The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1897-06-12

ated his blood, and my text presents
him with his iniamed and bandaged
feet on an ottoman. In defiance OF
God, whom he hated, he sends for GER
tain %conjurors or quacks. They come
and give him all sorts of lotions and
panaceas. They bleed him. They
sweat him. They manipulate him.
They blister him. They poultice him.
They scarify him. They drug him.
They cut him. They kill him. He
was only a young man, and had a dis
, ease which, though very painful, sell
dom proves fatal to a young man,
sad he ought to nave got we'll; but he
fell a victim to c~harlatanry and empiri-
cism. "And Asa in the thirty and
ninth year of his reign was diseased in
his feet, until his disease was exceed
ingly great; yet in his disease he
sought not to the Lord, but to the
physicians. And Asa slept with his
fathers" That is, the doctors killed
him.
In this sharp and graphic way the
Bible sets forth the truth, that you
have no right to shut God out from
the realm of pharmacy and ~therapeu-
tics. If Asa had said: 80 Lord, 1 am
sick; bless the instrumentality en-
ployed for my recovery "Now, serv-
ant, go and get the best doctor you
can ind"-he would have recovered.
In other words, the world wants di-
vinely-directed physicians. There are
a great many such. The diplomas they
received from the academies of medi-
cine were nothing compared with the
diploma they received from III Head
Physician of the universe, on the day
when they started out, and He said to
them: go heal the sick, and cast out
the devils of pain, n open the blind
eyes, and unstop the deaf ears" God
bless the doctors all the world overl
and let all the hospitals, and dis
p~ensaries, and infirmaries, and asy-
lums, and domestic circles of the earth
respond: amen"
Men of the medical profession we
often meet in the home of distress. We
shake hands across the cradle of agon-
lied infancy. We join each other in
an attempt at solace where the parox-
ysm of grief demands an anodyne as
well as a prayer. We look into each
others sympathetic faces through the
dusk, as the night of death is falling
in the sick room. We do not have to
climb over any barrier to-day to greet
each other, for our professions are in
full sympathy. You, doctor, are our
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eeived so great an honor as vours.
Christ himself was not only nreacber
but physician. surgeon, aurist. h
motologist, and under His mighty
mower optic and auditory nepye thrilled
with l;abt and sound and c-atalansz
arose from its AT. and the club foot
straiphtened, and anchylosis went
out of the stiffened tendons. and the
foaminp maniac became placid as a
child. and the streets of Jerusalem be-
an extemporized hospital crowd
ed with convalescent victims of casu-
aItv and inyaIidism. All ages have
woven the garland for the doctors
Homer said:
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vvould understand what the medical
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ventilated and uniiehted. The worst
of the race punished with the
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