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Show unsafe, but Mrs. Wu cares little. Her husband, a military officer, hi charge of 1,500 men, got desperate in his entreaties and threats to make her break off opium smoking. He said, "How can I keep my face," position, or head if one in my own home uses opium, when it is my business to absolutely suppress it!" He gave her one more trial, hung his automatic revolver over her bed, and said he would shoot her if she again used opium. The wife, alarmed tho she was, but also weakened in will power thru the ravages of the drug, used it secretly and was discovered. Colonel Wu is a man of his word. The first shot went wild, while the wounds caused by the other two are dangerous, yet Mrs. Wu may survive the resulting peritonitis. Awful as such incidents are, they bring us into favorable touch with classes in Techou hither to largely strangers to us. The official is most friendly and says he will further our work in any way he can. This is quite different from the days when the American Consul was sadly mistreated in this very place. Blind T'ang, "The Man with Ten Eyes", has been well supported in his work along evangelistic lines among the patients and our constant endeavor is to avoid an eclipse of the spiritual phase in the material development of the work. Among both men and women however we are in need of patient, plodding workers, content to teach elementary Christian truth over and over again. Some of the seed falls on stony ground but some bears faint and that which bears fruit will bear yet more fruit. "And God is able to make all grace abound toward you; that ye, always having all sufficiency in all things, may abound to every good work." We have the best in God Himself. Is it too much to ask for more of the material things as well? In-patients: Men 527; Women 271. Total; 798. 04. omen 5,342; Total cTATUTirAi Surgical operations; Major, 296; Mmor 304 DConBT Dispensary treatments; Men 10,132; W 15,474. F. F. Tucker, M.D. Emma B. Tucker, M.D. Myra L. Sawyer, T.N. |