Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-06-02
SACRAMENTO INSTITUTE.
Commencement Exercises Held at Cluni
Opera House Yesterday Afternoon.


some three-story structure is situated on
the southwest corner of Twelfth and X
streets, directly opposite the site OF the pro-
posed Catholic Cathedral. The object OF
the Institute, as set forth in the prospectus,
is to give a thoroughly Christian and secu-
| lar education while classics and modern
languages receive due attention. special
care being taken to impart thorough
knowledge of English. The following pro-
gramme was we'll rendered in all its parts,
each individual receiving merited applause
and gifts of floral pieces
Part Music, overture, "Arion, or
chestra; The Christian Martyr" Charles
Heisen; vocal solo, THE Four-leated Sham
rock, " James Hanford Virginia" George
J. Dwyer; chorus Jingle Bells" choir and
orchestra; ''The Christian Individual"
Charles F. Bryan; Clusters Charge" Jas.
NJ. Nippon: vocal solo, Irish Token,
John W. Lindner; 1.-THE Death OF the
Newsboy." Charles J. Barry; vocal duet,
"a. B. c." Alexander Bender and Frank
T. Quinn; THE Reptlian Age, James II:
Hooker; vocal solo, Home by the River"
Cornelius G. Conrad; Columbus Dream"
Christopher H. Green; Maternal Love.
Francis T. Dwyer; vocal duet, Home Rule
for Ireland" select choir Immortality"
James NJ. Mcdonald; vocal solo, Handful
of Earth" Patrick H. Farrell (encored);
LEO the Great" Joseph Pigeon.
Part 2-Music, " Concert Fantasia" or
chestra Robert of Sicily" John ]. Dris-
vocal duet. Come Silver Moon" Alexan-
der Bender, Charles F. German The
Church and Liberty" Thomas F. Carolan
chorus, q Libertys Charge" choir and or
ehestra; The Bridge" Frederick J.
O'Brien vocal solo, Beautiful Dreams of
the Twilight, Frank H. Schiller; "Cardi-
nal McCloskey," Michael J. Lucey; vocal
duet. Orc Pro Me-" Patrick II. Farrell,
Charles Erauw How ST. Michael's was
Saved" Charles F. German; piano solo
{" Tannhauser ", Charles Heisen; vocal
solo, " God Bless the Dear Ones" Charles
Erauw The Legend Beautiful" Frank
T. Quinn chorus, with the Tide" choir
and orchestra; music, " Waltz di Concert"
orchestra.
The address to the graduates was made
by Rev ]. B. McNally, rector of St. Pat
rick's Church, West Oakland. as follows
ReV. Fathers, Brothers, Ladies and Gentle
men Being anxiously interested in the
education of the youth, am happy to have
been present to-day that | NAV testify to
the high order of merit shown by the boys
of the Sacramento Institute. The Chris
tan Brothers pupils, all the wide world
over, are stars of the first magnitude in
the armament of science and history and
scholastic pursuits. The fact is that the
Brothers in the capital of the West, true
to the traditions of their Order, are nerv-
ously vigilant lest the page of the history
of the sons of La Sale, which it is theirs
to fill up, might be less lustrous than those
of the volume already closed. Fear not.
Brothers, your boys are well guarded.
Their minds are well poised with scholas-
tic and moral culture. They will not run
riot in life, being dazed by the glittering
glare of gayety, but mindful of who they
are and their relations to God, they will
pause at the bait, and turning away, live
long to reflect credit on you, who thusly
fashioned their noble young minds Point
out to me boy for several years educated
by the Christian Brothers, and Pll prophesy
man who will live an honored life and
go down in praise to an honored
grave. You say this IS too much.
Christian Brothers knows himself, knows
his relations to his God, stands in the
midst of the knowledge of good and evil
and although he may forget at times, and
be led away outside the range of the moral
order of his youth, he will invariably come
back to good and resume his loyalty to his
God This is what | have seen and re-
marked in the lives of young men edu-
Gated by the Christian Brothers. | will
pass over the fact that the system of the
schools of the Christian Brothers is proved
beyond doubt to be the most practical and
effective in point of scholastic progress
and perfection, in the known world.
will come to the point where lies the secret
of their success in the training of their
boys While the pupil in their schools is
haiv frnf lnA m IN hA lodi
of truths in the various parts of his studies,
he is ever kept in presence of the essence
and ininitude and source of all truth
God. If ! should rise to the altitude of a
Newton, a Bacon or a Beaconsfield, in their
respective spheres, and fail to know my
self, why am a failure from the incep-
ton. | cannot know myself unless |
know whence came and whittier my des-
tination and my duty in life between
these two points. If | fail in duty, l am
delinquent beyond redemption. | cannot
fail if | do not know what is my duty.
cannot know unless | AM taught it, for
this knowledge only comes after | am led
up to those truths to which my mind is not
native, and for which l need aid from above
and beyond the range of nature. Boys,
you can of your own light of reason come
to the knowledge of natural truths, but the
true knowledge of yourselves depends
upon your true knowledge of God. Sue
cess in life is measured by your nearness to
God when you reach the end of life's Jour-
ney. Learning without morality is worth.
less, is injurious; and morality without re-
ligion has no existence; and religion is the
book wherein you are to learn your rela-
tons to God, the knowledge of yourselves,
and the various functions of your lives I'M
der the head of duty. Upon this knowl-
I i L.,
the Christian Brothers, and you will be
dutiful henceforth on principle and for the
love of what is good. This is the training
of the Christian Brothers schools. Love
and fear are made to balance the youthful
mind, and keep it calmly in place till ripper
wears confirm the course of the Christian
Brothers discipline. Now, my young
friends, if man asks you in life outside
what YOU know of history and the
sciences and such like, you will de-
scribe for him the limits of your knowl-
edge in these matters and thus please him.
But if he asks you, " Do you know your
self?n-which is, as Seneca says, the best
and greatest of all knowledge-you'll say
. Yes and then describe yourselves as ra-
tional intelligences, Christians, ETC., and
this with ease, because, with the sciences in
your school, religion went hand in hand to
perfect your knowledge and fully tighten
up all the whole scope of the human mind
If you were brought up in schools whence
God is exiled what would you say and how
would you satisfy Him, who asks, Who
are YOU? Whence come? Whittier going?
What's your duty here? How will you
perform it?" You could not answer. This
knowledge you could not gain by scholastic
study, or any amount of mental research.
You should be taught this; and your
teacher must have the lesson prepared for
himself by an authority who has diploma
signed by the hand of God Himself. Your
teacher must be tutored himself in the doc
trine and discipline of the Church of Christ,
the only voucher of Christian truth. Here
we have the Christian Brothers, high in
learning and high in moral culture, trained
and disciplined in the intellectual and
moral order they are by excellence the
most approved trainers of the youth:
They are teachers, not mercenary, but out OF
love. If their reward was to be received
in life-an earthly thing, they would not be
Christian Brothers, and few of them would
be teachers. They have chosen this calling
as a means to effect the most holy and de-
sirable END, namely, the propagation OF the
faith and the greater glory of God. These
men teach on principle of faith and moved
by the impulse of the heart of love, and
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