. The story of the exposition; being the official history of the international celebration held at San Francisco in 1915 to commemorate the discovery of the Pacific Ocean and the construction of the Panama Canal . a strong boat and goesout into deep water, stays a-long time, faces a high wind, comes through abig storm, and after many days when it comes back it has a big catch. Youare outfitting your missionaries; if your missionaries are well outfitted andyou keep them out where the people are a long time, the work grows, but ifthey are poorly outfitted they are discouraged, may quit soon, and
. The story of the exposition; being the official history of the international celebration held at San Francisco in 1915 to commemorate the discovery of the Pacific Ocean and the construction of the Panama Canal . a strong boat and goesout into deep water, stays a-long time, faces a high wind, comes through abig storm, and after many days when it comes back it has a big catch. Youare outfitting your missionaries; if your missionaries are well outfitted andyou keep them out where the people are a long time, the work grows, but ifthey are poorly outfitted they are discouraged, may quit soon, and the workdies. In these discourses, that world figure of civilization, the missionary, ap-peared not only as the messenger of a faith, but as an international socialpioneer, working to sweep away the barriers of language and of caste thatkeep apart the nations, and the classes of society. As translators and in-terpreters alone, their work would have the most striking results in the out-lying places of the world. One missionary reported from the Philippinesthat Silliman Institute, at Mumagetti, a school for boys, 300 miles south ofManila, had opened in 1901 with 13 reluctant pupils, and now had 785 en- *^p. ADOLPH ALEXANDER WEINMAN. SCLLPTOK FHOTO BY CARDINELL-VINCENT CuMPANY FOUNTAIN OF THE SETTING SCX THE WOMENS CONGRESS OF MISSIONS 15 rolled and had had to refuse 300 more for lack of accommodations. Theseclusion of women in India was breaking down, the status of women inChina was being reformed. So, characterized by the most pronounced inter-nationalism, the work appeared as the great healing agency of a sad oldworld. Altogether there were few of the congresses of the Exposition thatbrought more of the tidings of past progress or promised more for the futureof mankind. CHAPTER VADVANCES IN MEDICINE IN the front rank of important conventions at the Exposition, history-must recognize those great gatherings of the foremost medical men ofthe country, grouped around the meeting of
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