CATHOLIC EDUCATION.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XIX, Issue 17, 23 January 1891, Page 7

CATHOLIC EDUCATION.

TO THE KDITOB N.Z. TABLET. Sib,— Could you or any of the readers of jour valuable pap«r inform me whether Catholic parents in the country districts fully avail themselves of the concessions granted by the Railway Department to send their children to the Catholic schools in the townß ? As theae concessions may be at any time withdrawn, it behoves Catholic parents and guardians to seize the opportunity, and make the beat use of the facilities thus afforded to obtain for their children that instruction in the Christian doctrine and the rudiments ot their religion necessary to equip them for tbe battle of life, and enable them to take their places hereafter as useful citizens and desirable cjlomsts. During the last decade the secular system of education has had full sway in New Zealand. We see the result to-day. Tbe youth of the Colony are growing up in religious indifference, full of evil propensities, and using what education they have acqmired as a means to attain an unworthy end. That in many instances Catholics are not without blame goes without saying, but it is to be hoped that all good Catholics of the Colony will set an example not only to their children, but to the whole world, by using their best endeavours to secure for their children the priceless bhsa of a good Christian education. — I am, eto., January 13, 1891. B