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The Ministry of Health and Healing
Visiting the Sick
It is misdirected kindness, a false idea of courtesy, that leads
to much visiting of the sick. Those who are very ill should not
have visitors. The excitement connected with receiving callers wea-
ries patients at a time when they are in the greatest need of quiet,
undisturbed rest.
To convalescents or patients suffering from chronic disease, it is
often a pleasure and a benefit to know that they are kindly remem-
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bered, but this assurance conveyed by a message of sympathy or by
some little gift will often accomplish more than a personal visit, and
without danger of harm.
Institutional Nursing
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 show thoughtful considera-
tion in every word and act. In these institutions it is of the utmost
importance that 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.
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 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 Savior.
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
calling the attention of the sick to Christ. They should be ever ready
to blend spiritual healing with physical healing.