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Show CHRISTIAN EDUCATION. The closing exercises of St. Mary's of the Assumption As-sumption in Park City took place on last Friday. It was the twenty-eighth closing annual exercise. Twenty-eight years ago! How these twenty-eight years have fled! Many of the fathers and mothers moth-ers in Park City today remember the first closing exercise there, yes, remember it, for were they not children then, and did they not take part in these exercises with all a boy's and girl's simplicity, purity pur-ity and faith? Catholic parents of Park City, when you- were at school you learned the lessons that fitted you for a walk in life, but you learned most of all the lesson which fitted you for a walk in eternity. The faith that is in you today was sown in St. Mary's school. You know it, and you feel it, for you are today the old oaks of faith in Park City. We fear not for you and we fear not for your children if you take them by the hand and make them walk the steps you have walked. Make them to Catholic parents these words may sound imperious im-perious nc we will not use them, for the true Catholic parents that we have known take their little ones by the hand and whisper to them : Learn the Our Father and Hail Mary, and the truth, the justice, the mercy of the living God, and after that you can learn the sciences of time. All who had the happy privilege of witnessing the closing exercises of 1910 were loud in their praises of the work of the Sisters and of the proficiency pro-ficiency of the children. The various items were rendered in a manner which evoked applause even from the severest critic. In our last week's issue we gave the program rendered. At the close of the exercises the esteemed pastor, Rev. Father Galli-gan, Galli-gan, "complimented the pupils and teachers for the successful culmination of the year's work," dwelling especially on the importance of Christian education. "Unless the Lord build the house, vain do they labour who build it." "The Sisters," he said, "gave a polish and a refinement re-finement which wa3 not possible in all schools." j The reverend gentleman was right, for in' St. Mary's schools are taught the justice, the truth, the love and the mercy of God, and on these hang solely polish and refinement in the true sense. Without Christ, a child may know all the sciences, but what is he, after all? lie has in him only the materialistic man. In conclusion, the pastor "urged the pupik to continue in knowledge, but in all their study to be prayerful and God-fearing." Here again the reverend pastor's words sounded sound-ed a note of warning, for unless children are told of God and His truth they will neither be prayerful prayer-ful nor God-fearing, and in school nowadays apart from those which are under Catholic influence are taught a great deal about the science of the world nd nothing about God. We compliment the Catholic people of Park City upon their having such an excellent school in their midst, a school which will prepare their children chil-dren for their walk through time, and oh! what is of vital importance to all parents who love their children with their very heart's blood a school to prepare their little ones for their walk in eternity. |