As a Comforter at the sick-bed.
Among the most precious memories of the dead minister, cherished are by those whose privilege it was to receive his tender and solacing ministrations, and the many who were the recipients of his sympathetic attentions and consolations on the bed of suffering.
He was so careful of causing anything of surprise or shock, so noiseless in entering the sick chamber, so soothing in voice and so soft in touch and so comforting and sustaining in counsel and sympathy.
The invalid always testified, warmly, as to the benefit received; fever seemed to be abated, pain subdued, and anguish tranquilized.
‘Oh you make me feel so much better, you comfort me so,’ was the constant assurance.
His personality was truly winning and his very touch was magnetic, was the grateful meed.
The gentle
Doctor had a way of his own of taking both hands of
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the sufferer or distressed in his, and softly holding them; as it were, to lift up, to render by double current from the heart, all the sympathy and comfort he could give.
Dr. McGuire has often said that
Dr. Hoge in his singular aid, was the most potent assistant he had in the recovery of his patients.
Dr. Kerr says:
