_natural motive_ is the love of nursing the sick, which may entirely conquer (as I know by personal experience) a physical loathing and fainting at the sight of operations, etc., and I do not believe that the 'higher motive' (as it is usually called) can so disguise a natural disinclination as to make a nurse acceptable to the patients. The good nurse is a creature much the same all the world over, whether in her coif and cloister, or taking her £20 or £50 a year. The _professional motive_ is the desire and perpetual effort to do the thing as well as it can be done, which exists just as much in the Nurse, as in the Astronomer in search of a new star, or in the Artist completing a picture. These may be thought fine words. I can only say that I have seen this professional ambition in the nurse who could hardly read or write, but who aimed just as much at perfection in her care and dressings as the surgeon did in his operation. The 'professional' who does this has the higher motive; the 'religious' who thinks she can serve God 'anyhow' has not. But I do entirely and constantly believe that the _religious motive_ is essential for the highest kind of nurse. There are such disappointments, such sickenings of the heart, that they can only be borne by the feeling that one is called to the work by God, that it is a part of His work, that one is a fellow-worker with God. 'I do not ask for success,' said dear Agnes Jones, even while she was taking every human means to ensure success, 'but that the will of God may be done in me and by me.'" [161] Already in her _Subsidiary Notes_, 1858 (Bibliography A, No. 9), she had included suggestions for a "Nurses' Provident Fund." [162] The materials here used are (1) a correspondence with Dr. Farr (1866); (2) a letter written, but not sent, to _Macmillan's Magazine_ (1867); (3) the draft of a very long letter, to a correspondent unnamed, in 1869; and (4) an article for the _Nineteenth Century_, 1880 (Bibliography A, No. 103).