Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1908-04-04
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men: Is the call for old fashioned
Christian pastors 10 fall upon unheed-
Ing ears: You tell me that the greatest
need VI the church OF Cod IL for great
preachers and not for great pastors.
| thilk not my brother There may be
need for greet preachers. There can
not he too many George WhItefields In
the world. but believe there Is just as
great II not greater need for the Chris
tiln pastors handshake as there IL
for the pulpit kings eloquent periods.
More need is there for the loving min.
.sicr who will affecilonately throw his
arm about n hayward brothers neck
than for the graceful gesture OF the De
mostheuean pulplleer More need is
there for noble pastors sympathetic
prayer by the sick bed than for a pulpit
orator who can deliver Il classic eulogy
by the bier Of Il dead president More
need Is there for loving ministerial
friend than for one who Is trying TO
build up his church through the infiu-
ence Of his Sunday services alone, and
yet as our cities are growing larger
and larger each year. as the need OF
pastoral work Is becoming greater and
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 be.
coming less and less Who will make
pastoral yisitations life passion?
who will say Lord make me a hunt
er for single souls during the week and
not simply u great preacher on the
Lords day Young men about 10
leave our theological seminaries. will
you pick MP 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 iudl, idual souls being
neglected on account OF the cOugesting
of large numbers OF people in our
towns and cities 20 we mud the moral
aud the spiritual work of the old fash
ioncd 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
toned country pastor who used TO move
In and out among his people IN the
small villages where our grandmothsrs
aud grandfathers we're born.
There are many reasons for this
change. The electric cars aud the ele-
waited trains and the suburban rail
road have made the neighborhood
family physician relic of the past
The family physician twenty years
ago always had his office In his home
He never thought OF having an office
downtown in some big office building,
as the physicians do now. The result
was the old family doctor. Because he
was neighborhood doctor, became a
personal adjunct of every family. He
had his patients individual interests
al heart. The boys and the girls OF the
street were his boys aud girls. They
We're all his children.
Not only has the old fashioned
neighbOrhood physician passed away
through the Introduction OF the tele
phone and the electric cars and the
downtown offices. but also because OF
the specializing OF the different depart.
ments OF medicine and surgery. Once
you felt that the family physician
knew great deal. but now you have
come 10 the conclusion that one ply
stefan can know but very little II
you have anything the matter with
your eye YOU must 60 To an ocullst, or
with the throat. 10 Il throat specialist.
or with the lungs 10 n lung specialist,
or with the skin, Ia Il skin specialist.
or with the nerves. Ia II nerve special
lst We have made fad out OF this
specialist business Thus. instead OF
today having one doctor whom we call
family doctor. most families have
-four or five doctors on their payrolls.
They have one doctor for the babies
and another for the father and another
doctor for the mother and another doc
tor for the sister The result Is. in
stead of n physician being neighbor-
hood doctor and being part OF that
neighborhood. he is but one in pro
cession. His patients come 10 him one
day and do not come TO him the next.
Thus, instead OF having the strong
personal interest In his patients which
he used 10 have. the average doctor
looks nj his patients simply as cases
with SO many sores or SO many coughs
or with so many stomach complaints
or with So many skin diseases. When
he has cured the physical ailments his
interest in the patient ceases. The
physician OF the past was generally 4
pious man. lie knew how 10 speak the
sympathetic word 10 the sufferers and
as he stood by the bed OF the dying 10
breathe word OF faith and hope. Who
knows the good he did; Now. my
friends, who is going to do the work
OF the old fashioned Christian physi
cianf You aud know that the work
the old fashioned Christian physician
did was second only In eternal lmpor-
lance 10 what was accomplished by
the Christian minister himself.
Or. Livingstone's Way.
When David Livingstone wanted 10