aries thus expressing himself: "I have no hesitation in stating it as my solemn conviction, that, as yet, no medium of contact, and of bringing the people under the sound of the Gospel, and within the use of other means of grace, can compare with the facilities afforded by Medical Missionary operations."1 Nearer home, the labours of Dr. Kalley, in Madeira, have proved so signally triumphant as to awaken the fiercest rage of the adversary; and the very expulsion of the Missionary and his converts, from the island, stands recorded as the measure of his faithfulness and success.2

While we thank God, and take courage, for such signs of favour and measures of hope, let us glance for an instant at the advantages which Medical Missions are likely to confer on medicine as a science. So far from dreading deterioration and relapse, as in the dark ages, formerly alluded to, we confidently look for blessing and increase. Additions of great importance and variety are likely to be made to the Materia Medica. Vast treasures of both the vegetable and mineral kingdoms are yet to be explored; and it is not to be forgotten how largely the scientific world is indebted to Dr. Carey for its knowledge of the Flora of India; and that we 2 See Appendix, K.

1 Fourth Annual Report, p. 29.

owe the Cinchona bark to those who, Jesuits though they were, still bear the name of Missionaries. Diseases, if not actually new, will be found in new phases and forms. Those which are peculiar to the countries visited, may throw new and important light on others of a cognate kind at home. Those which, like the cholera, leave their primary seat, and approach with uncontrolled advance our own shores, and settle here, may be shorn of half their danger and all their dread, by the enlightened missionary having long before investigated them fully in their distant home. By him his native land, early forewarned of the else mysterious and appalling stranger, may be saved at least from panic and dismay. But, above all, let us remember, that surely our own noble profession can receive no shame or harm from having its energies thus directed towards God's glory. On the contrary, will not honour and blessing doubly descend when "her merchandise and hire shall be holiness to the Lord?" The enlightened heathen of old raised the skilful physician to the rank of demigod. "Homines ad deos in nulla re propius accedunt, quam salutem hominibus dando." But how much greater the worth, how much nobler the honour and rank, if while bringing health to the body, he seek and obtain also the salvation of the soul?

1

In God's providence it is to our profession that Britain stands indebted for her first footing in India, in the seventeenth century; and since then, what vast heaps of Indian gold have been borne away to increase our nation's prosperity. Let now that nation be both just and generous; and through the instrumentality of that same profession send back a knowledge of the "true riches," unlimited and imperishable, to the teeming millions of benighted India. While people of another clime are flocking in thousands to newly annexed territory, in selfish and sordid search of the gold that perisheth; and while this grovelling lust serves but to brutalize humanity, inflaming the passions, and aggravating crime-proving how helpless are such things to satisfy the heart of man, or better his condition, by or for even a little,-let our affections and energies, soaring beyond earth, seek for treasure elsewhere, and with hearts opened wide by Christian love, strive to bring all nations in our company to the El Dorado which shall satisfy and shall endure to the obtaining of that "fine gold" which makes the possessor both rich in time and rich throughout eternity. China and Africa have been lately made to feel the force of Britain's arm; a

1 See Appendix, L.

part of India is at this hour reeling under it; let them now know the warmth and love of Britain's heart. Palestine still lies waste; and Britons have been foremost to explore her ruined desolation. Let Britain, in these days of national intervention, seek the return of Palestine's ancient people to the allegiance of their only lawful King; and may we not hope to be humble labourers in the righteous work, of causing His name once more to be "famed throughout all Syria!"

And now, if I ask-Is it not reasonable and right-nay, is it not necessary and incumbent, that every student of medicine should contemplate the profession of his choice in this point of view?surely I shall not be met with an answer in the negative. He may know that profession well in every ordinary aspect-he may be learned and skilful and practised; and yet if he know nothing of Medicine as a handmaid to Religion, in the saving of lost souls, he is but imperfectly and inadequately informed, and ignorant of its brighter and "better part." "The proper study of mankind is man;" and to none surely does this adage apply so forcibly and fully as to the medical practitioner. He must study man not in part but as a whole; his mind as well as his body; the immortal as well as

the mortal part; the animal machine and "the image of God." This city has long been famous as a medical school. She has sent forth many able and skilful men to all parts of the world. Even now there is a talk of improving the more advanced department of Clinical instruction. I venture to desiderate another step. While we have our Theoretical Medicine, Practical Medicine, Surgical Medicine, Juridical Medicine, Obstetric Medicine, Clinical Medicine, let us have still a seventh, though it needs no establishment of a separate chair— Missionary Medicine-which the pupil shall study over his Bible and on his knees. Let us aim at not only providing the world-for already throughout the wide world the alumni of this University are found occupying stations of honour and usefulness-with men skilful to heal all bodily ailments; let us hope to send forth a goodly number on a nobler errand-seeking souls for hire; combating spiritual as well as bodily disease, and striving to save both from the first and from the second death.

It has been remarked by one well qualified to speak on such a subject-Dr. Kalley-that in the ordinary practice of Medicine there is a sense of insecurity and incompleteness, even in our most successful services. There is an "innate yearning after employment in labours whose results shall