29th Funes We venture to draw our readers' attention to the appeal in another column from Hangchow. It is the translation of a letter from Dr. Liu, one of the House Surgeons in Dr. Duncan Main's well-know hospital. Such a Hall as that for which Dr. Liu asks Shanghai to provide the funds is wanted not only for lectures but for holding the regular hospital services—for it must not be forgotten that Dr. Main's is a mission hospital. At present these services are held in the waiting-room of the hospital, which is very stall, very inconvenient, and is wanted for the use for which it is normally destined. There are not many people in Shanghai who do not know something of the services that Dr. Main has rendered to humanity, and if Dr. Liu's letter should arouse, as we hope it will, sufficient interest amongst Shanghai residents and helpers of the medical mission work in Hangchow to elicit from them contributions towards the cost of the proposed hall, it goes without saying that this will be most grateful to Dr. Main. Iv may well be mentioned in this connection that Dr. Liu himself and several other native Christian helpers connected with the hospital at Hangchow remained at their posts throughout the troubles of last year when danger and destruction were imminent, thereby helping to preserve and protect the hospitals, though it was especially dangerous for any Chinese who was known fo be intimately connected witn foreigners, and had made himself a "secondary foreign devil."
It is as certain as anything can be that ignorance is at the bottom of the anti-foreign outrages in China; ignorance at Peking, ignorance in the official yamens throughout the Em-
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