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These men, and others like them, each faced and dealt with their own situation, with such light as they had; driven by a man's sturdy will. But they did not, in this line, approach in knowledge to these three masters of the art of body-building; who have given their whole lives to it; and have found a wealth of knowledge denied to all who have not labored as assiduously in the same field.

No men are more beloved in our land to-day than its physicians. Able, skilful, brave, tireless; going straight into contagion and danger, from which all others shrink and flee; allowed no rest, at church; at home; at social gathering; in bed even; but hurried mercilessly to duty; and always going. It was a high tribute to their nobility, when Ian Maclaren, in his visit here, was told over and over again, in many parts of our land, that when his lion-hearted "Doctor Willem MacLure" risked his life so often to save his patient; loved in that simple Scottish glen as no one else was loved—and who won all American hearts too—"That's just the way doctor does!" What is sweeter to any