Notable Women of Modern China eBook

Margaret E. Burton
This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 194 pages of information about Notable Women of Modern China.

Notable Women of Modern China eBook

Margaret E. Burton
This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 194 pages of information about Notable Women of Modern China.

As shown by the glimpses of Dr. Hue’s work which have been given evangelistic work is carried on in conjunction with the medical work.  Christian services are held each morning, and are attended by the dispensary patients, those of the hospital patients who are able to be up, the servants, and usually, also, by a number of visitors.  The first year after taking charge of the hospital Dr. Hue was able to report:  “Not only some of the in-patients, but also some of our morning dispensary patients, were converted and joined the church on probation.  We are rejoicing over the fact that all the hospital servants, all my own servants, and also our teacher, have given their hearts to Christ.  They said before a chapel full of patients in one of our morning services, that they would from that day on try to be Christians and to live a good life.  So far (six months) they have proved themselves to be in earnest.”

A few years later she writes:  “In our morning prayers I have often looked and seen a chapel full of people.  I have carefully looked over the crowd and I could easily recognize those who have just come to us, others who have been here longer.  You wonder how I know it?  Well, their faces show.  Oftentimes our patients listen so attentively that they forget they are in a crowd.  Sometimes one, two, three, or even more, speak up with one voice, ’The Jesus doctrine is truly good.  What the leader said is nothing but the truth.  Idols are false.’”

In addition to the morning services Christian work is constantly done by the Bible women who work in connection with the hospital.  They hold meetings in the hospital wards, teach the hospital patients to read the Bible, do personal work among those waiting their turn in the dispensary, and visit in the homes.  One of the missionaries who is a frequent visitor to the hospital says:  “No hour of the week brings more fully the joy of service than the hour I spend in the City Hospital with the poor sick folk there.  They are always so glad to hear, and so responsive.  No wonder the Master loved to heal; and no wonder the Christian physician finds so many open doors.”

It is not to be wondered at that those who have been ministered to by this tender, skilful Christian woman, and have watched her happy, busy life poured out in the service of the suffering ones about her, have become convinced that the beautiful doctrine which she teaches and lives is true.  Every year the hospital reports contain a record of those who have become Christians during the year as a result of the medical work.  Moreover, the seeds sown in the early years of the hospital, some of which seemed to have fallen on rocky ground, were not all in vain.  Dr. Hue’s sister, reporting the work of 1908, writes:  “After careful investigation we found that those seeds were sown deep enough, and with such attention, that even though seven, eight, or nine years have passed they are to-day still germinating, growing, and bearing fruit.  After hearing and accepting the gospel, their lives are changed.  They become brighter and more straightforward, and have a love for other people.”

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