Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1903-03-23
TALMAGE
SERMON
By Rev.
FRANK DE- WITT TALhGAcE. DID,.
Pastor Of Jefferson Park Prsshy-
tsrtAn Church, Chicago

Dr. Talnage gives cheer and encour-
agement to the trained nurse, whose
eelf sacrificing vocation he describes as
one OF the highest and noblest to which
her SEX can aspire. The text is Tim
city v. 10. "well reported of for good
aflicted."
Well. indeed. may a woman be re-
ported of for good works In such a
world as ours II she have relieved the
s1iicted. Such women are sorely need
cd. There is suffering everywhere
IN the rich mans palace and the poor
mans tenement. II any woman desires
60 be well reported OF for good works,
che can attain her ambition in no sur
er. better way than In relieving the af-
ficted. IL is glorious mission that
has been chosen by these noble wom-
en-. who are graduating as trained
nurses and are going forth In their
striped uniforms, like valiant soldiers,
Co contend with fell disease. want
60 present to you my conception Of
what such woman should be, wheth-
er she stands by the operating table or
bends over the invalid's bed or walks
through the wards of a hospital for
contagious diseases or sterilizes the
surgeons knives just before the limb
O. to be amputated. Every year of my
residence Ia Chicago have been asked
by the officials Of the different training
schools to speak upon this subject. l
take this opportunity to address not q
aingle graduating class of trained
nurses. but to speak to all the different
tralning schools for nurses with which
my pulpit comes into contact.
The scope of my theme can best be
eealizcd II the hearer Is led into the
humble home of the most beloved and
internationally honored of all women
Diving at tie present time. Who is she?
I will answer that question by relating
an Incident which happened about the
year 1858. Lord Stratford was enter
Gaining at a London banquet many Of
the prominent military officers of the
British army. who had led to victory
the queens soldiers In the Crimean con-
dict. AS Il matter of curiosity. the no
Die lord asked them. one and all, this
question: WHO do you think. of all the
participants OF the late war, will be the
most honored and revered by the COM
eng generationsf" He asked his guests
60 write the names OF their choice upon
slips of paper and he would read the
same aud announce the result of the
ballot. When the slips were collected
the vote was unanimous. Wonderful
60 state. the name which Lord STRAIT
cord announced was not that of a gen.
eral. Ii belonged to an untitled WON
an. Her name was Florence Nightin-
gale. Who was Florence Nightingale
She was not Joan of Arc or Maria
Theresa. who achieved victories by the
sword She won her universal fame
by the way she bound together the
bleeding lips of the wounds which the
surgeons knife had opened. she car
w1ed In her hand not the battle tori
union jack. but the white bandage
She ignited ~ fame which burst fortl
from tue lannon's mouth. She simply
lighted little candle. with which sht
hospitals, long after the tired men wer,
asleep.
The Ideal Nurse.
Who was Florence Nightingale?
will tell you. she was the heroic nurs
who did not want tie British peopl
60 rear for her monument of col,
marble, but instead she took the $3.50
600, which was u free will offering Civ
en- by her countrymen, and with ii bull
and endowed. only short distanc
nom Westminster abbey. the famou
trimming school for nurses which nov
bears her uame. This school, estat
lished In 1850. is the foster mother @
oil the modern training schools fo
nurses. When woman so honore
by church and state as Florence Nigh
ingale thinks the development of ii
trained nurse work so important tn,
she devOt,'S 20 IL her fortune and III
consecrated energies. we need make I
apology for taking as our theme tn
morning the qualities which are needle
In the ideal curse.
The trained nurse. In the first plac
must be intelligent she is the rigl
arm Of the physician. by that we {
not mean That the trained nurse is
be a mere automatic machine and TIL
when the physician pulls the string 81
IS to move and when he stops pullir
she Is to stand still oh. no. She is
be FAR morr When Stonewall Jacks
hay dying. after having been shot
Charlottesville. Robert + Lee turn'
TO the messenger who brought him q
sad news ard said: Tell General JAG
son ne cannot and must not die.
Stonewall Jackson dies. shall lose 4
right arm" When Robert +. Lee 81
that he did not assert that Geuer
jackson had no brain. no thinking pc
err or that rs Lees right arm he me