MEDICAL MISSIONARIES.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1162, 24 June 1911, Page 9

MEDICAL MISSIONARIES.

In the "Monthly Slalenienl" presented by tlw lfev. Cyril Bardslcy to the general committee of the Church Missionary Society (Anglican), London, last innnlh, Hie following paragraph occurs*— "At a time when an Hngtishman in Hie person of Sir Hiram Maxim, and a Chinamen in Hie person of Ling Sho-Yang, are endeavouring to persuade the. world of (In; worthlessaiess of the Christian missionary and his message, it is: doubly encouraging In realise that from other quiiriers holh Knglish and Chinese, voluntary tributes are being, paid to the work ami influence of missionaries in China. .Two Kuropcan medical men have already 10-t their lives in (he hnudrtnhnnd Vonliicl with the dread plague in Maiv'lmriii <» minister to the stricken people. The sneeial correspondent ill Poking of (he •Lanccl.' write l ;:—'At every station down the line medical missionaries have come forward ill the most gallant way and bcrnc the brunt in com-,

baling" the'most appalling conditions. The medical profession at the present moment, by tlieir sacrifico and by the number of willing volunteer practitioners, stands higher iu the estimation of the Chinese Govcrnmcnt'than it ever did before. 'J'he struggle lias been almost' entirely in the hands of medical missionaries.' "