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Show t'b- • t|i©3 i hi i I b -, • a ther was abi . b i bta a sick relative, tad kept Llie little boy for five months on the hard bed with bricks to weigh down the bedclothes on either side so that he wouldn't crawl out. The child was so weak^ he couldn't stand alone. There was no vacant place in "the hospital at that time but we told her she might return in a few days when she could be given the us© of half of a six by eight foot brick bed. She ** i ©rj attentive o+ prayers und was tge? to *Lurtv all that tier poor eyes would permit,. One day the subject was idol worship and she surprised as by saying:. ' - ix 3 ^aro I have not gone to or- teaplej fee rorsbl] Idols J 1 tin I incense to ay ancestors at hose, though my aunt Is very much frightened when I do not. Ton sei *~ is i : 0 wa , - !v a when wasn't any hospital,, only the dispensary' clown at Fruit Market Place, I had a'number r-f boils onl went Ir-I od was ^u»*e«i* 1 heard the preaching and bought som< gospels and my husband who reads, read them to ie, I knew there was no use worshiping idols made of wood and mud and 1 paid I'd not worship any god but the Great Heavenly Father* Now 1 want to learn more." She did learn much more 'and the Sunday before I came away she and four of her grandchildren were at church as upon several other Sundays, and the little boy when lie saw me come in pointed with his finger and said "Dai" (which might be translated 'Doc') and wriggled until his grandmother let him down when he toddled across and asked to be seated on the bench beside me* The little granddaughter will enter our girl's school this fall. Are they Christians? They are at least learning what it is to be Christians. It always makes us very glad to get messages from, former patients.. There are many Catholics in the western part of our field. Several years ago there came two Chinese nuns, very attractive women, who were in charge of a girls* school. They brought a note from the German priest In charge of the district, asking me to examine them for pulmonary tuberculosis. One, I. believej had it. Being intelligent women they followed Instructions much more carefully than do most patients* When 1 went on furlough I lost track of them. This spring a women from their village came for treatment. She reported them both well and brought their cordial greeting. The big fourth 01000 "f 00 i Lval Is a favorite time with former patients for revisiting the hospital because so many come at that time to do business as well as many to worship at temples and pro.y for grandsons. This May from a village twenty miles away, was one ! r^.-, > * • « r v. reoioj* -o, |