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Show 72 NORTH CHINA MISSION Lintsing Three Bible women are regular- COUNTRY WORK ]y p r e a c h i n g i n t h e i r h o m e v i i i a g es and walking or going by donkey to nearby towns and cities. If a fair or market is held near they.go to preach to the crowd; if some woman is glad to listen they will spend a dav in her home. Only two tours were made this year. Both were in March when Dr. Tallmon and Miss Tallmon spent twenty days in the eastern and western outstations. During that time twenty-four cities and villages were visited and more than forty meetings held. To have visited the homes of most of the school-girls was a delightful experience, and one to inspire more earnest effort in the school itself. Many women asked eagerly when they might have a chance to study at Lintsing or to have a class at their homes. At Tung-changfu an old woman, with her daughter, waited until the others had brought a favorable report of the strangers, and then ventured to come herself and asked eagerly about the Way of Salvation. "Last week the gateman gave my grandson a gospel", she said, and he has been reading it to u s . " Then she went on wistfully, "But is it not too late for me? I am over eighty. Am I not too o l d ? ' ' Everywhere the sight of work to be done fills one with a longing to be used in this great field. „ „ _ „ _ T . _ _ , „ The year closed with the busy Fourth 1 ric, r t J U K l r i .. ., _, . , „ FATt? M o n t h hair, when great numbers of women came from the surrounding country field. It was our great privilege to have Miss Gertrude Wyckoff spend that time in Lintsing and give her strength and skill to the work of preaching to the women. At the city-chapel and at the church, rest-rooms were prepared, and hot drinks for those who dared accept it. Between eight and eleven hundred women passed through the compound daily during the height of the fair, and the city chapel was not of ten empty from early till late. All who came were given a chance to buy gospels and also a small leaflet containing the ten commandments and a short prayer, or the hymn, "There is Only One True God". The cash receipts show that about 5500 leaflets have been carried to these women's homes this month. We know, too, that some of them will treasure in their hearts the earnest works they have heard, which God's promise says shall accomplish that wdiereunto He has sent them. Compiled from the report by Miss Tallmon. |