The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1908-07-11
The Blessing of the Sisters at ST.
AIMS.
(Intermounta

Qntermountain Republican, June 800
On Monday night the children of St.
AIMS orphan asylum entertained their
friends, or a portion of their friends,
with a program which did them the
very greatest credit The people who
trained them are to be commended
for the patience and the blessed skill
with which they led the little ones
through the gates of preparation; and
the little people themselves are to be
congratulated for the sound bodies and
clean minds that the good Lord has
given them.
In a way it was the celebration of a
great and sacred event in the life of
Bishop Seaman, to whom supervision of
their spiritual welfare has been en-
trusted. And in nothing could the
children do him a greater honor than
to display before their friends, before
the friends of all children, the perfect
guardianship and nurture that has been
around them all since they have been
in the care of the sisters.
They are of all childhood ages. Some
are under 3. Some are almost grown
young men and young women. And
every one has been given, in addition
to the religious training of the Catholic
church, just the preparation for life
Quires. and out of which the greatest
benefit to that child may be assured
They do not try to make poets or fl
nanciers out there, but they do try to
make conditions so that the natural
tendency of the child to activity may
be shown. And then the good sisters
urge growth along that line.
And they are very successful. One of
the girls for whom the sisters at ST.
AIMS have made home for years has
become proficient in stenograp ply and
typewriting; and she earns-and draws
-S75 per month from a business firm
here in the city. And she didn't have
to get her position through favor. eth
err; nor will she lose it through the
withdrawal of any influence. She has
so well prepared herself that she will
always be in demand where capable
and intelligent work, we'll done, is de-
sired.
That girl is a type, in her own line,
Of the effectiveness of the sisters in
their labors for the children who have
been committed to their charge. There
are other lines of work than stenogra-
ply. There is music, for one: and the
little ones on Monday night proved
how we'll they had been instructed and
trained. What the little body can best
do, that it is assisted to do well.
AS has been said, the event was in a
way the celebration of the bishops con-
secration. Can there be a better way
of marking that honorable milepost in
his life? He and those associated with
him in the benevolent work of his
church have devoted their lives to Moth
ing more sacred, nothing of more last
ing and vital Importance, than the
training of these children, left with
out the care and help and support Of
parents That need has been supplied
with marvellous excellence. And this is
the testimony with each returning year.
1t makes life worth while 1t makes
work holy.
Through all the years of the future
those children who so happily enter
tanned Monday night will cherish the
memory of the good sisters who safe
guarded their babyhood and guided
their youth; and to the end of lives
made useful by that nurture they will
carry in their memories the loved pic
tllre nf the bishOp who blessed them.