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Rev. Henry Ward Beecher appearedon time Baturday evening, at l'ike's Opera-house, and delivered his celebrated lecture on (Jompuisory Educationto a large and deeply intciested audience.Mr. Beecher firmly believes that education makes better men and citizensthan ignorance. He believes in puttingthe ballot in the hands of every emit .-rant and woman. On the last point hisideas arc very emphaticTouching compulsory education, heheld that the State clearly has the rightto enforce secular education. 1 teligious sects most hold otf their hands; they hadproduced more strifes, discords ’ andbloodshed than anything else besides in this world; therefore, when he sawapriest enter the school as an educator,ae would ask him if he came as a priest or as a citizen. If he answered as apriest, then he should be told to go. hut if he answered. “1 come as a citizenalthough wearing the priestly garb.then he should be told to come. Religious and moral teaching must bo left tothe church and the household bestdone, he believed, in the latter, but that must not be neglected, for they were all important, and finally o» that subject he
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The Cincinnati Weekly Star
Cincinnati, Ohio, US
Wed, Feb 26, 1873
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