The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1875-03-11

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A physician should have /. bsau
tlat beats ia sympathy with lba sick
and the afflicted We do not want
one 10 approach the sick bed Of cur
loved oaes, and examine oar afflicted,
and deal aat medicine Ia As hcaruess a
maaneT as the veterinarian eaters tho
sial, 10 desc the horse " the OK The
wife aa1 mother, for an illustration, is
very sick The husbagd and father
stands By her side. che very picture Of
agony and the children. 10 love that
sparkies ia eyes suaaseI with tears,
ara aa1joasly watching the bed Of sick.
ness The family physician now eaters.
His look ia sympathetic. bis words are
kind How changed the scene The
pale face is liz up with a smile that
glows the husband bow looks as il be
were 6lled with courage aud hope
beams 10 his eye; aud the children are
almost miriblui A word conveyed on
the radiance Of a smile. that is uttered
by the good physician, aud drops 50
swestly upon the ear Of the suffering
one, has mere Of a remedial effect than
an the medicines he could have dealt
out, II was the compassion OF our
Savior that induced him to heal the
sick aud cure the afflicted; il was his
sympathy toward men as be moved
among them that inspired confidence
. in him who himself took our indrmi'
+ ties, and bare our sicknesses \
heart, then we say, that beats in sym
/ pathy with the suffering is indispensa-
bio 10 physician.
CHRISTIAN.
/ Bat, over and above all, it seems to
us. strong faith in Him who assumed
humanity, and has absolute power over
life and death is nee ass4ry in him who
waits upon the sick and administers to
the dying. As one of the Old physic.
ians was studying the organs and 9th.
or parts of man in their nature and
wonderful adaptation one to another.
he lay down the disseoting knife, aud
took the pen and wrote an ode OF
/ praise, filled with the spirit Of devotion
to his Creator Boerhaaye, the most
distinguished physician of the 18th
century, was truly man Of God. His
biographer tells us that he spent the
FIRST hours Of the day in reading the
Scriptures and in prayer, 1t seems 10
US by all the mysteries of hum an life,
the physician would be led to put his
trust in Him who has trodden the path
Of death; it seems to us by all the
strong utterances that drop from the
lips OF dying men, that the physician
would be led to believe in the Lord
Jesus Christ as his personal Savior
| from sin; it seems to US by the abso
lutte certainty Of death, that the physic'
ian would feel his need of faith in Hin
who Is the resurrection and the life. -
Sickness and death can be solved only
on the principle that man has sinned
I. The remedies in the physical world
irresistably point to the great remedy
in the spiritual There is, 1t seems tc
us, no calling so adapted to lead men
to Christ as the medical, and hence we
cannot see how one can be a physician
aud not a christian, and, with the OK,
ception Of the ministry of the Gospel
there is no calling that seems so i'm
peratively TO demand it as the practice
Of medicine.
SKETCH.
| A man expressly educated to detect
disease and select remedies, in the
strength of manhood, while engaged
in his vocation, contracted the disease
which took him from us. Physicians
have not control over their own lives,
or power over death, more than other
men. The subtle power Of death takes
their life from them How our hearts
were all made sad when we heard oil
the death Of our beloved physician =
/ DR. II. D. Cook was born in Manches
ter, Aug. 18th, 1914, and died in Lon,
donderry, Feb. 9th, 1875. lie died al
the early age Of 80 years, months and
20 days. lie received his literary and
classical education at Burr and Burton
Seminary, aud his medical at Albany
Medical College At the age Of 10 be
experienced religion, and united with
| lions Church, Manchester. He was a
christian man, and was prepared, as
we trust to meet the Author Of Life
and Judge Of human kind. He was
married seven years age last Novem.
Der, to Miss Celia A. Robinson, Of
/ Illinois, an accomplished young lady.
and who was TO him u selfsacrifcing
and sympathetic, as we'll as loving
wife She, with the dear boy the Lord
gave them, with father and mother aud
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