To the Editor of the "Nontit Citix Dany News."
Sin,—As one who hss quite recently been under the care of members of the devoted Sisterhood of St. Vincent de Paal," I desire to put on record my heartfelt gratitude for the wise kindliness and unfailing patience with which I have seen them, in the case of others as well as in my own, carry out the duties of voluntary hospital assistant also, to join with you in the hope that it may indeed be found "possible to retain the services of the Sisterhood in Shanghai."
To the Sister of St. Vincent de Paul as we have "learned" her at the General Hospital can, surely, if to nyorie, be applied those beautiful lines of Whittier's "The dear Lord's best interpreters Are humble human souls; The gospel of a life like hers Ts more than books or scrolls. From scheme and creed the light out, The saintly fact survives The blessed Master none can doubt Revealed in holy lives."
Using the expression in anything but a conventional manner I say, God bless "the devoted sisterhood of St. Vincent de Paul."
T am, ete., Shanghai, 30th August 1907.
2 As we have been careful to point out "in every reference that we have made to the General Hospital, we are very far from wishing to suggest the smallest imputation upon the devotion of the Sisters of St. Vincent de Paul. opens the doc r to temptations to."*10U8) But it is no slur to say that the neces-tities of a certain piece of work may grow beyond the physical capabilities those who have to carry it otit. The Fy saco of one set of patients who have evide through the General Hospital "ug to do with the evidence of and the very fact that satroversy on the subject there is any Nhere should be full demands that more, while the inquiry. Furthe AN be felt for the utmost gratitude w. sideration must Sisters, and every cos.
7s, the neces-shown for their foehn, "ter 0 vital sities of the case, in a mac General to the community as the Hospital, demand that fro. inquiry sentiment be as far as excluded.—Ep.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.