- 25 - frost and blinding store, they were rescued in a half frozen and almost dying condition; they with one or two exceptions begged to be taken to tne Bishop's Hospital. This request was accede.; to and a mournful procession of sleighs, never to be forgotten, by those who witnessed it, conveyed them to that institution. There for weeks, and in some cases months, they were nursed and cared for by the good Grey Nuns . What better proof of the good nursing and excellent medical attendance which taey received, then the fact that everyone of them recovered. Again in I885 when on the 12th of November Small-pox of a virulent type broke out in our midst, and the dreadful news spread like wildfire through the town, causing the strongest to tremble, the good Grey Sisters at once offered their services to nurse the sick. Their charitable offer was most discourteously disregarded at first, by certain interested persons who were ashamed to accept the services of those whom they had endeavoured to injure, and a long and fruitless advertising for secular nurses was commenced in our local journals as well as in those of the Sister provinces. At length, finding that even with money they could not procure waat they had scornfully rejectee when offered for the love of God , the Board of Health were forced to call the good sisters to their assistance, two of whom with a Franciscan went without demur to the Hospital, where during the continuance of the epidemic, they pursued their caaritable labours unceasingly. That they were appreciated, though tardily, is demonstrated by the fact that, after some weeks of battling with the small-pox, some members of the Board of Health waited upon the Bisnop to beg him to telegraph to Quebec for two more Sisters ! From the first breaking out of the disease in Charlottetown until its lingering death, the Pev. A. J .r-.clntyre, Senior Priest of St. Eunstan's Cathedral, was assiduous in his ministrations to tne sick and afflicted. Tne clergymen of the Anglican and Presbyteri&n Churches also visited the Hospital - but the young priest who so humbly ^nd unostentatiously comforted, consoled, and even helped to nurse the sick and who acted as chaplain to the sisters - isolated from all other surroundings for a period of two months, deserves and possesses the lasting gratitude — -.» J.__________1 ~