. Virgil C. Hart; missionary statesman, founder of the American and Canadian missions in central and west China. THE HOSPITAL COMPOUND FROM THE YANGTSE RIVER. METHODIST HOSPITAL, NANKING I CHI SAN the yacht Stella, in 1877, the boat stopped for ashort time at the Wuhu landing. Mr. Hart wentashore and began to talk to the people that gatheredabout him and sold them some religious books. Histwo eldest sons felt that they too would like to do alittle missionary work. They stood at the bow ofthe Stella, as it touched the bank, and soon attracteda larger and more curious crowd than their
. Virgil C. Hart; missionary statesman, founder of the American and Canadian missions in central and west China. THE HOSPITAL COMPOUND FROM THE YANGTSE RIVER. METHODIST HOSPITAL, NANKING I CHI SAN the yacht Stella, in 1877, the boat stopped for ashort time at the Wuhu landing. Mr. Hart wentashore and began to talk to the people that gatheredabout him and sold them some religious books. Histwo eldest sons felt that they too would like to do alittle missionary work. They stood at the bow ofthe Stella, as it touched the bank, and soon attracteda larger and more curious crowd than their little fellows talked to the people in their boy-ish way and disposed of quite a quantity of litera-ture. It is interesting to think that in less thantwenty years after this little incident by the water-side at Wuhu, the younger of those two boys cameto this city as a medical missionary, and that withina few minutes walk of the spot where the Stella wasanchored that day, he carried on a hospital workthat made his name known throughout the empireas one of Chinas most successful and best-lovedsurgeons. A correspondent of the China Gazette thus speaksof
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