“It is 2.30 a.m., and I cannot sleep, so I am going to write to you. I was anything but ‘forbearing,’ dear; I was overbearing, and I am truly sorry for it now. I look back on my life, and see ‘nothing but leaves.’ Oh, my darling, let me speak to you from my deathbed, and say, Watch in all you do that you have a single aim—_God’s_ honour and glory. ‘I came not to work My own work, but the works of Him that sent Me.’ Look upon working as a privilege. Do not look upon nursing in the way they do so much now-a-days, as an art or science, but as work done for Christ. As you touch each patient, think it is Christ Himself, and then virtue will come out of the touch to yourself. I have felt that myself, when I have had a particularly loathsome patient. Be full of the Glad Tidings, and you will tell others. You cannot give what you have not got.” ------- _Printed by Hazell, Watson, & Viney, Ld., London and Aylesbury._ FOOTNOTES Footnote 1: Rom. Sott. ii. 125. Footnote 2: “Lectures on the Eastern Church,” 1869, p. 218. Footnote 3: Montalembert: _Monks of the West_, Book iv. c. 1. Footnote 4: Adams, “Chronicles of Cornish Saints,” in the _Journal of the Royal Institution of Cornwall_, 1873. Footnote 5: _Notes on the History of S. Bega and S. Hild._ (Hartlepool, 1844.) By D. H. Haigh. Footnote 6: _Monks of the West_, 1868, vol. v., pp. 219-21. Footnote 7: Probably Seaxwulf, the Mercian bishop. Footnote 8: Green, _The Making of England_; _ed._ 1897, ii. p. 111. Footnote 9: _Latin Christianity_, 1867, vol. vi., pp. 1 seq. Footnote 10: The Rev. E. M. Fitzgerald, who was Vicar of Walsall at the time when Sister Dora was there, writes: “No Walsall friend of Sister Dora ever thought that the book exaggerated her virtues or her achievements. We found fault because it did her injustice in attributing to her some mean faults of which she was incapable.” Footnote 11: Miss Lonsdale says that when her father was dangerously ill Sister Dora asked leave to go to him, and was refused and sent down into Devonshire. This has been denied, and I think there has been a misapprehension somewhere. Mr. Welsh says: “The story about Sister Dora not being allowed to visit her father on his death-bed is very sensational, but—is fiction.” Footnote 12: _Sister Dora: a Review_, p. 14 (Walsall, 1880). Footnote 13: H. M. J., in a letter to the Guardian, May 12th, 1880. Footnote 14: A Yorkshire expression for heavy work. Footnote 15: This has been denied. Her old and devoted servant said: “Do you think I would let my darling die alone?” But it appears to me that Sister Dora’s desire was one to be expected in such a spiritual nature; and in the statement above given it is not said that she was actually left in solitude. ------------------------------------------------------------------------