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The West AUSTRALIAN
PERTH, SATURDAY, MARCH 29, 1913
" " Roman Catholicism= Its Growth and Progress of Catholic Church Striking Protestant Testimony to Wonderful Vitality "IN AUSTRALIA THE WORK OF ROME 18 ONWARD AND FORWARD." while in Ger- Catholic faith, which is later strongsectarian production entitled onward and forward, ly and deeply inculcated in the imof Melancthon and land the many, rea has Times" the of Signs "The pressionable tissue of infancy in the one of the most illustriLuther, of Catholic the to tribute markable parochial schools. Convent and othof the Renurseries ous and cradles 17. February of issue its Church in to Rome claims to have er Catholic schools are designed formation, day of light the sees The publication during produce devoted Catholics, and well progress greatest made the circulatis it in Melbourne and as nineteenth do they do their work. The youth ed chiefly among the Baptists and the, for her, auspicious and the maiden, the young man and century. cannot Seventh Day Adventists, it the young wo:nan, emerge from these be accused of any particular partialSECRET OF CATHOLIC THE institutions to remain, in the large ity to, ards the Catholic Church. VITALITY. majority of cases, true to the faith Considering the anti-Catholic tone of their childhood. of part Undoubtedly a very great which usually characterises its pages, the following eloquent tribute to Ca- if indeed not all, the secret of Ca- PROTESTANT APATHY IN EDUCATION. tholicity-especially in its education tholic vitality lies in its splendid school system--splendid because it is policy-is very noteworthy :the numerous inwith Compared the ends for "The wonderful revival of Catholi- so admirably suited to As Dr. Clif- stitutions of Catholicism, how few designed. was which it cism throughout the world," says a aggres- indeed are the schools that are exwriter in a recent number of the "Ca- ford says concerning Catholic pressly founded for the purpose of of machinery "The sion in England tholic Press" (Sydney), "is certainrearing strong, healthy Protestants. sleepless with worked is education ly the most pronounced feature in which It is markedly more the exception the spiritual lite of the nineteenth vigilance." The loyalty with system than the rule for Protestant moth century, and in no country is this Catholics maintain at school more evident than in Germany." There is no disputing the fact that the Roman Catholic Church to -day is manifesting considerable life and vig;
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the Reformers. The same spirit is necessary in their successors, yea, a double portion of it, even as a dou-
ble portion of the spirit of Elijah was not too much for the noble prophet upon whom the mantle of the Tishbite tell. This spirit the State,
schools, cannot inculcate ; it can he inculcated by the Church with its alone. DECAY OF PROTESTANT FAITH.
Protestantism, in the main, is turning away from the living fountains that once imparted to it life
It is re-
and freshness and vigour.
foundation principles. The Bible is the great Book out of whose seed-principles the great Reformation sprung, took root, and flourished and it is only by the inculcation and the carrying out of the pudiating its
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our, and that she is growing and advancing. In England since her revival there sixty years ago, when thq "papal aggression" aroused considerable excitement, she has made steady Progress. In that country her converts alone have for same time past reached the number of eight thousand a year, while her total membership now exceeds a million and a half, whereas forty years ago it was less than a million. Said the Rev. Dr. John Clifford, a leading English Baptist., recently, in writing of "the invasion of Protestant lands by Rome in a spirit of fierce aggressiveness, resolute determination, infinite craft, rigid exclusiveness, and uncompromising intolerance." " The forces of Romani Catholicism are now directed to the conversion of the Anglo-Sason race. That is the goal of the aoliry of the Pope. f
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and representatives of tire dedicated to the capture of Enormous e progressive peoples. sacrifices are being insde. Nothins is held hack. No effort is too great. No ex: enditure of time and money is regarded as too costly to win the young men from their allegiance to Protestantism. The machinery of education is corked with sleepless vigilance. Superstition is welcomed. The arts of magic are employed to win the unreflecting, and a low morality fo lows in their trac The (Roman) Catholic membersLiP in the United States now easily exceeds twelve millions, while fifty years ago it was only three millions. Said a he leaders .:
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Prem.'. writer recently "Catholicism is in a fair way to conquer the United States. It is making extraordinary progress in that young, rich country, where the number of Catholics is daily increasing, and where a French priest cried, 'In twenty years more than one-half of Ameto the Catholic rica will belong ." This may sound fan. Church. ciful, but to-day :
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NEW YORK IS
THE STRONGEST
CATHOLIC CITY IN THE WORLD, and the United States has become the fourth Catholic power."-Extract from a translation of an article in the French mug izine " 1.a Revue " ivritt:n by G. Saint-Aubin, appearins in the '' Boston Tran-
sreist" of January 7, 1911. fn s ustr lift the a ork of Rome is
THE PRESENTATION CONVENT LADIES' COLLEGE, GERALDTON. of their own, and magnificently suited to their own ends, is admirable.
numerous and their numbers arc constantly increasing. In the United States the system has ranched mammoth proeortions. Five years ago there were in that country 4,364 parochial schools, attended by 1,0:16,842 children of both sexes, while the totsil number of children in Catholic institutions was given at more than ons million and a quarter. There were 198 colleges for boys and 678 ac ideates for girls. There were eighty-six seminaries for the education of the clergy, attended by almost six thousand students. In addition there were many other institutions, which ranked as universities, while the whole system was crowned by the great Catholic University at Washington. catholic children are given a religious care and attention that
These schools are already in the
Commonwealth,
I' 'TS THE GREAT MAJORITY OF f"'OTESTANTS To OPEN SHAW:. knee the child receives its first lessons in the St th- school of mother's
ere to give their children religious instruction, and each generation has matbeen growing more lax in the
ter.
When
ttp infants
arrive
at
school age, they are bundled off to the public school, but he it remembered that the public schools do uot ensender Protestants, and are not designed to do so. It takes a special training, a special method and course of instruction, to turn out a Protestant, just as it does to turn
out a Catholic. Schools that will train l'rotestants of a highly vitaleho ised, spiritual, vigorous type, w'll imitate Christ in His life and work-and these are in fact the only Protestants deserving of the name must have for their instructors men and women who are permeated through and through with Protestant principles, who possess a living faith in Jesus as their personal Saviour, who love and reverence the Bible as the infallible Word, the revealed
will, of the God of heaven, and are iirenared to follow its; teachinss in the face of ridicule, reproach, scorn,
sacrifice, or whatsoever else they may entail. Such was the spirit of
principles of that Word that Protestantism to -day can live and gra v There are of course and thrive. numerous Protestants who still regard the Bible as the infallible Wort of God, which in truth it is : but the official circles of l'rotestantism are permeated with the erroneous teachines of "science falsely so called.' higher criticism, etc., and the evil effects of this false teaching have been markedly displayed in the fear ful declension in spiritual life. Rome notices the loosening grip that the nominal Protestant churches are exerting on the masses she observes the suicidal policy that Protestantism is pursuing, and she braces herfor further efforts to destroy self what Protestantism has done. ;
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