The weekly Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1854-1861, 1855-09-29
God Rless I.hcIm, Indeed.

: We cut the following from the Religious
Telescope, paper published by the "United
Brethren in Christ" at Dayton, in this State.
Such an article appearing in such a place,
aside from the. truly Christian spirit which
it breathes, is an event: ,a ,A A s4.i@g,
"GoD Bless THEM.-We have all heard
how the yellow fever is sweeping away the
people of Portsmouth, Va. The Washing
ton Star says. n. x, ..... Isl * r,atss
Mere than ha)fthe population ofthe town
have fled - nearly every man, woman.
and child thus flying from the, pestilence
who had the means Of going away. Those
left there are for the most part poor, the
aged and the feeble. While diseaseis strik-
ing down members Of their families, nearly
allintercourse with the town from land OF
water has ceased. The newspaper of Ports
mouth has ceased to appear, and even no one
is to be found who willoperate the telegraph
there. Ta5ooed, as the tuwnis, the world
knows little of the awful suffering being
endured by the helpless creatures, .s7atse5d
THE Sistersaof Charity and Mercy have
fiocked to their relief from various Quarters
of the country, and are doing oil that nurs-
iRg-even such heavenly nursing as theirs
can do for the sick. But they cannot put
food in the mouths Of the panic stricken suf.
ferers, with and without the fever. No pro.
visions 60 to them BY water, because it is
almost as much as life is worth to havein-
tercourse with them; while the country peo-
pie prefer that their produce shallro to risk
ing contact with any one they know, 10 be
from Portsmouth recently.'a9 ieiiua hpe ala
Honor to whom honor is due In this Pc
riod Of frenzied hatred and indiscriminate
denunciation of everything having its origin
in Romanism, il will be well for Us to con-
slider the conduct Of those Sisters Of Charity
and Mercy, who have docked to Portsmouth
from various quarters Of the country to nurse
the sick. How many Methodists, how many
United Brethren. how many Presbyterian
Sisters in Virginia, have focked to Norfolk
| and Portsmouth, to nurse those who are sicl
and dying Of that dreadful fever! .Probabl,
not one. Probably most of the Protestan
sisters, who have means, have fled from thos'
cities, and left their poor and sick neighbors
to perish. We say probably this is the case
because we know It has been too frequentl.
the case in other places in cholera times.
4 The conduct Of those Sisters of Chart
| and Mercy is above all praise. We know
that after the plague is overPast, and thei
I angelic ministrations are no longer needed
and after many ofthem shallhave fallen int
the grave with the objects OF their mercy
the tongue of scandal will be busy again
!. tha: unreasoning prejudice which is assidu
ously nurtured in the heart, from early child
.Ihood, will be revived, and gresn-eyed bigotr
1 will transform them all into selfish, intrigu
! ing tools Of the 1esuits,' 'emmissaries off
. Pope and plotters against'our liberties
i But goodness ID the same whether in th
heart Of an angel, 4 Protestant, OF p Cathc
kllic Sister Of Charity, and reasonable peopl
will rejoice in every manifestation Of II !
: our poor sinful and suffering wcfld. Ga
bless the Sisters Of Charity and Mercy WI
4 tlhave fiocksd to Portsmouth. s,sj
4 The following from the Norfolk Atgu
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