AMERICAN SCHOOLS.
We do not expect by secularising the schools to avert the hostility of the Catholic, hierarchy, who are determined, like some Protestants, to be satisfied with nothing short of complete control in educational affairs. But, notwithstanding their active opposition, there ia still a vast multitude of Catholic children in our schools, kept there sometimes under protest. There is a vast body* of the Catholio laifcy, who are so far Americanised that the denunciations of the priests, who are mostly of foreign birth, would have little influence over them, except for the allegation that the schools are under Protestant control, and used for the purpose of alienating Catholic children from the faith. We wish to take this argument out of the mouths of the priests, and to let American Catholics see that they can send their children to the schools without exposing them to immoral influences on the one hand or to Protestant teaching on the other. Placing the schools on this ground of equal and exact justice, we ."shall have a right to appeal to every class of citizens to support them. — Christian Union.
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Otago Witness, Issue 1244, 2 October 1875, Page 4
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186AMERICAN SCHOOLS. Otago Witness, Issue 1244, 2 October 1875, Page 4
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