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MEDICAL MISSIONS.

CRUDE CHINESE METHODS OF TREATMENT.

TUESDAY,

OCTOBER 18, -1927.

PUNCH AND JUDY'S

parents were advised that the [only thing to be done was to amputato the leg. This they re-

EVIL DAYS. fused to do and went to a native doctor for treatment. He with

MELODRAMA WHICH IS his assistants laid the man on a NEARING THE LAST ACT. At a meeting of members of the rack above his head crushed in stane alab, and raising a large

That inimitable street melo- Hongkong Church Missionary So-down on to the knee, smash-drama, the Punch and Judy show, ciety at the Helena May Institute ing it. As a result the man died. 60 attractive to old and young. yesterday addresses on mission Those illustrations, which were is a dying industry. According to work, espeially with regard to a few of thousands that were re-an "impressario" of this branch medical missions, were given by ported. from all over the world of entertainment the whole-time Dr. J. H. Montgomery and Mrs. would show them the field for performers are fewer and the Blanchett, of Canton.

work by medien) missions.

javerage weekly earnings lower.

Quite a good return for a mo-

A social gathering was held at He urged that no cruelty wasdern Punch and Judy man is 42 four o'clock, after which ten was meant. He had cited the examples| served and the meeting followed. to show them the amount of suf- at which the Rev. H. Copley Moyle fering which was due to sheer presided, and introduced the ignorance.

speakers.

Treatment of Lepers.

week, said Mr. W. Davis, Geor don, one of the few proprietors of gina Street, Camden Town, Lon- a Punch and Judy show left in London, to a Press Association re-

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Dr. Montgomery referred to statements that missionaries were Dealing with the mentally de presentatives. not needed in ion-Christian coun-fetive and lepers, Dr. Montgomery We do best of all in the West tries and that the natives were continued with regard to the latter, End, and we seem to interest best left alone. To-day that same that some aces thought it was grown-ups quite as much as chil- iden was prevalent in certain due to cvil-spirits, and sufferers ren nowadays. Travelling about places, especially in China. were made to stand while red hot London is still the mainstay of Those people seemed to forget irons were put down their throats. orders for special performances the business, though we get that the present condition of He referred to a village of lepers China was not entirely, or at least which was surrounded,

occasionally, a trench very little, due to the missionaries, being dug round the village

Although officially known" It was part of the revolution of a the completion of this the lepers noses, Mr. Davis said his dog's On Toby" for performance pur- grent empire, and looked at in the were driven into the ditch light of comparative history with shot, their bodies afterwards be-little fox terrier, she has

and teal name is Flossie. A bright revolutions in other countries, iting set on fire.

been was not worse than in France and

playing with Purch's nose for the He was glad to have met in past 12 years and she will soon other countries. He believed that Hongkong a group of young men reach the age when she will be militarism and the love of money who had banded themselves on old for the job." In order to were greatly the cause of the together for the purpose of doing relieve the strain of constant per- present conditions in China. what they could for te lepers in forming she has now

He held that such a view was China and elsewhere.

a young untenable to-day.

understudy six months old, who" The need for Dealing with the future, Dr. occasionally missionaries

takes her place. non-Christian Montgomery spoke of the early ller prospective successor is countries was as great, if not history of the movement, referring pan. greater, than it ever was before. to the training of medical students

With regard to medical missions and the establishment of training average intelligence

Any dog of any breed with he believed that they could claim schools in China, saying that he be trained to take a part in Punch can easily four reasons to justify them. The believed the time would come when and Judy, said Mr. Davis. Arst was that they brought relief the Chinese and other nationalties No attempt is made to give a of suffering and disease to the must provide members of their modern touch to the patter of people among whom they worked. own medical profession to meet Panch and. Judy. Their cross- The second was that they removed, the needs of their own countries, talk is substantially the same as the fear of evil spirits, showing and they wanted to make sure that that handed down that disease is from a natural when the time came for handing centuries ago. cause, and not supernatural.Third-over, the natives would be fit to

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Just when the Punch and Judy ly they had done more, perhaps. carry on.

show was introduced into England than any other form of missionary He appealed for aympathy and no one seems to know. It origina- enterprise in breaking down pre-support for the splendid work that ted in Italy about 1600 and some Judices, superstitions and even was being done.

authorities state that it was customs. Fourthly, they could;

brought over to England by Hu- justly claim that they had brought Mrs. Blanchett gave a detailed ference to Punch to Pepys, dated guenot refugees. There is a re- many to the kingdom of God,

account of the work being done in 1669. Suffering through Ignorance. Canton, and thanked Hongkong Speaking with regard to disease people for the sympathy and help and medicine in China, he said that had been extended that the suffering through ignor- Canton

to the foreigners were necessary, because. workers. ance was appalling. They had seemed

Some people they encouraged and heartened to think that since the the nutive workers. never studied anatomy of psysio-summer of 1925 there had been logy so how could they know the very

She concluded by saying that the little work done. That anti-Christian propaganda causes of disease and how to treat might be true of some places but really furthered the Gospel. When them? Native treatment was it was not true of Canton. given which had no relation what-

the people saw posters telling them soever to the cause of the disease. of the training of teachers

Mrs. Blanchett went on to speak that they must oppose Christi- and anity, they immediately asked Giving examples, Dr. Mont-Bible women, and of how they what it was, and bought tracts gomery cited an instance where were endeavouring to extend the and books to read all about it. burning sand was applied to awork to Shansi. child's body, which was so hot

Mrs. Blanchett also appealed that it burnt through the flesh to Bible was taught every day and it ents.

In their schools in Canton the for support from "Hongkong resid- the third and fourth degree. How was not done secretly. This year] The chairman proposed thanks

had

a little girl, suffering from fever, they had more students in the day to the speakers, after which the, was held down while two little schools than they had ever had meeting elcsed. tires were lighted on her chest,before. She thought the reason

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