The annual report of the Hangchow Hos} ical Train ing College in connexion with the M. S. gives some idea as to the progress which is being made by this institution, The Hospital now has reached its 44th year of work in Hangchow, where evangelical, educational and industrial work: is carried on. As to the future, the report, the Hangchow:
sal Mission is not willing to, rest upon the success of the past. nor to be daunted by the dangers of civil war, disappointments and difficulties of the present unrest. and turmoil. The hospital got a set-back during the civil war as regards patients and finances, but beyond that no department of work went back duri year. Not counting last bit balance and the loss caused by the war, it) practically paid its way.
An account of the opening of a new Medical College building on the most up-to-date lines also is. recorded. The building, says the report, was commented on by one visitor as being the best combina-ton of Chinese and foreign architecture which ever has been seen. Apart from the Peking Union Medical College, there is, probably no medical school in the Far East so well equipped. The opening of this new College wa te be honoured as originally arranged, by the presence of the British Consul and the Rt. Rev.
Bishop Molony, but the exigencies war prevented their attendance. ihe head Chinese phy: sided and an impressive was given by Dr. Main. The presentation of the sum of £10,000 has been made on behalf of Lord and Lady Maclay in memory of their son Ebenezer and a memorial tablet and a picture of him have been erected in the College.
Another feature of the ye work was the opening of five new. homes on Pine Hill, some two miles from the city hospitals.
Quite apart from the subject of Hhospital work, the review comments on the Lwe Fong-tah, or Thunder Peak. Pagoda, which it will be rejealled, coll the day General Sun Chuan-fang and his Fukien troops entered the city. According. to a current legend, two witches originally inhabited the pagoda side of the lake, one a white snake and the other a green fish. They do not seem to have been on very friendly terms, much to the comfort of the neighbouring in-Eabitants, who built the pagoda and disposed of the witches by burying them beneath its massive found:
is. Thousands of pilgrims have visited the pagoda every year, many Jof whom have carried away portions of brick from its walls. These, when powdered and scattered over the fields, were said always. te sure a good crop of rice. The iter, in commenting on the possibility of the pagoda being rebuilt, expresses the hope that it will not.
reconstructed according to modern Chinese tastes, with electric fights and other such embellish-
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