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“...REPORT, [1904.
Westerner cannot appeal to the Eastern mind as an Easterner can.
Still, I have had some very happy times, and I hope I have been able
to impart some light to those in darkness.”
A New Opportunity.
Miss Stewart has regularly visited on Sunday mornings
the women at the Chinese Public Hospital and has con-
ducted a class for Christian women on Sunday afternoons.
Lately a new and interesting opening has been found for
getting at many who were not reached in other ways. ‘The
public Museum is open to women and children on Saturdays
and is largely visited by them on that day. Miss Stewart
has tried the experiment of joining the company of visitors,
and has been greatly encouraged by her experience.
“T always find a large number most willing to hear my message, and
some are eager to ask me questions for further light, and to receive
the books which I give to some of those who can read. I also invite
them to our Sunday service, and last week two of them turned up at
the women’s class...”
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“...character. Tventsin.
lies about fifty miles up the Pei-ho river, at a point
where the Grand Canal joins it. The flourishing Mission
that existed prior to the siege is only slowly recovering
from the disruption which then overtook it. From two
centres native work is being carried on. First, the old
location on the Taku Road, where the hospital, small girls’
and boys’ schools, and women’s classes are carried on,
whilst on the opposite side of the road is the handsome Anglo-
Chinese college, with its museum and library. This is in the
French Concession, and between it and the native city there
is a second Concession under the control of the Japanese.
The second centre is Koloushi, west of the Drum Tower, in
the native city. The destroyed chapel there has been rebuilt,
and the various organisations of the church are reviving ; also
land has been bought in a new district recently opened up,
and to this it is proposed to remove the hospital and medical
branch of the Mission. .
Peking, which is eighty...”
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