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Show (Several missions south of us are without physicians and sometimes look to us for medical help.) In March at Lintsing a son, David Laughlin. was born to Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Moe of the Holiness Mission at Nan Kwan Tao and on December 7th, a daughter, Naomi Ruth, came to bless tha home of Mr. and Mrs. Peter Kiehn of the Nazarene Church Mission of Chaochenghsien. Last May, Mrs. C. W. Troxel, of Nan Kwan Tao, was brought here very ill with relapsing fever but was able to b? taken on to Pehtaiho ten days later. All these friends of other missions have found a welcome in the hospitable Ellis home and have brought as well as received a. blessing. But in the new hospital there are three up-stairs rooms which we propose fitting up for the use of foreign patients at such a time as it might not be possible to care for them'in our homes. The friends of the National Holiness Mission have given one hundred dollars (silver) to help in furnishing these rooms. One of the very important events of the year has been the beginning of the new hospital administration building to be known as the Elizabeith Memorial Building in memory of Mrs. Elizabeth Williams, whose daughters have given the funds for its erection. The laying of the cornerstone of this building in November was an enjoyable and significant occasion participated in by representatives of the officials, civil and military, by the gentry and the scholars, by representatives of the local guilds of merchants as well as by Chinese and foreigners of the Christian Church. While the exercises had to do with the laving of the |