Democratic messenger., 1904-04-16

clear out. Instead of groaning around
job as they did they ought TO have
spoken words of true comfort to him.
as did Christ in his remarks about the
blind man when he said. Neither hath
this man sinned nor his parents. but
he was born blind-''that the works of
God should he made manifest in him."
If the Bible does. not honor the ply
sician's melicament. why did Paul
thirty years after the death of Jesus
Christ write about Luke. his fellow
traveller. as the beloved physician?"
If Paul did not honor the physicians
profession. would he have written
thus: In their missionary tours Paul
saw good old Dr. Luke. like sweet
faced old Dr. Mcclure of Drumtochty.
going from the cradles of the children
to the beds of the old folks and carry
ing physical assuagement for pain
wherever he went and he wrote about
good old DIR. Luke as we ourselves may
have written about some beloved fam
lily physician.
An HOnOre0 frOteaHtOu.
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 Il physician. hut they that are
sick" Does not that divine statement
mean. They that are sick need
physician" When HeZekiah was sick
unto death he prayed TO God 10 give
him longer lease OF life God an
swerei that prayer. But how! Through
human me,lcament. Isaiah. the proph-
ct, told the nurse TO make a poultice
out Of figs and put it upon the kings
boil. and he recovered. HeZekiah pray
ed. oh. yes. But in answer TO that
prayer God told him 10 use a sanctified
poultice. What did Paul mean when
he wrote TO Timothy to take a little
wine for thy stOmach's sake" Paul
was merely prescribing dose of med
icinc for sick colleague. Paul writes
with but few exceptions is noted for
its impure waters: therefore Paul, as
common sense Christian. prescribes
a little medicine when he says. Drink
no water but use little wine for thy
stomach's sake" All through the Bible
we find commendatory passages like
these in reference to doctors. In no
case do we find the medical profession
mathematical and ridiculed in the
Bible. Tyndall. the noted synthetic
philosopher. once hurled at the Chris
tian church his famous prayer chal-
lenge. Said he: Let us set apart two
wards in Il hospital-one to he filled
with men who do not take any human
medicine but prayer. the other TO he
filled 10y sick patients under the care
of competent physicians. Then let us
compare results and see which is the
more cfiicacious "A physicians prescrip-
tion or clergyman's prayer" My
brother. that challenge of Tyndalrs
was about ms foolish and unscriptural
as any challenge that could possibly be
issued. No man has right 10 bar the
Christian physicians ont 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 go hand
in hand with faith.
Scriptural Common sense.
Again. faith cure. pure and simple.
il accepted in its entirety of belief.
would call n halt to the laboratory in
vestigations made for prevention OF
disease as we'll as the physicians cures
of those diseases after they have come.
Ii would say to Edward Jenner: Your
discovery of vaccination is useless.
Disease is n condition of the mind. not
of the body. Let mcrciless smallpox
start again il il will. The $4,000 vot-
ed to you by the British house of par
lament as the greatest benefactor OF
your generation was nOnsensical gift.
for you have been curse to the hui
man race instead Of n blessing" 1t
would say 10 Tasteur: ''Savant. your
inoculation for hydrophObia is Itself
species of madness. If the people
would only trust God and do nothing
the bite of the dog afflicted with rabies
would he n tonic instead of death" 1t
would say to Koch of Berlin and Fin
Seu OI .NtTNiH TOpilSi uitis Wy
hunt the bacilli of consumption and
cancer with the penetrating eye of the
microscope: God will and can cure
disease ii we will ask him. Let us
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 il in accord with
the laws of Scriptural common sense:
Are all the results of Dr. Maillot's
Investigations to go for naught? In
1872 this famous physician. who died
in 1894. was Il surgeon in the French
army. stationed in Algeria. At that
time one in every three and Il half men
sent by the French government across
the Mediterranean died OF African fe-
yer. DIR. Maillot went on in his inves-
tigation until at last by prescribing
quinine to the African recruits the
death rate in the French army of Al
Geria was changed from one in every
three and onc-half men to one in every
,pnn tho sanifarv in