THE SISTERS OF NAZARETH AT PORT ELIZABECH.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXVIII, Issue 9, 1 March 1900, Page 6

THE SISTERS OF NAZARETH AT PORT EL IZABEC H.

One of the Sisters of Nazareth House. Purt Eh/ibeth. writing to Hammersmith on December '.\ '-ays — The war is still too terrible, and the end, T fear, very f.ir off. How bard it is for those poor soldii r.s who have to go to the ft out not knowing the moment they may appear t ice to face with Almighty (rod. We do pray for them and help them all in our p iwer A thousand volunteer-- left here yesterday. Our doctor (Dr. Slater) has gone with them. He brought his dear old father for us to take care of during hi.s absence. We trust hi will come back safe. He i^ a Protestant, and said he wished the Sisters were going, too, to help him, for there is very hard work betore him. Mass was said for the soldiers the morning before their departure in the stable? at the racecourse. The Si-ters went up to arrange the altar. They tried to cover up some of the advertisements on the wall — ' Morgan's Pale Ale. etc' One of our boys served the Mass. Three hundred men went to Holy Communion.

How good o f that kini lad? to .'end £10 for t^e refugees. Do you know, dear Mother, the sufferings of the pojr creatures are dreadful. They look «uoh nice people, and wh^n they enne to ask for relief I scarcely like to lo >k Ciein in the f,\c'. The Sisteis go round to them. They found three families in one small room ; three of tne children were dying, and the pour mothers were so exhausted and overcome with suffering that they did nut; <wm able to look after them. You would be pleaded with t lie Sister-\ dear Mother ; they work so hard and yet nre happy and bra\e. ju-t what our dear Mother-General wonl 1 like them to be. You cam <>t imagine what a joy it was to them to rejeive our deir Holy Father's blessing. If we are not goad it is our own fault.