DOCTOR'S WORK

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 541, 26 May 1933, Page 3

DOCTOR'S WORK

LABOURED WHILE PARALYSIS CREPT OVER HIM. I NOW SIGHTLESS. Sydney, Saturday. When a stained-glass window is dedicated to "All Mothers" at 3 p.m. today in St. Mark's Church of Eingland, Matraville, it will stand as a memorial, also, to months of diffieult and

painful work by a doctor whose own life may yet he forfeit to the dangers of his profession. . $ For the last seven months, Dr. C. E. Kearney, whose gifts have brought cheer into many p-oor homes in Matraville and South, Kensington,' has been bedridden, his illness being due to the contraction of a disease from a germ picked up while he was operating. At first he was only paralysed on the left side, but lately the dread paralysis has • spread all over him, and a week ago he became totally blind. Dr. Kearney was a prominent mem- i ber of the First Waverley Troop of Rovers, and when first taken ill he decided that, with the aid of some Rovers, he could work and raise money to place a window in the Matraville Church of England, as a token to all mothers. For Mothers' Memorial. An accomplished poker-worker, Dr. Kearney each day had a Rover hold him on his side while he worked on a large box depicting door mice on an acorn limb. Sometimes too ill to do more than a few minutes a day, it took him several months to complete the box, but the finished article was a wonderful piece of work and when raffled in the district realised enough ' money to p-urchase an elaborate stained-glass window depicting Christ blessing two children. Just before it was finished Dr. Kearney lost his sight. On Friday morning, when workmen were on their way to the church to instal the window, they took it to the sick man's home, where the artist (Mr. J. Redecki) explained every detail ana colour in it to Dr. Kearney. The Rev. R. F. Tacon, rector, will dedicate the window, on which is the inscription: "Dedicated on Moth'er's Day, 1933. A token from loving hearts as a Thanks 'Offering for Mothers." A Fitting Day. On a stand near the window a brass vase has been installed and this will always be filled with rosemary. Superimposed on a tile' in one corner on th'e window will be the intials of the man who has been responsible for it. Interviewed by the Sunday Sun yes- j terday, Dr. Kearney said that before his illness he had done a lot of clinic work and he was sure that the young people of to-day did not think enough of their mothers. He had never seen the window, he added, but he was sure it was beautiful, and he wanted it to be a lasting memorial to all mothers. There could not be a more fitting day for its dedication than to-day — Mother's Day.