News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1897-06-09
Piety. and Medical Skin.

struction by unblessed physicians was a.
warning. There are awful crises in every
medical practice when doctor ought to
know how TO pray. All the hosts of ills
will sometimes hurl themselves on the
weak points of the physical organism, or
with equal ferocity will assault the entire
line OF susceptibility to suffering. The
next dose of medicine will decide whether
or not the happy home shall be broken up.
Shall it be this medicine or that medicinel|
God help the doctor. Between the five
drops and the ten drops may be the ques-
ton of life or death. Shall it be the five
or the ten drops2 Be careful how you put
that knife through those delicate portions
of the body, for if it swing out of the way
the sixth part of an inch the patient per-
ishes Under such circumstances physi-
clan needs not so much consultation, with
men of his own calling as he needs consult
tatiOn with that God who strung the
nerves and built the cells and swung the
crimson tide through the arteries. Yen
wonder why the heart throbs--why it
seems t0,OpeR and shut. There is no won-
der about 1t. IL is Gods hand shutting,
opening, shutting, opening, ON every
heart. When man comes to doctor the
eye, he, ought to- be in communication with
him who said to the blind Receive thy
sight" When DOCTOR comes to treat a
paralytic arm, he ought to be in commu-
nication with him who said, Stretch forth
thy hand, and no stretched it forth.
When a man comes to doctor bad case Of
hemorrhage, he needs to be. in communi-
| cation with him who cured the issue of
| blood, saying, "Ihy faith, hath saved
thee"
/ do not mean to say that Piety will
make up for medical skin, A bungling
doctor, confounded with what was not Il
very bad case, went into the next room to
pray. A skilled physician was called in
He asked for the first practitioner. "Oh,"
they said, "he's in the next room pray
ing" "Well," said the skilled doctor,
tell him to, come out here and help He
can pray and work as the same time" lt
was all in that sentence. Do the best we
can and ask God to help u.s. There are no
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.
Christian Usefulness.
Another reason why the medical prafes-
sion ought to be 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 30
their souls. Old DIR. Gasherie De Witt, q
practitioner of New York, told me in his
last days, 81 always present the religion OF
Christ to my patients, either directly or in
directly, and fad it is almost always 40
ceptable." Drs. Abercrombie and Brown
Of Scotland, Drs. Hey and Fothergill OF
England and DIR. Rush of our own coun
try were celebrated for their faithfuAndss
, In that direction. "Oh," says.the medical
profession, "that is your occupation; that
belongs to the clergy, not to us. My
| brother, there arc severe Illnesses in which
you will not admit even the clergy, ant
that patients salvation will depend upon
a your faitbtulness With the medicine fol-
a the body in one hand and the medicine foi
the soul IN the other, oh, what chance