A Thousand Miles in a Machilla 



Alexander Hetherwick, M.A., a member of the 

 Legislative Council. The staff at Blantyre consists 

 of two other ordained ministers, two medical 

 missionaries, three nurses, two teachers, besides 

 a carpenter, gardener, printer, and eight ladies. 

 The native staff consists of eight evangelists, five 

 teachers, one hundred head teachers in out-stations, 

 nine hospital assistants and seven apprentices, six 

 printers and nine apprentices, two storekeepers and 

 six apprentices, one blacksmith, three gardeners 

 with twelve apprentices, two in school board de- 

 partment, one needlewoman with eight apprentices, 

 five in laundry with six learners. 



Every European on the staff has his own small 

 ** parish," to which he devotes his spare time, and 

 every parish is endeavouring to have its own church. 

 Natives contribute largely towards the upkeep of 

 their churches, even sending postal orders when 

 employed away from home. 



The medical department under Drs. Caverhill 

 and Macfarlane, with their staff of three nurses, 

 carry out not only medical but also evangelical and 

 educational work. Three hundred and ninety-seven 

 patients were received during the year in the 

 hospital, while among the eight dispensaries 

 scattered over the mission field five thousand 

 seven hundred and ninety cases were treated. Dr. 

 Caverhill's remarks on the sleeping sickness scourge 

 are interesting. He says: — ''The most important 

 addition to the category of diseases treated is that 

 of sleeping sickness. This disease will never be 

 epidemic in the area in which we work, as the 



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