A Moving Report: the potential Williams Hospital for men, Porter Hospital for Women, Tehchow, Shantung, China

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The financial statement shows how compara­tively small a sum is needed to complete a great work or in Chinese classical phrase: " A mound lacking a few basketsful of earth. " It is hoped - and I may say it is confidently anticipated - that there will be found a sufficient number of friends of the Board and of the New China, who will be moved to aid in this effort to complete an import­ant undertaking, and this without infringing upon Regular contributions to the Board's work. There is another consideration, also, which must not be omitted. We have now entered - the whole World has entered - upon a period of mis­sionary co-operation. What was impracticable before becomes now a near possibility, and draws percep­tibly nearer of accomplishment. No dispensary and hospital is. to remain an isolated and an unrelated unit. It is now a part of a vast and a growing Medical Scheme to dominate the medical education of China. At first this ambition seemed preposterous, but it is taking actual shape before our eyes. The little plant at Pang Chuang now replaced by the enlarged one at Tehchow is intimately connected with the great Union Medical College in Peking from which its Chinese physician graduated some years ago. It is to be also intimately connected with the expanding Union Medical College in Shantung Province, located at Tsinanfu (the capital), now within easy reach by rail. It is neces­sary to have an equipment worthy of the time in which we live and of the growing opportunities of missionary work in China. Dr. and Mrs. Tucker have made the best of distressing conditions for many years, but since their return from furlough in 1911 they have been reinforced by the presence of a trained nurse of singular adaptation to her environment and to her ( 21 )