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Show 1916 China 37 offering to help in the building of a dipping tank. There is a question as to the wisdom of their enterprise, but it shows an awakening race consciousness, and should be carefully encouraged and guided." * An Outstation of an Outstation Dr. Wesley M. Stover, of Bailundo, writes under date of October 4 :- "I have just spent a few days at one of the sub-outstations of Bailundo station, i. e., an outstation organized, manned, and supported by one of the larger outstations, this one by Chim-bili outstation. "I was greatly surprised at the progress made. This is only the second year of work there, and yet a number joined in the responsive reading of the Psalms on Sunday morning. The house was crowded to the doors and many sat outside. There were over three hundred in all. The attention was close and interested. One could see that the greater part of the congregation was following the sermon intelligently and appreciatively. "One of the boys from this place attended the summer school for outstation teachers held here in Bailundo in July. He was not a teacher, but wished to qualify for one. Miss Miller, who held the class, said he seemed to be deficient in everything but theBible. She could not puzzle him on that by any of the usual tests given to such candidates." * CHINA An Eventful Prayer Meeting Writing from Lintsingchow, in Shantung Province, in the late summer, Dr. Susan B. Tallmon, in charge of the Lintsing hospital, gives the following account of an especially blessed hospital prayer meeting. She says: - "One of the pleasantest occasions of the week is our hospital prayer meeting each Friday evening, which doctors, evangelists, Bible-woman, and nurses take turns in leading. The children of the families are brought too, for there is no one with whom to leave them at home. There is bright-eyed Lien Ch'un, who can follow in the THE STAFF OF THE LINTSINGCHOW HOSPITAL Dr. Tallmon second from the right. Dr. Ma at the left |