The merchants and gentry of Nanchang seem to have fully awakened; not only in the interest of commerce and the devel-lopment of their province, but also in the interesting of their families' temporal welfare. A short time ago a number of them agreed to purchase a building si for a hospital for Dr. Ida Kahn, of the Methodist Episcopal Mission, and fine large site have they purchased, besides giving her 6,000 tan (piculs) of grain for building a dispensary. One of their number, " Mr. Yuan, has kindly offered to sell this grain, and in the meantime has given Dr. Kahn and Miss Gertrude Howe permission to draw on a bank in his name to the extent of the given grain, so that there may be no delay in the erection of The foundation of thi already laid. Dr. Kahn, herself a Chinese, been labouring among them only a little over two years, but through her skilful work and' untiring attention, she has fully won their confidence. Having made such " liberal beginning, there is hardly nny doubt but they will also build " ho-pitd in due time.
A Great Change, Think of the change that has taken place during the past fifteen years. The most sanguine among us would not have believed it possible. When we visited this city in 1887 we were treated more like wild animals than human beings.
Before cing allowed tw stey ashore our passports had 1 be produced. hen four soldiers took usin hand, and from ten o'clock la the morning until four in the afternoon we were pushed and jostled by our would-be bodyguard and the crowds until we were wholly exhausted and dragged ourselves on to the houseboat, never before so thankful for a quite retreat. It would have been quite impossible at that time for " European to have found " night's Jodying within that city, while to day they even willing to freely lend subsisntial aid in establishing Christian institutions.
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