The following is <b>from 1900</b>, NYTimes:
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><b>MEDICAL SIDE OF MISSION WORK; The Fight Against Degradation and Disease Among Heathen Races. DOCTOR-PREACHER'S WORK Conference Meetings Praise Him as Evangelism's Pioneer.</b>
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May 1, 1900, Wednesday
Page 6, 4149 words
Yesterday's programme for the Ecumenical Conference presented a somewhat wider variety of topics than usual. Perhaps it did not appeal to more auditors than were drawn to last week's meetings, for none of the halls or churches then had room to spare, but it brought suggestions that more than any previous day will diversify the task of the mission boards who will look to the reports for future guidance. [ END OF FIRST PARAGRAPH ]<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->Did these guys ever do anything helpful and useful purely for the sake of helping others? (Everything seems to be from selfish motives: "help them so that they might convert because they come into contact with you". Instead of "help them because they suffer from a medical disease, full-stop". If the patronised weren't "heathen races", I doubt such evangelicals would have bothered flying off to give treatment to people in colonised lands. I mean, one can see the benevolence they meted out to the African Americans in N America with their Tuskegee infect-em-with-syphilis Experiment and their medical project to sterilise-them-native-American-women.)
Oh but I forget: christianism's main objective is that jeebus must be fed and only heathens will do. The means, like doctoring, is all secondary. The motive is primary.
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><b>MEDICAL SIDE OF MISSION WORK; The Fight Against Degradation and Disease Among Heathen Races. DOCTOR-PREACHER'S WORK Conference Meetings Praise Him as Evangelism's Pioneer.</b>
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May 1, 1900, Wednesday
Page 6, 4149 words
Yesterday's programme for the Ecumenical Conference presented a somewhat wider variety of topics than usual. Perhaps it did not appeal to more auditors than were drawn to last week's meetings, for none of the halls or churches then had room to spare, but it brought suggestions that more than any previous day will diversify the task of the mission boards who will look to the reports for future guidance. [ END OF FIRST PARAGRAPH ]<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->Did these guys ever do anything helpful and useful purely for the sake of helping others? (Everything seems to be from selfish motives: "help them so that they might convert because they come into contact with you". Instead of "help them because they suffer from a medical disease, full-stop". If the patronised weren't "heathen races", I doubt such evangelicals would have bothered flying off to give treatment to people in colonised lands. I mean, one can see the benevolence they meted out to the African Americans in N America with their Tuskegee infect-em-with-syphilis Experiment and their medical project to sterilise-them-native-American-women.)
Oh but I forget: christianism's main objective is that jeebus must be fed and only heathens will do. The means, like doctoring, is all secondary. The motive is primary.