would give another cause; while once they did not give the medicine sent by an idol and he (the medium) said later, ‘The medicine has done her good.’  The husband said, ’We see plainly that my wife was saved by your God, by you, and your medicine.’”

While Dr. Hue has done a great deal of work for the poor, her practice is by no means limited to that class, for she is often called to the homes of the official and wealthy classes.  One grateful husband, whose wife and baby Dr. Hue had saved, told her that he would not only give money towards her new hospital himself, but would also help her to obtain subscriptions from his friends.  “Chinese doctors have learned to use clinical thermometers,” he observed, “but the Chinese medicine does not seem to fit the foreign thermometer, for the patients do not seem to get well as with the foreign medicine.”

The first student to receive a diploma from the Woolston Memorial Hospital was Dr. Hue’s sister, Hue Seuk Eng, who graduated in April, 1902.  The graduation exercises, held in the Sing Bo Ting Ancestral Hall, which was willingly loaned for the occasion, created a keen interest, and numbers of the city people gathered to witness proceedings so unusual.  Many of them said, “This is the first time a Christian service was ever held in a temple.”  But what was even more wonderful to them was the revelation of the possibilities of Chinese young womanhood which they received.  Dr. Hue wrote that after the exercises an official who lived near by announced:  “I will buy a girl seven or eight years old and I will have a tutor for her.  Then I will send her to the Girls’ Boarding School to study, and then she may go to Dr. Hue to study medicine.  Then she will go to Sing Bo Ting Ancestral Temple, too, to receive her diploma.  Besides, we will all be Christians.”  Others were heard to exclaim, “Who knew girls could do so much good to the world—­more than our boys!”

When the exercises were over, greatly to Seuk Eng’s surprise, her sedan chair was escorted all the way back to the hospital, to the accompaniment of the popping of hundreds of fire-crackers, set off in her honour.  A Chinese feast was prepared for the guests in the hospital, after which another unexpected explosion of congratulatory fire-crackers took place.  Thus ended in true Chinese fashion, amid noise and smoke, the first graduation exercises of the Woolston Memorial Hospital.

They were by no means the last, however, for this department of work has been steadily carried on ever since Dr. Hue took charge of the hospital.  In 1904 she reported:  “Our little medical school is getting on nicely.  The success of the school is mostly due to our good teacher and the students themselves, who have a great desire to learn.  They have had written examinations this year; the highest general average was 98 and the lowest 85.  Can any one dare to think, ’What is the use to teach these Chinese people?’”