The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-02-01
DIR. TALMAGE'S SERMON.
ay TIE REV. FRANK DE WITT rALMAeE. D. D.

running down to the wharf just before the gangplank is drawn in. He has been employing every moment of the time 10 visit the slckroom, to give a last preserip- tion and to offer a last prayer, and as he rushes up to the ship can see scores and scores of men and women whom he has helped reach forth their hands as they cry: "Goodby, Dr. Luke! Goodby! Good byl May God bless and keep and reward you for what you have done for usi Goodby! Goodby!" Then I see good old pr. Luke turn and say: "Goodby. my dear Christian friends! May Christ, the Divine Physician, heal your diseased phy- sical bodies and, your sin diseased souls
 Farewell until we meet In heaven!'
 A Career of Usefulness.
 I have dwelt on the lives of these two | men-Dr Luke, the beloved physician of the early days of Christianity, and Dr.
 Aronson of our own time-because I want | you to realize how much the world is in- 1 debted to consecrated medical talent. A l career of unbounded usefulness is open to the men who are beginning the study of medicine. Convinced of this, I now preach to the Chicago medical students Over 2000 of them are preparing for their | chosen profession within few blocks of this church. Would that they might go forth into the world not only brilliant
 
 Christian men. May God help me In ad- dressing them to speak the right word in the right way. It may be that some stu dent within the sound of my voice some historian may write half century hence such tribute of esteem as Ian Maclaren wrote of Dr. MacLure of Drumtochty and Paul wrote of his companion Luke the beloved physician"
 The good Christian physician Is today one of the most honored of all men. This sentence would have been very start ling one to have made a century ago. Dr. w. B. Davis in late address before a great convention of doctors and sur geons declared that In the early part of the last century physicians were praeti- cally social nonentites. They had vir- tually no place in European society" They were looked upon in the same way as playwriters and actors were regarded during the Shakespearean era. But now among the most honored men are to be found the doctors As Sir Morrell Me Kenzie was honored for prolonging the life of the Emperor Frederick, so each scroll of honor and knighthood in every court of Europe has placed upon it the name of one or more physicians The 1 physician's advice In political matters has often made and unmade cabinets. Who was the greatest reconstructor of the | Spanish-American war? General Leonard 1 Wood, the governor of Porto Rico and
 Cuba. Yes but you have not given
 Leonard Wood his best title. He was Dr.
 Leonard Wood. the family physician of William Mckinley. Who was the great
 est rival of Bismarck, the mighty soldier
 of the German empire? Dr. Virchow. the
 world famed pathologist. pr. Davis saids
 ''The greatest pathoogist the world has
 ever known was also a great statesman.,".
 The Physicians Opportunities.
 But as I go on showing to you younp
 medical students the golden opportuni | ties of future usefulness which the con l secrated ten talent doctor can wield T
 must here and now halt. l must stop
 long enough to show you that great op- portunties for good always implies great 1 opportunities for evil. Some two wears | ago I attended one of the Rush medical | classes and heard there farewell ad- dress given to the graduating class by | Professor D. R. Brewer, distinguished specialist on nervous diseases. It was a brutally frank and direct address in many ways. It's blunt statements again and again evoked derisive laughter through the raised tears of seats filled with stu- dents. But as went home said to my self: Dr. Brewer is right. An honest