Medical Mssions.

Waiapu Church Gazette, Volume XV, Issue 3, 1 September 1924, Page 435

Medical Mssions.

The "Church Times" says that, at ,ttie Medical Mission meeting in connection with the S.P.G. annual . meeting, Miss Crosby gave a speech of exceptional interest, not only for its intrinsic value, but also as extending our knowledge (which is all too small) of the missionary work that is being done on the Catholic side by our great sister-Church of the United States. As Miss Tickell had spoken of the vital importance of the Society's work in regard to the training of native nurses and women medical students for the evangelisation of India, so Miss Crosby pleaded a like need, among the Chinese. The great burden of her speeeh was the ''unnecessary heroism" of medical . missionaries. "Of heroism," she said, "there is much that is inevitably necessary, and we thank God that there is. We don't want the- missionary clause to be an easy one, arid we feel that, the ap-

peal of the hard and the heroic is one to ■which every heart responds." She ■wondered' whether the appeal was not made too easy, and she sometimes felt that young people would answer more to an appeal of greater hardship calling 1 for heroism. But she wanted to speak of the unnecessary hardship of the mission field^ the tiriderstafting and ■ constant breakdowns, which were quite unnecessary./ It was such poor economy— just because people at home eared so little ! ' ' Think of Harley Street, *' she : exclainied? amid laughter. " "Why should it be that for nine years they had been unable to get a doctor to help Dr. James in Central China?" (A lady whose amazing 1 hospital work ought to ; be written in booklet' form and circulated among the women medical students of London) . She sometimes won 11 dered whether it could be that r Ang-^ licans cared less for our Lord than other people. Roman arid Nonconfor--mist missionaries never seemed to be ' ' up against it " in quite the same way, and she felt it to .be a horrible blot on Anglican Christianity! Her story of the heroism of the two American women doctors was equalled by that about the Chinese Christian nurse. And then, she added, "Some people dared to say, 'Do you like the Chinese?' As if they were asking, 'Do you like a kangaroo V" (Laughter). She could assure the meeting that there was nothing finer on- the earth than a Christian Chinese. (Applause).