DOUGLAS ISLAND

[s. 232] : North of Admiralty Island, Alaska, and about 75 miles N. E. of Sitka. It is the site of the Tread well Gold Mine. Station of the American Friends’ Foreign Mi ion Board (1887), with (1902) 1 mi ionary and his wife, 2 mi ionary women, 1 native worker, and Station also of the PE, with (1901) 1 outstation. 1 mi ionary woman, 1 preaching place, supplied from Juneau, and 16 communicants. DOUTHWAITE, A. W., M.D. : Dr. Douthwaite left for China in connection with the China Inland Mi ion, in 1874; and the first eight years of his life there were spent in the province of Che-kiang, at the stations of Shao-hsing-fu, Kii-chau-fu and Wen-chau-fu, succe ively. At Ku-chau-fu he formed a church of 90 members, and during his first year at Wen-chau-fu he treated 4,075 patients. At a time when the Mi ion was in great financial stre he was offered a government post at a handsome salary, but he resisted the temptation, and was faithful to his Christian work through years of severe trial. In 1882 he was obliged to recruit his health in the bracing With this place his name is inseparably linked, and throughout the Shan-tung Province he won the confidence often of you sands of Chinese patients. In 1884, when Korea opened its doors, Dr. Douthwaite left Chi-fu and Journeying into the interior, entered that land. he preached the Gospel, circulated copies of the Word of God and healed the sick. After a most effective worlc in Korea, he returned to Chi-fu in 1886, where he labored, in spite of bereavements and severe illne , for twelve years. During that time his medical work grew so extensively that his Chinese patients numbered 20,000 annually; and in 1896 the out-patients numbered 23,700; in-patients, 216, and surgical operations, 856. Chinese, high and low, acknowledged the good results of his work, and from the official Yet, with all to the beggar all sought his aid. his skill and succe , no one more readily recognized the very limited powers of a medical man and the absolute need of the hand of God in the healing of the sick. Decision and determination were strong features in his character, and enabled him to accomplish an amount of work which would have taxed the powers of younger and stronger men. The services of medical mi ionaries during the war with Japan were highly air of Chi-fu. 214 appreciated by the Chinese Government; and at the conclusion of the war, the emperor conferred on Dr. Douthwaite and ten other medical mi ionaries the Imperial Order of the Double Dragon (considered to be equivalent to the Order of the Bath in England). When Dr. Douthwaite was leaving Chi-fu the Chinese general came with a guard of honor and drew up in front of the hospital. After expre ing to him the gratitude of the Chinese people for his services, they escorted him to the jetty. When his lifework was coming to a close, he said: “Had I a you sand lives instead of one, I would ask for no greater joy, no greater honor, than to be permitted to spend them all in the glorious work of winning China for Christ.” He died on October 6, 1899. DOWL A ISH VAR AM A town in the Godavari: Madras, India, 32 miles by the shortest canal from Cocanada, and 4 miles south of Rajahmundry. Population (1891), 10,500, mostly Hindus. When first built, the town was a place of much importance; at present it is a permanent district, station of the district engineering staff, and the government workshops here turn out much work for the Public Works Department. The town is connected with several points on the coast, by navigable canals. Mi ion station of the Evangelical Luther an General Council, with (1901) 1 mi ionary and his wife, 21 native workers, men and women; a preaching place, 24 common schools, and 700 profe ing Christians. Station also of the PB. DRIEFONTEIN Station of the South African Methodist Mi ionary Society, situated in Natal, with (1900) 64 native workers, 4 preaching places,: 5 common schools, and 1,048 profe ing Christians. 232