EDUCATION AND RELIGION.

Manawatu Herald, Volume L, Issue 3903, 5 February 1929, Page 3

EDUCATION AND RELIGION.

His Grace. Archbishop Redwood when opening a Catholic school at Johnsonville on Sunday afternoon ’said: “It is a lamentable misfortune that in the State schools of the Dominion, the very factor which might •have brought up a strong and manly generation, has been eliminated. For, it is the earnest search of God, it is the quest of Divine truth, and the pursuit of the ideals which that search involves,, that really impart to the child s faculties their fullness and vigour. That pursuit of Divine truth will, first of all, strengthen the memory, which stores up substantial and noble ideas' It lifts up the imagination, and leads it into fields of the infinite. It unlocks the gates of fancy 'before the splendour of uncreated truth, and the vision of a beauty ever aneient tand ever new. v

“The great duty of education, considered purely from the standpoint of the natural and normal development of the human faculties, is to put God in the schoolroom, to enthrone Hint in the heart and mind of childhood and youth. There is no educational substitute for the Ten Commandments. “Under a divine sanction, and not from the fallible laws of powerless mortals, he is learning the absolute necessity of - justice, . and charity, and chastity, together with respect for authority and the rights of others.

“The greatest educators, ancient and modern, have ever insisted upon the necessity of a perfect model for the guidance of children, and that model, presented to the imitation of the Catholic child, is none other than Jesus Christ, Our Lord, the God Incarnate.”