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Show t i n t s i a g S h a n t u n g t M 1 * A* ^ - .January j4 0908. _ The service yesterday A*M. began with a moderate audience and end* ed with an avalance of beggar women and children - • f ^ - ^ came from a nearby village ,/they hatag just heard "that millet was to be given ©ut V M B e t h m i - l t 0 1 T will go on , i n widening p r o l e s aU winter . possibly the actual dispensing of free^food »^i®fd r i**** now begin and continue for. perhaps a month will divert krtentiea from " w ^ 8© children in her kindergarten churvh ser~ vice ,half of them beggars , and there were as many more with their, mothers in the main churvh * - "mm ~%dd" In the afternoon, the Boetor had ,wjat i s very rare with her, what seened to He an -emergency c a l l - to opea the d i s p e a s a r y t o we T womaa whom had d come i a ten mil., not knowing that it was Sinday c. va . , - a. ..a. Oy _-.. - •, ..... .... .*...».. I ....- -..„ »„..-.•. *«, .-..•*. is -•-. ........... t*v" •• -• and who was so bad ,the head hospital evangelist said, that her hair had all fallen out, and her nose was ratrn off her face # •n seeing her the nose trouble prived to be a small pimple, and ker hair was all right, but her eyes were in bad shale # m_. As the Doctor return* ed a woman came with a burned baby which was also treated * xaax ,-Ia the evening Mr .Taylor of the H°liness Mission had the service ,/a good one. Me told of the instance of a man who was converted at their, mission and immediately destroyed his measures( he was an oil peddlar) and had honest ones made •. He told his customers (And here every one bays.. each day for that evenings use} about it and they were glad that, they were going to get more oil and thought that the religion which worked that way must be a goodthiag* Saturday came and lie told them that as a Christian he eouid not sell oil on Sunday m but would worsh ship tod and suggested that they buy two days supply ©n Saturday* . As he gave more oil than others they did this :in deed his trade increased consideraby and all the time he was workiag for tod to induce others to come to the .church ». Another case was that of a Mrs.ihun who was converted when TO yeats ©Id and felt caleed to do all she could to make up lost time . She had four sons, and fou» daughters-in-law at home and could have lorded it over them t U .... and lived in comfort , but she said I must do all I..x. can ,.as la long as I can S she works all day long in the near by villages .... walking to and rr© and has br©ught many -to see the light • m It does one great good to hear of these cases of ©ut and ©ut conversion and ©onsecrati©n to the Lord1 s work* 4x T^e fay l ea l e f t at Six ths A.M. for home with their three weeks old baby* I t will be darl before they ean get there, but there ia - a© ©th«r way* - - x - - I had the pleasure uesterday ©f writing a lett©r ©f tha axs for the two boxes which came last week.They were eertaialy gotten u up witha great deal of car© and, though, many of the things were shelf worn , represented a good deal of value * - Many of the tkings hace been saved for next Xmas, for i t is ©seential to keep one year's stock ahead in a far away land, where freight i s often held up for months * some of the ethers have already been given out , and some which are not suitable for the Shinese are being sold to the foreigners to kelp pat freight * We do not know how much that will be n»e when the boxes were aent nor from whom definitely thoughm from the postvards we thiak fassedena and Glare,©nt combined in the sending of them. l t i s always a r e l i e f to find a box suitable . A M.S. missionary ,-Mr/*akentine once paid | 45. (( ©n a box which had been shipped and re shipped And stored and carried over the mountains and wienae i opened i t , l t oomtaiaed f i l e s ©f the *.Y.Xian Advocate,and notfc- I ia« else * T e sender should have been out into a lunatic asylum. * ••_ .'' xx ....... y~~ But these two boxes brought a great deal of Joy with them B.**S* |