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Show Shantung NEEDS 95 A Gate-House, a Reception Room, Sunday School Rooms near the church would multiply results in the women's work. A Residence for the Chinese Pastor as found in other places, is highly to be desired. Lintsing was long called the Bachelor Church or the Bird-with- one-wing because of eight people entering the church, seven were men ! She should have Two Single Ladies. One of these should have a constitution of iron, nerves of steel, the mus-cks of an athlete, and the tender wistful love of the great Head Shepherd Himself to minister to this great country field. If Lintsing is to be set right, and grow a good strong wing on the other side of its church body, the next generation must be fed, not muzzled. The Girls' School must not be Closed Early, Year after Year and the pupils sent home like naughty girls in disgrace, simply because the funds have given out. More Eible Women Ought to be Used. The best school girls, we trust in the future, as so often in the past, will be but Bible Women in embryo. Here also as in Paotingfu, the girls' school has used borrowed buildings, and now needs a new School Home of its Own. Talking with the men from far away districts, the writer was thrilled to see what bright little candles the Lintsing pupils could be when on vacation at home. So Many, Many Wants. Yes, we are all, "Daughters of the horse leech," or to put it more genially, we are like the Pangchuang girls' school at Christmas, everyone holding up her jacket front for the treat that is coming. And by and by, in the clear light of that other world atmosphere, how glad you will be for every time you said, "Yes Daughter" For the Shantung District, (Mrs.) Emma Dickinson Smith. |
