A REMARKABLE SIGN.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume II, Issue 78, 24 October 1874, Page 9

A REMARKABLE SIGN.

Somb short time ago I was struck on reading a letter in 'Lloyd's London Weekly Journal,' by the editor, on the claims which the religious society of Catholic ladies, ' The Little Sisters of the Poor," had on the support of the Protestant public No Catholic pen could possibly have shown off the minds of those pious ladies, nor advocated their cause better than was done by the popular and radical Proextant writer. His paper has a wide circulation among the working ™? i E , n S land - The English, after aU, are a just and fair-dealing people, when you once get to the right side of them, and where they FLTI h ? neat y- The letter, it is true, was somewhat of a sensatS- ,' an< ? * he Dickenß style. The writer painted, in a very graphic and artistic manner, the heroic charity of these good Beligious and servants of the poor. They made no distinction of creed or country • the Jew and the Christian were equally the objects of their tender care. They are organised for the purpose of lodging, clothing, and teedmg the very aged poor of both sexes, and sick and destitute cniiclren. lhey have no regular money income. They beg for their clients— go out daily to collect food for them from the houses of the #£ ? t0 get wLati9l eft from tho table, and carry it home, xney have a regular large commissariat establishment for this purpose, and they manage it all themselves. I once visited one of their houses in ijondon ; it was a fine establishment. On my expressing some astonishment at the size of the place, and asking where the funds came from, seeing the Catholics in England are so few and poor, the Lady Superior said, " Oh, we .beg ; for our poor we go everywhere ; get much in Ireland, and all creeds help us. The rich Jews in the city are among our most generous patrons. Of course, they do not care for our religion, but theyadmWour humanity." It is by acts such -as these that Protestant prejudice is disarmed and the Catholic Church triumphs. Charity conquers all. ' Laic