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A /T ISS BESSIE PIKE, a graduate of the Bible Institute o f Los Angeles, writes thus interestingly from Pi Yang, China, to her'friends in Pasadena: Things have been going very quietly here and so have not much to write about. We had money sent us to fix up our chapel, and it has just been fixed and looks so nice. The floor was old and terribly broken up. It was just a dirt floor with some stones laid in, but now we have it all bricked over, and all new benches put in. W e didn’t have half enough benches before, and we had to rob our school to put enough seats in the chapel. W e have also had a new curtain put up. You know the women and girls all have to sit on one side, and the men on the other with a curtain between, so they cannot see each other. They also have separate doors in which to come in. This has to be done in most parts o f China, as it is their custom. The benches have no backs, so you see what a crude lit tle chapel is ours. Praise God we do not need luxurious surroundings to bring souls to Jesus. Many have come to know Him in this little place. Since we have made the im provements the Chinese feel as proud as we would if we had a million dollar church to go to. They think this is grand. W e are to have a Baptismal service Saturday even ing. W e immerse here; I do not know just how many will be baptized. Then next Monday, six young men are to graduate from our Bible school. W e are expecting our home and school will be built this summer, and Martha and * I are to have charge o f the school next winter^ studying a half day and giving a half day to the girls.. W e will not take any girls to board who will not unbind their feet. It seems cruel the way their feet are bound. The work for the girls is surely needed here; their condition is pitiable, the way they are sold to their husbands by
their parents when they are so young, the parents thinking only o f the money they save by getting them off their hands. We have several lovely girls waiting to enter when our school is ready; they cannot come to our day school as they are too large, for it is not safe for girls above 13 years to come to and from school on the streets alone.
MISS BESSIE PIKE
W e have had so much rain; it rained all day yesterday and the rivers are so swollen they cannot be crossed, and we received no mail today, but hope by tomorrow I will get your letter. W e took a walk down by the river today and found it had risen to three or four times its size. While we stood watching the river, eight donkeys loaded with bales o f cotton crossed over, wading through the water and in some places the water reached nearly to their mouths.
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