Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1899-07-13
CATHOLIC CONVENT,
TO BE ESTABLISHED In RA.
LEIGH IN SEPTEMBER
Home For the Destitute-An
Orphanage For Training
Homeless Boys
Raleigh News and Observer.

smooth the suffering brow aud
lift the soul upwards, is to make
her appearance in Raleigh! And
her advent is to take place at 20
distant day.
To take charge of the Catholic
Orphanage and training schools f r
boys, and the Home for aged poor
men. Father Price las made ar
rangements fl four Sisters of
Mercy to arrive here about the be-
ginning of September.
With the work Of the Sist.rs of
Charity or Mercy the world is ia
miliar. In tue houses of the poor,
at the bedside of the suffering, in
the feverostricken city, on the
leper colony, in the hospital, in
the camp and on the battle field
amid the dead and dying, her
angelic form is found ministering
to ;f1lcted humanity, and to this
she has consecrated her life, with
out any earthly remuneration,
and with no possibility Of fame
and notoriety attending her, her
very name being hidden from the
world. No easy lie that, aud a
heroism that is not common. To
c%onsecrate ones ent re life to at
ficted humanity without any
earthly reward and to remain I'M
known-that surely is giving ones
self to charity!
"What L most admire III the
Sisters of Charity sad a distin-
guished Protestant lawyer of this
city, ";s the fact that in the good
they perform, they hide their per-
sonality as much as possible. There
are many who do works of char
ity, but the Sisters of Charity,
that she might be unknown,
changes her name and is called by
another; she clothes herself in a
humble garment common to all,
aud any atfribution of good is
buried as far as possible, in obi,
WON" That she is leading this
heroic llfo for charity, every l rye
city in these United States, every
epidemic of disease which has af-
fected the country, and every SOL
der in tie la ar with Spain will
testify.
The particular community from
which Father Price will secufe the
Sisters for Raleigh, is one we'll
known to North Carolina. In the
dreadful scourage OF yellow fever
which afflicted Wilmington in 1862
a number of these Sisters came to
Wilmington to nurse the sick.
Later on they opened a convelt in
Wilmington which is still flourish
ing. They have likewise branched
out in North Carolina at Char
lotte and Belmont, where they
possess fourishing establishments.
Among their number is the sister
of our distinguished Judge G >nner,
OF Wilson, the sister of Father
Price, and the niece of Father
Marian, now Of Ashev;Ile, but
formerly of Raleigh.
Under their fostering care the
aged poor and thu orphan and
destitute boys Of tho State Will
have a loving home, and the boys
a training not easily obtained else
where. Ths boys will likewise be
taught trades and scientific practi-
cal fsrming. The proximity of
the A. ard M. College (Which is
adjoining the Catholic property
will greatly facilitate this object.
These institutions, like all
Catholic works of charity, will
be open to C1tholic, Protestant,
Jew and Inidel alike. In the dis
pensing Of Charity, Catholics are
taught to look only upon the soul
of a man in which he sees the i'm
age of his creator and upon this
truth is basel these Catholic in-
stituticns.
The present buildings will be
started on the smallest scale pos
sible, and gradually increased.
They will possess at the beginning
a frontage of 100 feet and there
will be al additio1 Of u chapel,
and two workshops for the boys.
Besides attendi ng to this work,
the Sisters will d, a general char
lty work such as visiting and at
tending the sick and the poor in
Raleirh and tho snrro.,