The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1915-08-12
Soul Glory Shines
In Nurses At Front
Spirit Of Florence Nightingale Pervades Women Nursing
Wounded Soldiers Behind Firing Lines Of Armies.

The words of Florence Nightingale,
the pioneer of trained nurses in war
time, may we'll be an inspiration to
women who go forth to serve in this
splendid mission now.
THE nurse" she wrote, must have
method, self-sacriflce, watchful activ-
ity, love of the work, devotion to duty !:
the courage. the GOODNESS of the sol
der, the tenderness of the mother"
The blessing of giving, doing, sacri-
ficing for others is one of the richest
blessings that can come to any heart.
The spirit of conservation must be
in nurses heart-the feeling that
her service. to be fruitful. must be.
as a nurse has said, for "the love
of God and fellow creatures"
The mission of the angels them
selves is always that of service: Are
they not all ministering spirits, sent
forth to minister"
SOULS GLORY"
The ''souls glory may shine from
the inner, spiritual life of war nurse
today as it did long ago in the person
atty of Florence Nightingale. Long.
fellows tribute to her is in the verse
which speaks with Illuminating mean,
ing:
"A lady with lamp shall stand
In the great history of the land,
A noble type of good,
Heroic womanhood."
Through the gloomy wards of the
hospital at Scutari, in the Crimea
Florence Nightingale went the rounds
at night, carrying small lamp, paus.
inc m cpiy fn1r n q
suffering men. They turned on their
pillows to bless her as she passed.
She was one of those whom God
forms for great purposes. Full of love
and benevolence, gentle, simple, with
good judgment and unselish devotion
to her work, she inspired confidence
She is described as tall and pale, her
face very lovely in expression, the
souls glory" shining exultingly.
WAS THOROUGHLY TRAINED.
In her girlhood the idea of a woman
of birth and education becoming a
nurse was novel. Her father was rich
and influential. She cared little for
the pleasures of society, and began
to study the hospital systems of Eng
land, France and Germany. She took
a course of instruction in nursing with
the deaconesses at kaiserwerth, on
the Rhine. Then she went to the Sis
tiers of st. Vincent de Paul, in Paris
to nurse the sick poor. Later she
studied surgery in Paris hospital.
The call Of her life came in the
Crimean war She was requested to
organize a band Of nurses and go to
Scutari. The conditions in the hos
pital' were terrible, but she brought
order out of chaos.
A fund which was presented to her
after the war by the British nation
was given by her to establish the
training of nurses in St. Thomas S
hospital, London. Thus began a move
ment which is world wide.
FAITH AND HEROISM NEEDED.
The nurse in war time needs the
lamp of faith and heroism, the heav-
emily fame Of Christ-like tenderness
and sympathy to tighten the dark
hours in a hospital and to carry com
fort to the very edge Of the valley of
the shadow" in the passing away of
weary shadow
A nurse who returned recently from
hospital in France to recuperate in
health and to get more subscriptions
to a relief fund, said: Il shall go
back soon. No one here can imagine
the needs and conditions over there.
So many men are brought in that