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Counsels on Health
among God’s servants should hunger and thirst for the highest place as
director or manager. Such positions are fraught with great temptation.
Our nurses are encouraged to pledge themselves to work for certain
parties for a certain sum. They bind themselves to serve thus and so,
and afterward they are dissatisfied. It is necessary that more equality
be shown in dealing with our nurses. There are among us intelligent,
conscientious nurses, who work faithfully and at all times. It is nurses
such as these that we need, and they should receive better wages, so
that should they fall sick, they would have money enough laid by to
enable them to have a rest and a change. Then again, often the parents
of these nurses practice great self-denial to make it possible for their
children to take the nurses’ course. It is only right that when these
children have received their education, they should be given sufficient
remuneration to enable them to help their parents, should they need
help.