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16 AMALXE SIEVEItlNG.
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^ Amalie Wilheimine Sieyekin© Was Born I...
Wlien the plague was stayed , and slie began to think of returning liomeshe was once and again requested by the governors to remain
the yet a intervals , little longer of leisure , and having which acceded now occasionall to their wi occurre sh , she d emp in see loyed ing y
the relatives of those who had died in the hospital , and in preparing a subject report upon miht the be condition brought before in which the th finance ey were committee left , in order . At that length the
she was re g leasedand returned once more to her longing mother's , patients roof with were a joy now ful all and fast grateful recovering heart , , and for , the as she problem said , was ss the full last y
solved . " And truly she had solved it , but not quite so easily as control p been from ital , , against her and on simp it her had her part le , needed reports not to succeed onl the y mi in g greatest ht in the be overcoming outer imag prudence world ined . them , , but Every self . -denial even Had prejudice in , she and the been hos self had - -
to onl be y prompted the case by she enthusiasm could never or blind have zeal held , as on was her thought as by she many did . way
"With characteristi , c frankness she said afterwards to her scholars , deny " Thoug that h the my thoug chief ht motive "would indeed sometimes was the intrude glory of of how God , peop yet le I cannot would
martyr * wonder She wants , ' at and my to that self do -devotion was something salutary ; but for singular , instead me ; for , of to thoug this set , h herself all firm it was I in heard humbling up for was ,
mined lution to find to to myself solve care no jud the more ged problem thus for man , by it overcoming ' onl s jud y made gment me , every and more never obstacle Siemssen for . the - my I future deter reso th - -
to let it trouble me . They had feared , and even Dr . ( e that head a p lad hysician would ) had make expressed but a this nurse apprehen and thoug sion ht before that I I should came ,
y poor , with only treat them the ; but patients they soon to texts found , and that hold thi sentimental s was ht not in my conversation way , and to s
indeed bodily wants I had , enoug excep h t to when do from one morning of the that * raen till wished ni should g to do attending receive the
sacramentand Dr . S . himself proposed I something to the hel kind p him " , in And preparin indeed g she for had it , but foun this d opportunit was the y onl for y instance little more of
wish than lending for . them a , few and prayer dropp - ing books an and occasional Bibles word to _sxich of as consolation expressed or a
exhortation when beside the sick beds . the On Special the morning Commission of her waited dex > arture on her , a deputation to present her of gentlemen with a written from
vote of thanks from the General Sanitary Commission , and many of those who had most blamed her for attempting the undertaking , now in her
by that 661 the will she medical not had deny successfull gentlemen , " said she y , carried , numbers " that it the of out honorable whom were were loud testimony them frequent borne praises visitors me .
. who at the had institution ridiculed , my did enterprise me much , good saying , for that among it was * all overstrained were many
16 Amalxe Sieveitlng.
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), March 1, 1860, page 16, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01031860/page/16/
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