1952 Geloof en Wetenschap : Orgaan van de Christelijke vereeniging van natuur- en geneeskundigen in Nederland - pagina 149

45 bership of his group within the bounds of Scriptural Christianity. Could the Chicago group help? Better yet, might the New Yorkers join the Chicago Society? The Chicagoans went into immediate action, and, with the formulation of a Constitution and Statement of Belief, national Christian Medical Society began. The Statement of Belief reads : We believe : a. In the divine inspiration, integrity and final authority of the Bible as the Word of God. b. In the unique Deity of our Lord Jesus Christ. c. In the representative and substitutionary sacrificial death of our Lord Jesus Christ as the necessary atonement for our sins. d. In the presence and power of the Holy Spirit in the work of regeneration. e. In the resurrection of the crucified body of our Lord, and that blessed hope. His personal return. f. In the bodily resurrection of the just and the unjust, the everlasting blessedness of the saved and the everlasting punishment of the lost. A third group was asking for membership. In Philadelphia, students were meeting for Bible study and Christian fellowship in city-wide get-togethers. Monroe Bertsch and Warren Bibighaus at Jefferson had enlisted the sponsorship of Dr. William Kreidler, a faculty member, in forming a group. Pennsylvania University followed. Woman's Medical College contributed a chapter entirely feminine in membership. Philadelphia now leads all other cities in number of C.M.S. chapters, with Temple and Hahnemann Universities bringing the total to five student chapters, in addition to a graduate chapter. Shortly before entering Albany Medical School, Robert Goldie met with the Chicago group, asking the Lord's guidance in founding an organized fellowship for Christian students there. Later, others joined them. By the time he received his M.D., the Albany group had joined the national Society. Minnesota's great University saw the beginning of a chapter in 1943.. Buffalo.. Baltimore.. Boston., others followed, until, in 1950, there was a total of 21 official chapters. In addition, there were a number of Bible study groups who had not yet applied for official chapter membership, but who were destined to do so in the months to come. As members of the local student chapters are graduated from their schools, they carry the spirit and aims of the Society with them in local graduate chapters and other activities. Some are isolated from Christian fellowship, and contact with other Christian doctors through the bi-monthly C.M.S. JOURNAL and through correspondence with other members help greatly to feed their spiritual hunger. Oliver Austin, after graduation from medical school, was serving in the United States Army Medical corps. Orders sent him to an obscure post in Northern Canada. During his service, he helped to bring under control a serious epidemic of septic sore throat in an hidian village a short distance away by plane. On his last mercy flight, his Cub crashed in the cold suri of Hudson Bay.. and his wife, Dr Jean Austin, went to Africa alone. God has sent others to do the work Oliver Austin planned to do. The membership of the Society grew from 15 in 1935 to more than 1,000 in 1951. More thans 1/7 of these are serving as missionaries on the foreign field. In addition to the student and graduate chapters, the work at home

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