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if he had not come to us and had not had that initial dose of antitoxin, he certainly would have died.

"Then there is a case of liver abscess. A Brahmin from Wai he is, and his liver abscess was the sequel to an attack of amoebic dysentery. He is getting well with injections of emetine, without any surgery at all. In the Children's Ward we have two boys with tubercular spines, done up in plaster of Paris jackets, and having the time of their lives playing around on the tiled floors with nice toys that Miss Andrews saved for this special purpose out of our Christmas boxes.

"We have had many maternity cases since we wrote the last time. For many years we had only hopeless cases that came in in extremis, and very few even so. But now we are beginning to have a number of normal cases, for which we are very glad. We are beginning to get a majority of living babies, and have not lost a mother since we came back from furlough. One mother had lost six babies, every one still-born. She came and gave herself into our hands. She was in the Maternity Ward two months before delivery, a sweet Brahmin woman with lots of courage, but only one ambition in life, which was satisfied with the birth of a perfectly splendid baby boy. He was the whitest, most beautiful Indian babe I have had the good fortune to see. And every one, nurses, patients all through the hospital, as well as the doctors in charge, rejoiced over that baby. more than paid for the two months of inconvenience and pollution (as it seemed to her) that she had to undergo beforehand.

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"There are many others I could tell you about. To go around the hospital and tell you in detail about the history of each of the seventy-five or more patients lying there would be too much altogether for you to endure, though to us each one has something of surpassing interest."

THE ESTHER BARTON HOSPITAL, TAIKU, CHINA

Built by the Oak Park Church in honor of Mrs. William E. Barton. This hospital for women and the Judson Smith Memorial Hospital (for men) together form what is now called Taiku Hospital. Present American force: Dr. Willoughby Hemingway, Director; Helen Dizney, R.N., Superintendent of Nurses; Albert Hausske, Business Manager.

This offer succeeds the Clubbing Offer for the three Congregational periodicals which was in effect last season. The purpose is to work together for all the good causes in which Congregationalists are interested, to extend more | widely the reading of the excellent periodicals published for and by Congregationalists, and to save money and bother for subscribers.

In January the American Missionary Magazine will be consolidated with The Congregationalist, so that beginning with that month the service rendered by the American Missionary for our Homeland work will be rendered through the issue of The Congregationalist published the last week of the month, with such added material as may be desirable to maintain continuity of certain important weekly features regularly published by The Congregationalist.

The Missionary Herald, representing our foreign missionary work, and The Congregationalist, representing all of our Congregational interests weekly, with one issue each month devoted to the Homeland, Missionary, Educational, and Ministerial work, should be in every Congregational home.

This offer is intended for New subscribers, but renewals will be accepted in the Combination. Combination subscriptions may be sent through pastors, church agents, or direct to the publishers of either of the periodicals.

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REV. AND MRS. PAUL F. BOBB will soon be settled in their new home, "The Bobb-White House," in Merzifoun, and are happy to have the privilege of going into the interior and seeing Turkey as she really is. "I have often heard," writes Mrs. Bobb, "of the adjustments that must be made when one first comes to his field. If falling in love with a place from the very minute one looks at it is getting adjusted, we have succeeded very, very successfully. We have made several nice contacts, and we do love to talk to the people here.

"One of my first and most interesting experiences in Merzifoun was that of attending, with the other American ladies, a Turkish engagement party. After we had watched two hundred ladies gather in the courtyard, noting the latest Paris models of charshaffs, dresses, necklaces, the bride-to-be appeared, led by the lady-in-waiting. She kissed the hands of the groom's relatives and of her own relatives and immediate friends, pressing them to her forehead in true Oriental fashion, then disappeared without having said one word. A few pieces of candy wrapped in gaily colored paper were passed around as refreshments. As I looked into the faces of those women, most of whom could neither read nor write, and all of whom were without Christ, I felt anew the challenge to present the living Christ."

THE CHRONICLE

SAILINGS FOR THE FIELD

September 13. From Boston, Dr. and Mrs. Walter F. Hume, returning to Marathi Mission.

September 15. From New York, Misses Dorothy B. Allen and Rachel P. Barnes, en route to Marathi Mission.

September 20. From New York, Misses Diantha L. Dewey, Fanny G. Noyes and Annie M. Barker, returning to Turkey Mission, and Miss Mabel E. Emerson, en route to Turkey and Africa for deputation work.

September 22. From Seattle, Rev. and Mrs. Paul R. Reynolds, returning to North China Mission, and Rev. Edwin D. Kellogg, returning to Shaowu Mission.

September 24. From Los Angeles, Miss Bertha H. Allen, returning to Foochow Mission.

September 28. From San Francisco, Rev. and Mrs. Willard L. Beard, returning to Foochow Mis

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sion; Miss Frances K. Bement, returning to Foochow Mission; and Miss Estella L. Coe, returning to Japan Mission.

September 30. From Boston, Mr. and Mrs. G. Ross Thomas, en route to Marathi Mission.

ARRIVALS ON THE FIELD

September 1. In Guadalajara, Mexico, Rev. and Mrs. Henry P. D. Leach, joining the mission.

September 4. In Constantinople, Miss Mary I. Ward, returning to the mission, and Miss Marjory E. Hostetter, joining the mission.

September 5. In Constantinople, Rev. and Mrs. F. W. MacCallum and Rev. and Mrs. Harrison A. Maynard, returning to the mission, and Mr. and Mrs. Harry R. Meyering, joining the mission.

September 6. In Constantinople, Mr. and Mrs. Luther R. Fowle, returning to the mission; Mr. Fred H. Thompson, and Misses Alice P. Lindsley, Bertha D. Colmyer, Marion Sheldon, and Mr. and Mrs. Raymond F. White, joining the mission; and Rev. and Mrs. Merrill N. Isley, en route to Aintab.

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