Agnes Jones, who died as Matron of the Liverpool Workhouse Infirmary (whom you may have heard of as “Una”), wrote from the Workhouse in the last year of her life: “I mean to stay at this post forty years, God willing; but I must come back to St. Thomas’ as soon as I have a holiday; I shall learn so much more” (she had been a year at St. Thomas’) “now that I have more experience.” When I was a child, I remember reading that Sir Isaac Newton, who was, as you know, perhaps the greatest discoverer among the Stars and the Earth’s wonders who ever lived, said in his last hours: “I seem to myself like a child who has been playing with a few pebbles on the sea-shore, leaving unsearched all the wonders of the great Ocean beyond.” By the side of this put a Nurse leaving her Training School and reckoning up what she has learnt, ending with--“The only wonder is that one head can contain it all.” (What a small head it must be then!) I seem to have remembered all through life Sir Isaac Newton’s words. And to nurse--that is, under Doctor’s orders, to cure or to prevent sickness and maiming, Surgical and Medical,--is a field, a road, of which one may safely say: There is no end-no end in what we may be learning every day.[2] I have sometimes heard: “But have we not reason to be conceited, when we compare ourselves to ... and ...?” (naming drinking, immoral, careless, dishonest Nurses). I will not think it possible that such things can ever be said among _us_. Taking it even upon the worldly ground, what woman among us, instead of looking to that which is higher, will of her own accord compare herself with that which is lower--with immoral women? Does not the Apostle say: “I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, _and reaching forth unto those things which are before, I press toward_ the mark for the prize of the _high calling_ of God in Christ Jesus”; and what higher “calling” can we have than Nursing? But then we must “press forward”; we have indeed _not_ “apprehended” if we have not “apprehended” even so much as this. There is a little story about “the Pharisee” known over all Christendom. Should Christ come again upon the earth, would He have to apply that parable to us? And now, let me say a thing which I am sure must have been in all your minds before this: if, unless we improve every day in our Nursing, we are going back: how much more must it be, that, unless we improve every day in our conduct as Christian women, followers of Him by whose name we call ourselves, we shall be going back?