New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1877-01-29
PULPIT UTTERANCES.
srpMON To MEDICAL MEN.

the hcr. H. nc wv" %s,,""y., 80
Tn b;s series of sermons to the professions,
Mr. Tamage preached TO physicians YESTERDAY. no ros
from the Book Kings the account OF the CURING Vi ~
leprosy of Naaman by washing seven Times III .ho hu
Jordan He announced that next Sunday no wond
nrsa tn The clerks male female, in the stores OF
New-York aud Brooklyn His text was H. Chronicles
xvi IL and 13: "And Asa in the thirty ana nhth year
of his reign was diseased in his feet until his disease was
exceeding great yet his disease no sought not 10 inc
Lord, but the physicians And Asa slept with his
fathers" Following Is = synopsis OF the sermon:
Here is King Asa suffering from the govt. High living
and 10 exercise had vated his blood and In the text he
is shown with his foot resting On an ottoman In Do
ance of God whom hated he sends for certain con-
Jurors and quacks They give him lotions and panaceas
they bleed him; they sweat him they manipulate him;
they blister him they poultce him. they scarify him;
they drug him they cut him; they kill him. he was
only 80 years Of age and his disease though painful IS
not usually fatal He ought have got we'll but he fell
victim TO charlatanry and empiricism yet IN Ills
disease he sought the Lord, but to the NscphS
And slept with his fathers Is, the hy slciahs
killed him. In this sharp. graphic way the bioe scS
forth the truth that you cannot shut God OUT o pn
macy and therapeutics. II Asa had said, % Loru' ai
sick; bless the fundamentally used TO cure me- ana had
then told his servant go and get the best doctor
he could find lie would have recovered. lho "oi'"
wants dyinely directed physicians The diploma Houi
the Long Island College Hospital the Newi ork Aeau
envy OF Medicine, or tile university Vi ic""''
as nothing compared with the diploma from the heah
pysicap of the universe given to the physician "hch
he started out with the words Go, heal the SICK cas-.
out the devils of pain open the eyes OF tne Dii &
bless the doctors the world over anu es az t IsnDd
ptgls and asylnms and domestic clrcies IcsIohu
- Anen! Men OF the medical professi' VIC III a.,
the nome OF distress over INC face in The dusk rs
the night OF death IL falling Ill inc SICK Ioo Oui
and last earthly friend You 't at ths s gis OF death
of RIt
pleasant affairs OF God Let play that you are the
psen and of once and is ss AZ once Is there
not balm in Goad, and Is there not physician thero
An members Of the medical profession ought TO De
come Christians because the honor that has been put
calling No other profession has rgeGvea s so
g,a' an rist an ophalmologist. Al ages have
woven garland for the doctor brow Sd Homer says
Is ss S S5sq ts S aT 1 to the public Veal
they tried to give healtn to otner men The battle
feeds Of the Revolution welcomed Drs hefccr warren,
and Rush God has honOIed this profession an he Mdf
throuch o. the advance since Hppocrates tried to cure
the great Percies with heleD9re and na1seed iI
OF Tie blood and Jcnner baked the worst disease h1t
ever staked Europe, and cnchona BARK hLs
Cooper and ALemetny and Grlscom aud Valentine M"tt
fought death with tei keeh scapeis y, ,, III me
battles Of any one ccDIurS destroyed IN urn
saw the photographs OF Dr. James simpson, VINO mrs,
uEcd chlorrl,; as an ancsthcic-that descended
mercy of God, chloulorn Ihc neGl'di profession
INTO ho CONT room ana 10y chemical analysis proves lbe
nn has iionf for public hygenel How often 1t has
stood bstyec this ualIc and Asiaio cholera OF yeilow
fever! Mhat il has dO.o Tor human ohsc'itS A,tIih
started with eternity 1 earthly eAtescr Dti"e nun,
Lu1 duration Of life on Rhti III came
10 an average Of - years; then medical science cdhe
in and since n siXtceih century II uas raised The aN-
Of from Is 10 Ii yeas ahu III VIII 70
On i;uI man will have right TO die before 80, anu
tho prophecy OF Isaiah will DC fulfilled. And chld
shall dc an hundred ,tars old" Tie miicnnum OF inc
soul will the millennium Of tie bOnH Sh done, dlsc''c
done. The clergyman and TIE physician VIII ger
their work al tIc same TIME Inc lhtuCtl
profession done great Work for The poor bslth,
s;rrs ANA inirIulrics every here established -"
SAY these thugs ny yUaT vanity No; announce
them not only toe appreciation OF ny men "r
the mCdt. profession nu tOSlrup ~ p! sicliS " I't'-
iu uf graft God or their iaSnIhcrnt Noh DOt"h
not feel thankful now Then ain dtfuu doctor, you
are net Clrstlan, and the old pfOvtrb, quoted by
Christ win apply To- yO-' Phy>ch, heal my SELL ion
o,ht To De- Chrlsti1n because there arr 80 many tfl'+s
and aIlnoysnccs lOur Profession Lat nced ChiSnih
So,Jcr suppose my sIUiau sees al ndIiullndl"h
more hcauty tran architect can -" ~ an tdlc',
thou.h Il bo the triumph ~ arch aud pihh ana abacaS
Tho physician has SIh attn. BlSy clerks ANA others
are busy through the week To ne sick bnl on sunday
morning they send doctor, ana maj >pUs his iuIh-
ig se4IcC. 1Dtn many miu can dlnc oni! once week
with th IT. families, the sabbath thty make up
Tor their abstinence by gurmnilZins and bcIuro nght
the cuHlUuHdrd digestive Organs cry Out !oi uutto',
and spJlfs hi, evening rcrNIrc Man! persons h'he
,ho doctor If people ue forgetting thai IL il appointed 10
an men 10 dc. IEtn lie phNsicIn husi Dear WIN
me o ,iati, RED nerves and ihc cOutd brain
OF women aud especially Of iAci-fOr nan can never
sir Craceiuiy aud teu he Cisjs tEc doctor, giving
uu what ne calls Ills tiics,' which are about tine oiy
collects. iue last hi thai is ever pau ~
Without charge than all the Other Professions phI
together. 10 keep up under c StIin many pa! -ici!s
rsor 10 srog drink and perish; others appeal ~ God
ana live. Which arc the wiser, judge yc