The Progress., 1897-06-12
THE GOUT OF A KING.
WHY THE PHYSICIANS COULD NOT
CURE VI.

Lev. Os. TolMAge Shows the Mistake Of
0Aottang Out God From the Realm Of
Pharmacy and Therspeutics-AB enedio-
9loa For Doctors.
NEW YORK, juno cit Is not often
that men Of one profession have much en-
enlargement for men Of another profess
s,on, but this sermon, prepared BY DR.:
Talmage, contains enthusiastic words of
clergyman to Physicians. The text IL II
Chronicles XVI, l2, 10, "And Asa, In the
thirty and ninth year Of his reign, was
diseased in his feet until his disease was
axceedlng greae;' yet In his disease he
sought not to the Lord. but to the physi-
eaans. And Asa slept with his fatbers''
At this season OF the year, when med
Scnl colleges of all schools Of medicine are
giving diplomas to young doctors, and at
the capital and in many Of the cities med
teal associations are assembling to consult
shout the advaDcement Of the interests Of
their profession, feel this discourse Ia
appropriate.
In my text Is King Asa with the govt
High living and no exercise have vitiated
h1s blood, and my text presents him with
Al0 Unframed and bAndaged feet on an Of
6onnAn. In defiance OF God, whom be
AAAo0. he sends for certain conjurore or
Quacks. They come and give him all sorts
Ct lotions and panaoeas. They bleed him.
A&SCy oWSoU utA1s Lucy A0u1QOMV0 UI1U.
Thsy blister him. They poultioe him.
They srarify HIM They drug him.
They cut him. They Kill him. He wns
only young man. and had disease
which, though very painful, seldom proves
eDtAl 70 young man, and he ought to
have cot well, but be fell victim to
shariAtansy and empizicism. ''And Asa
IN the thirty and ninth year Of his reign
Was diseAsed In bis feet, until his disease
was exceeding great: yet in his disease he
sought not 70 tho Lord. but to the pbysi.
0aana. And An slept with his fathers"
That II. the doctors killed him.
IN this sharp and graphic way the Bible
Gets forth the truth that you have no right
70 shut God out from the realm of phar-
macy and therapeutics II Asa had said:
20 Lord. arm sick. Bless the instru-
mentality employed for my recovery"
s'Now. servant, 60 and get the best doctor
10u cnn Gnd"-ke would have recovered
In Other words. the world wants tiivinely
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-
osdved from the Head Physician Of the
universe on the day when they started out
and he had said to them: "Go heal the
slck, and cast out the devils Of pain, and
open tho blind eyes, and unstop the deaf
cars" God bless the doctors ali the world
penaAries and inhrmnries and asyluzns
and domestic circles Of the earth respond,
"Amen."
Holm In Glleod.
Men OF the medical profession we often
meet IN the home OF dislzess. We shake
hands across the cradle OF ngonixed in
fancy. We join each other In an attempt
ut Solace where the payoxysm Of grief de-
snhl,ds an anodyne AZ well as a prayer |
We look into C0ch Others svmnathetio
faess through the dusk as the night Of |
death Is falling In the sickroon. We do |
not hayc 10 climb over any barrier today |
IN order 10 greet each other, for our pro- |
Icssaons nro In full sympathy. You. doc
S0SsarO our FIRST and last earthly friend |
xou stand Mt the gates of life when we /
eutse ehis world and you stand at the
astse ~ dcsath when We 20 out OF it. In
shc esoeing moments Of our earthly exist
enca. when the hand OF the wife, or moth.
e., or sister, or daughter shall, hold GU.
right hand. 1t will give strength to our