The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1898-12-15
NEED BE NO SICKNESS.
HOPE is THE CURE FOR EVERY
ILL.,,
Health and Happiness Secured by the
Efforts to Make Other People Happy
True Story of How 3 "Strong Mind
edii Girl WAS Cured. v

A young woman was staying in d
distant city, where she had made few
acquaintance. She had money, but
inconsistencies and insufficient occupa-
ton were un%friendly conditions to
health of mind and body. At length
she felt obliged to call upon a physician
and ask his advice.
1t happened hat the doctor whom she
consulted was a religious man as well
as a skilled one. He understood her
symptoms, and when she complained
hat she was a victim to "the blues"
he astonished her with this original
prescriptions: David Sones lives at
1O4 Dash street. He is i'll, and con-
fined to his bed, and very poor. Call
there, show sympathy with him n his
family, and read the bread and but
ter psalm to him; and when you go
away leave a small sum of money in
his hand"
OF curse he had to explain to the
amazed lady that the Scripture he had
so oddly named was the 103 Psalm, n
that the heartening and ~rejuvenating
effect of fifth verse and all-made
it to him just what he called it. OF
it's virtue in this case he seemed to
have no doubt.
But the very idea of doing as he
recommended was as ~distasteful to the
young woman as it was surprising.
why, how rude and intrusive the
M n would thin ~ m hrooE in JnOn
him So, a perfect stranger" she said.
Il could not do such a thing"
She went from the doctors office dis
appointed and displeased, but thinking.
The very bluntness of the advice had
stirred her stagnant spirits, and she
vas already beginning to forget her
own ailment. The storm of protest
in her mind gave her a bad hour or
two, but finally something-she could
hardly tell what-compelled her to sur
render to the doctors orders.
She found the sick man, and after
talking kindly to him about himself,
and encouraging him to hope for re-
covery and better days, she opened her
Bible to the psalm. Her lips were
dry, and the first three or four verses
were pronounced like a mechanical
exercise, but farther on her voice and
mood mellowed. The force and beauty
of the words aroused her, and she read
the last verses of the psalm with feel
ing.
A woman who had entered the room
and listened, sat in the corner weep
ing. She was a recent ledger who
had tried in vain to find work at hel
trade as a dressmaker, and had be-
come discouraged. The young lady
had already earned the gratitude o.
, three STRANGERS, With feelings entirely
| new to her she remained in the pool
I tenement. conversing with the sicl
man and his wife and their needy
friend, until she had quite gained theil
confidence, and then left them with
encouraging words and a small gift O
money.
Thoroughly interested now, she in
few days secured orders for the dis
couraged dressmaker and work no
long after came in so ~abundantly tina
the family we're placed above want
The sick man, relieved of his anXieties
soon recovered. A Swallowed hom'
had been frightened by an i%nvoluntar.
kindness.
1t was a lesson that the complain
ing young mn never forgot. He.
MISUNDERSTANDING to the good doc
tors consul-had exploded the vail
| notion that cit is useless to try to d.
good unless you feel like it," 4
brave effort to cure "the blues" hat
resulted in opening her heart to an un
selfish act, and to a broader view 0
her relations to less fortunate souls
about her.