The ready response with which the two funds, one for Shanghai, one for Home that we have ventured to open, have been met is most satisfactory and shows how much sympathy they both command. As regards the Shantung Road Hospital, the collection recorded to-day from a number of Chinese friends of Messrs. Bradley & Ca. is exactly what was wanted and will, we, trust, stimulate others to call Chinese attention to the hoswital's needs, Turning to the Fund for Blinded Soldiers and Sailors, it might remarked that while the Iaree subscriptions have been to come in, readily—-and the lazer and the more of them the better—the small subscriptions still serin a little shy.
earnestly ask those who cannot rise even above a dollar not to. be diterred by the fact that some can exceed them by ninety-nine. In conclusion, when cheques or compra-dare orders are sent, it would. be 1 certain convenience if subscribers would very kindly make them pay-
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