Missionary Friends

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Aug 5, 1897

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 23, No. 30.

Missionary Friends

We listened with interest the other night to a missionary talk in the S. D. A. Church in Oakland, by Dr. Kate Bushnell, the W. C. T. U. round-the-world missionary, and Mrs. Andrews, a former missionary to China. Their talk was on China, in which Dr. Bushnell spent two years of her life as a medical missionary. Instances were related of the affectionate nature and the steadfastness of character of the Chinese, as well as the dense ignorance of their greatest men. Dr. Bushnell emphasized the importance of medical missionary work, especially a knowledge of midwifery. A woman who dies in childbirth in China is considered eternally lost. But the doctor believed, because the need demanded and God had promised, in the power of the Holy Spirit to heal even as did Jesus. The Word of God was all right, the wrong was with us. An apostate church, with its multitude of false miracles, had blinded our eyes to the true. But the doctor believed that the time would come, and that soon, when the Spirit and power of God would rest upon his people and multitudes would be healed. And so it will be. We are in the time of the “latter rain.” All that is lacking is simple faith in the plain and precious promises of God.