Cheerfulness
[
The Ministry of Healing, 222-224
(1905).]
In sanitariums and hospitals, where nurses are constantly associ-
ated with large numbers of sick people, it requires a decided effort to
be always pleasant and cheerful and to show thoughtful consideration
in every word and act. In these institutions it is of the utmost impor-
tance that the nurses strive to do their work wisely and well. They
need ever to remember that in the discharge of their daily duties they
are serving the Lord Christ.
A Ready Mind
The sick need to have wise words spoken to them. Nurses should
study the Bible daily, that they may be able to speak words that will
enlighten and help the suffering. Angels of God are in the rooms
where these suffering ones are being ministered to, and the atmosphere
surrounding the soul of the one giving treatment should be pure and
fragrant. Physicians and nurses are to cherish the principles of Christ.
In their lives His virtues are to be seen. Then, by what they do and say,
they will draw the sick to the Saviour.
The Christian nurse, while administering treatment for the restora-
tion of health, will pleasantly and successfully draw the mind of the
patient to Christ, the healer of the soul as well as of the body. The
thoughts presented, here a little and there a little, will have their influ-
ence. The older nurses should lose no favorable opportunity of calling
the attention of the sick to Christ. They should be ever ready to blend
spiritual healing with physical healing.
In the kindest and tenderest manner nurses are to teach that he who
would be healed must cease to transgress the law of God. He must
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cease to choose a life of sin. God cannot bless the one who continues
to bring upon himself disease and suffering by a willful violation of
the laws of heaven. But Christ, through the Holy Spirit, comes as a
healing power to those who cease to do evil and learn to do well.
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