William Fairlie Clarke : his life and letters, hospital sketches and addresses.

  • Clarke, W. Fairlie (William Fairlie), 1833-1884.
Date:
1885
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Credit: William Fairlie Clarke : his life and letters, hospital sketches and addresses. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Augustus C. Long Health Sciences Library at Columbia University and Columbia University Libraries/Information Services, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the the Augustus C. Long Health Sciences Library at Columbia University and Columbia University.

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    PREFACE. The following short sketch of the life of Dr. W. Fairlie Clarke has been written in hopes that it may be useful and helpful to others. It shows how a devout life may be maintained by a busy professional man, to whom frequent week-day attendance at religious services either at church, chapel, or mission-hall are alike impossible. The flame of religious ardour must in such a case be kept alive by other means. That it can be sustained, and a high standard of holiness be reached, by the active medical practitioner as well as by others whose occupations are not so severe, is, we think, shown in the life of Dr. W. Fairlie Clarke, as it has been in many other instances. It is indeed useful in these days of abundant religious excitement to be reminded that religion does not consist, as ascetics in all ages have imagined, in the exclusion from our minds of all secular thought, but in living a holy life, in * doing