While suffering from one of his morbid spells, he listened to the voice
of the tempter who persuaded him to seek help at the hands of the
physicians under the control of this Hospital. These doctors dosed him
until they persuaded him to submit to an operation, and the wicked
surgeon knew how to render him still more liable to trouble after his
imaginary restoration toward which he was looking when Mr. World saw
him.
When he leaves this Hospital he can never be cured from the fiercer
subsequent attacks unless he be born again, and such an event Satan
knows is very unlikely to occur.
Mr. World, in passing, spoke to quite a few who were suffering from
spiritual dyspepsia, consumption, and a great number of other ailments
which had developed into chronic form, or had made necessary the
surgeon's cruel knife, and then, turning to his obliging friend, asked
if he could not now see Miss Church-Member.
He was taken into a special department arranged for those who were
convalescent.
When she saw her faithful and loving friend, Miss Church-Member smiled
for the first time since the operation.
The pleasant interview soon ended at the behest of the nurse, and Mr.
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