After the battle of Lixoyang began the drifting in of refugees. The first who came were, I believe, some Christians living in an important township on the main line of march, who were baras by the pressure of the ever-moving troops. Being Christians they knew they would r welcome from their fel-Jow-Chri in the city. The Rov. J. W. Inglis took charge of these, providing a large compound for the purpose. Soon thereafter came a rush, and to. meet the of the the Chiang Chain
officials whom he trusted. They look-tool tant steps. peoiciet afew ed out accommodation and purchased grain. Ho also took measures to draw in grain from every direction still open to trafic, specially from Heinmintan. Groat stores of grain wore thus secured. Hundreds of waggons were employed all winter bringing in the kaoliang grain and despite the stringency of war measures, ho successfully coped with the huge demand on the resources of the city.
sent an order to Tientsin for thou-nds of waded garments long before uy other had thought of the possibility; of nood for them. Through some mi take those never came. The first garments to arrive came from the ladies of Tientsin and then from those of Newchwang. The Viceroy was very grateful on hearing of the timely donation. He subseqtiontly had an ample" supply, provided partly by himself and partly by the Shanghai Red Cross Society. To this Society he has felt much indebted for the assistance given, and before resigning office he took' measures for the restoration of the farmers to their Jands, in which he looks hopefully for help from the Society.
Mis Recognition of Christian Work.
To the numerous Christian workers sot over the many refuges under the care of Me. Inglis he expressed his' sense of their services by giving them each a yellow button.
Ho has all along felt the greatness of the responsibility laid upon him to se the full extent of his influence and resources to save the many thousands of destitute refugees.
Well worthy is he therefore of the honour done him by those suecoured, and, whatever his Government does for} many nations were in profusion, Some him, it is right that this note of appre-j fifty C. E. banners from the various ciation should appear in public. provinces of China added the necessary. Missionary Workers in Makden. j colour and finish. Many of these banners In connection with the extensive reef works for the refugees the names of several missionaries are not unworthy to be bracketed with that of the Viceroy.
Mr. Inglis secured, made habitable, and superintended a large number of refuges, over each of which he set two or more of our Christians—evangelists, deacons, or others—as being the most trustworthy men attainable: These he 40 carefully organised that almost all the detail work was done by them. Dr. Christie, with his usual enthusiasm, superintended the whole, while carrying on his usual work. He' was assisted by Dr. Young, who became responsible, among other things, for an isolated fever till he was himself hospital give considerable aid in this work. The ne missionary who has had to bestow most personal attention to the medical relief of suffering humanity is probably our lady doctor, Dr. Horner, who in addition to attending to large nambers of female outdoor patients and to a women's hospital, has had charge of the fever hospital since the illness of Dr. Young. There are in this hospital large number of p: typhus, smallpox, and other diseases. She has'" fow assistants who, help in this hum unitarian and exacting work.
Joun Ross.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.