St Margarets Academy - Dayseye Yearbook (Minneapolis, MN)

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 7%( 2)ayesye injustice makes her more just: and suffering makes her a hidden saint. She has dignity without pride, love without passion, tenderness without weakness, friendship without selfishness. O faithful. long-suffering, Christian women! Ye are a band of noble workers. Your name is held in benediction from generation to generation. May every member of our dear Class find in Saint Margaret a spiritual and vital impulse, a consecrated ideal, a lamp to light the darksome ways from the gray dawn of Graduation to the purple splendor of the Eternal Morn. Mildred Simmer. St. Margaret's I omh. Dunferhne

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to co-operate with her in her charities, and to aid her plans for the improvement of Court and Church and State. Margaret often assembled t h e courtiers around her. and explained to them the beautiful lessons of the gospel, while Malcolm acted as server and interpreter. Dunicrlinr Abb,,, -K,»I, bv s, Hcr watchful interest in all the affairs of her people did much to mitigate the Border wars.' the favorite theme of Scottish bards. As a mother. Margaret was a perfect model. She not only provided the most learned and most virtuous instructors for her six sons and two daughters, but she personally supervised the course of training. To no one did she entrust the sacred duty of forming the character of her children. As a result, their names are revered on history's pages, and one of them, like his mother, found a place on God’s altar. Saint David is Scotland's model king and patron saint. In Saint Margaret we see demonstrated the influence of a virtuous woman over the untamed passions of man. The untutored Malcolm learned to venerate his saintly wife, and to find his greatest joy in co-operating with her in deeds of love and mercy. This brief sketch has not space to silhouette the sufferings of Margaret. But any who read hcr life will be convinced that she did not have a path of roses from the throne to the grave. She could never have attained such moral grandeur without passing through the ennobling crucible of suffering and self denial. Like a graceful cedar she stands, towering on some Alpine height, unbowed and unscathed by the storm. In Margaret is exemplified the secret of woman's greatness and uplifting influence. Let woman put love and sympathy into her looks, words and deeds, and she can rule the universe. The halo of hcr smile, the light of her eye. the warmth of hcr love break down all barriers. Nothing can crush the noble soul of the valiant woman. Poverty brings out her latent energy: lack of sympathy from friends turns her heart to God: 16

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To Be Like Thee O MASTER, bright Example of mankind Of life of sacrifice in service spent: By healing ills of body and of mind Thou gavest peace of soul and sweet content. Thy life of selfless labor, and of pain Was paid with deep ingratitude and wrong: Yet not a moment of it all was vain. Thy love has since been theme of grateful song. Dear Saviour, teach me then to know and love Thy creatures, every one of them the same: And serving them, my love for Thee to prove. Aspiring not for wages nor for fame: But this the inspiration of my mind. To be like Thee, sweet Saviour of Mankind. Mary Lane Reau. 18