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Show 92 NORTH CHINA MISSION Needs 5fa?0H of tljr g>tjantnng Uiatrirt of the •Nortlj (Eljina ifltaaion, (Oomoriatng |IangrI|uang anb ffitntatng. Explanatory Note. For thirty years the peaceful little station of Pangchuang went about its daily affairs, happy with its lot, and trying to make its little mark in the missionary world; when presto, a business man of the west appears on the scene, looks the station over, and spills into its cup of contentment one little drop of yeast, and life is never the same again. It begins at once to work. "Why don't you move to the city" he said, "if you will, I will give you $10000 to help y o u . " "Hinc illae lachrymae". (yours when you shall have finished reading this report.) Needs a Woman Physician for the new Porter Hospital for Women at Techou, and Land and Equipment for the Hospital. Dr Emma Tucker carried hospital burdens perhaps for years after she should have laid them down. As she herself put it, in her weariness, " I have to get behind myself and push." Now, three children, and seriously impaired health prohibit further pushing in that line. Techou is a growing and very important commercial center. Look a moment. It seems like the day before yesterday that Techou hated foreigners and Christians as thev hated snakes and vermin. They feared us too, as one fears the imps of darkness. To the south of Pangchuang eager hands were stretched out to our colporteur for his books. To the north, near Techou, the colj orteur mist hold his own hand out, and the other man would quickly clasp his own two behind his back, lest he be tempted to touch the uncanny thing, and be thereby bewitched. He had proof positive of its poisonous nature in its deadly odor, (fresh printer's ink). Even after some began to read our books a baby on the street would revile one in passing. The decades have slowly brot indifference, toleration, and now increasing friendliness. If, in the most strenous years, our Pangclniang hospital, in a little country village, of one hundred |