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Show Denver's Brotherly Love. 1 IRK is a pitiless agent of destrue- tton. especially wnen the macl flames devour all that is called home to a child without a parent.. Yet the visitation ot this scourg in the imposing building that sheltered 2-0 orphans in North Denver was accompanied accom-panied by a retrieval which almost marks the calamity a mixed blessing. That retrieval atones for the sufferings suffer-ings of the little ones who marched across the prairie that bleak March aernoon in search of temporary shelter. shel-ter. It softened the agony of the noble no-ble sisters who gazed in mute dismay upen tho ruins of the finest institution institu-tion of charity in these mountains. It enabled tl.em to say with unction of j spirit "They will, O Lord, be done." charity, of brotherly love, a spontaneous spontan-eous demonstration by the citizen-. of Denver of every class and creed that not all the stone in Colorado, laid into a building as high as the tower of Babel, could find tongue to utter. Welcome Wel-come lire, welcome every scourge that comes from God. if its fruit be such as that presented by the noble generosity, gener-osity, of Colorado and expressed in language like that spoken at the mass meeting to restore the St. Vincent's orphanage. There is in the human heart, no matter mat-ter how the world has hardened it to I , i jnnriij noni me unior-tunate unior-tunate strong man, a tender love for the orphan c hild. The helplessness of one without a parent appeals to out-inmost out-inmost pity and affection. But nowhere no-where outside tids mountain country do people respond to such charity with a -spontaneity that borders on enthusiasm. No miner has done his share until ho has tossed his dollar into the hat for the orphan. No mine owner own-er feels that luck has broadened his fortune until a princely gift is be- stowed for charity. No bonanza's his-j his-j tory is complete without recording some generous act for the child of an unfortunate miner. Bi.hop Matz. no doubt, is Hab'd over that meeting at the Broadway the atre. The sentiments of laymen, Protestant Prot-estant and Catholic alike, respond to the sentiment of brotherhood of man and fatherhood of (Jod. Not Jong will the little tots deprived of a home be away from the good sisters. In a short time, much .shorter than it took to erect the building; burned down, another an-other will go up "like a Phoenix arising from its ashes." as the bishop expressed ex-pressed it. And it will be so much larger and so much grander than the ether that Sister Frahcis Xavier, the j good mother superior who first gave j , it a start, will rejoice that the Lord i ! lias turned her repining into blissful ! content. May God spare her to wit-! wit-! ness the new St. Vincent's orphanage before he c -loses her eyes in death. Mativ incidents i.i iVi . " "'i- ' ciuiij ac count of the fire and action of Denver's Den-ver's citizens at the time are worthy of preservation in memory. One or two which do not appear elsewhere are given by our Denver correspondent. Miss Elizabeth Kelly. Describing the j j c onsternation of the children, she writes: I "One little tot exclaimed: 'Oh, I was so frightened when the fire broke out, ! for, you know, my little brother has never been baptized.' Sweet, childish unselfishness! Fruits of the labor of the good sisters: May the grace of I ."u ncip mem to Draveiy bear their j cross. May they continue to be re- signed to the will of Providence and murmur, as they now do, 'It was a merciful God that permitted us to !ave our little ones.' " |