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your bit” and now this higher call comes from the King of kings to work with Him in this fight against sin. The war is past, and to a great extent the need is also past, and it may be many of you are ready for a new and strange call to China. During the war the need was great in many lands, in China the need for more nurses is an insistent daily call. Within the last few years the oppor tunities for skilled nursing, wherever hospitals have been established, have in creased by leaps and bounds, and now, even in the homes of the people “ a great door and effectual” is open wide to Chinese graduate nurses. With a population between three and four hundred millions of people, roughly speaking, between three and four hun dred mission hospitals, and between three and four hundred missionary nur ses, it will be seen at a glance how in adequate the service is for the care of the sick and suffering of China. THE EXECUTYE COMMITTEE OF THE NURSES’ ASSOCIATION OF CHINA. Shanghai. M M THE CROSS DID IT Calvary put in our mouths all the big words in the universe. Calvary gave us the word, LOVE; Calvary gave us the word, PEACE; Calvary gave us the word, JUSTICE. Calvary gave us MERCY and JOY and LIFE and HOPE and every word in the world worth having. There are multitudes who would suffer death before they would yield this cross! The old Scotch man came home from church one day and with sad heart he said: "Men don’t care for the cross now-a- days They are cutting down that tree, And only fools they say believe it; Fools, wife, like you and me.” They who seek refuge in that cross are not fools but the wise of this world. — Leon Tucker.
had formerly saddened their hearts. When they started for Jerusalem and the ark advanced to the sound of the trumpet, they raised the old slogan of the wilderness, “ Let God arise, let His enemies be scattered.” At intervals along the way they sang appropriate selections from that grand processional hymn, the sixty-eighth Psalm, and when they reached the city gates, they lifted that greatest paean of all Psalms, the twenty-fourth. SATURDAY, July 81. 1 Chron. 16:37- 43. Ministering Before the Ark. After the twenty-fourth Psalm had been antiphonally sung, the curtains of the tent were folded back and amid the reverent silence of the assembled thou sands, the ark was put in its appointed place. Afterward as the fitting finale of a memorable day, David gave to Asaph and his brethren the song of 1 Chron. 16:7-36, which is compiled and adapted from Psalms 105, 96 and 106. Then he offered more burnt offerings and peace offerings to God. We may well believe that the spectators and partici pants in this event were thrilled and moved by its solemn pomp and it is not .surprising that some of the English poets as Milton and Young have bor rowed its language to describe the pro cession of the heavenly hosts, the one in his portrayal of the Son of God re turning from the work of creation and the other in describing the glories of the Redeemer’s ascension from the Mount of Olives. “ We, the members of the Nurses’ Association of China, appeal to all Chris tian nurses in the homelands to recon secrate themselves to God’s service, and obey His command, “ Go ye into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature” (Mark 16:15), and “ heal the sick: . . . freely ye have received, freely give” (Matthew 10:8). Many of you heard the call of King or President and country, and nobly lived and worked during the years of war, seeking to “ do APPEAL FOR CHRISTIAN NURSES The following appeal comes from China:
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