Charlotte messenger. [volume] (Charlotte, Mecklenburg Co., N.C.) 1882-18??, 1882-07-29

Rev. DR.. Halls church, New York,
| (Presbyterian) gave last year $50, 900
for mission purposes, $4,000 to the
church Board of Home Missions, $50,-
000 for foreign missions, $328, ,597 for
congregational work, and to the Bible,
tract and city mission causes, 1927, 984.
The Catholic Union having a few
weeks since referred to their eighteen
institutions of learning in the state,
four being colleges, the Baltimore
Methodist calls attention to the work of
Methodist college in that state, and
notes that the Protestants in the state
maintain but two colleges.
Cieraymen or Physicians.
The following extract is from an ad.
dress of Rev., DIR. Richard L. Storrs,
before the graduating class Of the
medical department of the University
oflthe City of New York, at the Academy
Of Music. Iwish that might impress
upon you the great truth that every man
is debtor to his profession. It lies
with him to enlarge its resources, to in
crease its usefulness, to multiply its
capacities for making the world better.
The man who places such an ideal as
this before him can alone hope for
true and grand success. 1t does not
shut ous due and proper respect for
the past and its truths; but along with
that it is ever welcoming the spirit of
the new light. know there are some.
times men, in the medical as in the
clerical profession, who sail away from
the practical world as in ballon. In
their own estimation at least this bal
loon OF theirs swings level and tranquil
in the air; and to their eye it is the
earth that seems to sink far down
below them. Now, there is often a
wonderful fascination in such theories;
but we must remember that their chief
and only constituent is gas. Not only
that, but they are environed with peril,
and they frequently end in death. It
is in accordance with the highest laws
for progress to keep what is true, and
to advance from that to other truths.
We are impelled to recognize this in our
lives. Gentlemen, remember, that
whatever may be your skill or your
learning or your reputation, you need
firm, sweet, strong, moral spirit, by
means of which you will be able to
bless your patients more than by all the
drugs in the pharmacopeia. l have
known physicians and justice requires
me to add, I have known clergymen
also-who answered description which
Rufus Choate gave of one. "Stiff as
poker did you say? Why, he is a
terrible example to all possible pokers."
Every such man, be he clergyman or
physician, is a depressing influence
wherever he goes. Let the physician
come to the sick room in spirit of
sympathy, and an influence for good
will pass from him as real, though az
imponderable and impalpable as the
perfume that fills the air with its fra
GRANGE. / once knew physician of
Boston, who lived to be almost ninety,
sunny to the last. He never entered o
sick chamber without giving a leap to
the pulse-a man whose smile was
benediction, whose whole life was cast
in the highest and noblest mold.
Wheresoever he went it was at once his
duty and his privilege to minister to
the body aud spirit Of man. The power
of such men as these reaches to the very
roots of life. / count it privilege Of
your profession and Of my own that we
have to be genial men the full chaices
OF our own souls run over and bless
those around us. This sympathy and
this geniality must be realities in your
nature they will not come by being
extemporized. The golden aureole OF
the saint is produced bya sway OF the
brush ; but it is only by patient endu-
rance and toll that the highest charac-
ter becomes ours. No physician or
clergyman will ever reach the head Of
his profession unless that spirit ami
mates him. 80.