In the show us the kind of religious teaching which the Catholic youth receive. first book of Reading Lessons' we have the following:-' I should often make the sign of the cross + that is, bless myself. I should also learn what that holy sign means, and take care not to make it in too great haste.' (Lesson 55.) 'I was just going to ask how I might love God like him, when the clock struck. The master made the sign of the +++ I did the same. He told me, when the clock strikes I must think that God sees me; that I must offer all I do to please Him; and as I may die before it strikes again, to say, 'Holy Mary +++ of God, pray for us +++ now, and the hour +++ of +++ death. Amen.' (Sec. iii. Lesson 12.) The asterisks are in the original. In another book which these Christian Brothers teach, we find given to the question, What goes to the saving of the soul? the following answer :- All sorts of things-water, oil, candles, ashes, beads, medals, scapulars have to be filled with a strange indefinable power by ecclesiastical benedictions in its behalf.' This is a specimen of the instruction that is to 'saturate' the schools of Ireland,-if these bishops are to have their will,—and for which the Government is to pay! Could this be tolerated? one. The effort which they are now making to carry their point is a most determined In every possible way, they are endeavouring to influence the Government. They have entered upon the struggle as if it were a contest for life or death. Their Pastoral bears evidence that they are now thoroughly in earnest, and that every nerve will be strained by them to overturn the present Irish national schools. On this side of the Channel, the bishops have re-echoed their sentiments; nay, Dr. Goss, the Roman Catholic Bishop of Liverpool, 'indulges in the most violent and sanguinary language, speaking of resisting to rebellion, and stating that rather than a Catholic child should perish by being forced into a Protestant school, Catholics should be willing to see Liverpool a charred mass like Chicago.' Dr. Goss, however, it is right to mention, unlike his Irish fellow-bishops, does not seem to consider education of much value to the masses. 6 Ignorance,' he says, 'is not necessarily an evil. Is it not a fact that when servant girls can read, they spend their time in sending love letters to all the world; and that when they should be making beds up-stairs, they are reading the last new novel they can lay their hands upon? Their mistresses suppose, poor innocent souls! that the girls are hard at work, when in reality they are seated in the easiest chair they can find, losing themselves in tears over the romantic stories of the loves of people that never existed.' The present attitude of the Irish bishops calls for the utmost vigilance and activity from all who are the friends of religious liberty. To grant the demands of the prelates, would be giving an endowment in one of its very worst forms to Popery; and, therefore, they must be resolutely denied. If these prelates will have nothing else for their people than an education 'saturated' with their peculiar doctrines, then let them provide education for themselves. We set as high à value on the religious instruction of the young as these prelates profess to do; we abhor as much as they can the materialistic doctrines which they denounce; and yet we can see no infidelity in separating the hours of secular and religious teaching. If the Government provides the one, the parents and the Church are free to provide the other. These Irish bishops are seeking a control of education which it would be most impolitic and unjust to concede. In the event of any agitation being raised in connection with an Education Bill for Scotland, there is reason to fear that their hands may be, strengthened by the Established Church party, and the followers of Dr. Begg and Mr. Kidston, if not also by others. All things considered, we may venture to say, that unless very active measures be taken, there may be established a system of concurrent endowments in connection with education, which will be most mischievous in their influence, and the withdrawal of which it will be no easy matter afterwards to secure. 379 241 Brickfields, Bondage of Children in, Calvinism, Froude on, Capel, M., on Faith and the Bible, Census of 1871, The, China, Roman Catholics in, 45; Christian Mis- sions, 380. 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