"The words of the wise are as goads."
A lady, being visited with a violent disorder, was under the necessity of applying for medical assistance. Her doctor, being a gentleman of great latitude in his religious sentiments, endeavored in the course of his attendance to persuade his patient to adopt his creed, as well as to take his medicines. He frequently insisted, with a considerable degree of dogmatism, that repentance and reformation were all that either God or man could require of us, and that consequently there was no necessity for an atonement by the sufferings of the Son of God.
As this was a doctrine the lady did not believe, she contented herself with following his medical prescriptions, without embracing his creed. On her recovery she forwarded a note to the doctor, desiring the favor of his company to tea when it suited his convenience, and requesting him to make cut his bill. In a short time be made his visit, and the tea-table being removed, she addressed him as follows:
"My long illness has occasioned you a number of journeys; and I suppose, doctor, you have procured my medicines at considerable expense. "The doctor acknowledged that "good drugs were not to be obtained but at a very high price." Upon which she replied, "I am extremely sorry that I have put you to so much labor and expense, and also promise that, on any future indisposition, I will never trouble you again. So you see I both repent and reform." The doctor, immediately shrugging up his shoulders, exclaimed, "That will not do for me." --Whitecross
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