Since the essential Christian spirit fig the spirit of service in the most Dractical' possible ways, there is surely a place for it in the average Chinese community. In an orphanage in this city a serious epidemic fof veneral disease was rendering the babies blind a an alarming rate. Malnutrition, and other diseases increased the' virulence of the most terrible of all diseases. The Christian Hospital offered to clean up the situation, and it now has a ward filled with twenty tiny babies rescued from diseased and filthy wet-nurses. The babies are being scientifically fed and nurses are being trained to care for them.
Some people think that the business of @ missionary is to foist an unwell come religion'on an unwilling people. Probably there are extremely few people who have even the faintest idea of the actual job of the missionary in this country. The saving of a score of babies from a life of blindness and misery is a task occupying but a few minutes of a busy missionary's day. Probably many a critic of this missionary, has not in whole lifetime accomplished so Great a service as the missionary did fu a few minutes of his routine days work. There is perhaps not a vast deal of difference between saving cchilé's eyesight, and in. teaching score of children to read. In both eases a lifetime of darkness and drabness has been prevented. The church in China is now getting behind the mass education movement, and while at frst it fights alone, very soon powerful forces come to its aid and millions are on the way to enlightenment.
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