Milford chronicle., 1938-06-03

V. James, Milford, was the speaker
senger calls the spiritual material
sustains and sooths and comforts
just to that degree that we have Sc
lected the quality of the spiritual
material.
For the good book tells us Even
though l walk through the valley
and the shadow of death thy rod and
thy staff they comfort me-"
Having assembled the materials
that compose our ladder our mount
ing round by round is not at all
times easy, nor is the course at all
times straight.
Often we meet disappointment. Of
ten we have failures, often we ap-
parently fall down a round or two
of the ladder but with courage we
struggle up with knowledge to know
better how to keep from falling
again.
Destruction of the ladder may be
threatened with the winds Of eriti-
cism, of hatred, Of jealousy, or OF
anger; all of such storms are well
weathered if we have selected the
proper materials. e.
On the other hand we may be
high up the ladder as to reputation,
financial successes, leadership in the
community and egOism; but when
the storm of evil gather, the thun-
der rolls, the lightning peals forth
sweeping all the destructible por-
tion Of our ladder from beneath us
great is the crash unless we have
sufficient indestructible material in
our ladder to support U.S.
Summit
How gratifying It must be to have
reached the summit.
High above the starting point,
conscious OF having overcome many
difficulties, of having done some
thing no one else can do for us for
while we may be carried up a ma
terial ladder or down a material
one non one can climb a material
ladder for us much less can they
climb for us the ladder Of life.
To view the summit and its can
opy depends the kinds Of material in
the ladder by which we climbed to
the summit.
The SUBMITS of life of different
individuals are not all of the same
height or elevation, any more than
the SUBMITS of mountains.
What kind of view awaits an in
diyidual who ascends to his or her
summit by means of ladder built
of poor quality such as dishonesty
crime. vice and wickedness? !
For the answer ask those individ- I
uals of the underworld.
Nursing as a profession has had {
to climb it's ladder. The development
of sickness, which has brought into
existence large. highly skilled and
organized profession. is one Of the 7
most notable features features OF
life.
The evolution of the sick-nurse is
mainly due to three diverse infu-
war and science
10 name in chronological order II
was religion which first induced Ia
dies, in the earlier centuries OF
to take up the care OF
the sick as a charitable duty.
The earliest forerunner OF the
great sisterhoOd of nurses Of whom
we have any record was Fabiola,
patrician Roman lady, who in A. ID.
$50 founded a hospital in Rome with
1 convalescent home attached. and
devoted herself and fortune to the
,are of the sick poor. She had a
'ival In the Empress Flaccilla, the
lnOus consort of TheOdOsius LA.
D. 379-395) who also personally Wit
ted the hospitals and attended on
he sick.
Organized nursing does not appear
o have formed any part Of medical
reatment, except in so far as the
Ieacons OF the church attended on
he poor, until the fourth century OF
he Christian era. After that date
he employment of women for this
Iurpose must have developed rapid
y. for in the reign of Honorius "a.
}. 395-423) six hundred women were
ngaged in the hospitals of Alexan-
ria. These institutions were man
ged by the clergy, and throughout
he dark and middle ages the hos
ital and nursing systems were con-
ected with religious bodies.
Nurses were provided by the male
nd female mopastic orders. an ar
which still continues in
lost Roman Catholic countries.
iough It is gradually being aband-
ned through the increasing demand
I medical science. which had led !
ospitals to establish training
chools of their own. Some of the
Idest foundations for training nur-
IS still survive throughout Europe. ! I