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Show SCHOOL OF MANY FRIENDS Lintsing, Shantung, China. A p r i l 23,1921 dear iidith, Thanks so jpuch for the money enclosed in your l e t t e n , w h i ch was forwarded to me in Peking t h i s Hew Y e a r ' s v a c a t i o n . ^he f o u r t e en d o l l a r s p l u s , l am w a i t i n g to see about; Ch'un Hsiany says she c a n 't go to school while Ch'u n bei i s , a s one has to help the o t h e r with her c l o t h e s , e t c . , and i f we decide?! t h a t we can do w i t h o u t her, o r t h a t we w i l l spare her t h i s y e a r , t h i s e x t r a money might make i t p o s s i b l e for her to go ever while Ch'un Mei i s in Techou. Please tduink the g i v e rs f o r i t . And t h e money you sent I had thot of u s i n g for Liu Ch'un Yfi t o go t o Peking on for we have decided to send her t h i s f a l l ? she has 1 canned the P h o n e t i c s and i hope will be a b l e s t o do the work, she will have to get some g l a s s e s f i r s t , f o r hers have been broken a year and she hasn1"*' gone to Techou to get new ones, x haven1 L heard from Miss Reed yet as to d e t a i l s but when 1 was up t h e r e t h i s winter she thot t h e g i r l could make i t , - Since planning t h i s the t a t t i n g people have " d e l i v e r e d over" to the Ohung-X-JIui $2000, earnings, and c o n t r i b u t i o ns f o r t h e s e y e a r s , a n d $1,000 of t h a t was given to the women's e v a n g e l i s t ic b e s i d e s $200 for the b i b l e school to be opened in the f a l l . This money i s to be used for sending people to summer c o n f e r e n c e s , f o r h e l p i ng s t u d e n t s to p r e p a r e for e v a n g e l i s t i c w o r k , e t c . , - s o you see t h e r e w i l / be money enough i f you want 'your money used some o t h e r way. Sun Hui Lan i s to go on to Techou next f a l l , - s h e graLuates t h i s s p r i n g - , f o r the women's e v a n g e l i s t i c work,helped by t h i s fund,an I Huang Ts eng Ch'un w i l l be helped for the h o s p i t a l e v a n g e l i s t i c work,-making two g i r ls f o r e a c h , i n school * There ought to be some good e v a n g e l i s t i c work done intfhe f u t u r e , - b u t i t is bard to wait I - Everyone i s on t h e look-out for a woman e v a n g e l i s t to be paid out of t h i s g i f t but we haven'1 ' heard any i e f i n i t e news of anyone y e t . Miss Gertrude w i l l probably come down again in the f a i l to help open the Bible School* the women w i l l probably r e c i t e p a r t l y with the men but w i l l undoubtedly be behind them and will have to have most c l a s s e s by t h e m s e l v e s . - I am sending you some books which X got of Miss ^ e r t r u d e when I was t h e r e . t w o weeks ago at Sheng-I-Hui and I hope they .me what you want. I d o n ' t know a n y t h i n g about the new books but she - i r e s , o f course. P l e a s e thank your n i e c e s and nephews for the post cards they s e n t : we use such a l o t all the time t h a t i t is good to have them keep c o r i n g from America. The c h i l d r e n are as anxious as ever to get them an I a r e i n t e r e s t e d in the many new kinds t h a t are s e n t. At our local, a s s o c i a t i o n the Chinese asked f o r two e v a n g e l i s t s , t h e f i r s t one to be you,so they d o n ' t f o g g e t / o u! She Eastmans were asked bafek tho i t appears t h a t some of the Chinese d o n ' t approve. According to my n o t i o n # t h e s i t u a t i o n with the Chinese so much in charge gets more an 1 more d i s c o u r a g i n g for of course they a r e more and more having the say about t h i n g s and g e t t i n g more courage t o put thru t h e i r own plans and stop ours,-#which s t i l l seem to me to be b e t t o r than t h e i r s . The Council i s about to take over the managing of the r e p a i r s and b u i l d i n g except on the f o r e i g n r e s i l i e n c e s , and we J |
