Mrs. Whiting's House Of Mercy

Mrs. Attorney Mary Colling Whiting has just received a letter from Dr. Irvin, who has charge of her free dispensary, or House of Mercy, as it is called, at Fusan, Korea, from which we quote briefly.

"The medical evangelistic work is now at full tide. The last month we have been having from 35 to 60 cases per day, many of them from distant districts. One case, surgical, was brought from over 300 miles, unable to walk, too poor to hire a horse, or chair men, a brother carried the sick one on his back. Another case, a girl about 17, was brought a distance of over 130 miles in the same way, by her widowed mother. Another case, a boy whose leg had been broken, was brought over 100 miles on the back of an ox. The jolting must have been very painful, for it was a compound fracture, the bone protruding through the flesh. An operation was performed on the boy, and fragments of bone removed, and in ten days more he will be discharged cured. And from the interest he is taking in Christianity we believe he will leave us not only cured in body, but a Christian, for this work of mercy which you founded and made possible by your gifts provided for man's whole being, both soul and body. We know that the power that is changing the lives of thousands who were once careless idolators into Christian believers is nothing less than the covenant keeping Jehovah. About April 1st I expect to begin the new addition for which you so generously provided while I was in America. When that is finished our building will be complete and good, which possibly will be by July 1st. Roderick, our only child, who is now almost 8, bemoans this very much that he did not get to see 'Dear Mrs. Whiting, who fixed everything for the poor Koreans to get cured and hear about Jesus.' We can not help but think you will come to Korea some day. We can not give this up. You should come out and attend the dedication."