othes spread on top of the bed-clothes as you know is the custom
in China), and sold them for the miserable drug. The mother
appealed to Dr. Stone, who took her, in her helpless, sick
condition, into the hospital. As she grew well, she stayed on,
doing such sewing as she could for her board, and in the hospital
she heard for the first time of the 'Jesus doctrine.' Her hungry
heart opened to the truth and she wanted to learn to read the
Bible."

"One day, however, she came to the doctor and asked her if she
thought if they prayed to God, He would save her son from his
dreadful life. The doctor talked with her and found that the old
woman was full of faith that it could be done. So they prayed about
it, and a little while after, Dr. Stone gave the old woman money to
take her son to the hospital for men in the city here and have the
habit broken off. But the mother, instead of giving the man into
the care of the authorities, and paying for his treatment herself,
gave the money to the man, and he used it all in opium, being in a
worse condition than ever."

"Some time later, due to the lack of funds, the hospital had to be
closed for some time, but when it was reopened, the old mother
pleaded that the son should be taken on as a coolie to work for his
keep, and thus be out of temptation's way. He had been supplied
again with money and put into the hospital, from which he came out
apparently cured, but fell again. The plan for him to come to the
hospital seemed to the doctor a rather dangerous one, for the man
was a positive good-for-nothing. But in the meantime Anna had
returned from America, and was, with her sister, willing to try
him; for it seemed his last chance, and the mother had begged so
hard for him. So he came to the hospital--a poor wretch, indeed,
weak as a little child from the awful life he had lived."

"All opium was out of his reach here, and in a few days the absence
of it showed by dreadful swelling of the limbs. He could not carry
the smallest weight without great exertion, and the case seemed
almost hopeless. But he gradually was broken from the use of the
drug and was able to work about the place. Anna was using a sedan
chair for her itinerating work, but she was so light that the
coolies jolted her a great deal and hurt her; so she got her
'ricksha, and