From Christian Missions and Social Progress, Vol. II. Copyright, 1899, by FLEMING H. REVELL COMPANY.

Patients in Nanking Hospital. Inscription on the wall, John 3. 16.

Pupils in the Woman's School, Nanking.

Pupils in Bible Training School, Nanking.

tion until 1894. She returned to China in 1895, as a missionary of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church.

The African continent for many genera- her studies at that institution, entered the tions has been under the dreadful delusions Woman's Medical College at Philadelphia of fetichism and witchcraft, while supposed in 1888, though illness deferred her graduamasters in these occult mysteries have posed as healers of disease. Many of the pioneer missionary physicians of the Dark Continent have found themselves face to face with these cruel charlatans, and have succeeded in overthrowing their devices. Wherever missions have entered the continent they are slowly supplanting the ancient terrors of the native quack by the introduction of medical knowledge.

Chinese women are entering the medical profession, and are already acquitting themselves with credit. A class for women is conducted at the Canton Hospital, under Drs. Niles and Fulton, and there are other classes in connection with several of the larger hospitals of the empire.

She is a granddaughter of one of the earliest native Christians in China, and was herself baptized in her native land. Her father was a converted mandarin, his two sons entering the ministry of the Methodist Mission, and this daughter (born in 1866), adopting the profession of medicine. Upon her return to China she was greeted with an ovation by mandarins and coolies, all ranks of society paying honor to her gifts, and recognizing with respect the remarkable character of her achievements. She is now known as the "Miracle Lady." One instance is related of a Chinese wheeling his blind old mother in a wheelbarrow a thousand miles to consult her. It is worthy of note that Dr. Hü King Eng and Miss Marguerite Wong, both of whom were educated at mission schools, were appointed by the Chinese Government as delegates to a Woman's Congress planned to be held in London in 1899. The former has lately been asked to accept the position of physician in the household of Li Hung Chang. Miss Wong, since her appointment, has been married to Dr. Lim Boo Keng, of Singapore.

The medical profession is now increasingly popular among Chinese women. The

The first student of medicine among the women of China who received a foreign diploma and returned to her native land to practice her profession was Dr. You Mé Kying (written in English "You May King"). She was the daughter of a native pastor, and was born in 1864. After the death of her father and mother, which occurred in her infancy, she was taken into the family of Dr. D. B. McCartee, then a missionary of the American Presbyterian Board at Ningpo. She received a careful education, mostly under the personal direction of Mrs. McCartee, and afterward came with Dr. McCartee's family to America, where she eventually entered the Woman's graduation, with special honor, of Drs. Medical College of the New York Infirmary for Women and Children, and was graduated at the head of her class in 1885. In 1887 she was sent out by the Board of Foreign Missions of the Reformed Church in America as a medical missionary to Amoy, where she served in that special sphere for a year. Subsequently Dr. McCartee and their countrywomen. They returned to family removed to Japan, and this led her to enter the service of the American Methodist Episcopal Church, South, Board, as a missionary physician at Kobe, where she remained for five years. Her marriage afterward to Mr. E. de Silva, brought her again to America, and she now resides in San Francisco, Cal.

Meigii Shie (Mary Stone) and Ida Kahn from the medical department of the University of Michigan in 1896 is an interesting incident in two respects-they left a record in both character and scholarship which is not often surpassed, and are among the Christian pioneers in the ministry of healing to

China in September, 1896, and are in the service of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church. A Christian woman of exceptional gifts and fragrant memory was the late Mrs. S. Satthianadhan, of Madras, known as Krupabai, the first Hindu woman to attain eminence as a novelist. She was born in 1862, Another-apparently the second-Chinese a daughter of one of the earliest Brahman woman to enter the profession with a West- converts to Christianity in the Bombay ern diploma was Dr. Hü King Eng, who Presidency, and was educated in a zenana finished her preparatory course at the Ohio mission school. Subsequently, as the first Wesleyan University, and, after completing Hindu woman to enter a medical school,

she became a student at the Madras Medical College, which was the first in India to open its doors to women. This courageous example has now been followed by many of her countrywomen who have chosen a medical career.

for Hindu women. Her death occurred in 1894, and, as a fitting memorial of her life, a scholarship for women in the Madras Medical College has been instituted, and also a medal in the Madras University to be awarded to the Hindu girl who passes the It is difficult for us to realize what it cost best matriculation examination in English. this brave young girl to face the prejudices Both these tributes to her memory were of Hindu society and begin a course of med- | gifts from her friends.

ical study. She left her home in Bombay, M. de Menant, in the Nouvelle Revue, and proceeded resolutely to Madras, intent upon the accomplishment of her purpose, whatever hindrances might beset her. She was kindly received into the family of the Rev. W. T. Satthianadhan, and began her studies at the college. In Saguna, one of her novels, she has described her reception when she first entered the lecture-hall. Her appearance was the signal for enthusiastic welcome on the part of the assembled students, who rose to their feet and cheered her for her courage and independence in venturing to join their ranks. Her unassuming and gentle demeanor, as well as remarkable scholarship, won for her the respect and admiration of both teachers and students.

gives a very instructive account of Anandibai Joshee, the first Hindu lady on whom was conferred a medical degree. "The daughter of a rich native landowner, this lady pioneer was born in 1865 at Poona, and, like most of her countrywomen, was married at the age of nine years, becoming a mother four years later. Through lack of proper medical attendance her child died, and it was then that the young girl made up her mind to devote her life to bringing adequate medical aid to her cloistered countrywomen. Fortunately, her husband, an intelligent and kind-hearted man, was given a government appointment in Calcutta, and, once there, he allowed his wife the extreme liberty of behaving like a European woman.

Mrs. Satthianadhan, although the first woman of India to enter upon the study of "In 1882, in spite of the great opposition medicine was not the first to take the medi- of her family and of her husband's friends, cal degree. She was obliged to give up her she made up her mind to go'and study medchosen profession as the strain of its duties icine in the United States. Before leaving proved too severe for her physical strength. India, she held a great public meeting, She was married, in 1883, to Professor S. which was attended by both Europeans and Satthianadhan, B.A., LL.M., of Madras, an natives, and explained her reasons for wisheducated gentleman who had taken his de-ing to undertake what she was about to do. gree from Cambridge University and was At the Woman's Medical College in Pennoccupying at that time a position in the Indian Government service. He is now a professor in the Presidency College, Madras, and the President of the Young Men's Christian Association of that city.

sylvania she passed (1886) eighth out of forty-two students. It is sad to add that, after all these trials, the valiant girl fell seriously ill, and was ordered back to India, where she died at the age of twenty-one, His wife was well-known as an authoress, having conquered by her courageous action and has been eminently useful in the sphere even the most narrow-minded members of of philanthropic ministry. She was an ar- her caste."-Rev. James S. Dennis, D.D., dent advocate of the noblest Christian ideals in Christian Missions and Social Progress.

THE

ROMAN CATHOLIC TEACHING CONCERNING PROTESTANTISM. 'HE outline of the study for the past | was "The Protestant Reformation." The list month at the Catholic Summer School of books recommended to be read by stuof Plattsburg, N. Y., is worthy of the attention of Protestants, and especially of those who think that the animosity of the Roman Church toward Protestantism has ceased to exist. The subject for the month

dents embraced seven Catholic histories and historical studies, six suggested topics for papers and discussion, and a list of questions and answers from a controversial catechism by the Rev. Stephen Keenan. The topics

were: "Europe Before the Reformation," congregation, no body of divines, professing "Cause and Success of Protestantism," Protestant doctrines, was ever heard of un"Character of the Reformers," "The Refor- til his time. mation and Tolerance," "The Reformation and Civil Liberty," and "The Political Situation in Europe at the Time of the Reformation." This is a good series of subjects for fair and intelligent historical discussion.

But the method in which they were to be handled can, perhaps, be gathered from the "questions and answers" which follow their announcement upon the program. The first question is: "What is Protestantism?" and the answer: "A new religion, invented and propagated by a person called Luther." It is then stated that no such theology, either as to faith or morals, was ever known, taught, or believed by any sect in the world until Luther's time.

The "errors" of the other sects are thus given: "The Albigenses taught that there were two Gods and two Christs; they reprobated marriage, denied all the sacraments, as well as the resurrection of the body. The Waldenses aimed at plunder; they declared it a heinous sin for a magistrate to condemn to death for any crime; according to them, it was a mortal sin to take an oath; the clergy became reprobates by holding one farthing's worth of property. In other things these deluded fanatics were Catholics; they held the sacrament, mass, transubstantiation, purgatory, etc. The Wyclifites maintained that man must sin, that God approves of sin; yet, with evident inconsistency, they declared that all power, whether of the priest or magistrate, is forfeited by the commission of one mortal sin; they concluded, that as they themselves were all free from sin, so all power belonged to them. As to the Hussites, their doctrines were those of Wyclif, their principles were seditious and unchristian, and plunder was their object."

The catechism proceeds to outline the parentage, birth, religion, and life of Luther till his thirty-fifth year, giving his religious vows at the age of twenty-three years, "poverty, chastity, and obedience," all of which he is declared to have violated, by apostasy, marriage to a nun, and disobedience to ecclesiastical authority. Then come the closing questions and answers of the first week of this summer school, which are as follows: "Q. Was this man in reality the founder of the Protestant religion, and the first of that sect that ever appeared in the world?

"A. Most certainly; for no minister, no

"Q. What inference do you draw from all this?

"A. That Protestantism cannot be the religion of Christ; because if the Church of Christ required reformation, a God of purity and holiness would never have chosen such an immoral character-an apostate, a wholesale vow-breaker, a sacrilegious seducerfor that purpose.'

The second week enters upon Luther's motives for attacking the Catholic faith and inventing a new creed. These were pride and jealousy "because the commission to preach indulgence was given to the order of St. Dominic and not to his own." Reference is then made to his nailing the ninety-five theses on the gates of the Wittenburg church, and it is taught that these false articles were cleverly refuted, that Luther repented and abased himself before the pope, and proved a hypocrite. From these and other like statements the pupil is instructed to draw the inference, "That a man bursting with pride, envy, jealousy, a disobedient hypocrite, was not the person to be chosen of God to reform abuses, if any such existed." The travesty of history is then continued, and the second week concludes as follows: "Q. What do you conclude from such conduct?

"A. In the first place, that Luther must have been extremely fickle to appeal to so many judges, and to abide by the decision of none. Secondly, that he knew his cause was bad and his doctrine false, since he would not submit it even to the best judges. Thirdly, that he must have been brimful of sinful pride and obstinacy, since he preferred his own single judgment to that of the whole Christian world."

The third week deals with his "monstrous errors," and wresting of the Scriptures to "give them any sense he pleased, as the Mormons, the Methodists, and the FreeKirkmen do at the present day." And presents this conclusion:

"Q. What do you think of Luther's conduct?

"A. I can discover nothing in it but the spirit of inconstancy, doubt, error, and revenge, without even the slightest mark of the Spirit of God. He seems solely actuated by the spirit of the devil."

The fourth week describes the dreadful