“ If the crown of the order is bright with such names, not less lovely is the chaplet we could weave this hour out of the names of the children of Eden Hall. They are of the living and of the dead,—of nuns, of wives, of mothers, of saints! Daughters who gladden the fireside and bring God's light across the hearthstone; wives who, in sharing life's burden, glorify it by faith and patience; mothers whose hands blessed their children while they lived, and whose memories bless their children's children to the second and third generations ”

“ For fifty-three years Eden has sent them forth to do the work of Christ, and after three and fifty years their names are laid by Christ's angels, as a garland of beauty on the brow of their Alma Mater. Numerous, but not countless,—for they are all counted,—are those who have passed to God,—religious and children ”

“ 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. ”