Literary cadet, and Saturday evening bulletin. [volume] (Providence, R.I.) 1826-1827, 1826-08-26

Church, and the peculiar. manner Of the worship
Of the Charlottesville sublimity Of their creed, the
jevoiedness 18th which they live up TO the man
iates, Of their order, and the priyatons they en-.
lure, the solemn and reverential penance they per-
elicit in the observer, once, feelings Of admir-
ation and Of awe, and sensations of the most melan-
choly cast.
Ia those cities where the Catholics have estab-
lished chapels, monasteries, and Converts, is
daily and hourly witnessed, their devotedness and
| the solemn and imposing manner, in which they
worship Almighty God, the Saviour Of mankind, the
holy Virgins and the Martyrs; and nothing can bs
more interesting or instructive to the pous mind,
than an assembage ofthem, when kneeling at mass
al vespers, before the shrine Of great Jehovah.
Sine the fall Of papal supremacy, and the
tablishment of the Protestant Church, they have
been prosecuted people, and the iron rod Of Big
! otry has fallen heavy upon their hcads. The mel
anchoiy disorders which distracted Ireland in the
| year 1906. and the Wexford Rebellion, sent to this
country numerous Catholics, who sought IN this
! land Of tolerance, an asylum, safe aud secure from
the pursuit of their oppre<sors. They have grad.
ualiy i"creased since they came to shores, and
the mllness and lberality OF our laws and the wis
dom of our Constitution, peculiarly calculated
to restore the ancient Church of Christ, To its prs-
tine dignity and subIimity. Adhering TO the order
TO which they belong, and tenacious Of their orisi-
nal forms of government, they have established in
this country numerous converts and nunneries,
where to be seen all the regaa Of the Church
of Rome, and the hood and the cowl--.he sack
cloth, the crucfx aud rosary--and the dark and
gloomy cell, where the religious votary wears his
life out, praise and Thanksgiving to the Ruler OF
Universs.
A convent ofthe Ursuline Nuns, has for many
years existed in Georgetown, District of Columbia,
and we well remember Of ha wing, in earlier days
"when life was young and hope was new" linger-
ed around its gates and walls, IN hope of
beboldnc a blue eeyed Juliet, who had bade the
world short farewell, to dwell within tho gloomy
structure, with the daughter Of st. Ursuline. But
il was IN vain that wisifully gazed upon the man
sion dedicated to God and religion for she on
whom our young eyes would have lsasted, iel an
untimely victim Ia secluded life. and when che
the narrow house OF clay--,o slumber beneath the
cold ciod of the valley.
About year ago, Mis-. Mary Jones, daughter of
Captain Jacob Jones, of the United States Navy
who had been a novice at this institution, became
religious devotee-re,oved upon adopting a mo-
nastic llo, aud took the white vel. II is seldom
that this ceremony has been performed in this
country it caused some little excitement, and her
friend. and the public entertained hope that she
would recede from her intentions and return to the
worll-to the bosom of her parents, and the enbra-
ces OF society. But these hopes have all vanished
about fortnight since, she went through the cere-
mony Of taking the biack veil, aud has now abiurcd
the world, society," and all the kindlier feelings of
our natures, TO seek within tho solitary limits of a
monastic cell, those devotional cnjoyments which
society denied her.
Its said, that though it was hor choice to take
an everlasting farewell of the world yet she betray-
ed those feelings which religious zeal cannot sup
press, and which will vent themselves aud relieve
a bursting heart. As shc gave the holy VOW, her
bosom was convulsed with ten thousand throes, for
her heart yet fingered upon the world.
"Her hands were claspI, her eyes upturnd,
Dropping their tears like moonlight rain
And though her lips, fond raver burn'd
win words OF passion, words OF flame
Yet was there light around her brow,
holiness in those dark eyes,
Which showd, though wandering eortbroyd now
Her sptrHs home was in the skies"
There must be an alienation of mind. n kind of
religious madness, pervadng the soul, that can in
the bloom ofliie-when surrounded by the joys Of
the world the love Of friends, and the idoatry of
socety-tcar itselffr the ties OF nature, and give
up all, to worship the Creator of Mankind. Yet
here we find young girl, used to the highest cir
cies OF society-ihe daughter of man, who holds
pre-emincnt rank among the noblest captains OF the
aSe--the daughter OF a man who had il in his
power to secure to his offspring the most desirable
situation in Extraordinarily retiring to the cloister,
| TO offer unceasing orlsons to the Lord of Hosts.
What motives, other than those purely devotio-
nal, impeled her TO this course, have not vet been
made known, and the world is left to wonder, that
one SO young, so lovely and so good, should in a
moment OF enthusiasm desert the world, and blast
The hopes OF parents and friends, by retiring to the
| silent cell of an snchorite.
It's melancholy to witness the departure Of the
trends we love, when by natural causes they are
lead to the sepulchre; but how much more pa in
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