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DECEMBER 21, 1937
THE BULLETIN OF THE CATHOLIC LAYMEN’S ASSOCIATION OP GEORGIA
THIRTEEN
LEADING FLORENCE S. C. FIRMS
SWEDES
CLEANERS—DYERS
HATTERS
(Yeiva-Tone Process)
“THERE IS A DIFFERENCE"
*09 East Evans Street
Phone 1317
& C.
J. R. Schipman, Pie*.- 1
J. R. Schipman, It-
FLORENCE COCA-COLA
BOTTUNG Ca
lakt.
Established 1*06
133-134 W. DARLINGTON ST.
FLORENCE, S. C.
W. M. BELK, President
R. T. RILEY, Manager
BELK’S
Department
Store
FWyreoce, S. C.
J. C. Penney
Company
Florence, S. C.
Florence Memorial
Company
C W. BROWN, Ormtur
Manufacturers of Quality
Monuments
Florence, S. C.
Aiken and Co.
“Yo»r Insurance Friends^
REAL ESTATE—INSURANCE-
LOANS—RENTALS—
INVESTMENTS
“REALTORS” and
INDUSTRIAL LOANS, fee.
334 Phones 335
Florence, S. C.
Best Wishes
Barringer
Hardware
Company
99
Florence, S. C.
Russell’s, Inc.
WATCHMAKER’S
JEWELERS
ENGRAVERS
3M West Evans St.
Florence. S. C.
“We Teach Watches to
Tefi the Truth”
N. B. Baroody
Wholesale
Fruits, Produce,
Candies and
Tobaccos
Phones 325—326
s
K C.
MILLERS M
SYSTEM
STORE
Saves foe the Nation
MEATS, FRUITS and
GROCERIES
Phone 1285
Florence. S. C.
JACK SELF
JACK SELF
“Suits Me”
CLOTHING AND
HABERDASHERY
Phone 17
Florence, S. C.
HARRY GALL
WATCHMAKER aRd
JEWELER
Florence, h. C.
Fine Repairing a
Speciality
Guaranty Bank and
Trust Company
Florence, South Carolina
Members of F. D. L
Phone 613—614
JOHHSON’S
Fur Glasers—Cleaners
Dyers—-Hatters
Rug Cleaners
Florence, s. c.
,, 41* E. Evan-* St.
M I l j-
Father Tobin Recalls Labors
of Sisters of Mercy in U.S.
Florence, S. C., Pastor Describes Their Achievements
in Article Published in the Southern Cross, Cape-
Town, South Africa,of Which He is U.S.Correspondent
Hie Rev. W. A. Tobin, pastor of
St Anthony’s Chnreh, Florence,
whose studies and writngs on
the early history of South Caro
lina and the part the Irish people
played therein are well known to
readers of Hie Bulletin, and
whose articles have appeared in
newspapers and magazines on
three continents, recently con
tributed a splendid estimate of
the work -of the Sisters of Mer- *
cy in the United States to The
Southern Cross, Capetown, South
Africa, of which he is American
correspondent Father Tobin’s
article, written under the nome
de plume "Neilaui Long”, follows:
The Sisters of Mercy in America
(there are nearly 10,600 of them> are
joining in the celebration this year
of the 115th anniversary of the birth
of their venerable foundress, Cath
erine McAuley. Catherine McAuley
was bom the very same year as
Mother-Mary Aikenhead, of the Irish
Sisters of Charity, but, for one rea
son or another, the spiritual daugh
ters of the latter, though well known
in most English-speaking lands never
found their way to the United States.
In 1843 a band of Sisters of Mer
cy from Carlow, Ireland, made their
first foundation in Pittsburgh. Hie
organization spread rapidly and there
is hardly a line of charitable endea
vor at which they have not success
fully tried their hand. They have
cared for the orphan, housed the
aged .nursed the sick in peace and in
war, visited prisons and the homes of
the poor, consoled the emigrant, but,
above all, instructed the young.
Presently there are,, in round num
bers, some 170,000 pupils in their
primary schools, 14,000 in their acad
emies and 1,000 in their higher halls
of learning. About a .quarter of a
million patients fill their hospital
beds each year and their institutions
of various kinds accept responsibility
annually for some ten thousand de
pendents.
I take.my facts aqd figures from a
400-page volume that now. lies open
on my desk, “The Sisters of Mercy
in the United States,” by Sister Mary
Eulalia Herron, Ph.D. The Macmil
lan Company published the work m
1928.
The Sisters of Mercy control a
splendid system of American hospi
tals. Patricularly famous are the
Mercy Hospitals of Chicago and
Pittsburgh, and the Misericordia Hos
pital of Philadelphia. To the first-
mentioned institution was attached
Dr. John B. Murphy at the time
he made his revolutionary contribu
tions to the sicence of surgery.
During the Civil War Sisters of
Mercy nursed the soldiers of the
South as well as the North and won
well-merited praise from bth sides
in that disastrous conflict. It is hard
for us who live in the third decade
of the twentieth century to picture
the sad condition of the abandoned
sick before the Sisters of Mothers
McAuley and Aikenhead came on
the scene.
Jefferson Davis, President of the
Southern Confederacy, meeting some
Sisters of Mercy on one occasion af
ter his Cause was lost, addressed
them in this wise: “I am proud to
see you once more. I can never for
get your kindness to the sick and
wounded during qur darkest days.
And I know how to testify my grati
tude and respeet for every member
of your noble Order.”
These words must have been sweet
to the ears on which they fell; and
they are strangely reminiscent of
the words which the “Lady with a
Lamp” wrote from the Crimea aera
a few years previously to another
Sister of Mercy: “I cannot express to
you, dear Rev. Mother, the gratitude
which I and the whole country feel
to you for your goodness. You have
been one of our chief mainstays, and
without" you I do not know what
would have become of the work.
With love to all my Sisters, believe
me, dear Rev. Mother, ever yours af
fectionately, Florence Nightingale.”
From Civil War days a charming,
if pathetic, story has come down,
which .though my space is short, I
can't refrain from telling here.
A Catholic soldier, critically
wounded, and more dead than alive,
(Continued on. Page Fourteen)
LEADING FLORENCE FIRMS
Carolina Building Material Co.
122 East Cedar Street
BUILDING MATERIAL OF ALL KINDS
FLORENCE. S. C.
Compliments
of
Levenson’s
The Vogue
FLORENCE, S. C.
SINCLAIR COAL
& FEED CO.
We Sell and Recommend
East Front Street
FLORENCE, S. C.
OTarrall
Automotive Co.
Phone 1033
113 North Coit St.
FLORENCE, S. C.
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THE SANBORN
HOTEL
SANTO SOTTTLE
Pres. & Gen. Manager
FLORENCE, S. C.