“MONSTERS IN SOCIETY."

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 20, 22 January 1913, Page 7

“MONSTERS IN SOCIETY."

FOUNDERS OF SECULAR EDUCATION.

ENEMIES TO THE RACE

In the course of an address at North Sydney on Sunday afternoon, sth inst, Archbishop Kelly said there were many of their fellow-citizens in Australia who represented the French Revolution, and who said that education is to he secular, compulsory,,and free. In itself, this was an anti-cleri-cal programme, and its spirit was derived from the principles which led to the French Revolution. Ripples of that i spirit went through the world, and ! the people became restless. Taking I Australians to be a sensible people, ! they would realise that secular edui cation was incomplete and faulty in its incompleteness, having regard to a man’s full educational requirements. Without a knowledge of God, and without absolute fear of God, there was no wisdom in man. Ho was befooled by his own imagination, and led astray by his own desires. Therefore, there was absolute need for a sound and complete education and secular education was neither one nor the other.

Dealing with the compulsory aspect of education, the Archbishop said: “Make your schools complete, and you will not have to compel any child that is not a criminal—(hear, hear) —to go to school.” And then as to free education, ho proceeded to say: “Free! Why, they would put their hands in other people’s pockets to the extent of millions of pounds. This may he considered an extravagant statement, hut it is true. I look upon the founders of our sectarian education as the greatest monsters in society, and they are the greatest enemies to the welfare of our race and nation.”