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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. '< ... !• THE SANBORN HOTEL SANTO SOTTTLE Pres. & Gen. Manager FLORENCE, S. C.