It would be a sad day for our missions if medical and educational missionaries ceased to be at heart evangelists, and were content to leave evangelistic work to others.

Nevertheless, the technical distinction is a real one and must be expressed.

Some men express their evangelistic fervour naturally and providentially in medical form, others in scholastic, others in teaching, preaching, and organising of the converts and the hearers.

But how shall we divide them?
The best plan seems to be to put each man into that category in which he spends most of his time, and in cases of doubt to use fractions, e.g.a doctor may be as keen an evangelist and may preach and strive to convert his patients as eagerly as his colleague who is called an evangelistic missionary.

An evangelistic missionary is perhaps a doctor by training or experience, and heals the sick as eagerly as his colleague who is called a medical missionary.