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Show I. Through the consecrated money of a business man, a friend of Mr. De Haan's we plan further extension. A chain of branch dispensaries will be started in the fall, so that each of several outstations will be visited by a native physician and nurse for several days a month. To the base hospital will be reported only those cases which need hospital attention, thus at once making it unnecessary for some to travel to the one hospital of the region, with its over 2,000,000 people, and also rendering it possible for the patients seen locally to be followed up, and spiritual impressions furthered. In opening several new outstations, it appears that in two of the cities it was almost impossible to secure even temporary quarters for the preachers. But in Ling Hsien a Mr. Tu, whose father had come to us some years earlier, too late and in vain, remembered our efforts and made provision. This experience was repeated at Cheng Chia Kou where a former patient showed our teachers a like favor. A heart pang comes to us as we see these mud and some brick buildings torn down for salvage, and yet the cure is but a half day's journey to the north, for there rise the stately administration-dispensary buildings for the two hospitals. When the time came to build we were not only blessed with suitable architect's plans, but an experienced and consecrated carpenter, Mr. Campbell, not new to China, came all the way from California to see to hospital construction. ( 7 ) |