For Remembrance (ed. Repplier, 1901)/The Children's Word

The Children's Word.
Address Read by Miss Maguire, Sunday, November 18, when Presenting the
Jubilee Gift of the School.

EVEREND and dear Mother: As the children of the household are to be its final inheritors, so should they be the sharers in its solicitudes, its memories and its joys. This group of your children, so gladly surrounding you to-night, must feel a modest pride in the thought that Providence assigned to them a privilege no pupils ever enjoyed before, and none shall ever claim again. They are the inmates and the representatives of Eden Hall in the great days when the whole Society of the Sacred Heart lifts to heaven one united hymn of thanksgiving. This will be, please God, a precious memory to every one of us, so long as life lasts. We have humbly, in our child-like fashion, desired that, in some way, this precious recollection in our own lives should become a visible memento in the life of our dear Alma Mater. In what form it be perpetuated we leave to you, dear Mother. We ask not whether our token of filial affection stand separate or be blended into the general memorial of Eden's daughters. We only hope that somewhere, hidden perhaps, but marked by the angels, it may record our gratitude to you, to our mistresses, to the Society of the Sacred Heart,—to Eden Hall, in one word. And be it what it may, or where it may, let it say: Omnia pro Te, Cor Jesu.

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Drama played on academy stage, "Madame Elizabeth of France, or the Sacred Heart the World's Hope."

Prologue, "Glances Backward," recited by Miss Helen Maloney.

Between the second and third scenes of the play little Miss Catherine Mack recited "The Case of Marcella Ann, a Doleful Ballad."

The play closed with tableau in the prison of Madame Elizabeth, revealing the Sacred Heart surrounded by adoring angels.

Epilogue delivered by Miss Alice Schoettle.