nently together; and therefore they have selected their foreigners as the most suitable and competent agents to carry on the work of substituting other institutions for ours institutions more congenial to them, and more in harmony with papal views of government.' MISINTERPRETING HISTORY. The result of this policy is already seen in the fact, which cannot have escaped any careful observer, that American Romanists are, by far, more united and energetic in accomplishing the work assigned them by their superiors than any other clergy throughout the wide, wide world. Speaking of history, as taught in our public schools, he says: "The most important points of Christian history are kept carefully out of sight; they are wholly ignored, not being so much as alluded to; and so the system in this respect remains lamentably deficient, sadly imperfect, and consequently below the standard we have a right to expect. He regales his hearers with a number of questions, which he answers after his own liking. He tells them that all the civilization of the world was created by the Roman Catholic Church, and asks: "Who are the men who went forth as the apostles of religion and intellectual enlightenment, while the nations of Europe were still in a condition of barbarism? Who lifted woman from her lowly condition of man's inferior, and placed her on a level with her lord and master? espoused the cause of the degraded slave, and succeeded to a great extent in striking the fetters from his weary limbs; who, I ask, but the Catholic Church and her heroic children?" Who FATHER GLEASON ASKED TO ANSWER A FEW QUESTIONS. Who has taught that intellectual liberty is dangerous, and that it should not be allowed? The Roman Catholic Church. The Roman Catholic Church. Who offered rewards for the capture and murder of innocent men and women? The Roman Catholic Church. Who robbed graves, in order that it might convict corpses of heresy, that it might take from the widows their portion, and from orphans their patrimony? The Roman Catholic Church. But I forbear any further questions. The last point in this infamous address which I shall notice tonight is this. He says: "When, then, you support or endorse a system of this nature" (our American Public School System) "you strike at the very root of constitutional liberty; you sap the very foundations on which our national greatness as a great, liberal nation reposes; and so, sooner or later, the evil consequences of such a proceeding are sure to be felt; sooner or later the bitter fruits of such a policy are certain to be tasted." After this statement, my hearers, if the subject, "The Great Conspiracy against our American Public School System," is not an apt one for this occasion, an apt one for this day, an apt one for this hour, give us a more fitting one. He asks: "What is the duty of the loyal, God-fearing Christian men of this land? It is to make common cause against this common enemy. It is to check by every means in our power the onward march of the hosts of unbelief and infidelity, that are now solidly marching forward with such giant strides through the length and breadth of this nation, and for the existence of which the common school system is mainly responsible. The duty of all loyal, God-fearing Christian men, then, I repeat it, is to make common cause against (the American Public School System) this common foe. TESTIMONY IN FAVOR OF OUR AMERICAN SCHOOLS. In marked contrast is the opinion of Mr. Goodwin Smith, an eminent scholar, author and adviser of the English government. After visiting our country and studying our public school system, he says: "I am not a blind worshipper of the Americans or their institutions, but I tell you that the influence of their common schools is good, morally as well as intellectually. Though there are bad things and bad men in America, the influence of these schools is good; and they tend in the main to produce, not 'clever devils,' but a law-abiding and God-fearing nation. And if you ask about manners, I tell you I have been in the United States in the midst of exciting political contests, and that I saw meetings of both parties, and not on one side or the other did I observe the slightest discourteous interruption to the proceedings of their opponents. I say these schools will not do everything for them, but the effect of these schools, upon the whole, is to produce a moral as well as an intelligent population." Shall we lightly esteem what he so warmly approves, and allow to be overthrown what we have found beyond price? Nay, nay: by the God we serve, by the liberty we love, by the children now in our care and keeping, by the children yet to come, and generations to follow, we will swear to-night, before God, allegiance to the common school system. We will vow in our heart of hearts that we will do our duty as men to support all who support this system, the corner stone of our great national government! (Applause.) It was Daniel Webster who said: Our destiny as a nation is to "secure popular governments; to prove, and I hope we do prove, that there may be security for property, and for personal rights; that there may be provision for maintenance of religion and morals, for an extensive diffusion of knowledge, and for carrying all branches of education and culture to their highest pitch, by means of institutions founded on republican principles." The prophecies and the poets are with us. Everybody knows Bishop Berkeley's lines, written a hundred years ago: "Then shall be sung another golden age, Westward the course of empire takes its way; A fifth shall close the drama with the day; And yet I have no hesitancy in saying, that without our American system of free schools for the education of all our children, this Republic, great and glorious as it is, cannot stand another century, or another fifty years. A republic is a union of interests. It is, or it ought to be, composed of free persons; of the masses educated for freedom of action, under common culture, with common inspiration, in a common school, where the rich and the poor have equal privileges. We It is impossible to disguise the fact, and it is madness for the American people to shut their eyes to it, that the Roman Catholic Church leaders have opened a crusade against our free institutions, against our public schools, against equal taxation, and unsectarian appropriation of the public funds. must meet this enemy of our Republic at the polls, where they have chosen to bring their anti-American demands. Eternal vigilance in the direction of Rome is our nation's safety and salvation. (Applause.) CHAPTER XI. TEACHINGS OF THE PAROCHIAL SCHOOLS FOREIGN AND FILTHY. SLANDER AGAINST THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS. "With crucifixes hung, And spells, and rosaries, and wooden saints, "Where the devil is resident, and hath his plough going, then away with books, and up with candles; away with bibles, and up with beads; away with the light of the gospel, and up with the light of candles; yea, at noon-day."-Bishop Latimer. "The leaders in the Catholic Church at Rome today are protesting vigorously that there is already too much education; that the less education the people have, the better it will be for them. Don't you believe them." -Dr. Edward McGlynn. "And the Lord said unto him, Now do you Pharisees make clean the outside of the cup and platter, but your inward part is full of ravening and sickness. Woe unto you Pharisees, for ye tithe mint and rue, and all manner of herbs, and pass over judgment and the love of God."-Luke, 11, 39-42. He There are no purses large enough to bribe the Almighty. The work He assigns us to do must not be skimmed over. himself is the overseer, and he appoints no sub-inspectors. His eye seeth the evil and the good, and every man is to be rewarded according to his works. If the work is shoddy and superficial, the reward will be shoddy and superficial. If the work is good, the reward will be good-to every man according to his works. So the works of the poor and the lowly, if genuine, are just as pleasing in the sight of God as the works of the noble and the great. God looketh at the heart. There is nothing that wears so well in this world, or in any other world, so far as we know, as genuineness-that is, the being and appearing what you really are! Much of the trouble we find today comes from the appearing to be what you really are not. We all turn away with utter abhorence and disgust from a person whose |