p. 16 | Signs of the Times, Vol. 40, No. 27. (7/15/1913)

The Need of a Training School

By A. C. Selmon

By a Practical Medical-Evangelist

IN glancing over the record of cases we have treated in our dispensary here in Ying Shang Hsien during the last week, I notice many like the following: “Man of thirty-five. Ringworm on the scalp and body of eight months’ standing. That on body covers at least one square foot of skin surface. This case was cured by two treatments.” “Boy of eighteen. Has had malaria for six years. Malaria checked by three doses of quinine.” “Child of three. Has a large open sore of seven months’ standing in the left groin, prevents moving the leg. Came to dispensary five times. The sore was practically healed over when seen the fifth time.” “Boy of eighteen. Both legs and large areas on the body covered with foul sores resulting from itch of several years’ duration. Cured by cleansing sores once, followed by three applications of sulphur ointment.” “Woman of thirty-two complains of a hard tumor in the abdomen. Has had Chinese doctors stick needles into various parts of the body many times to get rid of the ‘poisons,’ but tumor remains. Examination shows a woman with thin abdominal walls, and the tumor proves to be the normal backbone.” “Man of thirty. Right eye much inflamed, front of the eye is bulged out and full of pus. Six months ago had sore eyes, a Chinese doctor stuck a needle (the needles used are large steel pieces like a darning needle, and before using are often wiped through the hair and lubricated) into front of eye. Following this the eye became worse and sight entirely destroyed.”

F. E. Stafford, evangelist in Shanghai. A former Pacific Press boy

The absolute worthlessness of those the Chinese designate doctors, combined with the fact that the people as a whole are densely ignorant not only of the cause of disease but of the first principles of hygiene and treatment of disease, accounts for the experience that comes to every missionary in the interior; that is, that whether in his station or on itinerary, he is continually sought by the sick and implored for help. Altho he may have no training in the recognition and treatment of disease, yet the knowledge he has and which is common to every layman in the home lands, enables him to treat and relieve a large number of their afflictions. In the matter of treating disease the ordinary missionary is as far superior to the Chinese doctor as the university-trained M.D. is superior to the ordinary layman in civilized lands.

Pastor F. A. Allum, in charge of Central China Mission

The help for this ignorance with its consequent suffering, physical incapacity, and loss of life, is proper education. By giving the young Chinese men and women in our workers’ training school instruction in hygiene and the cause and treatment of the common diseases prevalent in China, together with practical work, under direction, in a dispensary connected with the school, there will be turned out workers who will not only be teachers and evangelists but they will be veritable saviors to multitudes of sick and suffering in the communities where they are located.

The Crying Need

The need of just such training as is here outlined is felt by every Chinese evangelist and Bible woman throughout the field. Many of them keep on hand a supply of simple remedies and do what they can in relieving the sick. The Chinese evangelist located in the outstation that I am now visiting says there is seldom a day that he is not called upon to do what he can to relieve the sufferings of several sick people. They come to him with all kinds of diseases from the simple ones like itch and ringworm to the graver conditions like cancer, abscess of the liver, etc. Last week he was called to go and see a man who had an injured arm, the flesh of the upper arm having been blown away by the bursting of a gun, exposing to view the large blood-vessels and the bone for a distance of several inches.

Evangelical and Economical

Needless to say, this service to the sick and suffering is a practical expression of the spirit of the gospel and is a powerful factor in winning the idol worshiper, for it not only brings him within hearing of the gospel but by comparison it shows up the crudeness and vileness of his own religion.

Furthermore, workers with this kind of training may to a large extent be self-supporting, for there will be an income from their treating of the sick which tho it may be small yet will cover a good portion of their wage. With the almost universal poverty in China, any method that will solve, even in small part, the problem of the financial support of the large army of evangelists, Bible women, and teachers needed, is worthy of our best efforts in promoting and supporting.

A. C. SELMON, M.D.

Sabbath Keepers in the Philippine Islands

Brother E. M. Adams gives the following encouraging word concerning the work in the Philippine Islands:

“It is a pleasure to tell you that we have about twenty keeping the Sabbath and studying in the baptismal class, which is the result of our last tent effort. It is our plan to open another tent series soon in another place, close to the present location,

so the interested ones can follow us. It stimulates us to greater endeavor when we see the people eagerly laying hold of the truth. Two very interesting incidents have been related to me by two of our new Sabbath-keepers. Valentine Contreras says that about twenty-five years ago he found a man at Malolos who had a Bible, and prepared his food and horse feed on Friday, and would do no work on the Sabbath. Since that time Valentine has been looking for a Bible. During our tent meeting he bought one, and is now keeping the Sabbath. Saturnino de Castro, who with his wife and daughter is now keeping the Sabbath, relates that about ninety years ago his grandfather was a singer in the Catholic Church. In some way he got hold of the padre’s Bible, and read it. The result was that he on some pretext excused himself from singing and left the place, taking the Bible with him. He stopped attending mass and going to confessional, and began to keep the Sabbath. This light was handed down to his son, who also kept the Sabbath; but while the grandson was taught the same, he wandered away from the Sabbath. He said that when we first presented the Sabbath it was clear to him, and he and his family both said that they had not a doubt about the truth that we had presented. This illustrates the power in the Word, and shows why the Catholic Church does not want her people to have the Bible.”

Donations to Missions

CHINA TRAINING SCHOOL

Previously Reported $594.86

Julia Colegrove 1.00

Mrs. W. E. Cornforth .50

Mrs. Flora Campbell 1.00

Fred H. Pettit 20.00

From a Friend .40

Mr. James Wiley 1.60

Chas. Rick 5.00

Geo. W. Rich, Jr. .25

Mary B. Smith 5.00

Miss Ada Jenner 4.00

A Friend, “O. G.” 100.00

Total $733.61

CHINA MISSION

X. Y. Z. $12.50

A. W. H. 20.00

Total $32.50

China “B” Mission (through “Our Little Friend”) $165.75

General Donations

INDIA

Previously reported “Hospital” $40.25

Previously reported “Mission” 53.65

Mrs. Wagar and Irene 1.25

Helen, Hazel, and Nellie Green 1.00

Miss Ada Jenner 1.80

Total $97.95

BURMA

Previously reported $2.65

Marie Goede 5.00

Louise Hildebrand 1.00

Mrs. S. H. Stark 1.00

J. S. Powell 2.00

Laura and Eva Roher .40

Clifford Farrow .50

Albert Wood 4.50

Rachael and Zena Church .50

Marion and Samuel Sanders 1.75

E. Shofield 1.00

Total $20.30

JAPAN

Previously reported $5.00

KOREA

Previously reported $25.00

Mrs. W. F. Jefferson 20.00

Total $45.00

AFRICA

Previously reported $6.50

K. V. Walley 5.00

V. and E. Rasmussen 3.00

Total $14.50

An Opportunity

By Editor

Some of our readers may have a great burden for the Chinese. They long to help them. They never expect to speak the language of the Chinese, or to go to the Orient. There are Chinese, however, nearer home, and there are a good many of them down in our Spanish sister-republic of Mexico, and one of our workers down there struggling in that land of revolution feels that work can be done sometimes for the Chinese, and he wishes that he could have a club of twenty-five Chinese Signs of the Times for one year. Perhaps some one would like to contribute that. It will cost $9.00 for the year. Perhaps one or two would like to give. If the fund is overgiven or oversupplied, we will pass it on to some other just as needy. Tell us what it is for, and we will be glad to apply it to just such a purpose as you desire.

An up-to-date Time-Table of Human Events

By Editor

Our readers will especially appreciate the August number of the SIGNS OF THE TIMES Magazine. Note the subjects:

“How the World Improves.” There is an improvement. Will it bring peace and happiness?

“The German Crown Prince on War.” The cavalry charge too tame. Wants the real thing. What does it mean?

“Peace and the United States Navy.”

“An Answer to the Riddle.” What is truth?

“A Triple Sign of the End.” Thinking people see it. The Eastern question.

“The Price of War,” the trend. Some startling figures.

“Modern Religions.” Are they effectual? How can you tell?

“Christ Crucified To-Day,” the modern crucifixion.

“The One Foundation.” If any counterfeits, let us find them.

“Days of Violence,” a staggering condition.

“Modern History.” Who, what, and where is Babylon? Clear, striking, and convincing. Mrs. E. G. White.

“Supernatural Agencies: Origin of Miracles, False and True.”

“Astronomy and the Bible,” God’s works and His word.

“Will the Stars Fail?” Some disagreements. Let us study it.

“The Cell and Its Lesson.” Evolution smashed again.

“Gadarenes,” a touching lesson.

“The Downward Trend,” simultaneous with vast improvement, means something.

“Protestant or Not?” What do you say? Not hard to tell. Examine other fundamentals.

“The Message for To-Day,” view of a popular minister. And also the message.

“Evolution and Christ,” their association and real meaning.

“The More Sure Word,” Bible reading.

We heartily recommend every one of these to you.

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The Everlasting Gospel and Human Greatness

The Everlasting Gospel of the living God places the glory of man in the dust and exalts Jehovah of Hosts and Jesus Christ as Lord.

The Everlasting Gospel does not exalt great men, but a great salvation. It deals with great truth which received makes, according to God’s standard, great men.

The apostle Paul tells us to be contented with such things as we have, but never in all the word do we find the injunction to be contented in ourselves with what we are. What we have is apart from ourselves; what we are is quite another thing. There is always room for advance.

Missing from the Father’s Fold

“Missing.”—Mr. John A. McCarthy, a wealthy New York broker, is sending out a photo of his daughter, Miss Helen McCarthy, throughout all the country. She was missing from home June 24, which she left to go shopping, wearing a pink linen dress, black velvet belt, blue straw hat, black silk stockings, black laced shoes, and has dark brown hair which was tied with a ribbon. It is believed that she has been kidnapped and is being held a prisoner. Her age is sixteen, altho she looks younger. There is no doubt but that the daily press will largely reproduce the photograph. A mighty effort will be made to find the lost child, and yet—and yet—there are thousands, nay, millions of girls throughout the United States and the world who are still missing from the Father's fold, which He is training for a greater inheritance than Mr. John A. McCarthy can ever give; and going on as they are at the present time, they will be missing in the last great day when the Lord Jesus shall gather His jewels. We sympathize with the father and the mother. We hope they may find their daughter; but our heart goes out in great sympathy for those whose children are wandering in the by-paths of sin.

Lobbying

Lobbying.— Colonel Mulhall of Baltimore, a paid lobbyist for years, makes some very severe and far-reaching charges against the National Association of Manufacturers, and the lobby which they have supported for years in connection with Congress. In these charges, which it is averred are fortified by letters, telegrams, reports, expense accounts, and memoranda, he says that the National Association of Manufacturers, comprising 225 organizations capitalized at $10,000,000, has for ten years played an important and oftentimes decisive part in promoting tariff, labor, and general business legislation. He declares that this association was solely responsible for the creation of the tariff commission during the last administration, the object being to forestall tariff reduction. Nearly fifty prominent politicians are named in connection with his charges, among whom are Ex-President Taft, Senator H. C. Lodge, the late Vice-President Sherman, former Speaker Cannon, former Senators Foraker and Aldrich, Senator Stephenson of Wisconsin, and others from almost every state in the Union. What this investigation will disclose it is difficult to learn. Surely the words of the President, that an “insidious lobby” was working in connection with Congress to defeat legislation that is beneficial for the people seems already clearly proved.

The World's Christian Citizenship Conference

Four governments extended welcome to the World's Christian Citizenship Conference, according to the Portland Oregonian, of June 30, namely, the United States, Oregon, the county of Multnomah, and the city of Portland. Judge C. E. Wolverton, of the United States Court of the Oregon District, represented the United States. He "traced the development of the idea of religious liberty to its highest state under the free institutions of America." He did not know, as many of the propagandists do not know, that the conference which he welcomed is working to undermine religious liberty. Why did the federal government extend welcome to an organization which had its genesis in Pennsylvania, has been promoted in America, and is officered by American National Reformers? How many governments are represented there? There may in all probability be speakers there from other lands, but this does not make it less a conference of this land.

In the Balkans

In the Balkans.—There were great hopes of permanent peace among the ambassadors of the Powers, and even seemingly among the ambassadors of the Balkan allies up to June 30, when all at once, on the morning of that day, all along the lines where the Bulgarian forces were facing the Servians and Greeks, fighting began. The Servians and Greeks on the one side are laying all the trouble to the Bulgarians, and the Bulgarians are declaring that the Servians and Greeks are responsible. The diplomats have not yet wholly given up the matter, but just now peace looks rather dubious.

It Is Always Religious

It Is Always Religious.—We are told that the plea for a Sunday law is not religious, in spite of the fact that the religious plea for the day constantly bobs up. Secular papers know it. For instance, the Buffalo Express of June 9, in an editorial making a mild plea for “Sunday baseball,” says: “There is little doubt that most of the cities would vote in favor of amateur games played at such hours as would not interfere with the religious duties of the community.” The editor knows that behind the demand for prohibition of sports is the religious sentiment—the voice. Everybody knows it. All claim to the contrary is to disguise unconstitutional religious legislation.

National Reform Association’s First Meeting

The National Reform Association, the mother of the World's Christian Citizenship Conference, held its first meeting in Xenia, Ohio, in 1863.

The Cost of Seeking Clairvoyant Advice

A farmer in Central California had a good ranch, which he sold and invested in a Nevada mine, on the advice of a clairvoyant. But in this, as in much else with which clairvoyants deal, the man was led astray, and the mining proposition was a failure, and his farm was lost. It is getting to be quite a common occurrence for people to seek the spirits for advice in regard to investments and other undertakings in life. God’s word says: “Regard not them that have familiar spirits, neither seek after wizards, to be defiled by them: I am the Lord your God. . . . And the soul that turneth after such as have familiar spirits, and after wizards, to go a whoring after them, I will even set My face against that soul, and will cut him off from among his people.” Lev. 19:31; 20:6. This instruction is plain enough, and there is plenty more of the same character in the good old Book. That California farmer had a property that was worth quite a number of thousand dollars, and he has thrown it away at the solicitation of this woman who had a “familiar spirit.” If he had known and heeded the good word of God, he would have been much ahead financially. It pays even in this life to know and follow the Book.

Men Decide What Women Shall Wear

And now the National Ladies’ Tailoring and Dressmaking Association, which opened its meeting in New York, June 27, have decided what women are to wear. The narrow garments stay with us and the slit skirts, only some of them have two slits. From Chicago there comes two slits, with a pistol pocket, and one of the wonderful things about this association meeting, in which thirty-four states are represented, and in which delegates for twenty-two out of thirty-four states decided as above, is that it is a man convention. Every delegate to the convention is a man, and the men are deciding as to what the women shall wear. We wish that some of our good, strong suffragettes with sensible proclivities in dress would rebel.

Prayer Brings Rain in Belleville

The churches in Belleville, Illinois, prayed for rain June 22, and an hour after, heavy rain fell, breaking a two months’ drought. Some will not believe that the rain came in answer to prayer. And it may have been true in the case that the rain would have come anyhow. Let that be as it may; God hears prayer. God closed the heavens for three and one half years because one man prayed. God opened the heavens and gave rain because one man prayed. God has told His people to pray for rain. See 1 Kings 18:41-45; James 5:17, 18; 1 Kings 8:35, 36. The same God waits to pour out the spiritual “latter rain” in response to faith and prayer.

Refuge

We have received from Mr. W. R. Patterson a song entitled “Refuge.” The music is by Jack Stanley; published by H. Kirkus Dugdale Co., Washington, D. C. It is in good sheet form, and our expert counselor in music says that he is “pleased with the good sense in both words and music. The music is well adapted to the words.” Those who wish to purchase it we are sure will be helping one who is deserving.

Airship Bombing in Mexico

A practical demonstration of the air-ship in war was in evidence in the Mexican troubles. Two bombs were dropped by an air-ship in the trenches where soldiers were huddled, sixty miles north of Hermosillo, in the State of Sonora, June 19. It is said that more than fifty Mexican federal soldiers were killed.

Sensational Newspapers Stir War Spirit

If there is continued peace between America and Japan, it will not be owing to a number of sensational newspapers whose purpose, on the face of it, seems to be to stir up race hatred and the war spirit.

New York Hotel Fire Kills Seven, Injures Twelve

Seven dead and twelve injured is the result of a New York hotel fire June 30.