A Suggestion for Medical Workers by C. AVERY HANSEN, M. D.

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Aug 18, 1910

A Suggestion for Medical Workers

By C. AVERY HANSEN, M. D.

While visiting with the nurses and workers at the North Missouri camp-meeting, a nurse who is now engaged in private practice remarked that the money she earned on Sabbath seemed to burn her pocket. She said she had fifty dollars that had been earned by work of necessity on Sabbaths. She did not feel that she should use this money for herself, and she did not know just the best disposition to make of it.

After a few minutes' conversation the sister decided that she would use this money in purchasing copies of “Ministry of Healing,” and that she would then make presents of these to her patients. Thus she would be doing excellent missionary work, and at the same time aid in the relief of our sanitarium work. She said this would be the course she would follow in the future with money earned on Sabbath. Several others of the medical workers here decided to follow her example.

May not this be an excellent plan for others to adopt, who are compelled, because of the infirmities of their fellow men, to do Sabbath work at times, and who do not feel it wise to donate such work where it can be paid for just as well as not?

The brethren of North Missouri are assisting in a substantial way in the relief campaign. The matter of quota seems to be overlooked. They are taking from six to thirty-six copies and are paying cash for them. A number of the brethren are taking from one to three books for each month in a year, and paying the cash.

C. AVERY HANSEN, M. D.