Half a year has sped away since your readers heard from this part of Fukien, Since then the little community of one has increased more than twenty-fold. This is progress by the score. However, the um-of really new faces is not so very large after all. Among them we count Miss Lebeus, an accomplished German lady who holds two diplomas that at once secure her a welcome—one that of a Pharmacist, and the other of a trained nurse. She arrived early in the autumn and is connected with the Methodist Mission. Not less welcome than Miss Lebeus is Dr. Sampson who arrived about month ago and is connected with the Church Mission—a timely reinforcement for Dr. van Someren Taylors rowing medical work. Dr. taylor has en greatly burdened with the erection of tio hospital buildings (one for men and one for women), and the community rejoices with him over the arrival of his energetic young friend, The opening of these hos-Pitals, at a not distant date, let us hope, Should form the subject of.a special letter for your columns.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.