What the Lord Helped a Woman to Do
By A. O. Burrell
About two years ago a tent-meeting was held in an Ontario city of about eight thousand inhabitants, resulting in gathering about half a dozen believers, all women but one. The ministers felt that the effort was nearly a failure; and if it had been left to them to bind off, it probably would have been. A sister, who had had some training in the Bible work, and had spent one year in the nurses' course at the Battle Creek Sanitarium, was called to take up the work. The tent effort had made the work more difficult, but she went forward. She bound off the Bible work with readings,20and when occasion presented itself, went into the city hospital to give massage. A leading doctor of the city said to me: “When Miss —— came to the hospital, we turned over for massage a case which we did not know what to do with. It was a woman about twenty-five years old, to whom we had given our drugs until they seemed to have no effect. We were very glad to get her off our hands, but, to my great surprise, she began to recover, and to-day is well. She puts on her bathing suit, and goes into the lake to take her morning bath. Her cheeks are rosy, and she is the picture of health.” A few days after, the writer had the pleasure of meeting this patient, and all the doctor said was true. Her recovery has filled her with such gratitude that she tells every one what massage has done for her. Others have had similar recoveries, and this nurse has a good name. This doctor offers to send all the patients for treatment that three nurses can care for. He urges this nurse to open treatment rooms in the city. Besides doing this nursing, this sister has bound off the work with the believers, and others have begun to keep the Sabbath. A small dwelling has been bought and refitted for a church, and all is paid for but one hundred and ten dollars. A church has been organized. Two from this church have gone to one of our sanitariums, and are in training for nurses. If any one who may read this, desires to do a similar work, we have hundreds of openings in Ontario, and he will receive a cordial welcome.