for the year 1900—1901 is before us. The surgeons in charge are Dr. Srdney R. Hodge and Robert T. Booth. During these two Fears, 168 poor patients have been admitted to the Hospital ata cost of. jen. As: hover eT me neried only amounted subscriptions
had'to be drawn upon to the extent of £89, the small Samaritan Reserve Fund ing the same veri done in the Hospital are also given. During the two years 367 patients were admitted and 162 operations were performed whilst 5,000 visits were paid to the dis-pens aries. The total cost of the Hospital during these two years was £501. towards which the Committee granted £100, leaving a deficit of £504 to be raised. brought in £75, and sale of medicines £89; £81 was ~aid by patients for food, and the remainder was met by the Sam-anton Fund, special subscriptions, and a grant from the small general reserve fund, which, however, is now nearly exhausted. We trust that this good work may receive public. j the liberal assistance of the benevolent BEFBRPEREZ. The Tribulations of the Church in China, A.D. 1900 (Nati and Foreigners.) By D. MacGilli Two volumes S.D.K. rice 40 cent byterian Mission Press. will be hailed with satisfaction by those The appearance of these two volumes Chines" considerable number now) who are red in the vicissitudes and sorrows of the Christian Church in China. Written in easy Wen-li, it will be readily understood by that large number of por-sons whose education is not very far ad-/ vanced; nevertheless, we believe that the version in Mandarin, which we understand is now being prepared, will appeal to a yet larger circle of readers. The Book fur-rushes a pathetic record of the severe and unprecedented ordeal through which th Church has been so recently called to pass. The lessons which are suggested to one's mind by these sad events are presented in a concise and forcible manner, and the Chinese Christian, by a careful perusal of these two volumes, will, undou'ste hy, have his views enlarged as to the vitality and indestructibility of the Church Christ which has passed so triumphan: ly through the fiery ordeal. A perusal of the second volume, treating as it dies of the sufferings and martyrdoms of totir foreigners and Chinese. will help one to realise afresh the oneness of the Church— international barriers are swept away.
Four plates are given of the foreign martyrs, and if the groups are not as ciser as one could wish, it is to be presumed that it is because" the photographie originals were not obtainable. Five of the children, of whom photographs are given as being among the martyrs, are, we are happy to know, alive and well at the present time.
No mention is made in this work of the martyrdom of the Roman Catholic Mi: sionaries who suffered for thir faith. Of these, the Rev, Arthur H. Smith, in his recent work. "China in Convnls'on." says, No more illustrious examples of martyrdom can be found than some of those of the Roman Catholic faith."
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