Introductory address delivered at the opening of the medical session at Guy's Hospital, October 1, 1858 / by Thomas Turner.

  • Turner, Thomas
Date:
1858
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Credit: Introductory address delivered at the opening of the medical session at Guy's Hospital, October 1, 1858 / by Thomas Turner. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    cultivate habits of self-control, to have always before you the end of your being, and above all, to seek earnestly the aid of that Spirit, through whose assistance alone the corrupt propensities of our fallen nature can be withstood and subdued. It is a happy circumstance that a body of medical students may, at the present day, be safely addressed as Christians, and that the flagrant im- piety and infidelity at one time so prevalent amongst them, and which might almost be looked upon as a judicial blindness—a punishment for the wilful neglect of the plain lessons set before them in their daily employments—is now seldom met with. And to the Christian, the paramount incen- tive to virtue will be found in gratitude to the Almighty for the mercies revealed to him in the Scriptures, and in the desire to accomplish his Maker's will, by imitating, as far as the limits of human nature permit. His own Divine perfections. But still it is not unprofitable to the Christian to observe, in the pages even of heathen writers, how deeply the ideas of the dignity and beauty of virtue, of the vileness and loathsomeness of vice—of the one as the healthy, the other as the diseased con- dition of the soul—are rooted in the very nature of man, and how strong is that innate sense of right and wrong, which, however disregarded, and silenced for a time, still endures even in the basest, giving to the erring spirit, whilst the period of probation continues, the opportunity of retracing its steps,
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