while the relatives have been seeking to obtain help from the Chinese
doctor or from idols. She herself shall tell the story of an experience of
this kind:

"Last week I was called to see a woman very ill with cholera. Her
people had had all known doctors, both in and out of the city, and
had consulted with and begged many idols to heal her, but the woman
had grown worse and worse, until, when she was apparently hopeless,
having been unconscious for two days, one of the doctors suggested
to try me. I went at once, and found the room crowded with friends
and relatives. They could not tell me fast enough what a good and
filial woman she was, but that the idols had said certain spirits
wanted her, and no amount of offerings could buy her back again. I
told them that the woman was _very_ ill, and that I feared it was
too late for my medicine to help her. Many voices replied, 'We
know, we know, and if she dies we will not blame you.' With a
prayer, and three doses of medicine left for the woman to take, we
left them."

"That afternoon her husband came to report that she was better. I
went to see her and to my great surprise she _was_ better. While
there a famous idol arrived to drive out the evil spirit. I said,
'Do you want me, or do you want the idols? We cannot work
together.' They insisted that I continue to prepare my medicine and
said that the idol could wait. He did wait twenty minutes, and I
have been told since that no one ever dared to ask an idol to wait
before. Before leaving they promised me that the idol should not go
near, or do anything outrageous to the woman. This is now the tenth
day and the woman seems to have quite recovered."

"The woman's husband came yesterday and told me that not only he,
but many friends and relatives, were convinced that the idols were
false; for one idol would give one cause for the illness of his
wife, and another idol would give another cause; while once they
did not give the medicine sent by an idol and he (the medium) said
later, 'The medicine has done her good.' The husband said, 'We see
plainly that my wife was saved by your God, by you, and your
medicine.'"

While Dr. Hue has done a great deal of work for the poor, her practice is by
no means limited to that class, for she is often called to the homes of the
official and wealthy classes. One gr