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Fred and Tom soon came to be known as the best
doctors with which that part of the country had ever
been blessed. And the secret of their success lay
in this, that while they ministered to the diseased
bodies of men, they also ministered to their diseased
souls. With skilful hands they sought to arrest the
progress of decay ; but when all their remedies failed,
they did not merely cease their efforts and retire—
they turned to the pages of divine truth, and directed
the gaze of the dying sufferers to Jesus Christ, the
Great Physician of souls. When death had done its
work, they did not quit the mourning household as
if they were needed there no longer, but kneeling
down with the bereaved, they prayed to Him who
alone can bind up the broken heart, and besought the
Holy Spirit to comfort the stricken ones in their deep
affliction.

Thus Fred and his friend went hand in hand to-
gether, respected and blessed by all who knew them
—-each year as it passed cementing closer and closer
that undying friendship which had first started into
being in the gay season of boyhood, and had bloomed
and ripened amid the adventures, dangers, and vicis-
situdes of the World of Ice.

THE END.