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Show MODERN MIRACLE PLANTS 4J lumiuous as you come iu the door. For two years, she has fought the battle with tuberculosis against fearful odds. Yet amid these surroundings, she has brought joy to all who know her. But this girl must go on through her life crippled by the ravages of disease, because neither she nor her mother had ever been told the dangers of foul air and heedless expectoration, and because no one had ever made it clear to them that they could not destroy the form of foot God had given them without affecting their whole lite. Yet very slow are they to take advantage of the nearness of a foreign doctor, especially the women when there is only a THE LAST m a l e P I l y s i c i a " available. Two maternity cases RESORT at TUNGCHOW were allowed to go on until in each case the life of the mother had been despaired of, aud then Jtlie doctor was called only as a resort of desperation. Although the infants could not be saved, the mothers were, aud the gratitude of the families is unbounded. The former hostile attitude has been changed to marked friendliness. Several new cases have beeu introduced through these families, and the Bible women are welcomed to homes closed before to all approach. In another case, a woman in a bitterly anti-Christian family had a violent attack of convulsions. A Christian relative finally persuaded them, as a last resort, to invite the foreign doctor, and their gratitude at the saving of her life opened the way for them all to become inquirers aud regular attendants at church. Another family, who had turned out of doors a Christian son fiually let hi in persuade them to have the doctor come, and when after heroic efforts the woman's life was saved, they too opened the doors of their hearts and minds to the religion that showed itself iu such kindness aud skill. Consider the evangelistic significance of the three thousand women who have been treated the past year! Appreciation, though sometimes tardy, is readily given by the practical Chinese. In TECHOW, the official class, the APPRECIATION l e a d i n g , n e n ' a n d i l l d e e d a11 w e l c o n i e t he hospitals which are crossing over from Paug-kiachwang. Complimentary tablets have long been prepared to present, but to receive them is such an Oriental function that the agony has been postponed till opening days. Much more easily received has beeu the gift of $600 Mexican which the |
