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MEDICAL MISSIONARY WORK. 211sad to contemplate the loss accruing both to the crippledsocieties and to the suffering districts in which theyare located.In China to-day, as it ever has been, medical missions are one of the greatest forces at work throughoutthe length and breadth of the Empire, enlightening theignorant, winning the opposed, saving the suffering andpointing to the Saviour of the world.One interested in hospital work, and willing totravel through China to investigate, would find greatimprovement in hospital construction and plant duringthe past few years. Beginning in the north, where Dr.Christie in Mukden has recently erected a handsomeup-to-date hospital going far away west, where in;Chentu marvellous changes have taken place and wherea big union educational work is being organised taking;in Peking, Taiyuen, Hankow, Nanking, Foochow,and many other large centres, and ending in Cantonit would be found that large, well-built, up-to-datesanitary buildings replace former dark, ill-drained, illsuitednative structures. The large Chinese hospitalin Shantung Road, Shanghai, where sixty-seven yearsago Dr. lyockhart, the first British medical missionaryto China, commenced his work, has once again comeunder mission management, thus bringing thousandsyear by year under Christian influence and teaching.These facts point to a general advance all alongthe line.Along with this advance in hospital accommodationother and most important progress has been made. Oneof the greatest needs of to-day is that of well-trainednative nurses and assistants. The past few years hasseen a marked effort to meet this need. Medical schools,union or individual, have been instituted in severalcentres, and as far as circumstances permit are doingfirst rate work. As tins subject is being dealt withelsewhere under the heading of education, we will notdeal with it further here.