, 1880-04-18

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apy mo Wbst @fnar; tsnt her Just tondor
"stand and see a mans iee cut oKS'' "9, A6 !.
.f1etortcd Sister Dor.l's champion, "thot's oni,
qafs fa it. Aa msri ts 5fa s tender
steadity gained ground in and around Waisail
until Sister Dora was beloved as few human b.
uss i.so1 e'ee nave been BY those among whom they
strn,,a During the year 1s.o71 Sister Dora had a
a,3n ssrnng ae5ire to go and nurse those who were
THE FRENCH AND GERMAN WAR,
but she finally concluded thar her n,ace ~ d,+v
~ ~ ~ "aisall hospital, and here she lived and
laoored; with only brief vacations until the end
she fcare Nc earler d1lna. than she wished, ls
from noeptdemic. Such was the feelnv tt,,.a Td -
nec nee dF am6ng the humble people Of Wasa that
Ter Dora was as like tho Lord Jesus Christ NJ nnv
auman creature could be-" When, in 1875 She
1tta I4nna taat she she had disease which must be
secret, and pledged the physician whom she con-
suited to secrecy also. She worked IN rant
harder than ever: Her chief happiness nov; nov;
bedside Of wretched, DYING patiepts soofna y me
e1niortlng, encouraging them: Her religion was
eminently spiritual. "''S
Wn1on sister Dora had over others. One i,irht
as she passed the entrance to an infamous piace
iected nfSn a p mLh,,e tn she saw motley crowd col
On, WE which the police were not venturing to
interfere; She Immediately turned down the
made way TOR her right and left. she took nnsa
session OF high doorstep, where her appear-
1 ance alone was,enough to gain her the attention
usual fashion, entreatfng, exhort[nr. hinpinr
Weai-atmcd raillcry at the coubat1nts. with
vt whom she was, no doubt, personally acqusinted.
Iney stood Tor moment Or Two nbashed,
LIKE TWO FURIOUS BULLDOGS,
and then, with the tenacity Of the same creat-
ures, agltn rushed upon each other urped On by
the sympathetic cries of the crowd. In one mo-
a ment = Sister Dora bud quilted her doorstep and
bad thrown herself between the wild animals.
holding them each back with an arm Which
eitner o5 the men could have broken as easily az
he could 6nye snapped big tobacco-ptpe But
ants nor crowd gave her word Of dissespect, |
n nuch less Of insult, and, rs II they were forced
hem, they allowed her to win the dav. ana tts |
light Wns at an end.
II, IN August M 1873, she left Walsa1l Hospital for
'aris and London; but her final illness came on |
md she returned to the town to die, Her one |
.emalning earthly anx:ety, when abe knew that
ler ena Wds near, was to find q successor for |
lerself at the new hospital whom she might see
'eforc she died; but this was not possible, and
lear friends temporarily took her place. This
trong ruling passion, the silence Of strong
oul, did not forsake her ut the end. In the last
ours, whenall human efforts for relieving her
ad been exhausted, she said, as her friends
tooa By her watching, - have lived alone let
ae dle.alone, ,"-repeutfng
''LET NE DIE ALONE"
III they were forced to leave her, one friend
My watching through the half-open door, and
nat friend only conscious, later on, by slight
hange OF position, that Sister Dora's life was
one And when they buried her, on the 18th
ay OF December, 1879, hundreds of the poor, the
laimed the halt. md the blind, docked into the
raveyard, pressing round the now-uncoyered
ottiu; and miserable, ragged women, as we'll as
III lf.starved children, with the marks Of real |
rief and distress on their faces, walked long
[stances to sny Good-by to the best friend they
i'd ever known. Four funerals from the work.
0use came up just as DorA's body arrived at the |
tile chapel, and no room was left for her coffin
side the crowded building, and 1t was placed in
e porch while the service WIS said over all five
once. Just rs Sister Dora herself would |
I'VE wished,' remarked one Of her nurses, who |
as present." not to be divided, even In death, |
ON the poor people she loved 80 well"