Democratic Sentinel, Volume 13, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 August 1889 — DENOMINATIONAL SCHOOLS. [ARTICLE]

DENOMINATIONAL SCHOOLS.

Interesting Papera Read Before the tional Educational Association. Nashville, Tenn., July 19. The question of denominational schools occasioned a brisk debate in to-day’s session of the National Educational association. Bishop John J. Keane opened the discussion by reading a paper prepared by Cardinal Gibbons upon the question: “Should! Americans Educate Their Children in Denominational Schools!** ’ Bishop Keane afterward read a paper of his own on the same subject, taking the position that Christianity was the basis of all true gov-1 eminent and should be inculcated during the period when children were attending! school. It the influence of the church was beneficial in the family it was also in the school. Mr. Edwin D. Mead of Boston followed* in a paper in which he said that the argu-* ments advanced by Cardinal Gibbons in the magazines in favor of the non-interference of the state with the family in the matter of education was only a device to damage the State’s authority in public opinion to the end that the Boman Catholic church especially should take charge when possible. He said the plea of the Romanist church was to compel all Catholics to withdraw their children from the public schools to parochial schools where they would be taught the doctrines of the church. Bishop Keane replied and. denied Mr. Mead’s assertion that the Pope or the Roman Catholic church was seeking temporal power and the control of the government. Both addresses were forcible and were heartily applauded.