In connexion with the Twenty-eighth Annual Meeting of the Fast. China Conference of the American Baptist Foreign Mission Society in Hangchow, Oct. 17-2), paper of unusual interest was read by Dr. F. W. Goddard im commemoration of the 80th anniversary of the founding of mission.
Work was begun when Dr.
J. McGowan, upon the opening of Ningpo by the treaty of Nanking, entered Ningpo in 1843. Many difficulties faced the first foreign missionary to enter the city, but by his courtesy and skill Dr. McGowan overcome these obstacles. Not content with establishing a dispensary and hospital in the city he travelled extensively im Chekiang holding eye clinics in places as far removed as Taichow, Wenchow, Kinhwa, Shaohsing, Kinhwa, Hangchow, and Huchow. Dr. McGowam, however, was not content merely with the alleviation of: suffering. The far sightedness of this pioneer medical man is shown by the following quotation from ons of his letters: "The labours of a medical missionary which are not exclusively directed to the conversion of the Chinese can effect no permanent good unless something more than the ordinary routine of surgical and medical practice is done. Myriads may be relieved of bodily ailments, but with the physician his professional work dies also. If, however, he succeeds in improving to any extent the medical knowledge of the country something is accomplished which cannot fail to endure."
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.