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“To Bring About
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Vol. XVIII No. 11
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AUGUSTA, GEORGIA, NOVEMBER 29, 1947.
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St. Euphrasia Training School for Girls, Batesburg
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Pictured above is the administration building of the former Summerland College, at Batesburg,
South Carolina, which has been acquired by the Sisters of Our Lady of Charity of the Good
Shepherd, of the Baltimore Province, and which will be opened in January as St. Euphrasia
Training School for Girls. The Sisters of the Good Shepherd will have this building remodeled
and converted into a convent and temporary quarters for about twenty-five girls, to be used
while the large dormitory building is being remodeled and improved so that the scope of their
work can be extended.—(Photo by Father George Lewis Smith—“Camera-Graph” print by Maurice
Getchell).
Shown above is the dormitory building of the former Summer-
land College at Batesburg, South Carolina, recently purchased
by the Sisters of the Good Shepherd. Summerland College was
a Lutheran School for girls, which has been used as a home for
children of Lutheran missionaries since Newberry College was
made a co-educationnl school some years ago.
Pictured above is the cottage
formerly occupied by the superin
tendent of Summerland College,
Batesburg, South Carolina. It is
one of the group of buildings
purchased by the Sisters of the
Good Shepherd.
Sisters of the Good Shepherd
Acquire Batesburg Property
as Training School for Girls
Bulletins
THREE CENTENARIES — the
return of the Jesuits to New Or
leans after their expulsion 84
years before, the founding of their
Church of the Immaculate Con
ception and the establishment of
their college which is now Jesuit
High School—will be observed
with a triduum of Solemn
Pontifical Masses «f Thanksgiving
front December 2-6 in New Or
leans.
Secularism in All Aspects of Life
Is Root of World's Travail Today,
Bishops of United States Warn
HIS EMINENCE Dennis Car
dinal Dougher.ty Archbishop of
Philadelphia, in a pastoral letter
addressed to the approximately
one million Catholics of the Arch
diocese, instructed that for at least
a year they refrain from patroniz
ing the Central City Fox Theatre,
which had exhibited the film “For
ever Amber”, after His Eminence
has protested its showing in Phila
delphia.
A GALAXY of Hollywood stars
will be featured in the dramatiza
tion and recitation of the joyful
mysteries of the rosary on a spe
cial program to be broadcast over
the Mutual Broadcasting System
on December 26. Called the ‘‘Joy
ful Hour,” the full sixty-minute
program will be heard from 9 to
10 p. m. EST. Screen and radio
stars who will take part include
Bing Crosby, Kate Smith, Perry
Como, Dennis Day, D4ck Haymes,
Ethel Barrymore, Ann Blythe,
Jeanne Crain, Joan Leslie, Mau
reen O’Hara, Maureen O’Sullivan,
Pedro de Cordoba and others.
A SOLEMN MASS was offered
at the Bede (English) College in
Rome, Italy, on the wedding day
of Princess Elizabeth and Prince
Philip for the intention of the
royal couple and the welfare of
the British realm. Representatives
of, the British diplomatic missions
apd members of the Empire’s
clergy and laity in Rome attended.
Later in the day, the British envoy
to the Holy See held a reception
for diplomats accredited to the
Vatican.
PRINCE GIITLIO PACELLI, a
nephew of His Holiness Pope"'
Pius XII, has just arrived in this
country on a visit which will take
hihi to several principal cities of
the United States and Canada.
(N. C. W. C. News Service)
WASHINGTON.—A ringing
warning against the dangers of
secularism is given by the Arch
bishops and Bishops of the United
States in a statement issued here
through the Administrative Board
of the National Catholic Welfare
Conference.
Made public following the an
nual meeting of more than 130
members of the American Hier
archy at the Catholic University
of America in this city, the state
ment asserts that “the practical
exclusion of God from human
thinking and living is the root of
the world’s travail today.” It
tears the signatures of four Cardi
nals and of all members of the N.
C. W. C. Administrative Board for
the coming year.
In what it calls “perhaps the
gravest crisis in all history,” the
statement appeals to all who be
lieve in God to “make that belief
practical in their workaday lives,”
to “look across the real differ
ences which unfortunately divide
them, to the contmon danger that
threatens.” to “refuse to. let a com
mon enemy capitalize on those dif
ferences to the detriment of social
unity.” If this were done, the
statement adds, “we might begin
to see a way out of the chaos that
impends.”
The statement admits that
“Christians have often failed to
meet their responsibilities and by
their transgressions have permit
ted ugly growths to mar the insti
tutions of their culture.” “But,” it
adds, “wherever, despite their
lapses, they have held steadfastly
to their Christian ideals, the way
to effective reform and progress
has been kept open.”
The remedy for the shortcom
ings and sins of Christian peoples
is surely not to substitute secular
ism for godliness, human vagaries
for divine truth, man-made expe
dients for,a God-given standard of
right and wrong. This is God’s
world, and if we are to play a
man’s part in it, we must first get
dotvfi on our knees and with a
humble heart acknowledge God’s
place in His world. This, secular
ism does not do.”
“In the dark days ahead,” the
statement says in its conclusion,
“we dare not follow' the secularist
philosophy. We must be true to
our historic’ -Christian culture. If
all who believe in God would make
that belief practical in their work
aday lives, if they would see to it
that their children ace definitely
imbued with that belief and train
ed in the observance of God’s way
of life, if they would look across
the real differences which unfor
tunately divide them, to the com
mon danger that threatens, if they
would steadfastly refuse to let a
common enemy capitalize on the
differences to the detriment of
social unity, we might begin to see
a way out of the chaos that im
pends.
“Secularism holds out no valid
promise of better things for our
country, or for the world. During
our own lives it has been the
bridge between a decaying devo
tion to Christian culture and the
revolutionary forces which have
brought on what is perhaps the
gravest crisis in all history. The
tragic evil is not that our Chris
tian culture is_ no longer capable
of producing peace and reasonable
prosperity, but that we are allow
ing secularism to divorce Chris
tian truth from life. The fact of
God and the fact of the responsi
bility of men and nations to God
for their actions are supreme real
ities, calling insistently for recog
nition in a truly realistic ordering
of life in the individual, in the
family, in the school, in economic
activity, and in the international
community.”
The statement carries the signa
tures of Their Eminences Dennis
Cardinal Dougherty, Archbishop
of Philadelphia; Edward Cardinal
Mooney, Archbishop of Detroit;
Samuel Cardinal Stritch, Arch
bishop of Chicago, and Francis Car
dinal Spellman, Archbishop of New
York; Archbishops John T. Mc-
Nicholas; O. P., of Cincinnati; Rob
ert E. Lucey of San Antonio; Rich
ard J. Cushing of Boston; Joseph
E. Ritter of St. Louis, and James
R. Ryan of Omaha; and Bishops
John Mark Gannon of Erie; John
F. Noll of Fort Wayne; Emmet M.
Walsh of Charleston; Karl J. Alter
of Toledo, and Michael J. Ready
of Columbus.
(Special to The Bulletin)
BATESBURG, S. C.—Announce
ment has been made by Bishop
Emmet M. Walsh jf Charleston
that the Sisters of Our Lady of
Charity of the Good Shepherd, of
the Baltimore Province, have ac
quired property here and will open
St. Euphrasia Training School for
Girls as soon as the buildings can
be remodeled and improved.
The property was formerly
Summerland College, a Lutheran
school for girls, which was closed
some years ago when Newberry
College was made a co-educational
institution. Since that time, the
property here has been operated as
the Westervelt Home, for children
of Lutheran missionaries.
There are some one hundred
and seventy acres of land, part of
which is landscaped, part in or
chards and part in farm land,
through which there is a running
stream. It is located ju=t beyond
the city limits of Batesburg on the
highway to Greenwood.
On the property is a three-story,
fifty-five room dormitory building,
a two-story administration build
ing, a superintendent’s residence, a
small school building, tenant
houses and other farm structures.
Some months ago the property
was offered for sale to the Diocese
of Charleston as being suitable for
an orphanage, but was not needed
for that purpose at this time.
Monsignor Martin C. Murphy
V. F., pastor of St. Peter's Church.
Columbia, interested the Sisters of
the Good Shepherd in Baltimore
in the property, and Sister Mary of
St. John Eudes, the Provincial,
and other Sisters of the Good
Shepherd came to Batesburg on a
trip of inspection.
The Sisters decided that the
property could be converted into
one of their training schools for
girls, and it was acquired at a cost
of $66,000.
An eleemosynary charter was is
sued by the State of South Caro
lina on’October 24 for St. Euphra
sia Training School for Girls, with
Monsignor John L. Manning, D.
D., Chancellor of the Diocese of
Charleston, being listed as presi
dent and treasurer.
Possession of the property will
come to the' Sisters of the Good
Shepherd in January, and it is
planned to use the administration
building as a convent and school,
for a limited number of girls, un
til the other buildings can be made
ready for use.
Assisting the Religious of the
Good Shepherd, who never leave
their convent except in cases of
necessity, are the ever affable ex
tern Sisters who attend to the ex
ternal business of the house.
Living in the convents of the
Good Shepherd, but of a distinct
J religious society, are members of
j the Magdalen community who are
permitted to take vows of obed-
| ience, chasity and poverty for one
] year with annual renewals. These
! penitents, by their prayers and
j good works, bring untold blessings
] on all.
j The object of the Order is three-
! fold: To preserve young girls from
! evil; to reform women of evil life;
j to superintend the Order called
, the Magdalens.
The Good Shepherd Order is
! cloistered and follows the rule of
! St. Augustine. In the Order are
j three grades, the Choir Sisters,
. who recite the Divine Office and
attend to the instruction and ad-
| ministration of the penitents; the
1 Lay-Sisters, who attend to the
1 household affairs, and the Out
side Sisters, who look after things
outside the convent.
The habit for all, except the
! Outside Sisters, is , white, with a
j blue girdle. Hanging from the
| neck and displaying in front is a
, large silver heart. On one side of
: it is engraved the figure of Jesus,
I the Good Shepherd, and on the
1 other the Blessed Virgin. Besides
i the silver heart, they also wear a
j crueifix under the scapular.
M. C. C. M. Announces
December Speakers on
Three Radio Programs
Delinquency, juvenile and other
wise, is not a new problem, despite
the emphasis the problem has re
ceived during the Fast few years,
ip the press, in social work and in
community consciousness. Neither
are the agencies for correcting it
new. Over three hundred years
ago, in 1641, St. John Eudes
founded, in France, a community
of women for the reclamation of
erring souls.
In addition to the three ordi
nary vows of religion, these Nuns
took an oath, binding themselves
to work for the conversion of wom
en, who desiring to reform their
liyes, sought a place of refuge.
This community was the beginning
of the Sisters of the Good Shep
herd.
Today there are some 350
Houses of the Good Shepherd
throughout the world,- sixty-three
of them in the United , States,
In every House of the Good
Shepherd you will find the most
modern principles of social science
in busy application; There you
will find the human means of re
habilitation supplied; thriving
courses in education, the manual
arts and the fine arts, vocational
guidance and talent development;
You will find social and recrea
tional facilities which compare
with those of the finest colleges.
But you will discover more—a
spirit. The terms of salutation
will give you the clue. The
white-robed Religious are greeted
by their charges by the name
“Mother.” The Sisters do not di
rect inmates but “children.”
WASHINGTON. — (NCI — Two
Redemptorist priests and a Mary-
knoll Father will be the Decem
ber speakers on the three nation
al radio programs produced by the
National Council of Catholic Men
—the Catholic Hour, the Hour of
Faith in Our Time, according to
an anouncement here.
Father Joseph Manton, C.SS.R.,
who has been speaking each week
to audiences of 20,000 people and
more at the famous Mission
Church in Roxbury, Mass., will
give four addresses on the Catho
lic Hour under the geneaal title:
‘The Stable and the Star.” On
December 7, he will speak on
“Mary:” December 14, “Joseph;”
December 21, “Jesus;” December
28, “The Animals.” The Catholic
Hour is heard Sunday from 6 to
6:30 p. m., EST, on the National
Broadcasting' Company network.
Father James Keller, M M.,
founder of the Christophers move
ment, will be heard on the Hour of
Faith, carried by the American
Broadcasting Company network
Sunday from 11:30 a. m. to noon,
EST. His general subject is;
“Reaching the Hundred Million.’’
On December 7, he will talk on
“Millions Ready and Waiting;”
December 14. “Influencing the
World from the Home;” December
21, “A Challenge to Business
Men.” December 28, “Students: A
Big Job Ahead.”
Father Fred Mann, C.SS.R.,
Wichita, Kan., Cana Conference
leader, will continue the series of
talks on marriage problems he be
gan in November over the Faith
in Ouy' Time program. This pro
gram is carried nationally by the
Mutual Broadcasting System on
Thursday from 10:15 to 10:30 a.
m., EST. His December subjects;
December 4, “Let’s Look at Mar
riage the Right Way:” December
11, “What Does Modern -Science
Say about Marriage;” December
16, “Knowledge Isn’t Enough;’’
December 25. “'Pile 'Huiihut Race
Looks to Otm> Family.’’’
AN EDITORIAL paragraph in
The Charleston News and Courier,
some days ago, declared: “If ever
there shall be no church and pri
vate schools and colleges in South
Carolina, the schools and colleges
will be non-religious, and iu tirnrv
anti-religious.”