A Letter from Florence Nightingale
— -♦- Mies Nightingak hea written th^ following to the Band of Hope of the R«.v. Lewis Davidson, Mayfleld Free C::urch, Kdmburgh : — ' Don't think you can do finything worth doing in a fit of enihui<iasm, but train yourcelves carefully to any work you are called on to do ; and think nothing too small to do carefully, or to train carefully for, that is for the good of your fellow-creatures. For instance, good or bad cooking may make or mar the lives of thousands, and those, too, who are trying to do great things for our lace. God. sends us real and lasting enthusiasm — that is, the zpirit of love and of power, and of a sound mind to carry us through our training and our discipline. It is He dwelling in us, This is His goodness tons, I knew Gordon, More than in anjone, you felt wben you were with him that there was One always closer to him ttian any one with him, in whose irumediate Presence he always lived. Tiaio was the secret of his life.'
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Southland Times, Issue 11295, 30 October 1889, Page 4
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181A Letter from Florence Nightingale Southland Times, Issue 11295, 30 October 1889, Page 4
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