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New Zealand Tablet, Volume IV, Issue 193, 8 December 1876, Page 5

Two zealous and devoted nuns from the far-off African mission have Come to Catholic Ireland to beg for a work of charity in which they take a deep and most edifying interest. The scene of their labors is in the diocese of Algiers, and the ohjects on whom, they are lavishing this iind and thoughtful care are some hundreds of poor orphan boys and girls and semi-barbarous children, whom they have rescued from the grasp of Mahometan proselytises, and from the spiritual ruin that would be the inevitable consequence of their loss- They have at Kouta, in Algiers, an orphanage of 300 girls; and elsewhere in that wild and" desolate region there are hundreds of Christian Arab children waiting eagerly the successful issue of the appeal now being made by their beneficient instructors ia their behalf. The good sisterhood, to whom the two ladies now in Ireland belong, have also opened a hospital for the Mahometan sick, and bestow upon the unfortunate patients not alone temporal aid in their corporal needs, but spirit' ual light and help in the concerns of their immortal souls. They have in their mission for help from Irish Catholics the blessing and sanction of the Archbishop of Algiers, who has commended the cause in which they are engaged to tho special consideration of the faithful, and describes the condition of humble but fervent Christians to whose servise they have dedicated their lives and energies as " the most painful and the poorest in the world." His Eminence the Cardinal Archbishop of Dublin has given Mr approbation to the appeal of the devoted sisters, and has contributed towards it a munificent subscription. There are few ways in which a little kindly assistance could be more usefully and with such a prospect of happy issues applied than in this holy cause, of the Christian Arabs of Algiers.