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Exercises At Good Counsel
Academy Last Night
ADVICE IN A SERMON
Warns Young Ladies to Beware
Of Worldly Training; the
Program
From SATURDAYS Daily.

Academy nelQ graduation exercises III
the large chapel room at the academy
last evening, capacity audience OF
relatives and friends of the young
ladies being in attendance. The altar
was beautifully illumined with
candles, and decorated with ferns and
flowers, and the exercises opened with
a very pretty procession of the young
lady students and graduates. The class
consisted of fifteen graduates, as fol-
lows: Classical course, four years,
Laura Bienemann, Marie Borgmeier,
Agnes Butter, Marie Leonard, Mary
Murphy, Alice O'Connor, Mary Petit,
Genevieve Thissen, Cecilia Weaver,
and Marcella Wolf; commercial
course, two years. Beatrice Fleisch-
mann, Josephine Kauth, Mary Pumper,
Teresa Schell and Catherine Stein.
Throughout the evening beautiful and
appropriate music was rendered by
the Convent choir.
This day of your graduation is one
Of special significance" stated Rev.
Father Roller of Shakopee, Mimi,
who delivered the sermon. To-day is
the feast of the Sacred Heart, and the
day of the Blessed Sacrament. You,
who are graduating are fortunate to
be privileged to graduate upon this
day. How different is this graduation
to the graduation from worldly in
stitutions! Your parents have biven
you worldly as well as spiritual ad-
vantages and instruction, you have
been educated intellectually, and
morally as well. You have much for
which to be thankful to your parents
and teachers, and above all to your
God You show moral training as well
as physical training in your manner
and your dress. / witnessed another
graduation in this state not long ago,
a graduation fromsa worldly institu
ton, and it was very different from
this graduation. 1t was a scandal the
way some of the graduates carried on
and the way they Wee dressed. Grad
yates, remember that more is eX-
pected of you than of other girls, who
have not had your advantages. From
your very first training in Catholic
school you have been surrounded by
religious thought, attended mass every
morning, with the good example of
your teacher before you at all times.
How much, my dear graduates, you
have for which to be thankful to AL
mighty God-for this combination of
the spiritual with the worldly in
struction.
The Training In the World.
when you go out into the world
you will find that your training will
clash with the ways of the world. 1t
will try to lead you away from the
training you havereceived. Remem-
Der your religious training and be
faithful to God. You can be an in
fiuence for good wherever you go, and
your influence will be felt in the COM
munity where you live. You graduate
tonight, but remember that you will
not graduate from life until you draw
your last breath. Do not forget what
has been told you in religious mass.
You may go high on the worldly lad
der of success. Are you going to leave
the spiritual behind? You must save
your souls. Learn from Christ, my
dear graduates, learn from Him. If
you are faithfuI-faithful to God, one
day you will graduate from this
world to eternity with Him. Much
depends upon that final graduation, to
which you must look forward to. This
graduation is but a step to that other
graduation which will come at the
close of life. Nothing is worth so much
as the soul. The worldly life passes
away, but the soul lives forever. My
wish to you is that when God calls
YOU will graduate with honors, anC
will hear from Gods lips, We'll done
thou good and faithful servant, entel
thou into the Kingdom of Heaven
Rev. Father Hartman, S. j., pre-
scented the diplomas to the graduate!
with a little speech of kind words ant
congratulations. He said that it gave
him great happiness to officiate a!
he had been sponsor at the birth o
the institution, and that another rea
son for his pleasure was that severa
of the graduates were from his owl
parish, and he had seen them grow vi
and watched over their spiritual de
velopment. These facts gave him gen
eral pleasure on all sides to presen
the diplomas to the graduates. Dur
ing his short talk Father Hartman pai
graceful tribute to womanhood, an
fully extolled the importance of tn
women of the parish and the Sister
hood.
Women and Higher Education.
81 think it is more important tina
women should have higher education
than the men, except of course tn
men who study for the professions h
said. women are the home makers
1t is comparatively easy for the ma
to provide the necessities of life for
home: but to make a home that
perfect, a home that is up-to- date,
say that the higher education for WON
en- is absolutely necessity. Sh
must acquire all these accomplish
ments to make home complete. 1t is nc
at all a waste of time or money to sen
your daughter to the institution {
higher education. Woman needs
trained mind or she cannot presto
over an up date home. We kno
that perfect health is by far bette
than poor health. So the woman wit
a trained mind will be the best home
maker. What would the church {
without the women. Any church whel
there were no women would stand
a little while as though it were in
desert, it's doors would close, re-
Catholic life in the parish would var
ish. The priests look for help and as