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Show 3. v/ith the s e , stone-paved and worn,hilly and rough! Idy arms were lame j u s t from holding onto the sidee of the cart . Mr Cowdry remarked t h a t he should thina much riding of that sort would make your ears longand floppy! I t is now afternoon and i am ,n the eosy room Mrs Heininger has given me under the roof. I do l i k e i t g r e a t l y and can see the h i l l s andsky frm my e a s t Windows. I am so glad to have my accounts off and have slept up and rested up and read u n t i l I feel most luxurious and ambitious to get to Lintsing again. I have not read á l l my Outlooks even yet. I was eager to see the L_ntsing women again and the children when I went to the Chine se church service this A.el. I t is downin the c i t y . There was a nice audience and I was inte r e s t e d in the blind teacher who played the organ very well, It was good too to have a speaker from the student men,one full of eagerness for the best for his country. He i s just back from the Student Qonferenc^ held near Peking. He spoke of the men who had joined the church for the sake of g e t t i n g a j o b , g e t t i n g help,and other s e l f i s h motives and said they had a l l made a mistake. Even desire for learning about other lands or for help-ing China were wrong too,but the one and only motive should be love for G-od, and the one and only r e s u l t love and service to men, Sometimes i t is haiftd to see what the work here accoraplishes but i t does f i l l your heart wita-hope to find such a s p i r i t among the young student c i a s s e s. Another hoye ful thing that has happened l a t e l y i s tnat there was a message of greeting from the Christian students of N.China sent to the C h r i s t a i n s of Japan. Not that the i n j u s t i c e of that countrys actions is-f o r g o t t e n , b u t that there is a feeling that Christians in bóth lands must j o in in seeking r i g h t r e l a t i o n s . Mr Lieper of Tientsin and Mr and Mrs Roiland Cross(brother of the G-rinnell pastor) are delega oes from our N. China mission to Japan t h i s summer. Both men are engaged in student work here and are well f i uted to report and confer. Dr and Mrs Barten of ene A.B.C.F.H. will oe there and then come on to Cnina for a conference nere m AUgust and Sept. A language teacher has come up from Techow for the nemingers, and since Hr H i s away I am to nave ¿t cnance to read t h i s week at l e a s t . 1 am going to s t a r t out witn some new reaaers wnich we nave auoxatea for use m tne Primary schoois. Wbnrt tnat oe iua¡ First to r i f t n reaútíWi I am s t i l l ' enjoying the wild flowers. Tne "red" Kaigan ±ity is the most beautiful . I will put m one tnat I pressed, I t is oetween red and orange m color and grows aiong tne wase oí tne /.¿fá//hj!.%¿p/ nigher n i l i s. I am trying to take some bulbs along to Lintsing. They are in Luiu H.f s garde now. The f i r s t that I saw were near the temple one day that Martha and Hele went with us on a tramp. There is a feathery white flower too that Mr C.says i s called meadow rué. The two kinds made such a p r e t t y cerner for the diding t a b l e . I want to thank you for tne egg money sfpit í'or tne famine auffer-e r s . The five d o l l a r s excnangea for ten-slvt.nteerfclbinese d o l l a r s , a n d that w i l l go a long way to help.When l get Dack I will t e i i you j u s t wnere i t is to be used. Something apeeial I am sure. Later again^ The afternoon Énglish Churchl carne then and there were about twenty people there,so you see i t is quite a l i t t l e group nere. Two M&E l a d i e s sang a solo andj the preacher was a member of j)ur mission from Peking. He is Mr Whitacker.They are new people nere, have lived. in California. They have three children who often come to play here. I t is now bonday A.M. Martha ,who is sevep and has ner front teeth o u t , i s with me in my room working on a pinoali for Helen's blrthday present. She is a dear l i t t l e g i r l . I often think she must be¡very much as El en was a t se ven. Last night tne i r mother said she was not ¡yóing to say " bed-time1!to the l i t t l e g i r l s , s h e was t i r e d of the way they had oéen hating to go and play ing instead of g e t t i n g to sleep. So s&e t r i e d tne ¿x^eriment. After supper I t o l d them s t o r i e s a l i i t l e while on tne porch,then we a l l l i s t e n e d to Aunt Erma sing some of the beautiful church nymns,and oefore long one by one the g grown ups got off to bád,but rthe g i r l s found something to look at or do,and never mentioned loeá. Ffnaliy after ner mother was aoarly ready for sleep one of them said" Ijfother, chalí I lock tne door for yuuv"¡And they did r e a l l y want to go to bed! They are sweet l i t t l e children and know how to mind. |