The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1904-12-24
SWEETEN OUR SOCIAL LIFE.
by Elizabeth Kelly, Denver.)


A mission more glorious than anything toward
which fraternal societies fostered by the Catholic
church have yet bent their energies lies in the path
of the Queens Daughters, and it is theirs to en-
brace the opportunity to accomplish good such as
will make the organization stand alone distinct
from any kindred society seeking to cooperate with
the ministers of the church III spreading the gospel
of religion, peace and happiness.
To women, the very salt Of the earth" has fall
len the work of rescuing the degraded, sn-strcken
SOUL of bringing comfort to those whom the hand
of death has left sorrowful in the shadow of dark
ness, of teaching the orphaned child the ways of
truth and Righteousness; but there is still mis-
sion unaccomplished which is beyond the scope of
the coistered nun, but which can and must needs
reach fulfillment through the Catholic women who
called to the cloister seek chance in the busy
workaday world to be Of service to the church and
to the great toiling masses.
Borrowing the expression from no specific
creed though it be the keynote of many, so much
depends upon love" There is that natural love
which springs in the heart of the little child toward
all Gods creatures but which is stfled as the years
go by and supreme selfishness for which the age is
noted, gets possession of the human heart chok-
ing out generous impulses save i'll rare cases, and
implanting instead the seed of materialisml.
"The universal love of mankind" the doctrine
of certain sects,. can easily creep into the heart
even after materialism has apparently deadened
what is best in human nature. To promote this
universal love" can be the aim of the young
women who seek to do good by steath-and in time
into what noble calling it will develop.
cries of +Io would ca,,ro+
trate the walls of the eloister and perhaps it is
better so. Sin-burdened souls find refuge with the
good women there, but the misery of the more triv-
ial things of life is happily spared them.
There is much that they cannot DO and which
can easily be accomplished by the women who go
out among the toilers, mingling day by day with
real life The doctrine of universal love of man
kind" is 50 easily implanted in seeing the everyday
miseries of life. 1t gives one less confidence in
self and inspires sympathy for the less Fortunate
which is so nearly akin to love that it might even be
mistaken for it. Gradually the general love of all
becomes an outgrowth of this sympathy, and in
time this knits closely together all of the creatures
of God, making the universal brotherhood" an
easy and natural sequence.
Now what lies within the scope of the Queens
Daughters is this. Their mission lies among the
poor and lowly. 1t is for them to seek and find
those yearning for spiritual consolation as well as
for the material necessities of life. These things
they will do. 1t is their pledge and has not been
disregarded in any town hamlet where the or
ganization has gained a foothod. The needy have
everywhere found friends in the young women
who call themselves Daughters of the Queen of