Christian missions and social progress; a sociological study of foreign missions . eived from the Chinese themselves. More than a thousand miles in the interior, almost due west ofShanghai, is Chungking, where the American Methodists, the EnglishFriends, and the London Missionary Society have a record in theirhospitals and dispensaries, according to recent reports, of 50,118annual treatments. It may be noted that this is about one hundredand fifty a day throughout the year. There are many other placeswhich seem to demand a word of description and comment. TheEnglish Presbyterians receive in th
Christian missions and social progress; a sociological study of foreign missions . eived from the Chinese themselves. More than a thousand miles in the interior, almost due west ofShanghai, is Chungking, where the American Methodists, the EnglishFriends, and the London Missionary Society have a record in theirhospitals and dispensaries, according to recent reports, of 50,118annual treatments. It may be noted that this is about one hundredand fifty a day throughout the year. There are many other placeswhich seem to demand a word of description and comment. TheEnglish Presbyterians receive in their hospital at Swatow, underthe care of Drs. Alexander Lyall and John M. Dalziel, over 2500i?i-patients annually, the largest number of this class of patients caredfor at any single missionary institution in foreign mission fields. TheWomens Missionary Association of the same Church is about to in-crease the plant by opening a Womans Hospital. At Foochow theAmerican Methodists, through their Womans Society, conduct two 1 The China Mission Hand-Book (first issue, 1896), p. Exterior and Interior Views. he S. \\ Williams Pavilion of Margaret Williamson Hospital, Shanghai. (\V. U. ) _ THE SOCIAL RESULTS OF MISSIONS 423 hospitals and three dispensaries exclusively for women, where 18,794treatments were given last year. At Amoy the new building of HopeHospital, of the Reformed Church in America, was opened April 27,1898. During the first seven months since his recent return to Amoy,Dr. J. A. Otte, who is in charge of the hospital, has seen 6000 patientsand performed 319 operations, none of the latter having been at-tended with fatal results. A joyous record is this, and so we couldcontinue to follow a luminous pathway of healing ministry from cityto city throughout the empire. The total of mission hospitals in Chinais 122, and the number of dispensaries is 1 The number is so large that only a partial record can be inserted here. Thefollowing list of important c
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