On Saturday last there was a most interesting celebration atthe Hospital connected with the Church Missionary Society. Five "more nurses were graduated and sent forth with the Gospel of nursing, backed by the power of their training in order and efficiency. An added lustre was lent 19 the occasion from In recent months, the Honan Provineial Government. has instructed the magistrates in the province—to root up poppy plants by force with the assistance of the Pao-an army. According to the latest report, the Poppy has been cleared out in Northern and Eastern Honan. As in Western and Southern Honan, it is too mountainous, the poppy still rows in some parts of the region.
Gen. Liu Chih, chairman of the province, left for Southern Honan on May 3 to inspect political condi tons, and may return to the city a the fact that the service coincided with the observance of the British Empire Red Cross Day. Bishop Curtis and Pastor Ni, with several members of the medical and nurs~ ing faculty, gave words of counsel and exhortation, and prayer was offered that the future of this graduate ing class would be established in tenderness, sympathy and hope.
'The Kwangchi Hospital continues its service of succour, and for many years the institution' has been the Seweet presence of a good diffused. There is a spiritual touch about the training received in this medical school, and the nurses sent out, for the most part, hate a lamp within, as well as in the hand. It is the wish of all, that this noble work may flourish' in prosperity and peace.
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