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liarly our own, fo r there are no other missionary stations within twenty miles o f us, and we are the only ‘white folk s’ w ithin that radius. Our trip to Yoyang was one o f rather hard experiences; set tling down and fixing the old place to make it clean and livable has taken a long time, but in spite o f these things we were happy in the close contact with the people there with a jo y that we have not before experienced in China. W e have had three Bible study classes this spring, averaging about nine persons in each class-—not many, but these people come bringing their food and their babies, and stay for eight or ten days learning verses, hymns and hearing the Gospel from be ginning to end, as most o f them have never heard it before. Just think what a jo y it is to sit down cross-legged on a little platforrn with women thick about one, and tell those poor women the stor ies o f some of Christ's miracles, of His love and humility, of H is death- fo r us, o f His resurrection and com ing again !- Pray for these and for us.” Miss Mina Septer, ’20, writes o f the many hard things she was compelled to face while on her way to the field in Bolivia, saying in part: “ There are lots of hard things on the field that no one at home ever dreams of and many times I have wondered if I would have courage to go on', but His grace has been suffi cient. W e are not there as yet and Dr. and Mrs. Burrows say we have not faced anything as yet. I have longed (many times to have some of you folk s at home ju st step into S. A. for a little while ana see conditions. If w e had been awakened in the middle o f the night by the screams o f a woman on the street in U. S. A . we would have gone to find out what was wrong, but here it is such a common oc currence for a drunken man to be licking his w ife that nobody pays any attention to it. The ' native does not . understand why the m issionary does not lick his w ife/'’ Miss Clara Kuehny, ’2Q, writes o f her trip to Landour, a hill station where she had gone to study in a language school. She tells o f a certain speaker who ad dressed the language school: “He told us about the rieligious situation and accord ing to* his view of it we are living in a time when it is a great privilege, as India is open for Christianity. Caste, which is crumbling rapidly, is the last barrier against Christianity. Of course, the polit ical situation is so critical that much may happen to spoil all this. You people at home hold the missionaries up in pray er and in that way you can help the situation out here. Much can be done now that could never be done before and we do not know how long the opportunity w ill be with us. The Ghandi arrest has brought us personally no inconvenience, but we are not at all certain that there may not be danger to our lives arising out o f it yet. At present it does not ap pear that way, but there is a strong aver sion and hatred o f everything Western which may cause much m ore. trouble. I think of what the Consul at Los Angeles told me about goin g to India. He said that out here ‘ it was like -a boilin g cauldron with the lid ready to pop open at any time, and that seems a very good illus tration.”
The party of six, whose pictures appear above, are, doing evangelistic work in the neglected districts of California, Mr. Hazelton ana Mi*. Hall in Eldorado Co., Mr. Jones and . Mr. W ilson in Amador Co., Mr. W eir and Mr. Roosa in Tuolumne Co., and Calaveras Co. They hold meetings, do colportage work, and whatever the Lord leads them to undertake. These men have been sent out b y the Northwestern Evangelistic A s sociation, which has its headquar ters in Los Angeles. friends on the last day of the Annual Conference of our Mission and on the fo l low ing Sunday preached for the first time in the San Pedro Plaza in Quichua.” Word has been received that Mr. Pow lison was again imprisoned, the outcome being as yet unknown. Allen Bennett, ’22, writes from Paris: “I.arn studying French here, but I’m not know ing very much. However, I am -learning to know the Lord better so I don’t believe I am wasting my time. The Bible Institute here surely needs your prayers. There are seventeen French stu dents. We held two open air meetings and I couldn’t speak of course, but had the privilege of givin g out two or three hun dred Gospels in French. I have spoken tw ice to the students through an inter preter, and dealt with an English-speak ing Jew in Paris the first day I was here. ‘To the Jew first.’ Aside from that I have not b&en able to work much fo r the Lord, as with Jeremiah I csCn truthfully say, ‘Ah, Lord God! behold, I cannot speak!’ But I can sow the seed, and He said, ‘Blessed are ye that sow beside all w a ters.’ - Pray for me. I may be in France a year; I aih not sure now.” Mrs. Ford Canfield writes from China: “The place there (Y oyang) seems pecu
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