On many fields missionaries have found that ministry to the ills of the
body has assisted in the conversion of souls. Thus in Formosa:
Dr. Mackay, a well-known medical missionary, has found it a help
to his work to minister to bodily ills. He extracted twenty-one
thousand teeth in twenty-one years, and thirty-nine thousand in
all, and has dispensed considerable medicine. Extracting teeth
is cheaper than dealing out medicine, for beyond the instrument
there is no outlay. The natives have lost all faith in their old
doctors.--PIERSON, “The Miracles of Missions.”
(2043)
=Mission Work=--See SERVICE WITH HARDSHIP.