LORD GLASGOW ON RELIGIOUS EDUCATION.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XX, Issue 50, 30 September 1892, Page 29

LORD GLASGOW ON RELIGIOUS EDUCATION.

(Sydney Freeman* Journal.')

Thb new Governor of New Zealand, Lord Glasgow, hie not been slow in contributing to the general consensus of opinion aa to the supreme service to religious education in the»e parts of the Catholic Church. It seems to be, in the common phrase, one of the first things to strike the stranger, aod no wonder, for, go where he will, ou every side are monuments, from the palatial college to the humble school, of the Church's zeal for tbe education of her children. We need not remind our readers of tbe many eloquent tributes paid by suooessive Governors of this Colony to the excellent work of our Catholic schools and colleges, nor with what tolerance even in the case of our strongest opponents they have generally been received. In New Zealand, we egret to see, the spirit is somewhat different. The little speech by

Lord Olaogow at St Patrick's College, Wellington, which we print to. day, was not nearly as strong in expression as some reoent deliverances of Lord Jersey's, but it seems to have required, if be had only known it, much more courage. Here to be outspoken on such a subject needs, now-a-days, nooe, but in New ZeaUnd, it seems, the eduoation battle is still being waged pretty fiercely, at least on one side, for on his Excellency venturing to say that •• he was one of those who held the opinion that religious education should not be eliminated fiom the studies in schools," he was told by the so-called Liberal Press of that Colony that he ought to keep his opinion to himself. «When Lord Glasgow," says the paper, the Lyttleton Times, "■poke 10 strongly in favour of religious ednoation he must have known that he was encouraging the Boman Catholic portion of the community in the attitude of hostility it has assumed towards the BUM system of education." What a crime in the Governor of a Christian country, to encourage religion against irreligion, Christianity iutwd of infidelity I