"The Christian nurse, while administering treatment for the restoration of health, will pleasantly and successfully draw the mind of the patient to Christ, the healer of the soul as well as of the body. The thoughts presented, here a little and there a little, will have their influence. The older nurses should lose no favorable opportunity of calling the attention of the sick to Christ. They should be ever ready to blend spiritual healing with physical healing. MH 223.2"
"I have planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the increase."
The EGW passage describes a gradual process of spiritual influence, 'here a little and there a little,' which parallels the idea of planting and watering, but God giving the increase. The connection is thematic, focusing on the process of spiritual growth.