The Missionary Nurse in Brazil
In connection with evangelistic tent effort in the Brazilian interior, Miss Louise V. Wurts has been doing the work of a missionary nurse. One interesting experience she thus narrates:— “A little Negro boy of seven years had been paralyzed by a fall. The eliminative organs of the body had ceased to work, and in a little while he would have died from auto-intoxication. For eleven days he had been suffering. “We went to work on the poor little fellow with massage and fomentations. I prayed in Portuguese, although I had been here only three months. But God heard that prayer. Quickly the little boy began to respond to the treatments. In three weeks the lad was carried to the tent on the night devoted to health and temperance, and walked up on the platform, where we demonstrated what rational methods of treatment will do under the blessing of God.” “The neighbors, who had looked in at the windows when we were treating the boy with hot and cold water, had said to the mother, after we had gone away, ‘He will die with that treatment.’ But she had replied, ‘He will die without it.’ ‘Now,’ the mother says, ‘they have nothing to say.’ “The Lord is blessing the evangelistic services. Twenty candidates were baptized yesterday, as truly converted and as stanch people as one ever saw.”