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THE CARMELITE NUNS OF MANS. 325
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LIX.—FACTS AND SCRAPS.
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THE PRESENT STATE OF THE BLACK COUNTRY. ...
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yet they prepare their meat in the summer , " and are " _exceeding _whole
wise . " This , then , let us observe , is the work of the -congregation . Not a sister but has furnished , if not a column or a windowat least a flag of the pavement , stone or sand for the walls .
, Such is a slight sketch of the atelier of the Carmelites of Mans , and of one of the numerous series of works undertaken by them ,
which cannot fail to be interesting to English readers at a time when the love for decoration of sacred edifices is apparently
increasing , not only in the Establishment , but among all denominations . Gothic architecture is beginning to be used by Dissenters , and even
painted This was glass is far first from introduction uncommon to in the their Carmelite chapels . order and their my
works ; and while dwelling on these secluded yet active lives , my mind reverted to the English teachers in our coloniesand especially
, to one in a solitary station of Eastern Africa , teaching a school of native children , and seldom seeing Europeans or hearing any
but native words . Such we have , scattered far and wide , unsupported too bthe associations of a life in community , but in
y the depths of wild countries following their Master ' s calling , and ? serving their fellow-creatures with unabated zeal .
August , 1861 . Baebira L . S . Bodichon .
The Carmelite Nuns Of Mans. 325
THE CARMELITE NUNS OF MANS . 325
Lix.—Facts And Scraps.
LIX . —FACTS AND SCRAPS . _«>
The Present State Of The Black Country. ...
THE PRESENT STATE OF THE BLACK COUNTRY .
« That state of things described by school-boys as _"jolly" is the general characteristic of life amongst the laboring population of the
Slack Country . Recklessly familiar with danger and careless in their expenditure of money , every farthing of which is literally obtained
in the sweat of their brows , in time of good trade they lead a merry , careless life , and with few higher enjoyments than their cup of ale
and pipe of tobacco ; and with few amusements , they yet contrive to extract considerable pleasure of a rough , coarse nature from their life
of toil and danger . But the present aspect of the Black Country is a dreary one , —a long and weary time of depression of trade has
produced effects which will be long and keenly felt , and the appearance of the districtalways wild and weird-like , is now more desolate and
, wretched than pen may describe . Tall , smokeless chimneys ; furnaces " blown out , " their wide
mouths emitting no brilliant name , dazzling the eye and gladdening alike the heart of master and man ; works " standing , " and silence
prevailing where the ears of the visitor are wont to be deafened by
the cheerful noise of labor ; a glimmering coke fire here and there
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Jan. 1, 1862, page 325, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01011862/page/37/
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