Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-02-23
@f1iral miSSions.

bury his heart in the land where he
toied. while his body awaits the resur-
rection day in Westminster Abbey. Fear
God and work hard" was his motto
and molly did he follow it. In his jour-
nal he wrote: Il want my whole life to
be out and out for the divine glory; and
my earnest prayer is that God may ac-
cept what His own Spirit must have inn
planted-the desire to glorify Him. And
his birthday, long before his
death, he wrote: My Jesus. my King.
my Life. my All. l again dedicate my
whole life to Thee"
Medical missions. in addition to teach
ing that great truth of the bodys eX-
cellence. teach also the healing power of
sympathy. No one can be a successful
doctor who is not sympathetic.
He must keep his emotions we'll under
his control but he must have them or
else he will fail to understand his pa
tientS and to help them. Now sympathy
lies also at the root of Christianity. 1t
was the care for us which led Christ to
leave. heaven and come to earth. His
expressed love in word and action lies
as the center of all His associations with
men and women while on earth. When
we have this sympathy. therefore we
must draw men in spite of themselves,
not to us but to Him Whom we repre-
| sent. And that is the aim of all mis-
sionary work. that a hospital or Il
home seems as much part of the Cos
pei church And here We see how
Tue ltSSoH applies directly TO us. We
must nave sympathy for those who Suf-
! fer or are ignorant or do not know God.
! II is impossible 10 do any good in the
world of any sort unless the fellowship
| of love enters in. If We give money for
| God work love must 20 with il If we
! serve it must be loving service The
| heart must go with the gift and the act
| even as from the dear Lord virtue went
| out when TIE healed the sick and the suf-
| fering. Oh. if only We had more SYM
ma nrl- nd Hntk
| much happier the world would be- and
| how speedily would men seek the house
/ hold of. faith.
! Who gives himself with his aims feeds
! three-himself, his hungering neighbour
/ and Me-
! So Lowell makes Christ speak to Sir
/ I.aunfal. And so Robert Browning
teaches in those wonderful lines:
Religious all or nothing; its no smile
O cuntentinent. sigh IF a>pira ton. sir
No quality o the fnelier tempered clay
Like It's Wilderness or its iishtness rather. stun
. the very stun: life of life. and self of self
tell !on. men won't notice When they do
! They understand.
| But love to believe that medical mis-
sions teach yet higher truth namely
| that of the body's final redemption and
sloriiication. We commonly think that
| our Lord died TO save our souls. and so
| He did. blessed be His name eternaIIy !,
| But if perchance there is a divinity also
in the body made in Gods image may we
shall be literal fufillment of the proph-
| ccy, There shall be no more pain" and
think of ife when these human forms
shall be perfect. Can | not think of my
dear crippled friend as at last casting
away his crutches did once the man
on earth at the gate of the temple called
Beautiful. and leaping in delight over
the golden streets of a new and unham-
pered life? Can | not think of my stained
and sin-sck body keeping pace with my
purified soul in an existence whose every
thought will be q JOY and where memory
will at length fail to bring past years of
error to remembrance? Why, the very
idea, as we'll as the revelation of the
great life which is to be. is that of
splendid being in all perfection of body
and mind and soul entering into the
boundieSs eternity and praising the Christ
who died and rose again with every men,
Der of the glorified human personality.
When, then, we think of doctor and nurse
ministering as best they may to the sick
do we not hear them preaching sermon
of perfect redemption and peace. soothing
the aching body in anticipation of that
supreme healing which shall never again
allow of earthly wounding? With all my
heart | believe in the resurrection of the
body and to every one his own body.
These pains and aches and defoanities
cannot defy the power Of Him whose
perfect manhood joined to eternal God
head assures us of freedom and mastery
And the man who in any. even the small
est way anticipates for human beings
that holy and amending day breaches a
gospel which leaves nothing to be de-
sired. My body, my soul, my mind all
redeemed and made what God would have
them be-that is the story of the work Of
my Redeemer.
20 how glorious and resplendent
Fragile body. shalt thou be-
When endowed with so much beauty.
ra FIN IL Of i hsath ,s and :, stsns and Free
That shall last eternally!'