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Show Im ae fouad. I hope he .did not break the doll. Some of you reaeabe? hearing about Mr Wang, the biiad peanut seller- He i§ not wholly blind, &ad no longer sells y-&x- , &g$ta, but that 1.. fh&i he uied to be called. Alter fee becaae a (?hrl*tiaa, he gathered about hia a group of neighbors who nmi*4 , %o study the Bible, aad for a nuaber of #ears the? have held aea't-figs in his house. One of their difficulties was tfeat Mr fan,i--M^ • aot enough seats for thea to use. Hearing about this, I 'gews *&<*»*. the dollar that a class o! bo|s in the San Jose Sunday School r had collected for the work here. With that and s-oae other no&ty lhat came froa Mrs 8aith, they had ten benches &&de» When mm. -y \-•. at Mr Wang's filiate, I took a photograph of hia and his wife bright l i t t l e mnt sittiag on one of the new benches is fr**ii »f" .the window of the aeeting roe*. Like all the photographs, taken daring, the trip, it was a failure, and I am sorry for you wouii hare been Interested in aeeiag it. Another photograph that was spoiled was one of a l i t t l e girl and her brother, looking at a picture book you seat. 'fhia l i t t l e girl is one who Is to coae in io boarding school in a few weeks. Ear grandfather is a teacher,-.aad frith hie she has read several books of the Chinese classics as well as part of the Hew Testanent* Her father is a carpenter, bat he, too, is a "reeding aan". He was so ajurious that his l i t t le daughter should have her feet urbound, so that she could coiae into school, that he not only made the wooden solas fet her shoes, but he hiaself sewed the uppers on to thea. the children aentioaed are only a few of the ei£ht| to who* presents were glwen during our trip, and maj-eftiiaren must have been aiased for the churchaeaberjidars scattered, living in aan; tillages at well as in the nine ©utsUtions we visited, This region is about on*-third of our whole field, and in the other two^thirds are aany -eiiildren, too. By one of the helpers, we swat dolls, l i t t l e fellow-haired* jointed ones, and scrapbooks, to all the boys and girls of the church in his outstatioa in the western regloa, aad we s t i l l have soae left for other outstntiona, and *or priaea at. the olose of school. Toe eaa aot know the pleasure that these preseat* have given aad will give, the bandages aad cotton and other things for ass in the dispea*er| Ife Jusi as auch valued, a/nd I want to thank you esfieiail? for thea, She aonear that Harold and Beth seat we are astsg le buy deideaasd alU io* sick babies wfeoaa parents are too pee* to pay forlt* lew 1 ihould like to tell ..you about the child ran fie tteli to the dttfma*)!, - %k$ boy with froaen hands aad feet lad ehtdtta, ike eftfgt? bo#, the little girl whose boils are BOf sloest 'well, the wee, pluip baby with sore eyes, and the deal aad duab be} who Hia&a tha4 he owna the dispensary and all the foreiiaers, too, hut I can not in this letter. You know a l i t t l e aere about Sir boys aad girls now, 1 hope, than before you read this loiter, had 1 want to ask you to pray for thea more. Please fray specially for the girls and ^oys of our two boarding sohools/aad Ut those who want to come, but for whoa there is no reea* With aiUeh lo^e to you all, nieces and nephews and Uatle IVMMa»' &M %® the older friends, too, &s%n n |
