The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-03-29

! did he do? Did he say At will enter a
| theological seminary and learn how to
| preach? No. He said: 81 will enter the
| medical school and learn how to be a
| DOCTOR Then when l can stand by the
| sick bed of the black man 1 will bind up
| his wounds, and as 1 bind them I will
| tell him about Christ, who was wounded
| for us. When the lifelong sufferers come
| to me for relief l will tell them about
| that Christ who can cure them of their
| sins as well as their palms, o Christian
physician, are you willing to be an old
fashioned medical missionary to the suf-
ferers of the slums of the poor, as David
Livingstone was a medical missionary to
the heather of darkest Africa? VIII you,
in Christ's name, administer medicine to
the soul as well as the body? When that
young man and that young woman come
: to you with physical ailments, will you
tell them about Christ, who will save
them from their sins? When you pour
out the medicine will you kneel, like the
old Christian physician used to kneel, by
the sick bed and askd Gods blessing upon
that invalid? In this age of medical
specialists will you become the noblest
of all specialists, medical missionary
for Christ? Who among the young men
in our medical schools will take up the
fallen mantle of the old fashioned Chris
tian family doctor? VIII you, young
man? Will you, young woman?
Having sought successors to the old
fashioned Christian pastors and the
old fashioned Christian doctors, shall
we not lovingly speak about the fallen
mantles of the old fashioned Christian
lawyers? The Christian lawyers both
in the present and in the past have too
often been sneered at and Jeered at
with words of contempt. When Rome
was overthrow by the barbarian con-
querors the latter flung all the Roman
10 INT lot
tongues of some and sewed up the
mouths of others and sent them forth
into the world with this fiendish COM
Inent: Now we have drawn the adder's
fangs and choked the viper's hiss, ana
they can no longer do us harm" Thus
some people of the present generation
are like those ancient barbarians. They
class all lawyers in one great group.
They call them vipers and destroyers.
busybodies and fomenters of strife.
IT'S true. some lawyers of the past
generation may have been bad yet
there have always been honest lawyers.
and have we not right to desire a
succession of them-men who will
worthily wear the mantle of the old
fashioned Christian lawyer as well as
men to don the honored robes of the
old fashioned Christian doctors and
Christian ministers?
The Old Fashioned Family Lawyer.
Who was the chief hope of the old
grandfather in a. time of great family
trouble? The family lawyer. You think
of the old mans son as an honorable
man. He was after he married and set
tied down. When he died he was re-
spected by the community in which he
lived. He was loved by every one. But
If l should go back in the family history
/ could find a time when he was not
what he was when you knew him. Once
as young man he was led into an aw-
full temptation. He would have been sent
to the penitentiary had his crime been
death with in the courts. But that Chris
tan lawyer went to the district attorney
and pleaded with him for mercy. He
himself signed the bail bond. He himself
went to the judge and had the matter
fixed up. You never knew. The world
never knew The old father and mother
knew. The young man knew. The Chris
tan lawyer knew. Who was 1t when the