MY DEAR LORD ARCHBISHOP

1 beg to tender to your Grace and to l'heir Lordships the Bishops of the Ecclesiastical Province of Quebec, my most grateful thanks for the important document issued before separating on the occasion of your recent Provincial Council, respecting the non religious school law of New-Brunswick against whose injustice to catholics we are so earnestly protesting.

This authoritative exposition of catholic principles respecting the necessity of religion in the education of youth, and the earnest fraternal Sympathy with us catholic Bishops and people of New-Brunswick in protesting against a god/ess system of education, expressed in the said document, together with the declaration on the part of all the Bishops that they will use their influence, if necessary, With our legislators and with the British Government, in our behalf in case of an appeal to the Supreme Court of England against the New-Brunswick Schoo! Law, must certainly produce a good effect.

If it be ineffectual in overcoming the fanaticism of the authors and patrons of our said School Law, it will nevertheless produce a most happy moral effect in confirming catholics in their principles and in their protest against error. It will demonstrate the unity of catholic teaching, in the important matter of education, as well as in every other matter affecting men’s spiritual welfare.

Therefore, my dear Lord Archbishop, be pleased accept for yourself and for all your venerable Suffragan Bishops, my cordial thanks, as well as those of the clergy and people of my diocese for this your valuable letter addressed to the good Bishop of St. John and myself, The Bishop of St. John, having been present in person to solicit this expression of Sympathy from the Episcopate of Quebec, has doubtless expressed his thanks also,

With profound respect and affection,

I beg to remain

Your Grace’s humble and devoted brother in Jesus Christ,

Ÿ JAMES RoGers, Bishop or CHATHAM.

His Grace The Most Reverend E.-A. TASCHEREAU, ARCHBISHOP of Quebec.

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