[1] The beginning of the first address will suggest a reason for this
turn of phrase. A nurse who had been through training might not always
be “worthy of the name of ‘Trained Nurse’” (Address of 1876).
[2] There is a well-known Society abroad (for charitable works) of
which the Members go through a two years’ probation on their first
entering, but after ten years they return and go through a second
probation of one year. This is one of the most striking recognitions
I know of the fact that progress is always to be made: that grown-up
people, even of middle-age, ought always to have their education going
on. But only those _can_ learn _after_ middle age who have gone on
learning up to middle age.
[3] The Madre Santa Colomba, of the Convent of the Trinità dei Monti
in Rome.--EDITOR’S NOTE.
[4] There is a most suggestive story told of one, some 300 years
ago, an able and learned man, who presented himself for admission
into a Society for Preaching and Charitable Works. He was kept for
many months on this query: _Are you a Christian?_ by his “Master of
Probationers.” He took kindly and heartily to it; went with his whole
soul and mind into this little momentous question, and solved it
victoriously in his own course, and in his after course of usefulness
for others. Am I a Christian? is most certainly the first and most
important question for each one of us Nurses. Let us ask it, each of
herself, every day.
[5] Nightingale Nurse and Lady Superintendent of Liverpool Workhouse
Infirmary. Pioneer of Workhouse Nursing. After her early death in 1868
Miss Nightingale wrote in _Good Words_ an article, “Una and the Lion,”
on her life and work.--EDITOR’S NOTE.
[6] Madame Caroline Werckner, an Englishwoman.--EDITOR’S NOTE.
[7] Do you remember the word of one of the greatest poets of the
Middle Ages?
The soul Which o’er the body keeps a holy ward, Placed there by God,
yielding alone to Him _The trust He gave_.
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Typographical errors corrected by the etext transcriber:
to set it face heavenward=> to set its face heavenward {pg 84}
And lo I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world=> And lo I am
with you always, even unto the end of the world {pg 98}