Lectures on medical missions : delivered at the instance of the Edinburgh Medical Missionary Society.
- Date:
- 1849
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Credit: Lectures on medical missions : delivered at the instance of the Edinburgh Medical Missionary Society. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![they flow to all, in proportion to that dilated hene- volence which the Gospel only divulges. It states, that we are friends to one another, friends to the Great Author of our dearest knowledge, in propor- tion as our lives are devoted to that great AVill which constitutes the noblest part of the Christian cha- racter. On another occasion, he thus declared the motives to faithfulness in professional duty by which he was actuated :— I wished most ferventh-, and I endea- vour after it still, to do the business that occurred with all the diligence that I could, as a jJresent duty, and endeavoured to repress every rising idea of its consequences. * * * Such a circumscribed un- aspiring temper of mind, doing everything with dili- gence, humility, and as in the sight of the God of healing, frees the mind from much unavailing dis- tress, and consequential disappointment. Contemplating the noble features of Fothergill's character through such aids as are supplied by his biographers and by his own writings, and even now, after the lapse of nearly a century, we are disposed to agree with Franklin in thinking, that few men have ever existed more worthy than Fothergill of universal veneration. His was the sort of character which we desire to foster in this ha])py land, and then to transplant to other les; favoured regions,](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21469714_0330.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
