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Britain's Oldest Student
HE'S 72 AND HE'S STUDYING TO BE
A DOCTOR!
but
Most men of seventy-two have "Then there is a medicine; |said good-bye to hard work and I can't see you much of a hand at business for ever. But grey-haired cutting off another man's leg! Robert Battersby, of Hendon, N.W..
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That leaves the law-better try
is different. At seventy-two he's the law! back at school again-studying for his doctor's degree!
He's Britain's oldest medical student-four times as old as any of the others in his anatomy class at |University College!
But Mr. Battersby, former' Town Clerk of Hereford, smiles, and does not let little things like that bother him.
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He hopes to become a doctor just for the fun of it, He's spending £400 in fees, and burning the mid- night oil in competition with keen young brains, to satisfy a boyhood
ambition.
He does not intend to practise. Working for medical honours has put a new zest in life,
"So before my youthful taste had a chance to decide for itself, I found myself studying law.
with a medical student, and watch- "I came to Londoh, found lodgings
ing him studying skulls and bones made me realise how much the mys teries of the human body fascinated me.
"From that moment I longed to be a doctor, but was chained to law- my father had indentured me and - paid costly premiums.
TIRED OF RETIREMENT
Town Clerk, and later held the same "I qualified, returned to Bury as
office in Hereford.
"But from that time on I vowed thut if ever I had the time and money to become a doctor, I would be one.
"I am a widower," he explained. "I retired as Town Clerk of Here- ford in 1929, For years I had
"After a year or two of retire- nothing to give my life direction and ment. I could bear it no longer. At aim, then I remembered my boy-last I marched up to Professor Kirk
in University College.
hood ambition."
Mr. Battersby is the son of a wool] merchant who became Mayor of Bury, Lancs.
"Is a man ever too old to become a medical student?" he was asked.
"'Is a man ever too old to become
"When I was young my father a medical student?" he was asked. gave me three choices of a career," he went on.
"He said:
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"There is the Church,
but you don't look like a preacher to
me!
"No,' he replied, 'so long as he can pass the preliminary examina- tion.'
BELGIUM MAY
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE CLAIM ANTARCTIC
LESSON SERMON
Subject: "Doctrine Of
Atonement"
Atonement",
İLANDS
Geographical Society's
Move
Certain Antarctic territory
The subject of the Lesson Sermon in all Christian Science Churches to-mor- row 23rd April will be "Doctrine of said to have been discovered by the Belgian explorer, M. De Ger- The Golden Text will be: "Yea, lach, in 1897 and 1898 ought to though I walk through the valley of be claimed by Belgium, accord- the shadow of death, I will fear no
evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and ing to the Royal Geographical thy staff they comfort me". (Psalms Society of Antwerp. 23: 4).
This is urged in a letter sent
Among others the following citations will be read from the Bible: Now this by the Society to the Belgian Min-
say, brethren, that flesh and blood ister of Foreign Affairs. cannot inherit the kingdom of God; Gerdach, who commanded the neither doth corruption inherit incor-"Belgian Expedition" ruption. death, where is thy sting? gian names to channels,
O grave, where is thy victory? The
gave Bel-
moun-
sting of death is sin: and the strength tains, gulfs, and islands in the of sin is the law. But thanks be to South Polar region, the Society God, which giveth
the through our Lord Jesus Christ. There-lach Channel," "Dance Land,"
victory states. These include the "Ger-- fore, my beloved brethren, be ye stead-
fast, unmoveable, always abounding in "Brabant Island" etc. the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain regions territorial occupation is The Society holds that in Polar in the Lord". (1 Cor. 15; 50, 55-58);
The following citations will also be not essential to establish owner- read from the Christian Science Text-ship.
book, "Science and Health with Key to Documents concerning the the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy:-"Belgica" expedition are "Universal salvation rests on progres-jeagerly sought after and an ap- being sion and probation, and is-unattainable
without them. Heaven is not a locality, peal for such evidence has been but a divine state of mind in which all issued through the press.—(Reu- the manifestations of mind are harter). monious and immortal, because sin is not there and man is bound having no righteousness of his own, but in pos- session of "the mind of the Lord" as the Scripture says. No final judgment
HE NEW FRENCH REMEDY.
Awaits mortals, for the judgment-dayTHERAPION NO.1 of wisdom comes hourly and continual- THERAPION NO.2
ly, even the judgment by which mortal man is divested of all material error. As for spiritual error there is none, Thus progress will finally destroy all error and bring immortality to 'light". (Pages 291 & 492).
THERAPION NI
FROMONICALL
LERO'S PILI.
for