marked increase in the attendance of pati-During the past five years there has been ents at the dispensary, now in charge of Dr. Seymour. In former years there was a yearly total of duly about 4,000 patients, but last year there were, I believe, between seven and eight thousand, and this year the number bids fair to be still larger, the attendance some days being over eighty. Besides these institutions, "all of which are under the care of the Presbyterian, Board, there is A GIRLS' SCHOOL, nearly forty pupils under the care of Mrs, Hartwell anda flourishing Boys' Day School under the supervision of the Rev. Dr. Hartwell, but supported by an endowment, given byaformer member of Dr. Hartwell'schurch, -|a@ successful business. man in Tientsin. 'Dr. Hartwell was the ioneer in' mission work in Téngehoufu, having come here early in the sixties. Owing to the ill health of his wife he was, however, compelled to return after some years to America, where he remained for some nineteen years, most of the time engaged in mission work among the Chinese in San Francisco. Finally in 1893 he returned to take up again the interrupted thread of his life in 'Téngchoufu, much to the delight of his old friends, and former church members. Dr. and Mrs. Hartwell, their daughter, and Miss Moon are all members of the Southern Baptist Mission, 2th July.
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