Missionary Visitor, The (1912) . yyou would see a child bring its little por-tion of grain and put it into the collec-tion basket. Each Sundays amount maynot be much, but it is kept from Sundayto Sunday until there is a good deal andthen it is sold and the proceeds put intothe treasury. In this way that littleschool of non-Christian children had acollection of two dollars for the DistrictMeeting collection. While the boys and girls, men andwomen of many of the Sunday-schoolsof America are taking their collectionsfor the support of the missionaries in In-dia and China, the missionaries in turna
Missionary Visitor, The (1912) . yyou would see a child bring its little por-tion of grain and put it into the collec-tion basket. Each Sundays amount maynot be much, but it is kept from Sundayto Sunday until there is a good deal andthen it is sold and the proceeds put intothe treasury. In this way that littleschool of non-Christian children had acollection of two dollars for the DistrictMeeting collection. While the boys and girls, men andwomen of many of the Sunday-schoolsof America are taking their collectionsfor the support of the missionaries in In-dia and China, the missionaries in turnare extending the work, not only amongthe Christian people of these lands, butamong those who are the followers ofstrange gods and false prophets andteachers. Its the passing on of theblessings we receive. The more wegive the more we get. The joys wereceive we must pass on so that othersmay be given us. He who joy wouldwin must share it. Happiness was borna twin. January1012 The Missionary Visitor 11 DAHANU MEDICAL WORK Adam Ebey. HEN we located inDahanu, our medicalknowledge was limit-ed. We know butlittle more yet. Be-^*^\/ w cause we are Europe- ans the people thoughtus to be doctors andbegan to come formedicine. No sheep-skin and no shingleout, but the people came and insisted onhaving treatment. Epsom salts and qui-nine, painkiller and sulphur, and twenty,thirty, forty patients a day. We werefamous at once. Thats the way theDahanu medical work started. Puzzleupon puzzle and success upon success. In 1910, 5,200 patients; nine monthsof 1911, 6,200. The work is gettingharder all the time. We have bought afew standard medical books and arestudying a little. We have a veranda in the east side ofthe bungalow, nine by eighteen feet. Herewe have a small cupboard and threeboxes with locks. But here we do morereal work than is done in many of thewell-equipped government kind of diseases do we have?See! Dysentery, 18; malaria, 297; syphilis,21 ; worms, 827; rheumatis
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