Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1904-04-14

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, "Thcy that are sick need n
physician" When IIczckiah was sick
unto death he prayed to God to give
him n longer lease of life. God an
swcrcd that prayer. But how! Through
human mcdcament. Isaiah. the proph-
ct told the nurse to make n poultice
out Of figs and put 1t upon the kings
boil, and he recovered. 1lczekiah pray.
ed. Oh. yes. But in answer to that
prayer God told him to use II sanctiticd
poulticc. What did Paul mean when
he wrote TO Timothy to take n little
wine for thy stomach's sake Paul
was merely prescribing dose of med
iCinc for a 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. prcscribcs
n little medicine when lie says. Drink
no water but use u little wine for thy
stomach's sake" All through the Bible
We find commentators passages like
these in reference 10 doctors. In no
case do We find the medical profession
mathematical and ridiculcd in the
Bible. 1yndall. the noted synthetic
philosopher. once hurled at the Chris
dan church his famous prayer chal-
lcnge. Said he LET us set apart two
wards in hospital-onc TO be filled
with men who do not take any human
medicine but prayer. the other to be
filed by sick patients under the care
of compcteu. physicians. Then let MS
compare results and SEQ which is the
more cfflcacious q physicians prcscrp-
ton or clc-cymaus prayer My
brother. that challenge of Tyndalrs
was about as foolish and unscrirtural
as any challenge that could possibly be
issued. No man has right to bar the
Christian physicians out Of tho hospital
ward. God honors the physicians
work all through the Rihlc Faith
should go hand in hand with works
Works in the hospital should so hand
in hand with faith.
scripturnl Common sense.
Again. faith cure pure and simple,
il accepted in its entirety of belief
would cali halt to the laboratory in
vcstigatiOns made for prevention of
disease as we'll rs the physicians cures
of those diseases after they have come
1t would say to Edward Jenncr: Your
discovery of vaccination is useless
Disease Is n condition of the mind not
OF the body. Let mcrcilcss smallpox
start again if il will The $4,000 vot
ed to you ly the British house Of par
lament as the greatest benefactor Of
your generation was a nOnSensical Eif,,
for YOU have been n curse to the hu-
man race instead of a blessing" 1t
would say 10 Pastcur; "Savant. your
inoculatior for hydrophobia is itself Il
species of madness If the people
would only trust Coo and do nothing
the bite of the dog afflicted with rabies
would be a tonic instead Of DEATH II
would say to Koch of Berlin and Fin
sen of Norway. "Foolish men, why
hunt the bacilli of consumption and
microscopic God will and can cure
disease il 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
rs that rational: Is it in accord with
-,
Are all the results of Or. Maillots
investigations to go for naught' In
1882 this famous physician. who died
in 1894, was n surgeod In the Irencn
army. stationed in Algeria. At tha1
time one In every three and 2 half mon
sent by the French government across
the Mediterranean died Of African fe-
YER. DR. Maillot Went on in his invcs-
tigation until at last by prescribing
Qllinine to the African recruits the
death rate in the French army of AL
gcra was changed from one in every
three and one-half men to one in every
twenty men. Are all the sanitary in.
vcstigations for the puriflcatior of the
city water supplies made by bacteriol-
ogists to go for naught' If you stop
the work of the physicians curing dis
eases, then you must also stop the sci
entitic Investigations of the physicians
trying to prevent diseases.
The Poor Mans Helper.
To most Of us the old fashioned doc
tor yet lives in the memory OF our viii
lage childhood He knew every family
secret for miles around. He had heard
the family skeleton rafting in many a
every marriage altar and at every fu-
neral With him the village church
bell sounded a dirgc almost as often as
il chimcd for a wedding. We knew not
when we loved him the most when he
was gathering the roscbuds in the gar
den of the nativity or intwining the
orange blossoms or placing the white
lily alongside Of the pale cheek in the
casket. There was a kind of religious
rattle in his old gig. That child was
the most envicd of the village who
could sit by his side and hold the reins
over the back of the old mare, that
seemed to he Just as old as the doctor
and to know just as many family Sc
crets, Yet it could not gossip any more
than did lis master. When the boy was
in trouble this KIND old doctor would
place his fatherly hand upon The lad s
ht,,, n. Il ,,,,l ,tx-. linn, l,-i.. he