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Missionary Survey As An Aid To Intelligent Co-Operation In Foreign Missions

CHAPTER VI
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There is a serious danger in an institution, whether medical or educational, of dividing the work in this way.

We have already asserted our conviction that medical missionaries should be evangelistic, and educational missionaries evangelistic also.

But when evangelistic workers distinctly so called are on the staff of hospitals or schools, there is a danger lest the medicals and the educationalists should consider themselves absolved from personal effort by the occasional presence of an evangelist.

"Let him do the religious preaching, and let me do the secular teaching.

Preaching is his job, teaching is mine." Thus a division is created which reacts seriously upon the work of both.


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