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Herald and Spuerttag.
Newnan, Oa. p Friday, May 9, 1890.
Entered nt tlio Tout Office, Newnan, Oil., as
second-class mull ninller.
RELIGIOUS TRAINING IN SCHOOLS.
Address Delivered by Prof. L. H Ford
Before the State Teachers’ Asso
ciation at Columbus.
Schools, 1 tnko it, ns used In this sub
ject, mentis the public schools nnd the
unsoetarinn privnto schools of the coun
try.
First, lot it bo nssutned that thoro is
cause for this criticism, nnd let us then
inquire for its true source.
Wo will begin with the teachers. Are
the teachers of America a class of men
nnd women whoso contact with chil
dren would make tho children godless,
irrovoront, immoral? I know of no
gnthored statistics that would show
what per cent of tho teachers of Amer
ica are mem tiers of evangelical churches,
or make public profession of tho relig
ion of tho Saviour, and even though such
statistics wero nt hand, they would be
of little service in estimating tho degree
of religious inlluonce that teachers ex
ert over their pupils, for ninny faithful
believers of the truth of religion and
consistent members of tho church make
no outward effort to exert a religious
inlluonce. We cun, therefore, only roly
on geuurul observation, guided by the
moralit y of tho society which sustains
teachers in their work for information
concerning the moral nnd religious
standing of the American school tench-
ers. On tho contrary, teachers moro of
ten cause themselves to be brought into
public notoriety for tho enforcement of
a moral standard, sanctioued by the <11-
vlno writers of both tho Old and New
Testament Scriptures, than for the ex
pression of heretical notions quickly
caught tip by every unlettered believer
whose faith borders on superstition,
it may bn safely said that a great, ma
jority of American teuchors are believ
ers and professors of religion. This
must 1m so from tho very nature of our
society. Tho people of America, what
ever may have been said to the contra
ry, are peculiarly a religious people,
and thoir religious beliefs are as sacred
as the lives of their children. This fact
makes it impossible for the skeptic or
inlldel to prosper ns a teacher. What
succoss, think you, would Mr. lngcrsnll
havens an applicant for the work of
principal of a grammar school, with the
right reserved that he should show up
to tho boys and girls occasionally tin*
“mistakesof Moses?" Men and women
of America have gone through sheer
gratification of curiosity by thousands
to hear his brilliant blasphemy who
would not take their boys and girls
along. Many sects do not make sharp
divisions in our society now as once
they did. The people of America have
forever settled their religious wraug-
lings, a fact, which has caused many ec
clesiastical bigots to doubt their piety,
or belief in God. No more martyrs of
the faith in this country, for all have
learnod that charity is greater than
faith.
Wo must look, then, elsewhere than
among the teachers for the ground of
our criticism. Gan it bo that our laws
are at fault ? What say the laws of the
land on this subject of moral teaching?
I know of but two States t hat do not by
law encourage the inculcation of tho
Christian religion into the daily teach
ings of the public schools, while many
locnl acts require the reading of the
Scriptures daily; and still very many
teachers with whom tho matter is op
tional, following their own wishes,
openly recognize God and the llible in
their daily work. It can scarcely be
said, then, that our schools are script-
tireless, godless, immoral, by law. True,
the law prohibits tho teaching of creeds,
and for (lie sake of social harmony and
protection to the freedom of con
science, so dear to every American citi
zen, it refuses to recognize such teach
ings as within tho needs of public edu
cation. Hut creed and Christianity are
vastly different to any mind that is not
biased by dogmatic prejudice.
Must we then look to society, tho vast
public that pat ronizes the schools, for
t he cuuse of their godlessuess? I have
just endeavored to show that it is the
jealous rare that the American pooplo
have <rf their religious beliefs that
keeps the teaching profession in a man-
uer free of infidels and skeptics. Tho
American people, as a nation, have
from the first existence professed belief
in God, and do so now no loss than for
merly. Let “In God Wo Trust” stamp-
ed on coins be witness. Let the recog
nition of God in Congress and in every
department of tho Government bo wit
ness. Let our annual Thanksgivings
with their official proclamations be wit
ness. Lot tho recognition by law every
where of tho holy Sabbath be witness.
However indifferent, as a people, we
may be about religious observances and
ceremonies, we deeply believe in God.
The State of Texas forbids, by law,
the reading of tho llible in her public
schools, nnd the Supreme Court of Wis
consin has recently decided that t ho
reading of the llible in the schools of
that State is unconstitutional, on the
ground that reading it is inculcating
sectarianism. These States are declared
to be in the wrong by the vast majority
of American people. If tho holy Script
ures had never been commented on,
creeds in Christendom would be un
known. Creeds, therefore, are the work
of man and not of God. And sectarian
ism, while it may lay claim to Scriptur
al origin, is only the result of ritualistic
wrangling, and God’s Word cannot be
held responsible for it. This, therefore,
should bo no bar to tho reading of the
Scriptures daily in our schools. The Bi
ble is the great text book of moral in
struction, and nlthough it may bo said
that, it was made for other men in oth
or times than ours, yet it reaches nil to
day. and no other guide can take its
place in teaching men both how to live
and how to die. Comment on Scripture
read in the public schools should he for
bidden. Indeed, I doubt if a tcnchcr
should be allowed to offer prayer regu
larly in his school. To repeat tho
Lord’s prayer is simply repeating
Scripture, but if the teneher pray an ex
temporaneous prayer, why may tie not
use this means of expressing bis own
dogmatic beliof, and thus teach sectari
anism. The teneher of brond and cult
ured intellect would not do so, but some
teachers, liko some preachers whose
minds are effected with prosolytism,
would put forward their own dogma at
evory hazard. The teachings of the
Bible are plnin nnd simple—"so plain
that a wayfaring man, though a fool,
need not err therein," therefore they
need no comments from tho teacher,
and asido from the prayers which tho
Divino Muster Ims taught us, no prayer
is needed in the school-house of the re
public. This is reverence for God’s in
telligence ns well us for Ilis holy word.
Tho schools of the land nre made re
sponsible for much immorality, irrelig-
ion and godlessuess which they never
fostered or inculcated. For example, a
noted man in the Homan church in En
gland has proven witli great sclf-mitis-
faction that in tho .States of the United
States in which ignorance is tho most,
prevalent, Unit there is a far higher de
gree of morality among tho people,
shown by a much less per cent, of crim
inals Lhun in those States whore schools
have been open free to all over since
tho republic began its wonderful histo
ry. It is not my purpose to make any
answer to such absurd talk ns this. It
comes from a prejudiced nnd uninform
ed source. The parochial schools have
their full share of the sins of childhood,
and men nml women who wore taught
in these schools, dedicated to the pat
ron saints of the church, furnish their
full hIiiuo of tho criminals, and evil
doers generally, to the world. Inlldoll-
ty, skepticism, profanity, and general
immorality are abroad, justnsthioving,
embezzlement, adultery, and murder
are abroad. The priests have taught
t heir full pro vatu of those who commit
those sins. Our jails and penitentiaries
are tho goal to which much of tho social
bilge water of European society, taught
to reverence the l’ope and tho ceremo
nies of the church, lias finally como in
tills the new Western world.
Lot us examine a lew of the denunci
ations uttered by Humanists of high
standing against our schools.
Hays Cardinal Manning, of England:
“Tho common school system withdraws
t he child from the intluencos which tho
law of nature Ims provided for its mor
al training and formation, nnd it substi
tutes ami can substitute nothing in the
place of the parental conscience,
responsibility, love and interest in tho
welfare and moral formation of the
child.”
Now, is it truly “parental conscience,
responsibility, love and interest" that
this worthy Catholic is pleading for?
Docs our common school system draw
the child from tho parental responsibil
ity nnd love more tlmn any other school
system would do? No teacher has pu
pils under her training more than five
hours a day for 11 vo days in the week,
and this does not continue moro than
throe-fourths of tho year, and often
only one-third of it. The actual time,
therefore, tlint a child is under tho im
mediate control of tho teneher is about
in proportion to tho time when ho is
under other influences ns one to ton. To
what, source, therefore, must wo look
for tho greater force, or if not the great
er force, at least for tho mere opportu
nity of moulding the child’s moral and
religious character. The parent is sup
posed to imvo the child under “his con
science, responsibility and love" all this
preponderance of time. Tho hours of
tho day when tho teacher 1ms him are
the very hours, too, when, if ho wore
not sheltered in tho school against the
temptations of the street, lie would bo
more likely to be exposed to moral con
tamination and sin. Tho teacher and
tho school, therefore, become indirect
ly a protection against tho probable
neglect of the parent. To he sure, oven
our good Catholic cardinal would not
say that tho teacher would demoralize
the child and so befoul his very soul
with moral filth, as tho sins of the
street would bo likely to do. It would
seem from this great man’s criticism,
therefore, that all schools are baneful,
since nil nlike must take the child away
from the parent, and bonce all schools
must be abolished because all parents
nre not the teachers. But what the car
dinal means is this: Since tho common
school teaches no dogma, therefore “it
can substitute nothing in the place of
parental conscience, responsibility, love
and interest.” This is dogma in all its
dogmatic dogmatism and narrowness.
It is simply saying that tho tyrannical
rule of the church is tho only moral
code under heaven which men can be
subjected to lawfully.
Let us propose to tho cardinal that
we remove this restraint against seeta-
tnrian tenching iu our schools, and
where tho teacher is not n preacher or
a priest let one bo employed to go to
the sellools drily to spend some time
teaching tho dogmas of tho church.
AYe will say a Protestant minister shall
go and spend two hours daily in this
service. AYould our Catholic* cardinal
think then more highly of our common
schools, or would he send his own chil
dren to one of them, or allow Catho
lic parents to do so? Again, allow a
priest to go with the Protestant broth
er, and let them divide time. AYould
this be satisfactory to any one? AVc
will say nothing about the difficulty of
deciding what denomination of tho
Protestant church should provide this
brother. How plain it is to any un
prejudiced mind that our schools can
admit neither the Protestant nor the
Catholic iu this way. I fail to see how
the acquirement of knowledge, such as
our children are compelled to gain in
school in order to become educated, can
interfere with proper training in mor
als, unless the narrow statement of
Cardinal Gibbons be accepted that “no
moral tenching can ho thorough that is
not based on dogmatic truth.” Homan
('ntholic dogmatism and Protestant dog
matism are diametrically opposite in
many respects. Now, if wo can have
no moral training without the ono or
the other, then it follows that one part
of the vast host of people who follow
the -teachings of these dogmas must bo
wholly lacking in good morals. This is
ttie inevitable logic of such reasoning. It
is that reasoning which is void of chari
ty and knows no good hut a selfish good.
It is ceremonious phnrisaUm against
publican penitence. AVhich shall have
the divino blessing?
Bishop McQuaid, of Rochester, N. A'.,
says of tho American State school sys
tem: “An American inquisition, perse
cuting by pecuniary taxation, will bo
moro hateful to them (the Homan Cath
olics) tlmn any that history tells of.”
This simply means that it is more “hate
ful” to tax tho people of America in
this century for tho support of public
education than it was in the twelfth
century to burn heretics to the stake,
yet this good Bishop professes to bo
strictly Godly and patriotic withal. To
make out a ease against taxing Roman
ists who do not (because tho church
domineeringly refuses to allow thorn)
send thoir children to the common
schools, for tho support of a public »ys-
tom of education, this same saint-loving
bishop says: “A coachman pays for the
schooling of his own boys; lie helps ed
ucato in Slate schools his master’s chil
dren." Tho coachman lie menus, of
course, is a good Catholic, nnd will not,
“with premeditation and malice afore
thought.,” damn his children by send
ing them to a public school, while his
master, having less intorost in his, is
willing to send them to lx* damned ^i n
Stato school-house. AVhat kind of rea
soning is this? Is the coachmen so much
richer than his master that nil the tax
his master pays cannot bo sufficient to
boar his share of tho public expense of
educating the children-of his communi
ty, and ho must therefore draw on tho
tax paid by his coachman into the pub
lic treasury ? Tho coachman in this in
stance must be tho rich man and tho
master the poor one, with no taxable
property. Such reasoning as these spec
imens that I have given is tho kind of
argument that the bishops nnd cardinals
of tho Roman church use in denouncing
tlio best and most worthy system of
schools ever known to man. There lias
never boon a system of education so com
plete, so truly in harmony with the great
God-given equality of men ns tho Ameri
can system of public education to-day.
It lias bocomo so grounded into tho
history of tho American republic that
no enmity, whether it should arise in
Rome, or Mocca, or Jerusalem, enn
over overthrow its working. It has
wrought this nation; it has been the
great Americanizer of tlio vast, hosts
that havo Hocked annually to our
shores; it hns exalted citizenship to
royalty; it hasjpulled down aristocracy
from its assumed dignity, and lifted in
dustry to the place given it by God, the
Creator; it lias been tlio foster-mother
of patriotism, and is now doing mor
to promote love of country than over
before; it is democracy reduced to sys
tern. I repudiate nnd hurl back into
tlio tooth of ecclesiastical bigots tho in
famous falsehood thnt its teachings are
tending to immorality and crime. In
tlio name of tlio devotod, sincere, over
worked, under-paid, moral teachers of
America, I declare this criticism to be
nn infamous falsehood, perpetrated
by tlio professed guardians and custo
dians of heaven.
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LUCIEN W. SMITH,
Newnan, Ga., Jan. 31st.
CIVIC SOCIETIES,
Coweta Lodge, No. 00, F. it A. M.—Orlando
McClendon, W. M.; Y. H. Thompson, Sce’y.
Meets second mid fourth Tuesday nights.
Newnan Chapter, No. Ml, R. A. M.—U. L.
Johnson, H. p.; J. H, l’owell, Sce’y. Meets
llrst Tuesday night.
Hiram Council, No. 18, R. A S. M.—G. L.
Johnson, T. 1. M.; li 1). Fouse, lice. Steels
third Tuesday night.
Newnan Lodge, No 102, I. O. O F —W. A.
Steed, N, <).; W. A. Mitchell, See’y. Sleets
every Friday night.,
Newnan Counidl. No. 758, It. A. —L. It. liny,
Regent; Daniel Swlnt, See’y. Sleets seeonrj.
and fourth Monday nights
Newnan Lodge, No. ;i7, A. O. U. W.—Gen,
II. Carmleul, SI. \V.; Hold. F. Slllnur, lleo.
Sleets llrst and third Slouday nights.
CORPORATION'S.
R. I).
Cole .Manufacturing Company; It. D.
Cole, sr., Pres't; M. F. Cole, See’y and Trotts.
Newnan Cotton SI ills; It. D. Cole, sr., Pres’i/
J. F. I.ovejoy, See’y mid Trens. V
Coweta Fertilizer Company; II. O. Arnal
npanv
Pres't; li. C. Fisher, See’y and Trens.
Newnan lldggy Company; Jus. A. Pars*
Pres't; W. A. Dent, See’y and Trims.
Coweta Wugon Company; L. M. Ferine
l’res’t; I). J. Folds, Supt.
Walioo Manufacturing Conipnny; H. C. Ar-
nall, Pres't; T. O. Farmer, See’y and Trens.
Newnan l’uhllshingConipany; R.W. Free
man, Pres't; Orlando McClendon, See’y.
First National Hank; SV. It. Berry, Pros’t;
P. H. Murphey, Cashier.
Newnan National Ilnnk; Charles C. Parrott,
Pres't; Jos. T, Kirby, Cusliler. t
OTHER ORGANIZATIONS,
Newnan Medical Society; John T. Moore,
Pres't; J. T. ltcese, Sce’y; meets every Mon
day night,
Newiinn Library Association; P. B. Mur-
pliey, l’res’t; P. H. Wlllcoxou, See’y.
Pearl spring Park Association; P. H. Brew
ster, Pres't; P. S. Wlllcoxson, See’y.
Newnan Driving Association; VV. A. Dent,
Pres’t; Jos. T. Kirby, See’y.
COUNTY OFFICERS.
Y\ . H. Persons, Ordinary; Daniel Swlnt,
Clork; George H. Carmleul, SberllV; Walker
Jackson, Treasurer; R. C. ward, Tux Collec
tor; J. W. Hunter, Tax Rocelver; John B.
Goodwyn, Surveyor; M. F, Duneim, Coroner.
Commihsionkks of Roads and Revenue,
—J. A. Hunter.ehm'n, P.O. Colllnsworth, H_
L. Freeman, J. N. Sewell, J. W. Hummers.
R. W. Freeman, clerk. Meet llrst Wednesday
In each month.
Court of Oiidinauv.—First. Monday In
each month. W. H. Persons, Ordinary nnd
nv./iflldln I 'lindr
ex-ofllclo,Clerk
JUSTICE COURTS.
First district, tliOlst fi. M.)_ D. K. Elinor^,
J. 1\; U. W. Perdue, N. P.; J, T. Banks, L.
First Monday.
Second district, (8Uttth G. M.) J. T. Benton,
J. P.; P. M. Wtntoni, N. 1\; J. J, Cruse, L. C.
Second Saturday.
Third district, dM3d <}. M.) A. Hf. Bohan
non, N. I’,; W. T. Broadwater, L. C. Third
Saturday.
Fourth district, (l)J7th G. M.) T. J. Wood, J.
P.; O. M. Cuvender, N. P.; G. M. Buckie nnd’
J. P. Buckle, L. C.’s Third Friday.
Fifth district, (IHMlli G M.) Thomas Swlnt.
J. 1* ; Will. Wells, N. I*.; M. W. T. Slit.s ami '
C. B. Kilgore, L. C.’s. Fourth Monday. 1 1
Sixth district (lll5l.hu. M.) H. H. Harrison,
J. P.; W. F. Shropshire, N. 1’.; J. M. Barn
well, L. C. First Saturday.
Seventh district, (710th G. M.) J. C. Mlxo»,
N. P.; It. O. Mixon, L. C. First Saturday.
Cedar Creek district, (7I2U G. M.) T. M.
Sewell, J. P.; J. J. Rainwater, N. P. Fourth
Saturday.
Panther Creek district, (!»02d G. M.) C. K.
Newton. ,T. P.: S. G. Allen, N. P.: W.T. Dyer
and A. II. Hyde, L. C.’s. First Wednesday.
Hurricane district, i755th G. M.) J. W. An
derson, N. P.; T. D. Haynes, L. C. Fourth
Friday.
Grantvllle district, (1100th G, M.) J. I). Staf
ford, J. P ; J. R. Colton, N. P.; C. B. Cotton
and J. W. White, L. C.’s Fourth Saturday.
Turin district, (1358th G. M.) W. M. Sasser,
J. P.; T. E. Shell, N. P.; J. H. Bailey, L.C.
Second Monday.
Haralson district, (1393d G. M.) A. J. Baugh a
J. P.; T. S. Powell, N. P.; W. O. Herndon, L.
U. First Wednesday.
ALLIANCE DIRECTORY. < ,
COWKTA COUNTY ALLIANCE, NO. 101.
J. P. Jones, Vice-President, Lodi; L. M.
McGee, Secretary, Powelvllle; W. M. Ited-
wlne, Treasurer, Powelvllle; Rev. A. T. Sears,
Chaplain. Senola; L. P. Red wine, Lecturer,
Powelvllle; T. C. Hardy, Assistant Lecturer,
Turin; J. H. Hummers, Doorkeeper, Now-
nnu; D. P. Hearn, Assistant Doorkeeper. Pal
metto; Jas. D. Ar-nold, Sergeant-at-Arms,
Sharpsbnrg.
Executive Committee—T. G. Dickson, Chair-
winan, T. A. Jackson, John W. Summers, J.
*D. Arnold, B. F. Hodnett.
SUB ALLIANCES.
Liberty Alliance, No. 07.—I. J, Jackson,
Pres’t, Newnan; L. C. Smith, See’y, Grant
vllle. Meets tlrst and third Saturdays.
Carroll’s Camn-ernnnd Alliance
Carroll’s Camp-ground Alliance, No. 356.—
W. H. Steed, Pres't, Palmetto; Glenn Steed,
See’y, Palmetto.
Panther Creek Alliance, No. 100.—J. P.
Jones, Pres't, Lodi; S. G. Allen, See’y, Lodi.
MOets Saturday before second and fourth Sun
days.
White Oak Alliance, No. 6.—S. L.Whatlej k , ,
Pres’t, Paris; N. H. Young, See’y, Turin.
Meets second and fourth Saturdays.
Banner Alliance, No. 123.-T. C. Hardy, v
Pres’t, Turin; W. S. McDonald, See’y Sharps- f
burg. Meets Saturday before second arid
fourth Sundays.
New Hope Alliance No. — A. H. Bohannon,
Pres’t, Newnan; E. T, Kirby, See’y, Newnan.
Meets second and fourth Saturdays.
Handy Alliance, No. 138.—W. I. Reese,'
l’res’t, Handy; T. S. Widner, See’y, Newnan.
Meets Saturday before fourth Sunday.
Newnan Alliance, No. 873.—L. J. Hurd,
Pres’t, Newnan; J. E. Jones, See’y, Newnan.
Meets first and third Saturdays.
Whatley Alliance, No. 102.—J. W. Ander
son, Pres't, Newnan; T. G. Dickson, See’y,
Newnan. .Meets Saturday before first anil
third Sundays.
CednrCreek Alliance, No. 29.—W. M. Red-
wine, Pres’t; L. M. McGee, See’y. Meets,
second Saturday.
Farmers’ Friend Alliance, No. 131 —G. Mc
Cullough, Pres’t, Senola; L. G. Morgan, Sec'y,
Senola. Meets first and third Saturdays.
Nixon Grove Alliance, No. 125.- W. J. Stew
art, Pres't, Senola; J. C. Thurmond, See’y,
Senola. Meets fourth Saturday.
Haralson Alliance, No. 129.—R. K. Branden-
burg, Pres't, Haralson; W. O. Herndon, See’y,
Haralson. Meets fourth Saturday.
Locust Hill Alliance, No. 552—E. B. Wilkin
son, Pres’t, Newnan; J. H. Graham, Sec’v,
N ewnan.
Oak Mount Alliance, No. 130.—John W;
Summers, Pres’t, Newnan; J. D. Pearson,
See’y, Newnan. ‘