TIDE SOLDIER'S FRIEND. by an Irish clergyman, who, when he was asked to what sect Miss Nightingale belonged, replied : ` She belongs to a sect which, unfortunately, is a very rare one -the sect of the Good Samaritans.' " The Hon. and Rev. Sydney Godolphin Osborne adds his testimony to the pure religion of the object of these animadversions :-" ` I found her myself to be in her every word and action a Christian; I thought this quite enough. It would have been in my opinion the most cruel impertinence to scrutinize her words and acts, to discover to which of the many bodies of true Christians she belonged. I have conversed with her several times on the deaths of those, who I had visited ministerially in the hospitals, with whom she had been when they died. I never heard one word from her lips, that would not have been just what I should have expected from the lips of those who I have known to be the most experienced and devout of our com- mon faith. Her work ought to answer for her faith ; at least none should dare to call that faith in question in opposition to such work, on grounds so weak and trivial as those I have seen urged. . . . . If there is blame in looking for a Roman Catholic Priest to attend a dying Romanist, let me share it with her - I did it again and again." Early in January, 1855, the executive strength at Miss Nightingale's disposal was increased by the arrival of Miss Stanley, with fifty more nurses, who were terribly needed, for there were then on the Bosphorus and Dardanelles no less than eight 27
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