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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    of working. Oh, , my heart runs over witli thankfulness that I have been allowed to minister, even in a little way, to His sick and suffering! I feel, when I touch them, as if virtue came out of them. Don't you often feel as if you grudged the time you are obliged to spend in sleep, and in recruiting the body ? there seems so much work to be done. I think it will be a sharp pang to us to see what little use we have made of it, what souls we might have turned, what a power- ful weapon we had in prayer, and how seldom we wielded it. In the month of March of that year, a mission was held at Walsall, in which Sister Dora, who never thought she had enough to do, could not resist taking an active part. She went to the opening meeting. The missioner, in his address to lay-workers, exhorted them to bring people to the services which were to be held durmg the week. The next night Sister Dora came into the little sitting-room at the hospital, with her bonnet and cloak on, announcing that she was going to catch waifs and strays, and drag them to church, but that her heart failed her. Per- haps I shall be snubbed. That is no matter, remarked a lady-pupil to whom she spoke, and she started on her mission. When she came back she was radiant. She had ■ met mth only one rebuff, and had arrived in church with a
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