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发信人: icecap (暖一暖·Fortune), 信区: English
标 题: Florence Nightingale(5)
发信站: 哈工大紫丁香 (2003年05月08日19:09:00 星期四), 站内信件
She was a friend of General Charles George Gordon, who captured the British
imagination when he and his troops were beseiged at Khartoum in the Sudan,
and finally captured and killed. After his death, Florence wrote to a friend
that suffering, disappointment, and lack of success are the tribute which i
t is the soul's greatest privilege to present to God. In Gordon's death, she
wrote, we see "the triumph of failure, the triumph of the Cross. With him,
all is well."
She met the scholar Benjamin Jowett, who was translating Plato into English.
They became fast friends, and she contributed to the translation. She also
began an anthology of mystical writings, called "Notes from Devotional Autho
rs of the Middle Ages, Collected, Chosen, and Freely Translated by Florence
Nightingale." It was her contention that mystical prayer is not just for mon
ks and nuns, but should form a part of the every-day life of ordinary person
s.
Under the strain of ceaseless overwork, her own health broke, and she was an
invalid for the latter half of her life. On Christmas Day when she was sixt
y-five, she wrote: "Today, O Lord, let me dedicate this crumbling old woman
to thee. Behold the handmaid of the Lord. I was thy handmaid as a girl. Sinc
e then, I have backslid." She wrote a manual called Notes for Nurses, and a
set of instructions for the matron in charge of training nurses, emphasizing
the importance for a nurse of a schedule of daily prayer. A few years befor
e her death, she was the first woman to receive the Order of Merit from the
British government. She died at ninety, and, by her directions, her tombston
e read simply, "F.N. 1820-1910".
Florence Nightingale died on 13 August 1910, and is commemorated on this day
on the Lutheran Calendar. The Episcopal calendar commemorates Jeremy Taylor
on 13 August, and accordingly has shifted the commemoration of Nightingale
to 18 May. I am not sure of the significance of this date, but it is the dat
e (or nearly) of the opening of the Nightingale Training School for Nurses i
n 1860.
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Everyday we have
is one more than we deserve
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