the Religious of the Sacred Heart in memory of Francis Drexel and Elizabeth Bouvier Drexel, his wife." Following this one is a family memorial window to Elizabeth Edwards Feterman. A third bears the name of Charles McFadden. To the right, the first window asks prayers for the soul of Emily White. After it, is one in memory of Sarah Kennedy Boone. The next is a touching memento of Arabella Smith. The last, in the choir cloister, is placed for Elizabeth Bouvier Dixon and Eustace Bouvier. Without the cloister, in the guest chapel, is a window set in as a token of gratitude: "By the Religious of the Sacred Heart to Louisa Drexel Morrell." On the opposite wall brass tablets commemorate the indebtedness of Eden to the four chief founders of the church, George Edwards and Elizabeth, his wife, and Robert Ewing and Elizabeth Ewing, his daughter. Another brass tablet, close to the high altar, records the names of Michel Bouvier and Louisa Vernon Bouvier, his beloved wife, in whose memory were bestowed the exquisite medallion stations of the cross. In the sacristy are three very striking windows illustrating the three parts of the parable of wheat and cockle, and a fourth, farther in, displays the seal of the society, the Holy Hearts of Jesus and Mary.
The two statues, the Blessed Virgin and St. Joseph, and the rich bronze holy water font standing at the chapel door were the offerings of Mrs. Blackburne, of Philadelphia, a lady whose gifts to Eden Hall, and to so many other convents of the Sacred Heart, have taken every shape that love and liberality could suggest.
The exquisite memorial shrine, called the "Lady Chapel," stands over a deep crypt, containing in its vault the remains of Francis Drexel, his wife, Elizabeth Bouvier Drexel, and of his daughter, Elizabeth, wife of Walter George Smith. The statue of Our Lady, the carvings of altar, columns, niches and windows; the representation of the fifteen mysteries of the rosary in stained glass, the mosaic of the tabernacle door, and all the appointments of this chapel have rendered it a subject of art-study to seculars; but to the sisterhood it remains simply a little sanctuary for their devotion and a perpetual claim upon their prayers.
One of the greatest treasures of Eden is a precious relic, authenti-
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