Public School Education

s regards the well-being and permanence of our national institutions. These, our institutions, our prosperity and civilization, depend for their permanence and perpe

he decline and downfall of nations have ev

the cruelty and instincts of a beast. It may flatter the vanity of modern nations to think they are superior to the ancients in scientific and industrial developments, but if they rely on this alone, they are greatly mistaken. I admit the superiority of the moderns, but not on this account. In the first place, many arts and products of head and hands have been lost, but even those that remain are the envy and despair of modern competitors. Besides, every age must be judged by comparison with its contemporaries. Yet they have fallen; and antiquarian travellers search in vain for the ruins of the proudest and greatest cities of the past. The nation an

one to Mercy. Nor was there, amidst all this barbaric display, a single hospital for the poor of any age or condition. The Roman eagle was carried at the head of victorious legions to the "Hither In

ir material civilization, nor in their impotent and terrified legions. What all these could not do was accomplished by an unarmed man-Pope Leo the Great, speaking in the name of that mighty God, unknown alike to Attila and to Roman wisdom. That God still reigns, and Him it is the State would exclude from the Public Schools! thereby denying alike the lessons of history and its Christian duty. These Uni

villany and defilement will flood the land. It is certain that all education which is not based on religion is heathenish, and

, whilst we live under the fulfilment of the new law, with all its aids and graces. Now, if God did not spare the "Cities of the Plain," if He destroyed the ancient nations in punishment for their wicked lives and disregard of Himself and His law, what reason have our modern heathens and infidels to escape God's vengeance-they who in every respect are more guilty in His sight? Let the measure of the evil consequences of the Public School system become full, and rest assured the wrath of God will not fail to come down upon the American people. The late American war was a great punishment for the whole coun

s right to regulate their conduct as their propensities and appetites should dictate; and as these principles were carried into practical operation by some families belonging to the association, in one instance a son held criminal intercourse with his mother, and publicly justified his conduct. The step-father, and husband to the mother who thus debased herself, boldly av

party, was found dead in

nd died immediately, and three oth

. C., also educated for the bar, and a man of superior i

remains were found fast in the ice, where he evidently had been for a long time, as th

n horse, and was shot by Col. J. Woodhull; N. Miller, his brother, who was d

one Clark, who had been murdered by Kelly; his body remained

by stabbing himself, while

by B. Thorpe and

d for a few dollars; his friend was hung,

of militia. I. D., in a dru

e hung for heinous crimes they had committed. N. B., W. T., and W. H., were

re found, which were recognized by his clothing. J. A., sen., died in the woods, his rum-jug by his side; he was not fou

taking laudanum. D. D. was hired for ten dollars to sh

he State Prison, or were publicly whipped for crimes

essels from the temple of Jerusalem; if He sent so many plagues upon the Egyptians, and drowned, at last, the King Pharaoh and his whole army in the Red Sea, for refusing to let the people of God offer sacrifices where and in the manner the Lord desired it, what will be the punishments for those who, by a godless system of education, abolish religion? If God slew twenty-four thousand men of the Israelites for having fallen into fornication (Numb. xxv.), with what punishments will He visit those who add, to the sin of fornication and adultery, even the crime of child-murder! Numberless child-murders are committed daily in the land. Assuredly the voice of these innocent victims will