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ADIES: Before the Sacred Heart yesterday, in the greatest act of Catholic worship, we were all united,—Pontiff, priests, religious, pupils, guests, the children of this house in the past and in the present; and the House of God resounded with the Magnificat. Again, in spirit at least, we are united before the pictured vision of that Sacred Heart. It is in the thought of Its Divine Presence that our final word is spoken; and, since it is spoken in the name of Eden Hall, it represents more than it can utter. You, the former pupils of this beloved home, are here to stand for all the past generations that learned to bless the names of those guides and Mothers who founded and sustained God's work. The religious and the pupils of nineteen hundred would be faithless to the claims of gratitude, and cold to the most sacred appeals, if no voice to-day named Mother Elizabeth Tucker, who still keeps her sentinel's post yonder in the earthly Eden, as she holds her suppliant office in the heavenly Paradise. By her side, your eyes and your affections place that gentle spirit who aided her to make this a house of peace and faith, and who ruled it in the very sweetness of Charity,—Mother Charlotte McNally. Mother Boudreau's maternal goodness created for her in a few brief years that wealth of filial love which followed her to a distant mission, and lingers over her grave by Australian seas. Like a genial ray of sunshine across the years beams the memory of Mother Dunne,—of her bright smile, her ready hand, her great heart. But we may not name all the beloved ones whom your minds seek, to-day, where only they can be found,—with God. And as to the living,—for them there must be silence, because they would prohibit speech. If the crown of 61