IMAGE EVALUATION TEST TARGET (MT-3) /^, / fe 1.0 I.I 1.25 li^lilM 12,5 112 132 22 K' t li£ 1 2.0 1.4 1.6 /a "c*l <:>#. '^/ ^> ^ ^>^, .^' / / V '// ■///, Photographic Sciences Corporation « ^ iP <^ •5 ' \ ru^^ ^ n>^ 23 WEST MAIN STREET WEBSTER, NY. 14580 (7161 (172-4503 ? CIHM/ICMH Microfiche Series. CIHM/ICMH Collection de microfiches. Canadian Institute for Historical Microreproductions / Institut Canadian de microreproductions historiques Technical and Bibliographic Notes/Notes techniques et bibliographiques The Institute has attempted to obtain the best original copy available for filming. Features of this copy which may be bibliographically unique, which may alter any of the images in the reproduction, or which may significantly change the usual method of filming, are checked below. L'Institut a microfilme le meilleur exemplaire qu'il lui a ete possible de se procurer Les details de cet exemplaire qui sont paut-^tre uniques du point de vue bibliographiqua. qui peuvent modifier une image reproduite. ou qui peuvent exiger une modification dans la m^thoda normale de filmage sent indiqu^s ci-dessous. D Coloured covers/ Couverture de coulaur D Coloured pages/ Pages de couleur I ! Covers damaged/ I I Couverture endommagee ] 1 Covers restored and/or laminated/ I 1 Couverture restaur*e et/ou pelliculie r~~l Pages damaged/ I I Pages endommagees D D D D Cover title rr aing/ Le litre de couverture manque Coloured maps/ Cartes g^ographiques en couleur Coloured ink lie. other than blue or black)/ Encra de couleur (i.e. autre que bleua ou noirel Coloured plates and/or illustrations/ Planchos et/ou illustrations en couleur Bound with other material/ ^ I Reli* avac d'autras documents D n Tight binding may causa shadows or distortion along interior margin/ Lareliure serree paut causer da I'ombre ou de la distorsion le long de la marge Interieura Blank leaves added during restoration may appear within the text. Whenever possible, these have been omitted from filming/ II se peut que certainas pages blanches ajout^es lors dune restauration apparaissant dans la taxte. mais. lorsque cela ^tait possible, ces pages n'ont pas iti filmAes. c D D D D D Paoes restored and/or laminated/ Pages restaurees et/ou pelliculees Pages discoloured, stained or foxed/ Pages decolorees, tachet^es ou piquees Pages detached/ Pages detachees Showthrough/ Transparence Quality of print varies/ Quanta in^gale de I'impression Includes supplementary material/ Comprend du materiel supplamentaire Only edition available/ Seule Edition disponible Pages wholly or partially obscured by errata slips, tissues, etc.. have been refilmed to ensure the best possible image/ Les pages totalement ou partiellement obscurcies par un feuillet d'errata. une pelure, etc.. cnt *t6 fi!m*es i nouveau de facon a obtenir la meilleure image possible. D Additional comments:/ Commentaires supplementaires This item is filmed at the reduction ratio checked below/ Ce document est filme au taux de reduction indiqu^ ci-dessous. 10X 14X 18X 22X 26X 30X 1,.- L^ i 1 1 1 12X 16X 20X 24X 28X 32X The copy filmed here has been reproduced thanks to the generosity of: Harold Campbell Vaughan Memorial Library Acadia Univenity The images appearing here are the best quality possible considering the condition and legibility of the original copy and in Iceeping with the filming contract specifications. L'exemplaire film* fut reproduit grice A la g^nArositA de: Harold Campbell Vajghan Memorial Library Acadia Uni -irtity Les images suivantes ont M reproduces avec le plus grand soin, compte tenu de la condition at de la netteti de l'exemplaire filmA, et en conformity avec les conditions du contrat de filmage. Original copies in printed paper covers are filmed beginning with the front cover and ending on the last page with a printed or illustrated impres- sion, or the back cover when appropriate. All other original copies are filmed beginning on the first page with a printed or illustrated impres- sion, and ending on the last page with a printed or illustrated impression. The last recorded frame on each microfiche shall contain the symbol —♦■(meaning "CON- TINUED"), or the symbol V (meaning "END"), whichever applies. Maps, plates, charts, etc., may be filmed at different reduction ratios. Those too large to be entirely included in one exposure are filmed beginning in the vipper left hand corner, left to right and top to bottom, as many frames as required. The following diagrams illustrate the method: Les exemplaires originaux dont la couverture en papier est imprimte sont filmte en commenpant par le premier plat et en terminant soit par la derniire page qui comporte une empreinte d'impression ou d'illustration, soit par le second plat, selon le cas. Tous les autres exemplaires originaux sont filmis en commenpant par la premiere page qui comporte une empreinte d'impression ou d'illustration et en terminant par la derniAre page qui comporte une telle empreinte. Un des symboles suivants apparattra sur la derniire image de cheque microfiche, selon le cas: le symbols — »> signifie "A SUIVRE", le symbols V signifie "FIN". Les cartes, planches, tableaux, etc., peuvent Atre filmAs A des taux de reduction diffArents. Lorsque le document est trop grand pour Atre reproduit en un seul clichA, il est filmA A partir de Tangle supArieur gauche, de gauche A droite, et de haut en bas, en prenant le nombre d'images nAcessaire. Les diagrammes suivants illustrent la mAthode. 1 2 3 1 2 3 4 5 6 , '* THK lALIMX SCHOOL OUESTlfll Shall the State Surrender to tlieCliiirch? DISCOURSE By Rev. T. B. Gregory, in the Church of THE Redeemer, S-U-lTX;^-^-. J-VX^-Z- 22id. iGe3. HALIFAX, N. S., JamKS HijwEs & SON.S, PRI.VTElt.<, 142 HOI.LIS SrUEKT. imi. -*-i*'i ftw i ] « n w' « » ii ii ii i «^wwBfc^iimKW« I *m::m 'Ific H^»'if^^>^ gd)ool Question. I SHALL THE STATE SURRENDER TO THE CHURCH ? A few weeks ago the people of our city were treated to a most extraordinary oommunicatioii from the leading dignitary of the Catholic Cliurch in Nova Scotia. Had a similar document been sent forth by a Protestant clergyman the people would have called it a piece of iinpardonable impudence " Who is he,'" they would have said, "to be talking to us as though he was a little god ?" The Archbishop's address suggested to us Shakespeav's lines : , ' Man, pioud .Man. dressed in a little brief anth(.rity. Plays sncli fantastic tricks before high heaven As make the angels weep." The Archbishop is out of place in this free land of the "West. During the war between the States, a chaplain, meeting a rather suspicious looking character, asked him what army he belonged to ; " Grant's," was the reply. " And what army do yoii belong to ?" asked the soldier of the chaplain. " The army of the Lord," answered the chaplain. "Then," said the soldier, " You are a mighty long way from Headquarters." I feel just so about the Archbishop — that he's a mighty lono- way from headquarters. The headquarters for all such men as he is not in Halifax, but in Mexico, or Lima, or Madrid, or liio Janeiro. We people with good old Saxon blood in our veins, and good old Saxon ideas and princi- ples in our heads and hearts, cannot appreciate such utterances as the Archbishop's late address. It is either above us or below us. At any rate, we cannot under- stand it. r.>rhai.s if wo livod in Mexico, or IVru, or ln>land, it would appear to us in another li^rht. I!ut. taking the Archbishop's lulmination as it stands m cold type, let us study it, to see just uhat it means. I am not -oin- to discuss the te.-hnical phases of the 'jiu'st.on. Thesplendideditorial in the Mornin^r Chnndrl. did that part of it to perfectin,,. so that, in that line nothin- more need be said. f wish at this time to take the question in its broader bearinirs. 1 wish to o-o down to the root of the matter. Think not that the red bone ot contention was the building of the Russell >treet s.^hoolhouse. There is something back of that ; and that something is this : Shall Halifax, shall \ova Scotia, shall the AVorld, be ruled and governed by the nv>l or the erdesias/im/ power !" You will remember that the Archbishop had much to say m his address about a certain som.-thin- that he .•ailed the " Episcopa/ Corporationr \ow, that Kpiscopal Corporation is nothing less than the Roman Catholh Clun-rh. The light, then, is one between the Catholic Uuirch and the civic authority of Halifax. l!v rcadii.-' between the lines, one can see that in the Archbishop^ opinion the church, and not the civil authorities, should rule. The Archbishop believes that he is the most authoritative personage in the province of Xova Scotia, and that to him belongs the right to dictate to the rest ol us what we shall think, say and do Allow me to prove to you that I am not speaking amiss. The Church— I am talking now from the Archbishop's point of view- the Church is an institution ordained and established of Uod. Its priests are the duly elected custodians of (-rod s laws, ihe duly appointed spokesmen of God's will Uod has revealed to them what his laws are, and what his will IS, and has invested them with the authority to impose those laws and that will, on all men the world over. Such is the theory that every Catholic is required to accept. The Archbishop is a Catholic, a true one, we will suppose, and therefore he accepts it. Then the ~\A "..'V Ar.hbi.shop believes that he, as the highest olhcial of the Catholic Church in this province, is the one duly authorized by Almighty Clod to lay down the law for every other man, woman and child in the province. Th*. Archbishop cannot deny this The moment he denies it he ceases to be a good Catholic- For listen to what I am about to say. Said Cardinal Manning : " "We declare it to be necessary to salvation for every human creature to be subject to the lioraan Pontitl"." Said Bishop Uilmour, in 1S73 : "Nationalities must be sub- ordinate to religion, and we must learn that we are Catholics lirst, and citizens next. God is above man, and the Church above the State." Pius IX. declared : 'The pope and the priests ought to have dominion over the temporal affairs. The Romish Church and her ecclesiastics have a right to immunity from civil law. In case of conllict between et'clesiastical aiid civil power, the ecclesiastical power ought to prevail." From the Canon Law, existing in full force to-day, I take the following extracts: "All human power is from evil, and must therefore be under the pope. The pope has the right to annul state laws, treaties, constitutions, and to absolve from obedience thereto, so soon as they seem detrimental to the rights of the Church, or those of the clergy. The pope can release from every obliga- tion, vow or oath, either before or after being made." Puring a sermon delivered in New York, January 1st, l^^ss, Vicar-General Preston said: " l':very word Leo sp^'uks from his high chair is the voice of the Holv Crhost, and must be obeyed. It is .said that polUioi is not within the province of the Chu^'h, and that the Church has only .jurisdi<'tiou in matters of faith. You say, 'I will receive my faith fron. the pontitF, but I will not receive mv politics from him.' This assertion is unloyal. You must not think as you choose, you must think as Catholics. The man who says, ' I will take my faith from Peter, but I will not tak? my politics from Peter,' is not a true Catholic." In his Encyclical Letter of the year I 1«8.,, Leo said: " All Catholics must make themselves iet-asuetive elements m daily political life in eountries where they live. All Catholics shouldexert their power to cause the constitutions ofStates to be modelled on the principles ol'the Church." No more is ne.-essary. I hare proven, by their own words, that the officials of the K'oman Catholi<- Church believe it to be their ri^lit, and their d.l,, to rule Ihe >ta/e, and to make the civil subordinate to the ecclesias- tical power. Such is the spirit of that Episcopal IWpora- tionxn whose name the Archbishop stood up to bullv HUd browbeat the civil power of our good city. He was s.mply eons.stent. As a true and loyal prelate of the <- hurch he could not have spoken otherwise If he w-vs arrogant, be it remembered that Rome is always arrogant. If he spoke with a high and mi-htv authority, let it be borne in mind that the Church of which he IS a priest claims, and has ever claimed all authority. And there was a time, as you all know, whe she not only claimed but possessed the authoritv ^he vas supreme. And what was the result > Slic spread out her Octopus arms until she had grasped about all the earth. She attacked human reason, and with lagot, thumbscrew, and rack, beat down all opposition to her imperial will, (h-own fat and sensual upon the spoils wrung from the people, her priests committed •M-ery crime, and were, by laws ol their own makino- shielded iroin the .just punishment of their iniquitoi^s ii\ es. Had the K'elbrmation held back much loirnvr the Miman race would have perished in its own rottenness in the words of Castelar, the great liepublican ol' -Madrid. -'It th.' human intellect had completely sub- mitted to the I'ope, Europe would have been to-day a stag^nant empire, Asiatic in its character-an e.-clesias- li.-a tyranny, with its Grand Luma in the Internal City " Listen to that word again-ecclesiastical tyra,nn, Did you read the Archbishop's address to us '. Did you read it cardully > Dij j-^u observe how absolute it was. ^ '»« I "T T a> though it was Jupiter, thuudt'riug tVoin high Olyini^us, or Jehovah, proelaiuiiiig hi-* word Ironi the tin-It' of Iht' earth to us poor grasshoppers heh)\v ! •' 1 am Sir Oriu-le ; And wlu'ii I i>pf my iiiDiith Let 111) tli)K hark." Ah me ! it would be a had day lor us poor dogs if the ( traele had the power he desired I 11' it was not lor the stronu!' arm oi' the civil law, whit-h our Aaglo-Saxou vat-e has reared I'or the protection ol' human rights, there would he lit) living where the Church is, unless one would consent to live as she ordered What do you sup- l>ose the Archbishop would do to the members ot our Scliool Board, and all such wretched heretics as mysell', and to all others who did not kiss his hand, 1 say, what do you suppose he would do to us, provided he had the power :* I tell you what he would do. lie would crush us, and sweep us away like so miach vermin ! liut is the Ari:hbishop so bad a man ^ you ask. I did not say that he was a bad man. I do not say it now. But this I do say, that the System to which lie has sworir allegiance is n had iii/slum ; and so far as the means wi'l enable him, he must be true to that System, or be a b;.d Catholic. But let me show y^ou the System, in the words of its own leaders, liemember, that what I am about to give you is not my own language, but that of Topes, Cardiuals, Bishops, Priests and Editors, in full fellowship with the Church. I begin with the Syllabus of IMus IX of the year '(34 : " The Church has the right to retjuire the State //ot to leave every man free to profess his own religion." lUit suppose the State won't listen to such requirements ? Then, " the Church has the right to exercise her power without the permission of the State." But to exercise her power to what end ? AVhy, to the suppression of all free opinion. Pope Pius IX, in his I'^ncyclical Letter of August, ';')4, said : " The iih^i/rd and (■/•ro/ieo/is doctrines in defence of liberty of ct>iisviencc are a most pestilential error — a pest of all J others inosi to 1„. dn'a.l.'d in ;i st.it.- " Tl, " . Ih. Ar,.hl„,.!,„,, „is,, |,„„i, ,„ij, ., II,.' ;, llaly .mcl Spa,,,, „.1„.,„ ,|| „„, ,,„,,. ,,^„ ,.,,|„' ■; "" " '"".''""; -1 1,0 very „a„„. „r |i|,..„j. „„„,;',, ' -..u,.,,a.,., n,HH,,.Mha. «„,.i„,,T»,:\,,;. ',,;:: h.-,,,orW,,i,,.Oiko,„,,,,,.ra,,,la,|,,|,,.,,'-% ," \Mni mill. . M,..,ii I i ^ jjjjjj """■'■ ■■■' '"'» -iisiou» vi,.,v.s „,!,„' :' , ; ;: p-.-. ... ..,y i,„„M.. or ,„ ,„j- i.i„„j ,.. ,,;• ■ II •" "■: ■• l-'lisious lib..,.,y i, r,.K. ..„,,, ,„' 1 ",.|...s„.. ,.»„ b. oarri..,! i,„„ ..,i;...,\vi,|„„„ , " I H.„.sia„.,s,„, .,f ,.v,.,-y i;„,„. I,,,,. „,„, „„, ,„.^.„,. ;,^ ; M,.- . ,» a,. .M-s„.,„ ; 1 .h,.„..„,„.l„..,„,„,, „,,„.„, ■; .-jst..,n ,s ,„„.„ ,„ |,e, „„. „,}„.,„.. ..r 1„, ,„„. || ,., -™.||o,,i,„, ,,,.,,, „f ,,,,,,, ^,,,,,,,,^^^_,;-^^^^ •■I "a against ail who would „ol lall i,„„ ],„„ J>^t ,m. «,y hen., that our „„lv salva(i„„ is i„ sln,,,l- '"S l.nnly by ,ho ,.ivil law. I, the ,„,.,„l„.;: :n",'. -t-T ^^ab. 9 llalil-.x S.houl |;,);ir(l ar." h.T.> I(.-iiiirlit, 1 would iinplon! 'li'Mii to St 111(1 lirmly by th.' .ivil pow.-r. If you want y(.ur riiy to n'Miaiii th.' Ik.iii.- of fr.'.'doiii, vou nuist not aw \our city, who careN for you ouly in so far as li'' may iiidur.- you to iriv,. him your du.ats. and who lo\.s yr.u with so t.'iuh'r a lovf that, tht" moans p.-rmit- tii!-, hr Would most sptH'dily and tdloctually burn vou at th." stak.'! Iletwo.-n th.' " l^pis.-opal Corporation. " with its h.'ad.juart.'rs in liom.', and th« ;r„od ,,1,1 Aii-lo- Sa\,.ii lil„'rty of Halifax. I niak.' my ,-hoif.' in a inoinHnt. 1 i.ik." liberty, now and forever! With the iiis.itution tlial tells me. to my te.'th, lliat honest free thoui^ht is a '■i-,iiie, like th.-lt, adultery or murder; that it oui^ht to b«^ punished lik.' su.h crimes, and that, if it had the power, it /'v.///./pi-nish it; I say. with su.h institution I want iiothin-r to do. I can sit down in the spirit of brotherly love by the side of any man or institution that is will- in-' to observ." with me th,' Gold.'ii K'ule, and show a willm.jn.'ss to grant me the same charity that it asks for Us, -If; but when an institution wont anT.'e not to meddle with me, if 1 will airr,.,- not to meddle with it ; when it -om.'s alt.M- m.' like a wild beast, to tear m.' to pi,',-es unl.'ss 1 will <.•„ its way and do its biddini.-, th.'r,' is iK'thino- for nu' to do. if 1 have any manhood, but t.) •i"''l;nv wiir an-ainst that institution, and lii-ht it to the bitter ,■11(1, 1,'t the result be what it may 111 Comiim' now to the .'oiisideration of th.' School ■<,>ucsii,Hi, proper, I lay down t he followino- propositions, which I beli.'v,- to 1),' sound: T/ir rhihircn „f thr S/>,/r ^hnithl br ,'.h,r„tnl hfl Ihr >--V.VVK : (U. I lilt; f' tliat it will h t'y MOM MIO '"Wealth to fe,.| that iMipossil,),. f,,r ,1 part of the State, partizan and non-sectarian. w y rnenilter of the C is so clear, and so '■oMir ha-s been . that E,l„catio„ »l,„„l,| a ...u. that I wu„l,| „,e the ,v,„,l t„. ,i., , v ' , h'"" that education shnni I i > '^ ^" ^ "^^y' "^''^n, a» n,ea„i„ . "' , 'T r;"'"'; "■^",' ' «"-''' '« "'uler.sc,„„, »houl,l b, t„ « an " ' "' ""'' »"" "'■ "''■<^"""" '^■in«oft,x.i:;'r;: '""■'- -'•-'■« p-,- au-^nTe'cS-i;;,":'"^- '"-■-:■ ■^■"" """ '"^ ■'■■'"^- ' an,l its ™le I u °e, i, „77 °'''r"" °'' "'"■ "^ '^"»""-. ».|ual„,.a„, i,, 'i,'\ "■ '"',""'" '"■- '■■■'"" i^-noranoe an,l the future.' ' ''"'^'"■'' ^^^^-^^'tm^r it ]„ inp;;sn!:u'::;ti:::i'-''''^''''''^'r- ^^-^ ^ --i'' -y, pre one ^j " '"^" ^ ''"^"^^ '^ very y/o..vV./../ business ;t Pesenc. Let ,.o ,ne you a few fa^ts, drawn f.oui .Hicial 11 ti^'ureH. Take the city ot" Rome, the head and centre of tlie Church, tlie very heart of the great Episcopal Corporation, where, if any where, one might expect to Hnd the cleanest record — take Rome, I say, and compare it with other European capitals as regards crime. For every 100 legitimate hirths, there are illoijitimate, in London, 4 ; in Brussels, 9 ; in Paris 4S ; in Rome, 14.'}. In the year IcSTO there were born in Rome 4,.37cS children, and 3,1(53 of these were horn out of wedlock I The statistics corresponding 1 3 the latter years of the Ponti- fical rule show that there was committed one murder in England for every 1S Baptists S2 Church of England 2>S4 R(iman Catholic 743 Take tilt! combined crimes of all the Sects, aniountinir to .'i35 an ! nd.l to tlieni the crimes of the 100 Sinners who professed no rc.igion, giving a total of G3.j, and Holy Church still leads -*'9-m *»*'iiim. fl 12 them all I.ylOsl.lack marks: Holy Church Mitl the population of the city furni.! half of the Sinners in the city But to return from this d le avowed aim „f the Church > a third of es considerably more than tl isj,'ression. I was saviiior that for the world to co(i)e; w hi! IS to make saints and le it should he the onl education to make good n.en and women for th anoej.s, f now IS U ly aim o e world that stronir. \V and independent. VV his tor yrand e want to teach the children how to l.e well e want to teach them how to he self-snpporti and ni' y, science, art. W e want to instruct them in the truths of er .science, a still nohl e want to teach them, furth womanhood, the art of aetti er art, the science of de,?radincr their truth and 1 nfr through the er, a still manhood and wori( lonor. And when we 1 witl lOUt f]-,„. , I , -""" vvuen We lave i onp ton ue need is the education that will ludn „• « i not l,:.- i„„ „.l ' '" "lornin^.. ,„■ tliere may a, tins ,,a.>.„t l,fc ,.„,, wi.at wo „„„t ,„ ,|., ,„„. ^ ' ;'^: tDeie ]., nr ;s not, Hiivrliinr l,ev,,nd Tl • ,■ :;;t:::;:::;:;::-:r;;;,:;:ir;s: i them since their death (..1 i ., , "^ ^'"•" '' ''^^^ h'-'l for 13 schools literally ruin tbu human mind. They take the vouii" child, when it is wax to receive and inarljle t() retain, inoculate it with certain ideas, and presently the child is a slave, with no more mind, in the true sense of the word, than a post The dawuin^f reason in the little one's soid is stamped out so soon as it makes the first appearance, and the pupil i.s taught not to think, but simply to listen and repeat. The Chinese woman's foot is nut a foot — it is a caricature of a foot : and the mind that is turned out by the purely Parochial School is not a mind, but simply a caricature of a mind. The child, under right conditions, miofht become a thinker and reasoner ; but under priestly control it remains to its dying day, a parrot Not only so, but the younfj mind, under parochial tutelage, is poisoned and corrupted. Let me explain myself. In the first place, then, the Church is the sworn enemy of free in^estioa- tion. She will permit no questions to be put to her. Her wonl to her children is, " Listen, and be silent." And while they are listening, her teachers fill them full of the truth that is half a lie. She gives them garbled History, garbled Science, garbled Morality. They must know things, not as they are, hut as they have been colored and distorted by the priests. The Vicars of Cod have never yet he.sitdted to lie whenever it was necessary for them to do so. Everybody who knows anything at all of the initial conflict between the Church and the Reformers is acquainted with that accursed word Casuisthv. And what was Casuistry ? It was, in plain language, a deliberately planned and highly elaborated science of lying. As Sir Henry Maine put it, " they went on with their dex'terous refinements till they ended in so attenuatino- the moral features of actions, and so belying the moral instincts of our being, that at length the conscience of mankind rose suddenly in revolt against them, ami consigned to one common ruin the system and its doctors." The blow was struck by Blaise Pascal, in the celebrated " Provincial Letters." Cood Catholic as he was, Pascal could not endure such depravity and like a mighty David, he slung at it the stone that killed it. But no, lam wrong, he did not kill it; it came to life again ; and its spikit exists to-dav ik every Parochial School in the laxd; which spirit, unless its infiuence is in some way counteracted, will poison the children's minds u beyon.l all hofx- of re.Iemption. Truth, in or.ler to be truth mi.t be son-sectanan. The minute a man set. out to preach or teach a Sectarian truth, that min.te he begins to pucker i mouth tor a he When the priests of Mas^achuseL a f " years ago, ra.se-l a storm against a certain public .school book because ,t conta.ne.I a full account of ol,l Tetzel and ht Indulgences .t .,howe.l, plainly enough, that the priests did not nan the book to Ml the truth. In other words they want d the , ,, eell the children a falsehood. Thus' yol ly I ^^hat I mean by .saymg that the Church teacher^ poison and corrupt t e .nind. They will do it every tin.e unle' y a" prevented by better influences. ^ No wonder, then that about every CathoUc country but one has declared against the Parochial Education. Even the poor old repubhcs of South An.erica, Ecuador alone e.xcepted have estabhshed the Public School System, and have, a most o :7"^",!7r' V"*^^^ '■" "P°" ^^^— -»J« a chid Clth h"7 f f "' , ''"''' ''P^'"' ^"^^'- -^' the other CaU.he^lands have also, of late, repudiated the priestly ilhte acy m .sixteen nations, eight of them, until of late hav.ng been under Priestly training, and eight under the free "on-sectar,an Public School Systen. T^e percenta J of illiteracy, then, is as follows : ° Venezuela Austria-Hungary .....'.* 09 France _ P)razil \ ^^ Spain '^* Portugal ^^ Belgium ;;;; ^2 it«'y :::::::::: tl ^o^v for the ,>ther eight nations to complete the pictures- > ictoria !^ Sweden ^^^ Switzerland . '^^ Netherlands '.'.'.'.['.'.'. ia-o Germany _ -^'^^ J)enniark f^ Great Britain '.[ ,,;^,. ^-'-' states :::::::::::::::::":4^ 15 Thf average petcentatfe of illiteracy in tlie one group is nOMl, or over lialf the population ; while in the other it is hut a little over 4 per cent. In other words, the illiteracy of the first group is over 14 times that of the second '. The most stunning demonstration of the hoUowness of the ].rit-.tly education is afforded in a hit of information fioui the hooks of the State of Massachusetts. In that State, in the \car LS75, there; were 100,000 people who were illiterate. Xinitij-ft)ui' t]un\^Aiu\ of them were foreiyn horn, and .-iixt"- seven t/iuumind uf thevi came from Ireland ! Poor old priest- ridden Ireland '. What a rec(jrd that is to be set down a' « "..,ar, or may whittle through it ; the r^/nl ' ■^'r^;'^"''* ^^^^ : the wind . a^'ain.stall Congresses and PaHi! " '"'' ''^"■■'' "^"'-^''^ Kings. And ^hlll I think ess ""'^' ^'^ ^^^'^''^-^'^ «-' Wbiiel say. even to ^ ^^'Z^^tT'' "'^ '''' '^'^ ^ across n,y threshold," shall I s„Ln i ^ "^^ ^hy foot priest anu permit him to do w th it' T,'"'' T' '"""'•>' '^^'^-V nn-serable thought from ,ne % '' '^*^ f ^«'^^« ^ ^ar he the down fron. his tripod, deliver up STT ''' """''' ^^ ^^'^P 30.'. I never played a ^anj oTT, '^"' """'^ '^^^ t^elieve there is a pokef te'm kn " '"^ ^^^^ ^ ''"^ ^ whatisbluffin,.^ VVellTt s " T'' T " ^^'"^'"fe'" And P'a3ingforbig;stakes nd ; ::trf "'^ ?'"' ^''^" «- «nd you are gone, unl s.s you an 1« .t '"'^'''^ P^'"'' '-'"^ So, notwithstanding your'lrbircL^^^ '''-'' '^«- »'et b,g, as though you had a crack ha,! l^^" ''' "'^ '^"•' afraid to come to time and th. Tl- ' '''' "^ '^'"'^ '^'^ excommunication at yol he ."IplVu^l?"?'^ hurls his •nake you believe that he holds fouV' T J " ^'■^''"^ ^'' b-n't as much a.sa pair of de ces hIi, " '" "^''^•^' ''^ season and he will cave in Hold vn ■''""' ^'■°""^' ^'^'' ^ up for the State against the c" eh' fo: T""''' ^'^"^ ''^^"" c. aft, and for liberty against all the wor^"^^" ^=^'"^^ ^"^^