Missionaries of the American Board located at Lintsingchow, pamphlet 1915

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|WM"C> Pn " T * H E Y say" the pagoda was built long ago but was thoroughly repaired and redecorated more recently, about the time the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth Rock. It is about. 150 feet high and a landmark for many an eager traveller. Among these often are pilgrims who count it a work of merit to mount the steep stairway of the pagoda hoping by so do­ing to gain the fulfilment of some desire or the healing of some disease. As they look out of the topmost window, the eye follows the dusty road that leads to the city with the roof of the new hospital in the near distance. Don't you hope that some one will tell them that the answer to their prayers lies there? H3 Pagoda at £intshigcl)0U), Sbantung, CDina. missionaries of tbe American Board Cocated at Cintsingcbow. Mr. and Mrs. E. W. Ellis Mr. and Mrs. V. P. Eastman. Dr. Susan B. Tallmon. Miss Edith C. Tallmon. Miss Ethel M. Long. T I E N T S I N PRESS, L T D. " p H E beautiful medical work done be­fore 1900 has its only monument-yet the best one could ask-in the hearts of those whose bodies were healed and souls tb enlightened-for the hospital buildings •B were- destroyed that year by the Boxers. ~* Seven years afterwards medical work was .3 g reopened in a small dispensary on 0 Bamboo St. When we moved to the d Jj new compound in 1909, gifts from friends g ac home made it possible to open a sma £- hospital as well as to continue the daily S-l clinics. Now we come to another time of enlargement and we wait- eagerly for our new hospital to be ready for i.je. We pray earnestly that the spiritual •?- suits may be commensurate with the m creased equipment. hj