The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1869-01-03
A CHILD OF THE SACRED HEART.


Lady Georgiana Fullerton, of Il young and ar
dent girl who embraced the Catholic faith
worked with energy and zeal among the Lon
don poor, entered the Order of the Sacred
Heart. and persevered faithfully therein TIL
death.
Her life was not long, and it was uneventful
Its chief interest lies iii showing us the gradua
progress OF II soul towards PERFECTION INC
struggles and conflicts, the falls and victories
afford so many lessons to ourselves left behint
to make our way through this weary world
while she, whose days are recorded, has fought
her last fight, and is safe in her eternal
home.
With the little book itself, we trust oul
readers will soon become acquainted. AT til,
end of the volume are some remarks which are
very striking, and which we will copy verbatim
believing they cannot be too widely diiinsed
''Those who watched the good which persons
in the position of Elizabeth Iwiady, Mary
Fitzgerald, and many others who are even now
quietly laboring among the poor in various
parts of London, effect, must often be strucl
with the usefulness of these sort of ministra
tions; and, ut the same time, With the inevitabl,
uncertainty which attends their continuance
i'll any particular locality. All secular work OF
this kind is necessarily subject to constant
interruptions and changes. Often, ut the very
moment when it is beginning to establish
satisfactory results and to tell brne4iclally on
Il poor neighborhood, family reasons, other
duties, sometimes II mere change oi abode, puts
an end to what seemed promising, and at
removes from the scene of her labors the
person on whom every thing depended. Another
high ana holy reason often VIII account lor
these sudden cndings OF hopeful beginnings.
Those who love the poor out of love for our
Blessed Lord, and divide all their leisure time
between works OF mercy and prayer, are often
led to desire more entire conservation to God
and surrender OF worldly ties Religions voca-
lions will spring up by the bedside of the sick,
amidst efforts to win back soulst to God, or
during ardent prayers Tor conversions; ana
according to various inspirations of grace, the
resolution to become Il Sister OF Charity or OF
Mercy. ii Nun of the Good Shepard, II little
Sister of the Poor or Poor Glare, withdraws
from the world the devoted girl whom God
thus rewards for her good works. And God
forbid we should regret this tendency, or de-
preciate what is the strength and glory of the
Church: the substitution of solid good for
temporary adyantages-self sacrificing perfect
ing ious impulses and producing those wonder
full results, which nothing but religious Orders
can obtain But whilst we feel this as deeply
and strongly as possible, does not the thought
occur that the present condition of our poor,
and the special difficulties Catholicism has to
contend with in London call for something we
do not possess that there exists Il want which
no religious Order among us quite meets as
yet. Are not religious workers needed in every
parish and Yet how is 1T possible, with our
scanty resources and numerous calls upon them,
to erect IL convent or establish a House of
Charity in each poor locality! And, further
more inestmahle are the blessings conferred
by the miniStrations OF Sisters OF Charity and
OF Mercy. is there not work to be done which
the very nature of their Orders cannot admit
of.-that peculiar work which can only be
eHecteu by tnOSe VINO associate Will inc poor,
labor with them, in n certain sense live with
them, and exercise the daily influence of eN-
ample in mode of existence similar to their
own.
1.-The idea of such Il life as this, sanctified by
a special conservation, and regulated by u holy
rule, was conceived about eighteen years ago
III Poland. There deep poverty and tyrannical
restrictions made it impossible to multiply
religious houses, and yet the faith of the peas
-aHtrx MAS in danger of being subyerted by the
efforts OF II schisnlatic government and the
ignorance in which the Catholic children IN
country villages were left, and Il Jealous lover
of the Church and his country bethongllt him.
self of proposing to Il few pious Gfrls-the
daughters of farmers and peasants-to devote
themselves to the work he had i'll view. Out of
this simple plan arose what is now Il recognized
congregation approved at Rone-the Institute
of the Little Servants of the Most Holy Mother
of God. He placed three young women, who
had spent some time in II house of Sisters of
Charity for the purpose of being trained in the
spirit of religious life, i'll cottage on his estate,
the garden of which was to be their chief means
ofsupport. One ofthem, sufficiently instructed
for that object, was to gather together the
children of the place, and teach them to read
and write and, above all, the Catechism. The
other two, by cutivating the garden, or work
ing in the fields like the other women of the
village, to earn the livelihood of the
little community. They had thus often the
opportunity of instructing those amongst
whom they laborcd. Their dress was that of
the peasants, their manner of life similar to
theirs They had no chapel of their own only
an ;tllHr, Ill
before which their prayers We're said in which,
especially ut night, they invited the women
living near them to join. They went to the
parish church for Mass
This first attempt succeeded so well that other
establishments Of the kind soon made.
a general rue given them by the ecclesi-
astical authorities. 4 Mother house was found
cal ut Poscn they rapidly increased in numbers.
and extended to Germany and Galicia.
"Why should there not be Little Servants
of the Most Holy Mother OF God in London
tI,,...a
in a house, the rest of which might be let to
respectable poor people Instead of garden
some employment provided, which with Il
small amount OF assistance, could support Il
little community OF three persons, who
would devote their evenings at least, and the
spare hours on Sunday, to teaching, visiting,
consoling, and helping in various ways the poor
neighhors. When schoolmistress was wanted,
of them might be employed in that way.
If a little orphanage was started, another
might take charge of it babies night be taken
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