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IN THE CENTER IS A GROUP OF FETISH CHARMS SAID TO CONTAIN THE SOUL OF A BOY AND GIVEN BY A NECROMANCER TO SAVE THE BOY'S LIFE-CHINA

Here are also a heavy silver bracelet fee given to Dr. Denman in Lacs, fire basket used to cure disease in Kashmir, India, votive offerings of eyes, made to the Goddess of Sore Eyes, China, and a charin worn by a Laos man

rant multitudes of semi-civilized and heathen nations?

"There must be many failures in such a work, the shortcomings of which are the more evident because its ideal is so magnificent. But this is no excuse for aiming at less than the ideal. Let, then, the Church wake to her duty; let the noblest gifts of God be used in His services; let white-robed Charity joins the twin handmaiden

cal work has far outstripped proportionately the development of evangelistic work. Medical missionaries have increased 120 per cent., all others 47.4 per cent., says Mr. Robert E. Speer. Even this rate of increase does not begin to cover the needs. One missionary averages 100,000 in his parish. There are 5,000 mission stations and 18,000 out-stations, and 504 hospitals and dispensaries. Many of these are

in the same station, so the supply is totally inadequate. The medical missionaries have a clientele of 2,000,000 apiece. There are 17,000 missionaries and three times as many are needed to evangelize the world, and there were 770 medical missionaries in 1902. Dr. Manassah, of the Friends' medical work at Brumana, Syria, says that "medical missions have opened the Lebanon district for the preaching of the Gospel, and have broken down prejudices, especially among the clerical party and the most fanatical people. Not long ago a priest in high position in that neighborhood was very strong in denouncing Protestant missions. But after being ill and receiving great benefit from these institutions, he became their friend and quite changed his view of them." Dr. Manassah continues:

The nursing of the sick in their own homes is far from satisfactory, being very primitive in every way. Cleanliness, suitable clothing, comfort, dietary, etc., are not understood. Only a few weeks ago I was asked to see a Druse patient, a boy about eight years old. I ordered the remedies to be taken, giving careful directions. A few days later the boy's father came to tell me that his son was not doing well, and on making inquiries I found that he had only taken one dose of medicine, and had been fed on prickly pears and pomegranates; the child was suffering from typhoid. It is very sad to see the ignorance of mothers about the care of their children, who have to suffer much for this neglect. They are often not washed thoroughly till a year or two after birth. It will easily be seen that the country is in great need of well-trained, efficient nurses, and that the people need educating on practical hygiene. . . . The medical missionary has access to many classes of people, and exerts his influence not only on the hospital patients, but on those he visits in their homes and itinerating work. He has great openings for car

rying the Gospel, either by preaching, reading to, or conversing with patients and their friends.

other lands.

Native treatment is well exemplified parallel could be given from many by a case from India, Sehore, but a A poor girl suffering from acute mania had her hands enveloped in rags, which were soaked in kerosene and set alight to exorcise the evil spirit which was supposed to possess her. "Little wonder that she ultimately died of the terrible wounds. and shock thus produced. Naturally, the people fear doctors who administer such treatment; but, either from superstitious fear or from want of better treatment, often submit to their practises, tho in ever increasing numbers they are resorting to government and mission hospitals."

Dr. Charles F. A. Moss, of the Friends' mission in Madagascar, tells us that not only has the medical work been a great blessing in the alleviation of suffering to those in and around the capital, natives and Europeans alike, but it has been the means of sending out native doctors and nurses trained by Christian teachers, and its influence and work have had farreaching effects in breaking down superstitions and ignorance all over the country.

Dr. McKean, of Chieng Mai, Laos, has an army of 125 of our best Christian men who go throughout the province to vaccinate. They carry with them "the Word of Life" in both hand and heart.

Work has been begun by means of the dispensary in all lands, with medical itineration when possible. In fact, missionaries without medical training are compelled to administer medicines.

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David Gregg Memorial Hospital for Women Hospital Ward Presbyterian Mission Urumia, and Children, Canton, China

SOME MISSION HOSPITALS IN AFRICA AND ASIA

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This hospital has recently been destroyed.

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where no medical missionary has been sent, the needs are so great, “and we could do so much better than the native doctors," a missionary of West Sudan told me. Simple cleanliness often helps the patient.

The Need for Hospitals

How necessary is a hospital at every medical mission. "Such a provision is necessary," says a writer in Medical Missions at Home and Abroad, "not only for the sake of the treatment which is so often impossible outside, but for the sake of giving the women the actual experience of what a Christian home is; so that if they forget what they hear, they remember what they see." Dr. Arthur Neve, of Srinagar, holds that hospitals are the most important factors in our work. "A medical mission abroad without a hospital is a Samson shorn of his strength."

"Itinerating on the part of a medical missionary can never have its highest value until a center has been found and a hospital planted. All the real Christian work of a doctor is done in his hospital. "There is not a word to be said against dispensary work or itineration. Both are good. But in missionary strategy we want the best, and it is the universal experience of medical missionaries that for the spread of the Gospel a medical mission without a hospital is comparatively a poor and weak instrument."

"It is a false economy," says another, "which sends a fully trained and qualified European medical missionary to the field and does not see to it that he is provided with a hospital. Some of our missionary societies have failed as yet to grasp the truth of this. If

the object in any given district is to evangelize as thoroughly as possible, it is not enough either that the medical missionary should itinerate or that he should have a dispensary. He is sent out to heal the sick in order that such healing should illustrate both the power and reach of the Gospel, and that it should perpetually show forth its spirit. Neither itineration nor dispensary give room for this. The medical missionary, under such circumstances, is limited to the mere surface of things. He never gets to that which constitutes his proper work, and the effect is proportionate. If the medical missionary is to attract men and women from all parts of his district it will be because he is able to deal with a vast mass of diseases. Without a hospital he can not do this. A hospital with the blessing of God is fitted. to be an incalculable blessing. It seems absurd to urge men to perfect themselves for Christ's sake in their profession, if they are not to find room to exercise it. The miserable idea that the medical missionary is simply to gather people together that there may be an opportunity to preach to them, lies at the root of the parsimony that sees no special value in a hospital."

At Kikuyu, British East Africa, is a doctor with no hospital, Dr. Uffmann. He is obliged to use his sitting-room and his dining-table for operations. Patients must be sent to their homes afterward. The native servants refuse to clean up, as if the patient dies and they had touched blood, sickness or death would befall them. He wanted a rest-house for patients from a long distance, on account of feuds. When young people and strangers near death, they are cast out to the

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