Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1903-01-29

| Is increasing because the doctor, yea
by year, is telling us how to eat, how
TO dress and in what kind Of houses W.
should live.
Young man about to enter the mcdica
profession, you are soon to be one O
the great band of teachers Of physlca
hygiene Can you not be leader II
spiritual hygiene also? Your calling
opens for you the door Of many homes
1t not only opens for you the from
door, but also the closet door, in which
hang the blcached bones Of famil,
skeleton. You are to be the recipien
of the hearts secrets as no one else IL
the community. You will have YOU
finger upon the pulse of community
and will ultimately know whether Il
beats slnfuly fast or SINFUL. slow
Will you not say the right gospel wore
to that young man who is doing what
he ought not to do2 Will you not speak
a warning word to that wife, that
mother, that child, who may be drifting
into sin? They will gladly take Chris
tian advice from you, which perhaps
they would not take from minister
They may say, "a minister is merely
working for his salary" but they will
know that you are disinterested in
speaking in the name of the Lord Je
sus. In Christ's name will you not try
10 prevent sin as well as to cure sin
after IL has already come?
I have been trying to show you the
glorious opportunities of Christian
physicians life. But now there comes
over me the overwhelming thought that
perhaps you arc not Christian young
man. Perhaps you may be very bril-
| liant in your medical studies, but have
never yet confessed the name of Jesus
Christ.
Are You Christinn.
Yes" answers some young man in
my audience, that is the truth. Since
| came to Chicago l have only been
once or twice in a city church. We
medical students have to work so hard
that when Saturday night comes we
are dead tired out, so ! always take
my Sabbath for rest and fun" Alas,
! know only too we'll that what you
say may be true; that your life may be
very similar to the hundreds and thou
sands of young men who every year
enter our large cities to get medical
education. | know that your state
ments may be too true. because scores
of my old friends and classmates be-
came physicians. They have told me
many of the temptations bcsetting a
medical students life. Besides that, |
have lived among the young medical
students not only in New York, but
also in Philadelphia.
But though you may declare that
since you have entered the medical
school you have not lived n Christian
life, yet there are still two or three
tremendous facts that, think. may
work change in YOU two or three
facts by which, believe you are go
ing to he redeemed for Christ and con-
fess him and live for him as Chris.
tian physician. In the first place.
know that you came from n Christian
home. 1t is q wonderful truth to tell
that nearly all the men who enter the
medical or legal or ministerial profess
sion come from Christian homes. AS
soon as a father and mother become
converted their chief desire seems to
be to give their boys a liberal cduca-
ton, so that they can make the most
out of their lives for Christ. Thus,
young man, no matter where you 20 or
what you do, you can never get away
from the many parental prayers which
have been offered in your behalf. They
are always Juggling and pulling you to-
ward better life. They are pulling
your heartstrngs now toward Christ.
In the next place. you are not a
holneopath in a spiritual sense. You
may be Il disciple of IIahnemann, as
many of you are, but in spiritual
sense you are not. In the realm of the
slinilibus curantur, that like cures
ike You do not believe that sin
cures sim Olk no. You know and
you feel only the blood of Jesus. the
Saviour can make you as spotloss as
the driven snow. SO. now. feel that
the purcr and holcr life is dawning
upon you. | feel that all the good and
the true in you are leading you on to
fully consccratc yourself to the Mas
ter's service. We have often heard
how brave the surgeons have been in
battle. President Roosevelt declared
that there never was n Drawer set of
men than the doctors who belonged to
MS rough riders. At San Juan hill,
upon their backs. they carried the
wounded to the rear, while the Spanish
shnrpshooters were firing at them from
among the trees. That was brave
That was heroic, But today want
you to be just MS brave and true.
here and now want YOU, in order to in
sure your future Christian usefulness
IA family physician, to surrender
your whole life to the service of Jesus
Christ. You will do it, will you not?
BE Like DIR. Luke.
And SO, young physician. as you are
now ready to consccrate your life to
the Saviour ! am going to tell you
about n beautiful scene which perhaps
may happen in your life and death. |
hope the death scene may happen many
years from now. Some day in the dim
future, let us hope when your life's
work Is drawing to close, there will
be great excitement in some village or
in one Of the ncighborhoods of great
city. Everywhere the word will be
whispered: Have you heard the news?
Have you heard the newsI The doc