The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-05-14
ON SAINT LUKE,
THE PHYSICIAN.
Or. ]. ]. Haley Delivers Bacca-
laureate Sermon Vi, "Thc
Inspired Doctor
MEDICAL COLLEGE FINALS
Exercises Will Continue To-day
and To-inorrow-Dr. Thorn
ton the Final Orator,

With st. Luke, one OF tho twelve In
splred apostles Of Jesus Christ, depleted
MS the beloved physician, In settling OF
that apostles experiences and trials In
the service of his Lord and Master Rcv.
j. j. Haley, pastor of Seventh street
Christian Church, last night preached an
eloquent and powerful sermon on me
duties of the physician Of to-day ana
the moral responsibilities that rest upon
his shoulders.
Tho occasion was the preaching OF the
baccalaurcate sermon before the Hrauu Il
ating class OF the Medical College Of
virglnln, delivered In the Seventh street
Church. Tho central nisle OF the sane
tuary was crowded from front to rear
with the students OF the college, ana
Tho thanking pews on either side were
throngcd with visitors and the members
of the congregation
MIR. Haley was ut his best, and With
his theme, "Thc Inspired Physician
taken from Colossians, l4:A--Luke, the
beloved physican--hc delivered an adj
dress that was threaded Throughout WIN
the quality Of wisdom and Christian eX-,
perlcnce.
Among. the forty inspired writer's Of the
Scriptures he said that st. Luke. or Dr..
Luke. as he termed the apostle, was tnc
only Gentile and that he agreed Win
Ian Maclaren, that the Gospel or 81,
Luke is the greatest and most literary
ever written. And II eTen Paul hnd not
said II, he continued, the expressions or
st. Luke In his Gospel would betray ms
calling A later physician IN his BOOK
on "Thc Physical Causes Of the Deatn
of Christ" had derived most Of his data
from St. Luke, who, he sud, was more
than probably the medical praG
among those who followed st. fslul ~
his three missionary tours.
4 Ic was also the historian OF the apostle
lie missionaries, and, moreover, gil ms
work fl tho science OF practiclng his pre-
&fcssion was done under spiritual gull
dance and with an acknowledgements OF
his moral obligation.
Practice of Medicine.
MIR Haley held that II ST. Paul had had
no faith in the science OF medicine, as
some cults of the present day, who mas
ourade another creed about the curing
of mortal Ills under religious SANCTION,
he would never have taken st. Luke
among his followers and allowed MN 70
practice a material science. Rather,
Paul commcnds him, and yet MS DOOR
a .rr.| d
If taken as coi'ue''' ~ :,
medlcal science ,,u.ad hat a
Continuing. ne sps ea,,' 49, .o,,o think
does not necessarily wy" 90 49,, anter.
studies prevents ph's'tl' a.' 80 ~
Ing into the hlsner' Si,l1 't'',. ,,,,Lo
life. There IS noth,hs ~ ec'e ..I.,t,, ana,s
one dsbelieve; nothing 10 stu'e'iS o'o z 2
spiritual apprehension.
DR.. Haley went on to sho" the heays
responsibility which the profession p Is.
on to those who make II their ca,A!ie'
as it brings them into touch WIN an tns
sorrows and Ills, not only or the 'ous'
but alse 81 she mn mo- anu no sou, the ' possi
p ',,as,aa ~ an,rr GOOD which will lie IN
la,. o ~ nna n "a out into tho broader
sne., 49, 80 Tic ,Ifa
i."vt.s - non.ocr,to ana s,nctifv vow.
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