The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-07-19
Preacher, Lawyer, Doctor
oxford, N. c

who had had good deal of experience and
had outlived the times when his fervld
evangelical zeal everbalanced his better
Judgment. He had reached the age of
mental development in which good, sound
practical sense had taken the place OF
morbid desire to save souls IRON q sup
posed impending doom.
one day a man came to him for advice
This man said he was a great sinner and
in danger of losing his SOUL He went %
telling the minister long story which re-
vealed very clearly that the mans concern
about the salvation of his soul was most
ly due to depressed condition OF his
nervous system.
So the minister advised the man to go
home and think no more about his souIs
salvation. To cease searching the Scrip
lures for the way of salvation, and to go
calmly about the duties of life without
any fear or misgiying about his eternal
welfare He advised him to see that he
made everybody about him happy. To
give his house a good cleaning every
morning and have nice fresh bed to sleep
on every night TO see that all creatures
depending upon him or related TO HIM
were made comfortable and happy. To
do this for one month and return to him
for further advice.
This was the minister's advice. He was
a good minister-a wise minister. 1t Is a
pity the world is not full of such divines
There was once a lawyer. This lawyer
had passed through the stage of life in
which he gloried in litigation and found
great relish in stirring up diseord by en-
couraging petty quarTels among neighbors.
He had seen this folly of legal procedure
and noticed that nearly every one OF his
clients in the end found themselves worse
off than at the beginning
A man came one day to this lawyer to
tell him about grievance he had against
his neighbor He recited long story of
little difference and minute chickering's by
which he had been annoyed and he had
now concluded to begin suit for damages.
The lawyer listened to his story and be-
gan to give client some good advice He
showed him the folly of further estrange-
ment He pointed out the trivial charac-
ter of complaints. He advised him to go
home and lay aside all thoughts of his
neighbours depravity and never mention
the matter again for a whole month. If
you meet your neighbor treat him as if
you were friends Don't allow yourself to
say one word against him or to do any
thing unfriendly toward him. If at the
end of the month you find yourself of the
same opinion you are now, may be l will
begin your suit for you
At the end of the month his client was
thoroughly ashamed of himself and no suit
was ever begun. The neighbors had be
come reconciled.
This lawyer was good man. wise
man. What a pity it is that there are not
more of them in this world
There was once doctor who had prac-
ticed medicine so long that he had forgot
ten all about his graduation and diploma.
His title of NJ. d. had long since ceased to
puff him up and he had entirely lost every
vestige of vanity concerning his profess
sional wisdom.
A man came one day seeking advice of
this doctor The doctor listened to his
long story of ailments and drug taking.
The patient went on to recount the mum
erous ailments through which he had pass
ed and the large number of physicians by
whom he had been treated.
The doctor listened To his story atten-
lively, sympathetically. After the patient
had finished his story he advised him to
quit taking drugs and visiting doctors
He implored him to go home and lay aside
the whole matter Of drug taking and doc
tors and disease.
For one month don't admit that you
are sick Don't take dose of medicine.
Don't mention doctors name. Don't
tell anybody that you are sick or admit
that you are feeling bad in any particular
Cease complaining and think that you are
just as well as anybody else. Keep this
up for one month. then come and visit
me again and l will treat your case with
medicine if find it necessary.
The doctors persuasions prevailed and
then the man obeyed his advice to the
letter. In one month he returnd to the
doctors office better than he had been for
years, fully persuaded that he had only to
continue in the same way few months
longer, when he would be entirel restored
to health
What a magnificent doctor he was
What a blessing to the neighborhood in
which he was located. What benediction
to the families he visited Who can esti-
day hasten when the colleges will be
turning out just such men into the world
to mitigate human suffering. The true
function of the minister is to lead peo-
pie to a sweet. trustful confidence in
God guarding them from the fear of sin
and evil and all the imaginary calamities
with which futurity has been peopled by
ignorance and superstition.
The true function of the lawyer is to
guide wragling neighbors out of the quag-
mires of discord and arrangement into
the fraternity of universal brotherhood
The true function of the doctors is to
prevent diseases by winning the obedi-
ence of people to laws that govern the
body. By teaching them the folly of sup
posing that there is any other escape
from human ailments than right living,
and an mistaken faith that a man reaps
exactly what he sows. whether it be health
or disease.-M Medical Talk.
BRUTALITY TORTURED.
A case came to light that for persistent