Basic HTML Version
In the Sickroom
153
[223]
that in the discharge of their daily duties they are serving the Lord
Christ.
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
restoration 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
influence. The older nurses should lose no favorable opportunity of
[224]
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 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.
Those who have no love for God will work constantly against
the best interests of soul and body. But those who awake to the
importance of living in obedience to God in this present evil world
will be willing to separate from every wrong habit. Gratitude and
love will fill their hearts. They know that Christ is their friend. In
many cases the realization that they have such a friend means more
to the suffering ones in their recovery from sickness than the best
treatment that can be given. But both lines of ministry are essential.
They are to go hand in hand.
[225]