The morning star and Catholic messenger., 1878-09-29
yer came while the father was away,

| The fever came while the father was away
and in q few days three interesting children
lay sick with the plague. Away from every
| friend and relative, helpless in the clutch OF
the plague, avoided by neighbors and chance
acqusint ances how terrible their position
how fearful the outlook! Bot some one speaks
| of them to the How wards, and in q few hours
skilful nurses are sent to them, money if
placed in their hands, food and medicine sup
piled them, in q word, every thing is done that
can bring them help in this hour of need.
And although Death claimed one fair child
| for his own, and the mothers heart was alnosf
| broken with it's sorrow, and the pleasant mem
cries of their Alabama home only added to the
desolation of the present, still that noble phil
lanthropy which came so prompf.y to their
aid, brought as mnch of pence and patience as
their poor exiled hearts could know.
Ah, when their dear ones learn how tenderly
they were cared for, how lovingly their wants
supplied, how deleately their bitter griets con-
soled, they will indeed bless the noble Howards
OF New Orleans, who, visiting the roor, the
sick and the afflicted, are entitled to be called
by q Heavenly Master "good and faithful ser
wants." May they indeed one day enter into
the joy of the Lord!
DIVINE LOVE.
Our third incident must be a brief one, for
it relates to Sist sr in one of our Religious
Orders, to one of those hidden lives, partially
revealed to man but known in all it's beauty
to God alone.
The Order, we refer to, was driven ont of
Germany about eight years ago by Bismarcks 8
arbitrary commands, and a few of the exiled
Sisters, eight in number we believe, were Of
fered home in this city. They came cheer
fully to their new post of duty, and have been,
here in our midst, shining example of what
Divine Love can prompt young and tender
and His creatures.
But the fever found an entrance even into
the cloister and struck down one of it's holiest
occupants. All that medical science, all that
skillful nursing, all that earne st prayers could
accomplish, were of no avail.i 1t was her doom
to die, even in the very midst Of all her youth
and usefulness. But while anxious faces
watched beside her, and the sisterhood shed
bitter tears, che alone preserved happy look
and smiled while others wept.
Perceivipg that the Superior was trying in
vain to conceal her anguish, and that her tear
stained face revealed the grief she felt, the
dying Sister took her hand and said in tones Of
unuttersble sweetness: "Why do you weep,
why are you so uneasy 1t is all the same to
me-"
SO perfectly was her will conformed to that
of her Divine Spouse that she was Indifferent
to life or death. If He SO willed it, she was
ready to live, if he SO willed it, she was ready
to die. 1t ,cas all the same to her.
We heard her physician declare that he had
never witnessed anything 80 beautiful as this
humble Sisters submission to the Holy will of
God. It seemed as though her pure heart was
so closely united to that Of her Lord that she
could have no desires apart from His and all
through her illness she displayed perfect in
difference as to what the result might be. It
was in His hands and was, therefore, all the
same to her.
She died last Sunday, calm, resigned and
smiling to the last!
Her happy, useful life is over, but is not her
holy death q lesson to the world and an ex-
ample never to be forgotten in her c invent
home7
Philanthropy may give us examples that are
grand, heroic, beautiful; but Divine Love alone
can furnish those that are sublime