Recently, the head of a doctor's fellowship in East China held a sharing session on the Internet entitled "The Spread of Western Medicine in China and the Love of Missionaries".
There are many healing stories and Christian hospitals all over China, including five famous hospitals: Xiangya Hospital of Central South University, Qilu Hospital of Shandong University, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, West China Hospital of Sichuan University, and Changhua Christian Hospital of Taiwan. All of them have deep relationships with missionaries.
In February 1838, with the purpose of promoting medical missionary work, the Medical Missionary Society in China was established in Guangzhou. A large number of medical missionaries entered China to establish hospitals or clinics where they had settled.
In 1889, there were 61 mission hospitals in China; while in 1949 the number had increased to more than 340.
In 1938, China Inland Mission, established by James Hudson Taylor, had 1,963 missionaries in China, 2,452 places of worship, 190,365 people baptized, 288 schools, 14 hospitals, and 93 medical bureaus.
Built on September 5, 1990, the Taiwan Christian Health Care Alliance was an alliance organization that included 17 Christian hospitals and 12 Catholic hospitals. For example, the mission of MacKay Memorial Hospital in Taiwan is to heal people’s bodies, minds, and spirits, following Jesus’ teachings of loving others and caring for the weak, in order to carry out medical evangelism.
At present, Changhua Christian Hospital has formed a complete medical system with 8,000 employees, 600 beds and six regional hospitals, serving people in Changhua County, Yunlin County, Nantou County, and Taichung City. Moreover, expanding overseas medical services, it has sent medical teams to less developed countries in the Asia-Pacific region, Asia, Latin America, and South Pacific Island to train medical personnel, donate materials, and improve local medical services.
Dr. Griffith John, a Swansea missionary, established Hankou Renji Hospital (the present-day Wuhan Union Hospital) in 1868, Wuchang Renji Hospital (the predecessor of Hubei Provincial Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine), as well as Wuhan's first gynecological hospital. Opening more than ten hospitals, he distributed medicine for free and built 6 schools.
Dr. David Landsborough III (known as Dr. Lan), a Scottish physician and Presbyterian missionary, founded Changhua Christian Hospital. After serving in Changhua for 40 years, his son, David Landsborough IV, succeeded him as a medical evangelist.
In 1928, Chou Chin-Yao, a poor 13-year-old boy, tripped over a stone and injured himself. Unfortunately, the infected skin wound on his right knee was festering. Landsborough transplanted four pieces of skin from his wife (Marjorie Learner) to Chou. Though the donation failed, he recovered after an autologous skin graft. Under care of Landsboroughs, Chou was baptized and became an influential pastor.
- Translated by Abigail Wu
近日，华东一位医生团契的负责人在网络上做了一场题为“西医东渐与宣教士们的爱”的分享会。
中国这边土地上，也有很多基督教的医院和医治事迹遍布的踪迹。
其中，中国的5所著名医院：中南大学湘雅医院、山东大学齐鲁医院、北京协和医院、四川大学华西医院、台湾彰化基督教医院，这些医院都和宣教士有着很深的关系。
教会医疗事工在中国的发展
1838年2月，以推动医学传教为宗旨的中华医学传道会（The Medical Missionary Society in China）在广州成立，大批医疗传教士进入中国，在他们立足之地首先建立了医院或诊所。
教会医院在1889年有61所； 1949年，中国有教会医院340多所。
戴德生与内地会
1938年（民国27年），内地会在中国共有传教士1963人，礼拜堂2452所，受洗人数190365人，学校288所，医院14所，施医局93所。
台湾教会医疗院所协会（Taiwan Christian Health Care Alliance）成立于1990年9月5日，是一个包括基督教及天主教两大教会医疗照护机构体系的联盟组织。
其中，马偕纪念医院，以“耶稣基督爱人如己、关怀弱势之精神，提供民众身、心、灵全人之医治，以达成医疗传道之宗旨”为使命。
目前彰化基督教医院已经形成8000员工、600床病床、6家地区医院的完整医疗体系。现在可以服事彰化、云林、台中、南头各县市。不仅如此更是拓展了海外的医疗服务，派遣医疗队前往亚太、亚西、拉美、南太等地的落后国家去培训医疗人员、捐赠物资、改善当地的医疗服务。
两个伟大的宣教士家庭
杨格非博士，Griffith John英国传教士、武汉协和医院的创始人。1868年，杨格非博士来到华中腹地创立仁济医院，也就是现在的武汉协和医院的前身。
在汉期间，除了武汉协和医院。杨格非另外还建立了武昌仁济医院（现湖北省中医院），以及武汉第一家妇科医院（现协和医院女部）等数十家医院。除了开设医院、施医散药之外，杨格非还建了6所学校。
兰大卫，昵称老兰医师，是一位出身苏格兰的医师及长老教会传教士，亦是彰化基督教医院创建人之一。在彰化地区行医40年。其子乃兰大弼医师接续兰大卫的工作。
1928年，13岁的周金耀不小心被石头绊倒、跌伤右膝，伤口不幸遭到感染、浮肿、化脓。兰大卫医生亲自为其做手术并移植了他自己妻子连玛玉女士的皮肤救治，使其脱离生命危险。此后周金耀深受兰大卫夫妇的照顾，并受洗归主、献身教会，成为很有影响力的教会牧师。
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西医东渐与宣教士们的爱 “教会医院的历史作用不可低估
Recently, the head of a doctor's fellowship in East China held a sharing session on the Internet entitled "The Spread of Western Medicine in China and the Love of Missionaries".
There are many healing stories and Christian hospitals all over China, including five famous hospitals: Xiangya Hospital of Central South University, Qilu Hospital of Shandong University, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, West China Hospital of Sichuan University, and Changhua Christian Hospital of Taiwan. All of them have deep relationships with missionaries.
In February 1838, with the purpose of promoting medical missionary work, the Medical Missionary Society in China was established in Guangzhou. A large number of medical missionaries entered China to establish hospitals or clinics where they had settled.
In 1889, there were 61 mission hospitals in China; while in 1949 the number had increased to more than 340.
In 1938, China Inland Mission, established by James Hudson Taylor, had 1,963 missionaries in China, 2,452 places of worship, 190,365 people baptized, 288 schools, 14 hospitals, and 93 medical bureaus.
Built on September 5, 1990, the Taiwan Christian Health Care Alliance was an alliance organization that included 17 Christian hospitals and 12 Catholic hospitals. For example, the mission of MacKay Memorial Hospital in Taiwan is to heal people’s bodies, minds, and spirits, following Jesus’ teachings of loving others and caring for the weak, in order to carry out medical evangelism.
At present, Changhua Christian Hospital has formed a complete medical system with 8,000 employees, 600 beds and six regional hospitals, serving people in Changhua County, Yunlin County, Nantou County, and Taichung City. Moreover, expanding overseas medical services, it has sent medical teams to less developed countries in the Asia-Pacific region, Asia, Latin America, and South Pacific Island to train medical personnel, donate materials, and improve local medical services.
Dr. Griffith John, a Swansea missionary, established Hankou Renji Hospital (the present-day Wuhan Union Hospital) in 1868, Wuchang Renji Hospital (the predecessor of Hubei Provincial Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine), as well as Wuhan's first gynecological hospital. Opening more than ten hospitals, he distributed medicine for free and built 6 schools.
Dr. David Landsborough III (known as Dr. Lan), a Scottish physician and Presbyterian missionary, founded Changhua Christian Hospital. After serving in Changhua for 40 years, his son, David Landsborough IV, succeeded him as a medical evangelist.
In 1928, Chou Chin-Yao, a poor 13-year-old boy, tripped over a stone and injured himself. Unfortunately, the infected skin wound on his right knee was festering. Landsborough transplanted four pieces of skin from his wife (Marjorie Learner) to Chou. Though the donation failed, he recovered after an autologous skin graft. Under care of Landsboroughs, Chou was baptized and became an influential pastor.
- Translated by Abigail Wu
Western Medicine Spread in China by Foreign Missionaries
