Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1916-09-23
Story Is Told of Christian Work
Now Being Done Ii Northern China
CHAPTER y

CHAPTER Y
But one OF the facts Of which the
college is most glad and proud is Of
the large proportion of preachers and
evangelists who have gone out from
the shadow OF her towers to very
varying fields of labor, and with vary
ing degrees Of talent, but everywhere
to proclaim the Kingdom of God. In
supervising OF village evangelism in
larger or smaller country fields the,
may be found, and as pastors of ex
ceptional gifts OF leadership and elo
quence, in charge Of metropolitan
churches in Picking, Tientsin and Nan
king. But few years ago, a listener
at a conference OF the preachers OF
three provinces was overheard to re
mark, after two speakers had finish
ed-one, tedious and repetitious to q
degree, and the second concise. con
yineing and sparkling The college
training tells every time. -
That Is Why. our college towers
stand SO straight and nnafraid. They
stand for work that tells. a
The HmedieiDe Houss:" Why the
Doctor u ! Busy Man 4
IN Africa the popular thing for Q
man with an ache Is to call in the
nedicine-man, IN China, he. summons
aacatt, . -rickshaw,s or q nciehbDr' s
back, and goes to the medicine
house with q celebrity in direct pro
portion to the size OF; the ache and In.
teiligence Of the patient Not that
every Chinese city Is fortunate
enough to possess "A foreign i.medi-
ine-house';-a .'yao fang as the yer.
nacuiaf inbs the hospital-but close
outside the New. South Gate of Tung-
chou ('new'' some 500 years sipce)
stands the attractive, gray. tip-tilted.
rooted building that Is the medicine.
house for some million and q half
"Hc6pitaP' or sDlsptnsary ~
II bears its. honors hiodestlys of ne.
cessity. for It Is neither large nor
wen equipped At present all that
II claims as quarters for ip-patients
Is. two groups of Chinese rooms, for
men and for women, each benned In
its bwn walled courtyard, and each
room, reduced to its lowest terms,
consisting ofa brick bed, q kettle and
an open cupboard. Here the patients
eat and sleep: 50. too, DO the flies
and vermin and the ignorant relatives
who come to take care Of the pa
tents for the ''medicine-house" does
not boast even enc nurse. nor q san.
itary bed, nor diet-kitehen. Here
they stay, and here they get we'll
most amazingly. for medical skill and
the Chinese constitution can do Won
ders. even under the most unpfonis-
ing conditions, and the American doe.
tor, Ii second to none, han1pered
though he Is by the lack Of almost
everything that goes to the equip
ping OF even the simplest hospital in
the happy United States.
Helping him are the pleasant-faced
Chinese doctor, graduate of the Med
ical College. the deft coolie who as
sists with the dressings, and the mat
ron with swapping black eyes and a
quick tongue that dashed the Bible
women out of her neighborhood many
times before she decided to try out
this god business once for all, and
stuffed her own mueh-worshipped
paper idol into the. kitchen range, to
see what would happen. Since the
god meelly shflyelled Into SOFT gray
ashes. she threw herself wholly on
the side Of the, Christian God elo.
dtent tongue and quick wit and ALI
ana ran preach very pointedly to- the
f00nd-eyed women, as well as ban
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