THE NOBLE NUN.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLIII, Issue 222, 16 September 1909, Page 7

THE NOBLE NUN.

There is something sublime in the heroism displayed by the nuns of St. Malachi's Home, Long Island, at the fire that recently occurred there. We are told that they literally dragged 200 children out of the burning orphanage, one (Sister Concept) alone carrying 56 babies from a smoke-filled nursery out to safety. No matter what particular r religious denomination one may belong to such acts as these fill one with admiration for the noble women concerned. As a rule the .work of nuns is carried out so unostentatiously that the outside world hears nothing of it. It is only when the light of publicity is thrown upon them—as inevitably it had to be in the case referred to—that we realise what self-sacrifice these fine women are capable of. Pledged to the lifelong service of others they perform their duties without payment, without praise, and too often without thanks. Just as much heroism is displayed in their daily round by the nuns of our own Dominion as by the American sisterhood. We have quietly working amongst us many of these serene women of beautiful natures. They tend the sick at the risk of infection, feed the poor to the deprivation of themselves, and care for and teach the young, with ho thought of the self-fatigue that must some ; day wear them out. Nans are so seldom "in the limelight" that when they are it is good to reflect upon the deeds they do by stealth. Many a sufferer from pain or from poverty could speak with, deep gratitude of these same deeds, the very doing of which proclaims the heroio qualities of the doers