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METHODIST GftOUPOM cf 1 WfcMedical work is now fully organized in allour mission stations but two. Last year sawthe opening of one new dispensary and one new hospital,with an increase of seventeen thousand patients.The most noteworthy features of the year s medicalwork are: an increasing number of the more difficult classof operative cases are coming into the hands of our medicalmen; the higher class Chinese are increasingly giving oftheir influence and their means to the furtherance of mission hospital work ;the medical men are making a specialstudy of the best methods to follow up the patient andsecure him for Christ and the Church.^^Q k{Cues ^ theWomenWomen s Board worksBoard only in the stations occupied by the GeneralBoard. In addition to girls schools andwork for women in seven of our ten stations they have alarge hospital at Chengtu and a share in the Union NormalSchool for women. They have also considerable out-stationwork.In the several ways reviewed above, our Mission liasduring the past year fried to carry out its policy o] rintensive work in the development of church leaders and atthe same time to do extensive work (not extensive territorially) by using as many and as efficient means as possibleto call the attention of all classes to the gospel message.Youn Men^^sl)as* -v( ar nas ^mi ^le ^ rSt ^(nlr ^ 1Guilds several of our Young Men s Guilds and it hasmore than justified their institution. A newunderstanding of the gospel s meaning has come to manyof the gentry and officials who otherwise would have beenuntouched. Co-operation with the Chinese in many formsof philanthropic work has been made possible arid in somecases the guild has almost taken the pi ace of a municipal institution to look after the welfare of the city. It is of coursetoo early yet, to define the value of the guild as a force ofwinning men into the Church but its indirect influence hasalways been helpful.^jast Mission Press^^le M-^8 * 011 P eai< 1>esyprinted oneand a quarter million pages in English andtwenty-eight million pages in Chinese.