Medical Missions Their Place and Power #267860

I Have been asked to write a few lines by way of preface to this volume. I readily do so because fully persuaded of the high value of Medical Missions as an auxiliary to Christian enterprise, and especially in its earliest stage.<br><br>The book contains an exhaustive account of the benefits that may, and in point of fact do, accrue from the use of the medical art as a Christian agency. Mr. Lowe is eminently qualified to instruct us in this matter, having himself been so long engaged in the same field. Some, indeed, may be inclined to question whether medical work may not have been too strongly insisted upon here, as a necessary branch of all Missionary and Evangelistic agencies; and it is quite possible, that in enthusiasm for a grand work which has engaged the labour of his life, this view may have been pressed somewhat far. But, however this may be, if we regard medical agencies as the pioneers of regular missions, our Author has not said one word too much in praise of them. In so far as these are used in the breaking of ground yet strange to the Gospel, or amidst needy and outcast classes anywhere, there can hardly be a question in any Christian mind as to their great value.