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Show - 101 - enraptured audience could hardly be kept in their seats, and that a vivid impression was made is evidenced by the way in which the lecture and demonstrations have become absorbing topics of conversation ever since. One of the country preachers has suggested that this lecture be repeated in the different country stations, with sincere expectation that an immrdia'e decrease in infant mortality would result. As one result of these lectures many strangers have found their way to our church services. Dr. and Mrs. Smith have made their presence felt in many OUR ways, though they are quite too freely "at large" to travel MISSIONARIES away, for Tungchou's taste. Before Dr. Smith went to AT LARGE Shanghai he made a brief but concentrated tour to five of our oat-stations, speaking six times in four days. Not only did he give the countryside something new to think about, but on his return, to the station, also, in the form of helpful and spicy observations and advice. After more than thirty years of faithful, earnest work our senior Bible woman, Mrs. Chao, was laid aside last June by paralysis. After lingering several months she recently passed on to the heavenly home, A WORKER honored and mojrned by a large number of women of the AT REST city and country, to whom she has ministered during the past years. She leaves to cur church a fragrant memory of single-hearted devotion to the service of her Lord. The workers in the city are finding many new homes open, with eager listeners awaiting them. They have given more time than usual to teaching women to read, and about a hundred and fifty are making OTHERS AT real progress, and many more read occasionally, as the WORK Bible women have time to visit them. Many of these plead for more frequent visits, but the calls are too many to respond to all. During the year Dr. Ingram has been going to Peking once a week to lecture in the Union Medical College and also in the Woman's Union Medical College. The subject taught in both these institutions is TEACHING Therapeutics. In addition to this he has been lecturing on MEDICINE Psychiatry in the Union Medical College. He has translated a large section of Defendorf's Fsychiatry for these lectures. A stop-gap edition of Hare's Therapeutics is now being bound, as there was not time at Dr. Ingram's disposal to revise it before the present edition would be exhausted. He has finished the translation of Thorington's Refraction, and it is now in press, to appear in a few months. More station classes for women have been held this year than over before, six in the city and four in the out-stations, with a hundred and thirty six pupils. Of these, fifty or sixty had never before studied in a class, and needed the frst principles of Christian teaching given in the simplest form. For these there have always been oral lessons in the life of Christ, also out- CLASSES lines of Geography and Physiology. For the more advanced, THAT WIN various studies suited to their attainments have been given. A number of the new comers have been led to give themselves to Christ during their month of study. |