CHAPTER XV - MISSIONARY WORK AND METHODS IN CHINA

Summary

Mission work in China, so far as we had the opportunity of observing it, branches out into the three great divisions of evangelistic, educational, and medical work; and, if we may speak of that separately, women's work among women, which, too, is evangelistic, educational, and medical. I would, however, like to say here, to prevent the possibility of misapprehension, that while, for convenience, evangelistic is distinguished from educational and medical work, that we saw no educational or medical work in China which was not emphatically and unmistakably evangelistic in its character and aim, and, even so far as the gathering in of converts is concerned, satisfactory in its results. Some missions lay special stress on preaching, others on education, others on medical work, but I think it may be said that there is no mission in which all these branches of Christian work are not in varying proportions combined; and the very distinct impression produced upon our minds was that there is room and need for all, and that no branch of work can be omitted or neglected without serious loss and detriment to that great enterprise upon the success of which our hearts are supremely set.