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Show 58 NORTH CHINA MISSION Pangchuang •pattgdjucmn, Italian General Report Personnel : Rev. and Mrs. Chas. A. Stanley, (on furlough); Dr. and Mrs. Francis F. Tucker, Medical; Rev. and Mrs. A. B. DeHaan, General Work; Miss E. Gertrude Wyckoff ; Miss H. Grace Wyckoff, Woman's Work; Miss Lucia Lyons, (on furlough); Miss Myra Sawyer, Language Study. . It has been worth while to live in THE REPUBLIC ^ . ^ {hfc ^ yeaj. jf f o r n o t h i ng IN THE COUNTRY m o r e t n a ) ] t o w j t n e s s the slow progress of the nation in its attempt to establish a republican form of government. Add to this the interest of one's own work and one may feel that such a year comes to one only at long intervals. Pangchuang is located far from the central seat of government but we are privileged to see the effects of the efforts of the government as manifest in its actual working among the masses. About nine out of ten in these thickly crowded rural districts are unmindful of the epoch-making period in which they live. Their thoughts are still centered on their crops, for if these fail they have no hope. However, new ideas are gradually working in and it is but a matter of time before the people as a whole will begin to appreciate the change. As one conies in contact with the masses he realizes anew that the Republic and its destiny lies not with the masses but with a handful of intelligent, men. It is with the great mass of China's people, the farming class, that Pangchuang station has to deal. Therefore in the practical working of our station life the revolution has left us with no great change. PRRSOTMAT ^'l e w o r k i n g force of our station has been diminished by the going home on furlongh of Miss Lucia Lyons and of the family of Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Stanley with their two children. Note.-The Pangchuang Medical Report for this year is printed as a separate pamphlet under the title, "China Recognized Medically " The booklet is made up largely of a story, "The Man with Ten Eyes," by Mrs. Arthur H. Smith. Anyone desiring a copy may secure it by writing Dr. I;. 1'. Tucker, Shantung, China, or from the American Board in Boston. |