Gok
oni
ena
cide
At
another
time
I
was
called
to
a
prominent
mbrmary
where
a
man
was
just
at
the
point
of
He
was
an
unbeliever,
but
it
so
hap-
pened
that
I
had
waited
on
his
father
in
his
last
moments,
and
through
a
rather
remarkable
ex-
perience
had
opportunity
to
reach
the
unbelieving
son
with
some
gospel
principles.
Now,
as
he
lay
at
death’s
door,
with
his
family
and
physicians
about
him,
he
sent
for
me
to
come
and
pray
with
Those
great
physicians,
their
names
promi-
nent
in
the
medical
world,
stepped
aside
for
a
humble
prayer
service.
These
instances
show
a
little
of
the
opportuni-
ties
that
come
to
the
medical
missionary;
what
openings
for
working
for
the
lord;
working
for
people
at
a
time
when
work
counts,
when
a
word
or
a
prayer
means
much
to
them.
We
have
had
much
prejudice
to
meet
on
the
part
of
physicians.
There
are
several
medical
colleges
in
Nashville,
and
about
350
physicians.
These
men
are
not
all
religious;
some
are
quite
irreligious.
One
of
them
told
me
an
incident
to
illustrate
the
attitude
of
many
toward
religion.
A
leading
surgeon,
prominent
in
the
South
and
in
connection
with
one
of
the
medical
schools
and
quite
well
known
throughout
the
countrv,
was
called
to
a
neighboring
town
to
perform
an
operation.
The
patient
was
a
godly
woman.
With
anxiety
about
her
case,
just
as
he
was
about
to
begin,
she
asked,
‘
Doctor,
won't
you
offer
a
word
of
prayer?”
He
straightened
him-
self
up
and
said,
*“
Madam,
if
you
want
prayer,
must
send
for
a
preacher.”
She
asked,
“Don’t
you
pray?”
He
replied;
“No,
I'm
a
surgeon.”
“Well,”
she
said,
“then
you
can
never
operate
on
me.”
And
he
had
to
pack
up
his
instruments
and
return
home.
The
one
telling
me
this
added,
“T’ll
bet
that
woman
got
well
if
a
blacksmith
operated
on
her,
a
woman
with
such
a
faith
as
that.”
The
sur-
geon
came
back
and
told
the
experience
to
his
students
at
clinic
as
a
joke.
Thus
many
are
——