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Show Shantung NEEDS 93 ten families, with forlorn, broken-down, collapsing buildings, has drawn to itself, in a single year, ten thousand patients, of whom perhaps one third were women, what may we not expect in a good modern hospital, well equipped, and with a competent woman doctor at its head! Our doctors have been sweet in spirit, reasonable and long suffering with mud buildings, earth or brick floors, paper windows, an unspeakable operating room, leaky roofs, lack of appliances, no furniture to speak of, and sometimes insufficient drugs. They surely deserve, after their eleven years of purgatory, to be let out uow, into that medical heaven of light, sunshine, cleanliness and fresh air, a Modern Hospital. In other years one might as well have tried to buy Real Estate on Mars as in Techou, but today we have a friend at court, an influential Mohammedan, and can secure ample premises if we but have the money. Having the premises they must be inclosed with a Substantial Wall or in a heathen laud there is no possibility of "life, liberty, or the pursuit of happiness". Having the laud, the wall, and that dream of all the years, a new hospital, we must still find its Equipment before we are ready for a full te deum. Then indeed our hearts will be aglow with expectation. But like the majestic engine that made all hearts wistful because there was no engineer, would be a hospital without A Doctor. Where is God's Woman ready to step ou board, open the valves and release this mighty waiting power? She will find, on her arrival, what very few doctors in China could expect, an American trained nurse, with the language, and a few years of experience, ready to cooperate. Money for the New School and Dormitory Buildings at Techou, for the (Pangchuang) Girls' School, It always costs money to move to town as we know in America, but if sure that the children will have larger advantages, how cheerfully we do it. This school has already turned out fine workers. One returned from college has for years been at its head; one is nearly thru a medical course, and there are besides, fine teachers and kindergarteners, wives of preachers and teachers and one wife of a Y.M.C.A. secretary. |
