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Show 44 NORTH CHINA MISSION EVANGELISM The unique opportunity for preaching and teaching afforded in wards aud in waiting-rooms has always had a measure of attention, but TUNGCHOW has just called in a trained preacher from one of the country chapels to work in the hospital, aud as far as possible to follow up the people in their homes. There is a special fitness in the man chosen, for years ago he himself was won to the gospel while undergoing treatment under Dr. Ingram's hands in this very hospital, to which he now carries his exceptional gifts of human sympathy and vivid speech. In TAIKUHSIEN the evangelists in the street chapel have given much time to work in the hospital, and the evangelist of the hospital has helped with the fair pleaching. But the aim of the hospital is to have every one connected with the Hospital an evangelist, as much interested in the souls as they are in the bodies of the patients, and with this in view, a weekly meeting of the hospital staff for Bible study has been held. Nor can this branch of the work well be exaggerated. At the tent in the Fair, a man came in who had been treated by Dr. Hall in Limanchuang before IQOO. In the street-chapel, two men dropped in, one of whom had heard the gospel in the hospital while breaking off opium. The distributors of tracts found a warm welcome from the manager of a shop who had his Bible and hymn book prominent among the books on his table. He too had heaul in the hospital and had believed, but was held back by business interests. Of the tens of thousands who have passed through the hospitals of our mission alone, there are very many who will respond easily to the evangelistic work when it finds them later, and not the least important results of the medical work are those of which the physician has no record. Sawing Lumber For New Lintsing Hospital |
