The Oregon daily journal., April 21, 1907, SECTION FOUR, Image 44

THE OREGON SUNDAY JOURNAL. PORTLAND, SUNDAY MORNING, APRIL 21, ,907
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issionaries are
Promote,
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'HEN Christian j missionaries
preached only ; salvation through
religion. . many were, martyred'.
Now thai they preach physical, salvation ;
through labor , as well as spiritual salvation
through Christ, they are hailed with joy in
heathen lands, and spiritual progress is mark
ed by physical improvements among" savage
feople. . ;,. i, ;j -vr'';- ' .'.; : ;
When one visits a mission station at p res- J
tntbe it in China or Africa, Turkey or,
Korea, Siam or India- he finds, that with re
ligion the native , is taught manual training;
how to cultivate his land, to build houses and ,
tnake clothing; his wounds are treated in hos-
fitals and his sickness cured by medicine, i- ,
Relieved of his bodily ills, he gladly sub
mits himself to a physician of the soul, co
rfrc JfefveS e3ff7v7p
Minced by the prosperity of his little farm and
the comforts' of his home of the greater effi
cacy of the new faith: . ,; ;-;.' . 'r p .
, More than any other : agency, mission--wies
are spreading .' civilization in foreign
1wAt tfnrhim the. Anrtrine nf Aetii At well
t .
as belief , perscvenngly, mdefatigably pr each-
i -I .-.L -
tng tne gOSpei Of ,W0TK. , : ;
And what is"the result t ' In the jungles
vf the Congo - dusky-skinned women are
making modern shirtwaists and skirts, and
that with-the i use of sewing machines; in
'Xorea women study the principles of Western
tookinr;in Siam and Laos they take up weav-
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ing and sewing; on the shores of Africa,
tvhere missionaries once served as the chef
'ouvre of cannibal banquets, the blacks are
learning carpentry and brickmaking. . V '
' - In India and the Philippines the natives
"have learned the trade of printing; in A us-,
iralia the aborigines study on farm schools
while in Persia sounr men have enthusias
tically taken up the study of modern methods X
of banking and bookkeeping. ' , ' ,
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jiES of th greatest physical needs of th heathen
I haa been met by Christian missionaries In pre
V- ' vidlng hospitals. Th cur of bodily Ills ha
brought hundreds of convert to Christianity. ,
la Persia, Korea, China, Japan and tb Congo coun-'
try natlvea hav studied surgery and medicine; women'
have become qualified as trained and efficient nurses.
"My firm-conviction, artr thirty-four years of ao- .
tlve medical work In India," wrote missionary-physician.
"Is that no mlMsion Is complete or doing all
that it might and ought to do to haaten the coming '
or the klnKdom of -Christ that ha not, aid by aid .
with the Church, a medical mission work."
Ignorance of medicine and the barbarous practices
nf native physicians In civilised lands have been a .
source of Incredible IIL
Ureteral for the services rendered them, the nativ '
f l'nui, China, recently r.resontd a banner to a '
...!Monary doctor, th Rev. O. A. Huntley, on which
i. h inscribed "Pu kio aaen aln'Mend th body, i
the .soul." That la the spirit with which native
. f other landa hav greeted tfce missionary doc tore.
MILLIONS TREATED YEARLY
According o tho latest ststlstlc of th evangelical
rnriftiea, thre ar now In foreign aoumrle ou bo
ami do mrdl missionaries., Of thee ISO are
...nfn. Kauh -r inauy native nursre are graduated
t -in the hopltli and vchools. Annually about 1 100 -i
y ram-nte are treated. .
in the l".at liinoranc concernlnc; anatomy and
!: r tia a source of unnecessary evil and wee.
, t hlna tliere a a popular belief that th body la
'l-''i '-re. w'h, iron and water, find soon as
- rirment predouilnates over another alckness en-
!..m.-tlmes devils ar credited with Inflletlna" dis
. , .n-t are e-vlleit to Die houee, and during aa en-
u nlit t.-t torn-tome and wall Incantations to
tie vll si'lrits.
If ilni la no lninu.vi.nif r.t bv mnmlra- h nl
t tV. I'jv.a th, ti-itiont mnA Wat him oi
" ii'aiMi-n away tne nvu
i
;:.-a la aij to be the riault of to llttl light
-if :
. I I i n i - i ' ' .... m i ,,, i In' , -;,;,-ii i. n . 1 I:
r' Aotear, Mfan?- 7?c?jhv7&. So ccxr??
nterlng th yea.'' o th nativ physician frequently
run a lsng pin Into each eyo of a patient to let In mora
light In Slam sweet oil Is often Injected Into joint
amicted with rheumatism, Th nativ doctor work
on ths theory that each Joint Is a hinge, and rheu
matism Indicate a need of oiling-. Many maladies ar
attributed to air arising; from various organ In th
body, so th akin 1 often pierced with needle to let
out th wind.
On can fully appreciate th beneficent work don
Carpentr-p
by th missionary doctors In dispelling such Ideas 'as
these and giving people proper medical treatment Na
tives study In th mission school, often set up pr ac
tio for themselves, and by th efficacy of their treat
ment cast th witch doctor into disrepute. . , '
Of Dr. Peter Prkr It 1 ald he "opened China at'
th point of a lancet" He was a graduate of Tal
univrity and wnt to chin m ins. Through htm
M.000 person ar said to hav been cured of ailments.
a Ichowfu four classes of young men ar being
taught medicine. . Th course I of three and four
years duration, after which th nativ student ar
required to work thre or four years In a mission hos
pital So tar twenty-three student hav graduated.
About vn hav engaged In th prlvat practice of
medlclna t -. .- ,t ( . , .',
Befor her death Dr. Mary Brown, of Wel-Halen.
trained a das of young- women In medicine. On of
5B ,rU r profusion m a city whr
her husband conduct mlnlnnirr work. . .
"For many years smallpox crept like a deadly
plague over Slam, decimating th land each year. The
Sort of nativ doctor to combat th disease wer
la vain. ,- .
Dr. H. Adamsen. a Baptist missionary, went to th
country with some vaccine points. . With hi littio
tock he began vaccinating animal and making virus.
SIAM REDEEMED FROM DISEASE
' A he scratched th arm of th people they saw
th disease growing less, and marveled at the mys
terious Instrument which,! when It drew blood, made
themU"mmuntmfrora,'
nativ assistants, tc
lv vaccine term at
contagion. Dr. Adamsen . trained
Today he is th head of an eiten-
Bangkok, Slam, and most of his
helpers ar natlvea. . . -,
Besld-ss th vaccine farm, he has charg of a
nurses' tralninf school. wbr nativ women study.
Each year hundred of sick natives ar brought back
; to health in th hospital; scores of nurses hav been
. graduated, and pursu th work tn various part of
. th country. ,". - ' -'.i
So valuable I th work considered by the Klnr and
: Queen of blam that tbey frequently give donationa to
the farm, while th (Jueen personally supports th
nurses' school. , .
At Tur a, Assam, under Dr. Crosier, natives ar
taught medicine with the Blbl. When they graduate -from
the dispensary they ar sent through the coun
try, treating and nursing th sick and preaching the
gospel. .
A praiseworthy - work is pursued at the Roman
Catholic mission at Palnt-Trudon, in th Congo Free
State. In the region along- the Congo wbere the
deadly "sleeping- slcknsss" prevail th priests and
rentl sisters of th church hav don their best to al
evlat th sufferings of victims of th plague.
So aealous ware the fathers to help victims that In
May ' 103, they offered a prise of franca and 71
centimes equivalent to 1$ cents for every patient
brought to them. Many natives were trained in ear
ing for the patients. On a slngl day of March, 1101.
104 persons wer received at the isolated hospital.
Her in the Congo a land reeking with the disease,
a land of frightful oppressions, but rich with rubber
growing la Impenetrable jungles one sees progress,
making Its way In the face of almost Insuperable diffi
culties among th laslest and most retardsd savages
on earth.
A railroad about the rapids of th upper Congo was
completed last Reptember. Had It not been for mis
sinnarlea who had trained natives In various trades
th railroad probably would not hav been laid.
For a number of years m'selonaries at Accra, on
the Uold enait, taught th black th trades of car
pentry, brlckmaklng blarksmlthlng and masonry. The
government, when It l-egnn the raJlroaJ, employed
thoua-h there were jooo t' i"0Q natives employed, only
i ltiw hlte men were required,
. Tfra V '1 throa;!i the Cons-o you
would find orphan aayluma, hospital, training; and
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farm school. In th midst of a thick green jungle you
would com across a little f ram house, reminding you
Jf som spick and span little town In your native
court try. If you wer to inquire, you would mc
likely find it was built by native who had been train-
i d by messenger of th gospel. '
Then, It you wer to observe th women on th
perch, you would likely find than; maklrg clothlr
crude skirts and shirtwaist, and using many Amerlcaa
sewing- machine . They ar professional talloresM;
ttught - sewing by ' women missionaries, ' they engage
In making- clothe for other.
Her and there, too, you would sea farms, with
field of vegetable and grain, and If you were to in- .
vestlgat, you would find that th native who reald'
ther wer trained by missionaries, ,
Continuing your trip through Africa, you would
find at other place brickyard; you would see native -pressing
clay, baking- it and building- brick house.
And wer you to ask. you would find that th brick- '
maker and mason, too, wei trained by missionaries. '
v On thousand mile from th mouth of the Congo
Is th Roman Catholic Mission of Luluaburg. Her are
Skeleioiis
iteveal
OU wouk be
' amned," ,
aid a well-
known
physician, recently,
"at the secrets which
re poured into tho
ears of , the family
doctor. ' . ''-''.
,. "T h In are
opened , closets 'Con-',
tain ing grewsome
family skeletons;,
troubles of the bus-,
band and wife are -related
.unsolicited;
in fact, it seems be ,
ia the first nerson to '
whom people unburden themselyes. '',
Cbnsidering the scandals which are revealed
to him, one would suppose the doctor would natu-
rally develop into a gossip if be followed the aver
ge bent of human nature. Yet this is not so. lo
one is truer confidant or a better dviscr than ,
the reputable physician y the ethics of bis profes
sion put him on his honor; there Te few doctor
who would betray a confidence, although it bad
nothing to do with hia professional visit.
A
PACKAGE containing 110,000 waa stolen from th
office of th Southern Express Company, at NsW
Albany, Miss.,' on Novmjr ft, 1905.
A few days aner the theft a patient callea on
Dr. M. F. Roger, of Memrhls, Tenn., and told him h .
hnj eotnmltted the lh-ft. He handed him th package,
containing th money Intact. . . . w
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spacious, well-kept grounds, with shad treat and :
prettily Uld-out gardens. Above) the tree rile the
splr or a litUe church. Nearby are a hospital, a ,
choolhous. a training- school.
. Boy and girl, between the ago of I and IT year.:
are taug bt reading-, writing-, arithmetic, -ogTphy,
muslo and acboolroom exerclsea -,.
The main purpoee la to train each pupil la om
peclal form of work. . Manual trade are taught, and :
m 4TT fcM .wsr-s (arum. n &rrxrtiiV i
particular pain ar taken In electlng- a trad for
each pupil for whloh h show especial aptitude. Girls -ar
taught th art of housekeeping, sewing and cook
Ing, and fortunate. Indeed; ar th nativ suitor who
win tb hands of the trained housewives. . .
- At this mission there ar regular hour whan all',
the pupil world In th garden. They ar taught how
to plant and cultivate vegetable, so that when they
marry they usually start little) garden of their own,
' The result of th missions In th Congo I that th
Indolent savage haa become a skilled artisan." and to
day, thousands r, employed by th government and v
. trading companies. ,. . '-."i. ..-...,
- In th centre of-a beautiful plain, with an-trapen- .
: trabl forest on every side, a beautiful church hat
been built at Blantyre, Nyasalahd, Africa, Surmounted
by a great dome and steeples. It Is a splendid struov
tur. fit to grace any city In Europ or America. Every
brick that was laid and vry nail that was driven In
th building- was by th hand of a black nativ. .
Th negroes who built th beautiful ediflo wer -alt
trained In missionary schools of tb Pre Church
of Scotland. ' And they did not finish working- with the
'church; they hav. begun building- house for them-
'Ives. ... .. '.'":.',.';'.';''".' '.;," V-. .
CATHEDRAL BUILT BY AFRICANS
At Uganda, recently, naUve built a cathedral, with
'. a eating , capacity of 1000, turn; 710,000 bricks, which
th missionaries taught thsm to mak. ',
. Imagine Korean devoting themselves to th making-
of good roads I la many of th mission school
this branch of training- haa been taken up. and many '
Student hav hired out by contract, supervising la
borers laying; stons and building Improved modern
highway over th hilly country. On of th greatest
need f th country is good roods. With them West
ern civilisation will spread rapidly, . ' '
All student at a boy academy at Pyeng Tang, to 4J
a large degree, ar self-supporting., They spend a
certain time each day in th Held ratalng crop, and '
turn out work which results In quit an Income tor
the school. Many learn bookbinding, batmaklng and
th manufacture of straw rope and, shoe. .
Imagln the Korean boy sitting on a stool , and ;
pegging- shoest A mark of progress, I Jt not? KnowUv
edge of making- hat and rope can be well utilised
because of the excellent atraw and fibr which 1
raised la th fields. Ther 1 a small printing press
In th school, and three boy who learned the, trad
. W .. i
ealed to the Idiiii
Th thief was of a good family, but was a nervous,
. physical and moral wreck. He committed th robbery
In a mad moment and regretted it..
"You'll return it and and you won't glv m away,
- doctor?" -
Dr. Roger promised that h would not h felt th
mn had confided In him, and he was obliged to protect
hltn. Besides, he said, he ha repented why dlagrac
him and ehamo th farailyt
He returned th mrney to Express Detectlv Burn,
who demanded th nam of the thief. The physician re
fused to tell. He wss brought before the Grand Jury
and threatened with a heavy penalty if he did not divulg
th nam. -
"1 am In honor bound not to disclose th nam of th
person who corslgncd th money to my care," no said;
''you can deprive m of my liberty, but you cannot tak
from me my sacred honor."
Waa he riehtT Several physicians who wer asksd
. th question strongly defended him. - ,
What secret should a physician respectf This Que.
- tlnn was put to a number of well-known doctor recently.
, A coneensu of replies wss about as follows:
A pbyslclan should not speak about a patient' discus ,
outside the patient's family, tf a malady la such that
th sufferer Is sensitive concerning it. It should b told
. only when th patient la In danger of death and to his
nearest living relative
Whon celled in consultation, a physician should aot
talk about a case by name to other doctors cr any one
ete. He ahould maintain strict silence about all con
fidences concerning the physical oondltlon of a -patient
In fact, everything relating to his trooble.
But tf a physician la told of a family disagreement on
a visit; of Infidelity on part of husband or wife; If h
learn of unpleaaantnesa In th home, and members con
feas to him troubles not needing medical assistance what
should h dot i -
Keep the secrets, all physicians reply, as would a
, priest who Is told of sins in the confersional.
"Few persons realise the harrowing stories told mem
bers of cur profession," said a doctor. "Lawyers seldom
rocelve such confidence a ar vouchsafed to us.
"As soon tut we get Into a home people tell us thai? -tro
tbles. . Mn tell of their financial difficulties, women
tell of thel marit.tl disagreements; mothers complain of
their daughters, sons of their fathers,
"In som well-bred and ultra-reepectsbl homes we
learn secrets which would upset society If revealed and
would k-ep the tongues of gohsli wet (tins for weeks.
People Uk to unburden themselves; why they select
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have- turned out 11, ISO sheets of Sabbath school !
on. They also print letters and notice for churches
and hospital In part of the land:
Utterly Ignorant at flrt of sanitation and cleanll
Bess, girl In the mission sohools of Korea have learn .
d valuable lessons. Here they are taught cleanliness;
how to wash dishes, to sew and make clothing;, to
sweep and cook. The salutary aifeot of this teaching?
I seen In all town whs re there I a mission station.
' Persia, the land of the flre-worshlpers, ha bserf
quick to take advantage of the learning offered. In
the hospital one And Persian women learning- nurs
ing; a number have taken up the study of pharmacy. '
Shortly after the Imperial Bank opened In Hamsdan
they took th"Tlrt class of boys which had bom gralu-.
ated at a mission school, employing them clerk. Of
the graduate sine then, many have become successful
business wen. ,:'' . in ',,
PRINTING PLANT IN BURMA '
On of th largest printing plant in Asia t that
of th baptist Mission Press, at Rangoon, Burma, Na- ,
tlves are employed la th type foundry, stereotyping
and composing: rooms, fhey run the presses. t the .
type, bind th books., Th quality of work I excel
lent Every year Bible and other, religious book ar
turned out In eight language. - - .
, In many way It I a unique plant Wherever on
' goe on turbaned, white-robed native at work. ;
Many who learned th trad at th plant have con
to other part of Asia and opened small prlntlhg of-
' Bee. ..'., x, .,..
' A mission press was started at Ja.ro, Jllo, In th
Philippine. In 10L The New Tetamrft was trans
lated Into Vlsayan, and a first edition of 1009 cop4g. '
together with 17,000 cople of th gospels bound Sep-"""
arately, was printed and sold within a year. s In 10I
.1.100,000 page of traots and Blbl lessons were
printed.-'- ' !.-
An industrial school was opened at Jaro In IMS. ,
Within a few week 100 native had applied for ad- ' '
mission. Th chief purpose is to equip teacher for na- v
tlv schools. Trades ar also taught, and many hav
taken up machinery, masonry, carpentry and f arming-.
On a farm of sixty aora about a mil from Jaro
you can see th nativ any day busy making school
desks, chalra. wardrobe and plctur frames In th oar-,
penter shops; you can them learning- shosmaklng-. :
tailoring- and tlnsmlthlng. In th town th gradu
ate ar in great demand. ... '. . x .. .....
Others ar taught how to rals sugar can, rlc
, and torn. Upon leaving th school many atart llttl
plantation. ., .. -.
Ther ar many Industrial communities In Au-
. tralla, and th aborigines, who nearly atarvsd ten
or twenty year ago, ar enabled to llv 14 comfort
because of a knowledge of agriculture taught them
by th missionaries. . . i i
In New Guinea, wher cannibals ono held high
, orgies, the natlvea hav learned how to grow ba-
nana,- rubber and cocoanut tree. Ther ar many
farm and Iron smltr. , ' ' .
The value of a knowledge of farming- haa been
manifested In Slam and Laos sine th advent of mis- "
alonarhM. With 900 raised by . mission band of th
Presbyterian Church In America a boy school was
opened at Lakawn In lSlx. Many farmers, as wall a
, teachers and preachera, hav been turned out. Re
cently brlokmaklng was added to th trade.
-. Not only th man of the countries, but th women
hav profited by th teaching of th missionaries, Go
to schools In Un Chow, Shanghai. Hang-chow . and
, Nanking-, In. China, and you will find women mission
aries teaching th llttl almond-eyed (iris how to
w, cook and mak lace. ' ", .','.'"'' ,-'
In both China and Japan many woman earn their
living by embroidering and spinning. Whtlo th na
tive can sw and embroider themselves, and hav
mad an art of th work, th missionaries hav been
able to relieve them pt many difficult feature and to
suggest Improvement.'
. That the humanitarian work of missionaries Is ap- ,
predated and that their teaching- of manual training
pavea a way for preaching- the gospel It proved by th
high regard In which the teacher ar held by nativ .
African King. Missionaries hav th protection and
support of Khama, King; of the Bamangwato; L
wanlka, King- of Barotse; Apolo Kagwa, Prim Min
ister of Uganda; Daudl Cbwa and Andereya Luhaga.1
King of Bunyoro. It waa th King of th Barots who
asked King Edward of England, when he visited hi
country, to send more missionaries to teteh manual
training-. '.',.' - . j -
sician.
th doctor I do not know. I sunoos th human mind, '
' when troubled, does feel a certain relief when soma on
sliares a knowledge of th trouble; the doctor I regarded '
as a friend, and his sdvlc Is often asked on matter
regarding which on member of a family would not ask '
of another, . . ,
"Among physicians there I a code of ethics as strong ':'
, as that of the clergy or th lognl profession. Certainly
, we ar not permitted to talk about our patients' diseases, "
' but ths good physician, th honorable doctor. Will not
tell anything else which is confided to him."
A physician who talks of his rstient soon become -.
known among member of the profession ss a "gossip.
"A gossip," said a doctor, Is carefully avoided by .'
hi professional brethren. One I waa caJled Into con-'
sultatlon upon th condition of a well-known man. An
' other doctor who was Ir. th consultation left, and several
. dttye later I learned he had bven discussing tb caso with -1
' some other physicians.
' - "That physician has become knowa for hi' loos
tongue, and no doctor who knows that h can't keep SOU
ver calls hint tn. - -
"There la no hidebound rule to mak doctor kep:
quiet If Mrs. Jones says her husband beats hsr. But if
me pnysician goes .auout wniaiwnng such llttl tlt-blta
of gossip. It Is not long before h la tabooed by reepeot-
aujc itiiiiowra ui nt proiuaaicm.
"Not long ago a man came to m and told me h
was In serious financial difficulty H was employed In a
bunking Institution. Now Imagm th furor If I bad
gone and told-It would have caused a rur on th bank.
"Recently a young unmarried lady, well-known In
social circle l-i a big city, cam to me for treatment.
She seemed suffering from soma great mental trouble, and
finally told m she had been secretly married end had
tx en deserted. If her parent had learned of the mar
rbtg. ther would hav been no end of trouol for sh
had married a servant In th houae.
"A sain, there are msny unsavory scandals which
come to a physician's notice when he enter seemingly
happy honte. Som time aa-o I was called upon to at
tend the sick daughter of a wealthy rrutn. While leading
.the house his wifo, In great distress, and for no ap-
Krent reason. toM me she wss preparing to leave her
almnd. Hh said she found he no longer loved her.
"1 told her to waif a few days. I Piad an Inveatlga
tion. and found th poor woman- had been lirtenlrg to
falee r"ip. Th couple today a re living together hao
plly, wUh perfi-ct vndertandli.g. . . "
"As'ire?lly th doctor kwsps secrets and cures mora
than bodily alias
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