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to Matara which is about twenty-five miles away and takes him deeper into the country of the Kaikuyu people. He says the reason is that he was getting the language well enough to preach and got tired of doing so much industrial work and asked to be sent into the tribe. “We could use to good advantage a couple of pack mules. It has been a custom here tq have everything carried on the backs of native porters but it is becoming very difficult to get people to do this.” Miss Esther Burhans, ’17, now in India under the Presbyterian board, is recovering from a very virulent attack of smallpox. She writes in good spirits and cannot say too much in praise of the kindness of her fellow missionaries dur ing her experience. Charles H. Rines, a former student, writes from Norfolk, Va., that he is^ still in the Mas ter’s vineyard and showing his colors there for Him. Rev. E. G. Boughton, .a student, who is the regular pastor of the Baptist church at Redondo Beach, recently held a week’s meeting in" the First Baptist Church of Long Beach. Fifty- seven persons'professed acceptation of Christ. ^ Albert G. Siegle writes, “We arrived here in Bangkok, Siam, the 9th of October and are enjoying the work immensely. The Chinese are wonderful people after you begin to know them. We enjoy the^ study of the language. | I have a class of Chinese boys and am praying that they may all be called to be preachers to the Chinese people in the near future.” Edgar Williamson asks us to announce change of his address to 112 East Sixth street, Anaconda, Montana, as many of his friends. continue to write him at his Oregon address. Mr. William son has given ui> the singing evangelistic field and was ordained in Eugene, Oregon, by the First Christian Church on January 11th. He accepted a call to Anaconda and began his ministry on April 11th. This is a typical western mining town of 15,000 population, one-half^Catholic. Miss Edith Harris writes from Githumu, Brit ish East Africa, “ Our girls’ work has l grown this past month. Pray for my work with the girls, for I will be here alone with them for some weeks and with many new problems.” The following paragraph from a letter re ceived from B. L. Litchman of the A. I. M. Mission, Blukba, Kilo, Congo# Beige, is a little unusual as the run of missionary letters go: “ The people are wild after a fashion but friend ly. They bring me all the eggs I can get away with. This morning I had to eat ten eggs, using only the yolk, giving the white of the eggs to the dog. We get all the chickens I want to eat. have two cows that give us all the milk and
butter we need. Don’t congratulate us too fast. It wasn’t always thus.” A card^ from Leman C. Robie, ’19, whose home address is Williamson, New York, announces the birth of Robert Leman, April 27th. A distant and pioneer field is the goal toward which Laurin S. Hanna, a former student, now in Lampang, Siam, will travel as soon as cool weather arrives. About a month of mountain journeying will be required to reach the South Yunnan Province, ^China, to which he has been assigned. Ten million people of the Tai race in this section have never been touched. Ford Canfield, Hungtung, Shansi, writes, “It is on my heart to go to Yoyang, a closed station twenty miles from here, and live with the Chi nese there until the summer drives me out. I wish those of you who receive this would pray that I may be led and enabled to do this if it is His plan.” Helen Small, Tsinchow, Kansu, says, “ My fijst year in China has been a very happy one and the Lord has been so good to me. He has sup plied my every need and is growing dearer every day.” Ralph Scoville, Tsinchow, Kansu, recently wrote, “I had a#wonderful #trip of thirty-five days, touching six new stations I had not seen before, and witnessing for the Lord. By talking as we went, I was able to pick up many words and phrases.” TOO MANY IRONS Dr. Adam Clarke said that “ the old proverb about having too many irons in the fire was ap abominable old lie. Have all in it,— shovel, tongs, and poker.“ Wesley said, “ I am always in haste, but never in a hurry; leisure and I have long taken leave of each other.“ He traveled about five thousand miles in a year; preached about three times a day, commencing at 5 o'clock in the morning; and his published works amounted to about two hundred vol umes.— Dr. Stevens.
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