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MEDICAL EDUCATION. 227Missionary Society s School, and the different MissionBoards having physicians in Canton and vicinity. TheSouth China Branch, almost to a member, are strong inthe opinion:ist. That medical educational work is the most importantof the medical missionary s work at this time.2nd. That the strongest and best Christian influence shouldbe brought to bear upon the students, and that the mostthorough Christian work possible be done among them duringtheir course.3rd. That the best way to do this thorough Christian medical educational work is by a union of forces.The South China Branch of the China Medical Missionary Association has been laboring hard, through itsindividual members, for this union, and last Januarythe Canton Medical Missionary Society at their annualmeeting passed a resolution favoring union with theUniversity Medical School and with the different mission Boards. The University Medical School is stronglyin favor of union, so all that remains is the perfecting ofthe union scheme, which we hope will be accomplishedin the near future. There are over thirty medical missionaries in Canton and vicinity, and it isthought thatat least ten of these will be available as teachers.The Canton Medical Missionary Society has a schoolbuilding and dormitories valued at about fifty thousanddollars. The University Medical School has propertyand funds of about that amount. This, together with themen who are on the field, would make a good foundationfor a union medical school. It ishoped that one ortwo of the schools controlled by the Chinese can bebrought into the union, but at this time there is a strongfeeling of "China for the Chinese," and we may haveto wait until the union school is well established beforethey will come in.The Canton Medical Missionary Society s Schoolbuilding and hospital would be well adapted for thefourth and fifth year classes. The property which theUniversity School has purchased, and which is situated