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pattern of the bedroom wall-paper. He insisted that goblins with large mouths stared at
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Sophia had just finished cleaning and polishing the bath-room. With cleaning cloth and Old Dutch she made everything sparkle. The last thing she did was to tidy the medicine chest, dust all the bottles, and put them back on their shelves.
Before she shut the door, Sophia glanced reflectively at the medicinfe chest, with its rows of bottles all shapes and sizes, all neatly labelled with the druggists’ typing. Each of those bottles with its trim white label had at one time or another brought relief from pain or ache and helped to re-store health and strength to an ailing body. The strong-smell-ing liniment helped John’s wrenched back. The pine tree essence loosened little Maria’s cough. The Beef Iron and Wine had brought color into Agnes’ pale cheeks. The homely iodine made Joanna cry, but it kept infection from that badly scraped knee.
But there was also the time that Robert brought the mea-
him from the wall. He was ver still.
Sophia had looked at the cumulation of medicines in
ne-
the
closet, and said, “Doctor, isn’t there anything here we can give him to make him better?” The doctor prescribed cooling baking soda sponge baths, which helped. Sophia tried not to show how anxious she was. The doctor said, “He’ll be al-right. Don’t worry. We’re do-ing all we can.”
Then Sophia remembered something. There was another medicine, in an invisible bottle, with an invisible label. She did-n’t even have to go and get it. As she knelt by her bed and bowed her tired head for a mo-' ment, an unseen hand brought | her the healing essence la- i belled simply . . . Prayer.
“Lord, make Robert better.” , That was all she said. But1 it was enough. When she tip-toed back into Robbert’s room his feverish eyes were closed in quiet sleep. His temperature was down, and his pulse much smoother. In quiet gratitude. Sophia’s heart said, “Thank you
,	, f	D . Lord. I should have remem-
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was the kind who when he got, As -ghe	by Roberf s side
anything, got ba^’ as j during the night, Sophia re-sayirig goes. For the other chil- caued jnstances during her pre-dren, the measles meant only | marriage career as a nuree, a day in bed, and five days o	jndispensable medi-
Detta är Stockholms populära “Lucia 1948”, den knappt 18-åriga Marianne Hylén. En naturlig, älsklig flicka av den sportiga typen. Hon har länge varit en smula Ame-rika-biten, och nu går hennes dröm i uppfyllelse, i det kom över med SAS-flyg för en veckas besök.
enforced imprisonment within i cine of prayer had come to the the house. But Robert was a science in bringing com-very sick boy. His small body , f t and even recovery t0 pa-bumed with fever. His restless eyes saw stränge shapes in the
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One case Sophia remembered with a smile because It had caused her so much embarras-ment at the time. She was nur-ing Mrs. Morgan, who had undergone a major operation and was feeling very miserable. Sophia was on night duty and had made all preparations to give Mrs. Morgan as comfort-able a night as possible. The sponge bath was given, the sed-ative administered, other treat-ments carried out, the blue night light was placed to gleam
ones she said every day. It seemed easier for her to talk to God in her childhood tongue, and she had always done so.
However, she suddenly re-membered that she did know the Lord’s Prayer, and after a flutter of hesitation, she was kneeling down and slowly re-peated it.
It was enough. With a deep sigh, her patient said, “Thank you, nurse.” The irritated look left her face, her diseomfort
quietly under the bed. The a restful
stage was set for night .
But Mrs. Morgan uncomfortable.
“What else would
was still
you like,”
said Sophia. “Can I get you something else?”
Mrs. Morgan looked up. “Do you know, nurse,” she said, “There is something I’d like. 1 really feel bad. Could you say a little prayer for me?’
Sophia was surprised and embarrassed.
“Whatever shall I say?” she thought to herself. “It isn’t that I don’t know a prayer, but the only prayers I know are I not in the English language.”
Sophia was born in Sweden, | and the Swedish prayers she had learned at home were the

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seemed to pass away, and she spent a comparatively peaceful night.
“The good old medicine,” Sophia smiled at the recollection. “Even though for a moment it had me stumped.”
As she rose to put away her cleaning cloth, Sophia’s eye fell on Roberfs football togs hang-ing on the back of the bath-room door. They reminded her of young Doug Corrigan whom she had nursed years before. Doug, an enthusiastic and live-ly freshman at university was playing football with all the vigor of nineteen years. After a strenuous workout one chilly November day, he neglected to take a shower in the gymnasium, and rushed home still wearing his sweaty football outfit. The next morning his temperature was 105. Fever and chills alternately beset him, and a wiorried landlady phoned the doctor. In a matter of minutes, Doug’s case was diagnosed as double pneumonia, and he was taken to hospital.
Sophia was installed as his night nurse. Doug was rcstless and delirious at first, but after the crisis passed, he was al-lowed a few visitors. Among
S.fchem was the hospital chaplain, §|wiho was also Doug’s pastor, ».and a friend from his earliest childhood.
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A telephone call to the chap-lain’s home brought him to Dou.g. After talking a very few minutes, the pastor spoke a short prayer. In a few minutes Doug was asleep. Each night after that, the minister called in for a moment’s prayer, ana
Doug settled down quietly to sleep.
Young as he was, the healing efficacy
and went
Doug felt of the in-
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Now as she picked up her cloths and the tin of Old Dutch, she gently shut the medicine closet door, glad that the shiny neat array of bottles stood always ready for an emergency; but glad also that always at hand was the invisible bottle with its invisible label; always
available, tion, and only the faith.
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