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Show A MOVING REPORT 1913-1914. We have come to the parting of the ways. We are crossing the Rubicon between Pang Chuang and Tehchow. An eleeomosynary work that has blessed the Pang Chuang region for over a third of a century is being moved fourteen miles north to the city of Tehchow. Started here by Dr. Porter in the early eighties, and continued by others, this country village contained the only available hospital for several millions. Opposition to the foreigner has now melted away. Neither Boxer ferocity, revolution, nor military revolt have interfered with our medical work, till now carried on in quarters painfully inadequate, and with equipment most meagre. But the Gospel has been preached, and tens of thousands have learned at least a little of the Prince of Peace. A dozen years ago we began planning and praying for the new hospitals, sorely needed, but many events conspired to postpone. On a memorable February noon day of this year Miss Bodman, here for a few days during her world-tour of missionary fields, representing our Northampton, Mass. churches, turned the "first sod" of the main hospital building, and thus initiated forces which will mean much for many bodies and souls for all time to come. |