Florence Nightingale and the Voice She Could Not Name
On February 7, 1837, a sixteen-year-old girl sitting in the garden of her family's estate in Embley Park, Hampshire, recorded four words in her diary...
This is stories & illustrations, drawing on 1 Samuel 3:1-10.
On February 7, 1837, a sixteen-year-old girl sitting in the garden of her family's estate in Embley Park, Hampshire, recorded four words in her diary that would alter the course of modern medicine: "God spoke to me and called me to His service." Florence Nightingale heard the voice clearly. But like young Samuel lying in the temple at Shiloh, she had no framework for what she was hearing.…
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