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LA SCEXJH ROSAUE. 157
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it is exceedingly difficult for a Protestant looker-on to decide . Neverthelessa great work is actually being accomplished before the
eyes of an immense , mixed population , such as the African shores have never witnessed since the tide of barbarism swept away the
foundations of the early church , and made Carthage and Hippo a desolate ionwhen the Koran drove out the Bible , and the
Christian reg name , "was known no more . To colonise and to Christianise the waste places of the Algerine dependencies is the great
work of the French nation , its moral excuse for the cruel scenes of the African war . Tunis and Morocco must inevitably follow sooner
or later in the same track , and submit to French power ; wherever the arms of France conquerthere follow the Sisters of Charity .
, Bat we must leave the general history of the order , and return to our little Jeanne Renduand the times in which she commenced
, her noble and beautiful career . During the worst years of the French revolution , the communities had been of course disbanded ;
_bitt the members kept up their individual lainistrations one by one , wearing the ordinary dress of women , and shielded in numerous
instances against the law by the gratitude of those -whom they nursed and assisted . Sometimes they even succeeded by their
concealed influence in saving victims from the guillotine ; and when the storm abated , and they could once more re-assemble in their
own houses , many were the stories of peril passed , and of heroic deeds accomplishedwhich they brought to the common hearth .
The Maison , Mere , re-established its discipline and its labors ; received its novices to train them in lives of active religious
exertion , and welcomed with open arms the two friends come as " apprentices to charity" from the extremity of France .
Jeanne did not , however , remain long at the Maison Mere . Of a very delicate and sensitive constitution , she was affected by every
interior emotion and by every external influence , and had much to suffer in the early days of her novitiate . She felt the slightest
atmospheric changes ,, was frightened at spiders , and could not sleep in the vicinity of a graveyard . Each of the duties of a
Sister of Charity , into which she threw herself with ardor , cost her several a severe months strugg the le delicate against and her nervous instinctive young repugnances 1 girl fell dangerously , and after
ill , and was sent away for change of air to La _Soaur Tardy , Hue des Francs-Bourgeois , Saint Marceau ; to a house whose inmates
even the Reign of Terror had not been able to disperse , for they remained together wearing the secular dress , and whenever any
family fell into trouble they were sent for , so that if the police had been despatched after them , they would probably have been taken
by some sick bed . Since nobody could be found to denounce them , the authorities shut their eyes to their remaining in the community :
and if we are surprised at this , it must be remembered that these sisters lived and worked in the very lowest parts of Paris , just
among the very population which was wojst and wickedest , and
La Scexjh Rosaue. 157
LA SCEXJH ROSAUE . 157
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Nov. 1, 1859, page 157, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01111859/page/13/
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