A Beloved Physician, Dr. A. T. Schofield.

Whom God used during a long life to strengthen the spirit, soul, and body of believers.
Dr. A. T. SCHOFIELD, a greatly loved servant of the Lord, passed on into the Lord’s immediate presence on Saturday night, April 20, 1929. He lived to the ripe age of eighty-two and was busy in the Lord’s service almost to the last. He was often confused with C. I. Scofield, of the “Scofield Reference Bible.”
Dr. Schofield was a well-known specialist of the famous Harley Street medical practitioners in London, England. As a Christian doctor, he wrote many helpful medical works. Lately, after he retired from practice, he devoted himself to traveling up and down the country, preaching the Gospel and teaching the Word of God, and especially in connection with what is known as Advent Truth. He was a vice-president of the Prophecy Investigation Society, and an active member, and on the Council of the Advent Testimony Movement.
A correspondent of the London Times has written of our departed friend as follows: “He was a man of extraordinary, vivid personality. As a doctor—house physician at the London Hospital, general practitioner, and later nerve-specialist and consultant in Harley Street—he showed a remarkable power of putting new hope into his patients. He was himself a tonic. With his virile frame, sensitive, sunlit face (and the never-failing button-hole flower), he refreshed and invigorated the whole atmosphere wherever he went. In later years, when he lived at Harley Street, his consulting room was a center, radiating health of body, mind, and spirit, for he has been heard to say it was often a confessional. Of his medical works, ‘The Unconscious Mind,’  ‘Nerves in Order,’ and ‘Nerves in Disorder,’ made perhaps the most mark. But it was as a religious writer and lecturer that his influence was widest. ‘The Knowledge of God,’ ‘The Radiant Morn,’  ‘Another World,’ and many another volume are treasured in numerous households. His voice was one of his special charms, and had a delightful quality, whether he was filling a big hall or keeping a dinner party, amused by his inexhaustible stories and deep or witty talk. He could be heard without effort in every corner of the biggest halls in London and the Provinces yet was restful to the ears of a nervous patient at the bedside. In his later years, when his heart forbade his walking more than a few steps, he bore his limitations and suffering so bravely that one often forgot he was suffering at all. His keen sense of humor never failed, and he was kept young and fresh to the end. Only a few weeks before he fell asleep, he was giving weekly religious addresses to big audiences at Bournemouth.”
The funeral service took place in the Conference Hall, Southbourne, Bournemouth. The Rev. Trevor Lingley, Vicar of Christ Church, Westbourne, conducted the first part of the service, and the present writer had the privilege of giving the address, which was somewhat as follows:
The Holy Spirit has emphasized the regard with which we should hold those who minister in the Word, when he says, “Remember them that had the rule over you, men that spake unto you the Word of God; and considering the issue of their life, imitate their faith” (R.V., Heb. 13: 7). These words point in three directions: upward to God and his Word, outward as an example of faith, and inward to considering the life as lived. We may apply these words to beloved A. T. Schofield.
I. REMEMBER.—
The man of God and the Word are intimately connected. The Word of God makes a man a man of God, and a man of God proves himself by preaching and practicing the Word of God. I remember listening to our friend giving a detailed exposition of Psalm 45, in the Kingsway Hall, London, in connection with an Advent Testimony meeting. What he said then was a sample of his testimony. The address was an exaltation of the glory of Christ, and an exhortation to be like the beautiful bride. How this man of God, in exalting Christ, unfolded the facts that “grace” was ever found in the message of our Lord, that, the sword of his Word on the thigh of his might was effective in its home-thrusts, that “glory” and “majesty” were seen in Him who is the brightness of God’s glory, that the “right hand” of “his might overcame his enemies, that “his throne” of His reign was permanent, and His scepter was ever a right one, that the exaltation of His position to the right hand of God was the reward of His hating iniquity and loving righteousness, and that the garments of His personal character and life were ever giving forth the myrrh and aloes and cassia of His worth and wealth, and the results of His passion and purity!
Then, having spoken of the glories of the King, Dr. Schofield went on to speak of the King’s daughter as a type of the believer. He called attention to the double garments she wore—namely, the “clothing of wrought gold,” as symbolizing the Divine righteousness, and that she was also “glorious within” with the “needlework” of the Spirit’s work, so that she was beautiful without and within (Psalm 45: 13, 14). Following this, he pressed upon us the importance of being clothed with these double garments of holiness and righteousness; hence, followed the injunction to “hearken . . . and consider, and incline thine ear; and forget also thine own people, and thy father’s house; so shall the king greatly desire thy beauty: for he is thy Lord, and worship thou him” (vs. 10, 11).
II. CONSIDER.—
We are exhorted to be “considering the end of their conversation,” or, as the Revised Version renders the sentence, “Considering the issue of their life, imitate their faith.” “Considering” means to view thoroughly, or to look up to. “End” (Ekbasis) signifies “outgoing.” “Conversation” means behavior, or a turning up and down, as denoting the whole course of the life. So the sentence signifies, view the whole life in all its outgoings and ins and outs. The man of God who lives in obedience to God’s Word, and who walks with Him, will bear inspection, and his life is meant to be an inspiration for our imitation. As far as one knows, the life of beloved Dr. Schofield would bear such an inspection, and is, as we think of him, an inspiration for our imitation. Those who came in contact with him, remember the issue of his life, in the work of faith, the labor of love, the patience of hope, that were exhibited in this beloved physician.
III. IMITATE.—
There were two traits in Dr. Schofield’s faith that impressed those who knew him, and these were its strength and its simplicity. His rugged and ruddy countenance were illustrations of the ruggedness of his faith and its healthfulness. He gripped the Word of God with the stalwartness of a sterling faith. He was no weakling. He knew what he believed and believed what he knew. Doubts did not enter the hemisphere of his confidence. The ringing conviction of his voice was the expression of the genuineness of his faith. His faith has a following, because his faith followed the Lord fully.
Yet there was a simplicity about his faith as well as a strength; yea, we may say the strength of his faith was found in its simplicity. How true it is, “The Lord preserveth the simple” (Psa. 116: 6). The simple are known, as the Word indicates, by the singleness and concentration of their reliance on the Lord.
Presiding at a meeting in the Kingsway Hall only last year, at which I was the speaker, he said something to this effect: “I am not going to speak on Brother Marsh’s subject [The Seventy Weeks of Daniel Nine], I want to ask you a question. ‘How many of you want to go Home? How many of you want to go and see the Lord?” Then he went on to relate how he saw two children on a rainy day, in the Isle of Wight, who came to the island on a Sunday-school outing from London, wet and miserable, and crying. He asked them, “What is the matter?” The only response was, “We want to go home.” “Ah!” he exclaimed, “the Lord often allows us to be in certain conditions, that we may long to go home to His presence.” There was no question, no doubt, no fear, no hesitation with our friend. The readiness to go into the Lord’s presence, or for the Lord to come for him, was the outcome of knowing the Lord in a faith born of reality and love. We do well to remember our friend with gratitude to God, to consider the devotion of his consecrated life, and to imitate his faith, which kept him in touch with God and his brethren.
Dr. F. E. Marsh, London, England. 
“The Sunday School Times” June 22, 1929