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Section 4—Our Medical College
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with them in sharing responsibilities, they may by the aid of the
teachers climb to the topmost round of the ladder.
Students should be willing to work under those of experience,
to heed their suggestions, to follow their advice, and to go as far
as possible in thought, training, and intelligent enterprise; but they
should never infringe upon a rule, never disregard one principle,
that has been interwoven with the upbuilding of the institution. The
dropping down is easy enough; the disregard of regulations is natural
to the heart inclined to selfish ease and gratification. It is much easier
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to tear down than to build up. One student with careless ideas may
do more to let down the standard than ten men with all their effort
can do to counteract the demoralizing influence....
Without Boasting
God-fearing physicians speak modestly of their work; but
novices with limited experience in dealing with the bodies and souls
of men will often speak boastingly of their knowledge and attain-
ments. These need a better understanding of themselves; then they
would become more intelligent in regard to their duties and would
realize that in every department where they have to labor they must
possess a willing mind, an earnest spirit, and a hearty, unselfish zeal
in trying to do others good. They will not study how best to preserve
their dignity, but by thoughtfulness and care-taking will earn a repu-
tation for thoroughness and exactitude, and by sympathetic ministry
will gain the hearts of those whom they serve.
In the medical profession there are many skeptics and atheists
who exalt the works of God above the God of science. Compara-
tively few of those who enter worldly medical colleges come out
from them pure and unspotted. They have failed to become ele-
vated, ennobled, sanctified. Material things eclipse the heavenly and
eternal. With many, religious faith and principles are mingled with
worldly customs and practices, and pure and undefiled religion is
rare. But it is the privilege of every student to enter college with the
same fixed, determined principle that Daniel had when he entered
the court of Babylon, and throughout his course to keep his integrity
untarnished.