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An tild nmn is lcil in. l ie is almost liliiul with cataract. Three weeks
lef, he needs no one to lead him by the hand. He leaves us “seeing.”
I such times, failures and disappointment are forgotten and for the
orient, the doctors path is strewn with roses. It is the greatest reward
at the doctor ever receives and echoes the Master's saying, “Lend,
>ping for nothing again, and great shall be your reward.”
Not long ago, a man was carried into our hospital in an apparently
unbuild condition, dirty to the last degree and covered with festering .i
;rcs. I said to our chief assistant as 1 bent over the repulsive figure *
uig on the bier, “What in the world do they bring us people like this
xl" and straightway named him Lazarus. However, enormously to \\
y surprise, in this case Lazarus was not carried to Abraham's bosom,
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1 us and we forgot him. He did not forget us, however, for some •»
2 or three weeks after, he walked into the hospital, preceded by a
ja bearing a large crate, through the bars of which protruded the *, >
iia of sundry chickens and ducks, at least a dozen. Lazarus smilingly
*cfc*l the crate to be set down at the door of my office and then came
placed a small bundle of money in my hand, which bundle later
i*cd to contain twenty rupees. “These are far short of your due,” he
and apologized for bringing so meagre a gift. I, however, was
^jng of the widow’s mite and the Master's summing up of the •»
One thanks God for people like Lazarus because it makes one
jut that some of our patients are intensely grateful for what is done
r It is more than possible that many of our patients would come «
i to see us but that they dislike to come empty-handed, like Saul