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INTIMATE ALLIANCE BETWEEN RELIGION AND GOOD EDUCATION (Alianza

Intima Entre la Religion y la Buena Educacion, 1876)

Education without God is useless

As the climbing ivy over lefty elm

Creeps tortuously, together the adornment
Of the verdant plain, embellishing
Each other and together growing,
But should the kindly elm refuse its aid
The ivy would impotent and friendless wither
So is Education to Religion
By spiritual alliance bound.
Through Religion, Education gains renown, and
Woe to the impious mind that blindly spurning
The sapient teachings of Religion, this
Unpolluted fountain-head forsakes.

Education without God is worthless

As the sprout, growing from the pompous vine,

Proudly offers us its honeyed clusters
While the generous and loving garment
Feeds its roots; so the fresh’ning waters
Of celestial virtue give new life
To Education true, shedding
On it warmth and light; because of them
The vine smells sweet and gives delicious fruit.

Education without direction comes destruction

Without Religion, Human Education

Is like unto a vessel struck by winds
Which, sore beset, is of its helm deprived
By the roaring blows and buffets of the dread
Tempestuous Boreas, who fiercely wields
His power until he proudly sends her down
Into the deep abysses of the angered sea.

The power of God reverses a hopeless situation

As the heaven’s dew the meadow feeds and strengthens

So that blooming flowers all the earth
Embroider in the days of spring; so also
If Religion holy nourishes
Education with its doctrines, she
Shall walk in joy and generosity
Toward the Good, and everywhere bestrew
The fragrant and luxuriant fruits of Virtue.

The word GOOD with GOD is O meaning NOTHING. When one realizes his nothingness (o) and invites
GOD in his life, he becomes GOOD. Because the soul of education is the education of the soul.

Jose Rizal believed that religion is concomitant with good education, hence the strong relationship
between education and faith. Accordingly, he wrote the poem “Intimate Alliance between religion
and good education” at the age of fifteen while he was in Ateneo.

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 6. Hymn to Labor, 1888
(A Translation from the Spanish by Nick Joaquin)
Readiness of the Filipino
CHORUS:

For the Motherland in war,

For the Motherland in peace,
Will the Filipino keep watch,
He will live until life will cease!
Work sustains a man
MEN:
Now the East is glowing with light,
Go! To the field to till the land,
For the labour of man sustains
Fam'ly, home and Motherland.
Hard the land may turn to be,
Scorching the rays of the sun above...
For the country, wife and children
All will be easy to our love.

(Chorus)
Faithful wife secures the house
WIVES:
Go to work with spirits high,
For the wife keeps home faithfully,
Inculcates love in her children
For virtue, knowledge and country.
When the evening brings repose,
On returning joy awaits you,
And if fate is adverse, the wife,
Shall know the task to continue.

(Chorus)
Attitude towards work measures a man
MAIDENS:
Hail! Hail! Praise to labour,
Of the country wealth and vigor!
For it brow serene's exalted,
It's her blood, life, and ardor.
If some youth would show his love
Labor his faith will sustain :
Only a man who struggles and works
Will his offspring know to maintain.

(Chorus)
Pride of parents
CHILDREN:
Teach, us ye the laborious work
To pursue your footsteps we wish,
For tomorrow when country calls us
We may be able your task to finish.
And on seeing us the elders will say :
"Look, they're worthy 'f their sires of yore!"
Incense does not honor the dead
As does a son with glory and valor.

Jose Rizal wrote the poem “Himno Al Trabajo” before he left Calamba in 1888. This poem is in
response to the request of his friends from Lipa, Batangas. They wanted a hymn to commemorate
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 the elevation of Lipa from a town to a city in January 1888. Dedicated to the industrious folks of
Lipa, the poem consisted of lyrical conversations of men, wives, maidens and children.

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