194 Japan and the Japanese, 
visits, and meetings, they are always accompanied by one 
or more of the Christian girls, one of whom is so far 
advanced in English, and has evinced so many useful traits, 
that a room has been hired, and she has commenced a 
little school each afternoon for two hours." 
It is most important that lady missionaries should be sent 
out to this land, for, as before mentioned, the language of 
the women differs from that of the men : so that it requires 
some particular study of the colloquial forms of Japanese, 
in order to converse with the women, and to instruct them. 
Dr. Palm, of the Edinburgh Medical Mission, resident at 
Niigata, is a good specimen of the medical missionary. He 
treats sixty or seventy patients, daily, at the Dispensary, 
beside making regular journeys to places within treaty 
limits. An address, or short sermon, with readings from 
the Bible, is always given to these patients, besides medical 
aid. He has also a hospital for surgical cases, and this 
institution is valued so highly by the Japanese, that each 
patient pays most of his own expenses, so that the hospital 
is very nearly self-supporting. one year. Dr. Palm 
treated over 5,000 cases, and succeeded in winning a large 
number of hearers to the Gospel meetings. He has 
baptized between thirty and forty converts, and organized 
a Christian Church, during the five years of labour spent in 
Niigata. It is said that the character of this infant Church 
is irreproachable. After some time of continued prosperity, 
cholera visited the city, and the populace were only too 
ready to believe, that the missionaries and native Christians, 
had brought the pestilence upon them, by poisoning the 
wells. People, armed with deadly weapons, watched for 
the missionaries, to kill them ; and Dr. Palm's preaching 
place was demolished by rioters ; but the excitement soon 
passed away, and more reasonable opinions prevailed. 
