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Show OUR NOBLE SISTERHOOD. Out in the front ranks, where the deadly hum of leaden bullets sounds dangerously near, in the gloomy hospital hos-pital wards where her saintly presence lights up the darknc? of approachine death, down in the heart of the great city where vice and misery go hand in hand; ever moves the self-sacrificing Catholic Sisterhood. Examples need not be sought in the days gone by. The present time, right here in Salt Lake, furnishes the facte. Recently when smallpox broke out in our midst and immune nurses could not ' be secured for either love of money or humanity, all the Sisters of the Holy Cross Hospital volunteered to go as nurses to the pest house patients. Two were accepted, and are at present heroically he-roically nursing the shunned nes back to health, with no reward in sight but that feeling which comes from a sense of duty fulfilled on earth and the hope of a blessed eternity which liea beyond the grave. It will be remembered that when the anti-Catholic and anti-American storm, some years ago, swept over America, the brunt of the accusations were hurled agaihst 'the various institutions presided over by the Sisters.- Anything that pitiful ignorance and blackest hatred- oould invent was hurled at their defenseless position. If the old saying be true, that "actions speak louder than words," bigotry should now hang its head in shame. "Wherever you find the maximum of imminent danger accompanied by the minimum of temporal reward, there you will always find the self-sacrificing Priest and Sister. Above their heads gleams a banner in which angels have woven the magic word, "Charity." What matters creed or class to them, where sympathy and aid are to be given .to a fellow creature? "By their fruits ye shall know them." O Charity, sweet is thy name, Bright as the sunshine's glow. Bringing peace unto earthly homes That sorrow and misery know; Teaching us all the charms That hide in- the human heart; Glvinp us prelude of peace, 4 Of Heaven itself a part. |