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monastery is planted, are subjected in the rainy season to an annually -recurring deluge that ploughs the surface with torrents which rush wildly as water down a house roof, SYSTEM. breaking away roads, undermining woods SECULAR SCHOOL and devastating the fields whereon scanty harvests arc reaped and stunted trees obtain precarious footing. The path to the monasWe take the following very beautiful retery itself is subject to disintegration and School the Secular on a lecture marks. from disaster it may be compared to the backSystem (America) by the Bishop of Vatibone of some antediluvian monster of rugged couvers' Island, B.C. vertebrte, with a bare skeleton of ribs outSecularists by raised This is the cry stretching oil either side. I,ct everybody. be at twine. God, Christ and Such were the waste places which the religion lllaStr remain within the Church and Benedictines loved to colonize-" places." everybody Yes. Let nut invade the school. to quote the words of the late Mr. Maitland, keep at home. But, tell me, where is the Tire COST Or WAR. chosen because they were waste and soliplace where God is nut at home ? Ile, the tary, and such as could be reclaimed only by is painfully indicate'] of war is present The cost by who eternal reward of the righteous and the Creator of heaven and earth, the following statistics, which show lion- the incessant labor of those who were willing everywhere, Ile is at hunk-, in the church eternal punishment of the wicked. Din sums's., you can tva.lt morality with - many lives were expended in the wars of the to work hard anti live hard." The present and in the selieca in your houses and in the in battle, or Superior points to plots barren within his they ma lest 23 years, 1852-77 are Out religion. want morality are you going to atreca Anti our children, 'the morality of the stoical Phimee dying id wounds and disease-Crimean 1Var, meloory now brought under cultivation ; Christians, chil,iren of Jesus Christ, washed lake e0r(o Italian War. (18:,O), leAsio ; war the vine eitint!es the rock, the cypress crowns and do they net pliers, eaciples or Zeno, who taught that front their sins in Ilk :did golden corn adds color to American the belting to Ilan, in all places and at all times ? suicide is lawful/ or the morality of the el eteileseig-1101stein, ',Woo Civil \Vara-the North, 2eu.000 the South, gray, shadowy landscape. So true are the Talk of toletati, us in this itge which does Monions; or that of the votaries of tree hive war between Prussia, words of M. Guizot, that " wherever the riot telt rate the usual of God written on the or that of l'iato, who says in his hook on e20,1100 -80t L(lla) expedi- Benedictines carried the cross they also car'Palk of liberality in Republics that we must kill deformed .1estria. and Italy in let;:;, 45.000 walls of the scheol our time elit t Jesus Christ is. most il- chiltlren or that of Aristotle. who main- tions to Mexico. Cochin China, Morocco, ried the plough ;" wherever they placed a liberally 1i:wished :sway from children's edu- tains that is lawful to butcher chives like 1';ragtag. aae. ee.otio Franco-German \Vat book they jetlitied a picture. Let us hope cation'. We do net emit to change school brute animals No, yoo say but the ]"a-0.7 i --Ftatle.`. ee,00ti Germany. Go.t sit) that the good which these men have done but we %Nana unien between morality of Christianity. But why not teach -21e,oite Turkish nth -."acres of Christian; may live after them, and that the only evil trio chute will be buried with their bones, elairell and eclaml, we oppose radical separa- Christ amity altogether? What sanction can in Bulgaria, Armenia. &c., 187e-77, 25.000 The subjoined figures you give to give to cluestian morality,- ii you total, 1,946,000. ti' n. wars weain emus the cost of the these ,]tows ? it: connection \Aid' Christian truths lt is grively asserted that the seculer edit- -aster me Me system leis leen the ;he main catoe Will you do like a certain teacher who en - interval :-I4O2-77-Crimean Wm', Mu Intl - WHAT GODLESS EDUCATION IIAS DONE of the pi fame gieatness of Prussia. and that deavored to inculcate self-respect into boys lion pounds Italian War of ISst), 1;u milFOR GERMANY. the vireo ie of Germany over trance ought :Lind girls that were corrupting each other 1 lions ; American Civil War-the North, t140 to e ii-coted to it. It is hard to o -e the Talk of le peel le chielron when they are ntiilions; the South, 4611 millions -1,400 Paris Univers makes the the A writer in millions Schleswig-Holstein War, seven n abeat to give themselves up to amuseinent ;Om i.e11t eett the education tif Austrian and Prussian War. 186G. following expose, which was translated for or so.iiety, 1)0110-11,elle-, :eel the Journal the Freeman's 13,1 millions ; expeditions to Mexico, Morocco, I'll; Ori ;;II " It is an axiom among Free-Thinkers that Par:a:may, &.e., (say only) 40 millions Fran-it I, ;Ir..; Ise ln.ell a ~real °Wald, 111, THE PAPAL. JUBILEE. education I. the only source of morality. It total, 2,-113 millions co-Prassian War, :dig 0.r5 a il:1:1.1-11 :11111 ci.1:11if IWO; Ina Ili' lle; :t The f01110Willg i the Addrees wide]] wee ratilitm peands. 'lite loss of life, it has been has been seised up to us in every shape. In),; t,::- a 11,.1; I. wit, rut Irish Caliolio lam :irked by the Economise is (spud to about crease the namber of schools, and you can preseiced on May :Atli Lr it mhait for a timment r. It was the school..L.14, cis l.); ra;',1,1.111ellt TO l'01;11 Pius 1.X., on 1,111' tee whoa, 111/11111:111011 of the whole shut up your prisons. ,ifly ov1.nuentipolitan area, and we may vaeuely master that triumphed at Sadowa and at the .liteate, of his ',pis:elate II, \V h.:, dr3( \tot lois Fat her.- lhe opt. sentativcs imagine wire weithi be the effect upon pro- Sedan. We must increase the education elite ts72.,,/tr (tI r.r; its. la 1,11,1 of n cailmac !oam, ctcr ILO et1 fur its duction laid enr1,11,1110:011 of absolutely de- budget so as to be able to cut down the budo,r, flileiba to the ace 01 S. Peter. desire to lay populating the wito:e of the west end north get of wet' and of justice. The more books :011 11: 11111111:11,1i11 Leal' of laitelon. The loss, of 2,113 tail- :teal papete-Fice-Thinking of course-are et the feet of pier BM Me,. successor of S. lil ,1 '1.1:11 11' Peter and supreme ruler on earth of the lioes sterling of erpital is equal to about read and circulated, the more our people yaill se imieete 11,101 of \ aiela or ten years' revenue of all the Govern - become mina'. In brief, religion is entirely Christ, of 'hutch of the expiession their' It ,11/,11, OP,.. and North America. But u;ele-s, when the advancement of virtue is intents of Weil tievielen. re piece and au 11,0 e. 'they otter their heartfelt a le ' lie revenue is flip: led in the payment in question. promo or -ion services and the of public lees oil ;'-ie Julalee of an Faii-co" Without being in principle opposed to , loe beisti hts; mid on the jeolongation trig les which are to a gar extent useful. education, and being, on the contrary, very '11,1,11 j, nietiey deeroyeei in much di -posed to encourage the excellent in;,,,, Iso lei lite day S of 'CLer of a supreme Pon - Tics 2.113 'I ems, e eluch. Iritsi by jereieutien and war haee ha at efatihtely annitiilated. fluence of Christian education, we have 1( eb,e1 suileringa is, glorious beyond Fui ther, the tm tresses, :Mips, artillery, ace. repeatedly protested against the thesis of the -1-t I- III 4'01 II eemep:e in the history Lit the Church-a destroyed by war have to be replaced by Free -Thinkers, and we have given ample \, Liken. over a series of years, front proof of its falsity. And now the XLXe Ir,,II 11,1 lellVe. 1110 oenefieme which has been a lengthened .1i ;estimony to the eternal principles of truth proda,live nalas.es. The saute remark ap- Steele comes to our assistance in a most marr,/,ii is/ and justice, oil which alone titperni the plies. Io the pensions and rewards granted to velous manner. We find in that paper a THE 1:,,SLNTIA1. PHINC111.L8 OF CHRISTI- freedom and happiness alike of individuals maimed and tlia",!ed soldier, and sailors. few rctnarks bearing, as they do, the signature of M. Sarcey, which are all the more and nations. That the life of your Holiness ANI l'Y, a-eighty and worthy of notice. may Le still feistier prolonged to see the to vat' how anti la and A BENEDICTINE MONASTERY. res;tamien of the successor of S. l'eter to the " We are discussing the state of morality they :tits compelled to full ficedom of his Apostolic ministry, and el Art. A writer in the Saturday Review says of in Germany. M. Sarcey quotes, accepting eil.er el' some of the chili:I-ea all the inalienable rights and privileges of emp!oy them as perfectly correct, certain passages shed Lc ceu,itmeti net to allow weal children the Apostolic Sc'', and to witness the triutnpli the famovs Itenetlictiiie Monastery of Monte from a German author, recently translated hJI,ce /tap hare 4ii (HI and justice, is the fervent prayer of Oliveto Mageiore to Wi 'LI ha\VII iroti you devoted children, who. for themselves This wealthy end picturesque monastery into French, by M. Tissot, and adds : that i tor 1714.cli /0d lit..j'hittiramithil " ' The evil has reached such a point daily ; Lie, , which nut -t c Nimcitc.1 1.ir 1.y end for Ireland their country, humbly en- was founded in the Pent centh century by a eubse. Doctor Johanness Schorr, protesting against doctor of 1,t,tor tmtt cci:iiicit(c..; treat. most Holy Father, your Apostolic Sienese noble and the taste for indulgence manifested by juries, ample emlowinents from quently it receit ed la-litasmiallaegetsi iaosiars Itenciiiet ion." the Piecolotnini and other fttmilic,, and it deems it his duty to point out to them, as a 'mike geed sehaoat Lively selmslinas'er shall was long looked up to reverently as the good and law-abiding Prussian, that there Le such that his condect may be loliewed as parent stock whence sprang mill Olivetan are people who are deterred by nothing, expattein, and that he may not destroy wi .1, monasteries, which, like that which over- cept the prison or the scaffold, and Ile his acts what he builds with his words. A LITTLE TALK TO BOYS. looks the banks of the Arno, we have found continues as follows : Teachers, more than others. Must hare true boys-on the I meet you everywhere, When " We must alienate all vain sentimentality usually planted on wooded eminences, rising piety and be possessed with 11w true knowledge boat, at in the cars, on the your own street, above valleys and plains, as the Mount of from the code. There is, however, an evoluArt. 24-In all matters my. Gm/ and ('/mist. pertaining io the school, teachers shall he homes, or at school-- I see a great many Olives commaink front a height the city of tion working in this regard. How can we gu it lett by the wirier and coua,el of 1/i' pastor. thing; in you to admire. You are earnest, Jerusalem. The other day, as the carriage refuse to accept it when the results presented wr explici, will lila( huill in you are merry, you are full of happy life, you toiled up perilous mountain paths, we not to us by Hansofer, in his report for 1872 1 Ali. town; and villages the ,chools be vkiiiql :Ind are quick at your lessons, you are patriotic, unnaturally recurred to the oft -repeated lie states that, notwithstanding the increase in the children ,ine.t Hued /,y the pt.'', twit e a you are brave, and you are ready to study question, Why did the monks of old choose public instruction, there is no improvement in out all the great and curious things in this for their dwelling these inaccessible and in- the moral status, but just tine contrary. There is eels, now in the morning and titer. in the wonderful world of ours. But very often 1 hospitable spots? Was it indeed that they is a constant increase of crimes, suicides and evening." tind one great thing lacking in you. You are thought to establish, as it were, a half -way corruption. The criminality of women is Such was, until s73, the l'russian system not quite gentlemanly enough. There arc so house Or was it that from increasing to an alarming extent, and the to Heaven of education. If, then, it is our iambition to many little actions which help to make a singleness of faith in the ascetic life. they number of infinnticides grows daily more anti follow Prussia in her stride; towards great- true gentleman, and which I do not see in sought through seclusion to cut themselves more. Finally, the increase of suicides is ness and glory, it is the religious and Cnris- you. Sometimes when your mother or sister, off from access to the lower world ? Or could growing daily, whilst the number of the ttart system of education we aught to intro- comes into the room where you are sitting in it be that the beauties of nature proved to be population appears rather to diminish. duce. the most comfortable chair, you do not jump precious as a solace and an aid-beauties "'The abuse of drink increases on a par mother," or" Sit anti say," Take this seat, up which here, as in other like sanctuaries, find with moral degradation ; Engel and Frantz NO MORALITY WITHOUT RELIGION. here, Annie," but you sit still and enjoy it response in the accumulated treasures of a attribute to this cause, and not without reaI know that there are certain exceptional yourself. Sometimes you push past your beauty-loving art? It is scarcely, unreason- son, the decrease of longevity in Prussia for persons who profess no religion and yet lead mother or sister, in the doorway from one able to suppose that the good old monks may the last few years. To other causes of dea moral life. But they are not the rule. But room to another, instead of stepping aside have been as divided in motive as modern moralization may be added prostitution. speaking of educatioen it is a rule without politely for them to pass first. Sometimes travellers in mind. Some may have turned Whilst, since 1858 to 18113, the population of exception that there is no morality without you say the " the governor," or " the boss," in with horror from the precipices down which Berlin only increased 20 per cent., prostitureligion. Abraham knew it when he said, speaking of your father ; and when he comes pilgrims are known to be pitched headlong, lions increased GO per cent. The diseases f Perhaps there is not the fear of God in this in at night you forget to say, "Good evening, while others will have rested fondly on the consequent to immortality have developed place and they will kill me for the sake of sir." Sometimes when mother has been shop- vision of the founder, who saw in a dream on themselves to an incredible extent. Finally, my wife." (Gen. xx. 11.) Do you see how ping and passes you on the corner, carrying the very site of this sky -soaring monastery, the number of divorces are on the increase, the scripture from the absence of the fear of a parcel, you do not step up and say, " Let a silver stairease reaching from earth to because every one wants to run after wealth God argues to the absence of morality ? The me carry that for you, mother ;" but keep on heaven. The scenery and the accompying and material pleasures, and to yield to the nature of man proclaims it. Since the fall playing with the other boys, Sometimes stratification of Monte Oliveto have excep- follies of ambition and money,' of our first parents, our passions are in rebel- when mother or sister is doing something for tional attractions for the artist and geologist. "This, then, is the pass to which the lion tigainst our reason our conscience get you, iy.ort call out, "Come hurry up I" just as In the midst of that light alluvial deposit " schoolmaster " has brought Germany. This if you of your boy comwere speaking to one the which gives the fertility as of our religion, of a is the true picture of " Protestant virtues." better miud, unless garden to the fear of God, and the habitual practice of panions. Sometimes when you are rushing the hills and valleys oh the Apenines are here This is how the level morality rises with the virtue aid us in subduing the wicked pas- out to play, and meet a lady friend of mother a thrust barren deposits of marl, aried as lava level of primary instruction. These aro the sions of our nature. The nature of the child just coming in at the door, you do not lift streams, which [cake inroads on vineyards results brought about by the Culturliampl: demonstrates it. There are three lives in your cap from your head, nor wait am:anent anti oranage groves. These clayey tracts, The clergy has been driven out of Germany, forming the, highest promontory whereon the and numberless vices have invaded thg land. man the vegetative life, common to us and till site has passed in. ;1

Such "little" things, do you say? Yea, to be sure ; but it is these very little acts-these

to plants ; the animal life. common to us and to animals ; and the spiritual life, common to us and to spirits. The vegetative life, in the child precedes the other two lives. A child is first like a plant-it feeds, grows, but neither moves, hears, nor sees then its animal life begins to develop, it sees, hears, moves and walks, and at the age of six or seven the light of reason dawns upon its mind and begins to distinguish good front evil. To the animal life our strongest passkins belong therefore those paseiuns develop, become strung and run riot before reastio can exercise its sway. And then is the time for religion to step in, to teach the knowledge and fear of God, to speak of him who aeeth in the dark and to announce the

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gentle acts-which make gentlemen. I think the word gentleman is a beautiful word. First man-and that means everything brave and strong and noble and then gentle-and that means full of all these little, kind, thoughtful acts of which I have been speaking. A gentle man Every boy may be one if he will. Whenever I sett a gentlemanly boy I feel so glad and proud I met one the other day, and I have been happier ever since. ;

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