. Essex county, , illustrated . rotected liy tree have been planted in the virgin soil of Australia and NewZealand. In the United States there is not a section, east, west,north or south, without its large abbeys and numerous depend-ent priories. From New Hampshire in the East, to Oregon inthe West ; from the hyperborean regions of Minnesota to thesunny clime of Florida, there is scarcely a State or Territorywithout its lineal decendanls of the ,VIi)nks of theWest, engaged, as their have been for over years,in tilling the soil, teaching the rude anil ignormt useful l
. Essex county, , illustrated . rotected liy tree have been planted in the virgin soil of Australia and NewZealand. In the United States there is not a section, east, west,north or south, without its large abbeys and numerous depend-ent priories. From New Hampshire in the East, to Oregon inthe West ; from the hyperborean regions of Minnesota to thesunny clime of Florida, there is scarcely a State or Territorywithout its lineal decendanls of the ,VIi)nks of theWest, engaged, as their have been for over years,in tilling the soil, teaching the rude anil ignormt useful liades,accustoming ihe idle and roving to profitable industry, buildingschools and colleges for the education of all, but es])ecially forthe higher education of the children of the poor. In this chain of Benedictine abbeys and colleges, St. MarysAbbey and St. Benedicts College, of Newark, form a not un-distinguished link. Here, as it is, and has been, in all places andtimes since the foundation of the order, the school or college is. ST. BENEDICT ,S COLLEGE. a religious halo, their inmates kept ali\e the sacred lamp ofliterature, when outside their walls the world was given up torapine and civil war. To quote the words of a writer in the Westimiisler Revie~vfor October, 1879: It was the monks who proclaimed a moreliberal sentiment than that of narrow nationality, and discour-aged the pagan patriotism, revived in our own days, whichconsists in looking upon every foreigner as an object of suspi-cion or hostility. Monasteries opened their doors to alltravelers and strangers. Monks brought to the councils of kingsand nations a courage which did not recoil before any danger :they resisted the violence of the nobles, and sheltered the toofeeble freemen from their attacks. After centuries of decline, our own age has witnessed themarvelous rejuvenation of this ancient order. It is rapidbregaining its lost ground in Europe, and off-shoots of the parent inseparable from the abbey. While a
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