The next few months were filled with almost incessant labour, chiefly speaking and making friends for her work.  The cordial responses which she met everywhere never became an old story to Dr. Stone and her letters are full of enthusiastic accounts of them.  “Here at Silver Bay, a society wants to support a missionary and we hope to find the missionary to-night.  The first was yesterday’s work and the second we hope to gain to-day.”  Again, “Last night on the car we met a gentleman whom I know through my sister Anna, and after a few minutes’ talk he wants to give me his camera, 5x7, for hospital work.  Isn’t that splendid?” Or, “This morning we went into a flower-seed store and what do you suppose the proprietor did but to give us the seeds, a big list of all kinds we wanted, and then offered to add a few more varieties.  We are having lots of fun here.”

Dr. Stone met with no less enthusiasm in public meetings than in her contact with individuals.  One of her hostesses tells of her remarkable success in arousing genuine interest in her work:  “She spoke at churches very often while she was with us, and not once did she fail to get what she asked for.  She did not ask for things in general but for definite things,—­pillows for the beds, lamps for the gateway, etc.  She is irresistible.”

The same friend tells of the glee with which Dr. Stone, whose English is perfect, delighted to learn modern slang phrases.  After practising them in the bosom of the family she would sometimes innocently introduce them into her addresses, invariably bringing down the house thereby.  At one meeting, after telling a most remarkable story, she remarked, “You may think this is a whopper, but it is true!”

Reports of the meetings at which she spoke contain such items as this:  “The pastor of St. James Church offered to duplicate all money given in the collection when Miss Hughes and Dr. Stone spoke.  Six hundred and eighty-two dollars was the result.  A gentleman present offered one hundred dollars for a speech from Dr. Stone in his church.  The speech was made and one hundred and eighty-two dollars put in the treasury.”  Other items read:  “At the district meeting a new auxiliary came into being in ——­ Church.  No one could resist Dr. Mary Stone’s persuasive tones as she went up and down the aisles asking, ‘Won’t you join?’ She told the people how much she needed a pump in Kiukiang and forthwith the pump materialized.”  The New York Herald gave a long and enthusiastic report of her work, ending with the words:  “’Am I not fortunate?  And I am so grateful to be able to help a little!’ is the modest way she sums up a work of magnitude sufficient to keep a corps of medical men busily employed.”