The Cairo bulletin., 1904-04-17

IT lhe BlDle does not honor the ply
sicans mcdicamert, why did Pau
thirty years after the death of Jesus
Christ write about Luke his fellow
traveller, as the beloved physielan?'
If Paul did not honor the physicians
profession, would he have written
thus3 In their missionary tours Paul
saw good old Dr. Luke, like sweet
faced On Dr Mclure of Drnmfochty
going from the cradles of the children
to the beds Of the old folks and carry.
ing physical Arrangement for pain
wherever he went ana he wrote about
good old DR.. Luke rs we ourselves may
have written about some beloved fam.
lily physician.
An Honored Profession.
If the Bible does not honor the med
ical profession why did Christ use as
Illustration this sentence for one of
his sermon They that be whole need
not physician, but they that are
sickt' Does not that divine statement
mean, They that are sick need a
physician" When HeZekiah was sick
unto death he prayed to GOD to give
him longer lease Of life. God an
sWered that prayer. But how? Through
human medicament. Isaiah the proph-
ct, told the nurse to make poultice
out of figs and put ii upon the kings
boil, ana he recovered. lleZekiah pray.
cd. Oh, yes But in answer to that
prayer God told him to use a sanctiiicd
p0ultice. What did Paul mean when
he wrote to Timothy to take little
wine for thy stomach's sake Paul
was merely prescribing a dose of mod
icine for sick colleague Paul writes
Thus TO Timothy because the Holy Land
with but few exceptions is noted for
its impure waters, therefore Paul, as
common sense Christian. prescribcs
little medicine when he says, Drink
no water. but use a little wine for thy
st0mach's sake All through the Bible
we find commendatory passages like
these in reference To doctors. In no
ease do we lind the medical profession
mathematical and ridiculcd in the
Bible Tyndall. the noted synthetic
philosopher once hurled at the Chris
tian church his famous prayer chal-
lengc Said he: let us set apart two
wards in hospital-one to be filed
with men who DO not take any human
medicine but prayer, the other TO be
filed by sick patients under the care
of competent physicians. Then let us
compare results and see which is the
more ctlicacious 4 physicians prescrip
ton or a clergymans prayer My
brother. that challenge of Tyndall's
was about rs foolish and unscriptmal
as any challenge that could possibly be
issued. No man has q right to bar the
Christian physicians out Of the hospital
ward. God honors the physicians
work all through the Bible Faith
should go hand in hand with works.
Works in the hospital should 90 hand
in hand with faith.
Scrtptufai comm non sense.
Again. faith cure, pure and simple,
if accepted in its entirety OF belief,
would call a halt to the laboratory in
yestlgations made for prevention Of
disease as well as the physicians cures
of those diseases after they have come
1t would say to Edward Jenner: Your
discovery Of vaccination is useless
Disease is a condition Of the mind. not
of the body. Let mercileSs smallpox
start again If it Will. The 10000 yot-
ed to you by the British house of par
lament as the greatest benefact0r Of
your generation was n0nscnsical gift,
for you have been curse to the hui
mnn race instead Of blessing" 1t
would say to Pasteur: "Savant, your
for hydrophohia Is itself a
species of madness. II the people
would only trust God and do nothing
the bite Of the dog afflicted with rabies
would be a tonic instead Of death 1t
would say to Koch Of Berlin and Fin
sen of Norway: Foolish men, why
hunt the bacilli of consumption and
cancer with the penetrating eye Of the
God will and can cure
disease if we will ask him. Let rs
pray that all these evil bacilli give one
gasp and die and they will die. The
prevention OF disease is entirely the
work Of the prayer chamber, not of the
scientists laboratory" Is such advice
as that rational? Is It In accord With
the laws Of Scriptural common sense?
Are all the results of DR. Maillot's
to go for naught2 In
1882 this famous physician. who died
in 1894, was a surgeon in the French
army. stationed in Algeria At that
time one In every three and n half men
sent by the French government across
the Mediterranean died Of African fe-
yer. Or. Maillot went on IN his inves.
tieation until at last by prescribing
nuinne to the African recruits the
death rate in the French army Of Al
reria was changed from one in every
three and onc-half men to one In every
twenty men Are all the sanitary in
vcstgatlens for the publication Of the
city water supplies made 10y bactcriol-
ogists to 90 for naught? If YOU stop
the work Of the physicians curing dis
eases, then You must also stop the sci
pntifc investigations Of the physicians
trying TO prevent diseases
The Poor Mans Helper.