HOME FOR INCURABLES AND CONVALESCENTS.

Auckland Star, Volume XXX, Issue 212, 7 September 1899, Page 2

HOME FOR INCURABLES AND CONVALESCENTS.

(To the Editor.)

Sir,—The Sisters of Mercy are preparing, with the assistance of their friends, to celebrate and inaugurate with a new work the Golden Jubilee of their establishment in Auckland. They came, at the urgent call of the late Bishop Pompallier in 1800, to train and educate the children of his diocese, both Maori and European. They came When all was in the rough, and have successfully toiled all these years with admirable results. Their schools and orphanages are all over New Zealand, ineir training farm for boys at Takapuna is proving a great success, and now they aim at another tx?glnnlng-that of a home for incurables and convalescents. We all know, or ought to, of the brave Sisters of Mercy who nursed our wounded, sick and dying during the Crimean war. Trained as they were to hospital work, obedience, early rising and simple living, they held out where others broke down. It was to them that Miss Nightingale and the lady volunteers looked for instruction and guidance in the heroic task they too had chosen. Throughout Groat Britain and till her colonies are numerous.charitable institutions founded and worked by these gentle arid capable women. With fever, cholera, and smallpox they have ever been familiar; while here they now hope to hasten the recovery of many, and to soothe the remaining years, months, or days of any homeless fellow creature condemned as incurable. The "Star," ever ready to advocate the cause of those who need assistance, will doubtless lend its kindly light that all may know of and those who will may help this benevolent work. Mercy's workers seek no roinuueratlon —their doors are open to all who suder, no matter what creed or colour. Of themselves they never speak: hence these lines from A FRIEND.