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Show BRILLIANT SPEAKER IS EUBANK Tho many OgdeD men who are expect ex-pect lng to attend the laymen banquet ban-quet which will ..p.?n the Jjmens missionary convention in Salt Lake City Monday evening, will be Interested Interest-ed In knowing something about the personnel of the leading speakers. The six hundred men who will there; gather about the banquet tabic will find no speaker roo.- eloquent or instructive in-structive than Marlon D. Eubank, a joung physician who has won much succ.s hy bringing the Chinese of Inland China to see the real benefits of Christian clvllimion. Marlon D. Eubank went to China ns a medical mlslonary Jn He Is a graduate of William Jewell college, col-lege, the Marlon Situs Medical school at St. Louis and the Northwestern University Medical school. The station to which Dr. Eubank was appointed was Huchow. a citv of HHi.Ooo Inhabitants Jn the East China mission. Almost Immediately tho Uoxer troubles broke out, and tho missionaries were compelled to leave their stations. When they returned they found the- people more friendly than ever, and confidence find affection affec-tion grew rapidly through the doctor's ministry. The problem was a difficult one in many reppeds. The Chinese are not only unsanitary in their ways of living, but they believe In evil spirits an the cause of disease. Dr. Eubank has said: "Dirt, dampne.su and devils are the foc3 we have to combat lu our medical work." In spite of these obstacles he has heated over C.f'fiO patients In one y ear, and gained tho respect and support sup-port of the mandarins and other lead-lng lead-lng men for hln work. In the dispensary. In the Chinese homes, on his toura through the countryeverywhere coun-tryeverywhere Dr. Eubank uses his medical work to open tho door for the preaching of the gospel of Christ. A touching Incident is the story of Mlu Yang, a boy who was treated at tho hospital for a severe abscess on his arm. Through his successful treatment treat-ment all the neighbors were led to have a more favorable opinion of tho doctor and hla mission, and the hoy's father became willing that Min Yang should be baptized and trained as a Christian teacher. When Dr. Eubank returned to America on furlough In 190ij, plans were maturing lor the third interdenominational interde-nominational conference of China missionaries at Shanghai, which was also to celebrate the centennial of tho beginning of Frotestant missions In China. These plans inclu led an urgent ur-gent request that a delegation of pastors pas-tors and laymen wIM visit China to Investigate the conditions and needs of the work. It was owing largely to tho energetic presentation of this plan to churches and business men by Dr. Eubank that a lurge deputation to the far east was secured. He Is particularly skillful In presenting the subject of" foreign missions to business busi-ness men. It Is expected thai at least sixty will attend the Monday night banquet ban-quet from Ogden. |