The Durham daily globe. (Durham, N.C.) 1889-1894, 1894-03-24
JONES DISSECTS DOCTORS.
4 Georgia Evangelist Also Treats
OF the Preachers a IiL.!e.
There Are Eye IOc.n-3 AMI Cow Doctora.
Neta-Physicians and Muddy Inyai-
clans Dissertation on the
Dirty S~oH-and-Nov
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CA~RTERsvILLE, Ga. March 20. 1884,
The Doctor and Preacher discussed in
my article Of last week shall occupy at
least a part Of this letter.
The NJ. d. Is an essential factor in
society. Somehow or other we ALWAYS
send for the physician when disease
takes hold of Us, or aches or pains tor
ment Us. And where our confidence
abounds in his Skill and ability. it ma
tiers not whether he has much ii
|. either; and no matter what his Skill
and ability may be. unless he has our
confidence he VIII make poor headwar
with his patient.
IT is astonishing how some Doctor
can ingr2tiate them&clTc> into toe con.
fdence OF their patients. anI it IS al=c
astonishing how the patient VIII SOM
times recover in spite of the blunuer~
of the doctors and the wrong remedies
taken.
Here is a case in a Georgia town
where | was pastor: One of the citi-
zcns was taken to his bed and grew
weaker and worse as the DAYS went
by. The four leading physicians OF
the town were doing their best 70 con
troll the action Of his heart, t.
stimulate it to do its duty. After
lingering for several week, with
organic heart trouble. he finally de
cidcd to go to Atlanta. He wa pat
upon a litter and taken to DR.. West
mOreland, of Atlanta, who examined
the patient and said to him: You
have no heart trouble, but your left
lung is congestcd as tight as a piece of
beef" In a few days the congestion
was relieved, and, of course. the heart
trouble gave way.
The old doctor whose patients scarce
~ suffer with any other complaint than
a bilious attack and whose remedies
are calomcl and Dover's powders, has
well-nigh passed away.
Some doctors are good on the liver,
and live off Of other peoples livers.
We have Eye Doctors. Ear Doctors,
Throat Doctors, Corn Doctors, and ven
| Horse Doctors. | nave known one Cow
Doctor and one OrtWO Dog Doctors who
were good in their treatment of eats
also. Then there IS the Chinese Doe
tor, the Indian Doctor, the IIoOdOo
+! Doctor and the Christian Science Doc
tor. The worse missioner were this
last, for Christian Science is neither
Christian nor is it science.
reckon OF all humbuggery weak
minds were possessed OF. Christian
Science heads the list. and it attacks
only tie fechle-mindcj 50 far as my
persona! knowledge goes.
When we cross over again into the
territory Of ID. D.'s, VIC G.II infinite va
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the d~ivineIy called. and those who call
themselves.
was talking to Prof. Swing, Of Chi
csgo, some time ago. He said orc Of
the charges under which he was ~
rairnud for being d doctor was the Qi-
vine call to the ministry. When the
committee pressed him on that point,
he asked the committee who called
Clay. Calhoun and Webster to be States
nfcn. The committee re- II: "Natur1."
Then said Prof. Swing: 'Who called
this company of ministers aroUDl IT."
to prcach?" They said: "God." asked
them: 'IIadn't ZOO better turn over
the privilege of calling men to II"
ministry to naturc:" and the brethren
passed on to other charges in the tll!
of indictment against Prof. Swing.
OF course | believe in a divine cell
to the ministry, but | have sometimes
| thought if God called all the preachers
! have eve met into the ministry He
must have called them into that Worl,
ju,t to keep them out Of dcvil1ent. far
they were doing very little in the work
to which God had called then.
! We have dry preachers and juicy
! preachers. long preachers and short
preachers, little preachers and biz
preachers. wise preachers and ignorant
preachers, preachers that can preach
and preachers that can't preach.
preachers who instruct. preachers who
teach. preachers who explain and eX-
pound, preachers who confuse. philoso-
pliers and Philosophers. metaphysi-
clans and NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS., preachers
who prepare their rmOn with
thought and care, preachers who open
their mouths and the Lord fills them
with air.
1t is hard for a preacher to talk wise
". scnSibly and effectively for an hour.
1t must be hard for a preacher to talk
an hour and say nothing. have Wit
messed that fea 4 few times in my life.
OF course heredity and environment
have much to do with men, but the DIFF
ference is, men are organic.
The poor men of our country say that
| the laws are made in the interest Of
the rich. and vet almost every nillio1-
aire of this country was once as poor "a
| Jobs turkey. Commodore NaHlcr-
bilt, Girard. \. T. Stewart, Jay Could.
Stanford, Mackcy, Carnegie. Rookie
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right. were all very poor. Then, how
could they rise If the laws of or Gun
try were made in the interest of the
rich and against the poor?
So in the profession of law and med
icinc. and even in the ministry. for
there : nothing in grace t" lit a mar
above his purposes or beyond his am
| bitiOn.