We have been very fortunate in the Mother Superiors up here on the Chinese Tibetan border. Some years ago Sister Alice, also a Canadian, pent a term in the French Hospital Then came Sister Rose, also a de-Lightful Mother Superior. Sister Alice now in Chengtu and Sister Rose fg In Kiating. Both these women. have ministered to the poor and sick here in Tachienlu, and when any European needed ' their help and nursing they were prepared to come night and day till the patient was. well ani strong. When young Em-mons of Harvard returned from the Gong Ga with his feot badly frozen, these kind ladies rendered all possible assistance, "And when Dr. Relehelt fell from his horse, on his way up the Jedo the Sisters' dic all they could to ease the doctor's pain. Both Roubin and Mandeville found 'a warm spot in the hearts of these Canadian ladles and when the State fof Belgium failed to function the {wo Shanghai boys enjoyed some delicious wine, a present Sisters, Just before Marie des Anges eft for Shanghai and Italy, she and] Sister Alice very kindly nursed me gla erous_ stack of meumae throu pene mok het Chet nay, her fast question wa the" theamatim'" Dear In'tns sister's heart as she told me rently, T found a very 9
Thee' ner brother in Ireland, 1 felt any gears. ago was. very. me compliment!" 1t_may be dificult shove on the onside to reali Siw chernally busy these good Wom tease and the temendcus amount St work they get through. Here is sample of a. ide note:
fry kind of 364 indeed o remember Yan wold liend." excuse delay in replying to your Kind So busy—always the same story—busy and #0 little work fs done. Htope T'wil have the Pleasure of seeing ery truly in Christ, Manis oes Anes An Excellent Ctinie There are six foreign Sisters in the French Hospital ut the South Gate and their dally clinic has been the envy of western doctors who have visited Tachienlu, Frequently the number rises from one to two hundred and the morning scene outside the dispensary must remind these nursing women of a similar scene around the Pool of Bethesda, where we read, there lay a great multitude of. important folk, of blind, halt, withered, waiting for the moving of the water, 'The mass of vile and Alsgusting and terrible sores, many fof them almost beyond the' art of healing, which these gentle ladies attend to day by day, is sometimes Unbellevable. And the good work goes on summer and winter, even When the Sislers themselves are needing test_and medical attention. Sometimes they have "a spare moment, and when they have they make some little delicacy for the old bishop, Mgr, Giraudeas, now fifty five years on the Tibetan frontier.
"The Catholic Mission on the border, during the past few years, has made a decided forward movement. Their foreign staff on the immediate frontier must Rumber 25, some them "young men nowly out from France. Some months ago an Ttalian pare visited Tachienlu and created Guile a stir. This young fellow had Fecently arrived from Hankow and was over seven feet high. Unfortunately the companion who accom panied him was just Mighty over five feet, and the contrast was, most striking and alarming This young Drlest has come tothe border to work in connection with the Catholic Leper Asylum at Mo-hslmien. "He spent a fow years in Central China and is quite a linguist, heving a knowledge of English, "French, Ttatian, Chinese and Latin.
He is also quite musical and appears to be an all-round cultured Young priest. 'The Tallin called. to See Us eecompanied by an Austrian and a' Frenchman.
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