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Show FAIRVIEW COMMUNITY CHURCH CONGREGATIONAL E. W. E L L I S . PASTOR ROUTE 1 PHONE 295-R-5 NAMPA. IDAHO •HHW m ••«**ei|t! , v^% \ December 10, 1930. Dear Friends: This letter goes out to you with a full cargo of love and appreciation of your interest in us. There should be a personal letter for each of you, but, since we can't manage that, won't you each pick out the part especially meant for you-childhood friend, schoolmate, neighbor, co-worker in this or another land, dear kinfoik-and regard it is as written to you 1 You will see from the picture that our dear Chinese daughter, Dr. Coral Yuan, is still in our hearts. F. B. Meyer said in one of the talks we heard in China, that, if a thing were so put on our hearts that we remembered to pray for it daily, we could be almost sure that it would come to pass. We have found ourselves checked in two lines. The money that came in is enough to get her to this country-and there is something significant in that, isn't there?-but not enough to warrant our sending for her. We didn't know about the Barbour scholarships in time to apply for them last year, so must, perforce, wait until February to hear from them. In the meantime she is saving what she can and yet have something to leave for the members of her family whom she has been supporting. She is taking out life insurance as a possible collateral for borrowing. One friend has promised to loan her a small sum without interest. Mr. Hans Hansen sent the first $100 and said to put it on interest. This we did, and this has been followed until now $400 is drawing interest. I asked a medical student studying at Portland regarding her expenses and she said it cost her $900 a year. Board and room at International House, New York, where many foreign students stay would cost about $700 a year. Of our two other girls, Glory is in Tunghsien hospital with tuberculosis, under the special care of Dr. E. F. Parsons. It will probably be a full year yet before she can come out. She writes us often. Her letters show a good spirit and the doctor says she makes friends among the other sick ones. Grace is five and a half now. Our friend, Miss Ruth Van Kirk, who loves Grace almost as much as we do, took her to the seashore for the summer and we are in hopes this experience will carry her through the winter without any recurrence of last year's trouble. Dear Mrs. Lee adds the burden of caring for Grace to her many others with such love and devotion. Grace has learned enough English to tell the Chinese what is said about them, sometimes at inopportune or premature moments. You will be interested in news about the two fields where we worked in China. Lintsing has lost the Whitakers and gained the Gilberts; so now they have three families and four single ladies. Teh-chow has the Tuckers, Miss Sawyer and Miss Alice Reed of the force who were there four years ago. The Wilders, Outerbridges, Miss Lucia Lyons who returns after eighteen years in the home land, and Miss Bertha Reed will strengthen the station. The four wonderful years we spent in the work in the Williams-Porter Hospitals will always stand out in our lives. Tehchow was the headquarters for the military in Shantung of the Yen-Feng party for some months during the past year and at one time there were 1500 wounded soldiers in the city almost without medical care. Two hundred thirty of these lodged in a Confucian temple, Dr. Tucker took in charge, in addition to a full hospital at the mission compound. My brother-in-law, Hugh Hubbard, seems to be doing an unusually successful piece of work in con-a * '% . iff |
