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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    example and a living testimony to all who knew her of the efficacy of that prayer of faith which shall save the sick; the sick in mind and soul, as well as in body. The thought of the lives led by most of those who were brought into the hospital weighed heavUy upon her mind, especially if, as was frequently the case, they were insensible from an accident, and never likely to recover conscious- ness. Well, she would say, we must pray; and at night, when the ward was quiet, she might often be seen kneeling by the bed of some such sufierer. These patients are my crosses, she would say; there seems so little hope to bear one up. Her old servant, who slept in the next room to her mistress, used often to hear her praying aloud for hours at night. The conviction grew upon her that presentiments were sent to her as direct warnings from God; and is it not possible that those who call this conviction superstitious may be condemning a childlike faith, the simpUcity of which they them- selves are unable to appreciate ? One night Sister Dora woke up suddenly, feeling convinced that something was wrong in the wards. A serious amputation had taken place in the afternoon, but she had already visited the patient in the course of the night, according to her custom in anxious cases, and had found him going on well But now she could not go to sleep again j something seemed
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