They thus left the hospital not only healed in body, but with a new interest in life, and a considerable knowledge of Christian truth, and a power to advance in it, and a power also to instruct others.

In a hospital for Chinese coolies in France this doctor taught one patient to read the Gospel.

The patient was then removed to another hospital where he taught no less than forty of his fellow-patients to read.

If such results can be obtained, it would be well to consider whether we are making full use of the opportunities afforded by the gathering of large numbers of patients into hospitals all over the world.

Illiterates are not the only people who might profit by Christian teaching, classes for literates might be equally valuable.