Memorials of R. Harold A. Schofield, M.A., M.B. (Oxon.) (late of China Inland Mission) : first medical missionary to Shan-Si, China / chiefly compiled from his letters and diaries by his brother A.T. Schofield.

  • Schofield, A. T. (Alfred Taylor), 1846-1929.
Date:
1885
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Credit: Memorials of R. Harold A. Schofield, M.A., M.B. (Oxon.) (late of China Inland Mission) : first medical missionary to Shan-Si, China / chiefly compiled from his letters and diaries by his brother A.T. Schofield. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    of ulterior motives ; men at once recognised him as true to the core. Ever faithful to his deepest convic- tions, in all his dealings he sought to turn his friends and acquaintances to look for strength and comfort to what he himself believed to be its only true and lasting source,—the only source, too, of that wonderful humility and self-forgetfulness which he possessed to such a marked degree. “Few men could have had such a course of almost unceasing success at college and university without a perhaps justifiable pride at times betraying itself. “The humility which others have to learn by failure he seemed to learn by success. Whenever he gained any distinction at Oxford, it was not communicated to his friends with a flourish of trumpets, but often by the bare statement of the fact in the postscript of a letter, or in the corner of a postcard, and those who knew him could never lay this down to affectation. He only looked upon what he gained as a means to an end. ' Mental powers,’ he says in a letter in 1875, ‘ are a most precious gift from God, and surely it is for His glory that they should be trained and expanded to their utmost capacity.’ A light upon his own life is thrown by a sentence of a letter dated May 1873. ‘ Words spoken in simple faith have much more real power than any spoken from some fancied position of influence.’ But Dr. Schofield was something more than the earnest Christian. It was not only the love of God which filled his soul, but warm human love. “ Schofield’s was a sunny nature, and the brightness of his face and character shone nowhere so much as when out with friends among the wilds and beauties