nail v& Hu King Eng, M.D. By Mrs. S. Moore Sites Publication Office Woman's Foreign Missionary Society, Methodist Episcopal Church; Boston, Mass. Hii King Eng, M.D. By Mrs. S. Moore Sites. Hii King Eng was born in a Christian home, in Foochow, China, in 1866. Her father, the late Rev. Hu Yong-Mi, was a member of the Foochow Conference ; her grandfather was one of the first class of Foochow Christians. In the stations where the Methodist itinerancy sent her father, this Christian household was something of a curiosity. The neigh- boring women often called "to see" in companies of three to twenty or more, and Mr. Hii expected his wife and five Christian children to preach the Gospel to them just as faithfully as he preached it from the pulpit. There are many hundreds of Chinese women to whom this lovely Christian mother and little daughters gave the first knowledge of Christ and Heaven. When King Eng was a student in the Foochow boarding school, in 1879-80, she greatly desired to learn music, and Mrs. F. Ohlinger gladly gave her lessons on her own organ until she was able to play most of the music in our Foochow hymnal. From the boarding school she was received as a student in the Foochow Woman's Hospital. Dr. Trask, who had charge, very soon observed her adaptability to the medical work, and her gentle, Christlike spirit of sympathy toward the afflicted, and was con- vinced that she deserved better opportunities than Foochow afforded. Through Mrs. Keen, secretary of the Philadelphia Branch of the W. F. M. S., it was soon arranged ; and in the spring of 1884 King Eng left her home to seek a medical education in a foreign land. Arriving in New York, she went at once to Mrs. Keen in Philadelphia. She had not yet learned to speak English, and there was no one with whom she could converse in Chinese. Hence she was overjoyed to meet Dr. and Mrs. Sites of Foochow, who were there in attendance at the General Conference. HU KING ENG, M.D. She spent the summer with Mrs. Sites in Washington, and went with her and her children to Delaware, Ohio, in the fall, and entered upon her preparatory work in Ohio Wesleyan University. Her home was with the young ladies in Monnette Hall. Her gentle ways and Christian spirit endeared her to students and teachers, and the preceptress, Miss Martin, loved and mothered her with a charming pride and tenderness. Her purpose to prepare herself in a literary course, that she might be fitted to enter upon medical studies, was carried out with unfal- tering persistence and unwearied patience for four years. In September, 1888, King Eng entered the Woman's Medical College at Philadelphia, doing the regular class work. Two years later she was taken with a fever, and lay ill for many weeks in the home of her dear friend, Mrs. Keen. Recovering, and learning that Miss Ruth Sites was soon to start for China, she became pos- sessed with a yearning desire to visit her Foochow home, and particularly to see her father, who was ill. So the two girls made the trip together, and were joyfully wel- comed in Foochow the 24th of January, 1891. The room set apart for King Eng in her father's home had been arranged with some extra comforts — for we feared that in her long years abroad, these had become to her a necessity. But we soon found that just to be home again, to see father, mother, brothers and sisters — the family circle unbroken — was all satis- fying to King Eng. How beautiful to her home-hungry eyes was her mother's table, with its pretty china bowls and ivory chop- sticks ! And was there ever such fragrance as of that perfectly cooked rice and savory condiments ! King Eng's visit home was not merely a joy to her family, but it proved a great benefit to herself in giving her a clearer know- ledge of the special preparation she needed most for her future work among her people. In her capacity of interpreter for the missionary doctors in the daily clinics, and in her contact with the work among the hospital in-patients, she saw and learned much of the most prevalent diseases among the women. In addition, she gained valuable experience in her work as teacher of a class of young women medical students, who in turn, felt that they were particu- larly favored in having her instruction even for one brief year. HU KING ENG, M.D. In the fall of 1892 she returned to Philadelphia to complete her course in the Woman's Medical College. After graduating with honor in 1894, she took special hospital work, and went back to her native city in 1895, a regular medical missionary of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society. As head of the Woolston Memorial Hospital, her Christian love, natural kindness and courtesy and medical skill draw to her the hearts of hundreds of suffering women, who feel that there is sym- pathy for them in her every look and touch. Many tablets have been presented to the hospital in token pf appreciation of her work, while her missionary associates have a laudable pride in her success as a doctor, and her faithfulness wins their affectionate regard. A total of more than 26,753 prescriptions for the year 1909 par- tially indicates the extent of her labor of love. The graduation of the first student from Woolston Hospital in 1902 was the occasion of much rejoicing and lively explosions of festive firecrackers. It was celebrated in an ancestral hall, loaned for the exercises, and was the first time that a Christian service had been held in an ancestral temple. The people were eager and curious to witness this departure. In Dr. Hii's quaint phraseology, "seeing a Chinese young woman receiving her diploma made many Chinese parents regret that their daughters were engaged, or married, or drowned," while others exclaimed, "Alas ! who knew girls could do so much good to the world, more than our boys ! " This graduate, it is interesting to note, was Hu Seuk Eng, the sister of Dr. Hii, who is now acting as her assistant in the hospital. Standing as she does, the first Chinese lady physician educated in a foreign land, Dr. Hu King Eng is an honor to her race and a joy to the Society under whose auspices she works. Her life, too, is well expressed in her own words — "I just 'look up' and 'lend a hand.' " While in this country her influence was very helpful to others. One grateful mother exclaimed, "Little did I dream when giving money for the work in China that a Chinese girl would lead my daughter to Christ ! " God is faithful to His promises. As we send the joy and blessing to the far away ones, he gives us back joy and blessing — "good measure, pressed down and running over." REPRINT 1«12.