Medical missions : their place and power / by John Lowe ; with introduction by Sir William Muir.

  • Lowe, John, 1835-1892.
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[pref. 1895]
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    fitted by character and training and temperament to expose the groundlessness of this fear. He himself never felt the temptation to sink the evangelist and the missionary in the medical man, though he loved his profession with intensity. It was his loftiest conception, his burning desire, to do the work of an evangelist. £ Truly it may be said that to preach Christ, and to train up others to preach Him, was the joy and passion of his life.’ No one could hear Dr. Lowe speak or preach without being impressed with his overmastering earnest- ness, with the depth and intensity of his religious convictions. To hear him pleading with men to accept Christ, to hear him pleading with those who were living, dying, without Christ, never having heard the glorious evangel—‘ God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son,’—was an experience which no one who heard him often, could fail vividly to recall. “ Great as was his experience, and valuable as was his counsel in Foreign Mission work, his experience in Home Mission work was scarcely less. The agencies under Dr. Lowe’s superintendence in the Medical Mission, 39 Cowgate, touched the lowest depths of city poverty and degradation, and were more helpful in relieving misery, and in reaching the most wretched with the blessings of the Gospel, than any other work. In all our social problems he took the keenest interest; to the solution of them he could contribute knowledge gained at first hand among the tempted and the degraded themselves. “ The friends of missions everywhere owe a debt of gratitude to Dr. Lowe for his suggestive, eloquent, and stimulating work, ‘ Medical Missions: their Place and Power.’ This book, the outcome of personal observation