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New Zealand Tablet, Volume V, Issue 234, 26 October 1877, Page 17

There is great want throughout several districts in the east of the kingdom of Prussia, amounting in several places to absolute famine. Typhus has appeared on the scene. The Gennania publishes extracts from a pitiable private letter from a Sister of Charity at the hospital at Kattowitz, in Upper Silesia. The terrible state of things in which this Sister is striving to do her best, may be judged from the fact that her chief request is for some clothes or old linen in which they may wrap the bodies of the dead, as hitherto they have been obliged to inter them naked 1 All their resources seem to be exhausted, and the Gcrmania appeals to the charitable to come to the assistance of these " Angels of Mercy." A wmt&r in the Times of India does not agree with our application of the expression " swept away " to the death of M. Thiers, who died eighty-one years of age. But do we not speak o£ spiders' webs, even a century old, being swept away, as things worthless, and, what is worse, offensive 1 Do we not read : " Venerable old age is not that of long time, nor counted by the number of years : but the understanding of a man is grey hairs, and a spotless life is old age ? " Even if Methusalem had died an enemy of Christ's Church, a Christian writer would be justified in applying the term " swept away " to hia death. The just sleep in the Lord ; the just man is translated ; " not so, not so : but like the dust which the wind driveth from the face of the earth," is the death of the unjust man.— Bombay CathoUQ £x* aminer.