The afternoon session was opened by papers on Evangelism by Dr. R V, Taylor, of Yangchow, and Dr Sidney Peill, of Tsangchow. The former said that whenever the has: pitals failed as active and successful evangelizing agents, then did they fall short of their highest aim in coming to China as medical mission aries. In the final analysis, very few of them would have come to help a backward nation solve its medical problems, or even to lessen the sufferings of thousands of its individuals, if they did not have an underlying, overmastering longing to help to establish Christianity in their midst.
The object of the paper was to take exception to the position that the missionary preacher was the healer of the souls of the people, and the missionary doctor the healer of
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