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Show ST. MARY'S ACADEMVV Meeting of Children of Mary Examination Ex-amination in Music. A regular ineetinar of the children of Mary took place Friday afternoon, Jan. 20. Among the subjects of conference, that pertaining to the choice of reading matter, was perhaps of paramount im-Iportancc. im-Iportancc. The abundance of printed' inaterial of every description with much that should be wholly discarded lies everywhere at hand for the curious and incautious reader, and what but a! correct if not fastidious taiste, based on strong principles, will preserve the young from contamination through this channel? The obligation of devoting some time to spiritual reading, especially especial-ly on Sundays and holidays, was one! of the practical issue; insisted upon in this connection. Miss Maty Desmond read a composition on "The School of Bethlehem,'' which appears in another column. Examinations in the music classes ! began last Monday. They were held in the library, thus preventing any interference in-terference with the regular routine, and at the same lime affording the pupils to be examined the best chance of success. suc-cess. Roll of Honor. For amiability, neatness, order, correct cor-rect deportment and observance of rules, for week ending Jan. 20, 1903: ' Senior Department. Misses R. Mc-Donough, Mc-Donough, L. Guthrie, A. Rotzler, F. Donohue, I. Kane, K. MeDonough, M. Desmond. M. Shields, C. Gottstein, J. McCue, H. Ashton. J. Dodds V. Guth rie, f. eioiaing, c.Dickert, G. Sullivan, F'. McChrystal, C. Bonner, I. Smith, M. Halloran, C. Castles M. Rose, A. Cas-tallino, Cas-tallino, E. Bixby, N. Smith, O. Kiser, M. arpenter, L. Ryan. J. Callaghan V. Bawden, R. Page, N. Hasbrook, E. Wood, O. Fletcher, M. Williams, G. Burton, A. Amonette, J. Mc Cune, G. Newcomb, H. Josselyn, M. Gottschie, S. Gibbons. Junior Department. Mfeses M. Owens, Ow-ens, B. Michaelis, M. McDonough, W. McDoiough, F. Sullivan, K. Owens, C. Wood, I. Griffin, D. Kiser M. Scott, I. Cousins, M. Hughes, M. Buller, K. Cur-ley, Cur-ley, K. Geoghegan. D. Lj-vy, I. Guthrie, N. Fitzmaurise, K. Hyland, M. Kone, L. Foote, L. Collins, A. . Bowen, M. Guitard, B. Siederrfaden, B. Trice, P. Humphreys, M. Erdman, J. Rand. Minim Department. Misses M. O'Donnell. M. Dillon, E. Smoot, P. Christensen, A. Brownlee. E. Fogh, V. Daniels, F. Lambert, A. Buller, H. , Remis, L. Golding, H. Hill, W.-. Ladd, j R. Crater. I. Griffin S. Chase. M. Fitz- i niaurice, H. Lambert, J. Bunnel, G. Lindsley, L. Griffin, D. Wnite, M. Hughes. T. Seeley, M. Lantry, G. Del-mane, Del-mane, V. DeLoery, D. Golding, Ruth Kelley. The School of Bethlehem. The month of January is s dedicated to the Holy Infancy of bur LorB, and when Ave think of all that this devotion means, we realize that such a period is not too 1 -mg for its study and practice. prac-tice. The Incarnation is the greatest event in the world's history, and who can tell .how many volumes have been written on this mystery of God's love for man? There are various ways of looking at the subject, but to us school girls it may perhaps more easily appeal by being presented after the iclea of a school. Before the coming of Christ, there were certainly many scnools, and the most famous among them are well know n in history. These were founded or elirected by the most learned, and the doctrines of those ancient sages have come down to us through the long ages that have intervened. Their achievements in the realm of knowledge knowl-edge are simply wonderful; and we cannot but admire the truth and beauty beau-ty of many of their teachings. But there are some Stings so difficult for man to comprehenu and so hard for him to reduce to practice that no merely mere-ly human master could ever effectuallyi teach them. God himself, it seems, had to come down upon earth to establish a school and become himself our teacher teach-er in order to make us understand his sublime precepts. We see him beginning begin-ning this office in the very first moment of his human life. We may look upon Bethlehem then, as the school of His Infancy, where with a divine eloquence he expounds some of the chief problems of the moral life. Is not his first lesson on the grandeur of. Christian 'poverty? He who is the Lord of the universe and all its riches and treasures, despises the z-oods of this world, its pride and pomp, and chooses the', lot of the poor. Who amongst us would be . willing to own that our parents were so poor that they had to take. lodging in a stable? Who would not be ashamed of such a birth- j place? ' j Another lesaon hard f ir human nature na-ture is the mortification " which our Infant In-fant God teaches us in Bethlehem Comfort, -if not luxury,, is the aim of every one: we must have good things to eat. and .everything .that will gratify grati-fy our whims' and '' inclinations. But when we. look at Jesus suffering, the want of all such things in his tender infancy, we see the great importance of denying ourselves, and. the necessity of learning to bear w ith pains and contradictions. con-tradictions. ' '-.- i ; Another thing that we note about our little Master's school is. that he taught us all these lovely virtues by example, without a word as yet from his divine lips: therefore, the best .way te study his lessons is by silence, simply sim-ply locking, at what he rUes and how-he how-he does it until the force of his meaning mean-ing penetrates our souls. |