Mexico weekly ledger., 1884-01-24
MEXICO MISSOURI THURSDAY, JANUARY "a 1884.

lfe. The one ofiiciates ut the birth
md assists nature in the performance
of her important functions the other
1fficiates ut the baptismal font and
the hvmeneal altar. The one is con-
suited about the functions of the
body: the other instructs the mind
and trains the soul. Both are en-
deavoring to teach men how to live.
Society is to be estimated in proper
ton as it honors and esteems the true
physician and the true minister. A
high degree of civilization cannot
exist without both of them. Peter
the Great, Frederick, Napoleon and
the good Queen Victoria, as we'll as
other sovercigns, have always heaped
wealth and honors upon deserving
and physicians, and the
greatest of princes and wisest OF phi
losophers have sought the advice, the
counsels and the consultations of min
listers of religion. Both are most
highly esteemed and honored by the
most enlightened and cultivated So
ciety.
l think hazard nothing in saying
that these two professions have fur
nished, and are furnishing to-day, the
profoundest scholarship of the world.
I believe they have done more for the
elevation of the race than any others,
and | do not intend by this remark to
underrate the grand work that has
been done by others. From the days
of Hippocrates and Galen, to the
present time, medicine has been
progressive science, and new discov-
cries have constantly crowned their
efforts. As the result of their eff
forts the average age of men in CIV
ilized countries has doubled in two
or three hundred years. From the
days of Paul to the present time,
Christianity has constantly grown in
power and influence. At the close
of fifteen hundred years, there was
one hundred millions of communi-
cants. In three hundred years more
there was another hundred million
added. During the present century
eighty million more have been added.
This shows that the ministry have not
been idle. The gospel has advanced
wonderfully by the constant efforts
of the pulpit. In all this would ac-
knowledge the aid of the printing
press.
THE PHYSICIAN AND THE MINISTER AS
! STUDENTS.
For twenty-five years no class of
men have been thinking more pro-
fouudly than phvicians. The off
shoots from the old and time hon
ored system of medicine is but an
effort to grasp unsolved problems.
and goes to show the activity Of mind
in that direction. Those who have
been true to the old school have
made grand advances in the applica-
ton of remedies, and the operations
of surgery. The ministry have not
been idle. More good books have
been printed in the last twenty years,
. than for one hundred years before.
We still have great many Quacks,
and a great many ignoramuses among
the preachers, but at the same time
we have more learning and skill among
, physicians, and we have more good
preachers at this time than we have
ever had. A physician in full prac'
: tice, and pastor with full work mus
necessarily he the brightest class ot
. students. They cannot read as many
books as other men, but they mus
3 think, and sometimes, at least, very
profoundly; neither can think too
much. Both must sometimes burr
the midnight oil, and when the sense
of others are locked in slumber, the.
q must be working out by dint of think
ing the greatest of problems; human
happiness, and human life.
SOME REFLECTIONS.
= If what we have said, be true, an
:, 1 presume no one will dispute il
the true physician, and the tru
minister, are highest style of men
y y and we should certainly raise th
l. = standard of scholarship in both.
Il i, shall hail the day when no man is a
:. u lowed to enter upon the study o
y medicine without good literary &c
. ucation to begin with, or to gradual
! from a medical college until he ha
!" made suitable proficiency in all net
,, essary studies. 1t is impossible
~ place the standard too high.
er s'The Press was then proposed
N and Col. J. f. Hutton, who was al
CT vertised to respond and expected
- be present, not putting in his appea
ID ance, r. NJ. White was called upo
d. but excused himself on account
lis not being a speech-maker, and b
ef cause, by the programme, his en-
- - nent Bro. Hutton had been notifi'
h. and advertised to reply to this toas
n. winch could not be properly dol
OF upon a moments notice. j. N. Gro
" 10 then being called, made few pleasa
and appropriate remarks.
nd "Ploneer Practice in Audrain
y was then replied to by DR.. w. H.
y. Lee, as follows:
of Had 1 the poeucal imagination
.er the author of Ossian's poems, or
of grand and ponderous thoughts
Milton, or the tender and exquis
to sentiments of Moore. or the kee
his caustic witticisms Of Mark iva
is. l should still expect to fail to rend
Ter attractive or interesting the subj'
he which has been assigned me by
NO committee, IN any endeavors to ent
i'm tain you, even for the few momel
md that have been allotted me for Il
far purpose.
ul- But feel under obligations to !.
in spond to the task assigned me by
the committee, and to bear my share
m the endeavors to make some retu
ing to our kind friends who have co
nus out tonight, and have honored
to with their presence, with the expec
ten tion of being entertained. 81
md have to fall back, however, on
the charity and kindness Of my audito
elp to overlook any deficiency in t
his line. Ny subject is evidently v
is dull and uninteresting one to the g
the eral public, but may be of some
ery terest to the medical man. My