and, although with the greatest reluctance, she was forced to stop work.  Her fellow-missionaries insisted that she leave the city during the terrific heat of summer, and go to Sharp Peak for some rest.  She had been there only two days when she was taken dangerously ill, and for weeks and months the gravest anxiety was felt concerning her.  But she received the best of care and nursing, and finally, in March of the following year, she began gradually to recover.

Some advised that the hospital be closed.  But Dr. Hue’s younger sister, Hue Seuk Eng, who had received her medical training in the Woolston Memorial Hospital under Dr. Hue King Eng, and had been associated with her sister in the hospital work for some years, said that to close the hospital would be a great shock to Dr. Hue, and a bitter disappointment to the people, and that she would undertake to keep it open.  “The load was indeed very heavy and my heart was truly frightened,” she admitted afterward.  “Every day I just repeated that comforting verse, ‘He leadeth me,’ and marched forward.”

At first the people did not have the confidence in Hue Seuk Eng which they had in Dr. Hue King Eng.  Hue Seuk Eng tells of their great eagerness to see her sister:  “The faith of many of the patients has been so strong that they thought their illness would at once be cured, or at least lessened, if they could only touch Dr. Hue’s garment or hear her voice, or merely look into her face.  During these months of sickness many people came wishing to see ‘the great Dr. Hue.’  They did not want to see me, whom they termed ’the little Dr. Hue.’  Some of the leading gentry pleaded with the hospital servants to present their cards to Dr. Hue, and she would be sure to come out to see their sick friends.  For it is fully nine years since she was appointed to take charge of this city work, and never once has she been so ill.  Indeed, it is the first time she has not been able to respond to pressing calls for medical treatment.  So often were heard the words, ’I want the doctor whose hair is dressed on the top of her head and who has graduated from an American college,’ that my fellow workers advised the same coiffure in order to avoid trouble; but I told them when the question was asked again just to answer, ’This is Dr. Hue’s younger sister, and she will do the best she can.’”

As Dr. Hue grew stronger she was able to consult with her sister as to the hospital work; the nurses and students gave the young physician whole-hearted co-operation; and in time of need Dr. Kinnear, of the American Board, whose hospital is not far away, was always ready to advise and help.  Thus the hospital work was successfully carried on under the “Great Dr. Hue’s sister, Dr. Hue No. 2,” until Dr. Hue King Eng was again able to take charge of it.

As busy as ever, Dr. Hue is back at her work with renewed strength.  “I just ‘look up and lend a hand,’” she says, in the words of the motto of The King’s Daughters’ Society of her college.  But hundreds and thousands of the suffering ones of her country rise up to call her blessed for the loving, skilful ministry of that hand which has been lent to their needs untiringly for many years, and which they hope will be their strength and comfort for years to come.