RELIGION IN SCHOOLS.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XV, Issue 2, 7 May 1886, Page 9

RELIGION IN SCHOOLS.

fc^S? \ grounds in favour of religious liberty maintain ' The strongest argument brought forward by those who attomnt Lw r^K rt KPK P - reßident EUot>B Potion is, tha y t the three S2 253? d . contem P° rai ;y o^B as a .olution of the whole dTfficuZ comment and the repetition of the Lord's praJer^^eJSSS? SSSSL- PWml> ° bJeCt beiDg allowe^ preserve °a resJecS d*J5!& n? n"il n ? eme u t ' c need gearc ely say, would not meet the As it is now, the atheist and the infidel practical^ dictate tho 6 Wh^ &re T d^^Soi ant called' SS&X fft^rni^ 6 BUPP ° rt ° f wt o?^h°L^ ra l- ty ' Bimply t0 edncate them in perceptions Not «o I Th"St ß f d conduct , whi^ are of universal application.'' ♦wS Jh ,T, T . D « Statere q ui resfar more of its citizens. We grant that if the statutes were obeyed by all or by a large maioritv of the Cit^ens, an ideal condition of affairs would obtainf But icluse the ? n V f CltlZ6 . nS Me not obedf ent to the dictates of truth and justice, because crime and sin and sefishness prevail everywhere the State must ook for its ultimate safety to the aid and 7nfluSse of religion. It is through the Church that we must seek the sDlendid ft the volunteers in tunes of pestilence, the moral police silently ml cr£Te. y preVentmg ' whlle the State at best can but punish, vice Catholics, at least, know that the good citizen must be first a so, and m succeedme: they will assmedly make also eood citiSnT The words of Leo XIII.'s Jubilee Encyclical, in regard SihedutS PaSSF 1 ' r6r 6 diSP , Uted by {h ™S h[ ™ mln of any creed extelknL of a^nn 1!1 !^ 0 * the P e °P le m akeit; just as the SffMt a h dJu s r e n h tT &*2^?^«%£F& V^SS^J^J^ "h? P Sh c