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students say that they don't care about addresses from 

 ministers, but they'll listen to a lecturer on chemistry, 

 and I hope I shall succeed in speaking a seasonable word 

 to them." 



The title of his lecture, one of a series delivered at the 

 instance of the Edinburgh Medical Missionary Society, was 

 " The Sacredness of Medicine as a Profession," and it has 

 been published with the others. 1 A perusal alone can 

 enable us to follow him, while he points out the moral, 

 benevolent, and Christian character of medicine ; but a few 

 of its closing sentences may show its spirit : " I adjure you 

 to remember that the head of our profession is Christ. He 

 left all men an example that they should follow His steps ; 

 but He left it specially to us. It is well that the statues 

 of Hippocrates and Esculapius should stand outside of 

 our College of Physicians, but the living image of our 

 Saviour should be enshrined in our hearts .... He is 

 not ashamed to call us brethren. May none of us be 

 ashamed to call him Lord ! May we all confess Him 

 before men, that He may confess us before the angels in 

 heaven ! " 



To one who had just lost a brother, he says, in 1845, 

 " To myself to die and be with Christ, seems so much 

 better than any possible way of serving God here, that I 

 cannot prevent myself thinking of your brother, as Peden 

 did of Richard Cameron, when he came to his grave to say, 

 * Oh ! to be wi' Richie ! '" To a fellow chemist, 2 in 1848, 

 " There are none,. I am sure, who ought to be more 

 religious than men of science, professing as they do to 

 love God's works, and to know them better than others 

 do. There are none, too, who need religion more, for 

 the isolation of their pursuits narrows their hearts, and 

 1 "Lectures on Medical Missions." 2 Professor Voelcker. 

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