Category: History - American

Public School Education

American fellow-citizens--America is my home! I have no other country. After my God and my religion, my country is the dearest object of my life! I love my country as dearly as any one else can. It is this love that makes my heart bleed when I call to mind the actual state of...

Chapters

23. Chapter 23

It is a matter of fact that the Protestant movement was chiefly directed against the Papacy, and that it involved a hundred years of so-called religious wars. This movement gave...

18. Chapter 18

Men look around, and ask, Where is the remedy for the so wide-spread corruption of all classes of society? This is a most important question. It is not difficult for a Christian...

21. Chapter 21

So far I have spoken as an American citizen. I have shown to all my fellow-citizens the tree with its fruits--the Public School system in broad daylight. All who call themselves...

10. Chapter 10

Strange as it may seem, it is a certain undeniable fact that there is not, on the entire continent of Europe, or in the entire world, a single country, Protestant or Catholic, t...

22. Chapter 22

There are some who assert that "there is no sectarian teaching in the Public Schools, and consequently a Catholic may send his children to them without exposing them to any dang...

19. Chapter 19

We live in a time of great activity and change, and intense worldliness. "Men run to and fro and knowledge is increased." Would that we could feel that there is an increase also...

20. Chapter 20

Protestantism was a separation from the source and current of the Divine-human life which exists in the Catholic Church, and which redeems and saves the world; and Protestants a...

17. Chapter 17

We have seen, so far, that the irreligious, godless system of the Public Schools tends directly to turn the youth of both sexes into the worst kind of infidels; to make them dis...

16. Chapter 16

It is certain and undeniable that two orders of things actually exist in this world, the natural order and the supernatural--nature and grace. These two orders have the same ult...

9. Chapter 9

The question of Education is, of all others, the most important. It has for some time back received a good deal of attention in public meetings, in newspapers, and in the pulpit...

13. Chapter 13

What I have said in the preceding chapter is but a faint picture of the bad effects of what is called _polite education_, as given in the Public Schools, on the male portion of...

14. Chapter 14

Let us again bear in mind that the Public School-girls of to-day will be the mothers of to-morrow. Mothers are destined, by God, to bring up children for heaven. This is their g...

15. Chapter 15

Few questions affect so directly the welfare and interests of the people as the question of education; and assuredly, in this country, there is none of more moment as regards th...

8. Chapter 8

American fellow-citizens--America is my home! I have no other country. After my God and my religion, my country is the dearest object of my life! I love my country as dearly as...

11. Chapter 11

It is a fundamental principle of Christianity, admitted even by Protestants, that man cannot reach his destiny without a knowledge of the religion which Jesus Christ taught, and...

12. Chapter 12

Let us now suppose the young men educated under the present Public School system fairly launched into the world, and, for the first time, thrown on their own resources. They are...

6. Chapter 6

7. Chapter 7

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2. Chapter 2

3. Chapter 3

4. Chapter 4

5. Chapter 5