The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1900-08-02

hopefulness. Even when others
spoke of despair he was looking up
ward and courageous, and cheerful.
And what shall say of the buoyancy
of hope as manifested by our doctors
in epidemics IN contagious diseases,
in wrecks in all the distressing ex-
periencos of life. Let us thank God
for the hopeful doctors. Let us es-
TEEN them highly in love, not only
for their personal qualities and pro-
fessional attainments, but also be-
cause the vocation Is one of great
hopefulness and promise for the race.
When DR.. James Simpson, the dis
coverer of chloroform as an anaes-
thetic, died in Edinburgh, the shops
and windows of the city were filled
with his pictures. Men saw in him
not only an honored physician but
one of the thousands of heroes who
were destined by their skill and in
dustry and devotion to bring health
and Sunshine in the world Of sick
ness and pain and death. Who can
tell of the glorious work of our doc
tors as 1t is manifest not only in cur
ing disease and alleviating pain, but
in the preventive processes of ven-
tilation, fumigation, drainage, pure
water, foods and resorts for health,
as well as dispensaries, inf1rmaries,
asylums and hospitals.
Again, the true physician may be
called "beloved" because the voca-
tion is one of tenderest sympathy.
The brute creation can see one of it's
fellows die without much feeling of
interest but one of the sweetest flow
ers of the gospel is sympathy.
Luke's gospel, as the beloved physi-
cian, is the gospel of the broadcast
humanity, not limited to the Jew or
the Roman or the Christian, it is the
gospel for the world in need. 1t is
the only gospel that gives us the par
able of the prodigal son in which the
Father saw him when he was yet a
great way off, the only gospel of the
good Samaritan who "had COM
passion" and "bound up his wounds,
pouring in oil and wine and took
care of him.; and how broad is the
scope of the gospel which says "go
out quickly into the streets and lanes
of the city and bring in hither the
poor and manned and the halt and
the blind"
Now one might think that famil-
iarity with suffering would harden
the heart and make one insensible
to sorrow and calloused and cold,
but 1t is not so with the "beioved
physician" 1t was not so with our
brother. How his heart went out in
tender sympathy to othersl Like
Virgil the true doctor can say "not
being ignorant of woe, compassion
have learned to show" The fact is
there is no profession that Is charac-
terized by more tender sympathy
than that to which our departed
brother belonged. Their motto is
not "live and keep from living, and
not "live and let live" but "iive and
help live" like the divine physician.
They are true to their ideals only
when they go about doing good.
God grant that every physician here
may be not only beloved physician
in the estimation of man but may he
show such response to the healing
grace of the divine physician that
he may hear the glad words swell
done good and faithful servant, thou
hast been faithful over a few things,
L will make thee ruler over many =
things; enter thou into the Joy OF
thy Lord"
When Lord Bacon was riding up
to London one day, he jumped from
the coach, won't out into the snow
and stuffed bird with snow in or
der to test the effect of ice in the
preservation of flesh. The expert
ment cost Lord Bacon his life, but
who can tell the benefits to the race
which resulted from that experiment
in the preservation of our meats and
fruits and milk. How many lives
have been saved through his sacri-
f1cing death. Every true physician
appreciates the words OF Paul, shear
ye one snother's burdens and 80 full
fill the law of Christ" And not only
will he find it necessary to cast his
burden on the Lord, but he may
hear the divine physician saying to
him, sin as much as ye have done
it unto one of the least of these my
brethren ye have done 1t unto me.''
Again, all true physicians may be
called "beloved" because the voca-
tion is one of the greatest sacrifice
Thomas Carlyle says 1t Is only with
renunciation that life can be said to
begin. The Greeks praised Antigone
because she died rather than desert
the body of her dead brother. Only
by losing its life does the cell save
it. The sun ripens our wheat by
burning itself up. The coral islands
are built by the death of myriads of
tiny animals. Tradition says that
the Illiad cost Homer his eyes, and
hn 10 l.