The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1872-06-09

County Small pOx H0spit&l, White ne was
an innate suffering from .S disease; hit i.
tween Protestant and Catholic clergymen,
q human and divine religion.
There were several negroes in Ward |
Number One when passed the hight there, |
look at whom would have shocked the
perienced nurse. They say at the hospital
an attack of the smallpox. While falling
into . fevered sleep, the Dovements OF the
man in the bed opposite mine began to at
tract attention; at the same time l was
clarified by a woman's gentle voice whis-
pering in my ear: "Weuld you like to see
the priest f"-I shook my head" or the
minister" said, "No;" aud Mrs. Nc
CURE, the excellent natron of the estab-
iisbment, went sorrowfully away. The
patient in the bed opposite was q we'll de-
veloped, muscular man named Nelson,
Nova Scotia or New Brunswick skipper,
whose wife was stopping at the Bath Hotel,
near Bridge street ferry. He gasped sew
Q arms copvulsively about. "Henry," said
9 one of the patients, g go to that man
there.'' The nurse went to Nelson's bed
}. side, where someshing xas said which
u could not hear. AT that moment, Chris
the other Nurse: ap sa'1
70 wish you would 60 and get one." On the
n instant Chris went out. He was gone
r more than an hour. On his return, Henry
y standing at the foot of No. 2, said, .'Wel,f'
70 " 1 can't get the minister" replied Chris
:. "I went to the house Of one in Flatbnsh
10 and when told what came for, he sal,
u he would go up stairs and speak to his wifi
il about it. Well, he goes up, and l hear
b. her abusing him good deal; and prett
OF soon he comes down stairs, and he says
70 pie about here and they wouldn't like it
70, and, besides, my family would object, eve
81 though might be willing to 60 myself.
r. will remember the poor man In my prayer
at at home. If YOU must have . ministe
I'd why, you could get one down i IN NO
H. 1 said, at subsequent period, what VI
as the name of the minister who wouldn
ty come to see Nelsonf" Chris could not II
ew member; but he gave very full! descr'
.u- tion of the locality where he lived. VIII!
ZEN left the hospital cured, zinquired Il
IN name of this reverend and tinlid gentlem'
an Chris had visited, giving al account
re- where he lived--snd the reply in every
all stance was the Rev. DR.. Van Kleek. AZ
the it is thus that, within sound OF Brooki
lm- voices of some of the best men and won
res, living-human beings die like dogs eve
diff day. No Protestant minister ever treG
the ,oithin the tainted precincts of Kings Cou,
ans Smallpox Hospital Shortly before my d
nm charge from that institution, an offic
q.
us' No. 9 who wants to see Protestant clert
e it man, aud they don't know where to
avs one"
eli If one turns to the conduct of the Cat
Ollie lie clergy the contrast will be noted "
dea shame and humiliation. 1 was lying il
heir comfortable bed in a pleasant room, C
.ror, tanning only three other patients. A In
muir Of voices awoke me from dre'
:. and there stood Young priest, book
20 q hand, lips close to the ear of small
. tha patient in the height of his fever, whisE
80 ing to him words of consolation and hc
The priest was the Rev. Father Doughe
. ~ of the Catholic Church, Flatbush.
~ same brave man goes regularly into N
Rny,' Der One and Number. Two, 1.-THE WON
800 ward), attends to the worst cases,
~ of leaving towards outside in their 8
'oxi, homes, performs heroic services, which
CT appears, a Catholic priest only, I'm thus
&C. tude, is capable Of doing. Many of the
una tients are Germans, who do not un
.hnso stand English, and another priest,
Ia man, whose name l did not ascerl
80 visits them, and is fearless and faithful
,olen the discharge of his duty, like his CO
Kant borer, Father Dougherty.
a I'd The late Sir John Burgoyue is sal
Uoso have been a frequent contributor TO "
ord ladies' albums. Here is one OF his co
urcb. buttons -.