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Show 1 T ..- -.v " b..-- a •';.- '.'.-i - *4 f • .«• yy l ia Ch*íag China . »y*b. iytix\7, 'ear friendo» mm% of you hnv. hs.n wninring why you have heard aothin^ %boat how ;< * -'•* *'":' ¿- * r>-n •"•-* 2 - to watt uatil dbina** iae Toar** tuso «Mi 1 4 '• •' •• ; i " tamirn. ,. v ..mticat*o that 1 «ight have tiste to do the ¿nbhíen ,n y y- ¥ - ,, ,v f * r,m m i f *« r #0gt# @f %h« v # r y thing* 1 wanted - !imv« bar a ff,rgoUxntfeut you «hall h*ve what is left. •*ma*a*t^rl*tj*aa^fariá«»;ftruirtatfa* WOaaay and fla*. imán of me c o r n i l Uvt hár'lnx Christaa* o s ^ • -1''** *-*•' maiwm he pm» Mi ÍU«^ to i«Jta»a with entónela». On nat- "»' ' -:l~ '-:a,matnri! c4:c? -nal hnng our north yarí.wftl «4 «tro .mm<st xving , Ato a festive &, . i&raVrfehapol aa« very p r i t t l ly dacorated with «ver~gree aii .-nix aiay-csdxni t>a&a^ «tare9and bright ,*1U *t» Riere had be@h a station olas* for the preoodíng aonth, to presare those wh~ " -;^-' - • < ••-• ' . ,* 4*i not s#«is sufftcinat ai laat commnnion to maiía it seta best to reoelvw than at that Uise.Thero »*r% fiv* son px.o^vm Pina:, fu* .-. dnrship and *lx w#re ^ e h v , j on ..rob%* tloa.That «ounas ** if w-x *«<<* í.:ethotU*te but we aro Qon*r**ationali»t*»Qnly the trao ¿rows a l i t t l e diff*r*ntiy in Chines® soil of «oa* UataUlaa.the aarvieo «n-, . • i >>tV- - I na ?id undarstaná harftly half of the ser«on k mfñyyjAiom m^fim ,a$yfí* «afee* &m loa* baeicward a* waii as forward,and in theaght 1 reaallaa aamy aaaMaaiaa «arvlee* of faraar y«ar* whieh hachad mk a u t t l e ;-srt la my^Uy; thiat*y flr*t eoarattnion servio© in my own ais-saon *t*ti;*n9tna hanm Uy that it was to »e# After ©hureh the l i t t l e ¿iris eawe to ay rxa<a fm dm «y n na . h ; :Ms tl»# tiiaro had b«a« but ©a« ciaa* for wos*- mi .mis, ana it is no woader that the l i t t l e girls usually " v í " -.''ka-, .•• «x- v fx.nd of sin^ing fand so w# spent considerable of our aiií^i .wr in that «ay.Vían»lovan¿ at a facture of the •he«.her4«»thay tola of the birth nf *:*hrint,of the *haLhdrdsanci of the wleit of the wi*e aen.At the elote f mmé ene of the l i t t l e girls to load m ín ¿^rayar ^tieh she did in Mly & fav «entenea», aakiaa a# thay ueuaily dotthat we mm«*mm®m bs giv-en abxinvx to laam th* Chine** langaage ^uiokly.I my**lf had nm®t praysd in k s x / a d h n j h 1 had hmn her* mearly thirtoan mcnthá.dn„a/im docidod that X ottf:ht te ab.in, I ha4 in mirid Xaé.% X wiehed to «ay and the woras in whieh It au¿M ta be *ali,biít *ina* I bogan ®y Í rayar with the first wox.. . • m.n ^rá*s frayarthe l i t t l e girls all chimad in,aad we said thatt m v instead. :h - .;_ciyen a *í?% pa^or from tha $an ,To#a bosi ana th*y thanlcaa me with • rxtxv n f h e bows as th«sy aant 0«t. ^4:y b : aa«n ase i dad upo» by UHhqnamea ai tne bast tiae for our chare/i nxiebratian. As «oon as %rd m .-. «ern over9Mr*. üiiis mú t *»xai«ineá the oontents of that boa aere carafnily than we had dons befor«,to seo Ü**t it islsht hayo in tha way of Shristiisas presante for thoaa ^© wort coaiing. lra.TÜB| n*ip®4 m mmkm out the 11 st of the wonsan of the churoh so that no i M would be left mtm m «aae np enoa#t paoltages for allfeaoh taatalaiag *b aboat a yara of eiofch and a atiabar of prwtty battOHta.^OF each of the ehii-dren tina-- wmm m b t , i*tare car/j and a «h*ll9th*«* last jieJeed mp at the sea XA>T^ last «mnar.^inoo ihat tl®e we hav« soen tha aioth the woaen * "' l*^¿ JO variaua ppwnt* or part* of a*mont«.u*ttally the n,n, i. ii l i t t l e o!iilá«a oéat or trousers fbut Mrs.Shih is wearing lttfn bina *toaaiac*taaa oíd ürs.Ohou has euffs of §rmm on on# of hta> undSr coats While th; laaraiaa* lid not be&in aatil elevan fjpaoala bagan to arrive two . nurs «Ofliof.»* wü Kr». «alth had givon th* sitaren a stove with the pro-aa! SLÍSí*!»1** 5 í l W í l 1 ?T?*r s » * * « O M ehoald fumish tha faeilfor h*atiae. . ; , - • ; ; ^ f t day to th* ewiiaat satisfaotion of all,The «a-imvid** §lty"fby the t%rrl$ má ooy* of tne two *onoüi*tand nyan* bv a l l. |