BISHOP MORAN'S SENTIMENTS.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 5188, 19 December 1884, Page 3

BISHOP MORAN'S SENTIMENTS.

DUNEDIN, Dec. 19. Archdeacon Thorpe, of Wellington, has accepted the temporary incumbency of St Matthew's. At Port Chalmers last night, a daughter of Mr Stewart, schoolmaster, Lower Harbour, fell into the fire, and was considerably burned. She is of weak intellect. Bishop Moran, presiding at the Christian Brothers., breakup to-day, said, "It strikes me, when we call to mind the scandalous exhibition witnessed in this City yesterday, you will thank God for the merciful dispensation which saves your children from being told by one minister of religion at a school exhibition that it is only a little blot in our godless education, and by another that all are proud of one man, who considers it his most important duty to make a weekly exhibition of his denial and contempt of Christianity. I thank' God that only two or three unfortunate Catholic children were there to hear men, calling themselves ministers of the religion of Christ, proclaim godlesß education an excellent system, and the unchristian and anti-Christian Chairman of the meeting held up for the admiration of the rising generation. Por years unfortunately it has been my lotto protest against the tyranny and injustice that excludes our schools from all participation in the education vote, to share which we, as taxpayers, are entitled, and to protest against the exclusion of our schools from all share in , scholarships provided by the public funds. I suppose I shall have to continue my jeremiads as long as I live. Although Catholics must pay for public education, Catholic schools are not permitted to compete with secular schools, lest what is little better than an expensive sham shall be exposed."