The Washington weekly post. (Washington, D.C.) 1878-1916, 1900-07-17

In fts sermon for yesterday Dr. Tai
mage PAYS an earnest and splendid tr.b-
ME 60 ,nn work Of The physician FOR hu-
lasuIiv. and urges that IN the grave re-
srouS.b'I.aes OF his profession he Sc
she aid OF God Tor MS own direction aud
.gT The spiritual c0mfOr, OF His patients.
az. Ta.Bsgc took for his text II ChrOur
Ng..lZ And Asa in the thirty and n.Ht1
year o. hts reign was diseased iu his feet
uatU his disease was exceeding great. yet
IN bis disease he sought not 10 the Lord,
bgt f3 Che physicians. And Asa slept with
bis fathers" and said
In nay text is King Asa with the govt
High living and no exercise have Vltiatea
l.s blood. ana my teXt presents him with
Dds !gfamed and baudaget feet on an OF
r1MaU In defiance OF God. whom he
hated, hr sends for certain COnjuTOTs, OF
o4acKs. They come and give him all sor,s
o. lotions and panaceaS. They bleed him
They sweat him. They manipulate him
They blister him. They poultice him.
they scarfy him They drug him.
They cut him. They kin him He was
only q Young man, and had a disease
which. though very painful, seldom proves
"a al 10 young man, and he ought TO
have got well: but be fell a victim 10
CharIajsuTy and empiricism. And Asa
IN the thirty and ninth year of his reign,
was diseased In his feet until his disease
was exceeding great; yet in his disease
he sought not 10 the Lord, bot 20 the
physicians. And Asa slept with mis-
fathers That is, the dictOrs killed him.
In this sharp and graphic way the
Bible sets forth the truth, that you have
10 right TO shut God out from the realm
or pharmacy and therapeutics. II Asa
had said: oh, Lord. / am sick; bless the
fundamentally employed for my recov-
cry" Now, servant 20 and get the best
doctor you can find'-ne would have re-
covered. in other words, the world wants
diviHely directed physicians. There are
"a great many such The diplomas they
received from the academies of medicine
were nothing compared with the diploma
They received from the Head PLY stefan
Of the universe on the day when they
started out and He said 10 them: Go heal
The sick, and east OUT the devils Of pain,
and open the blind eyes, and unstop the
deaf ears God bless the doctors all the
world over! And let all the hospitals and
dispensaTies and infrmaries and asylums
and domestic circles Of the earth respond:
Amen
Where sickness and sorrow Are.
'Men of the medical profession We often
meet in the home of distress. We shake
hands across the cradle Of agonized in
fancy. We join each other in an attempt
a. solace where the paroXysm OF grief
demands an auodyHe as well as prayer
W. look into each others symp4 thetic
faces through the dusk as the night Of
death Is falling IN the sick r"e;n. We do
not have 10 climb over any barrier to-
day in order 10 greet each other, for our
professions are in Full sympathy You,
doctor, are our frst ana last earthly
friend. You stand AT the gates Of life
when We enter this world. and YOU stand
al the gates of death when We 90 out OF
ir. In the closing moments of our earthly
existence. when the hand OF the wife or
mother or sister. or daughter, shall hold
our right hand. il will give strength 10
our dying moment if We can feel the tips
OF your fingers along the pulse Of the left
wrist We do not meet to-day, as on
Other days, IL houses OF distress, but 10y
the pleasant affairs Of God and / propose
a sermon Of helpfulness and good cheer.
A. in the nursery children sometimes re-
enact all the scenes Of the sick room, so
to-day you play that you are the patient
and that | am the physician. and take my
prescription Just once. 1t shall be u tonic
q sedative, dietetic, a disinfectanL 3
stimulus. and an anolyne al the same
time is there not balm in Gilead? Is
there not a physician there
In the first place, | think all the medi-
cal profession should become Christians
because of the debt of gratitude they owe
TO God for the honor he has put upon
their calling. No other calling in all the
world except ii be that of the Christian
ministry has received so great an honor
- yours. Christ himself was not only
preacher. but physician. surgeon, aurist,
OphthalmOlOlgist, and under His mighty
power and optic ana auditory nerve thrill
I'd with light and sound, and catalepsy
arose from its mt, and the club-foot was
Strengthened. and anChylosis went out oi
the stiffened tendOns, and the foamin.
maniac became placid as - child, and the
streets OF Jerusalem became an extern
BDTIZrd hospital crowded with GONZALES
cent victims of casualty and invdlidiSm
All ages have woven the garland for the
doctor brow. Homer said:
A wise physician, skilled, cur wounds to heal,
Ia more than armies 10 The public veal,
Greatest bcuetaci0r- OF Wan.
Cicero said: There IL nothing in which
men 50 approach The gods as when they
try TO give health 10 other men Charlie.
N made proclamation that all the Prot
'sJants in FRANCE should be put 10 dead
on 81. Bartholomew day. but made ont
exception, and that the case OF Pare, III,
father Of French surgery The battle.
fields Of the American Revolution vel
coined Drs. Mercer. and Warren, anl
Rush When the French army was On.
J!rely demoFsliZed at fear OF the plague
the leading surgeon OF that army inocu
lated himself with the plague 10 show IN.
soldiers there was no COutagiOn in il: an
sAe!r courage rose, and they went on 2,
tire conflict. God mas h0n6red this profes
sion all the way through. Oh the al
yanCemeuJ frOm the days when Hipno
crates tried 10 cure the great Pericles VIII
h,leDOre and fiaN-srrd poultices down I.
itr later centuries when Halter anuOuuce
the theory OF respiration, and Harvey tA.
circulation Of the blood. and AscrU III.
uses Of The Emphatic vessels, and Jenua
baked the worst disease that eve
seourgeJ Europe, and Sydenham develope,
the recuperauye forces Of the physical or
sAnism, and clnchoua bark stopped IN.
SNlEvrlug agueS OF the world, and SIR ASH
icy Cooper and AberneJhy, and Hosark
and EJmeyU, and GrIscOm and VaIents1,
.IgfI ui The generation just past honorr,
Gid, and fought back death with thei
keen scalpeIs
II We who are laymen in medlcin.
would understand what the medical pro
.1essIOn has accomplished for the insane
Get us look into the dungeons where m,
poor creatures used 10 be incarcerated
M4dmeH chained naked 10 the wall. 4
kennel of rotten straw their only sleeuin,
pace. Room unventilated and unlighrei
The worst calamity Of the race puuishe,
wi,h he yeyy worst punishment. And th~i
come aaG look al the insane asylums o
Utica and Kirkbride-s0faed. and pict
ured. librdried. concerted, until all IN,
arts and ad0rnmeuts come 20 coax recre
ant reason 20 assume her throne. Look a
To yard JruueT, the great hero OF msdi
cilc -Four hundred thousand people an
aUally Gy ng IN Europe from the smallpox
IenneT finds that by the incubation u
people with vaccine from a COW the grei
ssolrRe 90 nations may be arrested. Tn
ministers oil the Gospel denounced yacri