The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1903-01-21

The wise physician Is the one who
knows medicine and vastly more about
men. The practitioner OF nifty years using
Old methods often succeeds where the
best educated young man with fresh
knowledge OF modern discoveries and APP
pliances fails The older man may not
know materia medica so well as the
younger man does: but he knows human
life better with all its variety and COM
plexity He knows that what is food FOR
one man is poison for another.
Az we see this In practice we call II
common sense. Common sense, however.
Is one OF the most uncommon qualities.
We think Of II as something Inherited
rather than something 10 he obtained by
education and training.
1t has a content for without content
II might be common but would not be
sense. II Is made up from practical expe.
rience ssnely interpreted.
THE VARYING QUALITY.
II physician gives a drug I'm one case
with the best results and after like dl-
sgnosis gives the identical remedy with
bad results IL does not require the mind
OF a scientific logician 10 arrive at the
conclusion that since the disease In each
case was the same and the remedies ad-
mnistered were Identical that the physi-
cal make up of the two patients const-
tuted the varying quality. The treat
ment therefore will vary with the ind-
vidual. The end sought for I'm each case.
however is the same. The effort Is 20
bring the diseased body back 10 that nor
NAL condition where IL will correspond
perfectly 10 its physical environment.
That Is health and life This principle
which we all recognize in practise by
placing our faith I'm the man who knows
our physical strength and weakness. was
recognized by the Great Physician in his
case of the soul
His answers To men, as they came In |
curing about eternal life. varied as their |
needs and spiritual constitutions. We are |
just beginning TO learn from him in this
respect
There are sick souls troubled with |
many kinds Of maladies and that which |
ministers to one is poison and death TO |
another
There are no two persons who look ex-
actly alike. There are striking resem- I,
blances. We mistake one person for an ,
other on the street. You make this
mistake. however, only as you sec peo-
pie not as you know them. Those persons
whom you confuse as first acquaintance
soon reveal striking differences.
The tone OF the voice has different |
quality and pitch, the expression OF the
face Is not the same for each. Growing
intimacy reveals enlarging differences.
The one Is moved by Jealousy. the other
drawn by love The one is self-centred.
the other Is lost In zeal. for others. The ,
one groves blind in the dust and the
other rises on wings and scars and sees.
Jte Cne has n weaa viii, t:e ,ttet las |
Will that never Yields
SPIRITUAL QUALITIES.
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spiritual. There is always the physical !
difference but that is small and inflnites-
fmal compared with the differing spirit
ual qualities I'm every two men you meet.
IL the wise physician must study the
man, and know the physical constitution
10 enable him TO administer the proper
remedy need II be any surprise that the
physicion OF the soul needs TO know that
soul and to vary the treatment with the |
need and the character
Some need 10 have faith and others 10 |
sell all their goods and give TO the poor
Some need TO renounce themselves and
surrender while others need to cultivate |
themselves and assert their natures Yet |
there is this In common In all these cures |
OF the soul. they come from above. "Ex-
cept man be born from above he can
not see the kingdom OF God"
This Is general. universal. II applies |
90 all classes and conditions OF men.
The statement sounds strange In our ears |
however. often we may have heard II.
We have been taught that we must be !
born again.
In terms Of this we have endeavored 70
discover our religious status. 1t takes
darkness 10 bring out the light We |
must know evil 10 appreciate the good.
In the contrast that this thought pre- |
sents to us trust that we shall see the |
meaning OF the other.
pErrcror-S EypEprENcr.
Without forgetting that there are as
many varieties OF religious experience as
there are people we may discover three
types Of religious experience that are
more or lees general.
II was my misfortune as boy. n
may be personal. 20 read one bad book,
The memory of which have ever since
retained. n was not only bad book. !
but u belonged 10 n class of books which ..
when they are bad. they are the worst.
he religious class.
IL represented the experiences OF
Foung boy who had passed through n :
marvellous religious experience. He had
been weighed down with the guilt and ]
burden OF sin until he saw himself worse 8
han the reanest criminal. Then came | 2
ight and hope and peace.
As the darkness OF his soul had sur I
,sssed the darkness OF the night, so the | {
ight shed upon him excelled the bright | q
less or the sun. All nature became the a
wing garment Of God. and the hills v
Tapped their hands with Joy and sang h
did not doubt the truth of II then I {
10 not doubt the truth of II now. n 4
vas the experience of man who had | o
evoted his life 10 God and became ono | 4
Z those wandering evangels ~ light that | L
. the beginning OF the settlement OF the | b
1est helped lay the foundations OF the | n