Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-06-05
Possibilities GREAT
IN LIFE or PHYSICIAN
Must Minister to Community. DR..
Bowie Tells Medical College OF
Virginia Graduates.
SEES EVERYTHING; HEARS ALL
Board Of Visitors of Institution Meets
This N0rning-Comm cnccment
Exercises VIII Isc Held in City
Auditorium TO-MOrrow Evening

as the ultimate function OF life Is
tho combination Of all human effort
and progress which is brought 'abou;
by mon working in different wayy to-
wards the same Idea, and as every
small effort is translated into. and be-
comes part OF. tho resulting whole. 80.
said Rev W. Russell Bowie. u. H.. rec
tor OF st. rnul's Church in his bacca-
laureate sermon last night 10 the grad
uatinS class OF the Medical college %
Virginia the physician must play his
part in workin. towards the great re-
suit. He illustrated his statement by
calling attention 70 tho fact that every
part OF the human body is used In it's
differing method for the working OF
the whole body towards n definite
end.
Tho graduating class of the college
eat i'll the middl. aisle. The young
men were clad in cap and gown.
Dr. Bowie took his text from First
Corinthians Xii. :. S, .. 1871. -: "Bu.
the manifestation OF the Spirit Is given
10 every man TO profit withal. For to
one IL given by the Spirit the word OF
wisdom: to another the word of knowi-
edge 10y the same Spirit: to another
faith by the same Spirit; to another
tho gifts Of healing by the same
Spirit; to another the working OF mira
cle*; 10 another prophecy; to another
discerning Of spirits TO another divers
kinds ot tongues; to another the in
tcrprctation OF tongues: hut all these
N"rl."th tha; one and the sclfsame
Spirit. dividing TO every man sovcraliy
as he Will For as the body is one,
auh has many members, and all tho
members Of that one body hcine many,
arc one body, so also ~ Christ"
Or. Bowie showed that all human
effort must be. and is. correlated for
one end and that as one part Of the
body has Its function to perform. so
men. working as their differing abiii-
ties direct. have their functions to per-
form for the final perfection. As the
eye may not hear or the ear see. SO
all men have not the same thing to do
in making tho world better place
t" live in and in directing Tho sum
total of human effort towards the d.
vine realization.
Or. bowie said tina: ono of Christ's
essential messages was to make mar,
conscious al Gods purpose AMI TO make
his body obcGicnt TO the Divine will.
II ~. he said a glorious thing TO min
lister to the human body. for /, is Gods
holy temple and tho earthly refuge az
the soul. He told, surcintiy OF what
tho doctor has TO do. Of how he has -
hear and bear tho lament Of tho
mother the plant Of those who fear
Tor themselves the sentence of death
and the plea of those who want nro
they may carry ont the great ideas ans.
purposes they had projected For the
doctor secs everything, hears every.
thing. knows everything, from physical
complaint 10 III" souls last lament.
Unto him all things are told, and unto
ali he must lend ~ willing ear and =
hc lpiug hand
Speaking Of the ha-lships and IN
c"hNehicnces demanded Of proper de-
vo''om 10 The profession. IN Bowie said
a. 80 -
which gives NOR. largely If Itself with
out rccompcnSe than that Of medicine
the great physicians. he said count nor
themselves first, but are the first TO give
themselves where they are needed !
And they minister not only TO tho hody
but as largely TO the temple OF Cod
Ana those, the preacher said who do
not approach the body as sanctuary
of God lose tn. dignity and grandeur
OF their profession.
Tho physicians life continued DR.
E"Wic, must be an expression Of some
tinS larger than himself He INNS,
minister 10 the community Sometimes
said' IN" profession has not prevailed
as nightly az It could have against
certain "Ei!S over these il may tri-
umpn. and II may heal the open sores
''l the worlds greatest sins
me commencement exercises of tho
Acd'cai college OF Virginia will CON
Nhue "ith :. meeting Of the board of
>i@''P'H IN the college building this
In"rh!n. ~ II o'clock. meeting Of
the alumni society Will he held TO-
niRht at $50 o'clock IN the old COLLEGE
bul!Hing at Fourteenth and Marshall
streets, where an address will be made
or foisons and Prisoners" by pr.
F." lillian II. Taylor. professor emeritus
ri chemistry Inc alumni smoker will
be hHld tonight at 10 O'Clock in the
ne" cHii"r" building a, Twelfth and
Clay Streets
The business session Of the alumni
society "!li b" held tomorrow morn
NIX at u o'clock, ana there will be Il
medical program. beginning at II
o c!"ck. 4 pharmacy program and a
GENITAL program ~ the same hour.
'inicaN WI! he held in Memorial Hos
PItai between IL and . o'clock
N" commencement exercises proDer
WI! De nc!d in the city Auditorium
70 morrow might beginning at $50
" CLOCK. Tho Invocation viii ic dciIv-
cred ny Rev. s. Eoger Tyler. DR..
stuart Mcclure viii! deliver Il report OF
the years work. and the address 70 the
graduating class VIII he made by DR..
W iiliain l.. fotca;. president Of Wake
Forest College. confcrrin;s OF degrees
ana hospital appointments will follow.
and the hen"dict!on will lie pronounced
ny Mr. Tyler.
reception will bc held in tho Ma
SOM" Temple beginning NJ 1890
o'clock.