"Let us not be satisfied with mere crowds flocking to us for medical treatment. We have a higher vocation to fulfil. ... Our waiting-rooms may be full of patients, and all our beds be occupied, and yet these men and women will pass from under our care pretty much as they came to us, so far as higher things are concerned, unless we directly bestir ourselves for their spiritual good. They seek us, it is true, but for their bodies only; if we would win their souls, we must seek them."
— John Kenneth Mackenzie
Source: Quoted in Mary Isabella Bryson, John Kenneth Mackenzie, Medical Missionary to China (1891), pp. 209–210
Trust, love, Christ, body, soul
Views: 225
"Myriads of them, and one white-faced, retiring, half-afraid young man! ... Fortunately the conceit is not limited to one side. ... However much [the Chinese] may hitherto have disliked change, he nevertheless does change, and, as time passes, both he and the youth lose something of their inherent self-conceit, and fill the empty corner with mutual respect and even esteem."
— William Edward Soothill
Source: A Mission in China (Edinburgh and London: Oliphant, Anderson & Ferrier, 1907), ch. "Pioneering," pp. 14-15
Language, prayer, foreign land, soul, suffering, brotherhood
Views: 219
"If there be belief, the action which is the natural outcome — the necessary corollary — of that belief must follow. The theology and reasoning of the Epistle of James appeals in its entirety to the believing Chinese. … They make their inferences from the life. … Those whose lives are based on their faith are believers. Conduct is evidence. Those whose faith begins and ends in a form of words are not believers."
— John Ross
Source: Mission Methods in Manchuria (1903), ch. “Catechumens,” pp. 81–82
Faith, theology, truth, Christ, life, believers, words and deeds, power
Views: 197
"The Scottish missionary Thomas Barclay (1849-1935) was sent by the Presbyterian Church of England to Taiwan in 1875 and served in Tainan for sixty years until his death. He founded Tainan Theological College in 1876, started Taiwan's first newspaper, the Taiwan Church News, printed in romanized Taiwanese, and oversaw the translation of the Bible into Taiwanese (New Testament 1916, Old Testament 1932). In 1895, as Japanese troops closed in on Tainan and its defenders prepared to fight, he went out of the city to mediate, persuading the defenders to surrender and the Japanese to refrain from reprisals."
— Wikipedia
Source: Wikipedia, "Thomas Barclay (missionary)" (citing Edward Band, Barclay of Formosa, 1936)
Missions, the way, salvation, the cross, God
Views: 226
"In 1928 Chou Chin-yao, a poor thirteen-year-old in Changhua, injured his right knee; the wound ulcerated and he was in danger of losing his leg. Marjorie Landsborough (née Learner), wife of Dr. David Landsborough, offered her own skin, and her husband himself grafted four pieces from her thigh onto the boy's leg, the first skin graft in Taiwan's history. The graft from her body was eventually rejected, but Chou recovered after grafts of his own skin and later gave his life to the church as a pastor. The couple never spoke of it themselves; the story of this "love that gave its own skin" spread only after Chou told it at an evangelistic meeting."
— Love of Skin Foundation (切膚之愛基金會), Changhua
Source: "The Story of the Love of Skin" (切膚之愛事蹟), Love of Skin Foundation website (sgwlf.org.tw); see also Wikipedia, "David Landsborough III"
Poverty, children, wife, Christ, true light, hospital ward
Views: 176
"We were so grateful for this that we hardly, then, thought of our burning house and the spoiling of goods. ... But the Friend who had restrained the mob from touching us the hours we were alone on the river bank, we knew could now say, "Thus far; but no farther.""
— Mary Hannah Fulton
Source: "Inasmuch": Extracts from Letters, Journals, Papers, etc. (1915), Chapter II, "Canton" (Kwai Ping riot, May 1886)
Planning, Self-Will
Views: 210