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    OUR TEN THOUSAND. 315

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    Tomed War ! War Since ! Is 1848 The Cry ...

    frequentl sent to tlie y working Crimea during conjointl ' the y with war , Miss and there Nightingale had the . Hi pleasure ghly edu of

    cated and mistress of several _languages her services were required in . other ways beside nursing- the sick or wounded . She took the fever

    while there , "but recovered , and returned to London to resume her usual duties . "We went to her convent to pay her a visit , and was

    informed _tha / fc our friend had just left for New Zealand with several Sisters under her carefor the purpose of imparting Christian

    instruc-, tion in that distant region to some of the native children . Both of these women are English , both educated , both with

    means , therefore we must conclude that only the loftiest and holiest motives could have enabled themand does still enable them ., to

    per-, form their difficult tasks . Theirs is no holiday or drawing-room work , yet what these are doing others may do , and it is well to hold

    up such examples now when so many are saying " What can we do ? " now when the appeal for more laborers is being made . Let every

    one bring her own peculiar gift and lay it on the altar , for all have not the same gifts , but all are equally required . The rich , as we

    have said before , can bxing their gold and silver , those in comfortable circumstances can give their time , the poorer can be paid for

    their labor , as every laborer is worthy of wages , and the point being conceded that women , more especially unmarried women , and

    in no small numbers , are in the present day compelled to work or eat the bitter bread of dependence , a noble army may soon be formed ,

    composed of paid and unpaid , ready to fight the good fight , to resist the evil coming in _iipon us as a flood ; which evil , if not thus

    stemmed , must ultimately submerge us as a nation , and great will be our desolation .

    An English writer , comparing" French with English charitable societies says , " The want of perpetuity either in work or -workers , "

    is one of the blights that fall on our English work . " And again , speaking of some of the houses of _refugee in Paris , under the entire

    care of Sisters of Charity , she adds , "It is no easy matter even to walk through such houses ; what the care of them must be resting on

    one head would be a mystery did we not know something of that complete organisation which is their m ious oving and sprin charitable g * , and which works ,

    while it is the desideratum of all our relig , is perhaps more perfect in France than in any other country of the world" CertainlFrance is famed for its admirable systems of

    organisation . in every y department ; and could we follow out what is suggested by many of the institutions of our neighbour , we should not

    have to lament old societies falling to decay , new ones springing up to have their rise and fall , all for want of permanent workers ,

    sta From bility , and comments union . here made on the advantages of communities

    in almost , every species of reform over individual efforts , it must not be assumed that we counsel our unmarried women to become vowed onlthwho

    Sisters either for a limited time or for life . Let y ose

    Our Ten Thousand. 315

    OUR TEN THOUSAND . 315

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Jan. 1, 1860, page 315, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01011860/page/27/