Excerpt from The Healing of the Nations: A Treatise on Medical Missions, Statement and Appeal
This little volume has been written primarily to provide an outline of Medical Missions, for the use of students and young people in Missionary Study Classes. There has also been kept in mind the far larger circle of Christian people whose interest in the work of Missionary Medicine has been limited by their scanty information on the subject. It is not such a book as would be read aloud, for instance, at a women"s sewing meeting, but it is rather intended for study and individual perusal. Its aim is to present facts that ought to be pondered in the hearts of Christian men and women in the Church of Christ, and the subject makes a special claim upon the consideration of those who are members of the medical and nursing professions.
There is no classic on Medical Missions, unless we except the Gospels. There is need of one. No one, for instance, has, as far as we are aware, worked out at all fully the psychological aspects of the subject. In the standard works on psychology, we have been able to discover but little dealing with the psychology of the religious emotions which were generated in the hearts of men and women through the touch of Christ. Artists and poets, with their intuitive perceptions, almost always tell of personal contact between the Saviour and those healed.
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