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

siUn UGgn5 20 ne Christians is because
there opens before them such grand field
for Christian usefulness. You see so many
people in pain, in trouble, in bereavement
You ought to be the voice of heaven to
their souls. Old DIR. Gasherie De Witt, a
practitioner of New York, told me in his
last days, 81 always present the religion of
Christ th my patients, either directly or in
directly, and l find it is almost always ac-
ceptable." Drs. Abercrombie and Brown
of Scotland Drs. Hey and Fothergill Of
England and DR.. Rush of our own coun-
try were celebrated for their faithfulness
In that direction. "Oh," says the medical
profession, THAT is your occupation; that
belongs to the clergy, not to u.s." My
brother, there aro severe illnesses In which
you will not admit even the clergy, and
that patients salvation will depend upon
your faithfulness. With the medicine for
the body In one hand and the medicine for
the soul in the other, oh, what q chancel
There lies dying Christian on the pillow
You need to hold over him the lantern Of
tho gospel until its light streams across
the pathway of the departing pilgrim, and
you need to cry into the dull ear of death,
"Hark to tho song of heavens welcome
that comes stealing over the waters. T"
There lies on the pillow dying sinner.
All the morphine that you brought with
you cannot quiet him. Terror in the face.
Terror in the heart. How he jerks himself
up on one elbow and looks wildly into
your face and says: doctor can't die.
am not ready to die. What makes 1t so
dark? Doctor, can you pray!" Blessed
| for you and blessed for him If then you
can kneel down and say: 20 God, have
hone the best l could to cure this man s
body and have failed! Now commit to
thee his poor suffering and affrighted
soul. Open paradise to his departing
spirit"
But l must close, for there may be suf
fering men and wcmen waiting in your
Office, or on the hot pillow, wondering
why you don't come. But before you 60
o doctors, hear my prayer for your eternal
salvation. Blessed will be the reward in
heaven for the faithful Christian physi
clan. Some day, through overwork, Oh
from bending over patient and catching
his contagious breath, the doctor ccme!
home and he lies down faint and sick
He is too weary to feel his own pulse OF
take the diagnosis Of his own complaint
He Is worn out. Tho fact is his work or
earth is ended. Tell those people in the
office there they need not wait any longer
the doctor will never 60 there again. HI
has written his last prescription for thC
alleviation of human pain. Tho people
will run up his front steps and inquire
"How is the doctor today?" All the sym
pathies Of the neighborhood will b.
aroused, and there will be many prayers
that he who has been so kind to the sicl
may he comforted in his last pang. 1t Il
oil over now. In two or three days, hi
convalescent patients, with shawls wrapped
around them, will come to the front win
dow and look out at tho passing hearse
and the poor Of the city, barefooted ant
bareheaded, will stand on the street cor
ner, saying, "Oh, how good he was to u
ALI" But on the other side of the rive
of death some of his old patients, who ar
forever cured, will come out to welcom
him, and the Physician of heaven, witt
locks as white as snow, according to tn
apocalyptio vision, will come out and say
"Come In, come in. I was sick and y,
visited me!'