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Show -r ? DIOCESE OF DENVER CITY OF DENVER. Circular Lett er Celling To the Annual Orphans' Collection. ( Special Correspondence.) Denver. Sept. i'8. The following letter of the j Kt. Kev. Bit-hop was read in ail the churches of the j diocese last Sunday: I "Kev. and Dear Father, Beloved Brethren: The month of October is the time for the Orphans' collection. col-lection. We have now over 440 children in our various orphan asylums, distributed as follows: In I St. Vincent's home, Xorlli Denver. 180: St. Clara's. ! West! Denver. H0; Sacred Heart Orphanage. Pueblo. Pu-eblo. '101: with numbers increasing every week at the three institutions. Hence you see that we have now actually 111 little ones to house, clothe and feed. If we calculate the expense for keeping these children at 20- cents a day (and I am quite sure no one who knows what it co-is to raise a family wonld undertake to house, feed and clothe these children for loss) this would entail an outlay of $771 a week for food, clothing and the absolutely absolute-ly necessary com fori s of a home for these waifs whom. misfortune has deprived of father or mother, moth-er, or both. And here Ave are not reckoning the expense ex-pense incurred for buildings, for education (books and stationery), for teachers and nurses (the Sisters), Sis-ters), and the many other incidentals which are beyond our calculations. ''At this rate the result of our annual diocesan collection for the orphans would not keep the 441 we are now providing for, one week in the three, orphanages above mentioned. Hence the necessity ior us to have recourse to other means, snob a special collections by the Sisters,, picnics, balls, entertainments, fairs, etc.. whicirarc a burden that could be very materially lessened by a more generous gen-erous response to our appeal for the orphans! ''Xow. we are in duty bound to take care of pur orphans. It is the Lord who commands us. This command he has laid down in the sentence He shall pronounce, on the Last Day, the Day of Judgment when He shall say to the elect: "Then shall the King say to them that shall be on his right hand: Come ye blessed of my Father, possess , you the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation foun-dation of the world. For I was hungry and you gave me to eat; I was thirsty, and you gave me to drink; I was a stranger and you took me in; naked and you covered me,' etc. 'Then shall the just answer an-swer Him, saying: r'Lord, when did avc sec thee hungry and feed thee; thirsty, and gave thee drink; a stranger, and took thee in; or naked, and covered thee;" And the King answering, shall say to them: "Amen, I say to you, as long as you did it to one of these my least brethren vcm did it to me " ' Math, xxv, 34-40. "Here then we have the injunction of our heavenly heav-enly King. Sow let us. see the sanction wherewith He would enforce this, command: 'Then He shall say to them also that shall.be on his left hand: "Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire which Avas prepared for the devil and his angels. For I was hungry and you gave me not to eat; I was thirsty and you gave me not, to drink; 1 was a stranger and you took me not in; naked and you covered me not." etc. Then they also shall answer Him. saying: "Lord, when did avc see thee hungry or thirsty, or a stranger, or naked," etc., "and did not miniver to thee?" Then He shall answer them, faying: "Amen, I say to you, as long as you did it not to one of these least, neither did you do it to me." And these shall go into everlasting pun. Math.. xxv, 41-40. The lesson, with its reward and chastisement must be plain to every one. But that I there might be no doubt in our minds as to the application of this lesson, its interpretation and. the obligation it lays upon us all. this same Divine Savior in the xviii chap, o v. of St. MatthcAv, tells T.-ij ""osoever snaJi receive' one such little child in my name, reecivcth me.' ; "We have traveled considerably among the Mexicans, Mex-icans, both in the United States and the Republic Repub-lic of Mexico, and we were agreeably surprised to find how this truly Catholic people thoroughly understand? this precept and complies faithfully with its obligation. We may say in truth that' amongst them, you can find no orphans. The reason rea-son is because for every one such unfortunate, instinctively, in-stinctively, scores of families present themselves to adopt tlie poor waif and incorporate it amongst their own. And ifyou went amongst them as we did, you could never detect the orphan from the other members of the family. In our American civilization, with its customs, busy life and many' cares, it might sometimes be very inconvenient' for us to extend the same paternal hospitality to the poor abandoned orphans. But here the Chureh .' Christ s representative in our midst, comes to our relief She builds her homes, asylums and houses ot refuge and provides them in our devoted sisterhoods, sister-hoods, with real mothers, endowed with maternal hearts, such as - God alone can create; mothers wnose love is a combination of the most exquisite paternal and maternal love amalgamated in one -' In these asylums she gathers all these unfortunate ' whom adversity, accidents, divorce (the plague t our age), premature death and the one thousol other calamities humanity is heir to, has depri-d : of parental care; and she calls upon Wall to id 1 her in saving them, alike from temporal 'and eteal perdition. ,t ' ow, would one dollar a year from e-ry Jm-ily Jm-ily aud every single man and woman that hno one but self to provide for, be tod much rVox.' peet r How many dollars a year are wastcd-V an injudicious expenditure, even in the horned f ;-h0 poor, which if it were given to the poor (.stitu'jo orphans, would bring untold blessings to" tf home' Let every one of us that possibly can. confute to this orphans' collection one dollar. Thcyfore gen- i erous contribution of such 'as can d roore will supply the shortcomings of .those tvhrf want mav eompel to do less Let every, one of v bestow bountifully boun-tifully as much as avo may to reli? the Avanrs of our dear lest it Ate orphans, beang in mind the Savior's loA-ing' assurance that w ill accept as done unto Iliviself whatsoever may have done to one of . th(M Amen, T sao you, as long as X;U4id itit.opji.,,ofJ.these .irr!east brethren, vou, didit'to mc'""' :; ' . ' "Given iu Denver l-'eat. of St. Matthew, : "N". C. M'TJishbp of Denver. ' 'TVS. Pastors wiP read this circular in their parishes at all thaes .on the last Sunday "Lcat!i0JLd..iji. Jn j gs ' f i s on t bo fr'r-v? iV !. ;- ; : . ; . ih in the Biihop'shoucc-warming,"' 'Thursday.-' ' Sept. . - -; ;;.;. Mrs. John V. Campion Tias'tlw' matter in charge j and all indications point tu a great success. : . u; The ladies of the' different 'parishes (SOhe city have been invited to participate and each' ajid everyone every-one is more, than willing 'fo aid in the "good Avork. ( Most active preparations have J been necessary to j 'thoroughly clean andrrcnovat;? the" mansion, our ( good Bishop is so -soon .-to -call his home." One. banj scarcely realize that so -much has. been aecom plished iu so shotted time, and, glancing at-thtj newly pajurcd Avalls.'i the hi'iidsoine : carpets anc; elegant furniture all the expression of-good Mi and good feeling of the daughters of the Chuxeh-rj it sc-enis, of a truth, not only .a Jieuse-wtxrming bu a heart-warming that, v, 111 fill, the structure froji.l garret to cellar with , the spirit, of hospitality antf j good A iil. . ; ':" ! ' n- i Kt. Kev. Biho.i: Mtz, and Ker." P,X Philliji. chancellor of the' diocest-;- together with.; the, AvivL' of the members pi" the building committee Mf.r John F. Campion, -Mr. Den his Sheedy, Mrs. M.j BroAvn, Mis. J. K. Mullen and M: Dennis. Mulo" will receive the guests.' - -.".f . I : The general reeepliou -Committee consists ff Mrs. Caldwell Yciiman, Mrs. Fred K Paul. Jiv and Mrs. W. P. Iloran, Mrs. McCabei'-Mrs. B.f-; . resson. ilrs. Merriweather-and Mr. Pursell... j . Ljght refreshments Avill be. served; by the yotiij ladies Mis Mary Sullivan, the Misses Gottc?lcs i.-; Miss Anna Daily, the 31 is?Ci McCabc. Miss Jn- f" nie McKinnon, Miss Lillian Hurd, Miss Fin it,y J and the Misses Mullen assisting.'-.." , j .. The Knights, of St John and Knights of. Cor lumbus will be fully represented. ' ;. . i. - v |