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Show 20 NORTH CHINA MISSION Lord's Sermon on the Mount must have been repeated over and over again among the early Christians. Luke begins his Gospel by saying, "I will set before you in order the things that have been already dinned into your ears." Social conditions in China, while probably not as difficult as those in India, nevertheless make work among women very „ _ , _ , _ T l v r r difficult. In old China, a respectable woman had to guard very carefully her appearances at AFTER THE ^u^ylc nieetings. While this is changing, a WOMEN lar^e share of the most effective work for women must be done by visits in their own homes. In TUNGCHOW, the four Bible readers of the city have faithfully plodded or hobbled (depending on the bound or unbound condition of their feet) through the city and suburb highways and by-ways, going regularly to over three hundred homes, with over six hundred pupils. In TIENTSIN, too, the Bible women are doing faithful work, calling, teaching and preaching in the neighborhood near and far. Miss Davis has done much calling with them, and the coming of a foreigner into one of the courts is the signal for a general gathering of as many neighbors as can squeeze into the room where she and the Bible women seat themselves, Turk style, on the brick bed. In the fall the church women were organized into a small society, the members of which, fourteen in number, took turns each week going two by two out into the village homes, to talk with other women, to teach them to pray, to share with them the light and truth which has come iuto their own lives-very meagre, often, perhaps we should say it is, but oh, so very real! This form of service has been developing the women as nothing else has, and the full results of such work among the women in the homes cannot be statistically recorded. Iu PEKING, the women have been doing similar work, giving time or house, and neighborhood A Country Hostess Tientsin |
