The Next Christ Will Perhaps Be A

Nursing Is An Art: And If It Is To Be Made An Art, It Requires An Exclusive Devotion As Hard A Preparation As Any Painter's Or Sculptor's Work; For What Is The Having To Do With Dead Canvas Or Dead Marble, Compared With Having To Do With The Living Body, The Temple Of God's Spirit? It Is One Of The Fine Arts: I Had Almost Said, The Finest Of Fine Arts.

Jesus Christ Raised Women Above The Condition Of Mere Slaves, Mere Ministers To The Passions Of The Man, Raised Them By His Sympathy, To Be Ministers Of God.

The True Foundation Of Theology Is To Ascertain The Character Of God. It Is By The Aid Of Statistics That Law In The Social Sphere Can Be Ascertained And Codified, And Certain Aspects Of The Character Of God Thereby Revealed. The Study Of Statistics Is Thus A Religious Service.

The Only English Patients I Have Ever Known Refuse Tea, Have Been Typhus Cases; And The First Sign Of Their Getting Better Was Their Craving Again For Tea.

It Is The Unqualified Result Of All My Experience With The Sick That, Second Only To Their Need Of Fresh Air, Is Their Need Of Light; That, After A Close Room, What Hurts Them Most Is A Dark Room And That It Is Not Only Light But Direct Sunlight They Want.