Los Angeles herald., 1905-11-06
breaches TO YOUNG DOCTORS
Rev. Frank DeWltt TaImage Talks to
His Hearers Of the Good
PhXsician

In his sermon at the First Presby-
terian church last night Rev. Frank
Dewitt Talmage preached about the
good Christian physician. His text was
taken Colossians 4 and IA: Luke, the
Beloved Physician"
The speaker said that the good
Christian physician today is the one
of the most honored of all men. This
sentence would have been very
startling one to have been made q CEN
tury ago, said Mr.. Talmage. Doctor
w. B. Davis In a late address before
a great convention of doctors and sur
geons, declared that in the early part
of the last century physicians were
practically nonentities. They had
virtually no place in European So
ciety. They were looked upon in the
same way as playwriters and actors
were regarded during the Shakespear-
can era. But now among the most
honored men are to be found the doc
tors. AS Sir Morrell Mckenzie 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 1t the name
of one or more physicians. The physi-
clans advice in political matters has
often made and unmade cabinets.
But as L go on showing to you young
medical students the golden oportuni-
ties of future usefulness which the
consecreated ten-talent doctor can
WELD, / must here and now halt.
must stop long enough to show you the
great opportunities for good always
imply great opportunities for evil. Oh,
young man, about to enter the noble
medical profession, l beg of you not to
prove false to your trust. beg of you
when you enter the home of a man
who surrenders into your care the life
and the safety of his children, that you
never prove untrue by advice or action
to the trust repoSed in you.
That the chief triumphs of the medi-
cal profession have been won during
the last century in the prevention of
disease rather than in the cure, there
is no doubt. How have the great
plaques, which used to sweep over
Europe been halted? BY the power of
the sword? No. BY the power of the
bacteriologist's microscope and the
physicians pen. Doctor Earle, lead
ing professor in the Chicago College of
Physician and Surgeons, told me that
when he first commenced his practice
in Chicago. thirty per cent of all his
patients sickneSSes were due to bad
water and poor drainage. With the
improvement of Chicago's drainage sys-
tenn that thirty per cent of sickness is
being gradually eliminated.
Why is the longevity of the human
race being increased year by year?
Because people do not work as hard as
they used to work? oh, no! An aver
age man today goes through more
hard work and nerve exhaustion and
excitement in a week than his grand
father did in whole year. The longe-
witty of the human race is increasing
in spite of the strenuous life we lead
1t is increasing because the doctor
year by year. is telling us how to eat
how to dress, and in what kind of
houses we should live.
Young man, about to enter the med
ical profession, you are soon to be one
of the great band of teachers of physi-
cal hygiene. Can you not be a leader
in spiritual hygiene also?
Oh, my young friend, will you not
here and now consecrate your life to
the Cross? By the grace of God will
you not be a Christian family physi-
clan? Be good Doctor Aronson or a
good Doctor Luke.