The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1914-10-31

Angela, with five other Sisters, has
tened to the relief of the suffering
soldiers at the camp in Paducah. And
before the opening of the year 1862,
seyenty-five Sisters were sent from ST.
Marys, and her branch houses, to the
military hospitals at Louisville.
Paducah, Cairo, Mound City, Memphis
and Washington. These deeds were
not done for the worlds praise; they
were the duties to which the lives of
the Sisters of the Holy Cross are
devoted, whenever suffering humanity
requires their help South Bend
Tribune"
"The Sisters attend most willingly
to their patients and force them to
confess on recovering that their own
mothers and sisters at home could not
have done better for them. On leav-
ing, the patient carries away with
him the conviction that the Roman
Catholic Church, with all it's faults,
certainly has a soul of true Christian
love. Surely the time will come when
all church-men will acknowledge the
angelic influence of Christian Sister
hoods. Church Journal" Protes-
tant, 1862. -.
1.-THE war has brought out one re-
suit. 1t has shown that numbers of
| the weaker sex, though born to
wealth and luxury, are ready to re.
nounce every comfort and brave every
! hardship, that they may minister to
| the suffering, tend the wounded in
their agony, and soothe the last
struggles of the dying. God bless the
Sisters of Charity in their heroic mis-.
sion. | had almost said in their heroic
martyrdom; and | might have said it,
for | do think that in walking those
long lines of sick-beds, in giving them.
selves to all the CHASTITY duties of the
hospital, they are doing a harder
thing than was allotted to many who
mounted the scaffold or dared the
stake. Rev. Geo. Pepper, Methodist
in sermon at White Eyes, o.
ut is now pleasure to turn from
i this dark and dismal description oil
| the majority of our hospitals to an
oasis-a something that is in. reality
bright and cheering. There is a sect
called Roman Catholics, a sect that
in my younger days, l was taught tc
look upon as monsters, capable of any
crime in the calendar of human frail
ties-Who have hospitals in their own
| charge attended by Sisters of Charity
| they should be called Angels who
know what true, disinterested human
ity is. l have visited them, therefore
I speak of what know. No one who
has the heart of a man can help loving
| hem with true, holy sisterly love
Would to God there were more OF
them Ohio State Journal, January
1, 1863 Mack"
'The signal service rendered by the
Sisters of Charity during the past
Civil War to our sick, wounded and
dying soldiers in camp, in hospital
and on the battle field, and their UNI
wearied and constant ministration tC
he suffering and poor of all classes
throughout the land, is the theme oil
praise and commentator on the lips
Of ALL no matter of what religious
creed or faith. Their God.like and
noble works have won respect the
most profound from everyone. In
our own city, the results of their eXer
ton are to be seen on every hand. In
the cause of education their stand is
pre-eminent. With them modesty
knowledge and refinement are most
carefully blended. Memphis Ap
peal" February II, 1866.