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Dearly Beloved Brethren, — Among the many duties of our pastoral solicitude, we feel called on to address you on the all important subject of Catholic Education, which seems to attract just now, a large shai 3 of public attention in the dioceses committed to our care, Commiesioned by the Prince of Pastors to teach you all thi>:g8 whatsoever He has commanded, and fully alive to the account we shall huve to render for the perform- ance of that sacred duty, we are now constrained to point out to you the many perils wh'ch threaten the Faith of the rising Catholic generation in this country. Highly as we estimate the advantages of secular education, yet we prize infinitely more the inestimable hoc of early religious culture. The contrast between the two is the same as that between the body and the soul, between earth and Heaven, betweon the creature and God. To you, Catholic Fathers and Mothers, are these words of admonition now especially addressed. Notwithstanding all the specious theories advanced on the subject of Education in these modern times, it is the parents and not the State, who are answerable for the immortal souls of their children, and consequently for the mode and manner of their early training. To interfere with the performance of their dut} in this particular is a violation of all law, human and divine. The odious system of double taxation for the main- tenance of two sets of schools, is not a whit loss tyrannical than the tithe system in the old country, where our Catholic forefathers and Protestant Dissenters were forcibly taxed to support ft hoHtile Church and creed, while they had to tas I themselves a second time Tor the maintenaace of their own religion. As Catholics we form nearly one half of the population oi' the Dominion of Canada, and we have, therefore, an lUK.Iouuied lig'ht lo obtain in the Mnrilime Provinces, what the Catholic majority accorded long ago i,o ihe Proiestant minority of the Province of Quebec, and what the Protestant majority, after many years of agitation, finally conceded to the Catholic minority in ihe Province of Ontario. We ask no more, and no honest and unp-ejudioed man can blame us for slating that, in this country of equal rights, we will be content with nothing less. We see no leason why the Catholic minority in Ontario or the Protestant minority in Quebec should enjoy any legal privileges denied to us as citizens of the same Dominion. It is the undoubted right, as it is the dut>- of Catholic parents to provide above all things, for tlie Chris- tian education of their children. The child, not less thau the parent, must be taught first to reverence and then "to hear the Church," which is commissioned by God Himself "to teach all nations," a-id "to preac^h to every creature." That Church, th.-ough its supreme Oracle, our glorious Pius the Ninih, lias settled the question forever. "No Catholic," he says, " can approve of the system of edu- cating youth, unconnected with the Catholic Faith,— a system which regards the knowledge ot natural things as the great end of social life." The same authority, replying to the Archbishop of Freiburg, states: "There is no doubt that the greatest injury is inflitjted on so- ciety, when the directing authority and salutary power of the Chuich a"0 withdrawn from public and pi-ivate edu- cation, on which the happiness of the Clmrch and Common- wealth so much depends. Thus society is little by little deprived of the truly Christian spirit which alone can por- nninently secure the foundation of [»eai-e and ]>uhlic order, and dii'ect the true and usciul pi-ogress of civili.'.ation, and give man that assistance which hi necessary to attain after this Hie—- his last end in eternal liappinoss." The education whicii insti'ucis the mind and moulds the tender heart of youth, without Religion and its soul-daviug moral precepts, must produce, by and by, a generation hav- ing no oiber guide but i.s own wild passions and conceits, and ending in disaster. Su-h has invariably been the result wherever and whenever the sad experiment has !)een tried. In France, in Germany, or in the Uuiled States of America, the exclusion of religious teaching has been attended with the same lamentable consequences. II" so i.i the advanced schools and higher branches of edu- cation, how much stro')ger must be the argument in favor of religious training in our nrmary schools. If the '-liildren of the masses of ihe people do not leain there all thp.t pervains to faith, virtue and piety, and all .heir dul'.es lo God, to themselves, their parents, and society at large, that know- ledge can never be accjui-'ed elsewhere. Ill view oi' these all impor':ant and undeniable truths, Saint Peter has over and over spoken tb'-ough Pius the Ninth, and secured perfect unanimity on this grand point among the Catholic Bishops of the whole world. In lrelar)d, in England, in America, the Bishops of the Church in pastorals and synodical addresses, have, with one acco'vl, pronounced that education based on our holy religion alone is suitable for Catholic children. So far therefore, froai approving of so called mixed schools, where religion is, as it were, divorced from the school rooni, they have unanimously condemned them as being positively in- jurious to the best interests of Catholic youth. With this oonviotion, we feel that any interference of the State with the natural right of our Caiholic citizens in this country, would be a galling tyranny. When we are taxed directly or indire3tly for llir, maintenance of mixed schools, and are called on besides, as we are in conscience, to sup- port separate schools for our own children, as men of honor, in this i'voo land, we are bound to oppose such a system by every legitimate means in our power. After many years of painTul agitation, the principle first acknowledged by the Catholic majority in the Province of Quebec, was afterwards adopted in a more stiiited measure by the Protestant majority of Ontario. In Manitoba the right of separate schools has become the law of the land. And so lately as last May, the injustice of n^ot extending the same fair play to the Catholic minority of New Brunswick was proclaimed by an overwhelming ■ majority of the House of Commons at Ottawa, in these words;— "Resolved, That this House regrets that the School Act recently pas^^ed in New Brunswick, is unsatis- factory to a portion of the inliabitants of that Province, and hopes that it may be so modified durit)g the next session of the Legislature of New Brunswick, as 'to remove any just grounds of discontent." In these words a majority of the representatives of the Dominion have condemned the noto- riously unjust School law, j)ow in operation in New Bruns- wick, and by implication, tliat also i.i force in Prince Ed- ward's Island. As ministers of the God of peace, we proclaim to you, our dear people, as well as to our fellow citizens of other denominations, that we look for r.othing else, in this country, but that justice and fair play which "settled all difficulties and allayed all ill-feeling in Ontario and Quebec. We ask no more than this tardy act of justice in the Maritime Provinces, and we shall not be satisfied with less. To those who may take exception to our interference on this subject at the present moment and blame us for address- ing you as we now do, our answer is, in the words of the Holy Father, "they ask us, by our silence, to disobey the command of the Divine Author of the Church, and be false to the charge She has received from God, of guiding all men to salvation." The grace of Our Lord, Jesus Christ, be with you.— Amen. t Thomas Louis, Archbishop of Halifax. t Colin Francis, Bishop of Arichat. t John, Bishop of St. John. t Peter, Bishop of C'harlottetoivn, f James, Bishop of Chatham. t John, Bishop of l\topolis. Halifax, 25th Nov., 1878.