西方新教传教士自1860年来山东传教后,面对近代山东灾荒频发的局面,在基督教博爱精神与普世主义指引下,积极投身于山东灾荒救济。特别是在“丁戊奇荒”与1889年山东灾荒期间,李提摩太、倪维思、狄考文等众多传教士相互合作,不辞辛劳,到处募集捐款,分头赈灾,发放赈银救助了大量灾民,并提出了许多预防灾荒的建议。尽管传教士赈灾存在传播上帝福音,吸引灾民入教的目的,也有救助地域的局限,但他们的这些活动对拯救濒于死亡边缘的灾民、促进中国赈灾机制近代化转型与中国早期现代化,仍有值得肯定之处。 Protestant missionaries in the west came to Shandong in 1860 to face the frequent famine in modern Shandong. Under the guidance of Christian fraternity and universalism, Western Protestant missionaries actively devoted themselves to disaster relief in Shandong. In particular, many missionaries such as Timothy, Ni Weisi, Di Kao Man and many other missionaries worked together to raise funds for donations, relief to disaster relief and the release of Relief Relief Fund during the famine in 1889 in Shandong Province. A large number of victims, and put forward many proposals to prevent famine. Although missionaries have the purpose of disseminating the Gospel of God and attracting victims to join the church, there are still some limitations in helping them. However, their activities are still worthwhile to save the victims of the brink of death and to promote the modernization and transformation of China’s disaster relief mechanism and China’s early modernization Affirmative.