Christian missions and social progress; a sociological study of foreign missions . been everywhere a forerunner of the divinemessage.—W. N. Whitney, ,, formerly of the United States Legation, butnow of Akasaka Hospital, Tokyo. Owing to the medical skill of Dr. Mackenzie and Dr. Leonora Howard (nowMrs. King), the celebrated Premier, Li Hung Chang, and his wife, Lady Li, havefor years been strong supporters of Western medicine, and now, in addition to thehospitals erected by them, both for men and for women, a special training-schoolfor medical students has been established, at the expense of
Christian missions and social progress; a sociological study of foreign missions . been everywhere a forerunner of the divinemessage.—W. N. Whitney, ,, formerly of the United States Legation, butnow of Akasaka Hospital, Tokyo. Owing to the medical skill of Dr. Mackenzie and Dr. Leonora Howard (nowMrs. King), the celebrated Premier, Li Hung Chang, and his wife, Lady Li, havefor years been strong supporters of Western medicine, and now, in addition to thehospitals erected by them, both for men and for women, a special training-schoolfor medical students has been established, at the expense of the Government, fortraining physicians and surgeons for the army and navy. — Rev. Gilbert Reid,Peking, China. 3 Mercy and Truth, June, 1897, p. 138; September, 1897, p. 197; November,1897, p. 249; The Missionary Revie^v 0/ the IVorld, September, 1897, pp. 695-697,708 ; The Church Missionajy Intelligencer, November, 1895, p. 862 ; The Chronicle,November, 1895, p. 303; IVork and Workers in the Mission Field, February, 1897,p. 79; Macgowan, Pictures of Southern China, p. 5- <^ 6 _ a s (X) THE SOCIAL RESULTS OF MISSIONS 407 lege at Beirut, and similar facilities, such as those found at Agra,Neyoor, Lodiana, Bareilly, and Kalimpong, in India, the medical in-struction at Moukden, Foochow, Soochow, Canton, Fatshan, HongKong, and Chungking, in China, and also the training-classes of fromhalf a dozen to a dozen pupils at a number of the hospitals in variousfields, are examples sufficiently illustrative of this important phase ofmedical The Tientsin Medical College, founded by the LondonMissionary Society, has passed under Chinese control, but continuesto give the modern training required by Western science, some ofthe instructors having been pupils of Dr. Mackenzie.^ In certain ofthe institutions mentioned women are taught, and special classes forthem are conducted in many of the hospitals. Chang Chih-tung,a prominent viceroy in China, was reported, in 1897, as se
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