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Show She had walked every step of the twenty miles carrying a basket of eggs as a thank offering. She was poor and so had left but a small gift for the hospital when she went home. Then too, in her home, quite' contrary to Chinese custom, it was not the mother-in-law but the ill-tempered daughter-in-^aw who managed the house so that the mother had nothing to give but these carefully hoarded eggs. She delighted in telling of the months since'she had last seen us. "No," she said, "How could I forget how to pray. I say the blessing every meal before I eat. At night I shut my eyes, so, and pray the prayer I learned here. I haven't forgotten." And she repeated (in Chinese of course.) "Father, 1 thank Thee for thy grace For love the'same each time and place And now I humbly ask of Thee Forgive my sins and make me free. Make my least act to tell Thy love . Take me at death to Heaven above For all my friends I ask the same Making my prayer in Jesus' name." I Then I use my own words too just as Mrs. Sung taught me I should. When my daughter-in-law doesn't give me enough to eat I pray, "Great Heavenly Father keep me from getting angry and don't let me'be too hungry". Then I prayed that my face where you removed the tumor might heal perfectly and, see!-it has. There is one thing that I want'to ask,-why don't a teacher ever get to our village to preach and teach us this doctrine? My son wants to learn too. I can't teach him much. He sometimes1 hears a teacher preaching at the market town but no one ever comes to us. Why is it?" Then I told how few preachers we have in the field to do touring. Sometimes one preacher must visit so many places that he can make the rounds but a few times a year. If we had more men-if we had more money for men-we could do better. If was not her intention to sell the eggs but we/talked the matter over. The girls' school would buy them for the market price and the money could be used towards the expenses' of the one who toured in her region. You on the Pacific coast would pay several dollars for that number of eggs if you were buying them for Christmas cooking, but the girls' school got them for the market price of twenty cents, but you must not consider that amount small, for were you a workman in LintsIng you could not earn so much: in two days -• The hospital preacher was asked to fake the money and to report the gift and that for which it was given to the] Congregational |