village.  During four days she treated over one hundred patients not only in the village, but also in the region round about; for she and the Bible woman walked thirty li every day to sufferers in the country.  While the nurse worked, the Bible woman preached, and in this way hundreds of people heard of Christianity for the first time.  As Dr. Stone says, “The cry now is not for open doors, for we have free entrance into the homes of the rich and poor.  What we need now is an efficient force of trained evangelistic workers to ... follow up the seed thus sown broadcast on such receptive soil.”  This need the Training School for Bible Women is helping to meet.

Mrs. Stephen Baldwin writing to Dr. Danforth said, “The Lord honoured your investment by placing in it one of the most wonderful doctors in all this world.”  But Dr. Stone is not only a physician, but an all-round woman.  “She is equal to any sudden call to speak,” said one who heard her often when she was in America.  A report of the Missionary Conference at Kuling, China, states that “Dr. Stone’s paper on ‘Hospital Economics’ was the finest feature of an attractive conference.”  At the request of this conference she prepared a leaflet on the diet suited to Chinese schoolgirls, and a few years ago wrote a very useful book on the subject:  “Until the Doctor Comes.”

“I observed her in her home,” writes a missionary who stopped at Kiukiang for a few days en route to Peking, “a housewifely woman, thoughtful of every detail that might ensure a guest’s comfort.  In a single month recently she treated 1,995 women and children, yet she is not too busy to be a gracious hostess.  Chinese ladies delight to visit her, and such is the influence of this modest woman that the Hsien’s wife has unbound her feet.”

It may well be questioned, great as are Dr. Stone’s achievements, which is of more value, the actual work she is doing, or the inspiration which her efficient, self-sacrificing Christian life is bringing to the awakened womanhood of the new China.  The words of Miss Howe regarding Dr. Stone and Dr. Kahn indicate their influence:  “They seem to be an inspiration to the girls and women of all classes.  When our schoolgirls learn of anything ’the doctors’ did when they were pupils, they seem to think they have found solid ground on which to set their feet.”  A letter from another fellow-worker stated that Dr. Stone was to give the address at the graduation exercises of the class of 1909 of the Nanking Normal School for Women at which the viceroy and “other notables of China” were to be present.  Dr. Stone was greatly touched when the daughter-in-law of a viceroy once said to her that she would gladly give up all her servants, her beautiful clothes, her jewels, even her position, if she could lead a useful life like hers, instead of making one of the many puppets in the long court ceremonies, with nothing to think of except her appearance, and nothing to do but kill time.