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Show 94 NORTH CHINA MISSION Needs One Educational Director is required to have charge of the boys' educational work of Pangchuang (to be moved to Techou), and to superintend educational work in that station and in Lintsing. A Grinnell graduate is preferred. A Physician is Wanted for Lintsing. This station has its own populous world, distant a hard day and a half from Pangchuang. The suffering poor will die without medical aid if the doctor is so far distant. The Master healed wherever he preached. He did not look after the women only and turn the men away. Moreover the Shantung district of our mission is expected to affiliate with the Shantung province in education. To send medical students to the Union Medical College at the capital of Shantung, Tsinanfu, is also more economical. We are expected to furnish our proportion of the teaching staff, which, with but one overburdened foreign medical man in Shantung, who has a clientale of manv thousands of patients, and who must in the near future, oversee the building of two hospitals, is quite impossible. The Pangchuang hospital is a great evangelistic agency, and compared with the days of our more primitive seed sowing, it seems like one of the big Daeotal planting machines which moves all over the landscape in one afternoon. Let us hope that Lintsing also may have the Double Opportunity for men and Women which Pangchuang we hope is soon to have (in Techou). May it mean scores of thousands added to the Lintsing church. Larger General Appropriations The cost of living has nearly doubled within the last ten years. Laborers wages have risen. Fabrics are much dearer. It seems impossible not to advance salaries of workers. The resistless tide of progress seems to sweep ahead of it everything except our appropriations. The inexorable Musts of our growing work and the equally inexorable Must-nots of our limited appropriations make a vice between the jaws of which we are sometimes pinched black and blue, and from this painful embrace we only escape by a generous wadding of special gifts from some good angel. Lintsing with its 15 wistful hungry counties has but six Chinese preachers. If, to meet the increased cost of living, we increase their salaries, we must employ even fewer men, in other words shorten and shrink the pants of our fine growing boy. |