University of Nanking - Linguist Yearbook (Nanking, China)

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20 THE LINGUISTH THE CALL OF THE SERVICE. The call of the service extends into many fields. To those who are interested in preventitive medicine and public health with their problems of sanitation and popular education, China otiers the greatest field in the world today. To those who are interested in fighting those great scourges of mankind such as tuberculosis and leprosy, there are millions waiting with their faces turned toward the wall for one who can give them hope. To those with the blood of pioneers in their veins, the call comes to enter the new fields out on the far frontiers where the great adventure of bringing a gospel of love and service and healing has a virgin field. The call comes to each one so equipped that they can help bring this service to its fullness. Doctor, nurse. pharmacist, dentist, technican, all are needed to complete the work. And in all and through all this service as a golden thread runs ,the fact that many of thosewho are reached by the ministry of healing are brought into contact with the Great' Physician and, through him, receive the gift of life eternal. Acknowledgment is made to Drs. King, Voss and Vtfoodbridge whose invaluable assistance made this paper possible. R. A. Psrizxsou. M. D. References. 1. MacGowan: A History of China. 2. Wong: Chinese Hospitals in Ancient Times. C.M.M. jour., Vol. XXXVII, QNO. 1. 3. Cadbury: Medicine as Practised by the Chinese, C. M. M. jour., Vol. XXXVII, No. 6. 4. Balme: Modern Medicine in China. A Tea House

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WESTERN MEDICINE IN CHINA 19 THE NEED OF HELP. The survey of past accomplishments is a challenge to us to take up and extend the work. This challenge is made doubly emphatic when we survey the enormous needs of China which are now met in so small a way. At the present ltime, each hospital has an average quota of one and one third million people. Of two hundred and forty :six hospitals reporting, sixty nine per cent have only one doctor. Each doctor has an 'average quota ofover three quarters of a million of people. Fifty two percent of the hospitals in which these doctors serve have no foreign nurses. Because of the comparatively small .number of hospitals and the limitedstaffs, only eight out of every hundred sick Chinese are seen by these doctors or their Chinese assistants. This means that each year in China. a column of people standing three abreast and reaching from New York to San .Francisco are without any adequate medical attention during their illness. To bring the present hospitals upto the minimum standard advised by the China. Medical Missionary Association of two foreign doctors and one foreign nurse to each hospital, one hundred and seventy doctors and one hundred and thirty nurses are needed. Yet these hospitals when staff and maintenance and equipment are fully provided can only hope to serve a small percentage of the Chinese people. - . ' mx.: 'M ,,' , . l - ', i . ,, , ' V - , r , 4.-5' - 1 I. 1' N-A . if - s , , Washing rice and vegetables, preparatory to cooking, in a pond which receives sewage and other filth. Only by drinking tea does the Chinese escape epidemics of communicable diseases from sm face pools such as these. Wells furnish only a small part of the drinking water used by the people.

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THE GLAD EVANGEL 21 TI-IE GLAD EVANGEL What is Evangelistic Work in China? NVhat does the evangelistic missionary do? Does he hold big evangelistic campaigns? Does he have charge of a church and preach regularly? VVhat are the needs and opportunities in the evangelistic iieltl in China just now P . Is the greatest need for evangelistic workers or for educational workers in China just now? These questions and many others crowd upon young people at home when their thoughts turn toward missionary work as a career, If we may judge by memories of our own days of preparation. An attempt will be made to answer these and various other queries from the point of view of a group of students who have spent one brief, crowded and happy year in China. Only a year ago we were college and university students at home, so we look at our Iield of service- from the'point-of view of the present generation of students and young people. It is a proud day for a man when he gets a call to a larger field of service. The first thing we realized when we found ourselves deposited in the midst of about 400 million souls was that we have been called to a larger ileld of service with a vengeance. If there are too many struggling churches in your town we would like to give You a call to this larger field. You may have the care of a hundred thousand souls not one of whom has ever heard an adequate presenta- tion of the gospel. They have never seen one of Christ's 'living Epistles and they never will see and never will hear these things unless you come. , Just how does the evangelistic missionary set about his work? His methods are varied. I-Ie rarely holds big evangelistic campaigns and if he does hold them, he usually has Chinese to do the reaching, In fact he is not primarily a preacher at all. He may inrequently preach on Sundays but the Chinese preachers are of course much more effective for regular preaching t an a foreigner can hope to be. The foreign evangelist does, however, have a vast number of duties which are most essential to successful missionary work. He may oversee the work of from one to fifty native helpers. These will be- preachers, evangelists, teachers, bible women, carpenters, gardeners, etc. Usually a man takes charge of the men's work and a woman missionary oversees that for the women. The evangelistic missionary must aid in and organize the work of preaching, singing, social service, visiting the sick, famine relief, advising and guiding new Converts, see to the payment of native helpers, teach his preachers- and helpers, ,direct the construction and repair of buildings and furniture, carry on boys clubs and reading rooms organize numerous bible classes and inquirers classes, distribute portions of scripture and other literature. He may have anything up to thirty outstations which he must visit once or twice or even more times a year. He