With  regard  to  the  payment  of  fees  by  patients,  I  suppK)se  the  idea  of
mioiring  payment  is  to  make  the  Mission  as  little  expea<^ive  to  the  Home
Boudi  as  poasible.    Now  in  China  wo  secured  a  great  deal  of  work
bong  done  at  very  little  expense,  by  making  the  patients  who   w  JSmtL
ame  to  the  hospital  pay  for  their  own  food.    We  did  not  feed  any
{tftfaem  except  in  special  cases,  and  in  that  way,  at  little  more  than  the  ezpenae
of  the  drugs,  we  were  able  to  attend  to  thousands  of  patients  in  a  year.    Of
coaMe  if  any  wealthy  men  came,  they  were  welcome  to  help  us,  and  occasionally
i«  lent  a  subscription  list  round  amongst  the  European  and  Chinese  community,
fhidi  was  well  responded  to,  so  that  the  Chinese  helped  in  that  way  to  some
cztoQt.    I  think  in  China  at  least  it  La  well  not  to  charge  the  patients.    Many
af  them  are  poor  peasantry,  and   the  very  fact  that  they  come  from  long
diiUnces  and  have  to  aupport  themselves  in  hospital,  is  a  guarantee  thai  they
leilly  want  to  be  healed,  and  secures  us  agaimt  being  pestered  by  beggars  or
otbtn  who  would  simply  come  to  live  upon  us.
Eey.  Dr.  Green  closed  the  proceedings  with  prayer#


(a)  The  place  of  female  agency  ia  Mission  work>  and  its  relation  to  the
dcpartmeDta  of  general  Missionary  Societies  both  in  home  arrangements  and
foreij^m  work.
(&}  The  training  of  agents  at  home  and  on  their  anival  in  the  foreign  field.
(c)  Female  Medical  Missionaries.
{Wednesday  morning ,  June  \Zth,  in  tk^  Large  HalL)^

General  Sir  Bobert  Phayre,  E.C.B,f  ia  tbe  cbaii;
Acting  Secretary,  Bev,  Gilbert  Eamey,  1LA<

Prayer  by  the  Eev.  Gilbert  Eamey.
