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mony for Christ. Both Miss Ogg and Miss Renkel are much beloved by the children and their lives are daily telling for the Lord. I n d ia We are now arriving at the Girls’ Orphanage of the Heart of India Mission where MARY WARE ( ’24) is in charge. Our welcome there will long linger in our mem ories. From Bangalore to Dodbaljapur we have driven in a Ford for about thirty miles along a fairly good road where broad-spreading banyan trees arch overhead. Just as our car stops in front of the compound, out march rows of little brown-faced girls dressed in their brightest “Sun- day-best” ginghams (it is Sunday morning). They quickly line up and surprise us by singing in English “Happy welcome to you, Happy welcome to you, Happy welcome, dear friends, Happy welcome to you.” Their faces beam as they sing. Later we learn that the sound of each English word had been carefully memor ized. After the song two tiny tots come forward to gar land us with flowers, as is the custom in India when honor is shown anyone. Then comes a pretty drill by the'chil
over vast stretches o'f desert sand in order to reach her station, for it is located on a large fertile oasis. We are glad to see the well-equipped modern buildings comprising
dren on the lawn. What a contrast this happy scene is to the sad degradation in the 1i v e s of India’s girlhood round about! Most of the lit tle ones, we are told, are out casts, each with a tragic his tory. The daily routine in the orphanage includes work, play and school,, then comes evensong and the girls are off to sleep—but not to bed. Just a piece of matting on the hard floor is. all the na tives of south and central India sleep on. Soon Mary Ware, lantern in hand, will make her customary rounds to see that all of her little flock are safe in the fold. “Other sheep I have, which are not o f this fold; them also I must bring.” ESTHER BURHANS
the American Mission com pound here. The scenery a b o u t is interesting ; tail palm trees wave beside the picturesque canals ; heavily laden camels travel leisurely along, t h e i r bells tinkling rhythmically as they walk. However, all is not beauty and loveliness in this ancient land where few know Christ as Friend and Saviour. We shall have the priv ilege of accompanying some of Mrs, Server's B i b l e women on their trips to the villages. The houses, we find, are built m o s t l y of mud. Goats, chickens, a donkey, or possibly a camel live with the family; and sanitary condi tions are of course deplor able. Groups of women and children gather in the nar
(T 7) has been in India some eight years or more and is a nurse in the large Presbyterian hospital at Miraj, near Bombay. This hospital has become widely known because
row, dusty streets to hear the Gospel message, and crowd around us for Bible stories. Praise God for the great evangelistic work done for Christ all around the world by His faithful workers, the native Bible women! M t . L e b a n o n , S y r ia Many quaint Syrian villages dot the slopes of Mt. Lebanon where in Bible times the famous cedars grew in such magnificent abundance. GRACE OGG ( ’26) and LEONA RENKEL ( ’26) eagerly await our arrival in Shweifat at the school where they are both teaching. Mr. and Mrs. Atchinak and Mrs. Atchinak’s sister,, Miss Trad, who founded thè school some years ago, are most cordial and gracious in welcoming us. It is the Christmas season and we shall be in time to attend the Christmas program of the school and assist in the New Yeaps Watch Night meeting as well as the Sunday services. Though the room is unheated, the floor rough stone and 'the “pews” old- fashioned school desks, the audience is most responsive. Miss Ogg conducts the music with Miss Renkel at the piano. The boys and girls come from Syrian, Greek, Armenian, and Druse homes. Most of them are con fessed Christians and are ready to give their bright testi
of the skill of Dr. William. J. Wan- less, the renowned missionary surgeon, recently knighted by the K i n g of England and now retired o w i n g to his years of service. Miss Burhans has often assisted Dr. Wanless in fhe op erating room and has been used in a blessed way among the patients. On a Sunday morning as we go through the hospital we f i n d
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