The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-10-21
OCTOBER uscr

from other maladies also. that it soon
 expanded into a general hospital. The
 multitude who were cured wondered
 that he would take no presents. They
 were extremely grateful. One man
 whose sight was restored by an opera ton Tor cataract wanted a likeness of
 his benefactor that he might worship
 it daily. In the course of twenty years fifty-three thousand patients were un- i der treatment. The function of mis-
 sionary was combined with that of a
 physician. The patients not infre-
 quently took away with them the Bibles
 and other publications which Dr.
 Parker put into their hands, and which
 they had read in the leisure time af-
 forded them while they were under his
 care, The work of the hospital went on when Dr. Parker had accepted the office of Secretary of the Legation and | Chinese Interpreter for the American Embassy. The personal regard of one of the Chinese commissioners for Dr. Parker moved him to insert of his own accord in the Cushing treaty the per- mission to build hospitals and churches in the ports. In 1S44. after MT Cush-
 ing's return, pr. Parker was made
 United States Commissioner. The re-
 vision of the treaty with China was ef-
 fected almost exclusively by his exer-
 tfons. In 1857, his health had become
 reduced, so that he returned to this
 country to spend the remainder of his
 life At Washington where he resided,
 in conjunction with other marks of re-
 spect, he was made President of the
 Society of the Yale Alumni
 l re gret that I can do no more than make bare reference to few of the
 Yale missionaries who survive. One of the most competent of these, Rev. Lew Is Crout, graduated in 1862, labored for sixteen years among the Zulus in South Africa. and now, at the age of eighty six is passing his last days at his hama in Vermont Rev Henry Blodget, grad uated In 1S4S, returned to his native country, after service in China of many years The older Professors of Yale remember with reverence and warm regard Dr. S. Wells Williams. the author of The Middle Kingdom" who, although not a graduate of the College, was Professor of the Chinese language in this institution after he had spent many years in China, where he was extremely useful as a missionary and as a civilian in the service of the government of the United States. pr. Williams's Chinese Dictionary is monument of his learning. The rela- tions of the University to Japan, on various grounds, are of peculiar inter- est Of the Japanese students who have come to Yale. a number have been trained in the Divinity School for Christian service in their own country. Of the American missionaries in Japan who have been educated at Yale, the names of Dwight w. Learned (grad- uated in 1S7O), and John H. DeForest graduated in 1S6S), are among the names which will readily occur to such as are we'll informed on the subject.
 Our missionary history is not without it's records of Imprisonment and death by violence It is impossible to exclude from recollection the recent events in China, All hearts have been touched oy the tragic fate of Horace Tracy Pitkin, a missionary of the Episcopal Church, a graduate of Yale in the class of 1892. The pathetic details of his Christian serenity and heroIsm in the yt StPNNt pA 'S''if' Niil HUI ItItdTSt, It is enough to say that had these hings occurred far back in the days of oecius or Marcus Aurelius, the story of hem would have come down, as a fa- nfllar passage in the martyrology of he Church, through all the subsequent generations.
 The Rev. Dr. Jessup in the letter which I have already quoted writes. I congratulate you all on this au- picious day, and, as a loyal son of Tale, permit me to say that we, mis- ionary sons of Alma Mater, look to Ter to train the missionaries of the flu ure. A noble band have gone forth rom Yale to plant Christian institu- ions in distant lands. The sons f Yale are scattered over the earth. ut more of them are needed"
 These are the words of a veteran mis- ionary. They recall the famous say ng of John Wesley, which this Uni- ; ersity, in the light of her history, lore f1tly than any individual may ay of herself, My parish is the I 'orld." 1