The awakening in the patient of the forgotten or ignored need for God in his life is often the best solace for him.

The Christian doctor attempts to direct such a patient's attention to a form of religious reasoning, and, thus, quiets the patient's troubled thinking, if not his painful body. This is easement for the patient and the doctor.

Now, ending my talk, it has been my air to give you the background and trace the double journey of the young layman in his apprenticeship—consciously in medicine and unconsciously in religion. The marriage or fusing of the two would make what I have attempted to draw for you: the Christian doctor.

I am not sure I have made this image clear to you. It appears to me that this is something you have to feel or sense in a doctor, rather than be recognized by word or deed, for most of the doctor's Christianity is practiced in his office, where the world is not a spectator.

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