"Benjamin Hobson (1816-1873), a medical missionary of the London Missionary Society, sailed for China in 1839 and ran mission hospitals in Macau and Hong Kong. From 1848 he ran the Wai Ai (Huiai) Clinic in the western suburbs of Guangzhou, assisted by Chinese co-workers such as Liang Fa; his Treatise on Physiology (1851) introduced Western anatomy to China. In 1857 he published his surgical work Xiyi lüelun in Shanghai; ill health sent him back to England in 1859, and he died near London in 1873."
— Wikipedia
Source: Wikipedia, "Benjamin Hobson"
Illness, human nature, compassion, medicine, glory
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"A disciple asked him about serving the spirits of the dead, and he replied, "while you are not able to serve men, how can you serve the spirits?" The disciple added, "I venture to ask about death," and he was told, "you do not know about life, how can you know about death?" ... It is true that the sage could not be expected to give information on such subjects. It was therefore right in him to refrain from vain speculations, or pretending to know what he was really ignorant of. Hence he confined himself to more practical matters—to the duties of the present life."
— William Muirhead
Source: China and the Gospel (1870), "Religious Opinions: Immortality and a Future State," pp. 103–104
Human, soul, world, China, creator
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"The Scottish missionary John Chalmers (1825-1899) served with the London Missionary Society in late Qing China as a preacher, writer and translator. His English and Cantonese Pocket Dictionary (1859) made the term "Cantonese" current in English, and in 1868 he published in London the first English translation of the Tao Te Ching. In The Origin of the Chinese he pointed out that in the Book of Poetry and the Book of History, Shangti and Ti occur more than eighty times with the meaning of God, "that is, of One Supreme Deity.""
— Wikipedia
Source: Wikipedia, "John Chalmers (missionary)"; John Chalmers, The Origin of the Chinese
Time, wise man, finances, grace, soul, salvation
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"All such reforms, however, resemble the stars of night. They are consoling and kind, but offer only a weak light and no life-giving warmth. … Christ is the Light of the World, and the light shines in the darkness. … Christ appeared for all the world; His salvation is for all people. The tidings we bring are those of Saving Grace, the invitation to the kingdom of God."
— Ernst Faber
Source: China in the Light of History (Shanghai: American Presbyterian Mission Press, 1897; translated from the German), chs. XVIII–XX
Human beings, freedom, human nature, selfish desires, freedom, Christ
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""Cheer up, we will write and ask for funds, and we will pray to God to touch hearts even now to provide the funds to meet our request when it reaches home." He kissed his wife's tired face and went at once to write the letter. The letter, when it was written, "was spread out before the Lord," as one did in olden time and as the saints of God have done many a time since, and God, who loves to be trusted by His children, answered the faith of His servants then, though they knew it not "till many days hence.""
— Kingston de Gruché (biographer)
Source: Doctor Apricot of "Heaven-Below": The Story of the Hangchow Medical Mission (C.M.S.) (London: Marshall Brothers, 1910), ch. II
Christian, life, joy, trust, surrender, challenge
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"The Scottish physician John Dudgeon (1837-1901) was sent to Peking by the London Missionary Society in 1863 to serve at the hospital founded by William Lockhart. The travel writer Constance Gordon Cumming recorded that he personally prescribed for an average of 120 hospital patients every morning, drove long distances to attend the foreign legations, and devoted two hours a day to translating useful books into Chinese with his students. He was professor of anatomy and physiology at the Tongwen Guan and spent ten years translating an eighteen-volume Chinese edition of anatomical works. In 1884 he resigned from the London Missionary Society over whether medical or evangelistic work should come first, and continued in private practice in Peking until his death in 1901."
— Wikipedia
Source: Wikipedia, "John Dudgeon" (quoting Constance Gordon Cumming, Wanderings in China)
The world, hospitals, books, illness, Christ, eternal life, soul
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