22. “In quietness and in confidence shall be your strength.” Quietness has been from the beginning of its publicity the one thing wanting in this work. I know the fuss, which from its beginning surrounded it, was abhorrent to us and was the act of others: but the work, which is all we care for, has throughout suffered from it. It is equally injurious and impeding as regards surgeons, nurses, and people, who are neither. External help in this coarse, repulsive, servile, noble work, for it is all these things, is truly the reed which pierced the hand that leant upon it. One hospital, naval, military, or civil, nursed well, and gradually training a few nurses, would do more good to the cause than an endless amount of meetings, testimonials, pounds, and speeches, to say nothing of newspaper puffings, which to-morrow might turn into revilings. This never will, never can be a popular work. Few good ones are, for few are without the stern fructifying element of moral restraint and influence; and though the streams of this are many, its source is one. Hearts are not touched without Religion. Religion was not given us from above in impressions and generalities, but in habits of thought and action, in love of God and of mankind, carried into action. * * * * * [Sidenote: Various Systems of Female Nursing compared.] A very short comparison will here be made between the methods of Female Nursing in the Military Hospitals of Russia, England, France, and Sardinia, as exemplified in the last War. [Sidenote: French and Sardinian Hospital Service.] To do this, a sketch must be partly repeated, which has been already given, of the organic difference between the Hospital Service of each nation. The essential characteristic of the French is, the importance given in the field to the Divisional Hospital Service over the Regimental. The Regimental Medical Service treats only those ephemeral cases which are to be exempted from duty for a day or two. Cases of wounds or disease likely to last for a term of weeks are sent to the Divisional Ambulance in the field; those, where disease may possibly last for months, to the General Hospitals at the base of operations. The Medical Service of the Sardinians closely resembles the above in its formation. In the late War, their General Ambulances were at Balaklava; their General Hospitals at Jeni Koi on the Bosphorus. They had no Divisional or Regimental Hospitals. [Sidenote: English.] In our Army, as is well known, the Regiment establishes its Regimental Hospital wherever it goes. Theoretically, it is exclusively a Regimental system of Hospitals; however much, practically, it breaks down. [Sidenote: Russian.]