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Show Lintsing WOMANS WORK 71 iligs for the other church women and school-girls. The phrase, "My own things second, the things of the Lord first", is an echo of those days, heard since on the women's lips, At New Year's time another station class gave opportunity for more of the women to study. SCHOOT S ^l e lintsing day-school has numbered between ten and twenty this year. Several small boys, whose parents do not wish them to attend the temple schools, have been allowed to join the group. In the outstation of Tungchangfu, four little girls read in the day-school last fall, this spring fourteen are enrolled. The Lintsing Girls' Boarding school reports a busy, happy year. Miss Ting, being head teacher and living in the school yard, has had an especial opportunity to help the girls. She has put her best efforts into all she has done with a consecration and loving spirit that has given them a beautiful example. The first term the school numbered thirty-two; the second twenty-nine. Tn the fall we tried the experiment of a special class. No station class for women out of the city could be promised this year. But several girls, older than the other pupils, who had read before in station classes and were eager for more study, were allowed to enter the school. They have been most appreciative of this chance to study. Four of their number have united with the church. , . , . , _ . , . - , T u t . There is much done under Dr. WOMEN A T T H E „ „ , . ., , .. . , . . lallmou scare at the hospital which H O S r l * AL js a n important part of the evangelistic work. Each day two Bible women meet those who come to the dispensary and preach to them while they wait for treatment. Late one evening Dr. Tallmon found the Bible-woman and a patient sitting in the dark. "We thought we would not use up the hospital oil," they said, "we want to talk so long". "Because," the patient added, "I am going home tomorrow, and I want her to tell me all over agaiii all the things about God's way of Life that I have heard while I have been here sick, so that I will not forget any when I reach home to tell my people there." |