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the Source of all wisdom, all grace, defects and ignorance may be
overcome.
Let every medical student aim to reach a high standard. Under
the discipline of the greatest of all teachers our course must ever
tend upward to perfection. All who are connected with the medical
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missionary work must be learners. Let no one stop to say, “I cannot
do this.” Let him say instead, “God requires me to be perfect. He
expects me to work away from all commonness and cheapness, and
to strive after that which is of the highest order.”
There is only one power that can make medical students what
they ought to be and keep them steadfast—the grace of God and the
power of the truth exerting a saving influence upon life and charac-
ter. These students, who intend to minister to suffering humanity,
will find no graduating place this side of heaven. That knowledge
which is termed science should be acquired, while the seeker daily
acknowledges that the fear of God is the beginning of wisdom. Ev-
erything that will strengthen the mind should be cultivated to the
utmost of their power, while at the same time they should seek God
for wisdom; for unless they are guided by the wisdom from above
they will become an easy prey to the deceptive power of Satan. They
will become large in their own eyes, pompous, and self-sufficient.
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 caretaking will earn
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a reputation 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