CHAPTER XX,

HOW WILLIE DID HIS BEST TO MAKE A BIRD OF
AGNES,

Does the time he was at college, he did
often think of what Mr Shepherd had said
to him. When he was tempted to any self-indul-
gence, the thought would always rise that this was
not the way to become able to help people, espe-
cially the real selves of them; and, when amongst
the medical students, he could not help thinking
how much better doctors some of them would
make if they would but try the medicine of the
other basket for themselves. He. thought this
especially when he saw that they cared nothing
for their patients, neither had any desire'to take a
part in the general business for the work’s sake,
but only wanted a practice that they might make a
living. For such are nearly as unfit to be healers
of the body, as mere professional clergymen to be
healers of broken hearts and wounded minds, To
’ do aman good in any way, you must sympathise
with him—that is, know what he feels, and reflect