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Show Perhaps it is still true that few people read to him, but to how many do his eager ten fingers read the best news in the world. In his early walks with his great General, what blessed victories are planned. He is honored and loved by a great parish. Some years ten thousand men and women pour through the hospital. How many hungry souls have received from him their first taste of manna, and have gone home longing for more.* He not only remembers the needs of the sick bodies, carrying food from his own little table, but he is full of deep longings over the wayward sheep. On his patient knees he valiantly fights their battles. When this dear under shepherd comes back with a lost lamb over his shoulder, a king might envy his joy. Each day is an unexplored mine, for each day "Jesus of Nazareth passeth by" that dear hospital, and is still delighted to be stopped short by blind men in dead earnest for one touch, one word. Ere we finish this story, let us spend a moment in reverent review, and then pass on all the glory to God. Behold Mr. Tong, with hands, feet, and will in hopeless fetters, writhing in the devil's net. A gentle voice steals into his tortured soul, "Come unto Me." He hears dully, comprehends faintly, and feebly makes one false start. The message being repeated, he rouses up in desperate earnest to obey. The fetters drop. As he comes, the Master adds these wondrous words, " I have chosen you, and ordained you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should remain." "Through His name, by faith in His name," the Deadly Derelict has become a blessed Life Boat. In God's sight, perhaps the work of the Pang Chuang hospital would have paid for itself, if it had produced only one "Sunny Heart," like Mrs. Hu, and one Hospital Chaplain like Mr. Tong. "The teachers that are wise shall shine as the brightness of the firmament; and they that turn many to righteousness as the stars forever and ever.'' *Dr. Porter once said, "Half our out station churches had their origin in hospital patients." 20 |