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Show 90 NORTH CHINA MISSION Needs and the holding of the short schools known as station-classes over this wide area, there is one single lady, still in the throes of language study, one ardent worker on a long overdue furlough, and two bible-women. Wide open doors in that city challenge us'to enter, while the country flock are so wistful and hungry for more, that the dear Shepherdess who must move on finds it difficult to do so, unless, like the man wrapped in a sheet on the night of Christ's arrest, she leaves her outer garment in their clinging hands. Needed for Paotingfu one strong able-bodied, warmhearted woman who wants a glorously hard time for her Lord with such recompense as no work in America can promise. The Girls School Building Destroyed in 1900 must be rebuilt, the borrowed premises in use for thirteen years being no longer available. Any one privileged to know this dear school and its sweet, spiritual Chinese teacher, Mrs. Yang, would not run about hunting a better investment. More Bible-Women. The simple facts shout this need. Two bible-women to cover this field must be, as was once said of Lin Ch'ing "spread out so thin that there would be nothing but chemical traces left." More Village schools, more city day-schools, including a kindergarten; a hall for the social meetings and the lectures which the new woman craves (often leading by easy stages to the foot of the Cross), will you make all these needs into Open Doors ? If we do not open them and hook them back for God's sunshine to flood in, the devil may blow them shut. In a land without glass windows, can you think how dark it is inside when the open door is shut? Perhaps even worse might befall and the devil himself might enter them. More Money for the General Work. Eager hearts starting out like free, willing, horses longing to cover leagues of road at all costs to themselves, if sharply reined up by the curb-bit of retrenchment at every turn in the road, may at last subside into a limp, discouraged heap, beside the Queen of Sheba, who, for a very different reason "had no spirit left in her." The sum now supplied lot the general work of this whole great field would not pay the salary of the pastor of a village church in America.' Several Chinese men of good training and character are now available. They are every one pressingly needed now. Others will come later from the the Arts College, the Medical College, |