The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1914-05-09
The Sisters in the Civil War

Mother Angela, with five other sis
tiers. fastened to the relief of the
suffering soldiers at the camp in Pa
ducah. And before the opening of
the year 1862. seventy-five Sisters
were sent from st. Mary's and her
branch houses. to the military hos
pitfalls at Louisville. Paducah. Cairo,
Mound City. Memphis and Washing
ton. These deeds were not done for
the worlds praise: they were the
duties to which the lives of the Sis
tiers of the Holy Cross are devoted,
whenever suffering humanity re-
quires their help.'-"South Bend
Tribune"
"The Sisters attend most willingly
on 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
leaving. the patient carries away
with him the conviction that the Ro-
man Catholic Church. with all. it's
faults. certainly has soul of true
Christian love. Surely the time will
come when all churchmen will &C.
knowledge the angelic influence of
Christian Sisterhoods." - "Church
Journal" Protestant. 1862.
"The war has brought one result.
1t has shown that numbers of the
weaker sex. though born to wealth
and luxury, are ready to renounce
every comfort and brave every hard
ship, that they may minister to the
suffering, tend the wounded in their
agony, and soothe the last struggles
of the dying. God bless the Sis
tiers of Charity in their heroic mis-
sion. I had almost said in their
heroic martyrdom; and might have
said it. for do think that in walk
ing these long lines of sick beds. in
giving themselves to all the CHASTITY
duties of the hospital. they are do
ing harder thing than was allot-
ted to many who mounted the scat
fold or dared the stake."-Rev, Geo.
Pepper. Methodist, in a sermon at
White Eyes, o.
1T is now pleasure to turn from
this dark and dismal description of
our hospitals to an oasis-a some
thing that is in reality bright and
cheering. There is a sect called
Roman Catholics, a sect that, in my
younger days. I was taught to 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 AN
GELS who know what true, disinter-
ested humanity is. I have visited
them, there speak of what know.
No one who has the heart of a man
can help loving them with a true.
holy sisterly love. Would to God
there were more of them."- Ohio
State Journal. January 4, 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 battlefield, and their un-
wearied and constant ministration to
the suffering and poor of all classes
throughout the land, is the theme of
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 ex-
ertion are to be seen on every hand.
In the cause of education their stand
Is pre-emfnent. With them mod
esty, knowledge and refinement are
most carefully blended" Memphis
Appeal" February II, 1866.