Sackville College

It is earnestly hoped that the reader, should he derive any benefit from this little book, will return it by offering a prayer for the sisterhood from which it comes, its patients, and its orphans.

J.M.N., Sackville College, East Grinstead, August twenty, eighteen sixty.

End of preface.

Part one of The Christian Nurse and Her Mission in the Sick Room.

It is earnestly hoped that the reader, should he derive any benefit from this little book, will return it by offering a prayer for the sisterhood from which it comes, its patients, and its orphans.

J.M.N. Sackville College, East Grinstead, August 20, 1860 End of Preface

PART ONE OF THE CHRISTIAN NURSE AND HER MISSION IN THE SICK ROOM.

chapter one of the excellence of his work of charity and of the esteem in which it ought to be held if it be true that of all the graces which god can bestow on man the most precious is that of a good death since it is that which consecrates and crowns all others if which cannot be denied of all the moments of our existence the most critical and dangerous is that in which we pass from the world since it is that which irrevocably determines our eternal state it is certain that of all the services that can be rendered to our neighbor the most excellent is that of assisting him to die well the church tender and enlightened mother of the faithful provides for the needs of all her children there is no misery which does not find succor in her maternal bosom in one place the child abandoned by unnatural and guilty parents finds charitable hands to tend it while along with the temple care necessary to the body ministrations yet more precious are lavished on the soul in another penitence finds a home to lament its crimes and under the care of sisters the victim of sin atoned for past guilt by the tears of true repentance again to solace the misery of the poor charity disguises itself under a thousand different forms and everywhere raises monuments which attest to the fecundity of its divine action can the sick man be left by her impossible It is doubtless a blessed work to go to the assistance of the indigent, to wipe away the tears of the unhappy.