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this paper, a missionary appeal. But it will not be out of place 

 to put in a reminder that Science and Christianity are, in our 

 view, revealed by the same Lord, and that it is of His providence 

 that we are hving in the generation which is meant by Him 

 to be the great epoch of the spread of both. Should it not be 

 a matter of real concern to us to see that the advancing tide 

 of Missions may keep pace with that of Science ? 



Science in Medical Missions. 



Thus far the relation traced has been that of dependence by 

 Missions on modern Science as a powerful ally. In at least one 

 direction it is possible to show the relation xice versa. Here 

 we may claim that missions have paved the way along which 

 science moves to bless the world. It is in Medical Missions. 



At the World Missionary Conference at Edinburgh in June, 

 1910, the Hon. W. Jennings Bryan made the following notable 

 statement* : — 



" My presence at this Conference ... is due to the fact 

 that on a trip round the world I had a chance of visiting 

 a number of mission stations and a number of colleges. . . . 

 I was impressed by the fact that there is no organisation among 

 men working altruistically for people in other lands except 

 an organisation with religion at the back of it, and under it, 

 and around it." 



Since he was taking part in a discussion on Educational 

 Missions, Mr. Bryan naturally turned to an educational 

 illustration and said : — 



" There is no organisation that can cultivate an enthusiasm 

 for education alone, sufficient to make the people who belong to 

 it go down into their pockets and give money for people they do 

 not know, but Christianity itself." 



He might almost equally well have used the illustration we 

 have before us, that of surgical and medical science. 



Doubtless Mr. Bryan's assertion would be made too sweeping 

 if it were made to mean that only missionaries carry the 

 blessino's of Western enlio-htenment to the uncivilized nations. 



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It is not to be forgotten that to a very large extent the Western 

 races, when they undertake to govern more backward peoples, 

 do provide schools and hospitals and all manner of blessings for 

 their subjects. Yet even in such cases they often wait for 

 Christian Missions to be their pioneers in this beneficence. And 



* Report, vol. iii, p. 434. 



