A Physician’s Bill Paid by Bequest by John Nevins Andrews

Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Nov 10, 1881

A Physician’s Bill Paid by Bequest

By John Nevins Andrews

A PHYSICIAN'S bill was paid in an extraordinary way at Wheeling, W. Va., lately. An aged lady who had become reduced in circumstances, and was very much depressed by apprehension of impending want, committed suicide on March 25. She owed a bill of $17 to her physician, and having no money to discharge it, she executed a will bequeathing her body to him in payment. The strange mixture of regard for her obligations to man, and her recklessness of the commands of God, was manifested in a remarkable way, but the same characteristics displayed in other forms are by no means uncommon.