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258 HOSPITAL OF THE MATER MISEHICORDIJE.
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Ladies, P Douj3t:Less Many Of Your Reade...
a abroad mother that ' s fondness this institution and a miser was ' s ex care clusive . ( Cheers as regarded . ) An the impression conferring had of got its
trusted benefits that on the all need who y heard and suffering him would . repudiate This was a and gross contradict error— . on ( A e pp which lause he . ) true True , as it was was n an atural institution its friends projected and those , founded immediatel , and erected connected by with Catholics it were
—Catholics , ; but nothing , could afflict them more than y that the impression sect should or be creed entertained in the management by any one of that thi there s hosp was ital aug or in ht the exclusive distribution as regarded of its
Protestants benefits to the or Dissenters sick . ( Cheers in . the ) There hospital had attended been and by the were medical many men patients and treated nursed delighted . by ( Cheers and the grateful . good ) The Sisters for convalescent the . gentle ( Cheers care . ) when These and recovered kindness patients with were were which unwilling one they and to were all
persuasion and , when , a to case administer required it reli , the ious patient consolation , had a cl and ergyman , he was of his received or her with own go , courtesy and attention . ( Clieers g . ) About thirty , years ago a wealthy Catholic
the lad the y poor well , desirous - and known suffering of House embracing , took of Mercy a vows relig in iou after Baggot s life the and necessary Street devoting was preparation founded herself to ( , Hear the and relief by hear her of )
Pious ladies from all parts of Ireland joined the community , . and thus , the . the institution hungry progressed clothing the and naked the community and iving increased shelter and and relief prosp to ered the — destitute feeding
( Cheers . ) , Many of the first members , g of this community were now in a . better world ; many others were scattered over the world . There was not a clime from Europe to Australia where the Order of Mercy was not known .
world ( Cheers . . ) The There devoted were sisters over of 130 the foundations order spend of their the lives order in thro the ug practice hout the of prepared creed the purest , or to clime charity lay , down or , bestowing class if , necessary and in their the their loving discharge help lives of on these all ( Cheers , sacred without ) duties They distinction they were are to of
be tending Who foun then d the amidst wounded it mi the ht Christian , be carnage asked , s or pestilence could , infidels very , , it and mattered n misery arrow . not , sectarian of to . the them Crimean . ( Cheers war . ) princi , ples , to those g devoted ladies , ? ( Cheers impute . ) Itperhapswas dreaded feelings b or
some that the devout and charitable sisters would not , be sustained , in such an y institution which had as so this far . raised Away this with noble such a stru delusion cture ! woul ( Cheers d be . ) still The forthcoming resources .
better ( Cheers th . ) an Its a parliamentary treasury was grant in . the , which benevolent might be hearts withdraw of n the at any public moment —far . Mercy ( Hear , done hear . ) to m Should erit public it be regard asked , and What respect have ?— the putting Sisters out of the of Order question of
brin out fitness all the to g the him for devoted question its its statel great and er y _purjDOses heroi within architecture c acts the and walls of , its then those admirable of this ladies to magnificent arrangement , him all th ' Si at monumentu was stru s , and needed cture its m to perfect was queria point to
_drcumspiceS ( Loud cheers . ) , After urging say on the pupils to imitate the zeal expressing and devotedness his hopes of and the good Sisters wishes of Mercy for a happy in attendance result to on their the studies sick , and the learned lecturer concluded his address amidst enthusiastic applause . " ,
I was through , the hospital myself the other day ; examined every
department , and had the whole plan of the edifice , in its future completed conditionexplained by the assistant superioress of the
sisterhood to whom , it belongs . It struck me that , in order thoroughly to enjoy a visit of this kind , it would be necessary to
make a preparatory excursion through the sick wards of a work-
258 Hospital Of The Mater Misehicordije.
258 HOSPITAL OF THE MATER MISEHICORDIJE .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Dec. 1, 1861, page 258, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01121861/page/42/
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