El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1910-08-13

grown up throughout the country such
demand for the services of the Sis
tiers OF Charity that the order, unable to
respond to that demand has been COM
PEELED to open another novitiaIe. It
means that the influence of this great
order is to be extended everywhere
throughout this immense country.
Rev. Father Crippen, c. NJ, who sue
ceeded Father Lennon in the direction
Of the order, will be the director of the
eastern province. Rev. Father J. J.
Sullivan. q NJ, viii be the director Of
the western province
Sister Eugenia will be the mother
superior and Sister Barbara will be her
assistant.
Sister Blanche will be the assistant
of mother Margaret in the eastern
province.
Note OF Sorrow.
Everywhere throughout the United
States on the decree for the division,
there was a deep uncertone of sorrow
throughout the south and west, which
states will be comprised in the west
ern province, at the severance of the
long and tender ties that have bound
the older members of the order especial
ly to the mother house of st. JoSeph's,
Emmittsburg Many and sacred are the
memories that cluster around that cher
ished spot. 1t was TO that convent home,
nesting in the heart of the beautiful
valley of the Blue Ridge, that these
older sisters went in all their youth and
fervor to consecrate themselves as the
Daughters Of Charity of St. Vincent de
Pau. 1t was in this house, hallowed by
the work and foundations and memories
of the sainted mother Seton, that they
received their training and imbibed all
those true and earnest principles which
are the foundation OF the character Of
the true religious. Here stands the
beautiful chapel of st. Joseph, then his
shrine amid the trees; nesting in the
avenue of oaks was the Children of
Mary chapel; over iamid the pines the
beautiful Calvary group, and off in the
distance the shrine of Our Lady of the
Field" with its touching legend of
faith and hope lighting the mind TO
higher and better things.
Preserved as q sacred treasure amid
the magnificent buildings which crown
the grounds is the log cabin in which
mother Seton and her companions be gan
the establishment of the Sisters of Char
ity in the United States IN 1899, and
also there is the hallowed spot in which
the remains of the beloved foundress
rest, beside those of ner distinguished
nephew, dICuDlSllOp DGyleA, Pl bdItl-
more, who requested TO be buried there.
The place is full of sacred memories
Hundred Years Here.
1t was only last year that the centen-
airy of the Sisters of Charity in the
United States was celebrated with such
dignity and beauty in the historic pre-
cincts of Emmittsburg, where only
handful of women under the sainted
mother Elizabeth Ann Seton began this
great work on June 2, 1909, under the
direction OF father Dubourg, who after
wards became the bishop of New Or
leans. The story of that foundation is
well known, and the small log house
which is still standing on the beautiful
grounds of Emmittsburg, near Balti-
more is visited today with interest by
thousands as the first home Of the Sis
tiers of Charity in the United States.
The grounds were donated by a Mr..
Cooper, himself a convert, who was
touched by the deep devotion of mother
Seton to the orphaned poor. Little did
those first sisters, hampered by scant
opportunities and stinted means, dream
Of the golden harvest they were to reap
then father and later cardinal Cherve-