On sledge and horseback to outcast Siberian lepers / [Kate Marsden].

  • Kate Marsden
Date:
[1893]
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: On sledge and horseback to outcast Siberian lepers / [Kate Marsden]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

    26/354
    worthy, more full of faults and failings, than I, to undertake this leper work. And my earnest hope is that what God has enabled me to do may encourage others, however far down in the scale, or however much they may have turned from God, not merely to “ do likewise,” but to throw all their strength into greater work than that to which my poor life is dedicated. One rule we must constantly observe—to set our faces heavenwards. On behalf of all such workers for the furtherance of Christ’s kingdom, and for the good of humanity, I venture to repeat the prayer contained in a letter which I received, shortly before setting out to Siberia, from that ideal servant of the sick and suffering, dear to every Englishwoman:—“ May the Father Almighty, Omniscient, who is Infinite Love, be your Guide and your Help, is the prayer of, Yours sincerely, Florence Nightingale