Excerpt from China and Modern Medicine: A Study in Medical Missionary Development
In these unrestful times, when faith is apt to faint and love to wax cold, the story unfolded in this book will come to many a perplexed Christian as a stimulus and a challenge. The social and religious dispeace in Western Christendom is to many hearts a burden "almost not to be borne." Even the brave are daunted and the wise are baffled by the outlook. The believer in the Fatherhood of God and the Brotherhood of Man is hard put to it to vindicate his creed. He knows that for lack of that vision the peoples are perishing about him, but for the time he feels powerless to reveal or revive it. He shrinks from pessimism, but he has to admit that the pessimist's gloom is not without a cause. It is the dark hour indeed, and he wonders whether any dawn is at hand.
Let him turn for a while from his misgivings for Europe to the history of Christian medical missions in China, as it is set forth in the following pages, and he will take heart again. A hundred years ago no human enterprise could have seemed more hopeless than the physical and spiritual transformation of China.
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