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Show PROTESTANT TESTIMONY. The latest testimony to the need of associating moral teaching with the education of children was given tho other day in Boston at a meeting held J under the auspices of Harvard Teachers' Teach-ers' association. .The subject for discussion dis-cussion was "Training for Citizenship." One of the sneakers. Mr. Munroe of Boston, referring to the most essential element in the training for good citizenship, citi-zenship, said: " "Moral education must be given more attention in the public schools. The primary pri-mary purpose of Christian education used to be morality, and it still is with the Roman Catholic church. Whatever criticism may be made of its methods, its teaching is supremely moral, 'and as the moral is the supreme aim in life, that element should be made more of in our systems." We have here an exposition of the Catholic view of education. If the moral is the supreme aim in life, surely that fact should be . impressed upon the young at an age when their minds are most impresionable. The Catholic church insists upon this, and in doing so she becomes the most effective agent for the promotion of the welfare of society. A Godless education, which naturally leaves the impression that the highest j good consists in the possession of the ! means of gratifying mere animal de- j sires, will never produce the highest type of manhood and womanhood. This i so self-evident tht there is no need of going into any argument to prove it. The Catholic church, in her supremo wisdom, knows that the elimination of morality from our system of education will leave the latter like Dead Sea fruit. Thinking Protestants are at one with the Catholic church in this matter; they see and appreciate the danger that is inseparably associated with the sort of training children receive in our public-schools. public-schools. Freeman's Journal. |