DENOMINATIONAL EDUCATION.

Evening Star, Issue 4256, 17 October 1876, Page 4

DENOMINATIONAL EDUCATION.

* 5 ol^giahdi Synod will, •horalyiioM 'rtaammsl .session, : and it is de-! aw^^t^urahmenahall/ : in; the, interval,, taring forwaadaiiy .subject ;o£' importance; which nuy seem worthy- of discussion by; the Panditime tOisnggeht two sub-: jocts that,, as P'thfeak,'-'require very earnest discasaien , , ~ ; by most people here that '£&ree years'ago tbe'Synod gave its education in this; diocese. Xhk outcome of that was. the establishment, of one Church of : Eng-, land day.-sehool Cin this City, which; was. inaugurated; by a meeting over which a Jearned jaige * presided. The ' district was energetically r ‘‘ beaten up” for, E"i, The redfilh was a ‘ good attendance,; the ,schopl was. t d«ly, floated, by Ihe; gement (shich consisted of the Parish; fira»t;«ad §uru|lay laymen), and consecrated! BjD&O Epwcopal benediction, But lo lin a; very ti°* e it>. became . evident that, though the clerical element of the Synod j heartily blessed the enterprise, the body of! thfcdaity ahnostus heartily cursed; it; ’or if: they did not quite do that;, they certainly ! gave it i- nb - ; support and carefully hsld a|oof,,. from the. whole affair.! 'R . tints evident that, denbgiiila*' Wm.' ‘out in ,«hd 'that ho' cfencal ■ patronage ’oohld uphold' a schema qoj qould the single-handed ‘ efficient and! -energet c master carry the ill-fated barque against the head winds of opposition, ' Now, 1 desire to re-' mark that, im this matter, some one ought to tty ” peceavi I” and eat the brfead of humiliation. If the.majority of the Synod gave their Sanction, collectively, to the enterprise they should-have individually sup-; pdrted it; and. the people, as a ; body, were sadly'wabtihg ih, l^alty, 1 !® their-Church inChurch echoed. _ Compared with the conduct; of other ChriatiftA.bodieS'in similar cases,! -thafc- of -the-Anglican body was beggarly ; in the .fixtrhma. ; The Church Jays great} stress -upon, the training of her youth-' yfeiffiahtehieSs' uf -Church principles.- Yet,: , when an effmf' ‘ is ; made to carry out* tbesp earnest wishes, no. support is given to v tow Christas! hands qqd prof-; fiwed' purses) gerect f Horcai ~mf matrons,, profoundly, LWtwkodJjy dislike of, the pattern of a car-‘ Een-or the oolor of an give un-grudgingly-of their labor and substance to remedy the glarangdefect But who extends *a ; ielmng handto assist an effort to do a far’ higheratid hoUei-wbrk than inere decorative; ; eyes,spy opt im- ; sns ofat ,bqsy> brqiqs’ cogitate! , . v spd ? and , additimis! extended to : aidihei the young? .jWjce'said the age of chivali y was gonetri-is not the age igff : gone %. .Our:, repaid notions; thereof .'ecclesiastical ornament, cur Phara-’i-salpaliegard to the .-‘‘-cupfarid platter,” our; 'fthtiffuated stupidity of dressing out the 'tinfantfChdt-ch in'‘the -31-fittin‘g garments or ' - the naotier, .how absurd $ The sweetest the* 'jtt(u^c ; qt our choii^, : -.M ; elprgy, serve, only toi • tor joaore m keeping Him- who did not disdain to me a fismng smack for -a .ptiljtiti would it be to worship 'wthin four, hare plainly and un-' ostenumlbtiuy/ .whild laying the fouidatiqn' in the rising generation of, a love and appreciation of th 6 ‘Chhrc|i of their fathers that jp yeapsto come. And it is fowoth, that we hear captbf “ «Npw, so-far, I have, statedthe case, as it ,ap- : pears from one stand r point.; There is yet mm%r.jWße?t ; however; let me just.indi-; oate it* it be tipit jthe Church's ‘*oc omjfttipn aa gone that, ini truth, the outside World takes little or no interest in the dehberation of a Synodi? nif Bo> i e t the! .Church at once awaken tb a Sense of the posi-j M she occupies in th’e world and learn that 1 Assumption; pf mfibite bejj claim, to obedience anil serve! % esnte scofSng and laughter from the ppd to sadden the,,deveut. ;Must!

she) pasa,.through the. fire before she learnt ' tha;t the men and women lof to-day arie not : - like the passive and obedient hinds orrurali 'prSHiQk she has is that of antiquity? At leafit let her learn this, lesSbni 1 that the thinkl bt maikind-i-those'who are-hot be. ■P^^.^ 11 Wgotry or t victims of priestiji'¥Hi'v"i» none of your sectarian teaubing. I. had (intended to say a word or two on another subject, but will reserve it until a future.occasion, havingalreadytrespassed too upon your am, Ac, ." -u,JJuftedia,^ . '-.''.''•