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Show OGDEN. Owing to the heavy advertising last week, the following correspondence could not be used. (Special Correspondence.) A fitting termination to a most successful suc-cessful session was the delightful programme pro-gramme which drew an appreciative though not exceedingly large audience to the Academy hall last Friday. The principal features of the programme were prepared by the youngest and the oldest members of the ' institution, the former presenting a beautiful cantata, which was dominated by the true Christmas feeling, the latter giving readings from their class papen the Star of the West: The recitations and musical numbers were in keeping with the season and were rendered in the excellent style for which Sacred Heart is noted. "Christmas "Christ-mas in Camp," as delivered, with musical mu-sical accompaniment, by the Ave little misses named, showed anility on the part of each one, and concluding, as it did, with a tender allusion to home, awakened a responsive chord in every heart, for at ChristmaB, Wherever man may be, on land or ocean's foam, The heart still turns, with fond regret and love, To home, sweet home. In the name of all present, Father Cushnahan thanked the young ladies for the excellent entertainment and extended ex-tended to them the true Christmas greeting. -f Christmas Morning at St. Joseph's Church, Ogden, Utah. From the first strains of Joy at 5 o'clock in the morning until the last note of the benediction service at noon the day so long anticipated by the parishioners of St. Joseph's church proved to be a fulfillment of their most sanguine hopes. They beheld for the first time the God of Love offered on the beautiful new altar which stands as a monument of their devotion a proof to all who have the happiness of seeing it that the Catholics of Ogden know the meaning of sacrifice and loyalty. loy-alty. -4 . Gratefully Inscribed to Rev. P. M. Cushnahan. Gratefully inscribed to Rev. P. M. Cushnahan, on the completion of the new altars, St. Joseph's church, Ogden, Utah. Morla's mount was Abraham's altar stone, A mystic hill whose twin-like peaks reveal re-veal A lordly temple, reared by knightly zeal. And dark Golgotha, where love did atone For guilty man. Our crimes he made his own. And by our bruises sought our wound3 to heal, When we, with sin-sad hearts, in spirit kneel At Calvary's height, the world's great altar throne. Today within St. Joseph's hallowed walls, God views a monument of priceless worth ; It tells a holocaust that mutely calls Across the years to Erin's love-touched love-touched earth A silver sacrifice that still enthralls As on that night when angels sang Christ's birth. Sacred Heart Academy. |