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Show great p- - s» reading page a of s sm dciily. There was the woman who had been home for a fes clave and returned to say that the members of her family were anxious to hear the • 1 because they wished U. know what kept her from flying into a passion at every slight annoyance as had been her habit ; the blind woman who was old and slow but who listened and tried earnestly to learn the prayers and. Bible verses repeated for tar; the girl whose father could not read and irished her to learn mX% she could so as to teach, him; the young woman with a tubercular elbow who was su distracted by pain and by the csare at ber AAJJ girl that she had little heart for learning anything-this was part of her report, Mr. Lin, too^ found the patients had varying degrees of interest or Indifference. One man, a patient who had a cataract operation three years ago, had returned for an operation on the other eye. He had Joined the church on probation and was gladly learning more. Another eye-patient had never known anything about Christianity until he came to Lintsing for treatment but the seed seemed to have fallen Into good soil and was springing up. He was from a village only a few miles from the station of another mission so he was going home with a note of Introduction to the workers there. The father of the little lad who had a serious operation some weeks before was a, "reading man" and was thoughtfully investigating the claims of Christianity. The prayers that followed were mostly for these who had • been mentioned, for the thousands who had received treatment at the Lintsing hospital during the years since its opening and for ourselves that we might be worthy witnesses to the gospel we profess. After the closing hymn I asked Dr. Ma to tell every one about the visit we had received that day from Mr. Ohu, the new customs-* official. This Mr. Ohu is a descendant of the Ming emperors, and a very progressive young man. He has visited England and France and knows much of foreign ways. He fold me he had read the Bible and believed there was no other true doctrine. He had alreay sent a contribution of a hundred dollars (silver) towards the fund the Chinese are raising for a new surgical ward for men* Dr. Ma told how that afternoon he had c.ome with one of his secretaries to make inquiries about the amount of money received yearly from America for hospital expenses, about how munii wmm% for supplies and how much for salaries, and so forth. He said that with the enlarged hospital the expenses of carrying on the work would surely be increased and that if we would accept He wished to denote certain funds under his control, amounting to about a thousand dollars |
