King's Business - 1924-11

November 1924

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T HE K I N G ’ S B U S I N E S S

BIBLE INSTITUTE HAPPENINGS (Continued from page 736) days are gettin g hot now and we expect to go to the mountains this week where it is cooler. I am anxious to get my teacher up there as I can't seem to keep him awake at all these days. When it gets hot, they ju st can't stay awake. They study like machines themselves, just memorize everything, and if you let them alone, that's the way they w ill teach you, but I could never learn any­ thing that way. I try to get the teacher to converse w ith me, but he turns around and begins to ask all kinds of personal questions. That’s perfect good manners in China, you know. I study four hours a day w ith the teacher and also try to spend a little time studying myself. There are, as you know, 40,000 charac­ ters in the Chinese language, but my teacher says you can get along with 1 , 000 . “I also teach an English class of high school girls in the afternoons. Those girls had great fun with me, in my struggles with Chinese, but it’s my turn now, as I told them, to have some fun afc their expense. Not that I take ad­ vantage o f the opportunity. . . . . They certainly are full of fun and mischief, and they love to tease. I asked them how they would like to be set down in America, w ithout a word of English, or with the English they had. They seemed ashamed of themselves then and one of them said my Chinese was very good. It must bei “ There is so much o f interest in China, out in the country, where the grain is ripening and everything is so fresh and green; and then in the narrow streets, where there is so much that reminds me of the Bible stories I have read, o f the way our Lord lived on earth. The little carpenter shops along the street make me think of the one in Nazareth, and out in the country, a woman riding on a donkey, with her husband walking by her side, puts me in mind of the flight into Egypt. And so I could go on. Oh, I am so glad to be here with the mes­ sage of salvation. It’s w ell worth pay­ ing the price and more. Of course there are times o f loneliness, when one longs for the homeland, and the dear friends back there, but on the whole, I am very happy in my work, and happy among these dear people, whom I have learned to love already.” Miss Marie Mack, ’23, has been teach­ ing in a mission school in Guatemala City, and writes as follow s: “Over a hundred and fifty children come to this mission school and some of the girls and boys go to many different parts of Guatemala as teachers and native w ork ­ ers, so you see how great a w ork is being done there. I almost fo rg o t to mention the last part, and one which m ight well be copied in our country, the courtesy of the children, and their good conduct in spite of rather dull routine work. The children always rise whenever their teacher or a stranger enters the room, and remain standing until told to be seated. If one child has an errand in another room , he always says, “with your permission,” before entering the1 room. There is no problem of discipline here, for courtesy and respect fbr older people seems to be an inherent- charac­ teristic of the people in this country. “W e need your prayers that these young people, after receiving th eir.edu ­ cation, w ill use it in the Lord’s service. A fter they finish the Garden of Roses school they sometimes speak English with very little accent and are in much demand in the public school, bpt natur­ ally the m issionary in charge wants them as teachers in her school or other Christian schools.” Born To Mr. and Mrs. Frank E. Weld, a daughter, Margaret Helen, July 24th, Brightmoor, Mich. To Mr. and Mrs. R. A . Mitchell, a daughter, Ruth Whitlock, in May.

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