Tárogató, 1938-1939 (1. évfolyam, 1-10. szám)
1938-09-01 / 3. szám
TÁROGATÓ 1» than he could meet. More gradually still he began to meet it by training younger Chinese to be doctors. Many of them were assisted to take further training abroad. Thus modern medicine in China passed practically under the control of Christian men, both foreign and home-born. Years passed and, in a remote province, the son of a missionary fell ill. Something, probably a tumour, was affecting his brain and destroying his sight. The anxious parents sought medical advice and were informed that only an operation would correct the condition and save their boy. Unfortunately, no local missionary doctor would undertake the difficult and dangerous operation required. Other centres were tried without success. It appeared that no foreign doctor in Asia had acquired the exact surgical knowledge and experience to qualify him for that particular operation. And the family concerned was ten thousand miles from home! Then came one ray of hope. It was rumoured that at Pekin there was a Chinese doctor, with both home and foreign training, who could do brain surgery of the type required. Pekin lay nearly tjvo thousand miles away, but thither the parents journeyed with their boy. The Chinese doctor was found and accepted the case. It was necessary to perform the operation in two stages. On each of these occasions the surgeon laboured for most of a day over his unconscious patient. But the boy’s life was saved and his sight restored. His general health has been so far regained as to allow him to enter a Canadian school. Another instance going to show how the races of earth are bound up together in the bundle of life. BEGINNING AGAIN. From “Christ and The World Today” by William E. Doughty. Twenty centuries ago there was a birth in Palestine which stopped the calendar and made time begin all over again. Not before nor since has a person emerged from eternity into time and made so startling a change in the world’s life. What he did to the calendar he is destined to do to society—make all things new. His specialty is building. He was a carpenter in his youth. He is rebuilding a world now. Today a new stage has been reached in the process of changing the world. A new age is being born before our eyes. An old age is dying too, but we are supremely concerned with what is coming into being, not with what is passing away. THE NEW NEIGHBOURLINESS. By Charles A. S. Dwight. A tourist who had an errand down by the Jordan was descending the steep road from Jerusalem to Jericho when he was beaten up by gangsters and left half-dead on the highway, and when two ecclesiastics who happened along that way were not on the job of first aid and ordinary human kindness, a commercial traveller from Samaria, at the expense of a good deal of personal effort and coin, befriended the stricken man, and paid his hotel bill while he was convalescent. That, in the first century, was the Old Neighbour) iness— the Good Samaritanism that patches up an unfortunate here and there, and scatters seeds of kindness on strife-worn fields. The New Neighbourliness, which came in. with Jesus, is something better, because it not only relieves sporadic cases of misfortune, but plans against poverty and disease. This is the Best Samaritanism, that seeks to drive the robbers completely from the Jericho road, and to make all paths and sections safe for human occupancy and undisturbed enjoyment. The Red Cross has done a splendid work in history, but the White Cross is the symbol of a better world, free from wars, industrial and international, where every one lives at peace with his neighbour because he is first of all at peace with his God. The better elements in all civilized nations are feeling their way toward such a heavenlike world. The goal of universal peace seems very far off, but every little bit of sound teaching and of anti-war propaganda serves to make its arrival speedier and more certain. Are you, in this enlarged and glorified sense, trying to be the new kind of a “neighbour” to all with whom, over the side fence, the shop counter, the factory wall, or the radio, you come in contact? What is First? A very successful shoe manufacturer in St. Louis had this motto hanging in his office, “Christ first, Family second, Shoes third.” He probably gave the greater part of his time and thought to shoes, but what we are obliged to spend most time on does not alwaysi indicate what is supreme in life. Longfellow was
