II. AMONG HER OWN PEOPLE 244 III. THE POWER OF AN ENDLESS LIFE 254 Illustrations Dr. Hü King Eng at the Time of Her Graduation from the Medical College _Frontispiece_ Dr. Hü's Medical Students 41 Dr. Hü's Christmas Party 61 Mrs. Ahok and Her Two Granddaughters 73 Reception Rooms in Chinese Homes of Wealth 83 Dr. Ida Kahn 115 A Nurse in Dr. Kahn's Hospital 138 One of Dr. Kahn's Guests 141 A Village Crowd 141 Dr. Mary Stone 161 Elizabeth Skelton Danforth Memorial Hospital, Kiukiang, China 172 Dr. Stone, Dr. Kahn, and Five of the Hospital Nurses 174 General Ward of the Danforth Memorial Hospital 182 Nurses of the Danforth Memorial Hospital 192 Yu Kuliang 221 Anna Stone 233 The Anna Stone Memorial 257 * * * * * DR. HÜ KING ENG I. CHILDHOOD IN A CHRISTIAN HOME II. EDUCATION IN CHINA AND AMERICA III. BEGINNING MEDICAL WORK IN CHINA IV. THE BELOVED PHYSICIAN V. THE FAVOUR OF THE PEOPLE * * * * * DR. HÜ KING ENG I CHILDHOOD IN A CHRISTIAN HOME Among the earliest converts to Christianity in South China was Hü Yong Mi, the son of a military mandarin of Foochow. He had been a very devout Buddhist, whose struggles after spiritual peace, and whose efforts to obtain it through fasting, sacrifice, earnest study, and the most scrupulous obedience to all the forms of Buddhist worship, remind one strongly of the experiences of Saul of Tarsus. Like Saul too, Hü Yong Mi was, before his conversion, a vigorous and sincere opponent of Christianity. When his older brother became a Christian, Hü Yong Mi felt that his casting away of idols and abolishing of ancestral worship were crimes of such magnitude that the entire family "ought all with one heart to beat the drum and drive him from the house." He tells of finding a copy of the Bible in his father's bookcase one day, and how, in sudden rage, he tore it to pieces and threw the fragments on the floor, and then, not satisfied with destroying the book, wished that he had some sharp implement with which to cut out "the hated name Ya-su, which stared from the mutilated pages."