Florence Nightingale as seen in her portraits : with a sketch of her life, and an account of her relation to the origin of the Red Cross Society . ntified her-self still more closely with it, and it shedsother light upon her extraordinarily many-sided character. Here again, as in her youth,we see her from the domestic side. She is inclose contact with her nurses, knowing each onepersonally, criticising and loving, chiding andhelping, always on the highest plane of prin-ciple, and with a depth of personal feeling andsympathy that brought her into the closestrange of influence with those whom sh
Florence Nightingale as seen in her portraits : with a sketch of her life, and an account of her relation to the origin of the Red Cross Society . ntified her-self still more closely with it, and it shedsother light upon her extraordinarily many-sided character. Here again, as in her youth,we see her from the domestic side. She is inclose contact with her nurses, knowing each onepersonally, criticising and loving, chiding andhelping, always on the highest plane of prin-ciple, and with a depth of personal feeling andsympathy that brought her into the closestrange of influence with those whom she wastrying to inspire. Every year she formulatedher teaching in a hospital sermon, which tookthe form of a letter, publicly read to thenurses. In these days her home at South Streetwas always open to her pupils, whom she methere in a sense on equal terms, and all loved herdearly. Just as in her beautiful girlhood shehad sat at the feet of Elizabeth Fry, and haddrunk to her souls fulfilment of the springs ofthat ripened humanitarianism, so in her ownlatter days, these daughters of her hearts bestwisdom gathered about her to learn from her65. Plate XV. Florence Nightingale in a watereolor drawing by Miss F. Alicia De BidenFootner, and reproduced in Sir Edward Cooks Life of Flor-ence Nightingale. 66 own lips what it was she would have them to the years closed in about her, her nursesstood to her in the relation of affectionate chil-dren or dear sisters, who had gone out intothe world to carry her gospel of what the artof nursing meant to many distant lands. In the fulness of time, after a life so crowdedwith productive labor, philosophic thought, andliterary activity, so rich in sympathies andaffection, and so transfigured by a deep re-ligious faith that one could scarcely imagine itsequal, death came to her, three years after theFreedom of the City of London and the KingsOrder of Merit had been conferred upon the end she counted herself an unprofitableserv
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