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Show CHAPTER FIVE Strolling through a village on his way to preach at a market, Mr. Ch'i of PAOTINGFU is attracted byagi oupof small boys. THE FIRST He begins talking with TOUCH them, and they start along with him. He tells them a Bible story or two. Then he teaches them several couplets of a song set to a simple tune. They sing it together and stroll along until he sees they have gone some distance from the village. Then this "Piper of Hamelin" has to urge the boys to leave him and go back. "Sing the song all the way back as you have coming out," and they start off to their homes, singing as they go. Such incidents as these are the beginning of most work for the children that is not done through the regular schools. Mr. Shih of TIENTSIN had gathered many such children together during his street preaching of the summer, and when the "RAffFn schools opened in the fall, asked that they should SUNDAY SCHOOLS" One of Lintsing's Valuables be organized into a Sunday-school. Now every Sunday afternoon finds anywhere from forty to eighty bright lively youngsters gathered in the church rooms for an hour of singing and Bible stories and learning of Golden Texts. At Christmas time, on their own initiative, the school girls who taught them planned an entertainment, and executed their plans. They had heard of Christmas trees and thought that they might possibly be able to secure a willow, but when the head teacher expressed her belief that only an evergreen tree would do, they gave it up. Nevertheless, some hundred or more children and mothers spent a joyful afternoon in a flag and paper chains bedecked church, entertained with a program of the |