"he will ever be a vicious man."

Rev. F. X. SCHOUPPE, S. J.:

"Education consists in the formation of the man as a
man, I mean as a reasonable creature, moral and en-
dowed with an immortal soul. It consists of two parts:
the formation of the intellect, or instruction, and that of
the heart, which is moral training. ...
 
(2) If we consider the moral training, that is impossible
without religion, for it alone can subdue the passions of
the human heart and make man virtuous. An institution
from which religion is excluded may produce a man
learned in the natural sciences, in the arts, in politics
but no matter how learned he may be, he will ever be a
vicious man.

Parents who through prejudice, through worldly in-
terests or any other motive, neglect the Christian educa-
tion of their children, or send them to godless schools,
(i) will have a terrible responsibility before God, (2) and
will probably receive their punishment in this life, if
not otherwise at least in the sorrows which their chil-
dren will cause them.

As regards you, my dear brethren, have but one am-
bition, ask of God but one grace, that you may bring up
your children as Christians, and when dying leave them
the most precious of inheritances, that of probity and
virtue."

SHORT SERMONS FOR THE  Low Masses of Sunday.
COMPRISING IN FOUR SERIES

A Methodical Exposition of Christian Doctrine,
BY THE Rev. F. X. SCHOUPPE, S. J.
1884, Imprimatuer