A Letter from China By HELEN E. SMITH [T he follow ing In terestin g le tte r w as received recen tly from M iss Sm ith, a
fo rm er stu d e n t of th e B ible In stitu te of P re sb y terian B oard of F o reig n M issions, A YEAR ago I was on the Pacific sailing for my home in China. Many times have I thought of you all and remembered you in prayer. The last three months I have been living with praying peo ple on this beautiful mountain, be ing refreshed and built up in spirit,
L os A ngeles, now w orking u n d er th e Soochow, C hina.—ED ITOR S.] guns, the words of the hymn, “Peace, Perfect Peace,” were con tinually in our hearts and on our lips. Word of the horrors of war comes to us from Nanking: no food, no water, no money; great fires; homes and shops looted, until noth ing is left, and all manner of crime.
MISS H E L E N E. S M IT H A N D H ER F E L L O W W ORKERS For Whom/ She Asks Prayer. Miss Smlthi Stands Second on Upper Right.
soul and body, and studying half the time with my Soochow teacher, because my work now consists in learning Chinese. I hope you are praying definitely in regard to it. While twelve hundred foreigners have been safe and happy and cool up here, thousands on the hot plains below have been rendered destitute, and others have been sent from this life into darkness during this war. Early in the summer when the Northern and Southern forces were fighting below us, so near that we could hear the constant firing of the
The missionaries’ homes have been spared, and some of the men have been there all summer comforting the Chinese during the long siege. Hundreds have found protection in their compounds, and the wounded soldiers have been attended in the hospitals.. Our women, too, have returned during the trouble to help care for those who are living in their compounds. Pray with us that their sufferings may be used to bring the people into a saving knowledge of Jesus Christ. All is quiet in Soochow and I am
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