A Talk with Mr Shepherd. 169
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cure thoroughly that in many cases He will not
cure all at once.”

“How I should like to take His healing about!”
cried Willie—* just as the doctors’ boys take the
medicines about in baskets: grannie tells me they
do in the big towns, I should like to be the Great
Doctor’s boy!”

“You really think then,” Mr Shepherd resumed,
after a pause, “that a doctor’s is the best way of
helping people?”

“Yes, I do,” answered Willie, decidedly. “A
doctor, you see, comes nearest to them with his
help. It’s not the outside of a man’s body he .
helps, but his inside health—how he feels, you
know.”

Mr Shepherd again thought for a few moments.
At length he said—

“What’s the difference between your father’s
work and mine?”

“A great difference, of course,” replied Willie.

“Tell me then what it is?”

“TI must think before I can do that,” said Willie.
“It’s not so easy to put things in words !—You
very often go to help the same people: that’s
something to start with.”

“ But not to give them the same help,”

“No, not quite. And yet”

“At least, I cannot write prescriptions or com-
pound medicines for them, seeing I know nothing