->^ IMAGE EVALUATION TEST TARGET (MI-S) /. 1.0 I.I K4iM 112.5 12.2 ^ 1^ 12.0 1.8 1.25 1.4 1 1.6 „ f^n ^ vi % > ^ >P4 "W '/ Photographic Sciences Corporation 23 WEST MAIN STRt-ET WEBSTER, N.Y. USBO (716) 972-4503 % CIHM/ICMH Microfiche Series. CIHIVI/ICIVIH Collection de microfiches. Canadian Institute for Historical Microreproductions / Institut Canadian de microreproductions historiques \ #> O V ■*^ Tachnical and Bibliographic Notas/Notas tachniquas at bibliographiq uaa Tha Instituta hes attamptad to obtain tha bast original copy availabia for filming. Faaturas of this copy which may ba bibliographically uniqua. which may altar any of tha imagas in tha raproduction, or which may significantly changa tha usual mathod of filming, ara chackad balow. r~7| Colourad covars/ QZJ Couvarture da coulaur rn Covars damagad/ Couvartura andommagte Covars rastorad and/or laminatad/ Couvartura rastaurte a f A LECTURE -ON- "^^ 1 % DELIVERED BY THE REV. JAMES QUINN, P. P. -ON- Sa.iiit I^ati'iclc's Eve, 1JS51T6, -IN THE— CATHOLIC SCHOOL HOUSE, ST. STEPHEN, N. B. ST. STEPHEN, N. B.: Printed at the JouBNAii Office. 18 7 6. <*.m , tr,nnmv^mv ■> jwp .".i^- ._,. .-.^f ,-,^.», < .M _,_, I , ,^ M i |||p r T 1 WT. r»ATRICIi»» I>A.Y LECTURE ON EDUCATION. The following lecluro was delivered by the Rev, James Quinn, P, P., in the Catholie School House, St. Stephen, N. B,, at an entertainment given by the officers of the St. Stephen Catholic Temperance Society on St. Patrick's Eve. The Rev. gentleman having been introduced by the President of the society in a few appropriate remarks, commenced by saying: Lndies and gentlemen, it affords me gnmt pleasure to see you assembled here so numerously this evening and enjoying yourselves so pleasantly. I*or all this we are indebted to the officers of the Temperance Socioty, and to them I am especially indebted for the opportunity af- forded me this evening of addressing you, and which I mean to do on the important subject of Education. Be- fore I enter on that much vexed and agitated subject I must observe, that, exclusive of the recollections of St. Patrick, the great apostle of Ireland, and his zealous labors, the old country, the old faith and the unalterable love of our ancestors for all them, and their unalterable attachment to them through all the remarkable ph.Hses of their histor}', our meeting here this evening and every other evening in this beautiful building:, and rendered more beautiful by the generosity of my valued friend Mr. Hugh Culh'nen, gives rise to feelings and thoughts which must be the source of real pleasure to us, 5is a paiish and a community. I saw it som«'where remarked that when- ever the Spaniards found a colony the first thing they do is to build a church ; the French, when they found one. build a theatro ; the Dulch, a store ; and the English, a public or ale house ; but see what wo Irish have done here in St. Stephen, as soon as wo were able, and how cfciditable it is to us ; we raiKsed an institution which we can and do use as a church, a temperance hall, and a school-house, where every virtue can be learned, and every knowledge acquired requisite to promote our tem- poral happiness lo the highest degree , and learn too, how to acquire that which is of intinitely errciiter importance the salvation of our immortal souls. Our school is kept here, and the school it not kept in the church should be alwa\s under her shadow. It is the hand made, through which she can best fulfil her mission here on earth, and hence the present learned Archbishop of Baltimore says thai the clergyman and Parish have little comfort wliere they do notonjoy a school, and thsit the Parish does not deserve the nanie that does not possess one; and he might well add, as he well believes, that the school does nordeserve the name, if religion is not taught in it, and tauglit more frequently and more carefully than any other branch of secular learning, no matter how import- ant and eflFectual to gain worldly advantages. The grea\ evil of the day is that governments, board? of education, trustees, and many parents themselves separate Religion from Education, they sa^ religion is one thing and edu- cation anoth*^-, education, they say, is instruction and secular, and government through their officials have the right to manage it in all its departments. Now this id" totally erroneous, and whilst such a belief and opinion as this is the cause of all the contention and strife through- out society, and States, Provinces, and communities the following'out of this opinion, and carrying of it into op- eration; that is the bringing up of youth without religion in the schools is the cause of the moral ruin and degra- dation which we perceive in governments and commun- ities all aroujid us. Ft)r what do we see all around us? In tjie most tiour- isliing and oldest capitals in the old and new world, teeming v .tU literary institutions, down through towns and villages to the most humble village hamlets, pos- sessing their schools, we find the scions of aristocracy, presidents, prmces, staU^smen, merchants, mechanics, and peasants revelling in the most gross immorality, com- mitting murders, bribery, homicides, swindling aduUer- V "•i- «MlS^^HI ifs. and tli.it with »\vih open simmelnssnoss as to make onn w»fep for tlh; univer.s.il dt^pnivity of linnian natiiro wliieh cojiliniu'S its IkmuIU'ss coui-ho without lot or Ijin- drajKMi. And th