Hard Work Made Easy

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Dec 31, 1914

Hard Work Made Easy

A NURSE engaged in private nursing gives the following experience of joyful service, even though the work was hard:—

“I wish I could tell all about the case I have just come from. I feel that my experience was a grand one, and I am so thankful the Lord let me have it, though I believe it was the hardest case I ever had. I sometimes worked twenty-one and twenty-two hours at a time without rest. Both the family and myself were almost worn out before the end came.

“While my work was hard, yet I feel sure that in all my experience as a nurse it was never appreciated so much, and this to me is worth more than all the money I received. I was able to tell something of our faith, and I tried to show what true Christian nursing is, and this was easier to do because of their appreciation.

“One grown son told me their appreciation of my work could not be expressed in words. The other, while sobbing in his grief over his loss, said: ‘My heart is so full of gratitude to you for your kindness to my mother. I can’t express it in words.’ I felt it was good to give a life of service to the Master, and I do pray God will keep me humble and faithful to the end, and that he will be with each and every nurse as she labors here and there in her appointed field, perhaps in some humble home.”