A traveler can not pass through China without being mobbed by the sick
to be cured. “You are a foreigner, you _must_ be a doctor; cure me and
mine; I have heard that the foreigners can cure any ill; cure me, man
of Jesus.” It is agonizing. I knew a man who only carried a caustic
stick and two drugs (quinine and salts). Wherever he was mobbed with
appeals he administered these drugs to those whom he thought they would
benefit. Almost better if he had not done so. The cured who leaped
about with new life were enough proof that he was “lying” when he said
that he could not heal the wounded, the seriously ill, the leprous and
the ulcered. He was almost torn apart. Were I a billionaire, I am a
thousand times sure that I would send a thousand medical missionaries
to China for five years, each man to hire a Chinese understudy, and
carry a full surgical and medical chest, and the Bible and medical text
books only. Then I would leave the Chinese pupils to carry on the work;
they would be stationed as radiating centers at proper distances apart
throughout the land. I would then spend the rest of my life listening
to the marvelous stories which my five thousand friends had to tell
of what they had seen and done. No man who ever lived--not even Paul
when he wrote the thirteenth chapter of First Corinthians; not even the
beloved John when he saw the Heavenly City in seraphic dreams--would
have experienced such real and wide happiness as I. No man could pass
away with more ecstatic memories, such a delirium of too much joy.
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