Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1897-06-17

that case collect. The last bill tnat Is
Maid is the doctors bill. III seems ~
jncoherent for a restored patient. Win
ruddy cheeks and rotund form, TO Dc
bothered with a bill charging MIN ior
old calomel and jalap. The pnysiciahS
of this country do more missionary
work without charge than ali the
other professiones put together. From
the concert room, from the merry
party, from the comfortable u on
. god Night, when the thermometer Is
five degrees below zero, the doceof
must go right away; he always mus 20
right away. To keep up under TINS
nervous strain, to go through tnis
night-work, to bear all these annoy
ances, many physicians have resorted
to strong drink and perished. others
have appealed to God for sympathy
and help, and have lived. Which were
the wise doctors. Judge We?
Again: The medical profession ought
to be Christians because there are pro-
fessional exigencies when they ice
God. Asa's destruction by unblessed
physicians was a warning. There are
awful crises in every medical practice
when a doctor ought TO know now 10
pray. All the hosts of Ills which some
times hurl themselves on the weak
points of the physical organism. or
with equal fcrocity will assault the en-
tire line of susceptibility to suffering.
The next dose OF medicine will decide
whether or not the happy home shall
be broken up. Shall 1t be this medi-
cine or that medicine? God help the
doctor. Between the five drops n the
ten drops may be the question Oh lie
or death. Shall il be the five or ten
drops? Be careful how you put the
knife through those delicate portions
of the body, for If it swings out OF the
way the sixth part of an inch the pa
tient perishes. Under such circum-
stances g physician needs not so much
consultation with men OF his own call
ing, as he needs consultation with that
God wfo strung the nerves and built
the cells, and swung the crimson tide
through The arteries. You wonder why
the heart throbs-why il seems to open
and shut. There Is no wonder about 1t.
1t is Gods hand, shutting, opening,
shutting, opening, on every heart.
When a man comes TO doctor the eye,
he ought to be in communication with
MIN who said to the blind Receive
thy sight" When a doctor comes to
treat a paralytic arm, he ought to be in
communication with him who said:
Stretch forth thy hand, and he
stretched it forth" When a man comes
&c doctor a bad case of hemorrhage, he
needs to be in communication with him
who cured the issue of blood. saying:
Thy faith hath saved thee"
do not mean to say that piety will
make up for medical skill. A bungling
doctor. COMPOUNDED with what was not
a very bad case, went into the next
room to pray. A skilled physician was
called in. He asked for the first prac-
titioner. oh they said. hes In the
next praying" Well" said the
skilled doctor, "tell him 70 come out
here and help; he can pray and work
at the same time" II vas all in that
sentence. Do the best We can and ask
God to help US. There are 40 two men
in all the world, it seems to me, that
so much need the grace OF God as the
minister who doctors the sick soul. and
the physician who prescribes for the
diseased body.
But l must close, for there may be
suffering men and women waiting In
your office, or or the hot pillow. won
dering why you don't come. But be-
fore you go, o doctors, hear my prayer
for your external salvation. Blessed
will be the reward In heaven for the
faithful Christian physician. Some
day, through overwork, or from bend
ing over a patient and catching his
contagious breath. the doctor comes
home, and lies down faint and sick.
He Is too weary to feel his own pulse or
take the diagnosis Of his own COM
plant. He Is worn out. The fact Is his
@0@t 10 80
work on earth is ended. Tell those
people in the Office there they need not
wait any longer: the doctor will never
go there again. He has written his
last prescription for the alienation OF
human pain. The people will run up to
his front steps and inquire: How Ia
the doctor today?" All the sympath,as
OF the neighborhood will be aroused
and there will be many prayers that
ne who has been so kind to the sick
may be comforted in his last pang II
Is all over now. In two or three days
his convalescent patients, with shawl
wrapped around them, will come n ,ho
front window and look out on the mass.
Ing hearse. and the poor of the citv
bare-footed, and bare-headed. will,
stand on the street corners. saving.
"Oh, low good he was to us allm pn,
on the other side of the river OF daath
some of his old patients. who arc
forever cured, will come 80
welcome him, and the Phvsicior =,
heaven. with locks as white az snow
IN. A.