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Show sake it would be wisdom to build them all at this time. It is thought friends may be glad to give special gifts which will in no way interfere with regular contributions, for the erection of these pavilions and the equipment of the entire hospital. In my judgment the Lord's money can be put to no better use. Mrs. George M. Clark, President of Womans Board of Missions of the Interior. A recent visit in Pang Chuang has brought me both joy and sorrow,-joy in the workers there and in the marvelous record of the past years- and sorrow, yes, even mortification; over the miserable accommodations of the Williams Hospital. That graduates of the best medical school in America, accustomed to the finest equipment, should have been obliged to go on year after year with unheated rooms, with mud floors, with twenty patients in a room that should have held but six, seemed desperately hard, And the operating room would make the angels weep! A home-made table, a broken uneven floor, so that the furniture had to be propped up on blocks, a "tuppenny" stove with an unreliable and extremely wavy stovepipe and the whole room so damp that instruments could not be kept there without rusting. And here the doctors have performed their operations, over 300 in a year. After all this patient waiting we must give them adequate equipment for the new hospitals now being built, the only medical aid for over two million people. What uncounted blessing to the { 23 ) |