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Show WHAT WOULD YOU DO IF 53 What would you do if after six weeks of school, with twenty-five school girls in atteudauce, a college-trained teacher ^^TT A «T» entered upon her work with ability and enthtis- WOTJTD iasm, and an excellent spirit in the school, you VOTIDO> found that all funds were exhausted? To be sure, you had known when school opened that there was practically nothing on hand of the Board funds, but you had hoped that the funds might turn up, and it seemed a shame not to go as far as you could. Now, what can you do? The Stanley school in TIENTSIN was closed for three months to wait until the new year brought new appropriations from America. But how can you build up a school Stanley School Girls at Play with situations like that ? In the Oberiin-Shansi Memorial Academy, in TAIKUHSIEN, the great problem is to furnish work for the boys who want to earn their way. We need to develop the local resources and to produce something that can be sold. This is the region of hides and wool, and it can also raise cotton. There is a good deal of cloth being made, but the thread is all being imported front Tientsin. We need equipment for making woolen and cotton thread, and along with making thread, we ought to add three or four looms at once so that we could make cloth. A thing that would bring in large returns because it would produce power, from local highly gaseous coal, would be an eight or ten horse power gas-producing plant that could be used to run industrial machinery of different kinds. Such is the suggested solution, but where is the plant? In the experience of every missionary, there are times when there is nothing to do but to use every means to raise money. Such sentences as these tell their own story : "During the spring the building used by the girls' school fell down, 9 j ^ p THAT a n d h a s n o t b e e n rebuilt on account of funds." (PANGKIACHWANG) "For ten years we have rented a court in Ch'ingyuan. Now this property has been sold, and the new owner is pressing us to vacate as speedily as WILLING TO WORK, BUT- |
