see the other woman you told me of was a Christian and of course your God helped her.  I’ve never worshipped your God.  I never knew of Him before and He may not help me.”  “Why, you needn’t cry over that!” the little nurse assured her.  “Our God doesn’t blame you when no one had told you about Him.  Now that you know, if you love Him and pray to Him, He will help you.”  Then she knelt down beside her and taught her how to pray to Him.  After the operation was over and the patient, fully recovered, was going back to her village, she said to the doctor, “I am the first one in our village to hear of Jesus.  Won’t you come soon to my people and tell them.”

Dr. Stone’s letters and reports are full of accounts of the way in which, from the beginning, the work of the hospital has brought the knowledge of the Great Physician to those whose bodies had been so tenderly cared for by His followers that their hearts were very open.  Whole families, sometimes almost entire communities, have become Christian as a result of the medical work.  An interesting instance of the way in which the hospital’s influence is spread by its patients is the case of a little girl, eight years old, who unbound her feet while in the hospital, and became so ardent an advocate of natural feet that after she had returned to the village in which she lived, she and her father succeeded in persuading three hundred families to pledge that their daughters should have natural feet.

It is quite impossible to separate Dr. Stone’s definitely religious work from her medical work; for while Sunday afternoons and the chapel hour in the morning are set aside by her for purely evangelistic work, her Christian faith permeates all that she does.  In the first years of her practice she did some itinerating work, but now that the work is so large and she is the only physician in charge, she has had to give that up.  The nurses, however, still carry it on.  “You see, while I am practically tied to the place,” writes the doctor, “it gives so much happiness to be able to send out workers like these and to spread our influence.  As the nurses say, they will be able to send a lot of patients back to the hospital.  You see the more work we have the merrier we are.”

Every time an evangelistic worker goes out on the district, one of the nurses accompanies her, and with ointments, simple medicines, bandages, vaccine, etc., treats several hundred patients in the country beyond the reach of physicians.  At one time in the bitter cold weather of winter a message came from a distant village where smallpox was raging, asking that a nurse be sent to treat the sick people and vaccinate those who had not yet taken the disease.  One woman in that village had once been at the hospital, and it was through her that the call came.  One of the nurses at once volunteered to go, and with a Bible woman and a reliable man-servant she took the trip down the river, in a little sampan, to the smitten