TRUE HEROISM.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VII, Issue 2147, 17 November 1885, Page 2

TRUE HEROISM.

Many correspondents of English and other journals refer admiringly to the noble work done by the priesthood and, religious orders among the sufferers from the cholera in Spain. By every mail that reaches the Colony fresh testimony is brought to a similar effect. Now we are told of the Cardinal Archbishop of Seville dead on what is to the Catholic ecclesiastic the familiar " field of honor," that is in assiduous attendance on his stricken people. Now wo hear of the Archbishop of Grenada, who sells all that he possesses in order to devote the proceeds to the relief of his poor. And now a bishop of a southern diocese, who, having nothinp else left, carries his episcopal ring to the pawnbroker that he may obtain a loan—the pawnbroker refusing the pledge, but lending the sum required. Again, the Madrid correspondent of the 'St, James's Gazette' writes as follows:—" The Sisters of Charity are behaving splendidly; they die in great numbers, and their places are immediately filled by others. I cannot," he continues, " tell precisely the numbers of the sisters who have died by the bedsides of the patients since the cholera began, but they can be counted by scores." But who can picture the calm bravery of those sisters, of the living as they replace the dead, with the certainty of death before them, with tho terrible spectacle of the contorted, 'discolored, corpses' of those who have died in agony unspeakable before their eyes, and assured that a miracle only can prevent them from themselves lying in a like place ere many hours have passed. And the Sisters have faced their fate unflinchingly and in crowdß. ... The prowess of the athlete displays his training, and tho nun who faces a terrible doath without a moment's hesitation gives evidence of what her life has been, and of the manner in which Bhe has been prepared for the conflict undertaken by her. -'