. T. DeWitt Talmage : his life and work : biographical edition . l two such edifices, collectedin the streets outside the church, and when the American preacher appeared hewas greeted by such cheers as are seldom heard in the Scottish capital. Thecarriage of one of the officers of the church had been placed at his disposal,and standing there in the shadow of Arthurs seat, he made an eloquent address 290 LATER SOJOURNS IN EUROPE 291 to the great throng. On completing his tour in England and Scotland, Dr. Tal-mage went to Northern Europe. A VISIT TO FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE While in Great Britain th
. T. DeWitt Talmage : his life and work : biographical edition . l two such edifices, collectedin the streets outside the church, and when the American preacher appeared hewas greeted by such cheers as are seldom heard in the Scottish capital. Thecarriage of one of the officers of the church had been placed at his disposal,and standing there in the shadow of Arthurs seat, he made an eloquent address 290 LATER SOJOURNS IN EUROPE 291 to the great throng. On completing his tour in England and Scotland, Dr. Tal-mage went to Northern Europe. A VISIT TO FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE While in Great Britain that year he visited the aged Florence Nightingale,the heroine of many battlefields and the mother of the modern field-hospitalservice. He wrote of this memorable visit: Although she was prostrate upon a lounge, there was a vigor in hermanner that would imply she had only reached mid-life. Her conversation hadthe sprightliness of a girl, but her countenance had in it the illumination of along life occupied in helping others. Her features were sympathy FLORENCE NIGHTINGALEFrom a Famous Painting of the Celebrated Heroine of the War Hospitals There was something in her appearance almost supernatural. It is impossibleto exercise the highest style of charities for a half-century, and that fact not beemblazoned on forehead and cheek. 292 T. DE WITT TALMAGE—HIS LIFE AN 13 WORK As we sat down beside the sofa on which she rested, we were at firstoverawed with the majesty of her presence, and then fascinated with the thoughtof the sufferings she had alleviated. THE LADY OF THE LAMP She had never heard until we told her that she was called by the soldiersin the Crimean hospitals, the lady of the lamp, because of her visits to theirsuffering cots in the night, carrying a lamp. At our own request, she told us ofmuch that she had seen where there were no hospitals at all, and the woundedlay uncovered upon the battlefield. I said to her, You found that there was nopoetry in war, a
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