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Show DR. VAN ALLEN'S BUNGALOW THE MADURA HOSPITAL business. Another had attended both Catholic and Protestant services in Paotingfu, and had been present at the funeral service of Miss Morrill, whom he claimed to know. A third had broken off opium with Dr. Atwood at Limanchuang before 1900, and said that he had never smoked it since. "A fourth man said that his family had owned the court in our city here in which Mr. and Mrs. Clapp lived before they moved to the place in which they were killed. He said that on that fateful last day of July, 1900, he, a boy of fourteen, had run home crying to his mother because they had killed his foreign friends. A fifth had spent some time in the hospital as an attendant on some one who was breaking off opium, and a number of others had in some way come in contact with our work. "All this was in a village of 400 or 500 people, but I suppose it is more or less typical of what we should find in many of the villages around here. Our great problem is to lay hold of these strands of interest and draw these friendly people into fellowship with the great Friend. Just how to do it is not yet clear, but we feel that very much of it must be done by the Chinese Christians." * INDIA From Madura Hospital We are indebted to Dr. Frank Van Allen, of Madura, for the interesting pictures on these pages of the setting of the hospital and of some of its helpful work. Dr. Van Allen's own home, the left-hand picture, is just across 40 the street from the hospital. The street is about 100 feet wide, and a side gate in the wall around the hospital grounds, opposite the bungalow, admits the doctor at any time. In the picture on the opposite page, a hospital servant is fitting a wooden leg to each of the other men, who are farmers and have come more than thirty-five miles to receive these valuable attachments. Dr. Van Allen is a very busy man, and we are glad to be able to present to his friends in America even this small glimpse of the fine, skillful work done at Madura Hospital. * Pushing Evangelistic Work In the letter in which Rev. J. F. Edwards describes the public confession of Christ on the part of the Mahar priest at Sirur (see page 15), he adds interesting details of his conviction that India is ripening for a Christian harvest such as it has never known before, and tells of some of his plans of campaign. He writes: - "The incident of Chokoba's confession of Christ has confirmed me in my evangelistic plans. Two months ago I felt the opportunity of having a colleague in evangelistic work was one not to be missed, since the district urgently needed such a worker. Sudoba is therefore set apart for the work of evangelizing. I simply felt I must obey God's clear leading, and the conversion and baptism of Chokoba are the first fruits of this development. "I have three blind assistants who accompany Sudoba. There is blind Yeshwani, with a fine memory for Scripture and who will make a strong |
