Editorial October 4, 1900 Issue

An Unusual Prescription

Editor

In a recent issue of the Sentinel we republished from the Midland an account of a lady who went to a famous New York physician for medical advice and treatment. After giving the doctor a list of her symptoms and answering his questions, she was told that she needed to read her Bible more. When she demurred the doctor told her, kindly but firmly, to go home and read her Bible an hour each day for a month and then come to him again.

She was not a little surprised at this unexpected advice from her physician, but finally concluded that as the prescription was not an expensive one she might at least give it a trial. At the end of the month she returned to the doctor's office and declared that she felt like a different person and needed no other medicine.

When asked how he knew that was what she needed the doctor replied that if he were to omit his daily reading of the Bible he would lose his greatest source of strength and skill. He said that he never went to an operation or attended a distressing case without reading his Bible, and then he added: "Your case called not for medicine, but for sources of peace and strength outside your own mind, and I showed you where to find them unfailingly. I gave you my own prescription and I knew it would cure."

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