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Try working it out yourself
"Doctors are for those who don't trust God," the 38-yearold minister of the Church of God steadfastly maintains. He says if he gets sick he can pull her through with prayers. Well, I'm not saying he can't, because I certainly don't know, but it looks like he's passing up a might good bet by not letting her go ahead and have the smallpox inoculation. It would keep him from having to worry the Lord in the event she does come down with smallpox. Like it is now, with our population increasing all the time, the Lord must have His hands pretty full listening to so many prayers and it might be that He could have a major problem facing Him right at the particular time the little girl go sick. Frankly, I think the Lord would appreciate it if the preacher would go ahead and let Vinnie be inoculated. Try Aspirin First Personally, I believe the Lord wants us to go ahead and try to work our problems out the best way we can and then if we get bogged down and can't go any further, it's all right to come to Him for a little shove. That Kentucky preacher doesn't believe in doctors or medicine. Every now and then I have a headache and I take couple of aspirin tablets. And if that doesn't help I go to a doctor and if the doctor doesn't help I go to the Lord. It strikes me that the Lord would be mighty vexed if I handled it any other way. Years ago, lots of people died with the small pox and lots of 'em that didn't die looked pretty bad after they got well. The Lord stepped in and gave one of His children the knowledge to fix up some medicine that would practically eliminate the disease. If He hadn't wanted the stuff invented He could have stopped it right off the bat. I'm not saying that preacher isn't sincere. I'm not saying, either, that he has rocks in his head, regardless of what I might think, but when he says that doctors are for those who don't trust the Lord he's carrying things a little too far. Right here in my town I know that some of our real good Christian people have doctors visit them when they get sick. Some of 'em are mighty conservative, and if they could get well with a little praying they sure wouldn't be throwing money away on doctor and drug bills. Now this piece in the papers about that Kentucky preacher didn't say so, but I'll bet fourbits he handles snakes when he isn't trying to keep Vinnie from being inoculated. That's his own business, of course, but if he gets bit he's going to start praying powerfully loud for help and the Lord might have to drop something a heap more important just to save him from something there wasn't no use in him doing in the first place. The Solution What the preacher should do is to go ahead and let Vinnie get her inoculation, even if he does think it's a sin. If he stands in so good with the Lord, he could get forgiveness real fast and he could take the $20 a day he'll save in fines and put it in the collection plate on Sundays and maybe get most of it back in his salary check at the end of the month.
Its strange how the Lord talks to people in different ways. I don't know what He told the preacher, but He told me to take all the shots I could to keep from being sick and He told me, very distinctly, not to fool with no snakes.
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