ork there. Do you think we ought to refuse that offer, which
is a wonderful one, because the church has only just been established
there? 'And when they came to Jesus they besought Him instantly, saying
that he was worthy for whom He should do this.'"

The people of Nanchang, both Christian and non-Christian, pleaded so
eagerly for medical work, and promised to do so much toward its support,
that the missionaries agreed with Dr. Kahn in feeling that a door to great
opportunity was open before her, which it would be a serious mistake not to
enter. Accordingly, early in 1903, she responded to what Dr. Stone termed
"the Macedonian call," and began work in Nanchang.

The Woman's Foreign Missionary Society did not feel able to assume any
responsibility for the financial support of the medical work in the new
field, beyond that of the doctor's salary. But Dr. Kahn firmly believed
that missionary work should be just as nearly self-supporting as possible;
and since many of the urgent invitations from Nanchang had come from homes
of wealth, she was very willing to attempt to carry on medical work there
on a self-supporting basis. In an article on the subject of self-supporting
medical missionary work, written for the _China Medical Missionary
Journal_, she gave some of her reasons for believing in self-support, and
her theories as to how it might be carried out.

"To the many of us, no doubt, the thought naturally arises that we
have enough problems to deal with in our work without having to
take up the irksome question of self-support. Yet at the present
time, when every strenuous effort is being made to evangelize the
world in this generation, any plan which can help forward such a
movement at once assumes an aspect of vital importance in our
eyes. Let it not be presumed that self-support is to be recommended
as possible to every medical missionary. On the contrary, I fear,
only by those fortunate enough to be located in large cities could
the effort be attempted with any hope of success. Yet in a measure
the question concerns every one of us, because in its different
phases self-support is sure to be pressed upon all of us with more
or less force. Personally, my work was undertaken in Nanchang
partly from faith in the principle, partly because there were no
funds available to institute medical work on any other basis. My
faith in the principle is founded upon th