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Medical Missions: The Twofold Task (Classic Reprint)
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No intelligent and sympathetic observer who has had opportunity to come into close personal contact with medical missionaries in their fields of work can fail to be stirred by the spirit and character of these devoted men and women and to be impressed with the development through the demands of their professional and missionary work of the finest traits of heart and mind, with the large service which they are rendering to their fellow-men and with their joy in this service.
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Walter Russell Lambuth was Chinese-born American missionary and bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church. He was a secretary of the Board of Missions from 1894 to 1910.
Background
Walter Russell Lambuth was born in Shanghai, China, where his father and mother, James William Lambuth and Mary Isabella (McClellan) Lambuth, were missionaries. He lived in China during his first six years, occasionally going with his father on his houseboat journeys to the cities and villages of the Shanghai area. From 1859 to 1864 he was in America; a portion of the time in Tennessee and Mississippi with relatives and friends of his father, the remainder of the time with his mother's people in Cambridge, New York. During the Civil War his parents were in the United States and in 1864 the boy returned with them to China, where he remained until 1869.
Education
In 1871 he entered Emory and Henry College, Washington County, Virginia. Prior to his graduation in 1875, he decided to devote his life to the Christian ministry and the practice of medicine in China. From 1875 to 1877 he studied theology in the Biblical department of Vanderbilt University, pursuing at the same time a course in the medical school. In 1877 he received the degree of M. D. In 1881, he studied in Bellevue Hospital Medical College, receiving the degree of M. D. from that institution, and the next year continued his studies in Edinburgh and London.
Career
In 1877 Lambuth was ordained elder in the Tennessee Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South and was sent as a missionary to China, where he began work in Shanghai and the adjacent village of Nanziang. In 1882 he laid the foundations of the hospital and medical service in Soochow, China. In 1884 he resigned his duties there and established for the Methodist Episcopal Church the medical work in Peking. With his father in 1885-86 he inaugurated the missionary enterprise of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, in Japan. He was appointed superintendent with headquarters at Kobe.
In 1891 Lambuth returned to the United States, where he was assigned to field service at home, and edited the Methodist Review of Missions. He was elected general secretary of the Board of Missions in 1894, serving in that capacity with marked efficiency until 1910. He was a vital factor in 1907 in uniting the Canadian Methodist Church, the Methodist Episcopal Church, and the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, in Japan into what was later known as the Japan Methodist Church.
At the General Conference of 1910 he was elected a bishop. His first assignment included superintendence of the mission activities in Brazil and the projection of a new work in tropical Africa. His adventurous journey with a view to founding a Methodist mission in the Congo, involving 2, 600 miles by boat and rail and 1, 500 miles on foot through the jungles of tropical Africa, brought him election as a fellow of the Royal Geographical Society of London.
It was fitting that his last official service should be in the Orient, where it was his privilege to open a new work for the Koreans in Siberia. Bishop Lambuth also had an influential part in enterprises which involved the cooperative effort of the various Christian churches. He participated actively in the Ecumenical Conferences, held an official place in the World Missionary Conference at Edinburgh in 1910, and was made a member of the continuation committee of that body, which did so much to make the principle of cooperation dominant in the policies of the missionary societies of Europe and America. In addition to his many other achievements, he was the author of the following books: Side Lights on the Orient (1903), Winning the World for Christ (1915), and Medical Missions (1920). He died in Yokohama, and, as he had requested, his ashes were taken to Shanghai and buried beside those of his mother.
Achievements
Lambuth was chiefly known for his missionary service in China, Japan and Africa. While in China he had stressed evangelistic and medical activities, but in Japan he found it needful to develop educational facilities, founding the college and theological school known as Kwansei Gakuin, and the Hiroshima Girls' School. He contributed greatly to the foundation of Japan Methodist Church.
