The Double Work of Mission Hospitals
Rev. Dr. Swanson, a medical missionary in China, tells the following incident, which an exchange says illustrates the double work done by mission hospitals:— "An old woman came to one of our hospitals lately and asked to see the doctor, and she told the doctor what she wanted. She said: 'The head man of our town was with you here, and he was an extremely bad man. He thrashed his wife and made his children miserable; he gambled away his money, and his mouth was so foul all the waters of the rivers could not wash it clean. He came here and he has returned home; but the tiger is changed into a lamb, and his wife is astonished at the change. He has ceased thrashing her; they are now quite comfortable, and he never says a bad word.' 'Well,' asked the doctor, 'what do you want?' She replied: 'Don't tell anyone, but I have a foul mouth; I do a little grumbling, and I fear very much my daughters-in-law are not as comfortable as they should be, for I am not a good woman; and I have come here for some of the medicine that has cured that old man, so that I may be what I ought to be.'"