Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1908-03-28

than for the graceful gesture OF the De-
mosthenean pulpiteer More need is
there for noble pastors sympathetic
prayer by the sickbed than for pulpit
orator who can deliver a classic eulogy
by the bier Of a deatt~sesident. More
need is there for loving ministerial
friend than for one who IS trying TO
huild ND his church through the infiu-
ence of his Sunday services alone, ana
vet. as our cities are growing larger
and larger each year, as the need Oh
pastoral work is becoming greater ana
greater. because there is more danger
Of men and women becoming lost In
the crowds. the fact remains that the
pastoral work OF the minister IS De-
coming less and less. Who will make
pastoral visitations a life passion!
Who will say, "Lord, make me hunt
or for single souls during the week ana
not simply a great preacher on the
Lords dayY Young men about to
leave our theological seminaries, will
YOU pick up this mantle which some
old fashioned pastor has dropped at the
brink Of the grave?
The Modern Doctor.
As we see the individual work OF the
ministers for individual souls being
neglected on account Of the congesting
/ Of large numbers of people Ill our
towns and cities, so we find the moral
and the spiritual work of the old fash
ioned Christian doctors is also passing
AWAY. The modern physician Is as
unlike his predecessor Of the past gen.
Grafton as the work Of the average city
minister is different from the old fash
Ioned country pastor who used to move
in and out among his people In the
small villages where our grandmothers
and grandfathers were born.
There are many reasons for thls
change. The electric cars and the ele-
waited trains and the suburban rail-
road have made the neighborhood
family physician a relic of the past
The family physician twenty years
ago always had his Office In his home.
He never thought Of having an ONCE
downtown In some big office building,
as the physicians do now. The result
was the old family doctor, because he
WAS n neighborhood doctor, became q
, personal adjunct of every family. lie
| had his patients Individual interests
at heart. The boys and the girls OF the
. street were his boys and girls. Ihey
t were all his children.
Not only has the old fashioned
+ neighborhood physician passed away
e through the introduction OF the tele
e pbone and the electric cars and th'
f downtown offices. but also because o.
Z the specializing of the different depart
|. ments of medicine and surgery. Onc'
q Won felt that the family physician
Y knew a great deal, but now you nav
o come to the conclusion that one phy
/ sician can know but very little. l
s YOU have anything the matter VIII
/ your eye you must go to an oculist; o
@ with the throat, to throat speciallsl
h or with tbelssRg,9qq az IN: IS tp hing Sspeclai,sl
y y, ~ -,,',,,I,,.cve, III skin SrS~SIiisl
/ or with the nerves, to a nerve specla
) ist We have made a fad out OF thl
h snecialist business. Thus, instead Q
? today having one doctor whom we ca
q n family doctor, most families nav
!. four or five doctors on their payroll'
# They have one doctor for the DaDle
i. and another for the father and anothe
4. doctor for the mother and another do
q tor for the sister, The result is, II
% stead Of a physician being a neighpo
pr hood doctor and being part OF thi
In neighhorhood he is but one in pr
r cession. His patients come to him OIL
g. day and do not come to him the mex
r. Thus instead of having the stron
n. personal interest in his patients whlc
ir he used to have, the average doct'
s. looks at his patients simply as cas-
I'd with so many sores or so many cougl
r. or with so many stomach complain
le or with so many skin diseases. Wh'
rk he has cured the physical ailments D
Ie- interest in the patient ceases. IL
ry physician of the past was generally
on piOus man. He knew how to speak q
he svmpathetic word to the sufferers al
ON as he stood by the bed Of the dying
ur breathe a word Of faith and hope w
es knows the good he did? Now, Il
he friends who is going to do the wo
H. of the old fashioned Christian ply
os clan? You and l know that the wo
Of the old fashioned Christian physlcl
no did was second only in eternal imp'
he lance to what was accomplished
he the Christian minister himself
it DR.. Livingstone's Way. .
IN When David Livingstone wanted
at, become missionary to darkest Afri
In what did he do? Did he say, u "
a enter a theological seminary and lee
at how to preach?" No. He said: Il
enter the medical school and learn h
TO be a doctor. Then when can sta
IN nv the sickbed of the black man
tle bind up his wounds, and as bind tn
ian I will tell him about Christ, who v
om wounded for us. When the lifelC
ION sufferers come to me for relief
but tell them about that christ WHO
ned cure them of their sins as well as IL
Ter pains" o Christian physician,
,er- YOU willing 20 be an old fashioned NJ
ces ical missionary to the sufferers OF
on sums of the poor, as David Liyingst
eds was a medical missionary to the hes
the en- Of darkest Africa? VIII you,
I'D Christs name, administer medicine
or the soul as well as to the bodyT w
ide. that young man and that young VOL
into come to you with physical ailme
so will you tell them about Christ
ngs will save them from their sins? W
,de- you pour out the medicine, VIII
kneel. like the old Christian physi(
rist used to kneel, by the slckbed and
/ Of Gods blessing upon that inyalidE
rist this age of medical specialists will