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At the morning service at the Cathe dral, the Rev. V. J. Copley Moyle Senior Chaplain) was the preacher and at the Union Church, the Res. J. Kirk Maconachie preached. Both services were well attended by delegates attending the Congress.

"THE WILL OF GOD. In his address in the Cathedral the Rev. V. H. Copley Moyle chose as his subject The Will of God, basing his sermon on the text, Paul an Apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God" (1st Corinthians, 1).

"Sometimes," he wrote, "I bodies." could se before me in the church a very consulemnule part of the congregation. whose lives God had made me & mean to suve, or to recover their health. Aud doing it for nothing so obliged them that they would readily hear me" That was he 17th century. In the 20th century Buch tribulation would befall the prea cher who essayed such methods of gaming the car of the godless on any terms, and the terms were greater than nothing the law of the land would have som thing to say,

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uites as he could. if the timely chance were given him. As for ministers, they were looked upon by sonic as if their place was to snatch souls at the last moment from Saan. Doctors and Ministers had much to do, and always would in bind.

the wounds of such as bad falleh by the way, repairing the disasters, BOU ending the nischances which befel their frail and vulnerable hamianity. Let them.

other therefore recognise each brothers in every effort of succour and pity; let them also join hands in the spreading of light and knowledge by They might regard Baxter as a successor which life, both spiritual and material.

might receive illumination and unlift and of the monks who practised beating in the

the dread word inevitable" be deprived middle ages, and early in the 19th ven-

of its present crushing incidence in their tury they found a very sturent type of

Their Sasiour wert out the disciples to derie continuing the good work in his conceptions of both disease and sin country parish u torkshire.

the work of preaching and healing two Were both duties shared by by twa over-serious Sidney South, released from the east winds

both, one wondered, or was the preaching parish clergymään, tuough not mainly allotted to one of the couple and Edinburgh, and sequlously rouowmg his duties as

How the healing to the other! wholly contented with ms lot,

amateur practitioners Required it might be supposed some such specialis

tion of duties would have come about. these

In any case it was a strong combination what knowledge they had he could not

and suggested to him a method which say; it was to be hoped that they re-

might be developed in various ways. In sognised their unitations and did not

the mission. field things worked out, on that basis to a large extent, and those imperil the bres of their neighbours "by venturing to tar to the mysterious reatus of surgery and pathology. Being

who were medical missionaries were at men of sellingeace and education they

an advantage... would know where to stop, differing from. the ignorant village healers of those times. He remembered reading a book country doctor in

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Boss we find that He never said it was of the China Medicul Missionary Asso. Gospels what Christ taught about sick- ciation and the Hongkong and Chinn the will of God, but He always banished Branch of the British Medical Assogia-it. He never said to any of the multi tion, and at the same time the opening tudes of sick folk who were brought to bim. You must keep your sickness and (yesterday) of the 17th Biennial Confer suffer your gain cause it is improving but without say single enge of the C.M.M.A., were marked by your chacueter," special services beld at St. John's Cathe exception He cured every sick person who was brought to in or who was commend ed to Him by hers. I cannot see how dral and at Union Church on Sunday.

our Lord could have acted in the way He did if God willed men to be sick Christ spoke of sickness not at the will of God but as the work of the Devil And in all the records we have of uur Lord we never once read of Him being sick. Sickness is in the physical world what sin is in the spiritual, it is the re sult of a

breach of Ged's law and it is not His will. It is true that God often overrules the evil and out of sickness and disease brings some good result, but of reminiscences by I believe it is untrue to say that God the North of Ireland, in which he told sends sickness or that it evez His will how he was called in too late to save, the that we should be sick. The central fact life of a man overdosed with laudanum the Christing revelation is that God by the village quack. The coroner's jury He said: Today we cotamemorate the

is our loving Father, and if we believe was composed of decent bodies whose one of the bitter persecutor of Christianity, to see us sufor sickness and disease, and the verdict returned was whom we know na Paul the Apostle. What earthly inther would willingly see manslaughter, not against the prescriber bis letters he loved to begin in this way. his child suffer if he could prevent it of the poision, but against the doctor "Paul an Apostle of Jesus Christ by the It is this false idea of its being God's for making use of a horrible engine nowhere sanctioned in scripture," that He had was to say a stomach pump. will of God. He commences big second will for us to bave sickness that is so epistle to the Corinthians with the same largely responsible for the way in which words, and so he does in writing to the we often hear men speak of the will of personal knowledge of a case in South Ephesians and to the Colossinus and to God as a heavy burden which we have Devon some 35 years ago, where a farm labourer's life was sacrificed because, to hear, instead of being the source of

instead of sending him to hospital for a Timothy The Will of God" was the

all our joy, motive power of his life. As he went about before his conversion, drugging the

We believe that it is the will of Gedere cut from his reaping hook they Christians before the Jewish judges and

that all men should come to be earnest book hint to a "wise woman" who tied compelling them to blaspheme Jesus followers of Jesus Christ, and in China frog's leg in a bag round bis neck as

a charm to stop the mischief Christ, he was animated by a desire to

at the present time there is no greater do what he believed to be the will of God.

means to that end than the work of He thought it was God's will that Chris Medical Missions. Christian care for the tianity should be stamped out when he was suddenly convinced that his sick was one of the causes of the rapid conduct in this matter had been a ghastly Spread of Christianity in the early ages farther, and to mention by no means It was a Christian woman Fabiola who established the first bospital ever found the most striking instance. Lord what

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I things of that sort could happen in England within living theory, how and healing, say in China, to go no urgent was the seed for both preaching.

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in the Western world; it was & Christian as it was practised in the light of the Bishop, Basil of Caesarea, who founded advanced knowledge of to-day, was itself the first leper asylum; it was a Christiana preaching so far as it went. It was mercbact, Apollonius, who founded the letting in of light, an antidote to ignorance, a practical lesson in sense and first free dispensary; and the same is sanitation, which could not but undermine true of what is happening to-day in Chinn superstitions that enslaved the minds of and other non-Christian countries where

men by fear of unseen terrors. Medical Missions are removing prejudices effect of modern medicine was more and and softening heathen hearts. When we

more to place itselt upon a foundation of think of the wonderful work being done

real science, to lessen the sphere of the by Medical Missions in helping to spread unaccountable and incalculable the Kingdom of God in the world it seems impossible that there could be such a thing as a Christian who takes no in- terest in Medical Missions.

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Their Medical-Missionary was bon- oured by all, even if there were some unable to refrain from amazement that Harley Street, to a hospital in the wilds. he should "no: prefer a door plate in Mission doctors might speak. many s word in season to a heart opened wid soltered by sickness and disease, speak

to the teacher in. his class or the Medical missions were something of a Saw something ia mission hospitals, but puzzle. The man who admitted, that he had no use for, what he called, "pam- singing, was a cramped creature, who if he had the heart to go into the work instead of standing outside and criticis-

would ing it all.

soor. discover benevolence which had bothing to do with the spiritual nature.

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In token, of all the medical-mis- 'stonaries and doctors had done," nick the Preacher, "we rejoice as a church Lo receive, at your own request, the mem- 08 the bers of your Congress and. welcome. God speed your work and Church's behalf, I give you our warm prosper you in it at all times and we shall pray that your gathering and deliberations, in our Colony may be to of His gracious purposes "toward the the Glory of God in the advancement

children of men."

THE MORNING SESSION. Following the President's address the business of the morning session began,

Dr. Montgomery (Chinchow) rend a paper in connection with Evangelistio work as reinted to Hospitals," and Dr. FH. Mosse (Tsinaa) one on Evangelis own province, to come out from the

tie werk as related to Medical Schools." twilight, as it were, of guess work and

A discussion followed upon these sub empiricism and to move confidently injects until the adjournment, the debate the light of law and reason. More and

taking place on the following lines: (1) more in this great enterprise of

enlight

Methods in hospital and school men: did the work of the healer and that

"Conservation of results obtained "Medico evangelistic tours" (4) "How spuse every medical man who took his

be got from assistance..can

local werk to beart must be a missionary He

churches"

and (3). Uses of Litern- could not, if he would, and he did not

ture. wish to reduce his profession to a mere

Jewish monotheism and the claims of how diseases should be treated, but rather of the teacher move side by side! In that

town

irade. Whenever his help was sought he brought not only applied skill. but some importation of knowledge and guidance. Not the least did he bestow a gift of human comfort and reassurance upon which all of them had learned in their time, and which abided, he trusted, in their grateful memories.

In their

mistake, nis first thought was how shall te now do the will of God. wilt thou have me to do?" And when he received the message

was to that he preach the religion be had persecuted he retired into Arabia to mediate in soli- tude on the premendous change which this involved in his life and to think out the effect of his new belief on his old faith. The first apostles were simple fishermen, St. Paul was a student of theology who had studied under the greatest of Jewish teachers. He had to reconcile the Christian Gospel with his belief in the aus God. Before his con- version the followers of the Nazarene

I suppose the most important subjects were little more than a Jewish sect., after his return they were the Catholic Church. being discussed as the Conference are not He had thou cut the reconciliation

how they should be prevented. I should Jesus Christ to be Saviour and Judge like to see the members of the Confer of the world, and so he had laid the

ence shown over the most squalid and foundations on which Christian theolo

most crowded quartery, in this Kians have since built. Henceforth he (though no doubt they have seen worse was convinced that it was the will of in otuer parts of China) and then the God that he should preach Christ as the Conference might make a pronouncement divine Saviour of the world, and to that

on the danger to public health of over purpose he devoted the rest of his life, crowding and the imperative need of open and in that cause he met his death. Throng out his whole life the will of spaces and playing grounds in the thickly populated parts of this or any other city. How often be Such a pronouncement might kindle in God" was his motive. speaks of it in his writings. The people the hearts of some, philanthropist or

He would like to be allowed, speaking of Macedonia he says "gave themselves public authority the determination to for his brethren in the ministry, to claim to the Lord and unto us by the will of supply some suen open spaces. I rejoiced the physician, as a colleague and co- God." He exhorts the Ephesians to BCTV to see that the subject has already been worker in the human cause Christ doing the will of God from the mentioned, but I wish the whole confer- several ways they were alike engaged heart." He echoes the prayer that the ence could express its opinion on this in a work of reparation, rescue, preven Colossians may stand complete in all the pressing need, and that might have an tion, uplift in what they aimed, that the will of God. To the Thessalonians he effect which no single voice, whether life of the humanity in which they had writes this is the will of God even your clerical or medical, en hope to nubieve, large part might be healed of its sanctification,' " and again in every it is the will of God that all men should wounds, guarded from its dangers and thing give thanks for this is the will of

what nearer to its ident. He recalled God. The great motive of St. Paul's have the opportunity of living in healthy brought generation by generation some surroundings, and squalid slums are an life was to do the will of God, and there offence to God and a danger to men. half a century ago when the country

inspiring can he no grander and more

Lastly I would say that it is the will practitioner rode unreckoned miles over motive than that in any man's life. If of God that men of all races should live rough roads in all weather for fees is the motive which bas produced the at peace with one another, and I believe exiguous, or non-existent; turning the greatest martyrs and heroes and the that the medical profession is doing a blind eye when his good dog diverged to greatest benefactors of the human race, great work in drawing men of all nations get the surreptitous bare, which would and it ought to be the dominant motive and races together in a great fight against had its way to some poor patient's cook- in every life. If we are true children of the common enemy of mankind sicknessing pot. Spending and being spent an God we must consecrate all our energies and disease, and so doing much to solve his endless rounds of cheer and comfort, and powers to the fullment of the will the race problem of which we hear no with little social recognition or reward of God. In all ages men and women who much to-day. Brethren if we, like St. and no prospect of the prizes of his have been actuated by this motive have Paul, are animated by the motive of doing profession, which yet he might have been been able to do great things. That is one the will of God, we have a stimulus which as well qualified to attain as another, So it was of the outstanding lessons of Mr. Bernard will carry us through all dieulties and had he sought after them. Shaw's play. St. Joan which has been enable us to overenme all dangers, for alte with the doctor in the industrial so much in our minds here lately and we are sure that, however strong may aty, handling his scores of cases daily which has charmed us all. Joan taught seem the forces of evil God's will is sure and doing his best for each, shortening the French to ght for the will of God in the end to prevail and there is no his own days to prolong the life of others, to be done and not to get ransoms for greater privilege than to be allowed to his work never finished, open to every call, and like himself (the speaker), a their captures, in all parts of human take some part in bringing about the habitual breaker of the Sabbath, not life we should try to find out what is realisation of that oft repeated prayer the will of God and then to apply our- "Thy will be done in earth as it is in

able to get through with a

week. selves to do it. In business and is re- Heaven."

Ministers and the doctors were by way creation, in the home and in public affairs in science and in art we are called upon

of meeting frequently in the shadowed to co-operate with God in the evolution

At the Union Church in the evening,

places of life. There, he believed, they bad more in common than either of them of humanity according to the Divine plan. the Rev. J. Kirk Muconachie chose as his But it is all important that we should be subject "Preaching and Healing, basing rightly informed as to the will of God his remarks on the text "And He sent for undoubtedly, many men have done them forth to preach the Kingdom of much evil, like Saul of Tarsus before his bd, and to heal the sick (Matthew conversion, by mistaking the will of God. 9/27. There is one part of God's will pa which In his address be said: Amongst the there is much erroneous thinking, and noble army of the 17th century Puri- that is the matter of sickness and disease, tans no paino was better entitled 20 lov. We are glad to welcome to our Colony ating (remembrance than that of Richard this time the members of the Medical Baxter. His books were still read and Conference now Assembled bere and we bis hymns still sung, but it was bis 16 pastorate at Kidderminster which tions and actions, for we believe that in their work to promote the bealth of the al. He found the place a desert and community they are doing the will of left it garden. He went there when God. It is a common belief, that God the place had a terrible reputation, even sends sickness and disease to teach men for those times, ler ignorance and vice; to be patient and to cultivate all kinds and he left it a model of all virtue, Bax.. of virtues. How often one hears the sick ter himself drew up a list of thirty and the doctor would always have some person say "Well I suppose its God's reasons for the extra-dinary success of will

They and its set for some good pur. his work in the Midland town, nose. Such a belief seems to me to be were all interesting, and several tempted entirely false. How are we to know quotation, but No. 17 was the only ote what is God's will? There is only which directly befitted their service that one way to know that will and that evening. It was his custom to practise way is to turn to Jesus Christ and physie among the people, He found see what He has to teach UK on that "they that cared not for their soul, be ahjeet, for He is God manifest did love their lives, and cared for their

PREACHING AND HEALING.

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"THE AFTERNOON SESSION. In the afterapan the reports of Execu tive Councils and Standing Committees (except Council on Hospital Administra- tion) were presented to the Conference The reports were printed and distributed before the meeting and were merely. presented,

Discussion took place on the various reports.

Several resolutions were put forward as follow

That the Executive Committee on December 19th considered the question of appropriate recognition of those quem- bers of the Association who had rendered most faithful and distinguished service to Medical Missions in China, and recom mended to the Association that they ap prove of the conferring of a medal suit- ably inscribed on such members as are from time to time nominated by the Executive Committee for this honour The details of the scheme to be left to the Executive Committee.

That the Executive Cominittee recom- mend to the China Medical Missionary Association. that they should adopt a seal, the design of which would be worked out. by the incoming Executive Committee.

That with a view to assisting Mission Hospitals who attain the accepted stan- dards of staff and equipment they shonkw approve of the policy that facilities be afforded for the voluntary registration of such hospitals as desired.

The first resolution was rejected, but the second and third were approved.

The Chairman (Dr. Kirk) announced that this afternoon Dr. Maitland would repeat his lecture on "Health and Modern Lidustry in Chin."

CONFERENCE ENTERTAINMENTS.

Following the conclusion of the busi- ness sessions of the Joint Conference of the China Medical Missionary Associa tion and the Hongkong and China Branch of the British Medical Association, dele- gates devated the week-end to the enter tainment side of their visit to the Colony. up to Saturday the majority of them had had little opportunity of seeing much of Hongkong or of viewing places of in- terest, but on that day they made up for me. Among the pleasures arranged for them were trips around the Island

often realised, and nothing was to be 40 more regretted than any lack o

of 'iutual confidences and understanding. The practice of medicine and surgery had had to disentangle itself by slow degrees from the work of the minister, the healer and even the apothecary, All, however, the were united in one common airly, prevention and cure of the ills which mortal being inherited or acquired, and lost time.

close akin, in its own special sphere, was the work of the Christian gospel in

wish them Godspeed in all their deliberaald probably be tus permanent memori-istering to the mind diseased, bind- and to the New Territories, tennis parties.

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ing up the broken heart, assunging and other entertainments. fevers and healing hurts in their poor humanity of a kind which medicins could not assist or surgery relieve.

their several functions, the clergyman

Many avalled themselves of the invita tion extended by Sir Paul Chater to tea Through collection of Chinese works of art.

on Saturday afternoon and to inspect his On Friday evening the delegates were entertained to a concert, given in their thing in common. In the eyes of many they honour by the University Students at were both alike, emergency men, to be called in when needs must, when sinister Eliot Hall; while the same evening a eeplyte and undertaker was the next grim dances was arranged for them By the possibility Doctors resented being held Union.. as the lesser of the two evils when corn pared with the coff-maker. He would like the chance to maintain life in health and present the incidence of disease, 59

This afternoon (Tuesday) Sir Roberts, Ho Tune has invited the delegates to tea on the roof garden of the Hongkong Hotel.

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