The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1913-04-05
Z, u. s. Ignatius, Of the Mercy
Hos G. Ncx. And now at this
halfsce'. (of her life as a

halfsce'. (of her life as a
Sister) we Ito her life, and find
it without ble..4ish. She has served
God and her fellow-man at the sacri-
flee of herself. Her life has been a
succession of mercies.'
"You remember reading OF the six
Sisters of Charity of San Antonio,
who, on Oct. so. 1912, rushed through
the blazing orphanage, rescued eighty
children, but died themselveso It was
the teaching of the Catholic Church
that made them martyrs for the Or
phans. Can Church be evil that can
produce such sublimity. Of heroism?
Soldiers, Present Arms.
"1n the same month the Governor
of Tonkin addressed the Superior OF
the Sisters of Mercy: Sister Marie
Therese! When scarcely twenty years
old You We're wounded on the battle
field of Balaclava whilst devoting
yourself to the care of the wounded.
y
in the front line OF battle. After that.
YOU nursed your warriors at Syria, in
China and in Mexico AT the battle
of Reichshofen you We're carried
wounded from the field amidst a heap
of slain cuirassiers. Later on, a bomb
shell fell in the midst of the ambul-
ffo1 %1
Immediately seized it, and carried it
some eighty yards away, where it fell
to the ground. and by it's explosion
wounded you seriously. After you had
recovered you followed your vocation
here to TonFin. In the name OF the
French people and army, confer upon
You the Cross Of Tried Bravery. No
one can show more heroic deeds to
! merit it. no one can claim more
self-denying career, one entirely de-
voted to the service of his fellow men
and his fatherland. Soldiers, present
arms!''
Devote Time Gratis.
There are many III the world that
can re-ecf1o the words. of Mayor Gay
/ nor, when he had left st. Mary's Hos
3spital. .Hoboken, n. j., where he had
! been treated after having felt the as
sassin's bullet: UP, to- the time 1 was
taken to the hospital I had only a.
| vague notion that here were such
noble women in the world who devote
all their time gratis to the nursing OF
the sick and the wounded. What
| would the world do without theme
You have read not long ago how
the italian priest heard confessions in
the trenches of Tripoli from morning
till 10 o'clock at night; how almost
all the soldiers went to confessions.
and in the night gathered in prayer
| beneath the light of the camp Ian
tern.
you recall in the battle OF C;ettys-
burg Father Gorby standing high on
the rock in the midst Of the volleys,
and his soldier boys kneeling for alb
solution before they made their final
charge.
You read within the last few
months in the daily press how Father
Mclean at the fire of the Equitable
building crawled among the falling de-
bris and administered the last rites
of the Church to Il man pinned un-
der the burning ruins.
! On the Sea.
You remember the priest that on
July 4. 1898, stood high above the
crowd gathered on the deck of the
sinking La Bourgoyne and calmly
called them to prayer before they
sank into eternity.
! s"When the Titanic sank, YOU read
of no priest escaping, or no priest try
! ing to escape: but that the four on
| board were in the steerage hearing
confessions and that Protestant, Jew
and Catholic gathered around them in
prayers.
, Were they all the actions of inn
moral, intriguing men wishing to gain
political control OF a country, or were
they not the actions Of men trying to
save souls for God, and thinking no
danger too great for that endeavoro
You may differ from them in their be-
| lief, but were they not the actions of
men sincere in their belief, careless OF
personal danger, having within them
! the strength of ten because their
hearts were pure?'"
Dickinson. N. D.-John O'Day and
I! Miss Hattie Erbstoesser OF Richard
ton were married in Dickinson. Tues
day morning. March 26. at. the home