As a Christian nurse I had been longing for some special message to carry for Jesus, when I was ordered to a new ward.
Passing along by the bedsides, I observed a young girl who had, along with other ailments, a very bad heart condition. She was reading a book, but seeing a new nurse approaching, she laid it down upon the bed. I picked it up and read: "Food for the Children of God." I expressed pleasure in seeing her read such a book, and she said it was very good.
"Are you one of God's children?" I asked.
"Oh, no!" she replied. "I am not able to say that; I wish I were."
I had time for only a few words, but I tried to encourage her to come to Christ as her Savior, for then she could fully enjoy the "food" as her own.
Later on I had to give her her medicine. When she had taken it I said: "If you could take Christ as easily as you have taken this medicine, would you not do it?"
"Oh yes," she said, "I wish I could."
"You can," I said. " 'The gift of God is eternal life.' He will give it to you; He longs to bless and save you."
Many days later I had an opportunity to visit that ward again. My sick friend was much weaker. I slipped in, and approached her bed. She at once recognized me, and putting her arms around my neck as I bent over her, she said: "Oh, nurse, I've got it! I am not afraid to die now!"
"What have you got?" I asked.
"Eternal life! And I shall never perish. No one can pluck me out of His hands." Then she added: "Nurse, I have you to thank."
I stopped her by saying: "Both you and I have to thank God, for it is He who loved us, and gave His only begotten and well-beloved Son, that we might have eternal life through Him."
"For 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.