Rt. Rev. Wm. Quarter 55 



What I contend for is the necessity of the daily 

 repetition of, or education in virtuous practises ; and 

 in the practical education of the young, it becomes a 

 matter of the highest moment, to remember that 

 the moral sentiments and the intellectual processes 

 are absolutely dependent on the physical organiza- 

 tion, and require that daily cultivation as much as 

 any of the physical operations of the body. How 

 absurd then to expect, that the moral instruction 

 given on one day in the seven, is sufficient to counter- 

 act the immoral impressions that are likely to be 

 made on the other six days! 



We cannot, therefore, sufficiently cherish those 

 institutions that combine religious training with the 

 intellectual. They are the only props that sustain 

 society against the deluge of indifferentism and 

 infidelity, that is sweeping over the land. Thank 

 God! that in the Catholic Church are to be found 

 societies of men and women who devote their lives 

 to this noble enterprise ! 



When we look to the future as well as to the 

 present ; to the children and to the children's children, 

 that will be saved from everlasting perdition, (to say 

 nothing of the bad example their evil course would 

 have given, and of its effects upon the world,) 

 saved, I say, by the timely instruction furnished at 

 such institutions, we can estimate, in a measure, the 

 debt of gratitude which the world owes to the 

 founders of these schools. They are indeed bene- 

 factors of their people and of their age, and of ages 

 far down the stream of time, when their names will 



