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Show THE RAHGY RAFGER3 ARRANGED IT. One room, one teacher, twenty desks, i forty hats on 'the wall and eighty feet under the desks I In/hat is it? A school* Where is it? In.a village near Paotingfu. Vfoio supports it? The village elders supply the room and . desks, the parents supply the hats end students. The students supply the feet and the Boy dangers, of Eontclair, hew Jersey, supply the • •• etna r> V» «•«*» . ^. what is it all about? 'Well, human nature is much the oMt^JWr* Boys rent what they haven't got. A bunch of Chinese lade % v e ambition and pen and aant to learn tc redd, write and reckon; find out about the" Chinese heroes of thousands of years ago, about the strange lands across the sea and about this Jeeus the foreigner I-,-, ar»lb> out* Their fathers as1: the foreigner to start a school .do money. The fathers talk it over, do some.figuring and come back Eacy will provide a school building, decks, stove are running enpenses. End is the absolute limit of what the-" can do. fill,the foreigner •'irenl' , Christian teacher? ?,Ho mor The fathers go home disappointed. About, this time another bunch of boys witk ambition and -OSV? ^A a fair share of good luck, haying been born in Montclairy decide"they can do a good turn* They put on a live show, raise ylOO and send it to Paotingfu* The foreigner says ft Hurrah I How; Kola! for he? too, ia a Ranger, and sends for the village fathers. The glad news is announced and, in throe whfsks of a Chinese lanVs tail, the .school is started. At first twenty studants, then thirty, tA::y. forty, and the limit is reached. One teacher car hhndle no more* This school can be duplicated at Paotingfu as many times as there are groups, with the vision and will of the Rangers, to orin .._ » 4, ;v M O y C • O ;- THE d'£QBB rJDHdf£ PEEdOlIOG. 1 *fe i. u mm k*mm mmin A air* t m &***** ' y*«mMimTimmimfm some people to whom a meet in: is a bore ana a sermon an amastketic There is, in this country, a-whole class of educated reople -who will not come ree:.r a church, but to whom the p^^led ^a>e'"is almost sacred. Ever students do a groat deal of read* indt Per* such classec * as well as to serve our ovr. Christian constituency, '**?e k.dve started a bookstore, handling all kinds, of helpful literature, especially Christian* To help on finances, we han<|l#* daterman's Fountain Pens and ,: line of stationery supplied. The store i'o J i a not ^e't seif*sunportiry , but we hope to some day. mrke it so, Jt & located on one of the- busiest oornire in town and we consider it 4 to be a Aeoidedlv'Ohrietier influanee in. town, tbo ym sometimes begrudge ths tta3 t*ken in sendi-y orders., fddr-. stock and cheeking. ac< counw *> © * © * § - § * # |