Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1909-04-01
PROGRAMS:

Address. Miss Anna ID. Milburn
Praise Ye the Father, Chorus. .GOunod
Ghrines OF Our Lady. Miss Nell Plowden
ealve Regina. Chorus
Essay-James r. Randall :. Miss Milburn
Maryland. my Maryland. Chorus
Ny Own Native Land...... Louise Fowler
Eesay-Poe............ Bertha Jarboe
The American Sword. Louise Wilkinson
Essay-The Maryland Charter
Ruth Thompson
Bonnie Baltimore. Grinnell
Essay-Francis Scott Key. Maud Stone
Star Spangled Banner. Chorus
Our Own Bold Chesapeake
Leila Mattingly
Essay-Caroline a. Gallagher
Alice Beitzell
One swsetly Solemn Thought. -. i, Chorus
A Maryland Day Reverie...R Thompson
Tableau and Addresses.
A glance at the above programme
reveals the fact that both church and
State come In for their share in the
glory OF Maryland and in the found
ing Of those great traditions which
are at once o source OF honest pride
for Us and a guiding star in the des-
TIMES OF the United States.
After reading many editorials and
notices in our leading papers anent
she day in question, we were dis
appointed at the failure of so many
colleges, academies. schools and
Legislative assemblies, and OF a large
part Of the press to sound the real
keynote OF the celebration which
Maryland Day inspires. To praise
Maryland for It's place in literature,
for It's commerce and fisheries, for
It's patriotic record in the nation S
wars. for its fast clipper ships and
for the loneliness OF It's daughters is
ell night as far as it goes; but none
OF these things constitutes the high
est, the essential glory of Maryland.
That imperishable glory rests on
the bed rock OF religions liberation
on which the corner stone of our
State was laid bv Lord Baltimore
nearly 300 years ago.
Outside Of the Catholic institutions
Of learning and the Catholic churches
ell Of which honored the day by
special exercises. there seems as far
az We have been able to Judge TO have
been o slurring over a complete
ignoring of the main event in our
States history. This is unfortunate;
% our youth should not waste their
enthusiasm over tie lesser merits
Of Maryland, while being left uure
minded OF her chief claim to dis
tinction and to the great gratitude
OF the entire republic. One sided
educators are only too apt to exalt
the material or merely artistic sue
cesses OF people and TO maintain
conspiracy OF silence in regard to
spiritual and ethical achievements,
although these latter are the basis
a. well as the life Of real civilization
and social progress.
The Academy pupils. true to their
formation lauded both the spheres OF
success in which Maryland has
figured that is, her victories ia the
domain OF conscience and in that
Of the mind. Ofcourse no Maryland
Day celebration is complete without
o mention OF the charter of religious
freedom drawn up by the Catholic
nobleman who founded our State
aided by the advice OF Jesuit priest;
just as no Fourth of July celebration
Is accounted genuine unless some
reference be made TO either the text
or the spirit of the Declaration of
Independence which made US a free
nation. Cardinal Gibbons set the
right pace when be offered the parO-
chisl school pupils a special prize
for the best essay in the Maryland
Charter. This brought the real
significance and crowning import OF
the day to their notice. They, as
well as the Academy girls gave their
tributes TO Poe, to Randall, to Fran
els Scott Key, but they especially
sang the renown of the man whose
tiny seed OF religious federation for
oil believers in Christ was planted sy
the shores OF st. Mary's historic
waters, only to grow in time to the
mighty tree which today extends its
branches over every State in the
Union, and helps so much to the
peace and prosperity Of our land,
snd has presented for generations Q