. In brightest Asia. wo sisters from one household, a village was opened to the gospel,nearly a whole clan was converted, and a promising church organized. Connected with all the hospitals are gospel halls, in which services are daily held, whichpatients in waiting must attend before they have access to the consulting-rooms. Evangelistsand Bible-women here render service in the wards for men and women respectively. On all thewalls are hung handsome and striking texts of Scripture to greet the eye, and burn their way intothe memories of the sufferers, who observe them for weeks together. Medica
. In brightest Asia. wo sisters from one household, a village was opened to the gospel,nearly a whole clan was converted, and a promising church organized. Connected with all the hospitals are gospel halls, in which services are daily held, whichpatients in waiting must attend before they have access to the consulting-rooms. Evangelistsand Bible-women here render service in the wards for men and women respectively. On all thewalls are hung handsome and striking texts of Scripture to greet the eye, and burn their way intothe memories of the sufferers, who observe them for weeks together. Medical Mission Work in China. 93 T^?? Pfi^seot Status. There are at present sixty-one hospitals and forty-four additional dispensaries in connectionwith our Protestant missions in China, and last year there were 350,000 patients. Of coursenone would claim that evangelical impressions were made upon so large a number. We havetaken pains personally to inspect six of these institutions, located respectively at Shanghai, Nan-. king, Hankow, Ningpo, Swatow, and Canton, and looked up the workings of as many gleaned the following facts : — In the Margaret Williamson Hospital for women at Shanghai, there were 9,000 patients thefirst year it opened, and 27,000 prescriptions filled. At our own hospital at Ningpo, now in chargeof Dr. Grant, founded by the untiring devotion of Dr. Barchet, who wore himself out in thisservice, it was a common thing to have 300 patients daily, and 10,000 in a single year. In thePresbyterian hospital at Swatow last year, in which there were 5,830 persons treated and 1,129operations performed, the patients came from 1,780 towns and villages through four prefectures. 94 In BriorJitest Asia. For fifty-six years the hospital in Canton has been pouring forth a stream of practical benevo-lence, the reflex benefit of which has b^en reaped by all denominations. Its Chinese name,translated, is The Hospital of Broad and Free Beneficence, and the locality about it
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