On this page
-
Text (1)
-
240 MARIA BOCCI LA MOINETTE.
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software. The text has not been manually corrected and should not be relied on to be an accurate representation of the item.
-
-
Transcript
-
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software. The text has not been manually corrected and should not be relied on to be an accurate representation of the item.
Additionally, when viewing full transcripts, extracted text may not be in the same order as the original document.
"The Seed Has The Li Risen Ttle Seed And...
animated by lier own benevolent spirit , he applied to the authorities of Berne for countenance and efficient assistance , and eventually
succeeded in establishing four regular schools in the year of our Lord 1696 , eight years after she held hers on the mountains and
beside the lakes of the valley . It is pithily remarked by Monsieur Nicole , that all the four schools were kept by women . * Their names
are not mentioned , nor whether La Moinette was of the number . It was not the generous habit of grave historians formerly to
expatiate upon the good deeds of womanhood , unless in a rank of life that would have stamped their omission as a fault , indicating a
want of accuracy in their own learned pages ; but it may fairly be concluded , that , if alive , she presided over one of them , probably
superintended the whole , and that some of the newly-appointed governesses owed their first training to her . If , on the contrary ,
she had early gone to receive the recompense of a life spent in the service of her Master , the nomination of four teachers all of her own
sex was a just and elegant tribute to the memory of her worth . A glorious poet has said" Millions of spiritual beings walk on
, earth unseen hy human eye . " Glimpses into that other world , which filled the ecstatic imagination of the blind old man , were
perhaps mercifully granted to his longing view ; but we have still surer ground for thinking that we " are compassed about with a
great cloud of witnesses , " and if the curtain which divides the two worlds be ever withdrawn before the end of all things shall arrive ,
if the enfranchised spirit be indeed permitted ( for weal or woe ) to look down on the scene it has quitted , with what angelic delight
must Maria Bocci have contemplated the constant advancement of the work whose foundation she had laid . Several succeeding pastors ,
especially the Rev . Abraham de Malherbe v the first resident minister , and the Rev . Philip Bridel , followed the footprints of their
predecessor , Peter Bugnion ; and the march of intellect grew so rapid , that a superior system of education became necessary . Monsieur
Bridel found that five well-informed men , competent to convey useful knowledge on practical subjects , were soon requisite to meet the wants
and wishes of the inhabitants . Writing was taught with great care , and the French language triumphed over the patois so many centuries
the curious mother tongue of the valley . Sacred music also took so decided a tone of cultivation , that the late Monsieur Bridel of
Montreux near Vevey , from some of whose papers on the statistics of his native land ( published in the sixth volume of the Conservateur
Suisse , printed at Lausanne ) several of these details are derived , eulogising with a son ' s filial love and reverence the conduct of his
father , Philip Bridel of Chenit , says , " The church came to be distinguished for its musical performances , brought to perfection by the
introduction of a trumpet to regulate and keep up the chanting of the psalms . " Each nation has its own peculiar views on minor
roisse * Pierre de la Bugnion barbarie , , _pasteur et y fit du etablir Chenit quatre , travaill e coles a desservies avec sncces par a de tirer $ femmes sa pa- .
240 Maria Bocci La Moinette.
240 MARIA BOCCI LA MOINETTE _.
-
-
Citation
-
English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), June 1, 1859, page 240, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01061859/page/24/
-