Life and Light for Woman (V.4)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1908 edition. Excerpt: ...been here several months, and has learned so thoroughly what Christianity means to himself that he is applying for church membership, and will likely be admitted. These are types, and a half-hundred cases of equal or greater interest could be touched upon, if we wished to run over in our minds the patients who are here to-day as we write this letter. As of old, there arc a few who merely desire the loaves and fishes, and perhaps this is true in some lands considering themselves more civilized. Our study of the language, which must continue till we are far better masters of it than we are how, has been much interrupted. In the summer cholera has raged quite severely in this region, as well as elsewhere in this land of unknown cleanliness. Margaret Emmeline Tucker came on the 5th of August to stay at our house--a present from the Lord. The care of our two little ones, though of course they are ideal children, despite ignorant Chinese servants, or perhaps because of them, calls for care which naturally excludes much medical work from Dr. Emma's program. In March last an ulcer on my left eye caused me some trouble, and now for over a half year I have gone with it bandaged or darkened. Just now we are rejoicing that it is nearly well again. A branch dispensary, visited twice a month, has been established at a great government arsenal now being built at Te Chou. The past summer all our missionary force spent at Pang-Chuang. Dr. A. H. Smith, fresh from his chairmanship of the Shanghai Centenary Missionary Conference, returned here for a part of the summer and fall, as did also Mrs. Smith, much to our profit. The Ellises and Dr. Susan Tallmon, of near-by Lin Ching, were also here for a summer of busy study. The regular members of our...