What a Medical Mission Did
HERE is one illustration of what is accomplished by medical missions. A wealthy and influential man at Swatow, China, became interested in the medical missionaries’ labors, and he often gave them rice tickets for the benefit of the poor patients. Then his wife became very sick, and the missionaries treated her. The man said, “I should like other women to be treated as my wife has been,” and he gave two thousand dollars to start a hospital for women. Next he saw the advantages of a Western education, and offered the missionaries ten thousand dollars to start a Chinese school where Western learning could be taught. His last step was to destroy his idols, and apply for Christian baptism.—Selected.