Democratic Northwest and Henry County news. [volume] (Napoleon, O. [Ohio]) 1894-1905, 1897-06-10

Rev. DR.. TalmaEe Shows the Mistake of
Shutting Out God From the Realm of
Pharmacy and hernpeuties-AD Denedic-
tion For Doctors.
NEW YORK, June CIT Is not often
that men Of one profession have much en-
souragement for men Of another profcs-
sion, but this sermon, prepared by Dr.
Talmnge, contains enthusiastic words Of
q clergyman to phsyicians. Thetext is II
Chronicles xvi, IL, 13, "And Asa, in the
thirty and ninth year Of his reign, was
diseased In his feet until his disease was
exceeding great; yet In his disease he
sought not to the Lord, but to the physi-
clans. And Asa slept with his fathers"
At this season of the year, when med
ical colleges of all schools of medicine are
giving diplomas to young doctors, and at
the capital and In many of the cities med
ical associations are assembling to consult
about the advancement of the interests OF
their profession, feel this discourse is
appropriate.
In my text is King Asa with the gout.
High living and no exercise have vitiated
his blood, and my text presents him with
his inflamed and bandaged feet ON an OF.
toman. In defiance of God, whom he
hated, he sends for certain conjurors OF
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 sccrify him. They drug him.
They cut him. They kill him. He was
only a young man, and had a disease
which, though very painful, seldom proves
fatal TO q young man, and he ought tC
have got well, but he fell a victim tc
charlatanry and empiricism. "And Asa
in the thirty and ninth year of his reign
was diseased in his feet, until his disease
was exceeding great; yet in his disease he
sought not to the Lord, but to the physi
clans. And ASH slept with his fathers. y
That is, the doctors killed him.
In this sharp and graphic way the Bible
GETS forth the truth that you have no right
to shut God out from the realm of phar
macy and therapeutics. If Asa had said
80 Lord, am sick. Bless the instru
mentality employed for my recovery =
"Now, servant, go and get the best doctor
you can flnd'-ho would have recovered
In other words, the world wants divinely
directed physicians. There are great
many such. The diplomas they received
from the academies of medicine were moth
ing compared with the diploma they re
ceiyed from the Head Physician of the
universe on the day when they started out
and he had said to them: go heal thu
sick, and cast out the devils Of pain, an(
open tho blind eyes, and unstop the dea
ears" God bless the doctors all the worlt
over, and let all the hospitals and dis
pensaries and inflrmaries and asylum!
and domestic circles of the earth respond
"Amen."
Balm In Gilead.
Men of the medical profession we Otter
meet in the homo of distress We shakt
hands across the cradle of agonized in
fancy. We join each other in an attemp
at solace whero the paroxysm of grief de
mands an anodyne as well as prayer
We look into each others sympathetic
faces through the dusk as the night O.
death Is falling In the sickroom. We d.
not havo to climb over any barrier today
in order to greet each ether, for ouP pro
fessions ore in full sympathy. You. doc
tor, are our first and last earthly friend
You stand ct the gates of life when W.
enter this world and you stand at tn,
gates of death when we go out Of 1t. II
the closing moments of our earthly exist
ence, when the hand of the wife, or moth
er, or sister, or daughter shall hold oul
right hand, 1t will giyo strength to oui
dying moments If we can feel the tips O
your fingers along the pulse of the lef
wrist. We Go not meet today, as on othe1
dnys, In houses of distress, but by tn,
pleasant altars of God, and l propose {
sermon of helpfulness and good cheer. A,
in tho nursery children sometimes re-enac
all the scenes of the sickroom, so today
you play that you are the patient and tha
am tho physician, and take my prescrip
tion just once. 1t shall bo tonic, seda
tive, diotetic, disinfectant, stimulus
and an arodyne at the same time. "I
there not balm in Gilead? Is there not i,
physician there?"
In the first place, think all the medi
cal profession should become Christians
because of the debt of gratitude they ow,
to God for the honor he has put upoI
their calling. No other calling in all thu
world, except 1t DO that of the Christian
ministry, has received SO greatan honor a!
yours. Christ himself was not only
preacher, but physician, surgeon, aurist
ophthalmologist and under his mighty
power optic and auditory nerve thrilled
with light and sound, and catalepsy arose
from its fit, and the club foot was straight
ened, and, anchylosis went out of the
stiffened tendons, and the foaming ma
MAC became placid as a child, and the
streets of Jerusalem became an extempo
riZed hospital crowded with ccnyalesccnt
victims of casualty and invalidism. AL
ages have woven the garland for the doc
tors brow. Homer said;
A wise physician, skilled, our wounds to heal
Is more than armies to the public veal.
Cicero said: "There is nothing in which
men so approach the gods as when they
try to give health to other men," Charles
TX made proclamation that all the Prot
estants In France should be put to death
on st. Bartholomew day, but made one
exception, and that the case of Pare, the
father of French surgery. The battlefelds
of the American Revolution welcomed
Drs. Mercer and Warren and Rash. When
the French army was entirely demoralized
at fear of the plague, the leading surgeon
of that army inoculated himself with the
plague to chow the soldiers there was NO
contagion in it, and their courage rose,
and they went on TO the conflict. God has
honored this profession all the way
through. Oh, the advancement from the
days when Hippocrates tried to cure the
great Pericles with hellebore and flaxseed
poultices down to far later centuries when
Haller announced the theory of rcspira-
tion, and Harvey the circulation of the
blood, and Asceli the uses of the lymphntic
vessels, and Jenner baked tho worst dis
ease that ever scourged Europe, and Syden-
ham developed the recuperative forces of
the physical organism, and cinchona bark
stopped the shiVcring agues of the world,
cc5 Sir etlav Cnnnar and A harnathv.