Chnsttan  love  in  the  heart  of  the  doctor  carries  him,  and  sometimes  with
wonderful  rapidity,  within  the  whole  rang©  of  oitier  defences  wherewith  the
gr«it  adversary  would  seek  to  prevent  the  assault  of  the  Gospel  upon  the
l«ftthen  heart.     And  then,  having  got  within  the  defences,  there  is  the
golden  privilege  given  to  him — golden  both  as  to  time  and  to  opportunity —
of  plying  the  soul  with  the  truth  and  the  light  of  the  Gospel  of  Ciirist,

Let  me  indicate  as  briefly  as  possible  something  of  the  precious  outcome
of  Medical  Mission  hospitals^  when  the  Missionary  is  a  living  and  loving
Btia  of  God.  First,  Conversions.  I  open  some  of  the  latest  J^Iissionary
iFpwla.     What  do  they  say  on  this  head  t

h  From  Moukden,  the  capital  of  Manchuria,  Dt,  Christie  tells  in  a  single  hne
the  grace  of  God  has  been  doing  in  the  hospital  there  List  year.  •^Fiftcon
itA,*'  he  says,  "  were  received  during  the  year,"  That  does  not  sound  a  large
nuaber ;  but  leaUy  it  means  a  body  of  candidates  for  baptism  three  or  four
tfflis  that  number  ;  lind  later  on  a  fair  number  of  those  whom  it  was  deemed
pradent  to  delay  would  be  received  into  the  oongregations  most  convenient  to
Iheir  own  place  of  abode.
