Nuns Across the Orange : A History of the Pioneering Anglican Community of St Michael and All Angels, Bloemfontein.

Front Cover -- Title Page -- Imprint -- Table of Contents -- AUTHOR'S INTRODUCTION -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- Abbreviations Used in Footnotes and the Text -- PRELUDE -- Chapter 1 -- WHO WILL GO FOR US? -- Chapter 2 -- AFAR OFF UPON THE SEA -- Chapter 3 -- A JOURNEY UNATTENDED BY AN ACCIDENT IS AN ACCIDENT -- Chapter 4 -- FORMING THE SISTERHOOD -- Chapter 5 -- ESTABLISHING SCHOOLS IN BLOEMFONTEIN -- Chapter 6 -- A GREAT DOOR OPENS ON THE DIAMOND FIELDS -- Chapter 7 -- KIMBERLEY HOSPITAL, SISTER HENRIETTA, AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF NURSING -- Chapter 8 -- DUST AND DIAMONDS - Ninety Years in Kimberley -- Chapter 9 -- HARRISMITH -- Chapter 10 -- MISSION BOXES -- Chapter 11 -- CALLED TO NURSE AT THE ZULU WAR -- Chapter 12 -- NURSING IN THE TRANSVAAL WAR OF INDEPENDENCE -- Chapter 13 -- BEREFT OF THE FOUNDERS -- Chapter 14 -- BUILDING ON THE FOUNDATIONS and extending the work in and around Bloemfontein -- Chapter 15 -- THE ANGLO-BOER WAR Medals for St Michael's -- Chapter 16 -- CONSOLIDATION AND GROWTH -- Chapter 17 -- ST FAITH'S ORPHANAGE -- Chapter 18 -- I STAND BEFORE GOD - St Michael's School comes into its own -- Chapter 19 -- UPHILL ALL THE WAY Fifty-two years in Basutoland -- Chapter 20 -- CAVE, COWS AND CONTEMPLATION Thirty Years at Modderpoort -- Chapter 21 -- THE ENGLISH COMMITTEE OF HELP AND A LONDON HOUSE -- Chapter 22 -- A GENUINE RELIGIOUS - The third Superior in changing circumstances -- Chapter 23 -- MA 'MOHAU - MOTHER OF MERCY -- Chapter 24 -- GETTING THEIR BOOTS ON with the fourth Superior -- Chapter 25 -- AN EXPERIMENTAL HOUSE -- Chapter 26 -- A HOUSE OF PRAYER AND OTHER PROJECTS -- Chapter 27 -- TO A SMALLER HOUSE -- Chapter 28 -- GOING HOME -- POSTLUDE -- Appendix 1 -- Appendix 2 -- Appendix 3 -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX -- Back Cover.

When Sister Emma and the five women who accompanied her from England crossed the Orange River early in 1874, they exchanged the comfortable mainstream of Anglican Church life for the rigours of pioneering new works in an undeveloped country.

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