Sister Dora : a biography / by Margaret Lonsdale.

  • Lonsdale, Margaret
Date:
1895
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Credit: Sister Dora : a biography / by Margaret Lonsdale. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    influence for good over him.' After lie had left the hospital, he came up one day to the out-patients' ward, and waited long for a sight of ' Sister,' saying afterwards, 'Isn't she beautiful? That is what I call a real lady.' How could any one, indeed, live with her without realizing how much there was to love and admire; and will not the recollection of her beautiful life and ministry prevent many a man from falling into ' that worst of all scepticisms, a disbelief in human goodness ' ? 'Cockney,' probably, will often look back with regret on the ' Christian tent,' as he called the hospital, where it was his good fortune to be taken. By eight o'clock wounds had been dressed for the night, and the patients' supper was served. Sister Dora read prayers always, even when, as sometimes happened, her many duties, and labours had so delayed her that most of the patients were asleep, for she said, 'The prayers go up for them aU the same.' Just before bedtime came her own supper, when she would often be very merry, and would relate her many remarkable experiences with intense fun and droUery. Her keen sense of the ridiculous must have preserved her from much weariness of spirit. This was the time to which the lady-pupils looked forward, and when they expected to enjoy themselves, but they were not unfrequently disappointed. Sister Dora would just look in at the door and say,.' I am going to bed; I don't want any supper to-night.' Thia
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