The home to the hospital : addressed to the sick and wounded of the army of the Union / by John F.W. Ware.

  • John F. W. Ware
Date:
1862
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Credit: The home to the hospital : addressed to the sick and wounded of the army of the Union / by John F.W. Ware. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    deceived him stand stripped of their power and charm. He is the soldier resting on the field after the fight, calmly and clearly surveying the past, as calmly and clearly getting ready for the future. As no soldier would refuse to profit by such a pause, so should no man. He omits it at his peril. .Losing it, he makes eternal loss. The true man will use this opportunity, this privilege God throws in his way and supplies with incentives and helps, so that when he goes into active life again, — becomes in it a force once more, — he shall know that he carries with him new power and wisdom and virtue, is every way stronger and wiser and better. God gives man these now and then halting seasons, that he may prepare for new and right action. To lose one is to lose his intended blessing. Sickness has duties no less than health. They are peculiar, many, definite, — small in themselves perhaps, yet in their aggregate of vital importance. There are no furloughs in the service of God. None is discharged in that warfare. Duty follows a man, though he be sutfering. The sick man, the man plodding through a weary convalescence, is apt to think his unreasonablene.ss, his irritability, quite pardonable. He cannot help them. He expects quick, kind, patient service. He has a right to demand the.se. But he forgets that those who wait on him have their rights too. He frets, is peevi.sh, exacting. He does not blame himself for it; others
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