We need only think of the friendships that are made here. Will you be a missionary of good or of evil to your friend? Will you be a missionary of indifference, selfishness, lightness of conduct, self-indulgence? Or a missionary--to her and to your patients--of religious and noble devotion to duty, carried out to the smallest thing? Will you be a “hero” in your daily work, like the dying child giving its hard-saved halfpence to the yet poorer child? Livingstone always remembered that a poor old Scotchman on his death-bed had said to him: “Now, lad, make religion the _every-day_ business of your life, not a thing of fits and starts; for if you do not, temptation and other things will get the better of you.” Such a Nurse--one who makes religion the “every-day business of her life,” _is_ a “Missionary,” even if she never speak a word. One who does not is a missionary for _evil_ and not for good, though she may say many words, have many good texts at the end of her tongue, or, as Livingstone would say, a Bible in her hand and a Bible at her back. Believe me, who have seen a good deal of the world, we may give you an institution to learn in, but it is You must furnish the “heroic” feeling of doing your duty, doing your best, without which no institution is safe, without which Training Schools are meat without salt. _You_ must be our salt, without which civilisation is but corruption, and all churches only dead establishments. Shall I tell you what one of the most famous clergymen that ever lived said? That, in order to manage people, and especially children, well, it was necessary to speak more of them to God than of God to them. If a famous preacher said that, how much more must a woman? Another learned clergyman, who was also the best translator of the Bible (in a foreign language), said: “Prayer, rather than speech must be relied upon for the reform of any little irregularities: for only through prayer could the proper moment for speech become known.” If a great leader of mankind said that, how much more should a Nurse? I must end: and what I say now I had better have said: and nothing else. What are we without God? Nothing. “Father, glorify Thy name!” How is His name glorified? _We_ are His glory, when we follow His ways. Then we are something. What is the Christian religion? To be like Christ. And what is it to be like Christ? To be High Church, Low Church, Dissenter, or orthodox? Oh, no. It is: to live for God and have God for our object. IV LONDON, _May 26, 1875_. MY DEAR FRIENDS,--This year my letter to you must needs be short, for I am not able to write much. But good words are always short. The best words that ever were spoken--Christ’s words--were the shortest. Would that ours were always the echo of His! First, then: