Dominican Convent, Oamaru.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXIX, Issue 52, 26 December 1901, Page 20

Dominican Convent, Oamaru.

Thb Right Rer. Dr. Grimes, Bishop of Christehuroh, preached at ddGSi" !*;K PP * tritk n "r?** O-™.!* connection^? the dedication of the new Dominican Convent. His Lordship bated his than of the first, saith the Lord of Hosts : and in this plaoe I will give peace, with the Lord of IToßts.'.-(Aggeus n., 10). The house, said his Lordßhip, referred to in the text was the Temple whioh waa afterwards *o murh glorified by the pwsenoe of the long-promised Christ. Kef en ing to the convent, he raid the nuns who had labored bo lovingly and earnestly in the past w.old henceforth be able to labor ever so mrch more successfully. The Archbishop, in the morning, had spoken ou the lire of the white-robed Sisters of 8t Domimc, and the Bishop addressed the large congregation on their work. Every parent knew that there was given in their children a supernatural life. It had been given to them the right and the duty to educate their children. The Bute also had something to do towards education. The State had, however, to right to wrett from the parents the duty they owed to God sad to force upon them a Godless education. By the work whioh the faithful Catholics were doing in this district they were showing that they were keeping the Divine ordinance. There was no word more frequently used to-day than education. It was often said that the imparting of intellectual and physical education was the whole of it. But they ehould listen to this definition— the unfolding and opaning of the moral as well as the intellectual and physical attributes of men. Why were the mightiest thrones of Enrope tottering and crumbling to the dust ? It was because the world was becoming pagan. After several striking quotations from the speeches of emment statesmen on the influence of irreligious education, his Lordship pictured the contrast of a religious and an irreligious training, and closed with a glowing description of the education that would in the future be inculcated by the Sisters of St Dominic.