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some making cloth, others wicker chairs, and still others making Chinese shoes. We find women and girls doing fine embroidery and also making cloth. This is in a differ ent section hut on the same plan as the men’s-department. Away off in remote quarters, about twenty-five very old women are just existing. We have never seen any place so disreputable and absolutely indescribable. They are inade quately taken care of, many of them full of disease and in capacitated for any kind of employment. Finally we are ushered into another large building where 200 women and children are domiciled. At the first glance, we are horrified, for the quarters are nothing more than steerage accommodations as found on ocean liners. There are ten narrow aisles, on each side of which are ten “ double-decked beds, making twenty in, each aisle and 200 in all. At her bedside,' each woman has a tiny little stove for cooking and THERE she lives. Oh, such a sight! You cannot possibly fathom such a condition. The matron tells us, that these women are inefficient and therefore disquali fied for work. In none of these places we visit, have the girls missed an opportunity to preach the unsearchable riches of Christ to these hungry hearts and empty lives,— these poor, wretched specimens of humanity for whom Christ died. It is time for them to eat rice now, as the huge vats of steam ing rice are being brought in, so we reluctantly take our de parture and assure them we will come again next week. As we return home, our hearts are truly full of praise and we are well refreshed. There is nothing sweeter than telling the precious story of Jesus and His love. A Christmas Treat Just one more word regarding the institution for beg gars. The day before Christmas, we had a wonderful time there. A Christmas meeting was arranged and-packages were prepared for the kiddies. We were informed that there were approximately 300 children, so we made 500 packages to be sure. In each one, was an orange and 20 little Chinese cookies wrapped in red paper, which gave them a “ Christmasy” appearance. When we reached there, a huge crowd of over a thousand men, women and children were assembled and waiting for us. The authorities, although not Christian, and a, month previous even very antagonistic regarding our weekly visits there, went to no end of trouble arranging the place in a large court yard. A temporary platform with two huge Chinese flags for a background had been errected. The children evidently had their faces and hands washed for the first time in a long while and there they sat patiently waiting. It was a most beautiful day and the service held out in the open was lovely. After hearty singing and prayer, the Rev. Charles A. Roberts of our teaching Staff, and Mr. Liu, one of the students, gave fine Christmas mes sages. To many, it was the first opportunity of hearing the Gospel. For a heathen crowd, it was the most orderly and appreciative audience we had seen in a long while. When the packages were distributed, not one was opened there, though they felt them and tried to smell and see what was inside. We were almost distracted when we saw the huge crowd and thought of our 500 packages. As the dear Lord stretched the loaves and fishes long ago, so we besought Him to stretch our gifts in like manner, and He surely did. We had providentially brought along several hundred oranges in addition, so with those, we were able to send everyone away, satisfied and happy. We had promised an extra gift to those who would learn all the verses perfectly and understand the meaning of “ Jesus Loves Me.” To each of the fifty-two successful boys, we gave a pair of stockings. I wish you could have heard their lusty singing! It truly was an inspiration. After the crowd dispersed, we were served tea by the manager and his assistants. Our efforts evidently were appreciated, and that in itself, was sufficient compensation. The following Sunday, two of the head men came to church, and the matron of the women’s department is just about ready to accept the Lord. The Lord graciously worked and opened up unlimited opportunities,’ just as we had hoped and prayed. Wasn’t that a worth while Christmas party? —Grace E. Pike.
THE STONY BROOK SCHOOL FOR BOYS Ruskin said “ You do not educate a man by telling him what he knows not, but by making him what he was not and what he will be forever.” McCauley said that “ High intelligence and low morals” were the greatest menace of the world. Bears, leopards and baboons can be educated but the beast heart remains. Today the Bible is banished from our public schools. Only six states of the forty-eight require a reading of the Bible. “ Education has forgotten God and the college chapel has become a sort of vermiform appendix,” Because some ministers smile at, the Virgin Birth, the bodily resurrection of Jesus Christ and rate his blood with that of Abraham Lincoln; because a determined, sustained, and world wide attack upon the Bible and the very foundations of the church is actively in progress; all seriously and intelligently minded Christian people will re joice over the foundation of a high class preparatory school in the East,— a school where Jesus the Lord, His church and the sacred Scriptures are exalted, most highly esteemed and held paramount by all, < This school-^-The Stony Brook School for Boys— is lo cated some fifty-five miles dafit of New York City on Long Island. It was opened in the autumn of 1922. The sixty boys in attendance represent nine states and two foreign countries. Eighteen teachers and employees are engaged. Dr. John F. Carson is the president, Mr. Frank E, Gaebelein is the principal, and Dr. A. C. Gaebelein, editor of “ Our Hope” is chairman of the Finance Committee. The school is situated on a spacious area of 35 acres which for nine years has been used for summer religious conferences. There is an abundance of pure water, fresh air, and plenty of room in the spacious dormitories. A gymnasium has been built and an adequate -recitation building will be erected toward which $100,000 has been received. The lo cation of .the school is ideal. Low, lying hills with their scrub oak and wild blackberries separate the school from Long Island Sound, a half mile to the north. There is nothing in the vicinity to allure the boys or to divert their attention from the high ideals and exalted program of the school. The motto of the school is “ Character before Career.” Boys of High School age and a few of the later years of the Grammar School are received^ They are given a superla tively high class education and under the instruction of excellent masters are fitted to enter any university in the world. The emphasis is placed upon religion. Chapel ex ercises are held night and morning and every boy is taught the Bible three times a week as long as he attends the school. The teachers ahd all connected with the school stand for the integrity of the Bible and the fundamentals of the Christian faith. Parents whose sons are of the adolescent age and also who care for their faith, and others having nephews or grandsons, who care to place them in an atmosphere most favorable to Christian culture should address the school at Stony Brook, Long island, N. Y. for a catalogue. The school is in a class by itself.: It is undenominational, is unsurpassed in the high quality of its work and prom ises to become an outstanding educational institution. Wm, Jennings Bryan, Gov. Nestor of North Dakota, Senator Fess of Ohio, and others of note have given the school the high est of endorsements. It is worthy of the prayers and sup port of all who cherish our Christian faith and all who care for the religious character of the boys who will be the leaders and the men of tomorrow. FRED E. HAGIN, Field Secretary. afo m ate “WELL NIGH FAULTLESS” so says one of the editors of one of the oldest daily papers in the United States, writing about The King’s Business. To quote him: “ I like your new ‘dress’ very much. Typo graphically, in make-up and contents it is well nigh fault less.” We certainly do appreciate such high commendation from “ one who knows.” .
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