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Patea Mail, Volume IV, Issue 404, 1 March 1879, Page 2

From the Wellington Chronicle we take the following—“ Bishop Moran, in his Lenten pastoral, makes the following reference to the Education Question It only remains for us to exhort you to persevere and to be prepared to make in the future, if necessary, even greater sacrifices than you have hitherto made. Ihe faith of your children and your own salvation are at stake. Secularism is determined, if you permit it, to destroy Christianity, and make men forget or ignore God and their own eternal destin}’ - . Its object is the iinchn’sliam’sing of the world, and the reintroduction of Paganism. Be not deceived by the sophistry and hypocritical professions of its advocates. We are bound to be Christians and Catholics above and before all other things ; and we should never forget the words of our Divine Redeemer, ‘ He that is not with" me is against me.’ All Government schools in these dioceses are godless and hostile to the Catholic Church. Catholics cannot frequent them without opposing themselves to grievious dangers to their faith and morals. Of these schools, therefore, Catholics.cannot avail themselves except in cases of very great necessity, and when —such necessity being supposed—every possible precaution is taken to ward off all dangers to faith and morals. Parents and guardians should bear in mind that they are responsible for the children under their charge. ; ° ° ° We, therefore, most earnestly exhort all to exert themselves to establish and maintain efficient Catholic schools wherever it is possible to do so ; •arid we call upon the clergy—who, indeed, have not been wanting in this matter —to exert themselves with the greatest zeal and perseverance in the great cause of Catholic education. Nothing but Catholic education can save the rising generation from the baneful influence of the infidel systems of education so characteristic of century, and so fashionable in-this colony.’’ On Thursday last, at the Dunedin Races, Mr Redwood’s Mata, and Mr Ray’s Sinking Fund ran a dead heat for the Dunedjn Cup, Templeton being third. Time 3 min 57 seer..