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Excerpt from The Relation of the Medical Profession to the Ministry: A Discourse Preached in the West Church, on Occasion of the Death of Dr. George C. Shattuck
Such was the commission which the great Physician Of the human body and soul gave to his twelve disci ples, when he clothed them with their Office of carrying on his. Work in the world. In prophetic metaphor, the Older revelation, too, had symbolized this very likeness Of the mortal frame to the immortal spirit in their common exposure to disease, when it inquired if there were no balm in Gilead, and no physician there, to recover the health Of the daughter Of God's people. Nay, the pagan religion itself foreshadowed the same thing from the remotest point and faintest beginning of its mythology, owning the healing art for a sacred function. The first that practised it, to the heathen mind was a god and the child of a god; his immediate.
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