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Show ERIN GO BRAGH. i - v : i Michael Davltt Discusses the Irish Parliament and What It Will Accomplish. Parnell Can't Come to Chicago, So the League Convention Is Postponed. Shades of Emmett ! The London ''Times" Suggests Martial Law to Settle Ireland. The Pope on Education. Baltimoee, December 23, A copy of the letter sent by the Pope to the Roman Catholic Catho-lic hierarchy of England has just been received re-ceived in Baltimore by Archbishop Gibbons, primate of the church in America,. The subject of the letter is Christian education. It has been translated, and will be published in full in to-morrow's Catholic Mirror. The Holy Father commends the great vigilance of the clergy in looking after the Christian education of the children of England. He encourages and praises them, and assures them of his special commendation and good will in the prosecution of their meritorious work. The laity also come in for their share of the Pope's commendation for their readiness readi-ness to supply what is needed for the maintenance main-tenance of schools not only the' wealthy contributors, but those who are of slender means and poor. The Pope then continues: "In these days and in the present condition of the world, when the tender age of childhood child-hood is tempted on every side by so many and various dangers, hardly anything can be imagined more fitting than a union with literary instruction of sound teaching in faith and morals. For this reason we have more than once said that we STBOXGLT ATPBOVED OF .THE VOLUSTAEY SCHOOLS Which by the work and liberality of private individuals have beenfestablished in America and elsewhere. "We desire their number increased in-creased as much as possible. We, ourselves, seeing the condition of . things in this city, continue with the greatest effort and at great cost to provide an advance of such schools for the children of Borne, for it is with and by these schools that the Catholio faith, our greatest and best inheritance, is preserved whole and entire. In these schools the duty of parents is respected, and what is most needed, especially in the prevailing license of opinion and of action. It is by these schools that . GOOD CITIZENS ABE BROUGHT UP For the State, for there is no better citizen than the man who has believed and practiced the Christian faith from his childhood. The future condition of the State depends upon the early training of the children. The wisdom of our forefathers and the very foundations of the State are ruined by the destructive error of those who would have children brought up without religious education. educa-tion. You see, therefore, venerable brethren, with what earnest forethought parents must beware of intrusting their children to schools in which they cannot receive religious teachings." |
