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w ith joy. Both a t Yokohama and here, for I am now w riting from N agasaki on November 5th, we got China letters, and from one received today from Shanghai, we have ra th e r serious news. Influenza is very rife in many p arts of China, and in our schools for m ission arie s’ children a t Chefoo, th e re are over 100 cases. To add to th e anxiety, which m ust be felt, Dr. Hogg, our Medi cal M issionary there, is very danger ously ill w ith typhoid fever and com plications. Miss Oakeshott, th e lady in charge of our Home there, who w rites th e letter, extends to the p arty a very warm welcome, and expresses th e hope th a t we may arrive a t a reasonable hour of th e day so th a t they can meet us. A p arty from A ustralia had arrived the week before a t a very late hou r on Sun day night. Shanghai. Ju st th e addition of a few words from Shanghai, as a mail for th e U. S. leaves today, and th is gives the opportunity to send our latest news to th e B. I. th rough you. We arrived a t th e w harf here shortly afte r 4 o’clock yesterday afternoon, and got a most enthusiastic welcome from about a dozen of our m issionaries who had come to th e w harf to meet us. T hat was th e first party of a most h ea rty welcome th a t awaited u s all on our arriv al a t th e Mission Compound. So h earty was th e welcome th a t our young folks a t once felt a t home in th e fam ily circle into which they had been adopted. As th e w h arf was no t so very fa r from th e Mission Compound, we all walked, except Mrs. Schlichter, who h ad been very poorly and Went by ric sha. On arriv al a t the Mission gate, we were m et by some others, and when hand shaking was over and greetings exchanged w ith them , we walked into our beautiful Compound, and tak ing up a position in fro n t of th e m ain entrance to th e home, we made th e whole Com pound ring w ith “How good is the God we adore” and one verse and chorus
of “B ringing back th e K ing.” This b rough t all the others ou t from the offices and homes, and greetings over, we were refreshed by a cup of tea, good BLACK tea. A fter supper we spent the evening singing. IS PRAYING A JOY? A m inister recently asked th a t ques tion of a large congregation, saying th a t a v ast number of Christians approach th e tim e of p rayer almost w ith reluctance. The phraseology in which we express ou r p rayers becomes so fam iliar to us th a t we use th e words w ithout th ink ing of th e ir meaning. “When p ray er becomes thoughtless, it becomes forceless; and when it becomes forceless, it ju s t limps along in idle fam iliarity .” W atch your devotions, and see w hether or no t you enjoy pray ing. M EVERY-DAY RELIGION I goes to church on Sunday a n ’ I listens to de text. I t sho’ly helps my feelin’s when my m ind is g ettin ’ vexed. De Sabbath day religion pu ts a calmness in de h ea rt— But every-day religion needs a chance to do its p art. D ar’s de Monday religion, when you’s got to go to work, An’ de Tuesday religion, when you m u stn ’t stop to shirk. Wednesday, Thursday, F rid ay a n ’ S atu r day as well Needs de every-day religion, ’th o u t no rin g in ’ of de bell. One day a-learn in ’ ’bout de goodness a n ’ de ligh t; De o ther six a-show in’ d at you got de lesson right. Sunday brings us com fort wif de beauty an ’ de rest, But de every-day religion is w hat puts you to de test. —W ashington Star.
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