John Kenneth Mackenzie : medical missionary to China / by Mrs. Bryson ; with portrait.

  • Bryson, Mary Isabella, Mrs.
Date:
1891
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Credit: John Kenneth Mackenzie : medical missionary to China / by Mrs. Bryson ; with portrait. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CHAPTER XIII. STRANGE PHASES OF CHINESE LIFE. Page Appeal for a Colleague—Visit to Yen-Shan—Simple Faith of Country Converts—Steadfastness under Persecution —Inspection of Native Foundling Hospital—-The Babies that Never Cried—An Athletic Patient—A Coffined Patient—A Busy Life—The Lonely Rag- picker—A Secret Disciple—“ They thought him Mad”—Curiosities of Chinese Medical Treatment— Scorpion Broth—Laying out before Death—An Unnatural Wife—A Health Trip under Difficulties— A Tauist Priest—The Medical Missionary Jotirnal 275 CHAPTER XIV. GLIMPSES OF INNER LIFE. Visit to Peking—Most Blessed Meetings—His Favourite Books—Rather Die than Deny Christ—Letters to a Young Missionary—“In Nothing be Anxious”— Spiritual Growth in Chinese Converts—Comparisons between Life in Nazareth and in China—Railways Contemplated—Kidnapping—Disturbance in the City —“Not Hard Work but Worry that Kills ”—Need of Spiritual Power—A Helpful Meeting. . . . 293 CHAPTER XV. GROWING IN GRACE. Growth in Spiritual Life—Relations with Foreign Com- munity—Bible Study—Interest in “Blue-jackets”— Real Cross-Bearing — Continental Sundays — Wei-