The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1905-06-17

even religion can no longer persuade
God himself on earth saw fit TO ODE!
her and to defer to her. He has made
her dignity and influence a cornerstone
in the temple of His religion; man mus
recognize them to be a foundation o.
society. Let womans influence be e8-
erted Alright, and all will be well for the
family and for the state; let her turT
her allegiance to evil, and sin and yul-
garity and general ruin is imminent
She can subvert or she can save So
ciety.
What folly il is to speak of equalizing
the seXesi Of opening every field of
activity to woman! She is not destined
by nature or by religion TO be the equal
of man. or TO do those ruder tasks from
which God has saved her by making
her not an equal, but a queen, with
queenly dignity and queenly power and
queenly privileges.
Not the equality of woman with
man. but the maintenance in her of the
real causes of her dignity and superior
ity must be the ideal of those who
would have Gods all-wise plan find its
full fruition. She must be carefully
trained TO keep alive her love for all
that is true and good and beautiful in
life. Her virtue is the keystone of So
ciety; her sense of duty and honor and
right is reflected in every home; her
UnSelishneSs and devotion and correct
ness of view are our safeguard against
the SOCIAL shiDwreck. She must have
her highest yearnings encouraged and
stimulated, her vision must be purified
and elevated. she. above all human be-
ings, must be taught that to listen only
10 the souls cry for physical happiness
and comfort. or for mere knowledge, is
80 debase her. to tear the crown from
hor brow. and drag her into the be-
Ei1ming conflict where virtue and honor
and soul beauty are words of little
meaning.
lt is the great glory of Trinity college
that a time when the souls most
urgent needs are exposed 10 general
forgetfulness, she has assured woman
OF Influences which viii lead infalliblY
10 all that is best and most desirable in
womanly life and character: and the
great consolation of her graduates must
be that while others have to hear what |
q school should be, they can be told |
what their school is. Here is a pleasant, |
shelter in the desert OF modern life |
where souls are refreshed and strength
ened by the waters of wisdom as well |
as those of knowledge; where each mo-
ment brings its high inspiration and its
nobler impulse, and where each day
marks a growth from power to power,
an approximation TO the divine ideal on
which rests the approving judgment of
God and man. Here all high desires
find their fultillment: here, in answer
TO your prayers, you receive in its full
ness the spirit of wisdom. Here mod
esty and virtue, unselfshness and hero
ism, reverence for truth and duty, are
not left to chance or to college spirit or
10 human respect or to the unreliable
development Of an aesthetic sense of
right. but are made the prime, explicit |
object of the endeaVOrs of both teach
crs and students Here the young soul {
advances in wisdom aud age and grace ]
with God and man.
AS YOU who are about to go forth |
from the college look back today on the
pleasant year you have spent in this
garden set apart" your hearts, / am {
sure, are moved most at the thought of L
your growth in goodness of soul and
The clearer vision that has come to you
OF the really d. srable things of life. s
You have learned much from books; a
You have learned greater and more r
valuable lessons from God. You have I,
wished, and there has been given to
you understanding; you have prayed,
and there has come TO you the spirit
OF wisdom. Wisdom has come to you
through open, tangible influences, the n
spoken word, the august mysteries of a
religion, the continual association with u
souls pure ana highminded, perhaps
most of all from the eloquent example
Of teachers irrevocably devoted TO +
every high womanly virtue and ex- So
employing the heroic perfection of love nj
and service and sacrifice. 1t has come
through Influences too, which can be
,elt but not defined, subtle and con- n
slant, a part of the atmosphere and "
lie here, 10 which all unworthiness was ar
oreign. You could not but grow amid et
uch surroundings; you could not but
'ome to know that there is a light
brighter and more inextinguishable
han the torch of learning, that there
ire things more precious than health X
nd beauty; things in comparison with
which all gold is as a little sand and
liver shall be counted as clay to
You have learned, too. a lesson which III
,ili be brought home to you more WV ~
tly in after life, that all things come
ogether with wisdom and innumerable n,
iches through her hands; that there is 90
o rejoicing like unto that of the soul
onscious OF growth and emancipation
'lncult as may be at times our at
sTnpt to correspond with the nobler
r0nptings of our being, there is no est
Their endearor which brings greater We
omroft ana happiness to the soul;
here is none followed by so much JOY !
nd gladness of heart: no 100. it ,,le
lusJ be said, which Civ much
leaRing and comfort az, IS to ue
lr temporal life. Tbs A., Is not 80
-rayed so far from the q. e ideal go, co.
lat a noble life, and conduct rendered eal
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cart and soul are objects of contempt. ~ 81,
-, ", "a Neilei atloH Oh d goou dia
oman; God bleSses and consoles her: | -,
sr lie IS the most perfect and fullest III
'en from n worldly point of view. She - ii
joices the home, she hlesses society,
le wards off evil; she is in the truest
nse great, purifying strengthening II
rec on whom nations may well look ne
most powerful help and a tower -;
strength. Happiness and love and ni,s
rVice become her life as natural as e
e disconteRt and lust and selfshness -.
others. She fights without knowing -,
ln the front rank of the great battle
righteousness; she makes humanity T
r debtor: she brings close to man the =
eat ideal Of life for which we must - -
yearn. ,oI moI
The last words Of your Alma Mater. -,o "a
she bids you God-speed must re- nf
nd you that your opportunities have 1'a u
lde you debtors to this college. to NJ NJ
urselYes and TO humanity Here. she Sns Siao
US to the world, arc those whom / Oas
We truly educated, to whom l have
zen the highest ideals of conduct and
aracter. by whose lives | may be G.
1ged. Here are women with noble O,N-
lmanly hearts and high womanly SiaC
lis. They have shared with so many U'0'
lers the delights of learning and 7,
" receive the academic rewards of - -
alr diligence and labor. But they are -,
re than my scholars, my Students ,,,,i ,u,
1dad unon tbe,,, an ,,,I,i,t,.' - the
4 all mothers love. [ have been u
icitous that they should be virtuous
well as learned, versed in the lnys-
les o1 science, but acquainted also AZ
q the profounder secrets of noble 49,,
ng. My purpose has been to make NTa,
mn worthy inheritors of the exalted
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