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Show cooperation of her native nurses. It is interesting to compare the feeling that prevails among our educated boys and girls now with regard to studying nursing, as against the hesitation that met such a suggestion a few years ago, due to their lack of conception of nursing as an honorable occupation. Formerly for a young Chinese woman to remain single and follow a profession, and at the same time retain the respect and honor of her people has been difficult if not wellnigh impossible. A new day has come to China. Fine young women are now graduating from the medical schools, and in the years to come nursing will be in China the honored profession which it is in America. China's salvation in no small measure rests upon the opening up of ways and means of earning an honest living. She needs Christian business men, manufacturers, architects, contractors, surveyors, railroad men, bankers, and a score of others,-all the long train which would open up and put to use her natural resources. Nursing will be one of the many doors which we trust will open in the near future for men •and women to earn a living. Withal, however, we try to make it clear to all who come to consult about studying nursing, that we want our men and women to regard their profession not alone as a means of livelihood, but, above all else, as a sacred calling, one with unlimited opportunity to be of service to their fellowmen. ( 5 ) |