Excerpt from In Watchings Often: Addresses to Nurses and Others

I have been asked to write a few words of Preface to these addresses. I should naturally have declined to do so, as such words cannot be needed from anyone, much less from me. Canon Holmes's own spiritual experience, and his life as Chaplain to the late great Bishop of Oxford (Dr. Stubbs), to his excellent predecessor, Bishop Mackarness, and to the good Bishop of Cape Town, are amply sufficient guarantee for the usefulness and authority of his words. I have, nevertheless, written these few words of Preface in proof of my gratitude for the example of the lives of the members of the Guild of St. Barnabas, and for their prayers, in which I have been permitted to have a share.

The Guild of St. Barnabas was founded in 1876, almost thirty years ago. It has now nearly 3, 000 members. It is indeed a remarkable and great work.

In the general progress which has gone on in our age, the science of Medicine and Surgery has kept well in advance.

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