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Show (3) carrying a casket containing %gi as a. thank offering. She was poor and so had left but a small g i l t for. the hospital when she went home. .Then, too, in her home, quite contrary, to Qiinese custom^, i t was not. the Mother .-in- law but. the ill-tempered d a u g h t e r - i n law who managed.the house so. that she mother had noth ing. to i,ive but. these carefully hceraed eb t s , I She delighted i n . t e i l i n b of. the months since she had last seen us. "•No," ahe said/1 How could I for get hew. to pray. I pray, the ble*si% every meal before. I eat. At nitht. I shut my eyes so ana pray, the prayer I learned here, I haven.'t forgotten.'1 Ana she repeated.* in • Chinese of course ) "Father, I, thank. Thee for thy grabe For love.tlv same each.tr".me end place And now 1 humbly ask ^ T h oe Forgive my sins and make me f r e i. hake mtjQfh wrffM* toll. Thy levs .Take me at death.to Heaven above For a l l my friends I ask. the same Haloing my prayer in^Bsus' name,' .Then I tray ay own words, too just as Mrs. Sung, taught me I should, When my dauiihter-in-law doesn't t i v e i.o wm& |o • ' 1 pray," Crest Heavenly Father keep me i row getting an^ry and oonM let me be. tec hunfery". Then I prayed that my i^ce where ycu removes-the. tumor mi^ht heal perfectly and see i t has. . These egg* are l .thank-offering because of GoaA kincness-to me. .There i s one. thing, that. 1 want, to ask, why don.'t a. teacher ever fcet.to our village $< to preach and. teach us, t h is doctrine? My son wants, to learn, too. I oan.'t. teach him much, He sometimes hears a teacher a1 the isaiket. town but no one ever comes . to us, why i s it"? Then J. told how few preachers we have in. the field, t o do. touring* Sometimes one preacher must visit **anj places" .that he Ml rake, the rounds out a few. times a ve?r* If we had more mea- if m had more money for n.en we could do b e t t e r . It was not her intention, to s e l l , the iggs but we.talked, the matter over. .The b i r l s ' school would buy therm-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 p«f several dollars ior. that number oi efccs if you were bu; ing. them fof Christies cooking but. the g i r l s ' school ;,ot.them for. the market price Of. twenty cents, but you must r.ot consider, that amount small for were you a workman in Lintsin^ ycu could net earn so much in.two days. The hospital preacher was asked.to.take.the money and. to report.the g i l t ana.th&t ior which it was givtftto, the |