A splendid example of this was shown by the stewardess of the Stella, which was wrecked on a rock off The . Just as the boat, in which she was seated, was pushing off she noticed a passenger still on the doomed ship and immediately she stepped back on board and gave up her seat. She was a regular attendant at Church and Holy Communion. She had learned her lesson of self-sacrifice in the great Sacrifice on . "If any man wishes to come after me let him take up his cross daily and follow me." Many Christians fail to realise that the way of Christ is the way of the Cross. (To be) a good soldier of Jesus Christ is a splendid ideal, but it cannot be realised without vision, courage, loyalty, obedience and self-sacrifice. The Visitation of the Sick These notes, although undated, would seem to predate the 1962 revision of The Book of Common Prayer because of the title. In the 1962 book it was changed from "The Visitation of the Sick" to "The Ministry to the Sick." Pain and Suffering Introduction. 1. Call your Doctor, then your Rector. ("The rector never came to see me????") 2. Holy Communion in extremis'? (The use of the Reserved Sacrament.) 3. The question of Confession & Absolution. 4. Making your will: remember the Church. A. The fact of pain. Not merely a figment of the mind. Pain in the animal world. Pain as a danger signal. B. The approach to the fact of pain. If God is love, why pain? 1. It forms character. (a) Result of misdeeds. (b) "Its forces are able to expand and expend themselves in a positive direction, elevating, refining, dignifying the character to an infinite degree. The men of sorrows are the men of influence in every walk of life." Illingworth.