The Metropolitan : a monthly magazine, devoted to religion, education, literature, and general information . ictims of cholerawere added those of i)Opular fury. Sister Rosalie was herself assailed with great terror; she foresaw theravages which the disease was going to make in her quarter, where thebad air, the unwholesomeness of the food and dwellings, offered to it aneasy prey in so many ftimilies already weakened by all kinds of privationsand hardships; she trembled for the poor, for her sisters, for every]>ody;her soul was troubled and she prayed God to remove this chalice from
The Metropolitan : a monthly magazine, devoted to religion, education, literature, and general information . ictims of cholerawere added those of i)Opular fury. Sister Rosalie was herself assailed with great terror; she foresaw theravages which the disease was going to make in her quarter, where thebad air, the unwholesomeness of the food and dwellings, offered to it aneasy prey in so many ftimilies already weakened by all kinds of privationsand hardships; she trembled for the poor, for her sisters, for every]>ody;her soul was troubled and she prayed God to remove this chalice from day on which the cholera appeared, and the first victim was struck,all her terrors disappeared, and she became intrepid; as long as the con-tagion lasted, no weakness, no trouble, no fear attacked her soul; alwaysthe first in watching, in toil, at the head of all the acts of self-devotionwhich she inspired, she animated her assistants with her spirit of faithand charity, gave the most active and intelligent concurrence to the mea-sures of government, to individual efforts, organized temporary hospitals,. A Chapter from the Life of Sister Rosalie. 481 converted to lieriiurposes the good wills of others, and estaljlished every-where order, promptness and continuance in her plans of relief. In pre-sence of the dead, of the agonies and desolation of those who Rosalie, so sensitive, so easily moved to compassion, remained calm,serene, unshaken; she stifled for dutys sake her emotions and tears; hercharity prevailed over her sensitiveness; she directed everything, providedeverything, supported all, and hovered over her quarter like an angel ofconsolation and hoi)e. She had great trouble, in the beginning, to dispel the rumors of poison-ing which were spread among the peo))le: the physicians, the apothe-caries, all those who approached the sick, were suspected of inoculatingthem with the plague; the residents of the faubourg Saint Marceau neversuspected her, and always
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