Mercersburg Academy - Karux Yearbook (Mercersburg, PA)

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1111 1 F1i.i11E1X 11111 1 1111 II 11116111 DR. ADAMS IN THE OPERATING ROOM sent from and by Mercersburg to that section of China and his successor, Dr. W. F. Adams, is supported by Mercersburg today. The beginnings of that medical work is described by Dr. Adams in the History of the China Mission, as follows: On Christmas Day, 1902, Dr. 'A. Beam and his wife, who is also a train- ed physician, arrived in Yochow City. For a year and a half they lived in very limited quarters, consisting of two rooms and a closet, in a Chinese house somewhat improved. Before all their goods had arrived, patients began to come, and there, among the packing cases, the first patient was treated. Two months later a small room, eight by twelve feet, was fitted up for a dispensary. Shelving was made for a small stock of drugs, and a case for instruments and supplies was made from a bed packing case. A work table, a sink, and a chair completed the outfit. There was no waiting room. The patients, sometimes numbering as many as thirty, con- tented themselves by standing about the small court, exposed alike to sunshine and rain. This one room served as consultation, dressing, and drug rooms combined. The hospital building itself was erected during the years 1905-1906. flVler- cersburg offerings paid for the ground on which the hospital is built., The work was most thoroughly supervised by Dr. Beam in every detail so that the result is a thor- oughly satisfactory, well-planned, and well-built structure, a credit to him who expend- ed so much thought and care upon its construction. Dr. Beamis place was taken by Dr. Adams in January of 1909, Mercersburg Academy assuming his support, which has continued from that day to the present time. The growth of the work done by the hospital is evidenced by the annual report of Dr. Adams last year to the Board of Foreign Missions. He reports: We had a total of eight hundred, twenty-five in-patients during the year. Our out-patient depart- 8 IIl1111 1111 111 11 1 1 ll 21111111 l11l1111J11111111 1111111111 111111111111111 5111 11 111111r1a11111 1 ii . 1 if 21211111 121

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KJIIIIIIIItllllIIIIIIIIIIIIIUIIIIIIIIIHIUIIIIIIIIIIIIllllllliIlllllfllllllllllllllxux T h e K a r U X xxxllllllllllIllllllllllllllllllllllllIIIIIIDIIIIIIIIIIIlllllIIlllllllllllllllllllilllx illlvrrerahnrg in Glhinet 'r EARS ago a son of old Mercersburg, Dr. William E. Hoy, founded the North Japan College at Sendai, Japan, which institution has since become the leading Christian College of the northern part of the empire. After laboring there with abundant success for many years, Dr. Hoy became practically incapacitated on account of severe and frequent attacks of asthma. On this account he was given a three month's vacaton in the spring of 1898. He imme- diately started for China. After a short perod of time he found himself entirely free from his former disability and spent the re- mainder of his furlough in gathering infor- mation concerning the country to which he had come as an invalid. Day by day the claims of China weighed upon his mind and entered his heart. He began to see in his illness and its cure a call of God to a new pioneer work. Consequently his request to be appointed to China was granted by the Church and he left Japan on October 28, r IS99. On November l5, IS99, he arrived at Hankow and began the study of the Chi- nese language. The latter part of April of the following year he started on up the Yangtse river, bound for Yochow City. Then the Boxer uprising came and he was compelled to return to Japan. However, he took a Chinese teacher with him and continued his study of Chinese. December 23, l90l, found him back in Yochow, established in his own home. Most unexpectedly the London Mission property in Yo- chow City was offered to him at cost price. This offer was gladly accepted and Dr. Hoy found himself established with the necessary equipment and property with which too begin the magnifrcient work which has followed and with which Mercers- burg has been actively associated ever since. No sooner had Dr. Hoy settled in his humble home than a military official called on him and asked him to teach his little son. This was gladly promised him. ln September, l902, Dr. Hoy organized the Seek New Learning School with nine pupils and one Chinese teacher. The school grew so rapidly that its Hrst quarters were soon too small. Others were built and out-grown. In February, I907, the school was moved to a most beautiful campus of a large tract of land, overlooking Tungting Lake, whereon have been erected a splendid and commodious group of modern college buildings. There are four Departments: Preparatory three years: Academy four yearsg College four years: Theological Seminary three years. All of these years a portion of the Sunday offerings at Mercersburg has been devoted to the support of some of the students of this school. Mercersburg has been especially interested in the Medical Department of the mission station at Yochow. The first medical missionary, Dr. Albert Beam, was 7 DR. ADAMS AND FAMILY .nlllllll ' 'llllllllllllllllllllllnllllxx 1 9 1 8 KNIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIllllllllllllllIllllIllllllllKllllIIIIIIIIIIlllllllllllllillllllllllllllu

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I-glllllllllllllt:IIIllllIIIIlltllllllllllllltllllllHlllltllIIIIIIIIIIIIHIIIIIIIIIIIIKKKK T T1 e K a T U X KlllilllllllllllllI1HHlllllIllUIlllllllllllUllllllllllllilllllllllllllUlllllllllllllx T T T T T TL T' T 2 T T T T T T T T T T' T T T T S STAFF OF THE HOY MEMORIAL HOSPITAL ment, including the dispensary patients, the students treated at Lakeside and the Girls' School, and house calls, amounted to twenty thousand, thirty-two. There were one hundred, nine operations under a general anaesthetic, seventy-three under local anaes- thesia, and two hundred, sixty-six minor operations without anaestheticf' But one of the fine things upon which Mercersburg will congratulate herself is this fact in Dr. Adams' report of this year, Our own medical student, Mr. Lei, has just completed his five-year course at the Union Medical School of Hankow, and graduated. I-le spent a few months in postlgraduate work and has now returned to us. Thus the first fully equipped Chinese modern physician, first of a long line, is presented to this section of China by Mercersburg. The official report of the Medical Department of the China Mission to the Board of Foreign Missions last year closed with this beautiful tribute to Mercersburg: We must also mention the kindness of the friends at Mercersburg. Besides providing the salary of Dr. Adams, and paying for a special post-graduate course for him at the Johns Hopkins Hospital at Baltimore, they have given other gifts of books and instruments during the year, in addition to a liberal donation to the building of the Woman's wing of the Hospital. While on furlough it was the rare privilege of Dr. Adams and family to live at Mercersburg for a part of the time, as the guests of the Academy. The kindnesses shown to them by the Head Master, Dr. Irvine, and his family, the members of the faculty, and other friends will never be forgotten. It added strength and love to our service in China by learning to know the friends who have been so nobly supporting us in the work. The associations with the student body were especially interesting and we came into touch with the life of the school from all points. It was a wonderful inspiration to us all, and we pray that we may be able to transmute their prayers, and gifts, and love into spiritual and physical blessings to the people whom we are privileged to serve in China as their representatives. N No finer tribute could be paid to any school. In the words of Dr. Irvine, This is the Hower of the spirit of Mercersburgf' 9 xlIllllllIIIII!!llIlllllIIIIUll'I'''NIHK1IIIlllllllllI1IIIIIIIIIIll!!IllIIIIIllllfllllllllllllllxx 1 9 1 8 xxllllllIllillllllllllllllllllllllIlllllllllllllllllIllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllIIIIKIIIIIIIIIIX ri. g ,,,