【】Menzies, Rev. James R., m.d. Born Ailsa Craig, Ont. Graduate of Knox College and Toronto Medical School. 1895, appointed to N. Honan Mission Field. Passed through period of Boxer Rebellion. A man of varied gifts — architect, builder, physician, surgeon, preacher. Assigned to this congregation as its special representative in the Foreign Field, 1902. Changtefu his centre of operations. Died March 17, 1920, at the hands of bandits. https://archive.org/stream/thesefortyyearsa00wall/thesefortyyearsa00wall_djvu.txt?
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James R. Menzies: healing and preaching in early 20th-century China
The image of physician as evangelist predominates early literature on Canadian missionary medicine in China. When James R. Menzies graduated in Toronto on 1895, his dual degrees in theology and medicine made him an ideal missionary candidate. The Presbyterian Church in Canada dispatched the reverend doctor to China to begin the first medical mission at Changte in Honan province (Anyang, Henan). In those years the practice of medicine by missionaries was considered an evangelistic strategy aimed at gaining the trust of prospective converts; the medical doctor was welcomed where the preacher and teacher were barely tolerated.1
Canadian Methodist physicians in Szechwan (Sichuan) were reportedly winning their way to the hearts to the people, finding opportunities “multiplying” upon them “every day and hour, for preaching the Gospel in the most effective way.”2 Two of the earliest Honanese to embrace Christianity were Chou Lao-Chang and Li Chi Ching, blind patients cared for by Canadian doctors Frazer Smith and James Menzies.3,4,5
Such legendary conversions solidified support for medical missionaries within the Presbyterian community, and may explain the subsequent official emphasis on doctors' evangelistic role with their patients. This role was sometimes exaggerated, as a comparison between the published and unpublished versions of a photograph of Menzies will illustrate.
In 1913 the Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions published a photo featuring Menzies standing and reading before a small Chinese audience.6 Its title, “Preaching to patients,” contrasts with the caption of the original photo, which reads, “Dr. Menzies with his workmen at morning prayers.” There is a subtle but significant difference between the notion of patients receiving Biblical instruction from a physician before receiving care, and employees participating in morning prayers. Illness and injury make patients particularly vulnerable to exploitation, and it is possible that they could interpret conversion to Christianity as the price of receiving treatment, or interpret Christian rituals as magical cures. The discrepancy between the photographs suggests that evangelism by physicians may have been more rhetoric than reality. Whether or not it was common, mission supporters expected and idealized the practice of preaching to patients. For his part, Menzies believed that, while practical skills might improve lives, the Christian message could transform them. He lived by his Christian convictions.
Arguably, he also died by them. On Mar. 17, 1920, Menzies was murdered while coming to the aid of Sadie Lethbridge and Janet Brydon, two missionaries whose home had been stormed by a band of robbers.7 Having heard a call for help, Menzies approached the women's residence unarmed, and was beaten and fatally shot while Miss Lethbridge watched from a hiding spot on her verandah. This was the first time in the perilous history of the mission that the tragedy of a violent death occurred. Lethbridge never recovered from the shock and, as it happened, died 4 months later.8 Nurse Brydon, however, remained in China until 1939.9
Menzies' untimely death ushered in a new generation of medical missionaries to China, including his replacement at the new Menzies Memorial Hospital, Dr. Robert McClure,10 and Menzies' daughter Jean, who was a nurse.11 With the construction of three modern hospitals in Honan in the early 1920s, the practice of medicine in China gained acceptance as a legitimate expression of the Gospel in itself and was no longer presented as simply a means to an evangelistic end.12 The subsequent shift in Canadian missions from evangelism to service rendered the dual purpose “to heal and to preach” obsolete.
Sonya J. Grypma PhD Candidate Killam Scholar (Hon.) University of Alberta Edmonton, Alta.
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Not the son of the above Rev. Menzies !
Mr. Menzies, whose extraordinary diplomatic career spanned 40 years and included postings in Cuba, Japan, Malaysia, Australia, China, and Brussels, died March 4, at the age of 93, from a sudden heart attack.
Mr. Menzies enjoyed a significant competitive advantage. The son of Christian missionaries, he'd been born there - in 1916 at Zhangde, in north Hunan province - and, like his parents, came to know and love the Chinese language, culture and history.
Indeed, it might be said that Arthur Menzies, too, became a missionary of sorts - actively promoting commercial and cultural exchange in the interests of greater tolerance and understanding.
His father, Dr. James Mellon Menzies, as much an archeologist as he was a Presbyterian missionary, gained renown for his analysis of so-called oracle bones - 3,000-year-old turtle shells and sheep bones that contained China's first written language. Many of them were excavated at Yin, the last capital of the Shang dynasty, once a city of 100,000 that thrived more than three millennia ago.
Dr. Menzies later assembled the world's largest private collection of oracle bones - more than 35,000 pieces. He never profited from his discoveries, and insisted that the vast majority of relics remain in Chinese hands.
Still, he achieved little recognition during his lifetime, either in Maoist China or Canada. Only recently have the Chinese begun to confer belated honours - a Chinese-language biography, conferences devoted to his archeological achievements, and a museum dedicated to his memory in Anyang, another ancient capital.
The instability of Arthur's early life may have taught him the adaptability required of any seasoned diplomat.
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MISSIONS
Dr. Robert Morrison, sent out in 1807 by the London Missionary Society, was the first Protestant missionary to China. He made the first translation of the Bible into Chinese.
【】There are now seventy-two Protestant societies working in China, having in all about 5,186 mission- aries. 【】Our Canadian Presbyterian Church has three missions, North Honan, South China, Shanghai, with the following stations in each :
I. II. III. North Honan South China Shanghai Changte Kong Moon Wei Hwei Hwai King Tao K y ou Wu An Hsiu Wu
【】An entrance to Honan was gained only after months of prayerful waiting and bitter opposition, fulfilling the prophetic words of Hudson Taylor, "The Canadian Church must enter Honan on its knees." Pioneer missionaries, Rev. Jonathan Go- forth, followed by Dr. Smith, Dr. McClure and Rev. Donald MacGillivray, took up their position in 1888-9 at Pang Chuang, 庞庄， a station of the American Presbyterian Board in the neighbor- ing province of Shantung, later moving up to Lin Ching, 临清，fifty miles nearer Honan, where they waited and where the first of the single women mis- sionaries joined the staff, in the persons of Misses M. Mcintosh and Graham, trained nurses, and the study of the language was begun.
The male mission- aries, meantime, began their adventurous journeys by cart or boat into Honan, preaching and healing by the wayside, seeking a permanent entrance, if possible, into a Fu city. They found, however, that they must settle "where they could, not where they chose," and were joyful at securing rented property in the market town of Chu Wang, 楚旺1890, then again at Hsin Chen 新镇.
They had scarcely settled in Chu Wang when a mob burst into the compound and took everything but the stove. British authority then interfered and our missionaries were hereafter given the right to reside in Honan.
Not until 1894 was a permanent entrance gained into the prefectural city of Chang-te 彰德府.
【】 MISSION PROPERTY AND STAFF By 1903 land had been secured at Wei Hwei and Hwai King ; and in 1908 at T'ao Kou, thirty miles east of Wei Hwei, the starting point of a branch rail- way. Work was begun previous to this in Wu An, a large city fifty miles northeast of Chang-te, but later the purchase of property and erection of buildings was due to the munificent gift of Mrs. Yuile, of ^Montreal. Hsiu Wu, the last opened point, is a large mining centre between Wei Hwei and Hwai King.
【】 At these stations the mission property lies a short distance outside one of the city gates ; there you will find our missionaries' houses within a walled enclosure of some acres, each, with its garden of flowers, trees and vegetables, being as much like Canada as they are able to make it in a land where all around sug- gests strange and heathen customs.
【】 China — North Honan Mission 79 On the mission grounds you will find also a col- lection of buildings for mission purposes ; these are :
【】 At Change-te the men's and women's hospitals and dispensaries, girls' boarding school, boys' primary school, and a brick church, with its rooms for the men's and women's classes.
【】 At Wei Hwei — A general hospital, with dispensary and chapel, High and Normal School for boys, the gift of the late Mrs. Maxwell, of Peterboro ; girls' and boys' primary boarding schools, a brick church, school for missionaries' children and, in the city itself, a chapel and school for women's work, with a small residence for missionaries.
【】 At Hwai King — A general hospital, with dispen- sary and chapel, girls' and boys' primary boarding schools, and industrial school for women.
【】 At Wu An — "Yuile Memorial" Hospital, with dispensary and chapel, boys' school.
【】At Tao K'ou — As yet only rented buildings in the city.
【】At Hsiu Wu — Negotiations are in progress for purchase of property for a preaching chapel ; at the mining centre of Chiao Tso in the same county, about half an acre of land has been presented by one of the Christians for a chapel and manse.
【】 The present staff of the mission numbers 78, including wives. Of these, the Women's Missionary Society supports the 18 single women, two of whom are doctors.
【】 80 The Story of Our Missions GENERAL PLAN OF WORK All these buildings indicate a busy life for our missionaries. In the plan of work carried out by Presbytery, certain missionaries reside at each station and have oversight of the work within that area, caring for the native church and general development of new outstations, preaching, teaching and strength- ening the spiritual life of the Christians. Each field is about 444 times the size of a Canadian minister's parish. Added to the care of study classes is the street preaching to the large non- Christian element, for the Christian population in even our oldest centre is yet but an infinitesimal fraction of the millions. The student classes and men of business and of various professions are more approachable as a result of the reading of numbers of western books, now procurable at the book shops, so that special effort must be made to debate with them and answer their many questions. They are anxious and willing to listen. To meet this need public lectures on scientific and religious subjects are necessary. It is now happily possible from time to time to secure Christian Chinese men of letters and of influence from older centres, and, by special cam- paigns, reach the minds of ready listeners, for on them much depends for the future stability of the native church of China. The campaigns of Mr. Mott and Mr. Eddy have materially advanced such move- ments all over China.
【】As far as possible the Women's Missionary Society follows up the work at each station by appointing 70 The Story of Our Missions NORTH HONAN The Province of Honan is situated in North Central China. It was the original "Middle Flow- ery Kingdom" bordering on the classic ground of Confucius, and has been one of the bitterest oppon- ents of, and the last but one province to hold out against the entrance of the Christian missionary. 【】The Provincial Capital is Kai Feng Fu. In this province alone, there are 1846 cities, towns, and important villages. Less than 50 are occupied by any Christian mission. The population is 35,316,800 ; of these about 8,000,000 souls are in the section for which our church has agreed to be responsible, name- ly, that part of the province of Honan lying north of the Yellow River. This district is somewhat trian- gular in shape, measuring from north to south 170 miles, from east to west 185 miles. It contains 24 counties, each with its county town, besides several walled cities, and hundreds of villages.
【】The land to the west is mountainous, and minerals, such as coal, iron, copper, silver, are found, but as yet not extensively worked. The centre and east is a great level plain, rich in vegetation. The Yellow River is too treacherous for extensive navigation, but the Wei River courses through this section of country and is a high- way to the sea for commerce. To Reach Honan — In the early days it required a laborious journey of about three weeks from Tientsin by houseboat and cart. With the advent of the railway, in 1905, the journey was made possible in
【】 China — North Honan Mission ' 71 two days from Tientsin. Now we may go by steam- boat from Shanghai to Hankow, thence by rail north to Chang-te on the Pekin-Hankow railway, and other routes will be open shortly. The Honanese are a home-loving people and are conservative in their attitude to customs and beliefs. They are industrious, rising early and working late. "The working day of not a few is nearer sixteen hours than eight." They are largely vegetarians, for fruit and vegetables are plentiful. Rice and meat are luxuries. The farming classes live together in walled villages for mutual protection, and saving of land, one small yard being shared by several families. The villages are often prettily surrounded by a clump of trees.
【】Most of the people in the cities own land to a larger or smaller extent ; all are fond of gardening. Spinning and weaving of silk are carried on, but these as yet are done by hand. The principal articles of commerce are wool, skins, fur, all in a raw state ; appliances for manufacture, as in western countries are as yet scarcely known. The majority of the people are Buddhists and Taoists, all followers of the ethical teaching of Con- fucius. There is a strong Mohammedan element in this part of Honan, and especially round Wei Hwei and Hwai King, numbering some 5,000 at the latter point. The native Christians and adherents number about 4,000.
【】 72 The Story of Our Missions EARLY MISSION HISTORY An entrance to Honan was gained only after months of prayerful waiting and bitter opposition, fulfilling the prophetic words of Hudson Taylor, "The Canadian Church must enter Honan on its knees." Pioneer missionaries, Rev. Jonathan Go- forth, followed by Dr. Smith, Dr. McClure and Rev. Donald MacGillivray, took up their posi- tion in 1888-9 at Pang Chuang, a station of the American Presbyterian Board in the neighbor- ing province of Shantung, later moving up to Lin Ching, fifty miles nearer Honan, where they waited and where the first of the single women mis- sionaries joined the staff, in the persons of Misses M. Mcintosh and Graham, trained nurses, and the study of the language was begun. The male mission- aries, meantime, began their adventurous journeys by cart or boat into Honan, preaching and healing by the wayside, seeking a permanent entrance, if possible, into a Fu city. They found, however, that they must settle "where they could, not where they chose," and were joyful at securing rented property in the market town of Chu Wang, 1890, then again at Hsin Chen. They had scarcely settled in Chu Wang when a mob burst into the compound and took everything but the stove. British authority then interfered and our missionaries were hereafter given the right to reside in Honan. Not until 1894 was a permanent entrance gained into the prefectural city of Chang-te.
【】 China — North Honan Mission 73 BOXER REBELLION
【】 Evangelistic and medical work were established at these points, and, though trying and constant opposition was met, the 'work grew. Then came that terrible testing time of the Boxer uprising. In our own mission the twelve years of successful work seemed humanly speaking blotted out.
【】The storm had burst at Chu Wang. Drought and fear of famine had roused the native temper against the foreigner and his native Christian followers. Plundering and restlessness were everywhere evi- dent. The authorities ordered the missionaries to seek safety under British protection at the coast. Chinese carts were hurriedly sought and, while awaiting their arrival, the women and children of our mission party remained hidden all day in a dark room of a friendly neighbor's house. When night fell they quietly left, but, as they made their way out of Honan, Chinese mobs repeatedly flew at them with staves and swords. Everything that was possible was looted from them. They had no means of paying their way and travelled for days getting food as best they could. At last they reached Hankow, 250 miles south, where they were able to secure help' and proceed by houseboat to the coast.
【】Their fear for the lives of our native Christians whom they had left behind made the journey doubly trying. Severe persecution fell to the lot of all who had become Christians. Many faced cruel torture rather than deny their Lord, but no lives were taken. 74 The Story of Our Missions
【】 Among them was old Chou (or Joe), the first convert of the mission. He had followed our doctors about, hearing of their power to heal. He had formerly been a policeman, addicted to many vices, chief of which was opium. The doctors warned him of the seriousness of the operation, but he assented, and, to his great joy and theirs, the cataract was removed and he again beheld the light. In gratitude he asked what he might do to repay the missionary. The answer was, "Believe on my Sav- iour." He was fifty-four years of age when he accepted the Christian's God, and from that time became a faithful minister of the Word. Persecution fell to his lot during this fateful year, but he "kept the faith."
【】 One of the most touching stories was the punishment meted out to Mrs. Chang, one of the first native helpers, a widow whose son, one of the first Christians, had passed away leaving her to care for the widowed daughter and his children. Mrs. Chang was suspended by the arms for some hours in the hope that she would recant, but God gave her courage, 'and her faith in Him never wavered.
【】Our missionaries yearned to be there to give help and comfort. It was dangerous to send relief in money, but once or twice Dr. McClure was able to do so. A number of our male missionaries remained at the coast instead of returning to Canada and sought to keep in touch with Honan by couriers. In September, 1901, a year after the terrible scenes of escape, the Foreign Mission Board received the cable, "Field open, all return." » Dr. McClure was one of a party of five waiting in China for the word, and wrote at the time a graphic description of that welcome entrance.
【】An escort of soldiers brought us all the way from Tientsin to Chu | Wang. From here we were drawn by carts, provided by officials, twelve in all the procession, with twenty cavalry and The Hwai-King Kindergarten Erskine Hospital, Honan China — North Honan Mission 75
【】 about thirty infantry. Buglers announced our arrival at the villages and through the streets of Chang-te. We went in at the East gate and out at the North gate and at both Chang-te and Chu Wang were royally received and feasted for two days and the magistrate restored to us the deeds of the mission pro- perty.
【】 The missionaries were cheered by the gathering of Christians from all the outstations. A number had died of famine-fever and the emaciated appearance of many others revealed what they had passed through.
【】The joy of seeing the native Christian flock waiting for our return far outweighed the sorrow and destruction of property. Had all the buildings remained intact and the church of Christ been scattered to the four winds our sorrow would indeed have been bitter. These became the nucleus of the Christian church in Honan which to-day numbers several thousands.
【】 The mission property at Chu Wang and Hsin Chen was totally destroyed. At Chang-te the two mission houses and chapel which had been turned into Chinese forts were returned by the magistrate, along with the deeds of the property. The Govern- ment paid indemnity for all losses, including that of the native Christians, amounting to about $3,000.
【】 A few months later the Christians gathered at Chang-te from all the outstations for a memorial communion service. Some two hundred were present, eighty of whom were communicants, the rest catechumens. Foremost among them were old Mrs. Chang and old Chou, the first Honanese to accept Christ.
【】REOPENING AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE WORK From now on the story of the Honan Mission is that of the rise and development of the Native Christian Church. Progressive and definite lines of work were at once possible, for the attitude of the Government officials was distinctly friendly towards Protestant missions and the securing of property for
【】MEDICAL WORK
The Chinese know little of the laws of health and cleanliness ; how to prevent sickness by keeping the air and all about their persons clean and pure. Their cities and villages are extremely crowded, and most of the people are very poor, water is often scarce and the air and homes filthy from dirt and bad drainage. This is a chief reason why property for the houses of our missionaries is secured outside the city wall. Many sad cases come to the mission hospitals too late to be cured. A patient suffering from tuberculosis * China —
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will be found shut up in a close, dark room, with no windows but paper ones, and the air never changed except when the door is opened, all because they do not know. The native doctors are so ignorant. A typical native doctor wears astride his nose large rimmed spectacles, and hands out medicines to his patients made from mixtures of ground spiders, worms, wasps, snakes, tiger bones and such like.
The Chinese think it wonderful to see a mis- sionary doctor restore a blind man's sight by removing the cataract from the eyeball. The blind cannot always be cured because the patients may have come too late, but their lives are brightened when they hear of a Saviour Jesus Christ, and the promise of a life to come with all suffering and sorrow gone. It is only since the advent of the Christian mis- sionary that hospitals have become known in China and the only hospitals yet known are the Christian hospitals. In recent years, with the development and advance of cities, especially at the coast, the attitude is changing towards this Western science. But things move slowly in China, and Honan is no exception.
Before 1900 Honan was entered through the ministry of healing. The first dispensary was in the quiet town of Chu Wang 楚旺（内黄）, 1890 ;
later in 1891 another was opened at Hsin Chin 新镇（浚县）.
Fear and superstition reigned about the foreign doctor and his mysterious ways and medicines. It was openly circulated that the
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foreigner stored away the eyes of little children to be used as medical concoctions. Eye troubles are frequent in China, and at times before the Boxer troubles such an operation as the taking out of an eye had to be avoided. Once or twice mobs set upon the premises and carried off all the doctor's posses- sions in the way of drugs and instruments. Equip- ment was poor and in rented Chinese quarters, damp and unwholesome for both patients and doctors. Although women and girls do not lead a secluded life as in India, and will allow a male doctor to treat them, yet there are some who would rather die. The need of medical help for such, and their sad ignorance of the treatment of disease and care of the home, led our Women's Society to send out a woman physician. An appeal having come home for a co- helper for Miss Margaret Mcintosh, who was our first single missionary and trained nurse, Dr. Lucinda Graham, a gifted woman, volunteered for service and reached Honan in 1892. Dr. Graham entered the mission with glad en- thusiasm, but scarcely had she gained a foothold in the work when God took her in 1894. Dr. Jean Dow took up the work laid down by our first medical woman and has been spared to see long years of service. She too passed through years of strain and trying opposition. At first she worked in co-operation with the other doctors at Chu Wang.
In the spring of 1897 a Woman's Medical Depart- ment was opened, a few plain native rooms being built as wards. Just previous to the rebellion of China —
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1900 as many as 100 patients were coming daily to each of the dispensaries. Dr. Dow speaks thus of the work : "One can only confess that it is due to the survival of the fittest that, mid neglect and filth of ages, China has yet its land groaning with population. Day by day there come in ceaseless procession to the dispensary the weak, the emaciated, the dumb, the lame, the blind. Their idols of wood and of stone had not heard their cry. Our aim as physicians is not a philanthropic work ; their bodies are healed, but their souls are sought first as, sitting by the bedside in the little hospital, the missionary speaks to the suffering women ; terrified these women often are, but ah ! when the touch of sympathy is felt, the confidence gained, the heart opened to understand the meaning of prayer, the example of Christian love set, the heart of the worker in turn is filled with gratitude that this service has been accepted of God in heaven.', A realistic picture of an out-door clinic at the dispensary is given by Dr. Menzies : " Outside is a crowd of patients holding up on sticks their tickets admitting them for operation. Many of them had been delayed several days, but the operating room was daily working overtime, so they must wait. The door from the chapel was opened and a wave of eager patients surged into the dispensary until it was filled or the door could be closed. Some walked into the dispensary ; some were carried on the backs of friends, others in baskets and still others on beds. As quickly as possible treat- ment and medicine were given. Again and again the chapel doors were opened, and the ever-waiting crowd rushed into the dispensary. The stifling heat, the flies, the stench made one gasp for breath, but hour after hour they came, till towards evening the door opened and none were left."
Reopening of Medical Work 1902 With the re-opening of medical work in 1902, advance was the foreword.
A general hospital was erected at Wei Hwei in 1903.
At Chang-te during 1904-5 new and separate medical buildings were erected for both men and women.
The men's quarters were replaced by Erskine Church, Montreal, in 1913, and a commodious building erected On the old site it is purposed to erect a new build- ing for the women.
The year 1904 saw a general hospital at Hwai King and
1911 the "Yuile Memorial" Hospital at Wu An.
"Erskine" Hospital, the last erected in Honan, is well up to date, with airy wards, good operating room and commodious dispensary and chapel. All the hospitals have, done good service in the past, but some of them are out of date and it is hoped new buildings may soon replace them. In the building and outfitting of these the expenditure has been kept to the lowest figure consistent with efficiency.
Some Results '*
The doctors have undertaken the training native men and women as helpers, matrons and nurses. They have proved capable assistants both in wards and dispensaries and all are Christian. By degrees more modern arrangements are becoming possible as the people are educated up to such changes. An average of 3,000 patients pass yearly through each hospital. The Chinese bring their bedding, food and friends to wait on them and our doctors make the best of their surroundings, glad that so many are willing to come and be cared for in body and in soul, for to each patient and friend is Chen-T'ai-T'ai, Hwai King Widow of an official, who has given up her home to serve her Master as Matron in the Girls' Boarding School A Family of Christians, Honan
The cantral figure is the grandmother, who, at the age oij&8, became a Christian jf China —
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the Gospel story told. Few of the Chinese ever forget the kind missionary doctor and his message, and before they leave the hospital they are able to say a short prayer, verse of the Bible or hymn. In the evangelistic side of the work, much assistance is given by the wives of our missionaries and native helpers. No fees have been charged, except to cover cost of medicine, but the patients are neverthe- less grateful and give freely as they are able, and those who are poorest are often most willing to give.
One poor old body after thirteen days in the hospital an- nounced that her millet was done. When told that she might safely return home she said, "I want to make a contribution to the hospital to thank the Lord." In spite of the protestations to take the money and buy food to make her strong for her ten- mile walk a little pile of cash was laid on the counter. When the door closed the pile counted twelve cash (% cent) the smallest gift ever cast into our treasury, not unlikely "More than they all." Another patient returned to the hospital for treatment after an absence of five years.
She appeared to know a good deal about the story of the Cross, and a few words drew from her several stories of the life of Christ. When asked if she had passed on her knowledge she promptly answered, "Could I have remembered it so long if I had not been telling it out ?" Incidents could be multiplied of the quiet seed- sowing that rejoices the hearts of our missionaries. The story of Little Faith is one of the many worth passing on : Little Hsui or Faith is a poor crippled Chinese girl, not worth a dollar ; at least a man once bought her for that and then went back on his bargain. Her mother, full of disappointment at not getting rid of her and also losing the dollar, treated her harshly, 100
The Story of Our Missions trying by main force to straighten the crooked joints. She was brought to Dr. Menzies for treatment, but all he could hope to do was relieve her suffering. She became a close, friend to another little girl in the hospital who was almost blind. Chi Niu could not see to read, but she had willing feet and so these two got along together with one pair of eyes and one pair of feet. They both became Christians and were to have been baptized together, but Chi Niu's parents took her away and married her to a half idiot heathen and to this day threatenings hang over her if she speaks of being baptized. Little Faith went home a happy follower of Jesus and has been the means of gathering the village people about her, till now a congregation has been gathered. Poor little cripple — not worth a dollar ! Yet what a bright candle she has become in one of Honan's dark corners. There are now ten medical missionaries on the staff.
Two of these are women, but no medical colleague was sent for Dr. Jean Dow until the year 1915, when Dr. Isabel McTavish came forward. With the development of the work, the training of native nurses, under the guidance of Canadian trained nurses, will become an important branch. It is unlikely that any great advance will be made in the way of a medical training college. Efficient union medical colleges are being established in the large cities of China, and the expectation is that the Canadian Presbyterian mission will share in the expense and send on students for training. Thus the strength of our mission staff will be conserved for other departments of work within Honan itself.
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