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 M arion d. eubank, in this 
 
 country on furlough during 1907-8, 
 was a Kentucky boy by birth, but 
 now hails from Missouri, whence he went 
 to China as a medical missionary in 1899. 
 He is a graduate of William Jewell College, 
 the Marion Sims Medical School at St. 
 Louis and the Northwestern University 
 Medical School, and has also studied at 
 the Divinity School of the University of 
 Chicago. 
 
 The station to which Dr. Eubank was 
 appointed was Huchow, a city of 100,000 
 inhabitants in our East China Mission. 
 Almost immediately the Boxer troubles 
 broke out, and our missionaries were com- 
 pelled to leave their stations. When they 
 returned they found the people more 
 friendly than ever, and confidence and 
 affection grew rapidly through the doctor’s 
 ministry. The problem was a difficult one 
 in many respects. The Chinese are not 
 
only unsanitary in their ways of living, but 
 they believe in evil spirits as the cause of 
 disease. Dr. Eubank, therefore, put the 
 case very clearly when he said, “ Dirt, 
 dampness, darkness and devils are the foes 
 we have to combat in our medical work.” 
 
 In spite of these obstacles the medical 
 and evangelistic efforts of Dr. Eubank — 
 for he has strongly emphasized the latter — 
 have been very successful. He has treated 
 over 6,000 patients in a single year, and 
 has gained the respect and support of the 
 mandarins and other leading men for his 
 work. When the new dispensary was 
 opened at Huchow, a delegation of the 
 principal officials of the city was present. 
 On one occasion the doctor was called to 
 attend the highest official in the city, a fact 
 which showed a remarkable degree of con- 
 fidence in the foreign doctor. 
 
 In the dispensary, in the Chinese homes, 
 on his tours through the country, — every- 
 where Dr. Eubank uses his medical work 
 to open the door for the preaching of the 
 gospel of Christ. A touching incident is 
 the story of Min Yang, a boy who was 
 treated at the hospital for a severe abscess 
 on his arm. Through his successful treat- 
 ment all the neighbors were led to have a 
 
more favorable opinion of the doctor and 
 his mission, and the boy’s father became 
 willing that Min Yang should be baptized 
 and trained as a Christian teacher. In 
 this manner, through the work of the mis- 
 sionary doctor, fear and hatred are leaving 
 hundreds of hearts all over China. 
 
 When Dr. Eubank returned to America 
 on furlough in 1906, plans were maturing 
 for the third interdenominational conference 
 of China missionaries at Shanghai, which 
 was also to celebrate the centennial of the 
 beginning of Protestant missions in China. 
 These plans included an urgent request 
 that a delegation of Baptist pastors and 
 laymen visit China to investigate the con- 
 ditions and needs of the work. It was 
 owing largely to the energetic presentation 
 of this plan to churches and business men 
 by Dr. Eubank that our large deputation to 
 the Far East was secured. Through the 
 generosity of friends Dr. Eubank accom- 
 panied them as a guide, and aided very 
 materially in the effectiveness of the visit. 
 Since his return to this country he has been 
 visiting the churches in cooperation with 
 other members of the deputation. He is 
 particularly skilful in presenting the subject 
 of foreign missions to business men. 
 
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