ng of large numbers of patients
into hospitals all over the world. Illiterates are not the only people
who might profit by Christian teaching, classes for literates might be
equally valuable. Large numbers might leave our hospitals with a
considerable knowledge of Christian truth, and a new interest in life,
with power to advance and to teach others, if they were systematically
taught. In one missionary hospital regular courses were given on
Christian Evidences, and courses on the education of children might well
be given to parents in hospitals.

Here again a table cannot reveal the type and character of the work
done: it can only tabulate visits. The work would include the teaching
of illiterates to read, and instructing convalescents of higher
education either in classes or individually.

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Total | Number | Total | Number | Remarks
Number of | Regularly | Number of | of | and
Hospitals. | Visited by | Patients. | Scholars | Conclusions.
| Educationalists. | | Taught. |
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We might now sum up this branch of our inquiry thus:--

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| Foreign | Native |Assisting|Assisting|Assisting|Remarks
| Mission | Assist | in |in |in | and
| -aries. | ants. | Evangel-|Hosp- |Schools. |Conclusions.
| | | istic |itals. | |
| | | Tours. | | |
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Evange-| | | | | |
listic | ---- | ---- | ---- | ---- | ---- | ----
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Medical| ---- | ---- | ---- | ---- | ---- | ----
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Educa | | | | | |
-tional| ---- | ---- | ---- | ---- | ---- | ----
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Then we shall surely have some idea of the extent to