Show amui I 1 day topics L bat WEEK ONE OF tilt THE canadian provinces took a vigorous action against in 10 the public p u b 1 ic school 8 1 question 4 n they decided ebat lue vi trie hey e t d e d ta that ia the je requiring n g public e scho school U all the ilia children of the tile province between certain ages applied niah ith equal arce to I 1 the he catholics and that catholic schools would not be recognized as an a part of the public school system families belonging to the tile CAl catholic holiC church neto thus compelled comP eDed by bylaw law to place their children during doring certain perils perida of the tile year under r the ue lage and direct influence of protestant teachers simultaneously the stae stale of wisconsin bad under consideration the tile same difficult dilli cult problem it is interesting to note the contrast between the final decision of the latter and rha file tyrannical measures adopted by our semi british neighbor of the north S some ina of the lie school teachers of edgerton were in the habit of reading the bible to their pupils the catholics entered an objection because the tile king james translation was used and it contained passages repugnant to the roman church tue case was tried in the lower coulta and the tile Ca catholics thAles were beaten the case WAS immediately carried before belore the supreme court and that body declared the reading of the bible in c schools anco unco dional the courtin co rendering its decision eaid said in substance that in considering si the tile question whether such leading of the biblo bible in the public echolls is sectarian instruction prohibited in public schools by the tile constitution slit ution the book will ba regarded as a whole because the whole bible v without exception hasteen has been designated a as a textbook text book for use in the edgerton schools and the claim of the school bard b ard is that the whole contents thereof may lawfully be so read this tills being so it is quite immaterial it if alie ahe portions thereof set out in the return as the only portions thus far rad read r ad are not sectarian yet yel it should be observed that some of the portions part ions so read geem seem to inculcate the doctrine ol 01 the divinity of jesus christ and the tile punishment of the wicked after death doctrines are not accepted by some religious sects the court re fues to affirm or deny that the catholic church opposes the common Bc se bools the court further bays says that reading from the bible in the schools although without comment on the part of the teacher Is instruction and holds that the bible contains many doctrinal passages pass aea and that the general reading of it is i sectarian instruction it also holds that such textbooks text books as are founded on tho fundamental teaching of the bible or which may contain extracts there fir m may not be in the schools says the tile court some of lie the roost most valuable instruction a person c cm cin in receive may be derived from reading alone without any com comment mentor or exposition of the question therefore the question seems to narrow down to this Is the reading of the bible in the schools not merely of selected passives pasa pas igea siges but the whole of it sectarian instruction of the tile pupils in view of the facts already mentioned that the bible contains numerous doctrinal passages upon ulion some of which the tile peculiar creed of almost every religious sec sect is based and that such passages may reasonably be understood t i tile doctrines predicated upon them an affirmative answer to the thesues th eques question so ins able any pupil ot of ordinary intelligence who listens to the reading of doctrinal portions of tile bible will be more or less instructed ted thereby in the ilia doctrines of divinity of jesus christ the eternal punishment of the wicked ithe the authority of the priesthood the fit binding force of the efficacy of tile sacr sacraments and ma many any other conflicting sectarian doctrines the court further says that lie the place where the he bible should be read is a place of worship and that as the taxpayers are compelled to erect and to aupart support school houses and children are under the late lav law compelled to attend public or private schools the constitutional tut ional clans ca forbid t the he use of school SC hool houses as places of worship the decision of tile court wag was unan every decade brings forth an augmented amad led number of persons who are apparently born with a cynical de tire eire to prove that the morality of the world is retrograding for such the following passage from a sermon by tile liiv thomas chalmers Cli almers of san Franc iEca leco will be wholesome reading Is then the alleged progress program of the world in liberty lib eity love and truth the gradual rj dual subjugation of the ville violent ut and by tue gentle and disinterested blaso in humanity is the recognition of gods holy character and will but a dream and a delusion ofa of a few higher bigbe and purer hearts that reflect their own nobility upon a it cursed and brutal race instead of steady growth or upward and an assured in and truth is fis the motion of 0 the world and the ra race ca a bear ing from aide side to eulo side between the op ionita poles of error and truth good and evil if so then burely surely wo we have nothing ta to boast of and little to liopo bopa for it if to 0 o then the prayer and all ta the ID labor fog ingot of earnest christians its ID a du delusion lusion if 80 all the great agencies af of reform all the machinery of our chiv civilization to improve ini rove boriety BOCi ety is is but a glittering delusion if go so then this world orld with its eternal equilibrium or of wrong rong and right ra 1 g t ha ila and vice life and death e a ali I 1 is is un sits permanently fixed as the bright I 1 and dark crystals try stala in a kal palcido cido fco cobie el which aich shako it as foil you will ani and bring about whit bit cbs changes ng an you toil may of figures never given up one of its fixed elements such is Js a world orld that n needs e ed no aud I 1 fech a world rid has its own laws ita its bloom and d decay ecay and by longer or shorter cycles always returns to the name same point hopelessly hopel isaly unable to rise aboe above itself and eel get rid ct of a single evil or change the of its virtue our world ia is a progressive one and I 1 hold there is in no form of evil among us today to day but at some future era of history will bo be uprooted and razed the whole hole of liberty of 0 moral of human government of civili en of religion its la a steadily etCA dily I 1 progressing history all governed bs bi as to the plat cal recognition I 1 arid and incorporation into actual life of the divine principle go thea then to our houses and spheres F li ores of labor and 3 our struggle in latil lifo to all the burden and care ehst tb it comes u upon n you ou and ak aek with the tile simple fir faith h G goich will be done you yon will beautify your life you will conquer trial and anti overcome opposition I 1 1 1 apropos 0 of the tb e anti d doctrines oct rines ao no vigorously enunciated by tie the kev rev ChAlm chalmere erp a few t w voids words on truth speaking delivered livered d by bob ingersoll Inger eoll at the annual dinner ot of the new york press club will be bo amusing on 0 n this t h i s occasion colonel 0 1 0 n e 1 in g 11 iiri delivered d e hy e r e d a brilliant 1 i a n t eulogy e u on iho the art of lying stupidity eaid said ho be tan can tell a thing exactly aa as it ie is but it re quites brains to tell it as ft ought to be tol lie went to hear bear joseph jefferson oce ore time and after listening to caleb plum mars mers delightful lines told for the pur pose of making his girl happy he had really an idea ot of starting a society tor for tho the suppression of lie the truth rattling ka Ra tiling sing bis his hands and eyes upward in the most moot dramatic manner ho lie exclaimed after all gentlemen I 1 call upon you yon to witness hit ness that there is is nothing BO so weak eak and helpless as he lie truth she goes into the arena without willi out shield or spear but a good healthy lie clad in com complete armor sword sord and shield dees the business bus iners N not t w wishing to ba the mains of the great infidels going before the public c in in a falso false light we vie append another extract from the bame address which will grate less harshly upon the ears of I 1 ho lie optimistic reader one of tl tie e greatest grei test things in the world he eaid taid is to cultivate the imagination the man who nho murders lacks imagination lie ile does not see the dead body of hia his victim nor his cifes grief he lie does not see the funeral nor bear ha the clods falling on the coffin he probably does not pee see bis his own trial and execution but bill if he docs does lie ile probably rut r il 1 h I 0 o and consoles himself with the tile thought that his opponent it left alone will d die ie awn anyhow I 1 think I 1 am in a cwi tion t on to fairly judge of the press of the uliter states fates continued ingersoll not always having been on the popular fide side but I 1 take thia thin occasion to gay say I 1 have no reason to complain of the press of the united states I 1 haa has told many truths about me and anti it might have told things about me tha were not true we have had somewhat to say of the tile genius of one dr talmage A good man of fit st I 1 blaul tul has ban likewise like ise been pacing paying his ilia respects to this renowned professor of theology archbishop john ireland in a lenten sermon last week ob served that morals wit without tout dogmas have no meaning and those who are most earnest in in eliminating dygmas froni from the tile christian religion rt ligion simply contradict themselves A brooklyn preacher a few sundays ago emoke as follows A man who accepts christ is a christian lie need not believe in the eternal g aeration of the son lie need nut not believe in eternal punishment one passage of scripture is v wide aue enough to let in all men w lio ought to enter and to keep out all who ought to be kept out believe in in the lord jesus christ and thou shall be saved I 1 give this preacher ai as a sample of th the popular christian i leader eader lie g goes oes aa as far as he can has he got away from dogma he ile must ell tell me at once oce what it is to believe lel iee in christ I 1 am not a words will not suffice taice for or me A fool may vive out ou or orre receive such words I 1 will mill not re ceide them without deeming myself fa a fool too and I 1 will allow no 0 oe a to eive them out to me without deeming him im a s fool now how I 1 must be told what it is to believe in christ Is it to take him as a nun man thia this Is the tile preachers intention since lie says that the eternal generation of iha ilia son Is of no interest but here hero is a dogma ai as to the humanity of chrit t and a dogma that baa has the practical effect of ending my christain Clin stain religion for if christ is but a man I 1 would rather accept some one nearer to me in lime time if it christ as oher latitudinarian ministers will ill say is goi go I 1 have another dogma and a dogma which involves in several other dogmas as his relations to the father and the spirit after alluding to other points of the question sh shying shing ing there are dogmas wherever we turn and that tile christian religion is doctrinal primarily belonging to the intellect ct the archbishop concluded led it was christs intention that wo we believe all lie ile eaid said and still that in in order to believe a have sufficient evidence of hia ilia teachings and of their true meaning else we could no not t gi give ve to them a rational assent and lie could not have threatened punishment against unbelief the common mein ing of the doLt doctrines rines must be ascertain a able ble and it is our duty to ascertain it ahe the brooklyn preacher d does oes not care about the in aning ile harass sa s 1 I move fora for a creed for all denom denominations inatius made out of iture quota tima pure ard and simple each one giving to them his oa o own a n meaning this is is yonsente non senie pure and simple it men are so sita aed aled that they cannot know what christ meant it i 19 tho tile fault of their position not christ tor for as christ spoke for all ages lie ile must have left means by which the meaning of ilia words could be ascertained asi certaine d |