"Our Established Church:": The Notorious Article in Putnam's Magazine, July, 1869. Together with the Article "The Unestablished Church," (Putnam's Magazine, December, 1869,) in which it is Triumphantly Refuted! With an Explanation and Exculpatory Preface, and Sundry Notices of the Contemporary Press

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G. P. Putnam & Son, 1870 - 29 pàgines
 

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Pàgina 22 - The children of foreigners, found in great numbers in our populous cities and towns, and in the vicinity of our public works, are too often deprived of the advantages of our system of public education, in consequence of prejudices arising from difference of language or religion. It ought never to be forgotten, that the public welfare is as deeply concerned in their education as in that of our own children. I do not hesitate, therefore, to recommend the establishment of schools in which...
Pàgina 23 - Independence, that even error may be safely tolerated where reason is left free to combat it, and therefore indulging no apprehensions from the influence of any language or creed among an enlightened people, I desire the education of the entire rising generation in all the elements of knowledge we possess, and in that tongue which is the universal language of our countrymen.
Pàgina xiii - Catholic indorsements; and if these admirable Bible lessons, and these alone, were to be ruled as to be read in all the public schools, this would not in any substantial degree lessen the objection we [Roman] Catholics have to letting Catholic children attend the public schools.
Pàgina xiii - Catholics, were to be dissected by the ablest Catholic theologians in the land, and merely lessons to be taken from it, such as Catholic mothers read to their children, and with all the notes and comments...
Pàgina 26 - ... faith, by the simple action of a numerical majority in each parish in favor of the change. But against every one of these various forms of assault our church property here is protected by its tenure, the laws of the State, and the Constitution of the United States.
Pàgina ix - that in the present day, it is no longer necessary that the Catholic religion be held as the only religion of the State, to the exclusion of all other modes of worship...
Pàgina xiv - No State taxation or donations for any schools. You look to your children, and we will look to ours. We do not want to be taxed for Protestant, or for godless schools. Let the public school system go to where it came from — the devil. We want Christian schools, and the State cannot tell us what Christianity is.
Pàgina 39 - The entire direction of public schools, in which the youth of Christian states are educated, except ( to a certain extent ) in the case of episcopal seminaries, may and must appertain to the civil power, and belong to it so far that no other authority whatsoever shall be recognized as having any right to interfere in the discipline of the schools, the arrangement of the studies, the taking of degrees, or the choice and approval of the teachers.
Pàgina 24 - State, any free school or schools in which not less than two hundred children have been or are taught and educated gratuitously, it shall be the duty of such city, or of the Board of Supervisors of the county of which such city is a whole or a part, to make provision from year to year for the expenses of such school or schools.

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