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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    At first, she merely brought out this teaching as it was required in individual cases, but after a while, as the hospital grew to be regarded in the light of a regular institution, and old patients became attached to it and to Sister Dora by the bonds of gratitude, her lessons assumed a more eystematic shape. Mr. Twigg was a large-hearted, large-minded man, and his teaching and preaching were mainly of the missionary order, excellently suited to the wants of the half-civilized savages of the coal districts, in which his life was spent. His soul yearned to kindle in the hearts of his people a sense of moral responsibility, and then to lead, and even force them, to face the certainty of a retributive justice awaitmg them in a life beyond the grave. The eloquence of language in which he clothed his ideas, combined with a keen insight into human nature, gave him a remarkable influence over the rough men and women for whom he toiled. But not the least of his good works was the helping and guiding hand of fellowship which he always stretched out to Sister Dora, and through her to the sufferers who came imder her influence. She would have been more than human if she had not enjoyed the xmiversal homage paid to her; and although love of admiration may seem a hard term to employ, she was, it must be admitted, by no means free from this very common weakness
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