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^ Amalie Wilheimine Sieyekin© Was Born I...
enthusiasm _* and that no good could come of it . I did indeed rejoice at having * convinced those gentlemen that neither mysticism nor yet
the having meddled with books need necessarily unfit a woman for practical life ; and that the care of the sick is another and a Ibetter
thing when it is undertaken from motives of Christian love , than when it is left to mere _corainon paid nurses . "
The separation from her scholars during her stay in the hospital had been the sacrifice which cost her most , and the very morning
after her return she reassembled them around her ; "but they were now no longer to be her first carefor during her absence she had
conceived a new ideano other than , that of forming an association , for visiting the sick and poor . During her last Sunday in the _lios- _^
pital she had written out her scheme , which , was founded on the idea of a Sisterhood of Mercy , and was very different from what was
afterwards actually put in execution . Thus she had required , that if the degree of dirt and disorder in the poor dwellings visited should
make it necessary the visitors should themselves lay hand to the workthat they should keep watch by the sick , and so on . This
was never , carried outbut the groundwork of the design , personal intercourse with the poor , still remained as its principle . The next
thing was to find willing , associates , and in the search for these she met with many rebuffs . One was too much occupied with domestic
affairs , another feared her family ' s disapproval , a third was alarmed at the difficulties of the undertaking ; but at last a few agreed
to make the attempt , and in . May , 1832 , a first meeting of thirteen members assembled at her foster-mother's house . The number soon
increased so much that her home was no longer large enough for their meetings , . and the use of the senate-house was then
conceded to them . It required no little prudence and ability to avoid all the perils
which threatened the infant association , and to win for the body she had called into being that esteem and confidence which Miss _JSieveking
had by this time succeeded in gaining for herself personally . Its position with regard to the medical profession was the first difficulty ,
though the way was smoothed by her having become known to so many of these gentlemen while in the hospital . The officials there were all
favorable to her ; of the others to whom she applied * the greater schemes number . promised One refused her support her all , but countenance some looked because very her coldl lan y on would her p
interfere with the poor helping each other , but he afterwards relented _$ op nd e became of the lad her friend visitors , _thoiig having h once offered afterwards some of much his _pffendeci patients homoeo tjirongh
pathic medicines y , but his wrath was averted hy Miss Sieveking taking it all upon herself and . promising that such a thing should never occur
again . Another took away the books she had left with the sick , _5 ind when she asked if he really thought that the reading of them
could be injurious , replied that he had not looked at the _consents , "but he knew that " there never was . much good in those Wu . e
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), March 1, 1860, page 17, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01031860/page/17/
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