Love People and Help Them

In an American city, lived a great surgeon, who was also a professor in a medical school. He was a true physician in that he not only had superlative skills but also loved people and went about doing good. He became deeply interested in the little crippled newsboy at the corner, where he regularly bought his newspaper from. The boy was a bright little fellow, and one day the surgeon told him, “Johnny, would you like to have me cure that leg of yours so that you could run and play like other boys?” The boy replied that he did not have enough money to pay for the operation. The doctor agreed to do it out of love and not for money. “Oh, Doctor, that would make me so happy,” replied the boy.

At the operation theatre, before he was administered anaesthesia, the boy wanted to pray. He was granted permission. Then he prayed aloud, “God, grant the surgeon a long life so that he may save the lives of many other people.” The prayer touched the heart of the surgeon and later he commented…