The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1907-06-28

given good advice, and taken good
advice. He has been a friend to
those who needed friends. He has
prospered materially in a small way,
He has a clear conscience. And
after nearly eighteen years in the
one position there isn't a man in
North Carolina whose opinion is
worth its weight in tobacco dust
who will not tell you that Jim Robin
sen is a good fellow.
There was very real grief through.
out the state when Jim ROBINSON fell
III, and the doctors said he was APP
preaching the Valley of the Shadow.
There isn't a man in North. Carolina
who could go down to meet Charon
with a lighter heart, or a clearer as.
surance that over on the other side
of the Styx he would find the reward
of a well-spent life. But this is small
consolation to the real friends of a
man whom thedoctors say is on his
last sickbed. The news travelled over
the state like wildfire: Jim Robin
son is going to die" Everybody
was sad. and with reason.
IL was several months ago that a
friend, writing me from North Caro-
ina, told me that Jim Robinson was
fiat on his back in a Virginia hospi.
taA and that the doctors were carving
him up. Other letters, from other
friends. contained the same inforna.
ton. 1t seemed as if everyone in
North Carolina regarded it as the
most important news of the day.
And every correspondent said Its
too bad. He's good fellow. He'll
be missed"
Now, among his other Characters
tics, jim Robinson numbers a strong
will. When the surgeons finished
taking him to pieces AMI putting him
Together again something inside him,
where his heart and appurtenant Or
gans had been before the operation,
tod him he was going to die. Non
senEe" he said to himself, I'm go.
ing to get WELL" Then being a
Christian man, he added, with Gods
help"
The dotors came finally aad hrol'
the news to him that he would not
leave the hospital until they came
to carry him-at which time he would
kawa NJ nru~afn,,e-.asm - fha 4y,,rs.-
nsy. He smiled wanly. You're mis-
aiken, DOCTOR" he said. I'm going
to get well-with Gods help" They
advised him TO arrange his earthly
affairs, and he did so. conscious that
there was a change they might know
more about 1t than he debut with
n mental reservation all the time that
by and BY he would get we'll and set
all these arrangements at naught-
with Gods help"
Jim Robinson has fooled the doc
tors. lie is out OF the hospital and
back at his desk. All Of him isn't
Just like IL used TO be. When they
finished patching him he was like
an E'kin watch with three Of four
waltham whee's distributed about ia
its works. He Is running. with every
indiation that the wheels wont stop
until he reaches the three-scoreand-
ten years the prophet said was the
allotted life Of man. All North Car.
olina is glad
This illness impressed Jim Robin.
son deeply. He knows that by every
rule OF medicine. and science. and
surgery. and therapeutics. and pathu-
logy. and all the other things that
doctors SO by. he ought TO be dead.
In theory. he L. dead. And yet he
Is living. and walking about the
streets. and sitting at his desk. and
bending over a case Of type. and
shaking hands with his friends IN his
old. wholesome way. and asking them
how the wife Is. aud whether II Is
true that the new baby has his IA
theirs eyes, He Is impressed by It..
lie believes that he is only living be. |
rause - that "by Gods help" that h.
believed-eyery time
hey cams to tell him that he WASH;
onE for this world.
He has thought II over and decided
hat he wants to do something thai
will stand as a memorial ia his a..
most miraculous recovery. He wants
D hustle for something that viii !
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