英国浸礼会来华传教后,面对民众缺医少药的现状,出于博爱精神及传播福音的双重目的,在山东、山西、陕西三省教区开始建立小型诊所,施医舍药,后发展为大型西医医院,并设立了专门的女医院,为当地了引入了先进的西医技术,减轻了病人痛苦;为培养中国医学人才,浸礼会传教士还招收实习生,开展医学教育,并设立护校培养男女护士;教会医院起初对病人实行免费,后随着病人、中西职员的增多及差会经费减少,浸礼会医院无奈在一战后实行收费;教会医院也带有浓厚的宗教色彩,设有专门的布道人员为病人布道,而病人在心神疲惫时更易信教,故医疗布道也成为浸礼会在华传教的重要手段。 After the British Baptists came to China to teach, they began to set up small clinics in the diocese of Shandong, Shanxi and Shaanxi provinces for the purpose of fraternity and spreading the gospel. As a large Western medicine hospital and set up a special female hospital for the local introduction of advanced Western technology to reduce the suffering of patients; to train Chinese medical personnel, Baptist missionaries also recruit interns, medical education and the establishment of Nurse practitioners nurturing nurses; church hospital initially for patients free of charge, with the patient, the increase in staff and the West will reduce the funding, Baptist Hospital helpless after the First World War charges; Church Hospital also has a strong religious flavor , With dedicated evangelists preaching for the sick, and patients being more religious when exhausted, medical sermons have also become an important means of missionary missionary work in China.