[1] The beginning of the first address will suggest a reason for this turn of phrase. A nurse who had been through training might not always be “worthy of the name of ‘Trained Nurse’” (Address of 1876).

[2] There is a well-known Society abroad (for charitable works) of which the Members go through a two years’ probation on their first entering, but after ten years they return and go through a second probation of one year. This is one of the most striking recognitions I know of the fact that progress is always to be made: that grown-up people, even of middle-age, ought always to have their education going on. But only those can learn after middle age who have gone on learning up to middle age.

[3] The Madre Santa Colomba, of the Convent of the TrinitÀ dei Monti in Rome.—Editor’s Note.

[4] There is a most suggestive story told of one, some 300 years ago, an able and learned man, who presented himself for admission into a Society for Preaching and Charitable Works. He was kept for many months on this query: Are you a Christian? by his “Master of Probationers.” He took kindly and heartily to it; went with his whole soul and mind into this little momentous question, and solved it victoriously in his own course, and in his after course of usefulness for others. Am I a Christian? is most certainly the first and most important question for each one of us Nurses. Let us ask it, each of herself, every day.

[5] Nightingale Nurse and Lady Superintendent of Liverpool Workhouse Infirmary. Pioneer of Workhouse Nursing. After her early death in 1868 Miss Nightingale wrote in Good Words an article, “Una and the Lion,” on her life and work.—Editor’s Note.

[6] Madame Caroline Werckner, an Englishwoman.—Editor’s Note.

[7] Do you remember the word of one of the greatest poets of the Middle Ages?