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Show face of each stone is inscribed the Chinese for '' Christ is the cornerstone." In addition to this central building which is of Chinese architecture and said to be a perfect gem, four others were dedicated at the same time; one a woman's ward of fourteen beds in memory of Mrs. Lilla P. Sargent of Berkeley, and another to match it for men, built by the gentry and officials of Lintsing; an isolation ward of four rooms named in memory of little James McCann who died in Lintsing, and another of nine rooms in memory of Phoebe Ann Fris-bie, the mother of ^Irs. J. C. King of Claremont, who had lived in Lintsing and was the generous donor of both buildings. The year of the dedication also saw the marriage of Dr. Tallmon to Rev. Benjamin F. Sargent and after two more years of service when the treatments reached 10,000 per year, she returned with her husband to become a most valued worker at this end of the line. After an interim in which Miss Callie Munger, a trained nurse, rendered valuable aid, we had the pleasure of commissioning Dr. Alma L. Cooke of California in 1920, and last year she was joined by Miss Maud McGwigan, a trained nurse who had seen service with the Near East Relief. She is provided for by the Woman's Board of Missions for the Pacific Islands which thus enters for the first time into the Shantung field. There are sixteen upon the Chinese staff, among them Chiao Ch'ing Yuan the head nurse, and Mrs. Sung, the matron, both unsurpassed in faithfulness for a long period of years. A physician has been appointed there by the American Board, and never at Lintsing has work looked more promising. For her first year Dr. Cooke reported nearly seven thousand treatments, and Miss McGwigan is already introducing modern health features in addition to nursing. The Committee of Reference and Counsel of the Foreign Missions or North America that made its exhaustive report a year ago under the able guidance of Dr. E. R. Burton of Chicago University, is assured that it is both unnecessary and impossible to maintain all the medical plants needed to minister to the hundreds of millions of people in China; but all our schools and hospitals should be models, and by making them such, we render the largest service. [ 8 0 ] |