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In the Sickroom
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In the kindest and tenderest manner, nurses are to teach that
patients who would be healed must cease to transgress the law of
God. They must cease to choose a life of sin. God cannot bless
those who continue to bring upon themselves disease and suffering
by 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.
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