Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-11-18
CHRISTIAN ENDEAVOR HOUR
Conducted by Grace Livingston Hill-Lutz.
For Sunday, November 10, 1908.

Conducted by Grace Livingston Hill-Lutz.
For Sunday, November 10. 1905.
Topic: Medical Missions at Home and Abroad. u
Mark :29-34.
20. And forthwith, when they were come
out of the synagogue, they entered into the
house of Simon and Andrew, with James
and John.
80 But Simon's wife's mother lay sick OF
a fever, and anon they tell him of her.
81 And he came and took her by the
hand, and lifted her up; and Immediately
the fever left her, and she ministered
unto them.
49, And at even, when the sun did set.
they brought unto him all that were dis
eased, and them that were possessed with
49, And all the city was gathered to-
gether at the door.
a. And he healed many that were sick
Of divers diseases, and cast out many
devils: and suffered not the devils to speak,
because they knew him.
The Lesson.
The medical missionaries in Persia were
faithful to their posts during the time of
cholera In Persia. They had many Of them
laid their plans for an absence during the
summer, but when the cholera broke out
and the people asked what they meant to
do they decided to stay and help the peo-
pie. First the people fed from the cities.
but afterward. when 1t broke out in the VIII
lagos, they came back terrified. One poor
woman came for medicine, and when told
Of the Savior she said Lady, l am not
afraid to die. but I don't want to die now,
for they do not bury people, they just drag
them outside the city and throw them into
some vacant place
Nearly all the native doctors In Tabriz
deserted the city, and the mission school
had to be suspended. The Armenians as a
remedy for the cholera brought from dis
lance the supposed hand Of the Apostle
Thaddeus, which is kept In q monastery
called by his name Crowds of people went
out to meet this relic, and as they ell
kissed 1t, 1t was the means of spreading the
dread disease The missionaries were able
by their self sacrifice and earnest en-
deavors to point many sick and dying souls
| to the Savior, and the fact of their re-
manning during the scourge and helping the
people with medicine and comfort has
opened the way little wider than ever be-
fore for the gospel to be preached.
In the Tooker Memorial Hospital, CEN
trail China, five thousand patients were
treated in ten months.
missionary at Toxic writes: "a lovely
Christian woman, graduate Of the JOSH
Gakuin, Is In charge of the entire nursing
force of the large Toxic Hospital. Another
occupies the same place of responsibility in
the hospital in Hiroshima, and the head
nurses on three of the hospital ships are
also Christians. / may add that We know
of no followers of Christ in Japan, or, In
deed, anywhere. who appreciate their privl-
ieges and opportunities more than do these
good women. A large package Of Bibles
and Christian books was taken to the
train when we went to say goodbye to
each company of departing nurses. Please
bring them to the train, they said. We
are only allowed a limited amount of regu-
lar luggage, but when once on the train We
can take anything These books are in
good hands. Not one will be given away
carelessly or without prayer Hymn
books, too are especially priced. The kan
ia Unvaiids) often forget their pain when
we sing to them
little girl in Philadelphia who was sup
| posed to be permanently crippled was
! placed In the hospital through the instru-
mentality of one of the workers in the gos-
| pei tent meetings this summer, and has
| been completely cured.
| The following is an extract from letter
] written two or three years ago by Mrs G..
J r. Alden (Pansy) to an absent member of
/ her own family:
| 'I believe I agreed to tell you about the
I missionary talk. DR.. Maud Allen from
| India is here. visiting an old school friend,
| and came to our prayer meeting Wednesday
] evening. She is young and bright and talks
| off rapidly and eagerly, In exactly the same
| tone that she would use If she sat beside
| you having friendly chat. She described
| how missionary doctors are used as SHARES
| to catch people She was sent. two years
| ago, to a town where they were hostile to
| missionaries and would not allow one to
| settle among them; SO she went, not as a
| missionary but as medicine woman
\ Being a foreigner without reputation, she
| said II would do no good to sit In her Office
| and walt for patients. she must go out and
| make a reputation. So she took her little
1 case OF medicines on her arm, and went
| into one OF the alleys. These are so mar
| the street. and reach out her hands and
| touch the houses on each side. They are
! all made of mud and have no front win
| dows, only small doors. Standing at the
end of one of these alleys, looking down,
| one seems to be looking at two great mud
| walls few feet apart.
az knock said DR.. Allen, at one OF
! these doors. and presently enter not the
! parlor or the sitting room. or the dining
| room, as you do at your homes. but the
| stable. Always the front room is the place
| where the COW, and the goat, and what
| ever animal IS kept, are housed. I reach
the court presently, which ~ a sitting room
| There find woman with year old baby
| tucked under her arm, and at once say;
! II see that your baby has the Itch. You
| ought to have some of my medicine fol
| will cure the itch?' ''Oh. yes, indeedl
| have lovely medicine that will cure many
things SO l get it out and at once make
| an application and say l Will come tomor.
row and do it again. The next day ]
| find the baby much better and three other
| women with babies In like trouble ars
waiting for me- One of them has child
| a lotion that will relieve them. The mex,
day Whan I call thu f.0uFf n HlfAA yw1ft