Letter to Mr. Burton
1897-08-30

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Aug. 30/97
10, South Street
Park Lane. W.
Dear Mr. Burton
I am delighted to hear
the result of the School
Scripture Examination -
not that a Scripture Examn.
ensures an earnest life
necessarily among the
children, any more than
a Grammar Examn.
But it is a Master's
(or a Mother's) daily
Scripture lesson, from
which the children learn
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whether he (or she) means
it for their life or no
- whether it is to bring in
"the kingdom" into our
lives, or whether it is
merely a lesson in words.
I am sure yours are not
merely lessons in words
- but that you look to
their future lives as
e.g. Dr. Arnold of Rugby
did, & Mr. Jowett, the
Master of Balliol College
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Oxford, (who is dead) did
to the future lives of his
undergraduates.
I have not written -
from the press of work
which has not left me
a moment. But Lea
Board School is always
in my thoughts.
Yours sincerely
F. Nightingale
Excuse pencil
Mrs. Shore Nightingale
is just coming back from
Germany & Belgium.