a good article about Baltimore Cardinal Gibbon's decrying public school in the United States, as such then reflected Protestant values;
from a 'Protestant' publication "The Herald of Gospel Liberty"
that I found while researching another matter
where this same publication that got it right here,
unwittingly fell into the Romanist camp
https://books.google.com/books?id=ts4pAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false
"WHEREFORE, RECEIVE YE ONE ANOTHER, AS CHRIST ALSO RECEIVED US, TO THE GLORY OF GOD."
ONE OF THE FIVE GREAT EVILS
ACCORDING to the daily press of June 4th, Cardinal Gibbons, of Baltimore, has recently said thatof five great evils in the United States, the
public schools is one. At once that puts Cardinal Gibbons in the
attitude of opposition to one of the most cherished institutions of
our land. It might be inquired.
Why, what evil has the public schools done? It
has done much in the way of enlightening the masses and preparing them
for intelligent citizenship. It is teaching the youth of our country how
to think for themselves as well as to learn from those in authority,
and
yet Cardinal Gibbons is quoted as saying it Is one of the great evils of our country.
It might be interesting to inquire,
Why Cardinal Gibbons thinks the public school system
of the United States is an evil. As I see it, it is because the public schools teach children to think,
independent of the priests of the Roman Catholic church. The plan of
that church is to have the children taught under the immediate
supervision of the church, and as the public school system does not
consult the Roman Catholic Church as to what shall be taught, or as to
who shall do the teaching, the Roman Catholic prelate forthwith
pronounces the public school one of the five great evils of the land.
It is a bit singular
that the Cardinal regards the public school as a great evil, and yet he
does what he can to get as teachers for our public schools members of
Roman Catholic churches. It is surpassingly strange that the Cardinal
should desire to have members of his church take part in a great evil.
The truth is. Cardinal Gibbons looks upon the public schools as a great
evil because he cannot control them. He cannot have them taught by Roman
Catholics exclusively, and therefore he cannot make it serve the
purposes of the Roman Hierarchy. He does favor getting every Catholic in
as a teacher of the public schools, as that will give him a chance to
circulate the thought of his church in some small degree. But he will
not allow even one child of Catholic parents to attend a public school,
If within reach there is a regular Catholic school. Every loyal Roman
Catholic must send his child to a Roman Catholic school, where he or she
may be early grounded in the "faith of the fathers." It is no secret
that the Roman Catholic Church Is an open enemy to our public schools,
as we believe, only because she cannot control them and turn them to the
use of Catholicism.
Suppose the government
should pass the management of our public schools over to the Roman
Catholic Church, would Cardinal Gibbons then oppose them as a great evil
at all? We risk nothing in saying every objection would be withdrawn
instantly and the trust would be accepted, and Instead of an evil, the
public school system would henceforth be the greatest factor in modern
civilization, and for the reason that it could then be made to serve the
ends and purposes of the Roman Catholic Church. But if the public schools would
be good and useful under Catholic management, why may they not be
equally good and useful under the management of those who are
independent of the Roman Church? The reason Is quite clear—under
independent management the Catholic Church cannot turn its output to its
own advantage as she can when she has control, and you may be sure that
when the Catholic Church does anything in which the public is concerned
that she has an eye to business, looking to her own fancied best
interests as an organization. Soon after Cardinal Gibbons made that
statement, openly defying one of America's most cherished institutions,
Mr. Taft, our President, Mr. Roosevelt, our Ex-President, and Mr. Champ
Clark, Speaker of the House, all went over to Baltimore to honor the
Catholic Cardinal, and so of course, please the Catholic people, and
then it was that these gentlemen lauded very highly the Cardinal as the
head of the Roman Hierarchy in this country, and this, notwithstanding
the Cardinal had but two or three days before classed our public schools
as one of the great evils of
the country. This all seems the more strange when only a little while
ago, Mr. Taft, in Richmond, Va., loudly proclaimed the public schools as
one of the greatest blessings God has given to our people. Now here we
have two of the great men, so regarded at least, taking exactly and
widely opposite positions On the same question, and in the face of this
fact, Mr. Taft loudly praises the Cardinal because he (the Cardinal) has
"demonstrated entire consistency between earnest and single-handed
patriotism and love of country on the one hand, and sincere devotion to
his church on the other." As the Religious Herald suggests,
while the President Is commending the Cardinal's consistency, he had
better get out a search warrant for his own consistency. It may be that
Mr. Taft Is in fact in sympathy with the opposition of the Roman
Catholic Church to our public schools—it, indeed, looks that way. And if
he is not, then what is he doing to be going out of the way to
encourage the Cardinal in his exclusive purposes. We think there can be
no doubt about it that the Roman Catholics, including the Cardinal, are
laughing in their sleeves at the way they handle these great
men—Protestants, so-called—in the interest of their church.
We are In favor of fair
play for the Catholics, but we insist that they stay in their place and
stand on the merits of their teachings. By their place, we mean as a
church stay out of politics and give themselves to religion. I would say
the same of Protestantism, if she had to gain her success* by
"hobnobbing" with politicians in order to get their favor. It is all
right for the Catholics to stand by and teach what they believe. We
raise no word of objection to that, but we do object to their
"buttonholing" for political favor in order to advance the cause for
which they labor. That is but God's way for planting the truth among men, but the Catholics are said to do it all the same.
Unless Protestants shall stand against this
tendency, and do it so positively as to mean something in the eyes of
the politicians and the Roman Catholic Church, we shall soon see our
government dominated by an element entirely unfriendly to Protestants.
We do not wish to see the government dominated by the Protestant
churches—we would oppose that as we do the same thing in the Roman
Church, and we do It on principle—it is not for the good of the cause of
Christ that any branch of the church should be thus bolstering Itself
up in such an unholy manner. Each branch of the church ought to go
before the public in its mission to the world, standing squarely on the
merits of its teachings and practice, on what it is in fact. Here we
stand, and here we believe all ought to stand, whether he be Protestant
or Roman Catholic. Lay aside these political methods in religious work,
stand on the merits of what the church is, and then if the Protestants
cannot hold their place along with the Roman Catholics in giving the
Gospel to the world, we say, let the men who can best do the work have
an opportunity, and hasten the Gospel to the ends of the earth, no
matter whether it be done by this or that man, or this or that set of
men. It is high time the Protestants should protest and mean it. The
Catholic invasion of Protestant rights has already gone quite too far
for the best interests of our common country.
2 comments:
He got it right, except for one thing. He, at the end of the article, put catholicism under the umbrella of Christianity, but catholicism is not Christian. So he too fell to the propaganda of the catholic establishment on that issue.
Correct. Roman Catholicism is in fact satanic mystery babylon, that long predates the 330AD charade of Constantine supposedly adopting Christianity.
This publication "The Herald of Gospel Liberty" is good source material to see the decay of Protestantism by Romanism- see tommorrow's CCR post.
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