PROTESTS AGAINST THE GODLESS SCHOOLS.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXI, Issue 49, 6 April 1894, Page 6

PROTESTS AGAINST THE GODLESS SCHOOLS.

A noble protest has been made by the Flemish people against the godless i schoolp, inaugurated for proselytising the youth, by the so. called liberal party. No, no, they declare, the Free masons will never get possession of the pure souls of the children whom God has given us, while a single Flammand remains in Flanders ; no, they will never get possession of them while God looks down from heaven upon us and our homea, and while a aingle penny remains in oar purees with which to procure their moral instruction. tho Ch e n S°t i 8 thß , batt ! efield ; the devil i 9to wrest from the Church he souls of our innocent children. We Flemish Catholics, will never tolerate such hi^h-handed oppression • the same blood now runs iv our veins that was, long since, shed by those ancestors who gave their lives for tbe faith. We do not want to see Flanders turned into a den of wild beasts ; what we desire is, that, faithful to God and His Church our children be not poisoned with the morals of socialist* and communists ; not forged into nails with which to fasten the lida of our coffins. We will perish, if it be necessary, but we will never consent to leave the faitn. With our last breath, and with one foot in the grave, we will not cease to cry out ; our children will never go to a school m which the cross will not shine in the place of honour Oar children were not born to be buried in tbe ditch like dogs. Well said, descendants of Flemish heroes 1

Collect all your strength to resist the threatening danger # From Madrid, says the Revista Catholica, we have received asW signed by Fray Jean de Miguel Montero. It begins, by declaring that the education and religious instruction of the children is tha moat important subject for Catholics to consider; it supersede* all others that can engage the attention of those who deaireto digoifv it to elevate it, but it is most diehooourabls and debasing in the* who prostitute it to corrupt the minds of innocent children and io sow the seeds of vice and irreligion in the hearts of the youth entrusted to tb.ir care. It is a matter of snch overwbeX importance that it is a duty to call the attention of all interested especially the ecclesiastical authorities, and of tht healthy and w«H instrncted Catholic journals, those whose principal aim is tortLtS moral standard among the people, and to baoish from Catholic homes and institutions of learning many o f tht books used 'for elementary instruction, and especially thosa books and paper* that are destined to corrupt the morals of youth and destroy civil society It then invites attention to a publishing house in Madrid, known as Trad.cion Immaculada, directed by a Mason, named Calleja, who Sine aBOai ° Bheetß> * ]0V Pri ' CP ' mied WUh the moßt P««fci°u» This Calleja ba« published some of the most disgraceful statements with which he mmd of the young have been secretly poisoned Thit, is the plan of .be Freemasons, tbey use every mean, available to corrupt tbe youth in order to destroy the Church and to Zoot society the school, the Press, the workshop, even the pulpit. JtSmt can gain the adults, tbe parents in tbe community, so much the more arethey .atisfied but tbey are d.termited, cost what it may , o u hech.ldren. Banish religion from theschooli, is the watchword tis the battle cry of Satan. They make the youth' M thaU^m,' Patriotism, education are to be placed above religion, above vi,W above God ; « days in tbe week for the State, get re igion and ,he th D :^ JJ 6f6 f n d ° D tb6 BeVeDth d&y > if yoa c * n ' tne'Masons and the socialists will rejoice if you are not successful.