Messenger (Volume 44) (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1905. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... Northwest Review (October 14) Mr. Ryan regrets that their poverty and numerical weakness made it impossible for them to have a school. "To exclude religion from the schools is to abandon religion to unbelief, to inaugurate the dominion of agnosticism." "By what a strange perversion of terms are the advocates of such schools called patriotic, and those unpatriotic, who, like yourself, Most Reverend Sir, are championing the right of the parent to educate his child and the right of the Christian child to be taught his religion?" An Early Missionary.--It is stated by Martin I. J. Griffin in his Historical Researches that Rev. John Pierron, S.J., who, in 1674, made a journey from Canada to Maryland, was possibly the first priest to tread the ground which is now Philadelphia. Father Pierron found more Catholics in Maryland at that time than two priests could attend to. He himself labored among the Indians. Educational Successes.--According to the results of the Council of Higher Education examinations at Newfoundland, which have just been published, "in the associate grade St. Bonaventure's College takes six of the nineteen prizes. In the intermediate grade, eighteen prizes have been secured, fifteen of them being for first division work, and on several papers over 70 per cent, were obtained by the boys of the College. In the preliminary grade," says the True Witness, "the success of the college was phenomenal. "In the intermediate scholarships Littledale Academy (St. Bride's) captures two, the largest number for the city schools. In the intermediate subject prizes, Littledale wins first for English composition, and in the other grades the pupils have taken a large number of prizes. "In the intermediate grade scholarships (Jubilee Collegiate $100, open to outport scho...