Oxford eagle., 1921-04-07
TWO WEEKS IN WUCH0W, SOUTH CHINA
(ROland @. Leavell.)

heathen shrine covered with a bamboo
sun shade. Early in the morning and
late in the afternoon one sees them
burning incense before these shrines
and bowing down to the wooden idols
In some of the boats there were some
lepers who came along side Oul
steamer to beg. Surely no Christian
could see that terrible sight the first
time without thinking how Jesus love
went out to those who were afflicted
thus, and how he healed them.
The Stout Memorial Hospital.
The Stout Memorial Hospital claim
ed my attention first of all. 1t was
happy greeting when my brother
/ just returning to Wuchow from his
years furlough, met his colleague In
the hospital DR.. R. E. Beddoe. The
hospital building is beauty! 1t is
barely half completed for now only
the basement, first floor. and half OF
the second floor are finished. But it
is being built on the most up-to-date
convenient, and substantial plan pos
sible out there For many, many
decades to come it will be filling q
great mission out there overlooking
that great heather city. Let us hope
the way will open for the finishing oil
the five stories for there is need OF
that much space already.
At present there are about sixty
beds in the hospital and while | was
there not 3. single one was ever va
cant. 1t has vast field since Dr.
| Beddoe and Dr Leavell are the only
two M. DIS in province of eight
million people. Counting those VINO
come to the free clinic for drugs and
treatment. over one hundred people
come to the hospital every day for
medical treatment. They always hear
the Gospel before they leave.
/ The heather doctors are quacks, of
course, and often the doctors are call
ed in to save the lives of people al
most killed by the quack prescrip-
tions. A patient had taken opium
and was slowly dying Of the poison.
The heather doctor sat behind him
holding his pulse for about two hours,
and then ordered the following RENE
dy which required nearly half day
to prepare.
Two OF. salted lizards, two male and
two female.
One half or. Korea ginseng root.
Six dried grasshoppers, 3 male, 3
female.
OF. sweet potato stalks.
l or. walnuts.
One quarter or. lotus leaves.
One half OF. tail of rattle snake.
OF. black dates.
One half or. elm tree bark.
One half OF. devil fish claws.
One half OF. hartshorn.
One half OF. birds claws.
One half or. dried ginger.
One half OF. coffin nails.
The whole was to be mixed with
two quarts of water and boiled down
to half quantity. The patient was to
drink down the mixture as quickly as
possible.
The missionary doctor just did get
there in time to save his life.
One morning | went into patients
room with the doctor, and there | s,W
a beautiful young Chinese woman
about twenty years old whose every
feature and action showed wealth
culture and social standing. / noticed
all arranged in rows on the bed were
about twenty-five little picture cards
like the ones we give out in the be-
ginner's department of the Sunday
Schools Miss Cheung the lady nurse
in the hospital had been there explain
ing from those pictures the story of
Christ learned that she had come
from another province where she had
never heard but one Christian ser
mon but did not understand that.
Though she was. twenty years old and
had both wealth and culture, yet she