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grown to love, and my Chinese and Ameri can co-workers whom I love far more dearly than the city. Miss Francis is carry ing on the work which had been allotted to me and Miss Eddy is there studying the language in preparation to take my place in the future. “ I have been sent to Nanking to repre sent the Presbyterian Mission on the faculty o f the Bible Teachers’ Training School for Women. It is a union institu tion There are many splendid women’s Bible schools throughout China but this is the only one which admits educated women only. W e have sixteen pupils from six different denominations and as many prov inces. W e could have many more students if we would lower our entrance require ments. The school gives a two years’ course such as is given in Bible Institutes in America. I have been studying Man darin and am to teach a class .in Luke and Acts this spring. How I need to be held up in prayer as I teach God’s precious word in this new dialect! “Monday afternoon I ordered three car riages and took them all out for a good time. They did not know where we were going so when I tumbled them down amidst ‘The Examination Halls’ they almost went wild with delight. They ran in ten different directions examining the stalls. I gathered them together and led them up in one o f the officials’ stands where we had a view o f the whole twenty- eight thousand long deserted booths. The girls were all sympathy when I recalled to their minds how one or two men used to die every year during the strain o f the days and nights when they wrote their essays to gain the prize o f a degree, for there they ate, slept and wrote without per mission to speak or leave their stalls.” Asilomar Summer Conference f ^ N E o f the Pacific Coast Conferences o f the Missionary Education Move ment is held on the Y. W . C. A. Confer ence Grounds at Asilomar, a beautiful stretch o f 30 acres fronting the ocean, one
doctrine,’ but the others hushed her up. When Mrs. Wong finished, Mrs. W o talked to them and she made the truth so plain that it seemed unnecessary for me to add anything, but I wanted to. I thought I would at least give testimony to God’s love to me, so I rose, and as I told them o f what God’s love had and was doing for me and what He longed to do for them I realized that God’s presence was with us in power. The women stopped working, there was not a sound but my voice and they forgot me as they listened to my message, while their eyes filled with tears. I believe one old woman was saved right there. She wanted to begin to worship Jesus at once and asked how. According to Chinese etiquette they all followed us out and ten o f the able-bodied women went out to the canal with us, thanking us for our visit and urging us to- return soon. They were still standing on the bank saying farewell when our boat pulled off, their work for gotten, their miserable circumstances even forgotten for the moment while they rejoiced in the love which had been shown them and that o f the strange, sweet things they had just heard. But if some o f them are to become true believers they must be visited often and prayed for much. You can’t visit them but will you pray for them ? “How I enjoyed the whole trip, even to sleeping on the boat, cooking my own meals and eating the boatman’s food with Mrs. Wong when my own ran ou t! Rice is fine when you can eat it with chop sticks and have one or two good side dishes. The country is lovely now and the scenes along the canal so picturesque, and how I love to listen to the water swish against the sides o f the boat as we are faithfully rowed along! But coming back, my mind kept wandering, wandering. Now lest some o f you should be mistaken in your guess as to where my mind wandered, I’ll tell you^-rit was to a certain queer looking bath tub waiting for me in Soochow. “The above all seems away back in the past to me now, for on the 9th o f Novem ber 1 left Soochow, that old city I had
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