The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1876-07-20
THE LATE MRS. ). =. DARLINGTON
Action Of the Medical Society nnd
Thclr Letter 0i Confidence and
sympathy 10 DIR. j, y.
Darlington.

Alta regular meeting OF the Dallas
County Medical Society, July IL, 1876,
after roll call and reading Of the min
utes, the announcement was made that
siHCe our last assembling, n highly es-
teemed physician and member of n
Co-SOciety of this city, DIR. J. s. Car
rington, had met with the sadest allie
ton that is ever allotted to MANTLE
loss Of his wife.
After an expression of deep sympa-
thy by some of the members who had
passed through the same ordeal, the
President, upon the passage of n reso-
luton, appointed n committee of sew
en- to make known to DR.. Darlington
the sympathy entertained by us for
him OF our cordial, personal and pro-
fessiOual friendship. Whereupon the
committee endited the following let
ter:
OFFICE DALLAS COUNTY MEDICAL SOCIETY,
DALLAS, Texas, July 10, 1876.
John s. Darlington, NJ ID.
Esteemed Friend, Professor and
Brother us, as the appointed
representatives of the Dallas County
Medical Society, at their regular meet
ing, ths day held, to express to you
their unfeigned sympathy; not only
felt but upon this occasion, openly eX-
pressed for You in this, the saddest of
all Affections 10y which, in the econO-
my OF God, man is visited. 1t has
been the privilege of some to have init
mately known her from whom we trust
YOU have only temporarily parted; for
remember, dear friends, our profession
teaches lis that "the death of the body
is but the commencing of the new lite
of the SOUL in which we delight to
believe that all that Is pure aud noble
in mans nature will hC refined, ele-
waited and progressively advanced to.
wards perfection,
AS II body, we have been thought to
doubt the existence OF God and the
immortality of the soul. This you too
well know to be untrue. That we are
less bigoted and more catholic in our
opinions than Others, we do not gain
say.
The profession of medicine, of
which you are an honorable member,
having for its ends the common good
of mankind, knows nothing of polite
al strife, national enmites or of sec.
tartan divisions.
Our professional association with
our fellows of all parties, ranks, crecds,
religion, and with men of no religion
at all has taught us in its enlarged
sense CHARITY.
"Who made the heart, It's He alone
Decidedly can try W..
lie knows each cord Its various tone
Each SprnE-its various bias
Then, at the balance, let's be mute.
We never can adjust It. What has
been done We may compute. But kROW
not what's "resisted.n
Yes, dear Doctor, Gle will gather lis
in one 10y one" We are often made
to see by the use of these judgments,
which are merciully designed to re-
call us from the slumber Vt temporal
prosperity 10y which we are not per-
mitted to be unmindful, that our own
stay is brief and uncertain; our oppor-
tunities tleetiug; our time when long
est, very short, if measured by our
moral wants and intellectual crav-
ings.
Let then each of us with you renew
eddy resolve to emulate the virtues OF
her who has gone before.
Truly your sincere friends and pro-
fesslonal brethren,
NJ. Nj. Newsom, chairman, +. Il.
Hughes, Il. w. Wiley, j. +. Uhilders,
j. I. Elliott, J. II. Gibbs, II. r. Bos.
well.