persuaded than ever of its claims, and that some who may have questioned their importance, or desiderated farther information on the subject, are now satisfied of the legitimacy and Christian consistency and wisdom of this mode of carrying into effect the beneficent purposes of the God of salvation.

If so, let all who are so persuaded, of the excellence and importance of Medical Missions, make their conviction on the subject practical by asking what they can do to promote the cause, and doing it.

"A deed is never done," says a modern writer, "till it has ceased in its consequences. Long after the stone has sunk to the bottom, never to rise again, the surface of the stream is troubled with the whirls of its plunge."-Montgomery, Introd. to Mrs. Huntingdon's Mem., p. xviii. This thought may well deter from the commission of evil, and is not less fitted to stimulate in the pursuit of good, and certainly the full comfort of it may flow into the heart of the Christian Missionary, and a full share of it belongs to his medical coadjutor. They are fellowworkers, and companions in tribulation, and in the kingdom and patience of Jesus Christ.

When they

cease from their labours, their works follow them. Their work will soon be done, so far as their active

agency is concerned; but the seed of truth they

sow will spring and ripen long after their bodies are mouldering in the dust, and still “bearing fruit after its kind," will multiply itself, and spread, till the great harvest time be come, and then the sowers and the reapers shall rejoice together.

LECTURE III.

THE QUALIFICATIONS OF A MEDICAL

MISSIONARY.

BY

WILLIAM BROWN, F.R.S.E.,

FELLOW OF THE ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS; PRESIDENT OF THE MEDICAL MISSIONARY SOCIETY.

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LECTURE III.

THE QUALIFICATIONS OF A MEDICAL MISSIONARY.

THE subject of lecture this evening is, "Detailed consideration of the qualifications necessary in a Medical Missionary, both professional and personal." Truly the field is ample enough to occupy our time, and important enough to occupy it profitably. The two preceding lectures have powerfully presented to us the evils existing in the heathen world, the peculiar fitness of Medical Missions for mitigating or removing these evils, and the actual success which has attended these efforts, wherever they have been steadfastly and judiciously pursued. It is well, therefore, that we should now consider who is a Medical Missionary, and how is he qualified for a work so important.

Let us, in the first place, see that we understand the meaning of the terms. It is very convenient

for an indolent mind to be relieved from the trouble