The Nurse and the Leper

I was combing through an old sermon illustration book when I came across the following story.

A well-dressed European woman was on safari in Africa. The group stopped briefly at a hospital for lepers. The heat was intense, the flies buzzing. She noticed a nurse bending down in the dirt, tending to the pus-filled sores of a leper.

With revulsion, the woman said, "Why, I wouldn't do that for all the money in the world!"

The nurse quietly replied, "Neither would I."