Christian Charity

New Zealand Tablet, 11 October 1906, Page 22

Christian Charity

' Alas ! for the rarity Of Christian charity Under the sun '. The virtue that is ' noblest of the blessed three ' was conspicuously rare in at least one home in Port Elizabeth (South Africa) within the octave of ' the glorious twelfth.' So much appears by the following paragraph in the ' Cape Argus ' af July 19 : 'A Sister of Nazareth belonging ,tq_.ttie Port Elizabeth Community of the Order, while engaged in her daily round of collecting on behalf of helpless children and aged poor, was "seized with heart failure in the street. The doctor who was summoned asked the nearest householder that the Sister should be allowed refuge in the house, but in vain. The stricken lady died upon the verandah of the house, whose shelter for greater ease in her last moments was denied to her.' It is to be recorded to the credit of Port Elizabeth that ' the case has aroused much indignation ' there.