Why is this touching so important? “Dr. Brandt points out that as late as 1920, the death rate among infants in some founding hospitals in America approached 100 percent. Then Dr. Fritz Talbot of Boston brought over from Germany an unscientific sounding concept of “tender loving care.”
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Contributed by Simon Taylor on May 29, 2009
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE
Born 12 May 1820, died 13 August 1910. On 7 February 1837 – not long before her 17th birthday – something happened that would change her life: "God spoke to me," she wrote, "and called me to His service." Nobody really cares what knowledge Florence Nightingale had about the
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Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Aug 2, 2010
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STRANGE MEDICINAL CLAIMS
In the world of medicine and nutritional supplements, do we really know what we are doing? People seem so sure about their claims, but we need to remind ourselves: we don't know what we don't know.
This AFP article broke this last week: (7-10)
"Ordinary calcium
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A teenage boy found himself in a parked car with a few other rather unscrupulous friends. He knew that he was where he shouldn’t be. The car was tucked away in a private location to keep their deeds secret. Soon, a bottle of 151 rum made its way around the car. Each teen took a large gulp and
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Contributed by Lynn Malone on Jun 13, 2005
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A. W. Tozer in his priceless book The Root of the Righteous shares the story of Rutherford who could shout in the midst of serious and painful trials, “Praise God for the hammer, the file, and the furnace.”
The hammer is a useful tool, but the nail, if it had feeling and intelligence, could
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Methodist
Contributed by Bruce Howell on Aug 1, 2008
Bob Pierce, founder of World Vision had advanced leukemia, but he went to visit a colleague in Indonesia before he died. As they were walking through a small village, they came upon a young girl lying on a bamboo mat next to a river. She was dying of cancer and had only a short time to live.
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Contributed by A. Todd Coget on Sep 21, 2001
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[The Help of the Body, Citation: Watchman Nee, Leadership, Vol. 9, no. 3.]
Alone I cannot serve the Lord effectively, and he will spare no pains to teach me this.
He will bring things to an end, allowing doors to close and leaving me ineffectively knocking my
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Contributed by Jeff Simms on Aug 24, 2003
William Bathurst once said,
“O for a faith that will not shrink,
Tho pressed by every foe,
That will not tremble on the brink
Of any earthly woe!
That will not murmur nor complain
Beneath the chastening rod,
But, in the hour of grief or pain,
Will lean upon its God;
A faith that shines more
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Contributed by Richard Sharp on May 14, 2007
Ill- Charles Wesley, near His death - while in pain he attempted to speak with all of his might.
He shouted that which can be faintly heard, “The Best of All is, GOD IS WITH US.” Again, he said it as a radiant glow came from his face.
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Contributed by Donnie Martin on Jun 12, 2010
O For a Faith
O for a faith that will not shrink,
‘Tho pressed by every foe,
That will not tremble on the brink
Of any earthly woe!
That will not murmur nor complain
Beneath the chastening rod,
But, in the hour of grief or pain,
Will lean upon its God;
A faith that shines more bright and
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Baptist
Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 31, 2002
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THE MARK OF SUFFERING
In the real world of pain, how could one worship a God who was immune to it? I have entered many Buddhist temples in different Asian countries and stood respectfully before the statue of the Buddha, his legs crossed, arms folded, eyes closed, the ghost of a smile playing
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Contributed by Hansel Young on Nov 15, 2007
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John Stott wrote, “I could never believe in God, if it were not for the cross… In the real world of pain, how could one worship a God who was immune to it? I have entered many Buddhist temples in different Asian countries and stood respectfully before the statue of Buddha, his legs crossed, arms
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Holiness
YEARNING FOR YOUR BELOVED
Hearing God’s voice begins as a matter of affection. We have to listen for the voice of God the way a lover listens for the voice of the beloved.
During the year before my wife and I were married, I lived in a remote city, and what I discovered is that there is no pain
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Presbyterian/Reformed
Contributed by James Wilson on Nov 22, 2000
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"Excessive worry, or what I call toxic worry, can make you sick, it can cut down your enjoyment of life, and it can hamper your productivity. Toxic worry is bad for every system in your body: it increases the risk of heart attacks and strokes, it impairs digestion, it causes shortness of breath,
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Contributed by Matthew Kratz on Oct 1, 2007
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If It Don’t Rain
I would climb the highest mountain
Swim the deepest ocean too
I would crawl the hottest desert
I’d do anything for you
I would leap the tallest building
I’d bear any trial or pain
There’s no
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