The mirror., 1923-03-01

The hospital which l have in mind is
situated in Central China, in the province
of Honan, about two hundred miles from
the large city of Hankow. The hospital
itself is situated on hill outside of the
city of Kioshan, and not being near the
busy hustle of the city, it is an ideal place
for hospital. The location is most
beautiful one, and many trees and flowers
make it still more beautiful. The patch
of ground owned by the hospital is about
ten acres in size. Besides the hospital,
there are six other buildings here. One
building is a primary school for boys,
and the other five are homes occupied by
doctors and other missionaries who work
here. There is also large church at
this place.
Before coming into the fenced-an en-
closure around the hospital, we come to
the dispensary. This dispensary opens or
to small street, or avenue, where the
patients must go for an examination be-
fore gaining admittance into the hospital.
They wait their turn in seeing the doctor.
In the waiting room there is an evangelist
who breaches to them, and it is here
where many hear the gospel for the first
time. After their examination, those who
only need medical treatment are dismisse |,
and those who need regular hospital ca-e
are taken to the hospital.
The hospital is divided into two p,rts,
the mems ward and the womens ward.
Here the patients receive the very best of
care, and many are sent away from this
hospital both physically and spiritually
healed. There are many thousands of
people who come here every year for
treatments. There are daily devotons in
which the patients also take part. There
is a pastor at this hospital who teaches
the patients to read. Many learn their
first reading lessons here. They are
taught to read the stories from the Bible,
and many are won for Christ every year.
Doctor Behrents, who is now in the
United States, is the founder of this in
stitution. He has worked there for many
years, and was very successful in his
work. He did great deal of operating
on the eyes. Chinese would come for many
miles, and from all over the province, to
have him operate on them. He did his
work very prayerfully, and that is why
he had such success.
AS you all have most likely heard, there
was great famine in China two years
ago. Famine refugees were given free
travel on trains during this time, and
many were the accidents that resulted.
People who had maybe never seen a trair
before, had the chance then. They did
rot know how to be CAREFUL and often
they would fall off and were left for
many days unnoticed. There were so
many people trying to get to some other
part of China to establish new homes.
This great mass of people brought on
contagious diseases, and many thousands
of people died during this time. In the
winter the "Flu' was raging and in the
summer typhoid, malaria, typhus and
cholera took many lives. During this time
the hospitals were overAowing. The
above mentioned hospital had about one
hundred and seventy patients, when it
was only supposed to have eighty patients.
Part of the medical staff was sick, and
these sick Chinese stayed here for several
months. This was a very trying period,
but God lead them through it, as He had
done many times before.
Besides taking care of the patients here
at this hospital, the missionaries are teach
ing them the need of hygiene and cleanll-
ness. This is a great help to the poor
Chinese.
Before closing l should like to leave
v ith you few words from Christ, found
in Matt. 40 which read as follows:
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