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town, the villages in the vicinity, fifty in number, have been visited. Over

1^0 visits have been paid, and all on foot.

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MEDICAL MISSION WORK.

¡This work, under the direction of Mr. and Mrs. Watson, has done solid

and efficient service both in the city of Tsi-nan-fu and in the surrounding

district. Dr. Watson was called upon to visit the Chief Magistrate of the

Prefecture, who resides in this city, at a time when the native doctors

hajd all given him up, and when his household were about to put him in

his grave-clothes in which to die. The case was one of paralysis. By the

i^e of the galvanic battery and careful treatment the patient was speedily

brought to convalescence, in a way which seemed to the Chinese almost

njiiraculous. The patient was naturally most grateful. He had a tablet

rhade ready, and on an appointed day went in person, and with much

formality and show delivered it to Dr. Watson at the dispensary, in

tfce presence of an immense crowd. This tablet is of course hung up as a

trippby, so that all who come to the dispensary may see. The general

result has been a marked, and hitherto withheld, friendliness on the part

of j the gentiy of the city and district.

; J A PAN,

PRINCIPAL STATION :-Tokio.

SUB-STATIONS

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Missionary

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Native Evangelists

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The history of Japan during the year has been a very eventful one, and

thie changes inaugurated might have been perilous to the peace and pros-

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¡rity of the land. The greatest event has been the issue of a new con-

itution by which Japan becomes a new nation with a constitutional

onarchy; but one of its truest patriots on the self-same day met his death

at the hands of a frenzied assassin—a Shinto fanatic—and another Minister

or State barely escaped a like cruel death. The nation is truly in a state

of transition. It is adopting with rapidity and eagerness Western ideas and

customs, and it seems to depend, under the Providence of God, on

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