A COMING CRISIS.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1356, 6 February 1912, Page 4

A COMING CRISIS.

TWO KINDS OV SOCIALISM,

Archbishop Carr, of Melbourne, in the course of mi interesting address at lln , opening of a new Catholic School at Wumiambiiul on January 2S, said that lucking over the fiica of the world at tho present time, he thought that everyone, must come to the conclusion that a great crisis was approaching, a crisis which would affol't the social, moral, and religious interests of the people of every In ml. He. looked to the great work of the* religious education of the young as the means destined by God, ami pointed at by reason as the most effective method of preventing that crisis that threatened widespread injury to the race. There, was a socialism which ttthded to tho uplifting of the working man, and of that socialism hn was an ardent .supporter; but there was also an extreme of socialism which was identified very largely with anarchy, which acknowledged no law, no inon.lily, and no Owl, 'i.nd in common with his audience he was desperately opposed to that extreme phase of tho socialistic movement. If the commandments of God, tho duty of one man to another, and tho requirements of a moral and religious life were not impressed oil the minds of tho young, the time would come when they Mould have a universal insurrection against the prevailing order, against the authority of tho State, and against tho deci'ens of the Almighty Himself. The reason why Catholics opposed religious instruction in State schools was not because- it was religious instruction, but because it was religious instruction of a worthless character, and could not lie imparted without inflicting serious injury on those children whose parents were 'not Satisfied with that minimum and that residuum of religions truth it oontaiiird, and who were not willing to introduce their children to teacheivs who professed n different form of religion to their own. (Applause.)