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of philosophy and of the liberal arts than they had formerly done, 

 justly apprehending that the truth might suffer if the Christian 

 youth, for want of proper masters and instructors of their own re- 

 ligion, should have recourse for their education to the schools of 

 the pagan philosophers and rhetoricians, and very properly suppos- 

 ing that to encourage a taste for the sciences, and to excite and 

 maintain a spirit of literary emulation among the professors of 

 Christianity by the establishment of schools, the erection of libraries, 

 and by nobly recompensing men of learning and genius by the 

 honors and advantages attached to the culture of the sciences and 

 arts, were indispensably necessary to the successful abrogation of the 

 ancient religion, maintained and supported as it was by the erudi- 

 tion and talents of the distinguished sages of paganism. Under the 

 auspices of Charlemagne (A.D. 800), the greatest part of the bish- 

 ops erected Cathedral Schools (so called from their lying contiguous to 

 the principal church in each diocese), in which the youth received a 

 learned and religious education. The zealous abbots also opened 

 academies in their monasteries, in which the more learned of the 

 fraternity gave instruction in the Latin language and other branches 

 of learning suitable to the future destination of the young. 



It is not, therefore, without good reason that one of the old di- 

 vines (Thomas Bacon, A.D. 1564) said: "The fathers of Christ's 

 Church in times past had a singular care and special study for the 

 Christian younglings that they might be brought up godly, virtu- 

 ously, and in the knowledge of the laws of the Most High. Unto 

 this end they gave money and lands to find both the school-masters 

 and the scholars, and erected and set up schools that the lambs of 

 Christ's flock might be fed in pleasant pastures of the Holy Script- 

 ures. By this means it came to pass that the children trained up 

 in the law of God from their youth became godly and virtuous, so 

 that as they grew up in age, so likewise they increased in godliness, 

 knowledge, virtue, and goodness, which thing would to God it were 

 renewed in our schools, that our Christian youth might learn to 

 know Christ from their tender age. So should vice decrease, virtue 

 increase, and papistry soon come to an end, and true godliness take 

 root, spring, grow up, bud, flourish, bring forth fruit, reign, rule, 

 triumph, and early have the victory over all other doctrines." In 

 accordance with this view, at the Reformation Christian schools, col- 

 leges, and universities sprung up in Germany, Switzerland, France, 

 Holland, England, and Scotland ; and from that time to the presenl 

 the different branches of the Church of Christ have made the con 



