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Show A GLOWING TESTIMONY. The New England Journal of Education recently recent-ly paid the following tribute to the energy of the Roman Catholic church in religiously instructing the young and incidentally it is a well-merited rebuke re-buke to that large class of people who contend against inculcating religious principles in the hearts of children. ''Thejc is one church which makes religion an essential in education, and that is the Catholic church, in which the mothers teach their faith to the infants at the breast in their lullaby songs, and whose brotherhoods and priests, sisterhoods - and nuns imprint their religion on souls as indelibly as the diamond marks the hardest glass. They ingrain in-grain their faith in human hearts when most plastic to the touch. Are they wrong, are they stupid, are they ignorant, that they found parish schools, convents, con-vents, colleges, in which religion is taught? Not if a man be worth more than a dog, or the human soul, with eternity for duration, is of more value than the span of animal existence for a day. If they are right, then we are wrong. If our Puritan fathers were wise, then we are foolish." |