BARON TRISTAN LAMBERT ON THE BROTHERS SCHOOLS.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume V, Issue 244, 4 January 1878, Page 17

BARON TRISTAN LAMBERT ON THE BROTHERS SCHOOLS.

- • [Translated for tlis N. V: Freeman's Journal.'] Baron, Tbistan. Lambert, of the Chamber of Deputies, recently delivered at the School, of the Christian Brothers at Fontainebleau, an address which we particularly recommend to the attention of our readers :— " I feel highly honoured to-day in presiding over this distribution, which your jtistr satisfaction as deserving pupils, the zeal of your excellent instructors, and" the unceasing sympathy of all the noted persons jof our city and of our municipal representatives, has always so aptly made, not only a grand' occasion, but a genuine family fete. You receive, my dear children, at the Christian Brothers' bcnools. the instruction; which, from the diligent students that you now are, will transform you into useful and practical men ; the education, which from true' and honest children, respectful to their parents, and devoted to their duties, will make you honourable men and when, your time comes, -good ' and excellent heads of families. 1 ou receive that Faith, that, will make you true and great Christians, and strong men in the full acceptation of the term. "You fully appreciate these three blessings, these three gifts, which! complete t qne anotjher.j and which must absolutely remain inseparable, from one, another.. Everyone, ingour town, and wherever tree play is given to the devotion of the Brothers of the Christian Doctrine, can judge how .much you can do, how much the youth of rar l c^ ail ,' to become worthy of these three priceless gifts. x! mT 6 crow^ s that toU be conferred upon you, in a few moments : the brilliant and repeated triumphs achieved in Paris and at all the competitions in France by the Brothers' pupils, prove it beyond all cavil, even to those who would willingly ignore it. ' , , " You have the' right, then, to be justly proud . of • your teachers, and most assuredly, notwithstanding the little inequalities in work and discipline, I 'and which are unavoidably inseparable from youth your instructors have every reason to be proud of ,you. ' ... ' We , m . a y say of you' both, and with much justice : Like master, like pupil. " ■ '