International Aspects of Christianity (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1919 Excerpt: ...districts"; but the true significance of these terrible facts never will be understood until we remember that the victims of these conditions are our spiritual kindred, the sons and daughters of the common Father. When we work at this baffling problem from the standpoint of the truth that the "image of God in man" is of infinite value, then we gain the right idea and motive with which to approach it. The problem of social vice is a matter to be dealt with on the basis of international brotherhood. Eighth Week, Sixth Day: "The War" against Disease "Our officers in every town and village are supplied with all the medicines and bandages they can use, for the Government has found that they live amongst the poorest all the time, and are always ready to bathe and bandage their wounded limbs and feet, or to give them the few medicines needed to combat the ordinary maladies. Moreover, from some terrible losses by death of officers, in our earliest days there, Java, it was made only too plain to every one that our officers would not abandon their people in times of cholera or other epidemics, but would rather suffer and die with them.... But when it was seen that we had officers not only willing and ready to live and die with the people, but, also capable of lifting them into a new life, and of carrying out any simple administrative duties that might be laid upon them, we had first one and then another of the Government's insti-tutions offered for pur care, as well as the provi-sioning of the hospitals.... The first Leper Institution placed in our charge was so rapidly transformed from a place of de-spair and misery into a home of Salvation, hope and joy, that the Government naturally desired to see more such institutions, adequate to r...