THE WORK OF CATHOLIC SCHOOLS.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XVI, Issue 17, 17 August 1888, Page 29

THE WORK OF CATHOLIC SCHOOLS.

At a recent examination for a West Point cadetship held in M«nchester, N.H., Catholic pupils from the Christian Brothers' schools in the city obtained first, second, and third places. Among the competitor* were pupils of the public High School and students from Bowdoia and Dartmouth colleges. Of the three judges one was a Catholic— the Hon. John M. Mitchell, of Concord ; the others were ProtesUnta —Prof. E. C, Goodwin, principal of the High School, and Hon. J. O. Dearborn, postmaster. And yet even in that city, as elsewhere, Catholic parents are found who insist on sending their children to the public schools to obtain a " higher education ! " The foregoing event is not related as something of unusual occurrence. Similar instances might be published as happening week after week under like circumstances. It is well, however, that such occurrences should be referred to from time to time, in order if possible, to impress upon the minds of parents the flimsy nature of the pretext under which they seek to justify their action in removing the children with whom God has blessed them from all the religious influence at a time when it is particularly needed. They can no longer urge the excuse that they wish to secure for their children a proper amount of secular knowledge to fit them for competition with their fellowmen in the struggle of life. Pacts such as the above— and countless others might be cited — show that not only should the training of the mind and of the heart go together in the work of education, but the happiest results, even from a material poiot of view, are obtained when the youthful soul is thus trained and developed.— Avti Maria.