I was employed as resident nurse in a hotel in the mountains, and had for a patient a very sick man. One day he felt that his end was near and asked for a preacher. The nearest pastor lived miles away, and I knew he was not at home.
"Is there no one, then, who can give a word of comfort to a dying man?" he pleaded. I knew of no one.
"Nurse," he cried, and seized my hand: "say a prayer for me—just a good word to God.”
The perspiration rose to my forehead, but just then an inspiration came to me. I rushed to my room. Down at the bottom of my trunk lay my old neglected Bible. My mother had marked her favorite verses in it. I read them one after another to the dying man, until I came to the verse: "God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life." John 3:1616For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. (John 3:16). This verse he asked me to read again and again.
"Nurse, you have brought peace to my heart. Now I can die without fear since God so loved me.”
Dear reader, that verse has brought peace to many millions of hearts. Will you not let it speak peace to your soul through faith in God's dear Son?