Calling on the Sick.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXIX, Issue 52, 26 December 1901, Page 15

Calling on the Sick.

1. Only call at the door, unless you are sure your friend is able to see you without harm. 2. Enter and leave the house, and move about the room quietly. 3. Carry a oheerf ul face. Speak cheerful, pleaaant words. 1. In order to cheer, you need tell no lies. 5. If your friend is very ill, do not fall into gay or careless talk on the attempt to be cheerful. 6. Don't ask questions, thus obliging your friend to talk. 7. Talk about something: outside, and not aboat the disease and circumstances of the patient. 8. If possible, take something with you to please the eye and relieve the monotony of the sick room ; a flower or even a picture which you can loan for a few dayp. 9. If desirable, some little delicacy to tempt the appetite will be well bestowed. 10. Stay only a moment or a few minutes at the longest, unless yon oan be of some help.

St. John, the youngest of the Apostles, was son of Zebedee and Salome, and brother of James the elder He labored first in Judea and Samaria. Shortly after the feast of Pentecost,, we find him in the temple with Peter curing the lame man ; and later off in Samaria, imposing hands on the new converts. He seems to have remained in Palestine, probably until the death of the Blessed Virgin. H* assisted at the Council of Jerusalem, after whioh be is reported to have preached the Christian faith to the Parthians. About the year 58 he went to Asia Minor to assume the government of the churches founded in that country by St. Paul. He lived in Ephesus, where he made many disciples, among whom were Papias, Ignatius Martyr, and Polycarp. According to a widely-spread tradition, the Apostle St. John was brought to Rome under Domitian in the year 95, and oast into a caldron of boiling oil, whence he came forth unhurt. He was subsequently banished to the island of Patmos, in the Grecian archipelago, where, about the year 96, he wrote the Apocalypse. Returning to Ephesus, he wrote, at the request of the Asiatic bishops, his Gospel, to oppose the errors of Cerinthus and Ebion, about the year 97. His three Epistles were written at a later period. John, who survived all the other Apostles, died at a very advanced age.