of doing the will of God by obedi- 
 ence to our superior than by obedience to 
 .lesiis Christ, should lie appear in person and 
 give His command.^. 8t. Pliillip Neri iisetl to 
 say that religious shall be most certain of 
 not having to render an account of the ac- 
 tions ]ierformed through obedience -, for 
 these, the superiors only who commanded 
 them shall be lielil iiccoiintalile." The Lord 
 said, once, to St. Cuthriuc of Sienne, 'Relig- 
 ious will not be obligeil to render an ao- 
 count to me of what tlicy do through obedi- 
 ence, for that i will demand an account trom 
 the superior. Tii 'U)clrine is confonniible 
 to Sacred Scripture Behold, says the I,ord, 
 as clay is in the p it>er's hand, so are you in 
 my hands, oh ' Israel I (Jeremiah, xviii. 0). 
 Religious m be in (ne han ,>\ of the supe- 
 riors to 'le molded is t',. y will, shall the 
 clay say to him tint rushioneth it. What art 
 thou making? '' 'lo j-oi tor ought to ani« .ver, 
 * Be silent, it Is not your business to in<|uire 
 what I do, but to obey and to receive what- 
 ever form I please to give you.' " 
 
 I ask of you, American Prott..;'>nts, what 
 will become of your fair country if you wer™ 
 blind enough to allow the Church of Rome to 
 teach the children of the United Stites? 
 What kind of men and women can come out 
 of such schools? What fu'ure of fininie, 
 degradation au<l slavery you prepare for 
 your country, if Ron.e does succeed in I'or- 
 cinjj you to support pucli schools. Wh.it kind 
 of women would come out from the schools 
 of nuns who would leach them that the high- 
 est pitch of perfection in a wouian is when 
 she obeys her superior, the priest, in f very- 
 thing he eommandt her 1 that your daughter 
 will never be called to give an account to God 
 for the actions she will have done to please 
 and obey her superior' the priest, the bishop 
 or the pope? That the affairs of her con- 
 science will be arranged between God and 
 that superior, and that she will never be 
 asked why she had done tliis or that, when 
 it will be to gratify the pleasures of the su- 
 perior, and obey his command, that she has 
 dime it. Again, what kind of men and citi- 
 zens will come out from the schools of those 
 Jesuits who believe and teach that a man has 
 attained the perfection of manhood only when 
 he is a perfect spiritual corpse before his 
 superior; when he obeys the priest with the 
 perfection of a cadaver, that has neither life 
 nor will in itself. 
 
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 But you will be tempted to think that this 
 perfect blind obedience to the priest, which 
 is the corner stone of the R.onian Catholic 
 education, is required only in spiritual mat- 
 ters ; yes ! but you must not forget that, in 
 the Church of lloiue every action of the pri- 
 vate or public life belongs to the spiritual 
 sphere which the superior only mujt rule. 
 For instance, a Roman Catholic has not the 
 right to select the teacher of his boy, nor the 
 school where he will send him ; he must con- 
 sult his priest, and if he dares to act in a 
 diflferent way from what his priest has told 
 him in the selection of that teacher or that 
 school, he is excommunicated and dammed, 
 aM Mr. Kenna has been lately at Bathurst. 
 If he votes according to his own private 
 judgment for Mr Johns instead of Mr. 
 Thompson, the selected member of the bishop 
 and the priest, he is dammed and considered 
 as a rebel against his Holy Church, out of 
 which there is no salvation. 
 
 The Church of Home's only object in giv- 
 ing what she calls education is to teach her 
 slaves that they must obey their superiors in 
 everything, as God Himself. All the rest of 
 her teaching is only a mask to conceal her 
 plans. History is never taught in her 
 schools ; what she calls history is a most 
 shameful string of falsehoods. Of course 
 she does not dare to say a word of truth 
 about her past struggles against the great 
 principles of light and liberty, when she 
 covered the whole of Europe with tears, 
 blood and ruins. Writing, reading, arithme- 
 tic, geography and grammar are taught to 
 a certain degree in her schools, but all these 
 teachings are nothing else but covered roads 
 through which the priest wants to reach the 
 citadel of the heart and intelligence of his 
 poor victim, and take an absolute possession 
 of them. Those things are taught every day 
 only to have a daily opportunity to persuade 
 the pupil that he must never make any use 
 of his private judgment in anything, and that 
 he must submit his intelligence, his con- 
 science, his will, to the intelligence, conscience 
 and will of his superior, if he wants tc save 
 himself from the eterqal fire of hell. He is 
 constantly told what I have been told a thou- 
 sand times myself, when studying in the 
 college of Nicholet : That, those who obey 
 their superiors in everything, will not be 
 called to give an account of their actions to 
 their Supreme Judge, even if those actions 
 were bad in themselves —for, as Liguori told 
 you, a moment ago : " Whosoever obeys his 
 superior, for the love of God, obeys God 
 Himself, and that there are more merits to 
 obey one's own superior than God Himself." 
 
 The Church of Rome shows her great wis- 
 dom in enforcing that dogma of the entire 
 and blind subjection of the will and intelli- 
 
 gence of the inferior to the superior. For 
 the very moment thai a Roman Catholic thinks 
 that it is his right and sacred duty to follow 
 the dictates of his own conscience and intel- 
 ligence, he is lost to the Church of Rome. It 
 iij only when a man has entirely silenced, and 
 absolutely killed his intelligence — it is only 
 when he has become a perfect ir.oral corpse — 
 that he can believe that his priest, even his 
 drunken priest, has the power to change a 
 wafer, or any other piece of bread into the 
 great God, for whom and by whom every- 
 thing has been created. It is only when the 
 intelligence of man has become a dead car- 
 cass that he can believe that a miserable sin- 
 ner has the supreme power to force the Son 
 of God to come, in His divine and human 
 person, into his vest or pants' pockets to fol- 
 low him everywhere he wants to go, even to 
 the bar of the low tavern, that He may be- 
 come his companion of debauch and drunk- 
 enness. Do you see, now, why the Church 
 of Rome cannot let her poor young slaves go 
 to your schools ? In your schools, the first 
 thing you inculcate to the pupil is that his 
 intelligence is the great gift of God, by which 
 man is distinguii^hed from the brute ; that he 
 must enlighten, form, feed, cultivate his in- 
 telligence, which is to him what the helm is 
 to the ship, Christ, with His holy Word being 
 the pilot. You see, now, why the Church of 
 of Rome abhors your schools. It is because 
 you want to make mm, and she wants to 
 make brutes You want to raise men to the 
 highest sphere to which his intelligence can 
 allow him to reach ; she wants to keep him 
 in the dust, at the feet of the priests; you 
 want to form free citizens, she wants to form 
 adject and obedient slaves of the priests ; 
 you teach man to keep his sacred promises 
 and stand by his oath, she teaches him that 
 the Pope has the right to dissolve the most 
 sacred promises, and to annul all his oaths, 
 even the oate of allegiance to his country. 
 You tell your pupils that so long a? they will 
 keep themselves within the limits of the 
 laws of their country they are responsi- 
 ble only to God for their consciences. They 
 tell their pupils that it is not to God, but to 
 the priest he must go to give an account of 
 his conscience. You teach your pupils that 
 the laws of God only bind the conscience of 
 man ; they tell them that it is the laws of the 
 Church, which means the ipxe dixit of the 
 pope which binds their consciences. You 
 teach the student that every man has the 
 right to choose his religion according to his 
 conscience. She positively says that no man 
 has the right to choose his religion according 
 to his conscience. It is evident that the 
 Church of Rome would be dead to-morrow 
 if to-day she would allow her children to 
 attend schools where they would learn to 
 
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 follow the dictates of their consoience, and 
 listen to the voiee of their intelligence. But 
 she is too shrewd to avow before the world 
 the real reasons why she wants, at any cost, 
 to prevent her children from attending your 
 schools. And it is here she shows her pro- 
 found and diabolical cunning. Thougli she 
 is the most deadly enemy of liberty of con- 
 science, though she has, time after time, 
 anathematized liberty of conscience as one of 
 Satan'H schemes, she suddenly steps on, as 
 the grent friend and apostle of liberty of con- 
 science, and under that new mask she ap- 
 proache:) your legislators with great airs of 
 dignity and says : " We are happy to live in 
 a country where liberty of conscience is 
 secured to every citizen. It is in its sacred 
 name that we respectfully approach your 
 honorable legislature to aslc: First, to be 
 exempted from sending our children to the 
 Government schools. Second, to have ibe 
 money we want from the public treasury in 
 order to support our own schooU. For two 
 reasons: First, you read the Bible in your 
 schools, and it is against our con*icieuce to 
 let our children read your Bible. Second, 
 you have some prayers at the beginning and 
 some i-eligious hymns sung at the end of the 
 hours of school, and it is against our con- 
 science to allow the children of the Church 
 of R me to join you in tho.se prayers and 
 hymns." The legislators, who for the groater 
 part, are too honorable men to suspect the 
 fraud, are won by the air of candor and 
 honesty of the Roman Catholic petition- 
 ers. Considering the great benefit which 
 will come to the country if all the children 
 are taught in the same school, they are soon 
 ready to make any sacrifice in order to have 
 the Roman Catholic and the Protestant chil- 
 dren under the same roof, to receive the 
 same light and the same moral food and same 
 instruction. As true patriots, the legislators 
 understand that if they wish their beloved 
 country to be strong and happy, the first 
 thing they must do is to make the young 
 generation one in mind, in heart. If the 
 Protestant and Roman Catholic children are 
 taught in the same school, they will know 
 each other and love each other when young, 
 and those sacred ties of friendship which 
 will bind them in the spring of life, will be 
 strengthened when their reason will be ma- 
 tured and enlightened by a good education 
 under the same respected and v'orthy teach- 
 ers. As Christian men, the legislators would 
 perhaps like to keep the Bible, and have 
 short prayers in the schools ; but as patriots, 
 they feel that those things, though good and 
 sacred, are an unsurmountable barrier to the 
 Roman Catholic. The delicate conscience of 
 the bishops and priests cannot allow such 
 things in the school attended by their lambs ! 
 
 Through respect for the sacred rights of the 
 Roman Catholic conscience, the legislators in 
 many places throw the Bible overboard, and 
 they say to God : '• Please get out from our 
 schools, and do excuse us if we order our 
 school teachers to ignore your existence!" 
 They say to .lesus Christ : "We have not 
 forgotten your sublime and touching words, 
 ' SuflFer little children to couie unto me.' No 
 doubt you would like to press «ur dear little 
 ones on your loving heart, and bless them for 
 a moment in the schools ; but we cannot nllow 
 them to go so near you in the school, we can- 
 not even allow them to speak to you a single 
 word there. Please be not oflFended if we 
 turn you out from those very schools where 
 you were so welcome formerly. We are 
 (orced to that sad extrennty through the re- 
 spect we owe to the tender consciences of our 
 fellow-citizens of the Church of Rome. You 
 know that they cannot allow their children 
 to speak to you together with ours." But 
 when those awful, not to say sacrilegious 
 sacrifices, have been made by the Protestant 
 legislators to appease the implacable god of 
 Rome — when, through respect for the scru- 
 ples of the bishops and priests of Rome, the 
 great God of heaven, with His Son .Jesus 
 Christ, have been unceremoniously turned 
 out from the schools — when the Word of God 
 has been prohibited, and that the Bible is 
 thrown overboard, is the Moloch god ap- 
 peased? will the Roman Catholic bishop and 
 priests tell their children that they may 
 unite with yours to go and receive education 
 from the same teachers? No! But assuming, 
 then, a sublime air of indignation, they turn 
 against you as mad doi^s ; they call your 
 schools Oodlex.t schools .' good only to form 
 tliieves, infidels and atheists ! 
 
 Do you sec now that all those dignified 
 scruples of conscience about reading the 
 Bible, praying with you, etc., were only •• 
 mask to deceive you, and make you fall into 
 a snare ? Do viu not perceive now that they 
 did not care a straw for the Bible and the 
 prayers in the schools ? but they wanted your 
 legislators to compromise themselves before 
 the Christian world, loose their moral strength 
 in the eyes of a great part of the nation, 
 divide your ranks, your means, your strength, 
 and beat you on that great question of edu- 
 cation. They will take such airs of martyrs 
 when you will try to force their children to 
 your schools that many honest and unsus- 
 pecting Protestants will be completely de- 
 ceived by them. At first they could not, they 
 said, trust the children to your hands, be- 
 cause you read the Word of God, you prayed 
 and blessed God in the school. But now 
 that the Bible and God are turned out from 
 the schools, they baptize them by the most 
 ignominious names which can be given — 
 
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 (hey call them "Godless schools!" Have 
 you ever seen a more profoundly ignomin- 
 ious and sacrilegions trick ! Will not your 
 legislators open their eyes to that strange act 
 of deception, of which they are the victims ? 
 Will they not come out quickly from the 
 trap laid before them by the bishops and the 
 priests of Rome ? Yes I Let us hope that 
 your patriots and Christian legislators will 
 soon understand that they owe a reparation 
 to God and to their country ; wHh unanimous 
 voice they will ask pardon from God for hav- 
 ing expelled Him from the very place where 
 He has most right to reign supremely — the 
 school. 
 
 For what is a school without God in its 
 midst to sit as a father, and to form the 
 young hearts and evoke the young intellect. 
 What is a boy ? what is a girl ? what ii a 
 woman or a man without God? what is a 
 family, what is a people without God ? It is 
 a monstrosity, it is a body without life, 
 it is a world without light, it is a cis- 
 tern without water. Let us hope that, 
 before long, your patriotic and Christian 
 legislators will remember that the Bible 
 is the foundation of the greatness of Protest- 
 ant nations. Do not forget it, Protestants. 
 It is to the Bible the United States owes their 
 liberty, power, prestige and strength. It is 
 the Bible that has ennobled the hearts of your 
 heroes, improved the minds of your poets 
 and orators, and strengthened the arms of 
 your warriors ; yes ! it is because your sol- 
 diers have brought with them, everywhere, 
 the Bible, pressed on their hearts, that they 
 have conquered the enemies of liberty. So 
 long as the United States will be true to the 
 Bible, their glorious banners will flash re- 
 spected and feared all over the seas, and over 
 all the continents of the world. Let the 
 disciples of the Gospel, the children of God, 
 and the redeemed of Christ all over the fair 
 and noble country you inhabit hasten to 
 request their legislators to invite the Savior 
 of the world to come back and bless their 
 dear children in the school. For it is not 
 only in your homes and your churches that 
 Jesus tells 70U "Suffer little children to 
 come unto uie." It is particularly in the 
 school. Oh ! give two or three minutes to 
 those dear little ones, that they may press 
 themselves on His bosom, bless Him for hav- 
 ing saved them on the cross, and proclaim 
 His mercies by singing one of those hymns 
 which they like so much. By this noble act 
 of national reparation, you will take away 
 f^om the hands of the priests the only weapon 
 with which they can hurt you ; you will de- 
 stroy the only argument they use with a true 
 force against your schools when they call 
 them godless schools. Do not fear any more 
 the priests and the prelates of Rome. Do 
 
 not yield any more and give up your privilege 
 to please them and reconcile them to your 
 schools. You will never be able to reconcile 
 them to your schools — for there is light in your 
 schools, and they want the darkness. There is 
 freedom and liberty in your schools; they want 
 slavery 1 There is life in your schools — and 
 it is only on dead corpses that their church 
 can have a chance to live a few years more. 
 You see, by a sad experience, that their 
 scruples of conscience against the Bible and 
 the prayer of the school, are mere hypoc- 
 risy just thrown into the eyes of the public. 
 Do not say with some honest but deluded- 
 Protestants : Is it not enough that that child 
 should learn his religion at home? No, 
 it is not enough ; for it is in our nature 
 that we want two witnesses to believe a 
 thing. What comes to our mind only through 
 one witness remains uncertain ; but let two 
 good witnesses confirm a fact, and then we 
 accept it. Your child wants two witnesses 
 to believe the necessity of the sacredness of 
 religion. His Christian home is surely a 
 good vfitness to your child, but it is not 
 enough ; what he has heard from you must 
 be confirmed by his school teacher. Without 
 this second witness, nine times out of ten 
 your children will be skeptics and infidels. 
 Besides that, the very idea of God brings 
 with it the obligation to bless, love and adore 
 Him everywhere. The moment you take 
 your child to a place where not only he can- 
 not love, bless and adore God, but where the 
 adoration and the praise of God are- for- 
 bidden, you entirely destroy the idea of God 
 from the mind and the heart of your child. 
 You make him believe that what you have 
 told him when at home, of God, is only a 
 fable, to amuse and deceive him. Do you see 
 that noble ship in the midst of that splendid 
 harbor, how she is tossed by the foaming 
 waves, how she is beaten by the furious 
 winds ? What does prevent that ship from 
 flying before the storm, and running ashore, 
 a miserable wreck ? What does prevent her 
 from being dashed on that rock ? The an- 
 chor, yes, the anchor is her safety. But let 
 a single link of the chain that binds the ship 
 to her anchor break, will she not soon be 
 dashed on the rock, and broken to pieces, 
 and sink to the bottom of the sea ? It is so 
 with your child ! So long as his intelligence 
 and his heart is united to God by the anchor 
 of faith, he will nobly stand against the furi- 
 ous waves, he will nobly fight his battles, but 
 let the school teacher be silent about God, 
 and here is a broken link, and the child will 
 be a wreck. Do not fear the priest, but fear 
 God ! Do not try any more to please the 
 priests, but do all in your power to please 
 your great and merciful God, not only in 
 your homes, but also in your schools, and 
 
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 those schools will become more than ever a 
 focus of light, an inexhaustible source of in- 
 tellectual and moral strength— more than 
 ever your children will learn in the school 
 to be your honor, and your glory and your 
 joy. They will learn that they are not igno- 
 ble worms of the dlist, whose existence will 
 end in the tomb, but that they are immortal 
 as God, whose beloved children they are. 
 They will learn how to serve their God and 
 
 love their country. Be not ashamed, but be 
 proud to send your children to schools where 
 they will learn how to be good Christians 
 and good citizens. When you will have 
 finished your pilgrimage, they will be your 
 worthy successors, and the God whom they 
 will have learned to fear, serve and love in 
 the school will help them to make your grand 
 Republic great, happy and free. 
 
A ROMISH BISHOP'S TESTIMONY. 
 
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 The Kankakee Times publishes the following communication from a 
 member of the Illinois Bar. Though perhaps containing nothing new nor 
 strange to those who have studied the matter, the statement made may 
 convince such Protestants as imagine the Church of Rome to be a harm- 
 less institution, of their great error. The principles of the Papal hie- 
 rarchy remain unchanged. The wearer of the Tiara would as readily 
 dispose, for simple heres}', any temporal ruler of to-day, as his predecessor, 
 six centuries ago, deposed and deprived of his estates. Count Raymond, 
 of Toulouse, for a like crime. Religious liberty is both hated and dreaded 
 by a church which claims the right of enforcing its spiritual decrees by 
 the assistance of the secular arm : 
 
 In one of your past issues, you told your readers that the Rev. Mr. 
 Chiniqu}' had gained the long and formidable suit instituted b}' the Ro- 
 man Catholic Bishop to dispossess him and his people of their church 
 property. But 30U have not given any particulars about the startling 
 revelations the Bishop had to make before the Court, in reference to the 
 still existing laws of the Church of Rome, against those whom they call 
 heretics. Nothing, however, is more important for every one than to know 
 precisely' what those laws are. 
 
 As I was present when the Roman Catholic Bishop Foley, of Chicago, 
 was ordered to read, in Latin, and translate into English, those laws, I 
 have kept a correct copy of them, and I send it to you with a request 
 to publish it. 
 
 The Rev. Mr. Chiniquy presented the works of St. Thomas and St. 
 Liguori to the Bishop, requesting him to say, under oath, if those works 
 were or were not among the highest theological authorities in the Church 
 of Rome, all over the world. After long and serious opposition on the 
 part of the Bishop to answer, the Court having said he (the Bishop) was 
 bound to answer, the Bishop confessed that those works were looked 
 upon as among the highest authorities, and that they are taught and 
 learned in all the colleges and universities of the Church of Rome as 
 standard works. 
 
 Then the Bishop was requested to read, in Latin, and translate into 
 English, the following laws and fundamental principles of action against 
 the heretics, as explained by Sts. Thomas and Liguori : 
 
 1. "An excommunicated man is deprived of all civil communication 
 with the faithful, in such a wa}', that if he is not tolerated, they can have 
 no communication with him, as it is in the following verse : ' It is for- 
 bidden to kiss him, pray with him, salute him, to eat or do any business 
 with him.'"— St. Liguori, Vol. 9, page 162. 
 
 2. "Though heretics must not be tolerated because they deserved it, 
 we must bear them till, by a second admonition, they may be brought 
 
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 back to the faith of the Church. But those who, after a second admoni- 
 tion, remain obstinate in their errors, must not only be excommunicated^ 
 but they must be delivered to the secular power to be exterminated." 
 
 3. *' Though the heretics who repent must always be accepted to pen- 
 ance, as often as they have fallen, they must not, in consequence of that^ 
 
 always be permitted to enjoy the benefits of this life When 
 
 the}' fall again, they are permitted to repent, but the sen- 
 tence of death must not be removed." — St. Thomas, Vol. 4, page 91. 
 
 4. " When a man is excommunicated for his apostac}-, it follows from 
 that very fact, that all those who are his subjects are released from the 
 oath of allegiance by which they are bound to obey him." — St. Thomas^ 
 Vol. 4, page 94. 
 
 The next document of the Church of Rome brought before the (yourt 
 was the act of the Council of Lateran, A. D. 1215 : 
 
 " We excommunicate and anathematize every heresy that exalts itself 
 against the holy, orthodox and Catholic faith, condemning all heretics by 
 whatever name they may be known — for though their faces differ, they 
 are tied together by their tails. Such as are condemned are to be deliv- 
 ered over to the existing secular powers, to receive due punishment. If 
 laymen, their goods must be contiscated. If priests, the}' shall be first 
 degraded from their respective orders, and their property applied to the 
 use of the Church in which they have officiated. Secular powers of 
 all ranks and degrees are to be warned, induced and, if necessary, com- 
 pelled by ecclesiastical censure, to swear that they will exert themselves 
 ta the utmost in the defense of the faith, and extirpate all heretics de- 
 nounced by the Church, who shall be found in their territories. And 
 whenever any person shall assume government, whether it be spiritual or 
 temporal, he shall be bound to abide by this decree. 
 
 " If any temporal lord, after having been admonished and recjuired by 
 the Church, shall neglect to clear his territory of heretical depravity, the 
 Metropolitan and the Bishops of the province shall unite in excommuni- 
 cating him. Should he remain contumacious a whole year, the -fact shall 
 be signified to the Supreme Pontiff', who will declare his vassals released 
 from their allegiance from that time, and will bestow his territory on 
 Catholics, to be occupied by them, on the condition of exterminating the 
 heretics and preserving the said territory in the faith. 
 
 " Catholics who shall assume the cross for the fxUrmlnutlov of heretics- 
 shall enjoy the same indulgences and be protected by the same privileges 
 as are granted to those wiio go totbe help of the Holy Land. We decree, 
 further, thai; all who may have dealings with heretics, and especially such 
 as receive, defend or encourage them, shall be excommunicated. He 
 shall not be eligible to any public office. He shall not be admitted as a 
 witness. He shall neither have the power to beciueath his property' by 
 will, nor to succeed to any inheritance. He shall not being any action, 
 against any person, but any one can luring action against him. Should 
 he be a judge, his decision shall have no force, nor shall any cause be 
 brought before him. Should he be an advocate, he shall not be allowed 
 to plead. Should he be a lawyer, no instrument made by him shall be 
 held valid, but shall be condemned with their author." 
 
 The Roman Catholic Bishop swore that these laws had never been 
 repealed, and, of course, that they were still the laws of his Church. He 
 
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