“TELL ME something about Jesus, Nurse,” said little Rose, as the kind nurse carried her little patient to the children’s ward of the hospital, after her short afternoon walk.
The nurse looked half-ashamed and replied, “I don’t know about Him, Rose.”
Rose looked up sadly into her nurse’s face and the tears almost came as she said, “I used to hear about Him in Sunday school before I was sick. We sang such nice hymns about ‘The Happy Land,’ and the teacher told us that Jesus had prepared a home for us up there. I wish I could hear more about Him.”
Her nurse promised Rose that on her next night off she would call and tell Rose’s teacher that her little scholar was sick and wanted to see her, and this made Rose very glad. Poor little girl, she knew enough of herself and her sins to make her anxious to hear more about Jesus the Saviour, but there was no one to tell her what she longed to know.
One evening, to Rose’s great dight, her teacher came and was greatly distressed to find her little friend so weak with fever. But the occasion gave her teacher a wonderful opportunity to set the way of salvation and life before both the nurse and her little patient together. Rose was delighted and drank in every word that fell from her teacher’s lips. Her nurse also listened, perhaps for the first time in her life, to the simple gospel message, how that God loved sinners, and gave His dear Son to die for them on the cross.
Dear Rose’s young and tender heart was opened to receive the good news of the Saviour’s love; she believed it and was saved. It was her great delight during the rest of her stay in the hospital to read her Bible and sing:
I feel like singing all the time,
My fears are swept away,
For Jesus is a Friend of mine,
I’ll praise Him every day.
Her nurse never forgot the night of Rose’s conversion, and now she also rejoices in the knowledge of sins forgiven and peace with God.
Rose recovered, and now she seeks in her own humble place to lead others to the Saviour, who saved and made glad her heart that day in the hospital.
ML-09/11/1966