The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1897-06-10

shut. There Is no wonder about II. I'll
Gods hand, shutting, opening, shutting,
opening, on every heart. When man
comes to doctor the eve, 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 communication with Him who said.
"Stretch forth thy hand. and he stretched
II forth" When man comes to 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"
Another reason why the medical profess
sion ought to be Christians is because there
opens before them such o 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 DR.. Gasherie De Witt, q prac-
titioner 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 l find II almost always accept
able" Drs. Abercrombie and Brown, of
Scotland Drs. Hey and Fothergill of Eng
land and DR.. Rush Of our own country
were celebrated for their faithfulness in
that direction. "0h," says the medical
profession, 'that is your occupation.
That belongs to the clergy, not to us"
NV brother, there are 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 the medicine for
the soul in the other. oh. what chance.
There lies a dying Christian on the pillow.
You need to hold over him the lantern OF
the 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 the song of heavens welcome
that comes stealing over the watersl'
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 i cant die. am
not ready to die. What makes 1t SO dark'
Doctor can you prav?' Blessed for you
and blessed for him IL then you can kneel
down and say: 80 God, | have done the
best could to cure this mans body. and |
have failed Now | commit to thee his
poor, suffering and alIrighted soul. Open
Paradise to his departing spirit
But | must close. for there may be suf-
fering men and women waiting in your
office, or on the hot pillow, wondering
why you don't come. But before you go.
doctors, hear my prayer for your eternal
salvation Blessed will bo the reward in
elan. Some day, through oyerwork or from
bending over patient and catching his
contagious breath. the doctor comes home,
and he lies down faint and sick. lie is too
weary to feel his own pulse or take the di-
agnosis of his own complaint. He Is worn
out. The fact is, his work on earth il
ended. Tell those people in the Office
there they need not wait any longer. Tho
doctor will never 90 there again. He has
written his last prescription for the allcyia-
tion of human pain. The people will run
up his front steps and inquire. How is the
doctor to-dav?' All the sympathics of tho
neighborhood will be aroused and there
Will be many PRAYERS that he who has
been so kind to the sick may be COM
forted In his last pang. 1t Is all over now.
In two or three days his convalescent pa.
tients, with shawl wrapped around them.
will come to the front window and look out
at the passing hcnrsc, and the poor of tho
city, barefoOtrd and ba:ehcaded, will stand
on the street corner. saving. "Oh, how
good he was to us all!' But on the other
side of the river Of death some of his old
patients who are forever cured. will como
out to welcome him, and the physician Of
heaven. with locks rs white rs snow, ne
cording to the Apocalyptic vision, will
come out and say Come in, como in.
was sick and We visited me-"