How
wonderful your privilege, how vast your power!
Only a few short months, and then the growing wonder of a child's
unfolding mind, to beautify your days.
Think of it in this way, dear little tired and nervous woman, and God
and all his angels will hover over you, I know, and all will be well
with you.
My prayers are with you.
To Mr. Alfred Duncan
_Concerning the Ministry_
And so you have changed your plan of life and, instead of becoming an
experimenter with the flesh, are going to be a healer of souls.
And what do I think about it? I am glad you are not to be an M.D. There
is an era coming when the doctor will be a prehistoric creature. Oh, it
is far, far away, but already the most progressive minds have ceased to
regard the family physician as an infallible being.
Medicine has made the least progress of any of the sciences in the last
few centuries.
Credulity has cured more people than pills.
Were you to study medicine, I should advise you to take up surgery,
osteopathy, electricity, the Kneippe Cure, milk diet, and all the
various methods of stimulating circulation; for the people who
patronize these treatments are increasing, as the powder and pill
patrons are on the decrease.
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