His Excellency on Mater in Modern Schoo's in Ci occasion of the diose of julie General Connell itr Apostolic Delegate, Arch-ini, and 17 Bishops attended a reception in their honour at St. Francis Xavier's College on Monday. The reception was followed by a delightful musical and dramatic entertainment by. the pupils. Among the bishops present in addition to his Excellency, rare Mgrs. Gauthier, Blois, Carlo, Rayssae, Terlaak, Aguirre," Part, Bourgait and Van Dick, bortly after five o'clock to the strains of Gounod's impressive "Marche Pontifieale" the Dele~a'2, accompanied by the visiting B' hops entered the school hall, packed with an enthusiastic gathering past and present students and friend:
Welcoming the Delexits bishops, the Rev, Bro, Ani Director of the College, asked Excellency to glance at th" assem ly. It represented 25 different tions, but they were united far intimately than ni Their hearts beat i spiritual minds wore: ourished from the same source, and all were children of the Church.
Referring to the wonderful growth, of the College, Bro, Antonin said that it would short" celebrate its 50th anniversary. 4.8 development. had been as rapid as that of the Concessions. In coneluston thanked his Excellency for having come that afternoon to give them precious encouragement. The visit was the greatest consolation that Christian educators or their pupils, could possibly desire.
The Apostolic Delegate thanked masters, and pupils for such a magnificent expression of respect accorded to the venerable Bishops in China on the occasion of the Catholic Council. Might Providence bless the good work of the Marists who collaborated with the fissions with such Christian for their numbers European and El ese Hover grow Tess, and might they ever be imbued with the admirable spirit of the founder of the College.
Continuing, his Excellency begged the masters to remember that they had more to do than merely teach languages and sciences. They had to realize the dignity of the human soul, "Unhappily," he went on," there reigns in modern schools in China a Materialist atmosphere. It is a copy, coming some years later, of the European materialism of the Inst 50 years, and like all copies far worse than the original, The other day, Tagore, the Indian poet, asked some students at a university whether they believed inn god oF not. The question fell like a poet, "that the universe' with its marvellous life and beauty could be sult of blind mechanical was in spiritual matters that lay the superiority of their schools, where it was not sufficient merely to adorn the intelligence but where the admirable moral underlying all, was the forming of their spiritual The choir then rendered "Vive Aonseigneur!" and after a humorous dialogue by two of the pupils, "Les Martyrs eux Arenes." Two violin solos by H. dos Remedios and the Lustpiel of Keler Peler, charmingly interpreted by the orchestra followed.
"Io's Jeunes Captifs," a playot by the Abbé Labardin, brought a most enjoyable entertainment to a close.
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