The doctor soon diagnosed his case, and gave him powders with
directions.
"It did not take you very long to attend to him," said Mr. World, after
the aged man left the office.
"I deal with so many of that class that I keep the medicine ready. La
Grippe is a splendid thing for my trade. It is affecting more pilgrims
just now than any other disease. Some churches are more than decimated
by the ravages of this plague."
The manager then conducted Mr. World into another office where the
doctor was just giving medical attention to a young lady who was
suffering with spiritual quinsy. It was so severe that she could not
testify for Christ, and she wilfully passed by the "Great Physician"
who could have healed her blessedly. She also passed by all the angels
of mercy who throng the King's Highway. She turned a deaf ear to all
the singers who sang, "Then why will ye die?" Finally she was heavily
pressed by her disease and, seeing a physician's office which she could
enter without climbing a step, she went in and chose rather to be
treated by a doctor of the Devil, as if dead to all the offers of mercy
which she had rejected.
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