The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1889-10-25

YOU must &C home with me. My daughter
has the dysentery, and she will die If you dc
not visit her. Money is no object. / will
give you S25, or $50, yes, or 500 If you will
come" Yes, my dear sir" said the Doctor,
-'but look at that waiting room full of pa
tents. How can possibly get away with
out neglecting them? Many of them have
come from distance, and require my i'm
mediate services in order that they may
take the next train. But tell you what
can do,"' he added, IL can cure her without
seeing her, If dysentery is all she has" He
thereupon told the father what to give her
internally and locally. The gentleman ac-
cepted the directions, but left i'm huff"
Within three days however, who should
call on the Doctor but this same man. IL
have returned" he exclaimed, first TO APP
ologize for my rude departure, and second
ly, to thank you for my daughters cure.
My daughter is well! Three of the very
doctors who gave her up to die have seen
her and all have exclaimed: What in the
world did DIR. Hartman give your daughter?
He has robbed the very grave of its most
certain victim! She owes her life to him.
1t is indeed a miracle. p" And thereupon
the happy man, with tears of JOY in his eyes
begged the Doctor to accept $500 as sow
enir of his gratitude.
Another of the things which has made
the name of DR.. Hartman famous is the
crowd of people that waits upon him where
eyer he happens to be. While he is at his
home Office. time for his meals is scarcely
his own. When he starts out on one of his
tours crowds of people meet him at each
point. There seems to be some magnetic
influence about the DIR. which draws the
people to him in such numbers as to make
it a memorable day wherever he stops.
SPY the way, Doctor" quered the report
or, during moments lull in the rush of
business, show did you come to choose Col
umbus as your home office and headquart-
ers?" "Simply," replied he, because of
its convenient location at the center of popu-
lation of the country, and because, also, of
its many advantages as a railroad center"
DIR. HARTMAN's RELIGIOUS VIEWS.
DR.. Hartman's religious views will inter-
and the character of the work he is doing,
and we naturally expect to find behind it
and animating it all an equally pure, simple
and beautiful religion. Nor shall we be
disappointed. What particular faith or
creed he holds, or whether he holds any, it
is impossible to say. His family, however,
are Menonites, rs are the big majority of
the people of Eastern. Pennsylvania. And
certainly if this church is to be judged by
the character of these people, it is denom-
nation worthy of all reverence and respect
For nowhere are to be found more honest,
thrifty, substantial. sober-minded and God
fearing people than the Menontes of East
ern Pennsylvania. We heard him say when
CHANGING to meet him on one occasiOn:''rwo
things are Goodness and Truth. Not good
ness and truth as they are supposed to be
practiced ordinarily by church members,
but as they are in fact Truth married to
goodness-this is the essence of Christianity.
All else i'm religion is external and not es-
sential, the mere shell and not the kernel.
To he good, man must do good. Nor
must he do good to be seen of men, and have
his name spread abroad. He must do good
because it is right to do good, because he
loves to do it, because of the beauty and the
JOY the act will bring to his heart. And he
must be truthful in the same way, not for
but for the satisfaction it brings
to his own soul. He must see nothing but
beauty in Truth, and nothing but ugliness
and hatefulness i'm Falsehood."
Such is DIR. Hartman's religion, plainly
stated by himself.
This brief sketch of the life and work of
a man whose fame as a benefactor of his
fellow men, has probably penetrated to every
i'm the Union, will doubtless be
Of interest to our readers.