Medical missions; their place and power / [John Lowe].

  • Lowe, John, 1835-1892.
Date:
1886
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Credit: Medical missions; their place and power / [John Lowe]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    power, for evil as well as for good, and finds them unable to resist the one, or ready to accept the other, without guidance or assistance. This assistance, within certain limits, in its earliest stages, must be given by the mis- sionary, if it is to be given at all—just as at home, the corresponding work is to be mainly done by the Chris- tian Church, or left undone.” We, at home, can hardly realize the difficulties that a missionary has to contend with in his efforts to intro- duce the Gospel into heathen, and often uncivilized, countries. Here, we are surrounded with every Christian influence, and with benevolent institutions and organiza- tions which testify, more emphatically than words, to the enlightening, humanizing, regenerating power of Chris- tianity. We have our colleges and schools, our hospitals for the sick, asylums for the insane and for the blind, refuges for the destitute, homes for the fallen and out- cast, associations for the relief of the aged and for improving the condition of the poor, reformatories for wayward and neglected children, and agencies without number to counteract almost every form of evil, and to meet every conceivable requirement. These auxiliaries to the Church’s aggressive work are everywhere in active operation, and are generously supported, as the practical outcome of our Christianity, and are deemed essentially necessary to the successful prosecution of home mission- ary work. The missionary to the heathen, on the other hand, settles down among a people ignorant, super-
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