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The Lamp — Part 1
“The entrance of Thy Words giveth light”
(Psalm 119:130).
I recently read something of the life of Florence Nightingale, the pioneer of modern nursing. As she served in a military hospital in Turkey during the Crimean War, amid deplorable conditions, her custom was to take a lamp each evening and make her rounds through the hospital wards, making one last check on the wounded and dying soldiers before retiring to her room. In this way she became known as the Lady with the Lamp. The soldiers would eagerly await the glow of her lamp as she checked on them for the final time that day. One who knew of her services wrote:
“Without exaggeration, she is a ‘Ministering Angel’ in these hospitals, and as her slender form glides quietly along each corridor every poor fellow’s face softens with gratitude at the sight of her. When all the medical officers have retired for the night and silence and darkness have settled down upon those miles of prostrate sick, she may be observed alone with a lamp in her hand, making solitary rounds.”
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