First Annual Report of the Woman's Missionary Council of The Methodist Episcopal Church, South, for 1910-1911 . ve giventheir whole time to the evangelistic work among the patients and thevisitors of the hospital. I have in all four full Bible women, three assistant Bible women,and numerous voluntary helpers who are giving more or less time tothe direct evangelizing or instructing of the women about them. One of the pleasures of the year has been to see the developmentof my helpers. I thank God for all my fellow-laborers in the gospel—for the Bible women, for the preachers, for the preachers w
First Annual Report of the Woman's Missionary Council of The Methodist Episcopal Church, South, for 1910-1911 . ve giventheir whole time to the evangelistic work among the patients and thevisitors of the hospital. I have in all four full Bible women, three assistant Bible women,and numerous voluntary helpers who are giving more or less time tothe direct evangelizing or instructing of the women about them. One of the pleasures of the year has been to see the developmentof my helpers. I thank God for all my fellow-laborers in the gospel—for the Bible women, for the preachers, for the preachers wives. I getfrom many of them more than I give, and I honor them for theirChristian character and for their real worth. With such fellowship I feel that the future holds much. May nextyear find us as far .ahead of this year as this year has put us aheadof the last! MEDICAL WOKK. Dr. Margaret Polk, 1896, Kentucky Conference. Miss Mary Culler White, 1901, South Georgia Conference. Miss Mary Hood, 1908, Missionary Nurse. Dr. Margaret H, Polk: The hospital has this year somewhat fulfilled the expectations and. 282 WOMAN^S MISSIONARY COUNCIL. responded to the plans of the physician in charge in that its proportionof ward patients has increased, although its number of clinic patientshas decreased. I have always thought the ideal of medical missionary work was notsimply, nor of first importance, the healing of a few thousands of sickpeople in a year; for while these few thousands of sick people mightbe healed to the advantage of those few and to the spread of the fameof the physician, it would remain true that when it was done thatpart of the world would feel the immediate effect, but the world atlarge would receive little benefit. So I have craved time and women and houses and money to increasethe ward work, and to do it after the best plans, so that people comingto the hospital would be healed, would get a knowledge of God, a cer-tainty of the brotherhood of all men, a faint idea (
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