THE CADUCEUS.
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ARK YOU GIVING—WHAT?
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the hour. Only those things which
can be carried with them into eter
nity seem any longer worth while;
therefore the nurse who cannot guide
their questioning souls into the realm
of spiritual truth is falling short of
her supreme task. Men are yearning
as perhaps never before in the world’s
history for a personal intimate ac-
Quaintance with the Lord Jesus
Christ. His is the Gospel of love of
sacrifice of immortality. His is the
example of life itself truly given for
the sake of the world’s re(iemption
and those who follow in His steps
wistfully long to know the peace and
faith which He alone can give.
A young patriot last spring con
demned for exactly the same “crime'
as Miss Carvell’s on the night before
his execution wrote to a distant friend
as follows: I can assure you that
nothing is finer nor safer than to fol
low Christ. Prom Him only I obtain
ed the strength to live calmly through
the painful weeks of imprisonment
and my trial, and He will give me the
courage to die as becomes a man.
A nurse has attained her highest
mission when she is ready at all
times to stand as a human link be
tween a longing soul and God. / Sink
ing her own personality until she
means to her patient a divine voice
pt' spiritual hope as well as a human
instrument of physical healing.
How can she attain it? It means
a struggle first, last and always; it
means the abandonment of the mate
rial—it means eternal self-sacrifice—
It means compassion—with loyalty—
patience—with faith: We must be re
born. But it will be the man or wo
man who has passed through the
purifying depths of suffering and has
seen the light of truth revealed; the
one whom the agony of trial has been
forced into the realization that
strength, power, comfort and peace
come only from above—this is the
man or woman who will grow the
more rapidly in spiritual grace. It
■was only when I learned to approach
Hod as a human being that I began
to understand Him—just as a little
child goes to its mother and knows
that in that mother breast it will find
love and protection it is all so simple
and this close touch can mean so
much. With this understanding comes
confidence and an unquestioning faith
and I assure you that nothing can
liring to one the beautiful silent peace
of mind as that created through faith.
To be able to feel and know that
there is a higher power that watches,
guards and guides. And when things
have come to me in life sorrows or
struggles that at the moment I could
'not understand it has sometimes been
a struggle not to allow them to pois
on my faith.
own destinies and it is with us wheth-
own destinies and it is with as wheth
er we build or tear down our charac
ters. No one can appreciate better
than I one everlasting struggle of
clinging to one’s ideals. But in so
doing we grow in wisdom—for wis
dom is expressed in our ideals.. Don't
separate yourself from them ever. l.,et
them become representative of one
great big desire. Our desires are a
very dominant force in our lives and
we are both consciously and uncon
sciously influenced by them.
As a friend wrote me when he heard
I was going over, “If you go—as you
will go—with nothing in your mind
but a sincere desire to help and your
heart uplifted to God and trusting in
His "guidance you need have no fear;
no matter what you will be called
'ipon to do, vou will do it: and you
will look back upon this as the great
experience of your life. Also “If you
follow Christ and try to visualize Him
as He walked up and down the earth
doing good and healing the sick, grad
ually this very desire to imitate Him
will make things clear. Nothing but
yearning draw;s you. If people could
only aw'aken to the fact that the one
great underlying cause of the terrible
war is a lack of Godliness and the
one great force that will redeemed our
cause is Christianity
It is a high privilege which is be
ing granted us this partnership with
Christ in pointing souls upward; this
fellowship in his suffering and life
dedication to a service which gives
to humanity life eternal. Dare we
fail to measure up to this standard.
■We would be frantic with remorse
were a life lost through our Inetti-
ciency; do you deem of less import
ance an immortance An immortal
soul lost through wour failure to meet
its desperate needs. A soldier of
France wrote from his deathbed in a
Red Cross hospital, “Mother, Dear, I
am not afraid to die—though I wish
I might die at home in your dear
arms. But nurses will help make the
going easily as she has made the
weeks of staying bearable, in spite
of the pain. Oh! she has been an
angle of light to the men here. God
bless ner! She and her little testa
ments have led many a man of us
home.’’
A nurse may or choose to be bril
liant or beloved; one may be known
as a cultured magnetic woman but
that one who is remembered as hav
ing led many a man of us home is
Die one who has best '‘served her day
and generation.
BY LUCY H. DANIEL.
MUSICALE AT K. OF C.
, The second of the series of musi-
cales arranged by the K. of C. for the
benefit of the base hospital was held
on Friday evening and was an unqual
ified success from start to finish. Mr.
Tronolone, whose artistic renditions
on the piano have won the applause
and affection of many an audience, ap-
pe.ared on this occasion. .lack Poster
led his audience through the entire
gamut of emotions by his Scotch bal
lads delivered in the winning Harry
Lauder style. Mr. "Win. H. Gloonan,
K. of C. secretary and entertainer par
excellence, appeared for the first time
before an audience at Camp Greene
and charmed every one with songs,
dances and sparklin.g stories. An ever
increasing audience bear testimony to
the success of these musicales and
we are glad to know they will be con
tinued on Friday evenings for an in
definite period.
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