9/17/14
Jesus commanded his followers to go and make disciples of
all nations
Mat 28:19 Go
therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the
Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,
Mat 28:20 teaching
them to observe all that I have commanded you.
There have been several waves of missionary work during two
millennia, and in each case medical work has played a key part.
Dr John Scudder was among the first Western missionaries of
the modern era and in 1819 went to Ceylon. Among the best-known pioneer medical
missionaries were David Livingstone (Central Africa), Albert Schweitzer, a
talented doctor, theologian and musician, who devoted his life to people living
in the remote forests of Gabon, and Albert Cook, who founded Mengo Hospital in
Uganda. William Wanless founded the Christian Miraj Hospital in India, and Ida
Scudder founded the world-famous Vellore Medical College in the same country.
Hudson Taylor spread the gospel and western medicine to China and founded the
China Inland Mission. Paul Brand pioneered missions to lepers. Henry Holland
and his team, working in the north-west frontier of the Indian sub-continent,
operated on hundreds of cataracts every day. Others have been influential in
the prevention of such diseases as malaria and tuberculosis.
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