Word: church
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...real adversary of the public school system, an adversary whose opposition is avowed, positive and usually logical is the Catholic denomination - in its clergy, for left to themselves the laity would be inert in the matter. The Catholic church has put the schools in this dilemma: schools that retain the shadow of religious instruction are denounced as sectarian, while those that leave it out are branded as godless. And to neither kind, the church declares, can it send its children; accordingly, at the late council in Baltimore, it ordered the erection of parochial schools throughout the country...
...policy of the church is to educate its own children. For this purpose it has established all over the United States graded-schools, academies, colleges and seminaries, and it is planning a university. Its line of opposition to public unsectarian institutions of learning is complete at every point. We have, then, two systems of education in our midst, not, however, running in competition, which might benefit both, for the church monopolizes the patronage of its children from the primary school through to the university...
...very interesting lecture was given on the 4th inst. by Dr. Phillips Brooks of Trinity Church to the students of Phillips Academy, Exeter, a school intimately connected with Harvard, and of which an ancestor of Dr. Brooks was the founder. We have only seen a partial report of the lecture in one paper, the Journal, but that is more than sufficient to create a strong desire either that the whole lecture should be published, or that the Reverend lecturer, who is so warmly esteemed and honored at Harvard, would deliver either the same, or a similar one, before the undergraduates...
After a short meeting among the students Sunday morning, the delegates attended services at the city churches. In the afternoon Prof. Lincoln, of Brown, gave an address on Christian consecration. The closing exercises were held in the First Baptist Church. Mr. Wishard spoke of the world-wide extent of this Christian work for young men. Reports were then given by delegates of the religious life in their respective colleges. The pastor of the church made a few remarks about the claims of the ministry as a profession. At the close of this meeting the delegates held farewell exercises...
...policy with special reference to the pre-emption law. 6. The validity of the Clayton-Bulwer treaty. 7. Have the principles of the Monroe doctrine been adhered to in the policies of the various administrations, and has the doctrine been misinterpreted by popular opinion? 8. The connection of the church with slavery? 9. Should the United States exercise a controlling influence over any inter oceanic canal? 10. The policy of the United States toward the Indians. 11. The effect on France of the wars of Louis XIV. 12. Discuss the jurisdiction and procedure of the Court of Star Chamber...